In the Interests of the Jewish People
Dedicated to the . Ideals of Judaism IHMina
Entered as fr*econa Class Mai] M I'ostofflcc of Omaha, Nebraska,
-Illhnuary lhnuary 21, 1021, at y \A.ct \ A t off March M h 3, 3 1S79 1
NORMAN THOMAS FORUM L
Be Called Ilitler' an Insult, Court Rules
OMAHA, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 5, 1934
Vol. IX—No. 49
OMAHANS TO 1 AT CONCLAVE OF
Federation Meeting Monday, January 29
JUSTIC
Due to the city-wide and nationWARSAW, (J.T.A.)—It is an inwide observance of the birthday sult to call a person "Hitler," the of President Franklin D. Rooselocal municipal court ruled here velt on Tuesday, January 30, the in a case tried before it. The ruldate of the annual meeting of the Jewish Federations to Be DisOutstanding Intellectual Will ing was reached when a woman Jewish Community Center and cussed at Assembly in ChiSpeak on "A New Deal neighbor charged Mrs. Nathalip Welfare Federation has. b e e n cago This Week-End Freund with having insulted her or a New Day" changed to Monday evening, Janin the course of a verbal quarrel . (Reprinted from Harper's Magazine.) nary 29, at 7:30 p. m., at the A large delegation of Omahans ia A capacity attendance is expected by calling her a "she-Hitler." J. C. C. auditorium. planning to attend the sessions of the The court recognized the claim for the lecture by Norman Thomas society which lives un- ] servants, instead of the masters, of one can read the record of Mr. BranThe Jewry of Omaha are urged first national assembly of Jewish on "A New Deal or a New Day" at as valid and ordered Mrs. Freund derA apolitical written constitution must have'*1the — public, ~«i>"~ •+the •»•«» recognition ---^r^sf^-n of ~P the +*,„ „,»_ ad- deis' career as an advocate without to hold this date open. federations and welfare funds. The the Jewish Community Center this to pay a fine of one hundred judges whose law is an exercise in ministrator's task as at least as im- laying emphasis upon qualities which conclave will be held in C h i c a g o , Monday evening, January 8, start- zlotys. H statesmanship. • For if they are to portant as that of the legislator—it are all his_ own. A passion for jusJanuary 6 and 7, under the ausing at 8 pan. This will be the second safeguard principle, they have also was to concrete issues involving tice in the first place; a sense that pices of the National Council of Jewnumber on the Community Forum ih adjust it to: changing needs. It is these questions that his life as an where wrong is being done it is the ish Federations and Welfare Funds. series. ; their task to scan the horizon of the advocate had been devoted. citizen's business to move to the atThe Omaha Federation is a memDr. F. W. Heagey will preside and future not less" than of the past". And he had interpreted the pur- tack upon wrong. A fine regard for ber of the Council. The local offiintroduce the speaker. The PrinceThey must be aware that statutes pose of that life ijn a way somewhat individual rights which" looks upon cial delegates will be Henry Monsky, ton Club, of which Dr. Heagey is are made, ideas given affirmation, different from that of the typical the common man not merely as the who is a member of the national expresident, will entertain for Thomas because environments change with bUCCCSaj-Ul subject of certain legal privileges ofsuccessful practitioner of the law. ecutive committee of the National £JJ..£M»UtUiiVAXt;i. . V4. l a i d Ilk. »*. [ —' , l ~ » ~ O X • O that day at a luncheon. the growth of experience. The Amer- There had run through his career j ficially conferred, but as a personJouncil, and Jacob S. Pearlstien, ex' * The lecture will be followed by an have the"thread of a "consfstent" ican Constitution would not have' ecutive director of the local J. C. C. • * • • implica— • ality whose frustration is an explicit open forum. survived if the Supreme Court had! t i o n that the lawyer's business is at denial of whatever creative purpose Meeting Date To Be Changed and Welfare Federation. : : : Thomas was the Socialist candidate content to seek its meaning in least as much the^ protection of the we may discover in life. There are, Among the other communal leaders From Thursday to for president of the United States in Address at Jewish Community been the climate of opinion which deter- public as : the safeguarding of vested too, a devotion and a fearless integwho will attend are included William Monday the last election^ He is recognized as Center Under Auspices of mined the operation of its original interests w h i c h / t h r e a t e n e d public rity of mind without which no man — Holzman, Harry A. Wolf, Sam having one of the most brilliant minds Local B'nai Brith substance. It is a framework into well-being. Adventures like his strug- can be a great judge. Brandeis the Leo Abramson was named presi- Beber, Dr. A. Greenberg, Harry Silof the day, and is one of the most which new ideas must be fitted, not gle against the Massachusetts insur- advocate was not a respecter of per- dent of the local lodge of the B'nai •erman, Dave Goldman, Philip Klutzforceful and eloquent speakers in Richard Gutstadt, national director a barrier against, their-access to ance system, or the betrayal, both of sons; he drove straight to the truth Brith at the election of officers held nick, Max Barish. America on economic and internation- of the Anti-Defamation League, has constitutional status. It does not deny l a s t Thursday at A feature of the conference will the public and i|s shareholders by he had grasped without care for the " al subjects. accepted the invitation'. of Omaha the right of legislative experiment; the New Haven railroad; experiences consequences of Iiis adventure. the Jewish Com- be an address on Sunday evening by ' At present Norman Thomas is ex- Lodge No. 354 Bnai Brith to adasks only that the grounds for at- Use his ' fight against the • Morgan munity Center. He James G. McDonald, high commisThe record of Mr. Brandeis as an ecutive director of the League for dress a meeting at the Jewish Com- it tempting it should be built upon the stranglehold over i public credit; the advocate is the record o f a great succeeds Rabbi Da- sioner of the League of Nations comIndustrial Democracy and is contrbi- munity Center, on January . 21, at reasonable experience of men. vid A. Goldstein. mission for Gei-man refugees. realization, in the Ballinger case, fighter in the cause of social justice. uting editor of The Nation, World 8:15 P.M. Mr. Gutstadt has been Abramson is secre- A reappraisal of private philanthroIt is because he has approached that a Cabinet officer could deliber- But what distinguishes him in that Tomorrow and New Leader. the pivot about which the currents tary of the Jewish pic standards in the light of increased - He is a graduate of Princeton Uni- of Jewish life have played most en- his judicial work in this temper that ately surrender public interest to pri- record from a sec re of lesser fisrures Free Loan, secretary governmental expenditures for relief versity (1905) and of the Union ergetically. His store of knowledge Mr. Justice Brandeis is likely to be vate greed and lie, with presidential is less the moral than the intellecof the board of work and changing social needs unprotection, to make the surrender regarded as one of the essential figtual qualities he brought to its serTheological Seminary. After grad- concerning Hitler and other anticounty commission- der the New Deal wil be the aim of uating from the Seminary, Thomas Jewish activities in the past, year or" ures in the history of the Supreme effective; the knowledge, from his vice. Above all, perhaps, is the masers, and chairman the assembly, according to Sol M. became asociate pastor of the Brick more is unlimited. ; His coming to Court. He came to the Bench at a experience of the Garment Workers sive volume of knowledge; no man of the Douglas Coun- Stroock, who will deliver the keynote Presbyterian Church * in New York Omaha after considerable insistence critical, period in its evolution. The of New York,-that the trade unions of his generation has so fully underty old age pension address at the opening dinner Satwere not only a necessary instrusociety with whose destiny it; was stood the inner workings of the ecoCity and later, as director of the by local leaders is for the purpose urday. commission. American Parish, did extensive work of acquainting Omaha Jewry with charged was in one of those obvious ment of democracy, but one which, nomic system- That gave to his genproperly utilized, was capable of With delegates from federated epochs, of Vital transition by which eralizationsa power which defied Other officers for among the immigrant population. of anti- Semitic efforts and the program charitable groups in thirty cities from the adequacy of its institutions are achieving vital social good; the rec- contradiction. It made them scientific the c o m i n g year the upper East Side. Leo Abramson of the Anti-Defamation League to are: Max Barish, coast to coast participating, the asHe resigned his position during the combat the -growth of these dan- mostseverely tested. The America of ognition, through the famous-Oregon in the technical sense of that