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11100 per cent collectivized during 1930. .This i s the 'decision adopted by t h e "Comzet" conference, which intends t o make the Jewish settlers To Advise on Talkies Cincinnati.—The relationship fonn- submit all of their live stock as well ed some time ago whereby t h e Mo- as their inventory t o collective barns. tion Picture Producers and Distribu- Stop Machinery Confiscating tors of America look t o the IndependMoscow.—An order h a s been isent Order! of B'nai B'rith for sugges- sued that Soviet t a x collectors a r e tions and criticisms concerning, pic- not t o confiscate machines and tools tures of special interest t o Jews is received by individuals from relato b e extended to t h e many sound tives a b r o a d through" the Ort. This pictures being made i n the East, a s is of great importance t o the-Jewish the result of negotiations just con- artisans who were ex-traders, a s cluded/ between / W i l l Hays and Allately many machines were' confiscat? M. j Cohen. .ed on the pretext that t h e owners owed t h e government treasury old Jew -Wiias High Post Y; Boston;' —-?' Abraham E . one of tlie outstanding trial .lawyers 65,000 Declassed * "in; Massachusetts, i a s been appointMoscow.—There are 65,000 deeS tor the Superior Cptirt bench of classed' Jews i n; Ukrania now that that state by•Governor Aliens . need special relief, according t o statistics offered by the "Ernes", organ " Charities ComWne Boston.—Twenty-two/• Jewish wel- of ^the Jewish Communists. These

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Luncheon Monday Also Welcomes Ninty-five New Members PRESIDENT REPORTS

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Rabbi Taxon to Talk

Miss J.'C. C. 1930!

Rabbi Morris N . Taxon, formerly of Omaha and a t present leader of the largest Conservative Synagogue in Chicago, will speak s t the Jewish Community Ceisfer Monday evening a t 8 o'clock on "The Future of Judaism in America". Rabbi Taxon -Imppened to be in the vicinity, jio local leaders invited him t * speak here. • The public is isrited to attend.

On Saturday evening, February 1, a t the weekly Jewish Community Genter dance, Miss J. C. C. 1930 and her alternate •will be selected. A number of men acting as judges will select the prettiest girls from those attending the dance, and the most popular of these chosen by a ballot will be decorated with the Miss J . C. C 1S30 ribbon.

Board of Governors ©f Soathwest Region to Convene Here FRIEDBERG I S SPEAKER

j1Rabbi Rabinewiis, of Sioux City to Occupy Conservative Pulpit PLAN RECEPTION, TEA'

