Scanning the Jewish Horizon
Interesting ' Entertaining
, By David Schwartz
BELIEVE IT OR NOT If "We are to believe .Robert L. nationally fa- **. "or his "Believe It Or Not'*: \~ and drawings, the Wilna ' G t | p ^ sessetf such' a" prodigal m e m o ^ S ^ \h he Beyer forgot a book oncet^ti m it; « Professor - Graetz, Si% states the Gaon committed ^. - oily. twenty-five hundred Among the books he knew \ were tks' Bible, Midrash, •MC.;^;^> Takauci and Zohar, and the waitings ci Rashi, Rambam, etc.
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Synagogue Auxiliary Elects Its .Officers
At the Conservatiye Synagogue Aumunity Center,"- Wednesday, October 23, the foilowng^were"" elected officers: Mesdames: Joe Greenberg; president, Irvin Stalmaster, firstyice-president, M. F. Leyenson, • recording seLUCK AND SUCCESS jj cretary, Abe Weinstein, financial seAnd now we Have another sup-] cretary, Julius Stein, treasurer. The organization of; the" auxiliary porter of the theory of, luck as the principal factor of success in life. met with great enthusiasm. MemberThe new disciple is: Max Annenbcrg, ship is open to wives, mothers, and who holds several of the most im-: unmarried sisters «f -members of the portant positions in the- publishing congregation. Thepurpose of the organization isV'tp. further developworld of America. Annenberg is the general manager ment of the conservative synagogue of Liberty magazine and circulation in a religious, educational^ and social manner and also ~to ajd in other comdirector of the Chicago Daily Tribune munal actiyitiesTwithinDour scope." and the New York Daily News. The last-named has the largest newspaper circulation in the'country. -• Annenberg says that his success isdue simply to the proverbial "lucky break." . .: Recently, it is told, Annenberg and j Arthur Brisbane were comparing in:Comes; and it was found that Annen.1 berg, who spent.his childhood in the University Paper." Reveals That •Chicago ghetto, has-the- larger,^ pay j Several Jewish Studentsslip. ' j Beaten
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VOL. VII,—No. 41
OMAHA, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER '2o, 1929
Jewish Dramatic Club to Give Play Sunday
Forty<TwQ Local Organizations to Conducted by New York Bureau Dr. Samuel Goldsmith, Internationally-Famed Social Worker, to Address Meeting of Citizens' Committee Monday Evening Dr. Sahmel {^olcjsmith, international figure m social work, who will direct the Jewish Communal Survey to be conducted here by the Bureau of Jewish Social Research of Xew York, will arrive in Omaha today. - Harry H. Lapidus, chairman, has called a meeting of the Citizens' Committee for Monday evening, Oct. 28, 8:15 o'clock, at the Jewish Community Center. Mr. Goldsmith will address the Committee, which consists of representatives of the forty-two organizations which are participating. Th& survey will take approximately two months and will cover every phase of Jewish activity in the city, including Jewish population and education, dependent families and children, Jewish sick and aged, recreational and educational program, and relations with national organizations.
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LOCAL DEBATERS TO MEET KANSAS CITY Ben Kazlowsky and Sam Zadhariah to Represent Omaha J. C. C
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Cambridge, Mass." (J. I have quoted Leo .H. Glassman's | v c r s i t y d r c l c s are seething and ru-S Russian stories before, but he is full jm o r s a r e raiD pairt as-'tS what will I .of these anecdotes which throw such | ^ t h e outcoTne _ o f * tKe assault upcn ! illuminating light on the Russia of • j e ^ ' student^ aVHTVChinese stutoduy that I think the reader. will 1 . „ , . a t H^rXflrji^by:'an initiate of cnjoythe following: Hasty Pudding Club, Harvard's Final plans for the Hadassah CarA Jew in Russia entered an a '—"* . student ofganiza- nival, which -will be a combination store and asked for some good | j tion, toaristocratic which' so^e of the foremost bazaar, dance and style show, have ture to hing on his wall. 'Americans belonged while at college., been completed and will be announced . He : was given a photograph i Officers of the university would not •at. the next; regular meeting of the Zinoviev. "No,*', said the Jew. "That} m?.nt: -upon the, 'affair but it- is organization. Wednesday, October 23, won't ;do.7' xmderstood that a far-reachmg probe by Mrs. J. J. Friedman, general chair"Here in a picture cf Trotz!;y.i: of thti initiation activities of the man. The Hadassah affair will be "No," said the Jotr. / •.\ J bltie-blodded"clubs'; has been instituted, j staged at the city auditorium' on De"Here—a picture of talin.": . I; RevelationB of the affair werejeember1. "No," -was. the response, again. |made;in tlie uBiversity paper, "Tliej Due to the prohibition of all games "Here