term. case, that the power of the legislathe frontier period had finally passed Anyone who reads, for example, his vice-president; Sam Green, secretary; sembly will map out a program for war and served successively. as sec- gerous movements. away. It had been transformed into ture might be : exerted to impose de- evidence before the Pujo Committee Harry Friedman,treasurer; Dr. May- organized Jewish philanthropy in the United States and Canada on the ciliation, editor of the World Tomor/I lents as an orator. Eeports from a great. world-power dominated by sirable social standards upon the op- twenty years ago r will have the best nard Greenberg, warden; Carl Lag- basis of a nine-point program preeration of industry—these gave to the big interests of giant finance man, guardian, and Dr. Leon Fellinsight yet available into the characrow and associate editor of The other communities where he has appared for the meeting. Mr. Brandeis an awareness of the and giant industry. These confronted man, Pphraim Marks and Nathan S. ter of the financial crisis of the last Nation. He was also in 1923 editor peared indicate that the message he The conference will also go into the state as quasi-independent em- contours of his time rarely, open to three years. Anyone who wants to Yaffe, trustees. of the New York Leader. delivers has created an unequalled pires whose authority, challenged the the successful lawyer. They made understand the contemporary plight Members of the executive commit- detail concerning the e x p a n d i n g • William Grodlnsky is chairman of impression. the educational committee, which has Admission to the meeting will be right of popular will to determine him see the processes of social life of the railroads will find the most tee include I. Shafer, J. J. Friedman, phases of Jewish federations- and the the character of the life it would not as things to <ieny or affirm in effective materials for judgment in Harry Mendelson, Dave Freeman, Dr. work which should be embraced in charge of the lectures. by card only. Because of the nature lead. Laissez-faire America had de- t e r m s : of past experience, but as his their efforts. published in 1907, of O. S. Belzer, and Louis Alberts. of the meeting attendance will be stroyed the casual process out of things to recognize and to evaluate New analysis, Haven finance. The method is Delegates to the district lodge conlimited to those securing cards. With- which it had been born. A persis- in terms of the function they, were built upon the appreciation of signi- vention to be held next summer in in the week admission cards will be tence of the negative state would seeking- to fulfill., ,'-•'•.• ~ ficant detail, the power to weave this Grand Eapids, Mich., include Dr. A. sent to the B'nai Brith membership have meant the domination of Amerinto a pattern from which %he mean- Greenberg, Philip Kiutznick, Rabbi .But not less significant than the and to other Jewish organizations. ican life by interests which had no ing stands out with incisive clarity. D. A. Goldstein, Abner Kaimsn, Irvin experience of life was thecharacter A small •niiTpihp.r of admission c a r d s real concern in the maintenance of a Mr. Brandeis brought to its~ inters •It is-safcieaalist in the best.sense of Stalmaster,-and Isadora: Abrasisas, will be held in. reserve * by the comWhen informed '"of \he "History Iridemocratic society. The task was the The meeting day of the B'nai Brith fttitue to be conducted by Dr. A. IJ. mittee headed by Philip Klutznick. immense one of remaking the proc- pretation. I t counted, no doubt, for that term. Ill has been changed. From now on something that his forbears had come Those who fail to get cards and deSach'ar'afc the J, C. C. on the weekesses of politics so as to adapt them President Wilson's nomination of meetings will be held the first and to America after the tragedy of 1848 end of January 26, 27 and 28, Sam sire to attend should call Mr. Klutz- to new purposes capable of controllMr. Brandeis to the Bench in 1916 is third Monday of each month. The Beber, a personal friend of Sachar, nick at Atlantic 8122 or Sam Green ing effectively this challenge to the in search of the legendary freedom not unlikely to rank as among the next meeting of the lodge, at which London, (J.T.A.) —German Jewry's of the New World; that gave a perhailed it as the greatest cultural at Jackson 1252. American idea. ! half dozen major acts of his period time the new officers will be install- position will be stabilized shortly iti spective to his purpose which supevent of the year. ' • A dinner honoring the guest speakone way or another, Dr. Chaim