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In the Interests of the Jewish People
Dedicated to the Ideals of Judaism
Entered aa Second Class Mail Matter on January 21, 1021, at l'ostoffiee of Omaha, Nebraska, under the Act of March 3. lfiTO
WORLD JEWRY IN OBSERVANCE OF SHABUOTH
OMAHA, NEBRASKA;FRIDAY, MAY 18, 1934
Pearlstien Heads About Jewish RELIGIOUS SCHOOL'S Social Workers GRADUATION SERVICE }ature Thursday Jacob S. Pearlstien; executive diTO BE HELD TONIGHT rector of the Jewish Community Cenopen forum on Jewish litera-
An ture will be held at the Jewish Community Center Thursday evening, May 24, beginning at 8 p. m., under the joint auspices of the A. Z. A. 1 and 100 chapters. The general public is invited, Jewish young people in particular. There is no admission charge. Rabbi David A. Goldstein will discuss "Jewish Poetry;" Rabbi Frederick Cohn, "Jewish Ficiion;" and Rabbi Uri Miller, "The Talmud and the Bible." The committee in charge: Meyer Levy, Massie Baum, Ben Shrier and Nathan Crounse.
Vol. 10—No. 16
2804Contribittions As Drive in Final Stages
ter and Welfare Federattion, was The graduation exercises of the elected president of the Omaha Sojunior department of the Vaad Re- cial Workers club Wednesday night. ligious School will be held this eve- Pearlstien succeeds Mary Maher of - Feast of Weeks to Start This ning, May 18, at 8 p. m. at the B'nai the Catholic Charities. In addition to Saturday Evening, Israel synagogue, 18th and Chicago. many lay social Workers, the organiMay 19th The services will be followed by a zation includes &U ot the professional social workers in the city. reception in the social halL i : Shabuoth,.the Feast of Weeks, beThe main address will be given by The meeting was in the form of gins Saturday evening, May 19, and Rabbi Uri Miller, speaking on "The a dinner meeting at the Spaulding ends wiih the evening of the 20. An Essence of Loyalty." I. Morgenstern Rock Gardens. \ additional day is observed by the Mrs. Dave Sherman is the new and N. Levinson will make the preOrthodox Jews. The Festival is president ot the Conservative Auxsentation of certificates. designated as the Feast of Weeks iliary as a result of the election held Cantor A. Schwaczkin and the because it follows seven weeks after Wednesday afternoon at the annual B'nai Israel choir will chant the the second day of Passover. meeting at the J. C. C. opening song. Inextricably bound up with the Mrs. Sherman has been first viceEach of the children graduating freeing of • the Jews from their president for the past two years. will take part in the program. TheirJ^ Egyptian bondage and the life of She succeeds Mrs. J. H. Kulakofsky. A- popular response — reveal- the top." William Wolfe, president parts: the agricultural nation, which ancient Other -officers: Mrs. A. D. Frank, ing a deep Jewish consciousness of Ihe Round Table, was divisional "Loyalty to God," Mary Wolfson; The fiftieth^ anniversary of the first vice-president; Mrs. B. A. Jewish Palestine was, the day also head. Counting their portion of the "Loyalty to Israel," Elinor Cohn; B'nai Israel synagogue, located at Simon, second vice-president; Mrs. and giving heart and inspiration organizational pledges, the Youth's y marks the age-old anniversary of the Loyalty to Parents,"' Anne Pollay; 18th and Chicago streets, will be Sam Zlotky, corresponding secretary; to the four hundred volunteer division has topped the one thousand granting of the law to the Jewish "Loyalty to Zion," Frances Rubin; celebrated on Sunday, May 27. : people. On that day Moses descended Mrs. Sam Stern, recording secretary; figure set for them. So far 380 young "Loyalty to the Synagogue," Lena A banquet will be held at the Jew- Mrs. Dave Cohn, treasurer; Mrs. workers — has achieved a rec- people have signed pledge cards. from Mount Sinai carrying the TabZoDotuchin; "Loyalty to the Torah," ord-breaking victory and a sense ish Community Center on May 27 at Morris Katelman, auditor. lets of the Law. Thursday's Meeting. Shirley Cohn; "Loyalty to Ideals," The day has been compared to the The final luncheon meeting for the Directors named are Mrs. M. D. of unusual accomplishment for Twenty-five children will be con- Marion dayman; closing prayer. 