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Rabbi Cohn Speaks f PALESTINE LAWS RABBIS ASK THAT Bairns/atHer's Humor Rev. L. Plonk MOVE TO CHANGE to Junior Fbrurn ON IMPRISONMENT DISTRIBUTION OF WillSpeak CONVENTION DATE Makes Smashing Hit WINE BE CHANGED WILL BE CHANGED OF LEGION GROWS
"Thi3 Pure Young Man" was the book reviewed by Rabbi Frederick Cohn at the meeting of thfe Junior Captain Bruce Bairnsfather, intro- slimy bottom of dirty trenches he be- Forum held last Thursday at the duced as the "man who made a nation gan to draw caricatures "to. amuse J.C.C. . • •• - •••:: - } Failure to Pay Alimony: to " Nation-Wide Effort to Shift smile in its misery and laugh in its the soldiers." ;.;;•, Rabbi Cohn emphasised the xnoral They Seek to Modify RegulaOne of Few Debt tion of Sacramental Date From Conflict With pain of war," made the audience presHis actual career, • which brought of the book, that a good character is -' Imprisonments Wines Yom Kippur Wit at the J. C. C, last Tuesday eve- him fame as a cartoonist came about the best foundation to life and suc. Jerusalem.-(J. T. A.)_Failui\l-1 > « for the sixth and final lecture of from the suggestion of a fellow-sol- cess.- ' "-'••'•I I •' Washington.—(J. T. A.)—A deleDetroit—(J. T. A.)~Efforts of a complywith an order for payment * je Community .Forum lecture course dier. He suggested that Bairnsfather The next Junior forum lecture, gation of five New York rabbis called Detroit committee to secure postpone\uckle again and again as he un- send one of his caricatures to a-Lon- which is sponsored jointly by the" Hen? on President Hoover to urge him to ment olTthe American Legion convenalimony or the maintenance of achj*. tg tion, scheduled to open here on Yom Vill henceforth be one of the -f\cB •£• \ded in a humorous, inimitable man- don illustrated. The captain did and rietta Sirold and the A; Z.-A. No. 1, modify the regulation with regard to Kippur, September 21, are assuming charges on which a debtor can be.iifL" '* the biography of his eventful the result was a check for fifteen dol- will be the dosing one of the season. the distribution of sacramental wine. lars. He spent $19.40. buying copies Ur. Victor Levfee of Creighton Uninational proportions, with the Order Pointing out that wine shipments prisoned in Palestine if an ordiriani^ "is lecture was well-illustrated by to send to, friends and was started versity will be (the speakers r of B'nai Brith and the B'nai Brith for sacramental purposes were trailed doing away with imprisonment excej V^s of the best ;and; most familiar toward; success.;: , j ! ; < :•.••." , Anti-Defamation League joining in through the city's streets by prohibiin cases of dishonest debtors, whicltii protests against opening the convention officers and their homes were now being considered, is. adopted. tartopns, which i were shown "upon a = So: popular did he become, with his caricatures; that the .French army tio« on that day. watched to "determine what use was The question of imprisonment fojr "Old Bill," the dumbell Britisit]sol- asked l England; to lend^him t a -their made of the wine,-the rabbis asked The Jewish appeal for the postponedebt has long been a source of comthat the rules be changed to allow a ment of the convention was given implaint in Palestine and the ordineJSJjice dierv was" created • by; Bairnsfather army . to: draw .,cartooiasiX.Lln:^succesrabbi to obtain wine for his congregapetus by the aid lent the movement under consideration is expected to lip during "the war.; This character made, sion he rwas transferred for this; Vork tion without accounting for its disby Mayor Frank Murphy of Detroit. jnuch to improve matters. - — him famous, besides aiding greatly iii ta the American and Italian armies. tribution. Detroit leaders who 'head the commit. Besides the above mentioned mis- cheering; up the soldiers during the It was on leave: from the Italian World War. . They argued that a rabbi should be tee, acting in.behalf of the Jewish demeanors, the new ordinance would army that he began the "Better Ole," of Flourishing trusted to make legitimate distribuLegionnaires are' assured by Mayor permit the imprisonment of "a debtor 'Baimsfather related-how, born in his well-known play. It started from To Be in ^cultural tion of wine allotted him for religious Murphy that he will do everything for failure to comply with a judgment India, he was sent to England by his a cartoon of two soldiers stranded in uses. Rev. Laurence Plank possible to secure a postponement of d Hi a shell hole, unable to get out. "If ier His for payment of a fine, costs or court father to obtain an education. the convention. Mayor Murphy is an The rabbis also complained that father had chosen a military fees; if it be known that he has sufyou know a better 'ole", go to it," one . Moscow*.