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New Year's Edition—THE JEWISH PRESS—Friday, September SO, 1932
VoL X—No. 85
Review of Jewish Life Diiring 5692 Progress Marred By Much Sorrow Past Twelve Months Highlights
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Moscow, (J. T. A.)—So large attendance, at High Holyday services is expected in Soviet Russia that there will not be sufficient facilities to accommodate the worshippers, it is feared. While in previous years, it was possible to rent premises for temporary synagogues, such premises are not available this year. In Moscow where there are four synagogues, only 3,000 worshippers can be accommodated. Old and new Jewish cemeteries are being converted into synagogues, as "Abe Goldstein was named presi- are number of private homes. dent ot tbt Congregation of Temple Evenathese measures are not regardIsrael at the annual election of of- ed as sufficient to meet the need. ficers htlu at the Temple Sunday. .Harry Wilinsky was elected vice-
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Services Will Usher in Rosh Hashonah Tonight High Holydays for the Year 5693 Will Begin for World Jewry at Sundown This Evening SCHEDULE FOR LOCAL SERVICES
At sundown tonight world Jewry, in solemn prayer and deep meditation, will greet the dawn of a New Year. In contrast with the secular New Year, Rosh Hashonah is with the Jewish people a time for consecration and rededication, for introspection and retrospection, not for feasting and merry-making. Local Services
"What Justifies Our Prayer Life?" On Sunday morning services also begin at 8:30 a. m. Rabbi Goldstein will preach at 10:15 on "Man's Forgotten Possibilities." The Conservative Synagogue has mous acclaim which met his selection Competent and trained observer, planned an innovation in the religcontrasted sharply—and satisfactorhaving Jus hand on the Jewish pulse ious life of Omaha Jewry. Childily—with the buzz of angry denunciweek after week, as it throbs with a ren's services will be conducted for ation •which greeted the naming of new sensation, a new crisis, Joseph Rosh Hashonah on Saturday and Louis Dembitz Brandeis. The CardSalmark is ideally equipped to review Sunday mornings at 11 a. m., under ozo nomination was a splendid illusthe events of the twelve months; the direction of Mr. Julius Bisnst tration of the fact that—despite the which culminate with Bosh Hash1. Are rabbis suffering from dewith Mr. Hyman Finkelstein leading : many signs to the cohtrary-^-rthe Jew onah. In this comprehensive, airplane pression? the services. Locally, all synagogues and temview of the international Jewish 2. XHd. fund-raising campaigns has been genuinely integrated into Synagogues and Temples to Be ples will observe the ushering in of the American scene. Orthodox scene durinff 5D92, Salmark deals collect less than last year? the New Year with appropriate serGuarded by Plainwith that which is important, of 3. What is the largest philanFeaturing the services at the orthRebuilding in Palestine. vices. Clothes Police more than passing significance. He thropic gift of the year? odox synagogues for this Bosh HashTo many it must seem prejudiced Temple not only records; he interprets. But onah will be Rabbi Manuel Laderman 4. Are Jews still overcrowding not to include the situation in PalesBerlin, (J. T. A.)—Plain clothes Eeform Jewry observe Bosh Hash- of Chicago, who is here for the High he never departs from objectivity and the legal and medical profession? tine among the most noteworthy police will stand on guard at the onah for a 24-hour period, begin- Holydays impartiality. This swift, accurate the auspices of the 5. Do Jewish organizations fight events of the! year. But Palestine synagogues during the High Holy- ning at sundown tonight and ending local Vaadunder survey is valuable for an understand- discrimination in the economic stands above the temporary incidents H'oehr, or Union of Orthdays and uniformed police will be at sundown Saturday. odox Synagogues. ing of what may happen to Jewish field? of a twelve-months period. It unstationed in the vicinity of the tem"The New Year" will be Rabbi life in the year 5693 upon which we Rabbi Laderman will speak at the 6. "Why are Jews becoming more doubtedly dominates the Jewish scene ples in the e\-ent emergencies arise, Frederick Cohn's subject this evening Beth Hamedrosh Hagodol synagogue, now enter.—THE EDITOR. powerful in American politics? as does no other force. It is the only according to arrangements completed at Temple Israel, Park Avenue and and Burt, at 10 a. m. Saturday between the Jewish Community and Jackson street, services beginning at 19th 7. Is the cleavage between Dr. creative factor in Jewish life today. morning, in English, and at the The dark clouds that have de- Wise and Dr.'Adler an important It represents the aspiration of a peothe Police Department. 