A large mass meeting open t o the The annual luncheon of the CounRabbi Hrmap. R. Rabinowite, spirpublic will feature the convening of cil of Jewish Women 'which was itual leader of the Shaare Sion Coftthe Board of Governors of t h e given on Monday, January 27, a t servEtive Synagogue of Sioux City, Southwest Region of the Zionists to the Blackstone hotel was of especial •will be the guest speaker a t the be held this Sunday. The rally, significance this year. I t not-cnly services of the Conservative Syna•which will begin a t 8:15 p . m. in served a s welcome to t h e - l a r g e s t gogue tonight a t the Jewish Comthe J . C. C. auditorium, will be group of new members, ninety-five munity Center. preceded by a public reception a t The Council of the Jewish NationWhether or not the British Manin all, that the Omaha Council has 7:30, with Mrs. A. Sflverman in E&bbi R&Mnowits; has selected "A date is for the best interests of the l i t t l e Extra, Reese'" as the subject acquired i n a single year, b u t i tal Fund will celebrate Chamisha charge. Jewish People will be debated a t the also was a welcome t o a most dis- Osor B'Shevat, the,. Jewish Arbor A luncheon in honor of the out-of- open, meeting' of the B'nai B'rith for his sermon tonight. He will »1JH» Day, a t a large '^nass meeting to tinguished guest, Miss Cecilia Raztown guesis, who represent the thir«vsky, executive secretary of the be held a t the Jewish Community teen states comprising this region, Thursday, February 6, s t the J.C.C. Center on Wednesday evening, FebThe debate will be the feature of an Department of Service t o t h e Forwill be held a t 12:80 Sunday noon elaborate program which will contain ruary 12, a t S:15« Rabbi Abraham eign-born of the National Council of Bengis . of t h e Conservative Syna- a t the Omaha Athletic club. Dr. A. varied entertainment. Jewish Women. ^' . Greenberg is chairman of arrangeThe debate "ill be between the two The event also offered the oppor- gogue will deliver the main address. ments for this affair. Omaha A.Z.A. chapters. Bussell Other features 'on the,, program tunity t o welcome home- again Mrs. Harry Friedberg, brilliant Kansas Biumenthal and Frank Ackerman of figures only refer to ex-traders ana will include a jsky by t h e local Harry Kulakofsky, president- of: the fare groups i e r e i a v e combined into City attorney and forceful speaker, not to artisans. Omaha Council of Jewish- Women, Young Poale ZlqS, "musical selec- will deliver the main address s t the the Sam Beber "Chapter .No. 100 -will one organization t o be known a s the who has been attending t h e Trien- tions, and some shcrfc speeches. T h emass meeting Sunday evening. Short uphold the affirmative, while Elmer Associated JewiBh Philanthropies. * Ban Schechita Munich.—Approval of a law •which nial of the National Council of Jew- meeting, which i s free, is open to speeches will be delivered by other Shamberg and Frank Lipp of the Yiddish Theatre Declining Mother Chapter No. 1 will maintain the public ", constitutes a ban on schechita was ish Women a t Los Angeles, Calif. out-of-town guests. M. F . Leven- the negative. New Tork.—The decline of thegiven by a constitutional committee Dr. O. C Belzeii: chairman of the Mrs. Kulakofsky gave a fascinatson, president of the local Zionist Tiddijih theatre was deplored a t "aof the Bavarian'parliament. - ing a s wellf as thorough report of committee of strftageinents, states organization and a member of the 'This debate will offer a funda' meeting of t h e managers of the Lten I the .entire'convention. Among, the that a most elaborate program is Regional Board of Governors, will mental analysis on the entire situation in Palestine," President Milton Yiddish theatres in New York last Sentence Set Aside being arranged and that everyone is Jerusalem.—The court of ^appeals most interesting points mentioned assured a n excellent time. He urges preside a s chairman. B. Abrahams stated, in announcing' week. Too high salaries for stage were the remarkable steps being Among the prominent visitors who the program. "In view of the recent .hands and too many large advertise- has set aside the sentence of Joseph made by the organization in care the members of the -various organwill b e present are included Profesments "were blamed for the lack of Urphali,. t h e first -Jew ever con- and work for the blind and deaf izations especially; to attend. Sev- sor G. Klausnes of St. Louis, pres- outbreaks, this discussion should demned to death in Palestine, on the prove particularly pertinent." eral prizes will be awarded t o t h e i larger profits, and restriction of imground that t h e evidence of the'throughout the entire country.. Great best performers i a the various fields ident of the Regional Board; Julius The debate will be followed by an migration •was blamed for decrease Livingston, prominent Tulsa Zionist, open forum a t which time ail memArab witnesses who testified against stress was laid upon the effort that of entertainment: en the program. 