— A.) —The. foundaRev. Laurence Plank of the First officer of the -Legion and was instruthey were required to furnish a list ficient means to pay the debt, but re- for his son, despite the fact that he of the soldiers said to his fellow in tion for q il eventually be a Unitarian Church of this city will of the members of the congregations speak on "Freedom" as the feature of mental in bringing the convention to fuses to do so; if he has transferred himself had inclinations toward be- misery. Bidjan, Far" East- who3e university at homes had then been searched. the next congregational supper to be Detroit this year.. or hidden his property whereby the coming an artist. So set was he on X!uy S.'Spencer, W.orlS-Herald car-] e r n ere the Soviet govHon. Alfred M. Cohen, president of debt remains unpaid, or if he is likely such a career that-he resigned and toonist, introduced the captain who I e rnment!is settling Jews on the band, The rabbis voiced opposition to a served by the Ladies' Auxiliary of the to run away and leave the country. launched out into the cartoonist field. "made the world laugh, in its darkest w a s i a i d with the opening of the In-, plan to open stores in New York for Conservative Synagogue oh Tuesday, the B'nai Brith, is taking action to the sale of sacramental wine. In each case the period of imprison- But he could not somehow make a go hour." . . March 24, at 6:30 p. m., at the J. C. C. secure postponement in the convenInstitute, fidustrial-Agrkul ral tion date. Sigmund Livingstone, of it financially. ment will not exceed 21 days. The Community Forum is under the nanced xmnceo.byb the 1 ll grain trust. The Bev. Plank, an eloquent speaker, is chairman of the Anti-Defamation ".- Pensioned government officials, "A burst of patriotism" led Captain auspices of-the Jewish Community j institute is„ local at Yekaterino-Ninoted for his liberal views. After his League, has addressed a request for lunatics and minors are exempt from Bairnsfather to enlist on the second Center and^* the- Council of Jewish fcolskaya, forty ilo meters from the talk there will be an open discussion the postponement of the convention imprisonment for debt. A debt be- day that war was declared. In the Women. with Sam Beber presiding. capital of Bira idjan. One hundred1 to James Barton, National Adjutant tween a father and a son, or a son This supper is for members and of the Legion, requesting that the students'are al: ,dy enrolled. The and father and between husband and m is being transtheir families only, but reservations executive board act at once. educational wife does not enable the creditor to will be allowed by members for their lated into Yiddish for the benefit of It is. stated on good authority that Have the-debtor sent to prison. An friends. Reservations, which may be the Jewish students who use only approximately 35,000 Jewish ex-servexception is made only where the made with Mrs. Ben Glazer, must be Yiddish. ice men are members of the Amerijudgment has been given for alimony Paris.—(J. T. A.)—Palestine will in by Sunday, March 22. That the future university will be can Legion, 14,000 of them having ator maintenance of children. • in the center of a flourishing agricul- be the only country flying the British tended the convention in Boston last tural center is~ipparent from the fact flag to Jliave its own pavilion at the year. that Bira Bidjan in the last year.has International Overseas ExKbition, It is expected that a flood of probecome the center of government which, opens here early in May.' The tests will, be addressed to National To Be Presented by Players farms or sovchozi, as they are called, managing of the Palestine pavilion is Commander Ralph T.'CNeil and NaGuild at J. C. C. Sunday six of which are:,operating in the.dis-; being handled by the Franco-Palestional Adjutant James Barton unless Evening' . tinian Chamber of ..Commerce which trfct. ' •_;;.. the date is adjusted. The demand for workers for 1931 is has created a special committee for "That "The Jazz Singer" will be much greater a$t only in the grain this purpose. most finished and elaborate -rprodueTo Transfer Hadassah Hospital trust,, but^ in,'tSjwf-other five statef tionVyet staged by the Center flayers' •H *' iii Tel Ayiv to Cit^ arms as well* \ ^ f e government plans -'- Jerusalem.—(J. O - ^ Shawkat Guild is" indicated 4*y t t e final i t^o aevo~te""15",Q(B5*0(i& ^rubles this year by la 'grpup of friends/6T* Palestine - AH, Indian Moslem leade^, and broth- hearsals. this .Week. The -tEreeract for. ther development of these state who have, availed. ther/Selves of the ... . . comedy drama will be presented/ un•-'•" Irtiof.t^iiejjaVil jlolhammed Ali, will farms and for the development of the invitation extended by the exhibition's ' T e l Aviv.