8 p. m. B'nai Israel synagogue, 18th and pressed the -world scene for three event? ple seeking to disentangle itself from As another safety measure, the Saturday, morning services will Chicago, at 10 a. m. Sunday mornyears burst with unrestrained fury' > 8. Was the good will movement the nieshes of a" hostile environment. Jewish Community will appoint Com- start at 10 o'clock. Dr. Cohn's ser- ing, in Yiddish. On Saturday, October upon a prostrate Jewry during the successful during the past year? The building of a few more colonies, missars to be stationed within the mon -will be on "Crises and Israel." 8, the Holy Sabbath between Rosh Abe Goldstein twelve months that come to an end synagogues and temples and -who The Sunday .School will hold ses3. How did the Anglo-Jewish the erection of another hospital, the this Rosh Hashonah. The Jewish press fare during the depression? opening of a new bank. These are president; Louis Hiller, treasurer, will maintain contact with the police sions on Sunday, October 2, starting, Hashonah and Yom Kippur. Rabbi Laderman will speak in Yiddish at Horizon, never too luminous, is obMiss Minnie We If, secrete :v. should the necessity for'their inter- at 10 a. m. 10. Is the Yiddish press losing not significant events. They are de3:30 p. m. in the afternoon at the scured and threatening—to any* his- out because of the immigration tails in the great historic process tak- -Trustees are Milton IL Abrahams, vention arise. Beth Hamedrosh Hagodol on Jewish Conservative . torian who would attempt to chart quota?. ing place in Palestine. For the re- Sol L. Degen, Manning E. Handler, • The' elaborate precautions being ••; ... ^ ' lore and the Talmud. the events of the year 5693, the calMax L. Holzman, Harry Z. Rosenfeid, arranged^ are undertaken to prevent Members of 'Hie Conservative syn11. Is Hitler gaining or losing building of Palestine is more import-' The Vaad is comprised of the fehdar year into which we now shift. strength in Germany? ant as an ideological concept than as •3Pred Rosenstock and Henry jRosen- any possible "-disturbances in view of agogue -will observe Rosh Sashonah, B'nai-Israel, Beth Hamedrosh Hagthal. ' . ' Jewish ^history, essentially n. record commencing' at sunset tonight and the .ge&eraT incitement against the 12. Is the Polish government .a _phj*s3pal project. From that point odol, the B'nai Jacob, the Adasg upon which the needle seems to have fighting anti-Semitism? " '"*•'.'•'-'•' of view, it is~minimizing the place of Jews and the recollection of last continuing to Sunday at sundown. gotten caught, repeats itself monotonTonight services for the Conserv- Yeshurim,, and the Chevra B'nai Isyear s excesses during: the Jewish 13. Is Palestine becoming a Palestine to regard it .as but a limitously. Disturbing incidents in Cen- homeland for" the" homeless: Jews ? ed, part of the Jewish landscape. ative Synagogue, at the Community rael of South Omaha. New Year. Tonight and Saturday night, orthCenter, will begin at 8 p. m. Rabbi tral Europe, barbarity on the eastern The Jewish group, attached to the 14. Is Russia giving her Jews odox services will start at 6:30 p. part of the Continent, restrictive in- opportunities to develop? Centre Party which was organized David A. Goldstein will speak on m. Saturday and Sunday mornings, "Out of Sight—Got of Mind." fluences in more enlightened lands. in connection with the last Reich15. Is King Carol of Rumania a they will commence at 7 a. m. For the Jews of America the past On Saturday morning, services These are the colors with -which the friend of the Jews? stag elections, will continue to funcCantor A. Schwaczkin and his male historian can expect to paint his'piction relative to the new elections -will start at 8:30 a. m. The subject choir will again be a feature 16. Are the Goglus of Canada twelve months represent a definite at the period of retrogression in every for Rabbi Goldstein's sermon, -which schedule f«r November, it was ture. dangerous? B'nai Israel synagogue. •will be given at 10:15 a. m., will be learned here today. The preparation of a review of the 17. Which country has the clear- sphere of communal life. The ecoRev. L. Karz, recently of the west nomic unsettlement which was preci- Sogolow Announces Beginning Jewish year gives one a swift, com- est and cleanest Jewish record ? The Jewish fjroup -will be headed coast, will chant the services at the pitated three years ago has caught by Georg Kareski, former head of