'in patronage. is being p u t forth by the national and M. N . Fisher of St. Louis, and bers of the audience will be given an him was untrustworthy. Dr. M. M. : Margolin will preside. other members of the. board. Dedicate Hospital organization to further world peace. opportunity to present their views.. Denver.—"With- rabbis from sur- Bars. Foreign Students The guest of honor, Miss RazovThe new policies of t h e Zionist Preliminary -to the debate a brief rounding communities participating Prague.—The medical faculty of sky, held the attention of her audiorganization; the reorganization plan talk wiH be gives by Sam Fregger. and state and city officials i n a t -the German xmiversity here lias de- ence t o '• the last minute with h e r into' regions, t h e Zionists* affiliation Abnsr Kaixnan" will offer' another of tendance, the Louis Heineman Build-, cided to b a r -all foreign students numerous illustrations and actual with fee Agency, the Jewish Nation- his popular reviews of Jewish topics ing for Tuberculous Children of the during 1930. •;••-•• - • cases. al fund problem, s a d other imporThe Omaha Daughters of Zion tant taattsrs "will be dealt with st of the day. These comments, interNational Jewish Hospital a t Denver Her entire talk was an explanamingled with homor and, philosophy, Halsmann Appeal Denied »• •-.check f o r tion a s well ns a revelation of the have- again mass • ineetingv..:.. . •. .. "'•-.. have-Hseen 'particularly- well received. * r^erinii——Segret' ^snSssfal "work that i s being'"ffone first- seiaoa-'^-^r' : Be«aa!-v«C ?:I"In addition there will be musical provides, facilities for. t h e care of has been flooding the German press for the foreign-born, not only i n the who in return purchase land in Pal- Governors will be held e t 9:00 a. m." selections. 44 tubercular ' children and "meets over the refusal "of the Austrian EO4 United States, but also in all parts estine. This group of women have a t the Center. An afternoon session preme court* to set aside the verdict sent the sum of $3,600 within a perthe urgent need for extension of of the world. will also be held, following the of death pronounced on Philip Halsiod of three years and are proud of luncheon. AH board meetings will children's work i n the "Hospital. their noble work. BOARD MEETING The service in the hospital will be mann, who is charged with-Mllmg be dosed. Rabbi H. "TL Rabhtowite. A teacher's college which was r e The monthly congregational board individualized, with crippled children his father. -The case, which J|ias aroused universal interest, i s lijffaed Moscow.—"The Soviet soul can't meeting of t h e Conservative Syna- cently erected in Beth Hakerem, also being taken care of. Sun treatoccupy the pulpit for tlie Saturday to, the Dreyfus case, as i t is claimed gogue will be held a t the Center Palestine, on the society's land now tolerate t h e former traders." This ment will be given regularly. begin Nathan E . Jacobs was elected j morning g services, which g that anti-Semites killed Philip's fath- Tuesday evening a t 8:30. Starting bears the name of the donors, "The is t h e "Ozet's" reply to t h e thoupresident of the Brotherhood ofjat 8:30 s. m., when he will deliver er and then accused h i m of t h ea t 8 o'clock preceding the meeting. Omaha Daughters of Zion". To Aid Polish Jews sands of Jewish ex-traders who have Temple Israel, following' a dinner a t ' a short; sermon in Yiddish, New York.—A decision to include crime. The leading Christian attor- Dr. Philip Sher will conduct a class The d u b is under the leadership been ruined by the Soviet resolution the Temple, Wednesday evening. This is B return visit -upon the the impoverished- Jews of Poland and neys of Austria have offered fheir on Jewish current events. and are .seeking aid. of Mrs. S. Flatt. part of the Sioux City guest, a s Other officers elected were: Ben other East European countries, as aid gratis, i n the proposed final'-^jb StieSer, vice-president; Abe Schiin- Rabbi Abraham Bengis occupied the •'.." X5 well a s those "of Soviet Russia, i n its peal t o the -president. rael, secretary, and Lawrence Gold- Shaare Zion pulpit about « month work of supplying the "declassed" EgO. man, treasurer. Vote Down Subsidy ' Jews with tools and machinery, was A capacity attendance is expected The new directors chosen for the adopted after' much debate a t the Warsaw.—The Polish parliament tonight, A reception and tea will ensuing term are Dr. B. T. Friedman, People's Tool Campaign convention, voted down the suggestion of Deputy be given in honor of Kabbi and lire. Dr. Max Block, Marvin Treller, and 1 attended by 715 delegates. Hijherto Grnenbaum, Jewish member of t h e Harry Greene. -following: --=• the services. the People's Tool Campaign has res- bodyj that t h e government increase rhis i s bcin Kirk Grigrgs, president, of the Oc' «" sponsored by the Wotricted i t s activities t o Soviet Rus- the sul^idy t o the Yiddish and Hemcri s cidental Building and Loan Associa' ^«»lisry of the congregation. brew^ schools. .