—(jT T. A.)—The first management to mandated territories step, to transfer to the municipality of shortly leave for India to raise $5,- der the auspices of A. Z. A. Chapter lumber industry in the region. to participate either together wifh the Tel Aviv the. Hadassah Hospital 000,000 for a Moslem University j in 100, Sunday evening a¥ the;-Jewish powers whose protection "they, enjoy there, a step, just completed marks a Jerusalem, Jamal Husseini; 6n6-©f the Community Renter auditorium., Mrs. secretaries of the Arab Executive, def. :Hennan'Jahr is the director'. or as independent exhibitors. hopeful the progressive transfer precedent of Jewishfor public services in Many Communities Rally to Us; Sal Micbnick will have the title role clared. sishkin's Five-Year Vivid Representation of Glories Palestine, at present relying mainly Calling on his audience to pray for, of the Jazz Singer. He is a veteran Plan •: The Palestine' pavilion which is! on outside support, to the ownership, the success of Shawkat Ali's mis-- member of the Players'.Guild and had rapidly nearing completion will bring financial responsibility and supervis Dallas, Texas.—(J. T. A.)—There sion, Husseini urged . the Arabs of a leading part in the last Players' ion of local Jewish bodies. Ben .Kazlowsky, prominent orator before the world in vivid and effecis a town in Texas called Palestine. Palestine to help .themselves by tak- production, "The Good Hope." Negotiations that have been in tive form the glories' of Palestine's and collegiate debater of this city, past Laura Berek, who plays the role of ing the example of India and fighting and the possibilities of its fu- progress for some time, culminated There will also be a place in Palesdeparted last Sunday evening on an ture. Recalling in its general lines in agreement between the Hadassah, tine called "Nachlath Texas," i. e., Miss Rose Brandeis for their rights. . the mother of the Jazz Singer, is a extended debating trip to the east. He Colony," if plans which have The plan for a Moslem University newcomer to the Guild, but she comes Miss Rose Brandeis, artist pupil of captains a debate team representing and proportions the famous Tomb of the municipality of Tel Aviv and the "Texas in Jerusalem will be the principal, with extensive dramatic experience, Cecil Berryman, will be presented in Rachel, the pavilion's dazzling white- government health department by already been formulated by Zionist Creighton University, which will ness is thrown up by an ornamenta- which Hadassah will be responsible leaders of this state will be approved Bubject on the agenda of the forth-j having played with the dramatic club: meet ' in? forensic competition with tion of turquoise-blue faiences select- for half the expenditures connected at a Jewish National Fund Texas coming World Islamic Congress. -,. . L of Nebraska university and the Uni March 24, at the Schmoller and State Conference. numerous outstanding easte.ni univerIt is no secret that Shawkat Ali" w] v e r s i t y o f Illinois., ler; auditorium by the University Con- sities, including Northwestern, Pur- ed from those of the Mosque of Omar.!1 with the hospital for the next two The conference aims to enlist the One of these rooms is devoted to years, after which its contribution looking forward to the near .future j Becky Kirshenbaum. wffl play tin servatory of Music. ! due, and Harquette. co-operation of Texas Jewry in a ' when- India will come into its. own: and! part" of the sweetheart*, She has ; Misg Brandeis, who has played:for An outstanding feature of this trip Palestinian art, ancient and modern. will greatly decrease,: with.a corre: huge Palestine land reclamation and sponding increase in the local burden. life wilt command a powerful,position'placed with the Guild for the past many.local.Jewish orga-\zations, has will be; a radio debate in Chicago, on Celebrated collections from all parts "as a leader of Indian-Mosiems, That' two" seksons" arid has-taken-.leads in been; made a member of the .faciiilty of Sunday/March 22, at 6:$D p. m. with of the .world have lent magnificent To manage the hospital, a special acquisition plant recently adopted by a national conference of Jewish lead" it Is his intention to lend this power! severarnlgh %chool^^operettas.