prehensive glance at a people scat18. Are Fascists anti-Semites? Beth Hamedrosh Hagodol synagogue, of Gym Classes on thousands more in the maelstromIn the Berlin Jewish Community and tered to the ends of the earth. Trag19. Why is the year :56.92 notaassisted by a recently-organized male Monday other Jewish leaders. edy seems to be the keynote of the ble for an intensification > " of Jew- every part of the country Jews have choir. been identified to a large extent with It is estimated that the Jewish panorama. ;But the observer, who ishness.? j : . i . . All interested in • basket ball are group was responsible for securing Rabbi N. Feldman is spiritual also takes into consideration those v 20. WhSch'*was the (greatest Jew- real estate interests. Mortgages have urged to attend a meeting of fans, at least 30,000 Jewish votes in Berleader at the Adass Yeshurim and Jbeen foreclosed; properties'have been „. thick spaces which cover the spots ish news'item in 5692?. , • Rabbi H. Grodinsky at the B'nai swept away because of the inability backers and players, to be held at the lin for the Centre Party in the last between Jewish communities, will alJewish Community Center on TuesJacob. elections and a total of 501,090 Morris Priedel was chosen presiHere are twenty questions—and to provide supporting capital. The so ask himself whether the Jewish evening, October 4, at 8:30 o'clock. throughout the country. The orthodox synagogues holding martyr complex does not dominate his there are a hundred . more—that small storekeepers, who include so day dent of the United Palestine Council Physical Director Morris H. Sogoservices for the High Holydays injudgment of the pageant of Jewish Joseph Salmark answers in his au- many Jews, have been ^withered by low has issued this call to formulate of Omaha at the election of officers clude: B'nai Israel, 18th and Chicathe buying drought and crushed by history. Jews are beaten in Prussia; thoritative Review of the Year." held at the Jewish Community Cen- go; Beth Hamedrosh Hagodol, 19th plans for the coming: season. Prethe chain stores. but so are Germans in Upper -Silesia. and Burt; Chevra B'nai Israel, South ter Monday evening. liminary play, season leagues and varJews are excluded from Yale; but This virtual collapse of the Jewish sity teams will be on the evening's Omaha; Adass Yeshurim, 25th and Other officers include: Mrs. J. Riehnegroes cant even enter high schools. to the regulations. Whatever inay be economic structure, which has hit the agenda. • : . ; hn, iirst vice-president; Mrs. L Hnir- Seward; B'nai Jacob, 24th and Nichp Jews are discriminated against in, Po- happening to " the Jewish, religious Warburgs and Rosenwalds quite as According to advance .indications, olas; Shaare Zion, 1548 North 20th, i M Leo Brown was named president witz, second vice-president^ fcnd Mrs. land; but the Flemish are being ex- foundations in Sovietland—and they much as the Cohens and the Stems, Sogolow. expects a large turnout to and B'nai Sholom, 28th and Farterminated in Belgium. These facts are said by most observers 4o be has had its remifications into every be present. He.plans to get the pre- of the Psi Mu at an election of offi- M.. F. Levenson, secretary-treasurer. nam. On the executive board are M. D. make Jewish suffering no less burd- shakmg-i-the physical and intellectual part of the -Jewish community. The season basket' ball loop under way cers held Monday. ensome, but they should be kept in safety of'the Jews seems undisputed, most -noticeable effect has been the about November 1. New; and novel Other officers are: Sam Epstein, Brodkey, M. Minkin and M. F. Lev- Significance of Rosh Hashonah mind before lamenting that we are enormous decline i n receipts for. char- plans which will be of interest to vice-president; Morris Falk, treasurer; enson. Rosh Hashonah is rich in moral The United Palestine Council was import and significance. The fact "the chosen people"—for misery. itable purposes, .With the possible basket ball devotees will be offered. Leo Bennan, publicity director; Earl . •' ; World Congress Called. organized during the past year, unit- that it is the beginning of the New If one were limited to the selection The third] eveht of interest—if not exception of San Francisco, there is AH gym classes will start next Siegel, parliamentarian; Irvin Eueben, of five items which are the most im- entirely of importances-was the. so- not a single Jewish Federation in Monday." The Health Club for pro- secretary; Harry Winer and Ix ing and co-ordinating the efforts of Year lends it special sacredness to all local organizations doing work for the Jewish people. For them, it is portant highlights