The Omaha Jewish Dramatic Club will present the famous Jewish fouract drama, "The Dorf's Yung," by L. Kobrin at the Jewish Community Center auditorium, Sunday evening, October 27. The club has staged several piays successfully and hope for the full support of its friends, as the proceeds gt> to sufferers in Palestine, according to those in charg-e. The play is being directed by Joseph Morgenstern. The cast includes: L. "Wolk, Mrs. J. Feldman, J. Shykin, Miss S. Tavib, J. Resnick, O. Taub, Sol Gendelman, Mrs. J. Resnick, and H. Kraut. S. Krantz is chairman of arrangements. Lee Taub is prompter;
HONOR COHEN WITH COMMUNAL DINNER
Sam Zachariah and Ben Kazlowsky, both veteran debaters, have been selected by. Judge Irvin Stalmaster, coach of the local Jewish Community of the Con•' Kabbi Abraham Be: Center forensics, to represent Omahs, servative Synagogae, has announced Cincinnati, Ohio. — A communal in the first debate of the Mid-west dinner at the Hotel Alma last night several additional gifts to the new celebrated the^ seventieth birthday of Debate league. The Omaha representatives will meet Kansas City synagogue. Hon. Alfred M. Cohen, former Ohio at the latter's auditorium on Sunday, An Ark covering yas the gift of State Senator and present interNov. 17, on the question, "Resolved, Mrs. Tillie Sherman,'and a Kiddush national president of the Independent that the British Mandate Constitutes Cup was given by Mrs. S. A. Simons. Order B'nai Brith. a Sufficient Assertion of a Jewish A Sefer Torah has been ordered by Mr. Cohen has crowded years of State .in Palestine." Mr. and Mrs. Mose Yousem in me- achievement into his active life. He Zachariah, young practicing atmory of Mrs. Yousem's- parents, Mr. started early, being founder and torney, "who graduated from Creig-hand Mrs. Jacob" Marks. An elaborate president of the Cincinnati Young ton University last June, has parceremony, Sujum Hasefer, is planed Men's Hebrew Club at the age of ticipated in Center debates for four 17, an$ later, serving as national years. While at school "he took part for the near future. president of the Y. M. H. A. ia several activities, including1 forensHis"\interesfc';-ia-> i W ~yo-«i£h. his .ics. He is a member of Pi Lambda always been outstanding, he having Phi. taken the lead in having the B'nai This year makes the fourth that Brith establish" the Hillel foundation. Kazlowsky has been a mainstay or<. Senator Cohen has been the. head .Creighton University debate teams, of the L O. B. B. since 1925. He is chairman of the Board of Gov- proving his merit as a forceful anchor man. Besides an excellent Rev. S. K.ahanowitch, popular can- ernors of the Hebrew Union College. scholastic record, Kazlowsky is vicetor at the Beth Hamedrosh Hagodol In 1900 he was the Democratic and | president of Pi Lambda Phi fraterSynagogue, 19th and Burt, has been Independent Republican nominee for i nity. retained for two more years, accord- mayor of Cincinnati, he served twice The winner of the Omaha-Kansas ing to a decisiop reached at a meet- as Presidential elector and was pres- City debate will be in the finals. ing of the congregation: Sunday. The itlent of the Ohio Electoral College. meeting the winner of the elimina:cantor is now serving his third- term. He is president of the People's tion contest between Indianapolis. Bank and Savings Company. Mr. Cohen was secretary of Eock- St. Louis, and Pittsburgh. dale Avenue Temple from the' age The finals have been tentatively :oi" '24 to 50' and is past president scheduled for February 2. A trophy goes to the winner. of .the TempleIn honor of his birthday, B'nai •Brith is naming all groups of ini- The measure of a master is ME suctiates until January 1, 1930," "the cess in bringing all men round to his "'Alfred' M. Cohen Classes." opinion twenty years later.—Emerson.