6:30 p. m. In the afternoon a program, open to the public, will be Brbdkey, Mrs. Simon Pizer, Mrs. signing- of the Declaration of In- firmed at Temple Israel Sunday the 1934 Omaha Jewish Philanheld at the synagogue. - dependence, for it marked the be- morning, May 20. A Shabuoth serv- Jake Teplitsky. held Thursday noon at the Jewish John Faier, Mrs. Nate Nogg, Mrs. The open program in the afternoon Simon Bordy and Mrs. A. Theodore. thropies campaign. ginning of national and religious ice and a re-confirmation will feaCommunity Center. At this time the will start'at 3 p. m. Featured on the existence for the Jewish people. ture. cards of those who had not been A humorous skit written by Mrs. Despite the fact that the seen musical program will be the Hazo- I. Ziegler, "Coming Events Cast previously were distributed for Henceforth they were no longer The Shabuoth service will start at mir Singing society and Cantor Abra- Their Shadows Before," was present- drive is still on and tabulations the final wind-up. scattered group of tribes with a 9:30 a. m. Sunday, with the confirmham Schwaczkin and his choir. ed by a group of Auxiliary members. are incomplete, at Wednesday common ancestry and common woes. ation ceremony beginning at 10 a-m. Outstanding in the compilations Prominent speakers will address the Thelma Gasper, violinist, accomThey were a people with a God-given The Temple will be beautifully thus far is the unusually small numnoon 2S06 contributions had group. Rabbis in this vicinity are be- panied by Evelyn Smith, gave sevCode of Laws. ber of decreases from last year and decorated for the occasion; and a ing invited. eral musical numbers. Annual reports been turned in for a total of the large number of increases and It is a day of celebration and joy. special musical program has been The banquet will be followed .by were rendered by committee chair- $32,767.10. It is the logical continuation of the arranged by Vernon C. Bennett, or- The second annual city-wide servnew contributions. ice and reception to the high school a musical program. The celebration men. Passover feast and marks the period ganist. On Friday's figures, only 7.6% The previous peak in pledges of the harvest, when the • Jews of Milton R. Abrahams will give the graduates of Omaha will be held Fri- will climax a membership drive now Rabbi David A. Goldstein and J. J. obtained was in 1932, when 2400 of the pledges showed decreases. Palestine reaped the grain on their greetings for the re-confirmants, who day evening, May 25, at 8:30 p. m. being conducted. In contrast, 27.3 per cent showed Greenberg spoke. Reservations for the banquet may were turned in during that year. increases, and 25.2 per cent are fields. The barley harvest began at will include Mrs. Jeanette Gilinsky at the B'nai Israel synagogue, 18th Passover and on Shabuoth the Israel- Goldberg of Shenandoah, Mrs. Sarah and Chicago. Last year the service be made with Mrs. William Milder, Last year's total has been new contribntors who never hare ite farmers gathered in the wheat. previously. Somberg Chessen of Lincoln, Fannie and reception were held at Temple Walnut 3055, or Mrs. N. H. Greeneclipsed, since the total turned pledged berg, Walnut 0227. 27. On that day the Book of Ruth, the Katelman . of Council Bluffs, Miss srael. In general the enthusiasm and Invitations are being issued to all The officers of ftie synagogue: N. in in 1933 was only $29,962, rep- dauntless spirit in this campaign was pastoral idyl in prose, is read in the Ella Marcus, Miss Esther BlumenThe annual picnic of the Omaha synagogue, recalling to the worship- thal and Miss Anna Zalk, and Mil- graduates, including those of the S. Yaffe, chairman of the Board; exceptional. The report luncheons resenting 2345 pledges. Louis Epstein, Bible reading chair- Hebrew club will be held this year pers that they were once an agricul- ton Abrahams, Marvin Treller, Bern- mid-year term. were well attended, the co-operation "The