Weizof office. It was significant enough ed, will be Monday, January 15. plied it with the drive and energy That is the meaning of that preKnowing Dr. Sachar as: ~the fore- er will. be. held at the Jewish Commann, former president of the World in the opposition it aroused; no man most Hillel Foundation director.in munity Center January 21, at 6:15 war generation in which men so va-j that a romantic inheritance of liber- can be better known than by the enZionist Organization, and head of the rious as Roosevelt and Bryan, Wilalism ' so naturally brings. But no the country and one of the most P.M. The price per plate is 75 cents. Zionist commission for settling Geremies he makes. It was even more popular professors on the University Reservations, can. be made with the son and La Follette sought to make man-Jewish refugees in Palestine, designificant by reason of the temper the government of America again secretary of .the lodge, Mr. Green. of Illinois campus, Beber stated that clared in an address delivered before and method it brought to the work capable of response to the new needs "In all my experience I have never the conference of the British Zionist of the Supreme Court. Before 1916 which had been born. They were sigheard a more interesting, more perFederation. "Even hell has limits," Mr. Justice Holmes had been a libnificai.'S rather by their pretest than suasive orator than Dr. Sachar. He Dr. Weizmann said, pointing out that eral influence there because his mind by their creativeness; and not the succeeds in doing what very few even in Russia, the position of the was too skeptical to insist that his The second number on the Jewish least barrier against their success scholars can do, namely, he : makes David Lazarus, Omaha singer who Jews has been stabilized. Lecture series will take place Wedwas the inability of the Supreme own judgment of what was desirable history live for his audience." has Tisen in music ranks sensation"Within five or six years, German nesday evening, January 24, at the Court to realize the coming of a new should be equated with cconstitutionally, •will be heard this evening, Among the lectures to be given Jewry will be reduced to half its presJewish Community Center. Dr. Leo time. Judges like Field, Peckham, aj truth. But Mr. Justice Holmes not will'be one on "If's that Changed and Brewer still looked upon the only enjoyed a lonely eminence in P. Honor, director of the College of ent number, and will perhaps be diJewish History." In his" fascinating Constitution as an instrument devised this regard; he was content to ac- Jewish Studies of Chicago, will be gestible among sixty millions of Ger* Goldie Myerson, internationallymanner Dr. Sachar will show how prevent the invasion of the claims cept the traditional affirmation by de- the speaker. The subject is "The mans," Dr. Weizmann declared. apparently trivial events have known leader of the women Chalut- to property by public poli"One-third of the total Chalut?, duction as the proper judicial meth- Meaning of Jewish History." changed the course of a people's zos in Palestine, will be in Omaha of private put forward -in the interest of od; and the careful student of his Dr. Honor is an • ideal choice to (pioneer) immigration into Palestine destiny, how the caprice of a despot Saturday and Sunday, January 13 cies social well-being. Their view of the opinions will find that his differences speak on this subject. From • 1916 to is from Germany," the veteran Zionist saved I Jews from annihilation and and 14. functions the state was wholly from his brethrern lay less in the 1929 he was instructor of Jewish leader pointed out. "Also more than how, on the other hand, the fanat- She will speak in Yiddish over ra- negative inof character. based substance of their philosophy than in History and Education, and Regis- one thousand tourists and capitalists icism of a bishop drenched most of dio, station KOIL Saturday, January upon the individualisticIt nwas a t u.r a 1the refusal on his part to make it a trar, of the Teachers Institute of enter Palestine from Germany each Europe with Jewish blood. \ 13, from 6:30 to 7 p. m. rights philosophy of the eighteenth final and unchallengeable way of the Jewish Theological Seminary of month. Assuming an annual emigre* Sunday, she will be honored at a century, in which the idea of freeThose who have : heard this lecAmerica. He was supervisor of the tion of twenty thousand German Jews, life. ture say they "never dreamed Jewish dinner at the Jewish Community dom of contract was'the sacred founteaching of Jewish history for the half will go to