Synagogue Receives Several flore Gifts
Nationally Famed Social Worker to Speak Monday Afternoon PUBLIC INVITED Dr. Samuel A. Goldsmith, director of the National Bureau of Jewish Social Research, •will be the speaker at the first meeting of the Omahn Council of Jev?ish Women. The meeting will be held at 2:80 o'clock Monday afternoon, October 2S at the Jewish Community- Center, A meeting of the board of the Omahs Council will be held at I'M p. m., prior to the regular meeting. Dr. Goldsmith is nationally famed for social service work, and according to word received, Ms address will be of interest to every one. The public, both men ant! women, are invited to this meeting. Dr. Goldsmith will arrive in Omaha Friday. This will be his first public appearance at a meeting in this city, coming- to Omahs to conduct a survey of Jewish life in Omaha. Three years ago he conducted a survey of the National Council of Jewish Women. The results of.this survey were presented at the last triennial meeting, held in Washington, D. C., in 1926. Preceding Dr. Goldsmith's talk a business meeting of the Council will be held. At this time officers and chairman of the Council will be introduced. Also a vice-president will be elected to fill the place made vacant by the resignation aof Mrs. Henry Eosenthal. An alternate to the triennial in Los Angeles in January will also be elected at this meeting. Following Dr. Goldsmith'as address tea will be served at which members of the Hospitality and Courtesy CQJIV mittees will preside. Mrs. Harry 'Eaehnrnn is •cfasrrroat? *>£ the Hospitality Committee and Mrs. Isidore Ziegler is in charge of the Courtesy committee. The first year book, which was distributed to members this week, contains notices of this meeting: and all other monthly meetings. No other notices of meeting-g will be mailed. Members of the Council are urged to watch these dates. Following is a list of the members who have joined the Council since last June: 'Mesdaro.es; Louis Adler, A. B. Alpirn, Julius Abrahamson, Morite Adler, Louis Albert, Is Abrahamson, Sarah Arkin, Morris Arkin, M. A. Bercovici, A. Benps, D, Bolker, John A. Beber, Louis Bernstein, Jacob Bernstein, Joseph Bloch, J. Cherniak, Hyman Cohen, Goodman Cohen, Eugrene Cooper, Morris Chaiken, Morris Finkel, J. H, Freeman. Harry Franltel, Abe Greenspan, Al Gilinsky, Hyman Greenberg, J, J.-Greenberg, Ben Harding, Paul Hofner, N. Hofowich, J. Kr8sne? Geo, Krasne, Leo Kxasne, Herman Krasne, Albert Krasne, Clyde Kraene, Ike Krasne, Lavrrence Krasne, Millard Krasne, Edward Levinscm, N« Levinson, Joe Marcus, J. Malashock, Louis Margolin, Herman Marowits, Abe Milder, Ben Newman, Morris Potash, S. H. Roddy, Dave Rosen, Morris Rubinstein. Wnu Jladuziner, Albert Shafer, David Schults, Sam Swartg, Dave Stein, T. XL Ullery, L. WoMner, Moss Yousem.
at it, and his eyes gleafhed. making plans for an elaborate disGeorge Clark, acting "That'a fine, fiut can you give ;ao ably upon orders' from play aftdjSale of home^cooked a group picture like this of ail iiie entrenched himself sX the door' of tirz -•~v At "Wednesday's meeting, the spirit of Succoth' and "Simchas Torah will Bolshevik leadersJ" Fogg Art Museun> and attempt.pd to brought out in the form of a varied i all Jewish and. Chinese students musical -program. DID YOU KNOW ! That Maurice Samuel has written oat. The National Board of Hadassah J a book dealing with the recent dic- ! During the performance, Clark is has appealed to all chapters through'alestirie? Our suggas-i said tohavc been obliged by hi.= f rat- out the country to aid in-the National tmbances. in Palestine ticn-that the author of "We •Tew,&"Lcrn^y orders, to yell loudly—"I don't Fund-work, as the recent tragedy in and "You Gratilcs7' call his: latast f ^ e kikes.'/- T^e ybcnp» man- stirred Palestine has awakened a desire on o2criu£ "These Arabs" has been re-} up; a near" riot dtfong. the Jewish the part of ^Zionists to buy more land joctcd. Instead tho book will be cail- students, before, he carried out.his in Palestine. As a result, members cd "What Happened in Palestine," part of the; "initiation. •": and non-members of Hadassah have -. That the. strike in the Yiddish' When several-»Jewish students been requested to bring their National theater has been settled, the union j laughed and ^failed to pay any atteh- Fund-boxes to the Hadassah meeting " ~*" increase • to each ofj^ 011 ta the ^pr^ers^ of _Clark, he al- : Wednesday. ivinning a ?10 the stage hands? \i tempted to remove them forcibly Mrs. Miller, new Northwest regionThat the Warner brothers made an !f r o m h i s audience, pid.only.the.inter- al •" director, will be the principal original borrowed borrowed capitalj mention of -cooler- -hea;ds; -prevented speaker. Cantor Kahanowitch will j of $100,000 multiply itself into fifty, what gave all evidences; of develop- render several melodies, and • Miss Sara Eae Fish will play the violin. millions within three years, and that; ing into a racial r}ot.. newspaper clippings experts say that their firm_r.eceives'- more newBpaper. publicity than any other producer: in the1 business? _ ,._ That Dr. Rosen, the head of theJewish colonization project in Russia, • (J. T. A . ) — Simultaneously -with one of- the oldest- Australian jnstitU•"England wil! not relinquish the themselves with bravery," he said. is in the United States, although the" announcement'IKaJ'Je'wiBh stupfc higher learning, werji mandate, fbr she needs the Jews as "No fear was evident among them, news of his coming has not appeared dents* at Harvard University, Cani- hare sfter-?tie Jewish community had much as the Jews need England," but rather heroism. One hundred in the press? declared Gedali&h Bublick, president and thirty-one martyrs have been uie press: {bridge, Mass., Had been *eaten,-came4 been .considerably^ stirred by « repoH of the Mizrachi Organization of added to the long list of the Jewish thereencyclopedia is a virtual epidemic fafati f ^ v a S o ^ ' o t t w j educa;:! thatjthe school founded on a Strictly of That Jewish America, orthodox wing of the Zion- roll of honor." jtional" centers throughout "&e" world non-sectarian -basis, was discriminatNew York, with two in process of- that, Jewish' youths were being dis- ing against Jews. Mr. Bublick also lauded the work ists, at a mass meeting Monday completion and a third in the 'fborn- criminated against. '-'•-'• . f - •.-*•*• evening at the Beth Hamedrosh of the Mizrachi in Palestine. They Explanation of a report which ing" stage? Hagodol synagogue, ISth end Burt have 67 schools with 7.000 students. Disquieting, rumors have emanate:' .was published "under the headline Cantor S--Kahanowitch That Mrs. Durant, the Jewish wife] from Australia, Hu^ssiav Roumania,' "Hebrews objected fe>; at Sydney The Mizrachi head laid the blame According to the speaker, the Mizof DiyWill Durant of "Outline, of ! and Hungary."' , _*~ "T .* ' : . . .:--- Grammer School" was made by the ' Cantor Kahanowitch has sung frefor the recent' atrocities in the Holy rachi also played a prominent role Philosophy", fame, conducts one of The' -introduction> of .a' numerous .head r of -the school. A misunder- quently over radio station WOW, be- Land upon the weak policy of the in the Zurich Congress, at which those intelligentsia, Greenwich Vat- 'clausus for Jewish studentsi. entering standing -jarose out of the incident sides entertaining at various local English administration • and their they had twenty-five per cent of the lagy restaurants? - - ' Soviet universities was demanded at of a newly arrived Palestinian teach- ajiairs. He is also active in organizfavoritism toward the Arabs. The delegates. That, according to Dr. Henry Mos- a meeting of X3ommu?iist/students in e r , who proposed that S class be ation activities, being a member of speaker also criticized' Sir Herbert High, tribute was paid to the late kowitz, nine out of ten receiving Kiev. T h i s J t U tcorrespond h d formed for modern Hebrew, at- the the Bnai Brith and Omaha Hebrew Samuel, first High Commissioner of Louis Marshall "by Mr. Eublick. He The Centei Players Guild successdub training in trades by the Ort- in dent of fK also gave his whole-hearted endorse- fully opened its - season Wednesday Jewish Telegraphic school. The following officers were elected Palestine. Palestine contemplate eventual settleevening with the presentation of "The The-headmaster replied that the "But Englan4 realises her mistake Agency learns, was previously disment of the Jewish Agency. at the meetitng: Louis Harris, presiment, as soon as they have.learned curriculum was- already filled anil now," Bublick stated. •'Her drastic cussed .at a meeting of the Executive The speaker was introduced by Romancers" at the Jewish Community dent of the commissioners; Rev. E. their trade, in Falestine? * of the Comsomol, Communist youth that the school regulations prevented Fleishman, vice-president; and Louis and prompt action in punishing the Rabbi Abraham Bengis, who is a Centers auditorium. The comedy was That David Warfield is the richest organization. the engagement of visiting teachers guilty ringleaders in the Palestinian member of the National Executive | well-received by the audience. Bl'otsky, treasurer. actor in America, and - that he made The demand has aroused the Soviet for such subjects. : committee of the Z. O. A. and worked Eebeccsh Kirabenbaijrr! as Sylvette '•Trustees elected were E. Wohlner, courts is ample, proof of that." a "killing" in the stock exchange? "The Jews kept'their part of the press in Moscow, which is greatly The school had been.attended by a Harry Soskin, Harry Lazarus and with Mr. Bublick in Texas. He paid and Leo Brown as Percmett played thfe HOOVER ON WISE partnership," he continued. "Over tribute to the earnestness and democ- \ leading roles. Other leads iu the «aBt perturbed that such a question could great number of Jewish students, the Abraham Stoler. 