pledges yet to be ob- was splendid, and the unity of all The committee in charge includes man; N." IL Greenberg, vice-chair- on Sunday, August 5, at Lakeview tural people whose fate was decided hardt L. Wolf. by the size of the harvests, and that . Rabbi David H. Wice will make the Dr. Philip Sher, chairman, Rabbi man, Bible reading; Joseph Tretiak, Park, the organization decided at its tained will swell the total consider- elements co-operative. • ably,"- Harry Silverman, general j the virtues v embodied^ In. the person presentation of the certificates and Frederick Cohn, Rabbi David A. finance chairman; H. Marcus, mem- last meeting. • Campaign Highly Successful. Albert Kaplan, veteran" "who has chairman of the campaign, predicted. of Ruth, are still the cardinal yir- the sermon, and Habbi ^Frederick Goldstein, Rabbi Uri Miller, Sabbi bership • and education; Louis MarGeneral Chairman Harry Silvergolin, buildingr "^Tilliam Milder, been chairman of forty-eight Omaha "We will continue 'the drive until man is enthusiastic concerning^ the David H. Wice, Isadore Abramson, tues held u p ' l o r the ^admiration r of Cohn will-give thei class blessing. cemetery; H. P. Milder is auditor and Hebrew dub picnics and balls, will every individual prospect has been results to date. "Needless-1© -tfcy^ mankind. A soprano sold, "How Beautiful Mrs. Jeanette Arnstein, Max Barish, solicited and given the opportunity was his comment, "I am deeply .expresses beautifully the Upon the Mountains," will be pre- Eugene Blazes,-and Philip Klutznick. Rev. Abraham' Schwaczkin is cantor. be in charge. of sharing in his Jewish responsi- grateful over the popular response Jewish ideal that bodily freedom, ob- p d b Mi Rina Snyder, and a sented by Miss bility." tained by the flight from Egypt, is violin to our appeal. be given by Myron solo will of little value unless accompanied Cohen. . . "Both the workers and the conBy Wednesday's incomplete reby the spiritual freedom attained tributors demonstrated a fine spirit All twenty-five children, will. parturns, the Initial Gifts division, through the law. of sharing, and even- barometer inticipate in the service. Their parts: under the leadership of Morris E. The agricultural aspects and symOpening prayer, Betty Lou TarnJacobs, with Jack Marer as vice- dicates a highly successful drive. bolism of Shabuoth are obvious, and off; Flower Prayer, Mildred Laytin; "The Initial Gifts was an especially chairman, had surpassed their the books of the Bible give the de- Confirmation Vow, Ralph Rubenquota of $20,000 by a subscription bright spot in the campaign. The Ortails the celebration required. Stein; Declaration, Buster Slosburg; total of $20,119.50, with several ganizations division and the Youths Shabuoth, the Feast of Weeks Prayer Before the Open Ark, Leoncards still outstanding. The per- likewise have done their jobs exmarked the end of the grain har ard Finkel; The Torah, Richard Lee centage returns of this Initial cellently. At present, the work is vest, ves, just j By ARTHUR T. WEIL as the Feast of Taber- Josephson; Reading of the Torah, Gifts division was the outstanding concentrated in the business and residential districts. nacles, late in summer, mark the end Richard M. Gordon and Ira J. Jackfeature in the campaign. (Washington Correspondent of the American Hebrew) "From this campaign we have of the fruit harvest. son; Translation of Ten Commandthere are approximately 1,000 in offound that the spiritual qualities All males, according to the Old ments, Sarah Gilinsky; Haphtarah, Let's look into this myth that a' The Organizations division also exSOME IRREFUTABLE ficial prominence, it would seem ceeded its goal, turning in pledges were as important as the financial Testament, were to dance before the Shiart H. Ganz; Concluding Benedic- coterie .of Jews are running these ! . FACTS something more than a trifle pre- for fifty-nine organizations for Sl,- results. The people fully realized th« altar, bringing to the sanctuary "the tion, David Kraus. United States. • .. t I 1. Of eleven cabinet officers, vious to worry, under the circum- 