-c "" the Conservatory, and is- connected the Chicago-Kent College; of Law, examples of the most'modern wort. authority*ia^tb,be. created, consisting ers held in Washington, D. C, which of aboard of three members, who will : in suppoi-t of the plan of Haj Arrienn Weinstein acts the part of the stern, with-_ttig; junior music department. over the Chicago Tribune, station There wili also be important excalls for the creation in the Holy Al Husseini, Grand Mufti of Jeru- father. She is also one of the artists appear- WGN; "The discussion via radio will amples of the most recent develop- be represented of the. .municipaUty, Land of an American tract. ments in Hebrew arts'and crafts. In Hadassah and the government, resalem, for the development of Islamic ',>. Others in the cast includei, Irving ing; over iradio stations WOW- and be: the unemployment problem. Other: Communities Rally other rooms Palestine's industry, spectively. Hadassah has a'lso con; cultural' institutions, and do every- Beitel, John Peldman, Harry Colick, A^W T ^ \ ' ' ''' T;^„\.:.I.. .; .: This debating tour will complete " Other American Jewish communsented to lift the ban on private practhing he can to emphasize the con- Nate Sekermaiv Ida Bishoff, Sam \ A vprogram of. excellent selections five years of intercollegiate debating agriculture, travel, small drafts, ities^sides those of Texas are rally'jiection of • Indian Moslems with' the Ferer, Martha Himelstein, Abe will be presented by Miss Brandeis. for Kazlowsky, during which lime he schools, townplanning . and improve- tice by iospital physicians, which ing enthusiastically to the support of interests of Palestine Moslems, is a Saltzman, Yale Meyerson and, Abner Orchestral parts will be played by-Mr. was pitted against some of the finest ment, electrification schemes, mineral will make possible a reduction in the Ussishkin plan for the acquisition their salaries. known~ fact. ' • ••.. . Kaiman. Included in the chorus are Berryman. Thepublic is invited. college debate teams in the country. wealth will be graphically - demonThe nursing system has • been in Palestine of an American tract on Ann Bishoff, Pauline Hurwitz, Mar: Miss Brandeis is the daughter of Kazlowsky has also figured promin- strated by a large collection of sam-: changed in order to meet the require- the land of the Jewish National Fund garet Hurwitz, Ruth Margolin an Mr* and Mrs. Morris Brandeis. ently in Jewish Community Center de- ples, photographs and sketches. in one of the most fertile regions in . Loevinger Appointed _ Helen Adler. There will'be an opportunity to ments of reorganization, all of these Palestine, it was declared in a statebating, have been a member - of the duo which won the Midwestern. Com- taste the famous wine from the grape innovations having been Introduced ment issued by the Jewish National to: jDistriet Judgeship The A. Z. A. chairmen of the various- cpmmittees^ are: Julius Bisno munity Center championship in 1930. o£ Canaan and the golden oranges of with the sanction of the health de- Fund headquarters in New York. partment. .;. general, chairman; Ralph Gross, fi He-was also a member of the team Jaffa.. Gusjaye'Lqeyinger, past president Bernard Stone, national field diwhich won the first International A. of the •pistrict Grand Lodge No. 6 of nance; Max Platt, usher committee rector of the Jewish National Fund; the Bfnai Britii and well-known here, j Dan Iinsman, checkroom; Morris • Mrs.. T..Whitman, 58, died Sunday Z. A. debate championship.in 1927. P. M. Raskin, Anglo-Jewish poet and has been appointed judge of the Dis- Katz, publicity; Morris Meyerson morning at Rochester, Minn., where a member of the Jewish National Kazlowsky is president of the local trict Court at St. Paul by Governor ticket collection; Joe Goldware, tickej she had gone two weeks previous for chapter of Pi Lambda Phi national Fund staff; and Max Rudensky are Floyd Olson of Minnesota. • Loevingerj distribution, with Sam Fleishman her healtK Burial was in the Golden -social college fraternity, and a cenior touring various parts of the country is prominent in legal cirdes in St. I Sam White and Morris Meye.rson co Hill cemetery Monday, with funeral j the Creighton Law School. for this purpose. Paul. •'. [chairmen.' •;_ : The first communities to underLondon. Reconsideration of the opment scheme also proceeded deservices from the Chesed Shel Emes.! proposal for a legislative asssembly spite Dr. Weizmann's opposition. The j take the dunam quotas in the UssishRabbi N. Feldman officiated. . Mrs. Whitman is survived by one, in Palestine was definetly rejected by paper forecasts a discussion in the' kin plan were Washington, D. C ; son, Norman Whitman; five daughthe British Government during the House of Commons in connection Baltimore, Md.; Pittsburgh, Pa.; Philters, Miss Sarah Whitman, Miss Milnegotiations with the Jewish Agency, with the CDorinell Commission adelphia, Pa.; Detroit, Mich.; Providred Whitman, Mrs. Harry Segall, the parliamentary correspondent of whish is now in Palestine studying dence, R. I.; New Haven, Conn., and Mrs. Hymah Harris, all of Omaha, the Jewish Chronicle declares on the the administration's financial status. New York City. and Mrs." Yetta Britz, of Chicago. Yonkers.