Palestine. The income It was the importance of Mr. JusCenter, starting at 6:30 p. m. The history had such color and romance. dation of popular well-being. It did Bureau of Jewish Education of New to be expected for Palestine from vartice Brandeis' -accession to the Court It is truly a history that is "strang- dinner will'be followed by a pro- not dawn.upon any of them that libthat -where Holmes was a liberal by York from 1915 to 1917, and Direc- ious sources will be about one hungram, featuring an address in Eng- erty of contract only begins where er than fiction.'" negation he was a liberal by positive tor of the Department of Person- dred and fifty thousand pounds anMiss Grace Dansky, president -. of lish by Mrs. Myerson. equality of bargaining power begins; nually and this will enable the abaffirmation. He brought to the court nel of the bureau during 1922-23. the Study Group of the Conserva- There will also be a musical prosorption of six thousand German refDuring 1928 and 1929 he lectured not only a willingness to doubt its gram, including Yiddish songs by that unless the state can use its autive Synagogue, announces that tickr traditional outlook but an alternative in the Department of Religious Ed- ugees each year. ets for the Sachar Institute are al- Mrs. Belmont, accompanied at the thority to maintain an equal barphilosophy which might reasonably ucation, Teachers College and Co- "Should our campaign for two milready on sale. They can be obtained piano by Margaret Hurwitz. Mr. and gaining-power the claim of the inlion pounds for the settlement of Gersupersede it. The very fact that it- lumbia University. from Miss Zelda Saferstein at the Mrs. J. Raznick will present a Chas- dividual to adequate self-expression man-Jewish refugees prove successTickets for the remaining four idic. sketch. is unlikely, in any serious sense of was an alternative led his critics at J. C. C. office or from members of Mrs. Myerson will be here under the word, to secure recognition. Preonce to the assumption that he was, lectures of the Jewish Lecture ser- ful, half going to Palestine and hal£ the Study Group. the" auspices of the local Pioneer war America was laying, through the in the special American sense, a rad- ies can be bought at the price of to the rest of the world, Palestine will Women. Omaha audiences have heard intellectual obscurantism of the Suical. That is a mistaken view. There $1.25. They can be procured at the receive a million, pounds in the next her before, she being enthusiasti- preme Court, the foundations of an has been nothing in his analysis of desk of the Jewish Community Cen- three years. And I can definitely cally received. A number of Oma: industrial feudalism in which the social foundations w h i c h suggests ter. Tickets for the individual lec- prove that Palestine is capable o£ David Lazarus hans also heard her address the na- concept of a genuine social freedom any ultimate dissatisfaction with tures can be bought at 50c per lec- absorbing thirty-five thousand immigrants in the aext three years. tional Hadassah convention in Chi- might easily have lost all signifi- January 5, on the NBC network over their p r i m a r y assumptions. But ture. cance. The democratic idea was beOther numbers on the series in"France cannot absorb twenty-five cago recently. whereas to most -members of the SuKOIL at 9 p.m. as soloist with Frank A Hurdy-Gurdy Ball, sponsored by Reservations for the dinner may ing unconsciously sacrificed upon the Simon's Armco band. preme Court the main purpose of the clude Professor Moses P. Jung of thousand refugees, but Palestine Je Temple Israel Sisterhood j will be altar of an outworn interpretation of the University of Iowa. His subject absorbing thousands without needing Young Lazarus's most recent ap- Constitution was to preserve the is given a t the Paxton Hotel,. Wednes- be made at the Community Center, by free contract. If American civiliza"Dynamic Religion," Dr. Julias or asking for relief," Dr. Weizmann rights of private property from inThursday, January 11. was in Dayton, Ohio, where day, January 24 at 9 p. m.. A r t Rantion was being made for the busi- pearance vasion by the popular will, to Mr. Siegel, "The Two Bibles," and a concluded. the critics praised him highly. Among dall and his orchestra will furnish ness man it was being so made at the comments about Lazarus •written Justice Brandeis the control of their symposium on Conservative Reform, the music. ' the expense of the American idea. by the music critics of Dayton news- pathological results by state action and Orthodox Judaism, by chosen The ball room