928.50. Ben E. Ivazlovsky was chair- importance of a successful campaign, first fruits of the wheat harvest, the The Silver, the White, the Blue and Interpretation of Ten Command-, stances, about undue Jewish influ- man of this group. only one is a Jew. and their response shows that they first fruits of thy labors, which thou : other Shirts, the Nazis and other ments: ' 2. The "Little Cabinet" has 25 ence in the nation's capital. hast sown in the field." Worshippers anti-Semitic groups would have the The Youth's division, which was know that our needs are not merely First, Theodore I. Mayer; second, world believe that, under the Roose- members, but not a single Jew. With 4,000,000 Jews in the United handled by the Round Table of Jew- 'campaign propaganda.' were also commanded to bring two Carolyn R. Merritt; third, Joy E. velt New Deal, a disproportionate loaves of bread baked according to 3. Of 96 Senators, not one is a States, there could hardly be fewer ish Youth, embracing all the junior "I want to express my appreciation appointees; certainly this is anything organizations, has also gone "over to both the generals and the priva definite formula, which were to Yousem; fourth, Mildred Berkowitz; number of Jews are holding pivotal Jew. be waved before the altar. Sacrifices fifth, Arlene Solomon; sixth, Isobel positions in Washington, dangling 4. Among' 435 Congressmen, only but over-representation! ates in the vast army of volunteer of animals were also enjoined upon Katleman; seventh, Sara ilae Graetz; the major strings that make the rest Let us take the magnifying glass 10 arc Jews. workers." j eighth, JoyceTenth, Ferer; Melvin ninth, Florence the celebration f 5. The U. S. Supreme Court, and pry more closely into the Jewish Meyerson; Tannen- of the nation hop, skip and jump. Thoroughness in Details. and work was for- baum. and women who have more or bidden. The campaign machinery was well With all the convulsiyeness of a with nine members, has only two men less of a say about what goes on toSince the fall oiled throughout. The detail work Returning the schroll, Lawrence mind, they rattle over and Jews. hassecond celebrated of the tem- Klein; Exhortation, j . Lelaiid Meyer; disordered day. Surely, anyone who knows anypie Diaspora Jewry 6. In 25 odd independent govwas thoroughly prepared, accounting over the names of Brandeis, Cardozo, Shabuoth as Zman Mattan Tor- We Shall Do and Listen, Zell Abra- Morgenthau, Straus, Frankfurter, Ba- ernmental offices, there is not one thing about the Roosevelt manner of for the whirlwind campaign to dafe. conducting his affairs knows that the hasenu" the day of the giving of our hamson; closing Prayer, Ruth Som- ruch, Ezekiel, Frank, Dickstein and Jew in a key position. Jacob S. Pearlstein, executive di7. Of 20 Emergency Relief Ad- Chief Executive makes his own fiscal rector, was in charge of this prelaw. Wolman and imagine they have esbexg. Philip M. Klutznick and Jacob S. liminary ground work. In speaking1 of The gold policy was not Mortablished a plausible premise for ministrations, not one is headed by policies. Because the law was given to the Pearlstein will attend a meeting of the campaign, the executive director genthau's; it was not Woodin's; it a Jew. their ridiculous calumnies. Jews on Shabuoth rabbinical au8. Among 59 diplomatic envoys was Roosevelt's. And it is no dispar- representatives of the Jewish Com-, stated: "Omaha Jewry is to be conthorities in the Diaspora urged that Yet the facts are easily obtained if abroad only three are Jews, and of agement of the present occupant of munity Centers and Welfare Federa- gratulated on the results of this ihe day be made "a most enjoyable tions from cities in this vicinity, to campaign. The members of the com—as F. D. R. himself has suggested these only one an Ambassador. the Treasury to admit this. holy day." A popular custom Is to be held at Kansas City next Sunday. munity should feel a distinct sense -1—one merely looks at the record: 9. Less than 30 Jews are a part Mr. Morgenthau is an able admineat dairy foods and cheese cakes in Representatives