of the year 5692, called world conference held at Gene- America which has not failed to meet fessional and business men will meet Schreibman, sergeants-at-arms. one would have but little difficulty. va in the middle of August; Inspired its quota.' Even New York City, on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 12:15 The installation will be held at the the development and rehabilitation of a time of higher resolves, a time Everythmg else was repetitious. For b y D r . Stephen S. Wise and shipped where Jewish wealth is most concen- noon for gymnasium work and each J. C. C. Monday evening, with Irvin Palestine as -a national Jewish home- for the cleansing of their hearts and land.' All Omaha Zionist groups are the purifying of their souls. universities in Germany, Poland and into shape by his terrific ferver, the trated, ended its year's c a m p a i g n - additional noon for volleyball. C. Levin, sponsor, officiating. constituent members of the Council. Austria were closed times without conference was significant because it even after a deficit drive-—some On Eosh Eashonah the Jews traOn Mondays and Wednesdays worn-, Friedel succeeds M. F. Levenson as ditionally pardon each other for past 7 number because of anti-Semitic dis- provided a' sounding-board for a re- $400,000 behind" The same story, in en's and girls' classes will predomihead of the Council. The definite grievances, realizing in their prayero turbances. citation of the Jewish problems of the greater or lesser proportion, can be nate, and on Tuesdays, Thursdays and program to be followed by the Coun- that they too have erred during tho told about Boston, Chicago, Cincin- Hitler Menace . time. Had it been really representaSundays the men's and boys' classes cil will be determined 'within the next year and have asked that their own nati, Cleveland, Detroit, Minneapolis, The outstanding incident was the tive, had its agenda been well planned will be held. two 'weeks at a meeting of the exec- transgressions be condoned. As development of the Hitler menace in and executed, it might have been a Pittsburgh and Philadelphia. In the The Talmud Torah youngsters have Isadore "Cappy" Lieberman of board and the educational com- they take an accounting of their Germany. The home of "kultur" was momentous step for the strengthen- latter city, the drop was r^mitTH^ be- swimming as part of their physical Sioux City was elected captain of the utive mittee. deeds, both good and evil, during the transformed into the refuge of vicious ing of the Jewish position. To a cause this year's fund-raising effort education curriculum. The boys swim Creighton university freshman team twelve months gone by, they seek hate. The situation in Germany has world distracted by its own prob- was combined with the unemployment on Tuesdays and Thursdays at B, 6 Monday. the strength to avoid in the future been so startling because it was so lems, the Geneva conference was as relief appeal. and 6:30, and the girls on Wednesa free state, it is not the Chrisy ' prominent in athletthe errors of the past. •unexpected. The growth of Hitler- the bleating of a sheep in the whirlEvery Jewish institution affected days at 5 and 6:30. ics on various Jewish teams in Sioux tian that rules the Jew, neither is it festival is a reminder to man ism in Poland or Hungary might have wind. Successful or not, the Switzer- by the Federations has had to curtail City and has played in Omaha on the Jew that rules the Christian; it of The the brevity of his life, but optiseemed more natural. The precarious land gathering provided a precedent its activities. The chief sufferer in is Justice that rules."—Leopold Zunz. many occasions. , mistically stresses the tenet that man position of the Jews of Germany, that should be helpful in later years practically every instance has been is master of his own destiny and which threatens to continue until the for organizing a genuine interna-. Jewish education and Jewish religious can realize the fullness of life by activities. At the conference of JewVersailles treaty is adjusted and the tional Jewish parley. living his days -wisely. The spirit of ish Social Service at Philadelphia it German economic equilibrium refaith and eternal hope is emphaDeath of Rosenwald. was estimated that $6,000,000 is exstored, is the most serious problem The Socialist Verband in the Worksized, as on Eosh Hashonah the "today facing the Jewish leadership— The fourth event of moment was pended annually on Jewish education. men's Circle, Branch No. 173, will Jewish people gain the spiritual This seems an over-statement. In the the death of Julius Rosenwald. Greatif any. majority* of communities,' first