••'•'•.• sial While here Rabbi and Mrs. Sabition, was the speaker of the evening.. I t was decided t o carry on a cam- Relics Unreathed nowitz will be the house guests of He spoke very optimistically of the paign for two million dollars during Rabbi" and Mrs, Abraham Bengis, Jerusalem.—A number of sarcofuture of Omaha. By ROBERT STONE the next four years, §500,000 a year, phagi of t h e Herodian period of The dinneT, which, was served in Esbfai and Mrs, Bengis will fee a t for relief -work. architecture with Greek and Hebrew the vestry room, was prepared by "home on Saturday afternoon from In this brief sketch "Mr. Stone, 2 to 6 o'clock to receive in honor But his real career opened in in just the way he himself liked. the Sisterhood. Overseas Legion to Celebrate inscriptions and several pieces of Jcnoivn for this "inside" scoops, re- Brooklyn, N . Y., in 1904, when he be- Business was good; for thst matter, of the visitors. New York.—The " J . D . C. Over- pottery dating from- before the desviews some of the angles on the Rabbi RabinowitE has been very seas Legion'', consisting of the sur- truction of the second temple were widely-discussed case of William came a theatrical manager. Vaude- i t is still good. William Fox has a gold mine, but he seems on the verge discovered i n a cave, on Mt. Scopus ville was in' its fullest strength. T i e successful in bis work a t Sioux City. Fox arid his various companies. vivors of the army of Jewish relief He is sponsoring- the first copserva-' workers who went over t o Eastern. by Arab laborers excavating for the He also points to some of the res- movies were still in t i e process of of losing i t all. ults should Fox be swallowed-up creation. Fox saw himself .growing and extive group of that city and in t h e Europe in January, 1920, t o do post- foundations of a building near the by Wall Street. —The Editor. On Teusday evening, January 2S, five years Vce has been there has panding. He bought hundreds -of Hebrew -university;-. .. I t -was inevitable, that William Fox, war relief work among the Jews working in the theatre, should become theatres i n New York; he acquired 1S30, the J . C. C. Symphony Orchest- made splendid progress, Mrs, Ra%~ there under the auspices • of the Ask for JeTOsh Schools If American commerce and idushundreds of movies in the Middle ra under the direction of Mr. Frank binowite is also -noted for being affiliated with the movies. He had Joint Distribution Committee, will Montrea.—A delegation . of Mon- try, particularly a s they affect Jews, vision. He was poor, so that he was West; h e kept on buying up houses Maeh gave their first concert of the active in the activities of the c<mcelebrate the tenth anniversary of treal Jew? demanded separate schools have their many romances, they also year s t the auditorium of the Jewish the departure of the. first unit from for the: Jewish. children* in. 3 confer- have their tragedies. The most mov- not afraid to take chances. Twenty- on the West Coast. In addition, he Community Center. They were :»skept a n eye on the export business NeW York' with a dinner a t t h e-ence:; "with the '"provincial' premier ing of these is now being enacted. five years passed. The motion picture industry has become a colossus and paid down ?4,000,000 toward se- sited by the Tech High Kale QuarCommodore hotel on Saturday. last week. Provincial Premier Tas- I t has more pathos, more sadness and of industry. And i n that industry curing a major interest i n the Gau- tette, directed by Mrs. Fred G. Ellis. A variety of music was played inchereau was loath to accept their more bitterness than any similar dra- William P o x played a dominant part. Tnont-British Pictures Corporation, \ Endowment Fund Assured ma that has been witnessed in ths Cincinnati—That the campaign for view b u t did indicate a desire of last decade. This play might well be He was, without exaggeration, called which has t i e biggest movie chain in cluding the well-known Poet and Peasant Overture, the Mock Morris j a five million dollar endowment fund, the government t o find. a solution called "The Rise and Fall of William "King of the Movies". England and is worth $25,000,000. Dance by Grainger, Brahm's Hunof, the school problem favorable t o which i s being sought by t h e HeOn October 23rd there -was t h e When the crash came i t was found garian Dance No. V and the Russian Fox". But whereas on the ordinary . . .' • brew Union College of Cincinnati, .all J e w s . ' ' : •.:-.,;.