decorations, and of each of these papers : . . : • ; • ' • • was an inherent and desirable asser- representatives the entertainment will be carried n phases of Judaism. tion that this function was both inout in the vogue of 1890. Few people have ever come to the A. S. Kany, Dayton Herald— "His herent and desirable, the insistence There will be: a door prize, and a service of the Supreme Court so well tone qualities are already superb. He that no constitutional interpretation The recently-elected officers of the Mrs. Meyer Friedel, 37, died at equipped as Mr. Brandeis for the ac- is imbued with the dramatic fire prize waltz will also be a feature was justified wjiich. spught to put Omaha Hebrew club will be installed her home, 4919 California street, necessary to characterize a singer of the evening. J: « complishment of its essential funcat a meeting of the organization Mrs. Joseph Bonoff is chairman last Thursday night, December 28, tion of statesmanship. It is true that as worthy of his song, he sings with barriers in the way of its attainment, which has constituted the real Sunday afternoon at 4 p. m. at the a landslide assurance and yet with a of the ball committee. Tickets which following a long illness. he was one of only three men who She is survived by her husband; have sat there who had never held dignified reserve, his .enunciation is innovation of Mr. Justice Brandeis sell for one dollar a couple may be Harvey Don Shapiro, three-year- J. C. C. The officers will be installed by secured from i the following; Mes- two daughters, Dorothy and Bernice; political office; but the major part of near to perfection, he has a com- in the years since he has sat upon old son of Mr. and Mrs. M. M. Shadames F . Adler, Clarence. Bergman, one son, Leonard; and two brothers, his life had been passed amid the manding presence and a magnetic the Court. piro, of Grand Island, formerly of Mas Fromkin. Cantor E, Sellz wili M. L. Cohn, Milton: Livingston, Harry and Jacob Burstein. He sought to affirm an implicit ex- Omaha, passed away there after a render several Jewish selections, atifl kind of controversy in. which the personality." Henry Pollack, Edward. Trailer, Funeral services were held at the main political m issues of the time Virginia D. Sturm, Dayton Daily tension of the boundaries of State- six-week illness. refreshments will be served. Harry Wolf, Sam Wessel, G. Wer- residence Friday afternoon, with- bu- were being shaped. The place of the News—"If one may borrow a popu- power wider than any judge of the Besides his parents, he is sur- The officers: Dr. A. A. Steinberg, theimer, S. B. Gilinsky, M. Rubin- rial in Golden Hill cemetery. public utility in the state, the claims lar expression and say David La- Court has sought to sanction since vived by his grandpaients, Mr. and president; Barney Feltman, vice-presstein, Jules Newman, .M. Krupp, H. Mrs. Friedel had been active in and purposes of labor organization, zarus 'has everything' to create for the days of Mr. Chief Justice Mar- Mrs. Max Shapiro and Mr. snd Mrs. ident; Sol Rosenberg, secretary; Joha : Z. Eosenfeld, Dave Rosenstock, Jos. the work of Hadassah. the significance for society of a himself a front rank place among shall. The method of this affirmation Reuben Ferer, all of Omaha. Fcldman, treasurer; Ben Kazlowsky, Bonoff, Morris. Jacobs, I. Ziegler, highly centralized money-power, the singers, it would be putting it mildly. has been of extraordinary interest Funeral services were held Mon- Louis Morgan and Jack D. GavecF. Engel, Jeanette Arnstein, Sam Warsaw.—The oldest Jewish woman degree to which social processes like He has not only a deep musical sense, and importance. In a sense, indeed, day in Omaha at the Jewish Funer- man, trustees. Executive board memBialac,; Ronald Gladstone, and Miss in Warsaw, Mrs. Bayle Tittelman, died insurance and transportation may be but the ability to retain and put to al home, with burial in Pleasant Hill bers includa Irvin C. Levin, Daniel Hazel Degen. ; i here at the. age of 108. •. so regulated as to make them the excellent use hi3 teaching." cemetery. Schwartz, and Hyman Shrier. (Coontiaued on Page 7.).
By Harold J. Laski
LEO ABRAMSON ELECTED HEAD
RICHARD GUTSTADT TOSPEAKHERE ON JANUARY 21
PRAISES INSTITUTE BY Dfc JL L^SACHAK
QPTMSTICALLY OF
GOLDIE MYERSON, CHALUTZOS LEADER, TO VISIT IN OMAHA
Lazarus Will Sing Over Radio Today
DR. SPEAKER ON JEWISH LECTURE PROGRAM
Novel Hufdy-Gurdy B a l l tgr Sisterhood
MRS. MEYER FRIEDEL, 37, PASSED AWAY THURSDAY
Omaha Hebrew Club Installation Sunday
DEATH CLAMS UXTII
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