sponsor a memorial meeting for A. aspiration on the part of the pupils strength to carry on and look forA High School department for the est Jewish philanthropist in history, Soviet Comforting. on Friday evening, October 7, to complete their primary course ward to the future with undimmed not only set a new standard for thought has been for the hospitals, Litvak But there is a bright aspect to the he at 8:30 o'clock at the Labor Lyceum, City Talmud Torah will be opened successfully." confidence. homes and relief agencies. Schools giving but cloaked his philanthropy on Tuesday, October 25, according chronicle of the year. The news with intelligence. In many respects, have had to be satisfied with a dras- Twenty-second and Clark. The pubA feature of the Eosh Hashonah The course as planned will delve to an announcement made today by into Talrnudic literature and modern services from Russia has been increasingly the most noted Jewish figure of the tically reduced budget or, in some in- lic has been invited. is the blowing of the Shocomforting. Traveler after traveler twentieth century, with the exception stances, with closure. This situation Litvak, who passed away in New Aaron Xatz, principal. Hebrew literature. It will also deal far, reverberating in the heart of has returned from the U. S..S. R. to of Einstein, Julius Rosenwald was' a has provoked a new-discussion of the York last week, vras an outstanding The Mgh school department, it is •with. Jewish history and Jewish con- every Jew. In ancient days this report that the Jewish position is be- powerful force in Jewish life. His possibility of taxing kosher meat in Jewish Socialist leader. He was the felt, yrill take care of a long-felt temporary life in a more matured ram's horn vras sounded to call tocoming easier, that Jews are being passing means much to the drift of order to provide revenues to maintain organizer of the Eusslan-Polish Bund. need in the Jewish educational sys- form than given in the lower grades. gether all the valiant soldiers of tem of the Talmud Torah. integrated into the industrial as well the Jewish currents. Talmud Torahs and similar instituThe Bible, upon a broader approach, Israel. At its sound they left their "The inauguration of this high will also be emphasized. as the agricultural system of the tents and assembled to prepare for tions. Larger and smaller cities, Blum to Interpellate Parliaschool department," stated Mr. Kstz, land. Some hysterical voices from Cardozo to Supreme Court. with the Union of Orthodox Rabbis ment on Tunis Excesses It is expected that not only the battle. Today, the Shofar calls upon far-off Palestine have been insisting The fifth event which this writer setting the keynote, have serious conParis.—Deputy Leon Blur/>, Jewish "marks a definite step forward in the graduates of the 5B class of the the Jevdsh people to contribute their that a "dollar inquisition" in Russia considers of outstanding importance sidered the proposal, but to date no leader of the French Socialist Party, life of the City T a t e a l Torah. Talmud Torah will join the high share toward making the world a is exterminating Jews, although these •was the elevation during the year of definite, binding action, has been un- will submit an interpellation in Par- "Firstly, it provides s n opportun- school department classes but also better place in which to live and to same individuals fail to point put that Benjamin Nathan Cardozo to a place dertaken. Another major aspect of liament calling upon the French gov- ity for the primary department grad- "boys and girls in the city -who have; continue their century-old battle for .there is a .State law against the on the United States Supreme Court tie changed Jewish economic situa- ernment' to take stringent measures uates to acquire s higher Jewish previously received a Hebrew educa-' human equality, righteousness, social hoarding-of rffloney .and that all te His appointment is not only of intrinto suppress the Arab-attacks on the education, and secondly, i t creates a tion approximating the standards of justice, s a d brotherhood' anuxnff j B t of the population are subject sic interest to justice. The unaniJ men. Jews of Tunisia" V school spirit in the tower grades and the Talmud Torak curriculum. {Continued on Page 2-A! ;
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PRECAUTIONS IN BERLIN AGAINST HOLYDAY RIOTS
Do You Know the Answers?
The United States
BASKET BALL IS TO GET UNDER WAY AT CENTER
MORRIS FRIEDEL IS ELECTED HEAD OF PALESTINE COUNCIL
Leo Brown to Head Psi Mu
"Gapp3 " Lieberman Heads Frosh Team
Litvak Memorial Meeting Planned
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