• ' that Fox had over-expanded. He stage the curtain means a finish to iustorfsi raid on Wall Street, when The ennu&i preparations for the Fantasie by Tobani. Special mention is nearing its goal, was the an-Synagogue Abandoned £he whole proceedings—in real life values tumbled down so fast that had given securities a s collateral on observance of "Council Sabbath" nouncement made here in a report securities had been reduced in value should be. given to the Trumpet Duet have-been initiated by the announcePraguev-^-The synagogue belonging the drama of William Fox undoubted- very few could run swiftly enough from Adolph" S. Ochs, chairman of by about five or six hundred per played by Miss Sara Jacobson and raeat of Mrs, W. B. Kohler of Sato one ^ f the oldest Jewish commun- ly resume again within t h e near to escape from being buried under Kiss Pearl Marcus, accompanied by the endowment fund campaign. the debris. I t seemed astounding, cent. The bankers who had previous- the Orchestra. vacnah, national chairman of the ities in Wischau in, Czecho-Slovakia, future. ly made t h e loans saw this a s the Department of Religion and Kelihas been sold and win b e converted William F o x is comparatively but William Fox, too, was caught in golden opportunity t o get hold of one The Tech High sang delightfully Edxication of the National i n t o ' a ; moving picture ; house. The a young man. Born in Hungary i n the deluge. of t i e best pieces of motion picture a number . of• selections including! Before t h e crash Fox Films had of Jewish Women. community was compelled t o sell i t s 1879, he celebrated his fifty-first ^ ^ property in the entire business. They «HeavV- and "Swing Low Sweetj been a t 105. Since then i t h a s been birthday on January 1st of this year. synagogue because; of t h e poverty Numerus Clausus Victory began • pressing Fox. When notes par- down as low as 16. Each new rumor Budapest.—The fight of Hungari- of t h e congregation and the great Born of typically poor Jewish Mrs. Harry Seiner's rendition of ', , " . „ «„-_», , K were called no chance was given for 1 of successful financing sends i t u p ; ents, he was brought t o this country d an Jewry against numerus clausus migration from the village. "Your Song from Paradise" and the « ? f * ^ morping Mat^J*. renewal. When. Wall Street wants to in infancy. -He got his first start in every time the rumor proves to be in the universities" has resulted in Urges Moslein Boycott " press—and if one is in Fox's position bass solo, "On the Eoad to Sianda*?^_ ^ _ . life through, relatives who placed him false the stock goes down that muck of designating .•(he L u n » were ell w - , an initial victory, with the announceJerusalem.—-All Moslems in- Pales- as an apprentice to a tailor. Despite lower- What is behind this story of one can't stop it—a man may SM •well lay" biy^ David +*,„ . ^ ^ ; ^ ^ « i Sabbath warest to th« date of ment that ,Szegedi university /has tine are urged t o boycott the;. Wailcall himself finished. the fact that his enemies have ever the fall of William Fox? by the audience p ^ ^ wWch wcurB t M s y ^ ^ completely abolished numerus clau- ing Wall: commisBion which the David A. Brown, well-known leader since persisted in referring t o him By 1929 Fox had acquired the Fox The orgsnaatwn « headed by Ina ' • Friday, w e m e m g sus. T h i s - w a s done because the "League •••of Rations has agreed t o let & as "the tailor, of the movies", in Film Corporation, Fox Movietone of Jewish campaigns, was called in. Jaeobson, president and concert ~~ , • * -° . municipality contributed, 8,000,000 Great Britain : name Cj.teT '•; setfle" t h e common with most of the other JewSome people beSeve that "Brown got master. Each.14. ;ye&r*s ^observance of "Cean(March pengoes "to t h e institution on con- question, i n a n ' editorial appearing ish film magnates, William spent but News, the F o x Theatres and the en- the powerful firm of Lehman ..BrothHungarian literary circles are precil Sabbath" .Tevfals a large. tire Loew chain of theatres. William dition that numerus clausus be elim- in the "Jamal E l Arabia1*, the Arab little time over the pressing board. ers interested in Fox. Whether or paring & reception for the PaiastM- j of women.«f «p8aMBg pow«^- gifted Fox was practically the only indeinated. daily' newspaper,organ -of t h e Mos- He was intensely restless and am- pendent of t h e lot. Whereas t h e not Fox i s extricated from Ms troub- an Hebrew poet,- Eameiri, who w a s ; with ability, to.appraise JwdaisHn and -To Be 100% Collectivized lem s u p r e m e ^ * ^ of .which; the bitious. He tried what in those days otLer producing concerns had become les, whether or not Ms firm is sent & former H-ongarian poet. Hameiri! the' cojitributionB ^«f.. women- "to!,;mt»d» r Moscow.—The Jewish agricultural ; g?rand^mufti'i£^e ^gad.lHVc : : • Y:: .' would be called one "racket" after] involved i n Wall Street financing, into receivership by & grasp of short- i s coming to Budapest t o -work for I ern Jewj&'festivities amd ;$» colonies i n Soviet Uussia' must b e l v//.-; r:-.;. X^epjjrtBd^byi.J V ^ A - j.;-.-.- V^ ^; : >another. the Keren Hayesod. •\ • • • | i t y . • . ';:'-''.'./:' -.''. /•:')-\;'^ William Fox could run- his business (Continued on Page 4) —

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