from the follow- of satisfaction and pride in knowing The cabinet holds one Jews, the of the Federal personnel approx- istrator, a hard worker and generally honor of the day. A meat meal cusities will attend: St. Louis, Kan- how wide-spread was the response. Secretary of the Treasury, Henry Mor- imating 1,000 members in official liked, now that his opening errors o: tomarily follows the dairy meaL The sas City, Des Moines, Sioux City, genthau, jr.. He is one of eleven cab- prominence. a press censorship and a too vigorous "This Philanthropies drive was the two meals represent the two loaves London (WKS) — The Palestine inet officers. Lincoln, St. Paul, Minneapolis, Den10. The Department. of Com- insistence of Treasury guard discip- ver, and Omaha. most thoroughly canvassed campaign of bread formerly offered at the government's grant of only 5,600 im- The Supreme Court of the United merce has not a Jew at its helm. line have been forgotten generally. in my experience. The campaign orTemple celebration. Klutznick was appointed chairman ganization functioned almost permigration certificates for the six States with its membership of nine 11. There is not a Jew in high Henry Morgenthau came to the Treasmonths ending October 1. instead of has two Jews, Louis D. Brandeis and command in the Federal Reserve ury after he had won his spurs as of this group, known as the Regional fectly, as attested to by 2,806 conConference Committee, at the nation- tributors already obtained—which the 20,100 asked for by the Jewish Benjamin N. Cardozo. Neither of Board, Federal Trade Commission, head of the Federal Farm Board where al convention of Jewish Community means that practically every Jewish Agency created the danger of an in- these is a Roosevelt appointee. . U. S. Tariff Commission and the he consolidated nine agricultural Centers and Welfare Federations. Of the 96 Senators, not one is a Board of Tax Appeals. credit agencies into the Farm Credit Motion pictures of his trip to Cen- creasing labor shortage in Palestine home in Omaha has responded to the The purpose of the conclave is to call of Jewish Philanthropies! Administration and had charge of the tral America taken last winter will the Jewish Agency declared in a for- Jew.. 12. There is not a Jew in the . In the : House of Representatives, directorate of the Reconstruction gigantic $2,000,000,000 farm mortgage organize this region and to plan for "The campaign figures also testify be shown by William I* HoVzmari at mal protest. a conference in one of the above- to the persistence of the army of The Jewish Agency points out thai there are 10 Jews out of a member- Finance Corporation. relief program. the B'nai Brith meeting to be held mentioned cities for this fall. At such workers and their loyalty to their Monday, May 21, at the J. C. C. the small number of certificates is ship of 435. They are Representatives A personal friend of the President lodge room. A talk by Mr. Hoi zman sued by. the Palestine government Emanuel Celler, Samuel Dickstein, Washington tod-/. There are, of whom he has known for 20 years, a conference the executives of the task. We may not reach our ultimate various federations will exchange goal, but from the returns thus far contradicts the formula that immigra William I. Sirovich, Theodore A. Peywill accompany the showing of the tion shdulv- be based on the country's ser and Sol Bloom (of New York), course, a number of Jews in lesser Morgenthau was deemed a sure fix- ideas and participate in a general dis- I know that the response is wellpictures. The meeting is scheduled to p economic absorptive capacity, violates Isaac Bacharach (of New Jersey), positions in the various bureaus and ture for the Secretaryship of Agricul- cussion concerning . the problems of nigh up to the capacity of the comture, only to have that post go to start at 8:15 o'clock p. m. . . • will the spirit of the Mandate and is -con Herman P. Koppleman (of Connecti- agencies. The so-called "Brain Trust" Henry A. Wallace, who had a more i the federations. munity, ' considering the economic Vicepreside Vice-president