100,000 Jews entered Palestine during ratic leadership of Mr. Bublick, and were taken by Max Weinstein, David A merry meeting is said to. have have arisen at a "meeting of Com- headmaster declared. Such distinthe last nine years and over fifty spoke highly of the educational pro- Himalstein, and Earl Siegel. taken place lately between President munist students. The Moscow news- guished scholars as the late Dr. The play, under the direction of millions have poured in there since gram of the Mizraehi in Palestine. paper "Trudex" points out that Joseph Jacobs and Sir Daniel Levy Free Loan Receives Hoover and Dr. Stephen S. Wise. Mrs. Herman Jahr, was carried out in then." "You feilow who I am?" Dr. Wise Antimemitisni" is prevalent among were alumni of the school. Mr. Max Venger was re-elected the manners and with the cosumee of griniied. $1,500 from Estate During his address, Mr. Bublick elected students, nonpartisan as well CJ A renewal of attacks upon Jewish chairman of the local Mis- the nineteenth century. The plot desk "Sure/' replied "Mr. Hoover. "You Communists. " ; ' paid high tribute to the work of the rachi grou. Quite a few new with two dear friends whose preateflt students at the universities throughHarry A. Wolf, president of the made the most effective speeches of Jewish self-defenders. He himself members were enrolled at the mass The Communist papers report that out Htthgary were made gatarday. any of the campaigners against me," Jewish students at.the'Moscow Tech- Jewish students who came to the Free Loan Society, has just received was there at the time and was an meeting. The Bikur Cholim Society desire is the marriage of thfir children, Sylvette and Percinptt. Proa check for $1,500, bequethed to the chuckled the President. nical School were assaulted find beat- lecture halls were beaten and a num- organization by the will of the late eye-witness to the outrages. In de- presented a check for $100. ceeding ; or. the philosophy that '"one Dr. Wise is said to have obtained en up by fellow stud"ents. The anti- ber were severely injured. < ; scribing some of the scenes, the wants moat that which is fcnieBt to Mr. Martin M. Sachs, prominent A meeting of the local society, farther assurances from" the Presi- Semitic instructors at the school are This follows right on the heels of speaker pointed out that the battle open to the public, will be heM ge,K the two artful schemer? make it Omahan who died last June. The will dent that will prove helpful in the evidently in" league" 'with * student the excesses which occurred at ths also provides for the distribution of waged by the Jews was not a Monday evening, October 28, st $• difficult for the two children to fall Palestine affair, ! ". ; anti-Semites, and join them in" con- Budapest University as the result of huge sums to other charitable institu- diaspora massacre, but rather a p. m., at the Beth Hamedrosh Hago- in Jove and thereby achieve thsir destruggle. He chose to -call the loss dol, 19th and Burt. stantly persecuftng'fh'e Jewish stu-J agitation for- zn increased nmnerus tions. . sire; Laws are like cobwebs; where the dents. clausus, 4imiting the number -of The Free Loan Society loans mo- of- lives a sacrifice of the Jews, Mosic was furnished by Mise Sara small flies-are-caught, and the great Charges of anti-Jewish -discrimina- Jewish -students admitted to the. -um- ney without interest to worthy people . something without vkidsu no country Mr. Bublick left Tuesday evening; Ra« Hih,- -pwaist, accompanied by "hreak through. —Bacon, tion, i y the Sydney Grammar-school, ^versities.. • • " „ - • • ' " Miss Is* JstebbBon on the violin. , j could be won. "The Jews defended-^ for Des ifcSnes. Tcho are in need.
COSTRACT : FORTWOr ADDfflONALi YEARS
Excesses Again SreaMOut Among Students
England Will Not Relinquish . ... Her; Mandate, Says Bublick
PLAYERS SCOREIDT I "THE ROMANCERS"
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