—(J. T. A.)—A He- basis of a high authority. Madison, Wis.—(J. T. A.)—Taking yet applied for the position, however, : On-Hhs.r.; trip; . to; Rochester, Mrs. brew sect in China, almost wholly Criticizing the members of the "the cue from the Connorsville, Ind.,iit has been explained. Whitman: was accompanied by her assimilated with the Chinese, ex- Zionist Executive who were alleged Jewish congregation that has been daughter; Ttfiss Sarah Whitman. cept for the observance of Jewish to have said that the question of the meeting in a Methodist Episcopalian ••_-&^-toucflirig tale -t>f - sacrifice forreligious customs, was described by legislative assembly had not yet been church and hearing sermons from a Jewish traditipn.:.is told in connection Madame Pearl Metzelthin of New discussed, the Jewish Chronicle states preacher of that denomination, a Uniwith the return, of the body. Solomon York City in a speech before the tarian congregation in this city is goH. Bemelof Rochester, an immigrant Agudath Achim Synagogue here. that -while Dr. Chaim Weizmann askSt. Albana, Vt.—A Jewish mother might become a public charge. Mother ed the government not to constitute ing quite a step further and is castJerusalem.—(J. T. A.)—A total of lad in his twenties, volunteered withand her eight months old baby have and baby remained in this town, ing about for a liberal Jewish rabbi 39 prospective immigrants Were bar- out pay, to stay up all night with the Madame Metzelthin was recently that to accede to this request woul-i become separated from each other as which is near the Canadian border, be certain to incur Arab hostility. to take charge of spiritual affairs for red from entering Palestine during body in the train in accordance with in China with her husband. a result of the immigration laws of for two weeks, while immigration ofThe group was dwindled to a the church. •; : . The Jewish Chronicle claims too the United States and Canada, the ficials were deciding their case. January, while a total, of 262 were ad- Jefish custom. He also paid the ex- few hundred, she said, who speak that plans for the $12,500,000 devel- mother being a Canadian citizen and There will be no heed for the rabbi mitted. Of this number . 150 were penses, of the trip himself. He himFinally the mother was sent to to change his creed in any. Way or his Jews, 97. were Christians and 15 were self was just recuperating from a Chinese, look like Chinese, but who the little daughter, having been born Montreal and Dorothy remained in observe certain Jewish dietary Judaistic viewpoint. in New York City, an American. Moslems. The 150 Jews included 43 major illness. Sarrioff on New York this country. As a result of the inlaws, observe Yom Kippur and He will only be called upon to use who entered as travelers and were University Council Soon after Dorothy Cohen's birth tervention of Jewish welfare workers, other ceremonials. She believes his own religious concepts in attack- permitted to remain permanently. David Sarnoff, president of the Ra- her mother was ordered deported the sect emigrated to China after Hebrew Course in Detroit little Dorothy has been placed in an ing the spiritual problems before1 his dio Corporation of America, is one of back to Canada,. but Canadian offi! During the same month 42: Jews* Detroi£.Tr-A jcourse in the Hebrew the destruction of the first TemUnitarian flock, it has been'explained institution of the Jewish Board oi the three men who have been elected cials; refused to allow the child to en24 Christians' and' five Moslems emi- language may be given next year in "ple'in the fifth century B. C by officers of the Congregation. Guardians. ter Canada on the assumption that it to theNew York-University Councfl. the Central High School of this city. No member of the rabbinate has as grated. ;
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"JAZZ SINGER"TO Will Present BE ELABORATE Piano Recital PRESENTATION
MUNICIPALITIES™ MAN PALESTINE PUBLIC SERVICES
MOSLEMS SEEK FIVE MILLIONS !
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MRS. WHITMAN PASSES AWAY AT ROClffiSTER
Claims Britain Insists Upon Legislation Assembly Plan
Wisconsin Protestant Ghurch Seeks Liberal Jewish Pastor 150 Jews Admitted to Palestine in January
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Hebrew Sect in China Nearly Assimilated
Typical Picture of Hardships of Mechanized Immigrant Laws