M Max Barish contains a number of them, includtrary to Premier MacDonald's letter cut), Henry Ellenbogen (of PennsylAt Kansas City details will be situation." preside in the absence of Leo Abramdefinite political claim. That Morgenh b vania), AdolphJ. Sabath (of Illinois) ing Jerome N. Frank, general coun- thau now holds what traditionally is planned and committees appointed. son, president, who is in Chicago on to Dr. Chaim Weizmann. and Florence P. Kahn of California. sel of the A. A. A., and Prof. Mor- the highest cabinet office is due to his George W. Rabinoff of New York, The protest also asserts that the ; a vacation. According to Mr. Barish, executive director of the National Prix De Rome in plight of the Jewish masses throughThere is not a Jew. prominently decai Ezekiel, economic adviser to earlier achievements. a number of important business tnatconference, and Edward Kahn of At- Sculpture ters will be considered at the meet-« out the. \vorld is forcing them to seek placed in an/ of the 25 odd indepen- the Secretary of Agriculture. There At the same time, it must be re- lanta, Ga., chairman of the committee also are, so to speak, two Jews "beNew York—Eeuben R. Kramer, 24ing, and as this is the last business in Palestine the refuge they canno dent offices of the government. membered that the king-pin of the meeting before the election of offi- find, elsewhere. . ' • . . • . ' • . ; ! Of the 20 Emergency Relief Ad- hind the scenes"—whose views have Roosevelt administration is the holder on regional conferences, will both be year-old Baltimore art student who cers, the attendance off all ll members bs ministrations, not one is headed by had more or less weight with the man of the hitherto more or less despised at the Kansas City conclave Sunday. learned art by winning scholarships in the White House—Bernard M. Raand working his way through school urged. a Jew. New York.—The 1933 Pulitzer Prize Secretaryship of the Interior, Harold is without his parents' knowledge, has And of the 59 diplomatic envoys to ruch and Prof. Felix Frankfurter. L. Ickes, who is even better known as for the best foreign correspondence But the sum total of these, including been declared the winner of the an-« Moscow—Michael Kobeisky has by an American newspaper, man will foreign countries, three are Jews— the ten members of the House, is Public Works Administrator. He ennual Prix de Rome in sculpture. p been appointed by the Soviet gov- be awarded to Frederick Birchall, a Jesse Isidor Straus, Ambassador to joys the confidence of the President The Jewish Community Center This award entitled him to $1,500 ernment as its ambassador to Greece. Berlin corresponded of the New York France; Laurence A. Steinhardt, Am- less than, thirty. "When one, considers as perhaps no other man in WashingHia Sheleches : was named: first Times, for his brilliant, fearless and bassador to Sweden; Leo R. Sack, that there are nearly 80,000 employ- ton does today, although they didn't building will be closed until Monday for two years beginning next O o ees on the Federal payroll in Washevening at 6 p. m., because of the tober and free residence and studio vice-president of the people's commis- searching dispatches on - what has Minister to Costa Rica. Shabuoth holiday. at the American Academy in Rome. sariat in the Ukraine. This, then is the set-up as it is in ington and that including Congress, been happening in Germany. (Continued, on Page 3)
MRS. DAVE SHERMAN HEAD OF AUXILIARY
B'NAI ISRAEL PLANS 50TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION MAY 27
CONFIRMATION AT TEMPLE ISRAEL SUNDAY MORNING
Three Divisions Go 'Over The Top'; Every Prospect to Be Solicited
Services and Reception for High School Graduates
Kaplan in Charge of Hebrew Club Picnic
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EXPLODED MYTH OF JEWISH HIERARCHY'
TWO OMAHANS TO ATTEND FEDERATION CONFERENCE SUNDAY
JEWISH AGENCY PROTESTS GRANT OF CERTIFICATES
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Motion Pictures at B'nai Brith Meeting
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