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Entered as Second Class Sfail .Matter on January 21. 1521. at Poatofflco of Omaha. Nebraska, under thft Act of March S, 1S79

A-few days ago in the Mandates Council of the League of Nations, a number of statesmen led by Professor Christian Lange of Norway made a very serious effort .to impress upon the British representative in the council the | concern which civilized n e n in all ! countries felt over tha danger that seemed threaten the Jewish ie-s'ettlement of Palestine. The Statesmen in Question based their observations not only on humanitarian grounds, the plight of the Jewish' people in Eastern and Central Europe, but also on the great civilizatbry wort of the Bichard' E.' Gntstadt Principal Speaker at "Eegional Jews in the near East and upon : Conference general political and economic grounds. That tho Polish representative joined in this plea Richard E. f Gutstadt, secretary and protest need not be blankly and director-of-toe B'nai B'rith discredited. For though the anti-defamation . league, "will , be treatment accorded by the Polish principal speaker at the republic to its Jewish citizens is harbarous and indefensible, it is al- conference, of the Southwest also true that Poland as a whole Regional council of District Lodge iseconomicaly in a very bad -way and that emigration of groups of its nationals, • irrespective even of race or faith might as in the similar situation of Ireland in the nineteenth century become a legitimate policy. •

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Jewish Community Center and Welfare Fcdcratic:.

'ANNIVERSARY- PROGRAM Tuesday, Oct. 27to Sunday, Nov. 1 Following is the complete program of the celebration commemorating the tenth anniversary of the Jewish Community Center and the thirtieth anniversary of the Jewish Welfare Federation. The celebration is free and lasts from Tuesday through Sunday. Tuesday, October 27—8:00 P. H. PAGEANT AND EXHIBIT—History and activities of the Center.' A presentation in pageant form of the growth of the Jewish communal program in Omaha. Exhibition of Center work. Wednesday, October 28—3:00 P. 11 ATHLETIC ACTIVITIES NIGHT—Presentation of athletic awards for the year. Exhibition in the handball courts and swimming pool; tug-of-war, gym activities, etc. ' • - . . • Thursday, October 29—6:00 P. til. . YOUTH NIGHT—One-act play, panel diseussion, special program, reception. Friday, October SO—3:30 P. II. COMMUNITY SERVICES—Joint Community Services, . in which all religious groups will participate. Saturday, October 31—9:00 P. II. COMMUNITY DANCE—Dancing to music by an excellent orchestra. Admission free to all.

Opening of Jewish Ccsnnunity Center Was Gala Affair

Center Players Guild "Try-Outs

When on October 27 the Omaha Jewish Community convenes to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the Jewish CommunTry-outs for the first producity Center, it will mean more than tion . of ' t i e Center Players, juEt the birthday celebration of the completion of a building. In ! "Petticoat Fever," -"nil be held. a sense it will be the tenth an- j at the Jewish Community Cenniversary o* the realization of a j ter auditorium, SUEday afterpurpose of a community and the i ; noon, October 25, Et 2:"C p. ia. Ereryoce interested is urged rebirth of an ideal. • I From 1BOS when fourteen j prominent Omaha Jews assenbl-1 ed at tbe home of Dr. Philip j Sher until 1826 when the board! ol directors of the J"-wish- Cora-! munity Center announced to the ! various Omaha Jewish congTega-1 tions the completion of their f trust, time after t;~e tremendoizs i effort for a Jewish Community Center "WES expended only to be , unrealized. A financial panic, a tornado, a war, all intervened, bat finally after twenty years of |

to appear for the try-outs. Helen Merrit is directing the play. There are several excellent parts in the gzy comedy which had a successful van on Eroad; •way •with Dennis King in the leading role.

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At the same time that this discussion took place in Geneva the Jewish Agency, the officially accredited representative ol the v - U ^CG: t Jewish people in dealing both CVCT..Z CC •with the mandatory Power and with the League, issued a call to | ! '' f : f world Jewry and. very specificalrr ly to the Jewa of America for moral and financial aid. Despite •f *. i In ^ nearly six months of terrorism, endeavor tbe Center fioors were j w V •work in Palestine has continued. opened. ! Twenty-eight thousand people t z,rr- c' rr. r1,\LCLLI ti.I L ~ . ; \L«JL^. Through the generosity of JJor-1 have entered the land since the ri- Lever, 550,000 had been fives i beginning of the year; Tel Aviv. r r r' for a Community Cester with the has become a port; on farm and provision that another f 150,000 i Aajudgefi viiiner by tbe un- i ; - " - »-->-r in shop, in town and village, amid Richard - Gntstadt | be raised to match this sum. jstinted applause .of a record audanger and Infuriating injustice Omaha Jewry had eagerly re- idience, Kiss Harriet Bernste'n reour men and women have carried No. 6, B'nai B'rith to be held Ocand in June 1826 the; cevied the first prize of fifteen on. They have continued with tober 25 at- the Hotel Chieftain In 'onusussty Center was \dollar's s.* tit© fiTEt EnnT3eil -ATTIStheir hands and with their minds Council Blnffs." d bT t b e completed, • i Sunday, Kovembsr 1—6:00 P. II. -to create the goods and values The conference will open on the Thereupon a "weet cf rejoicing \ ; that constitute civilization. Nev- morning at 10:20..with a business TESTIMONIAL DINNER—Honoring, present and past accompanied the •birth of this in- jMiss Bernstein KETLJT the Eris. 'Ore ertheless. the loss by sheer wan- session. The president of the FiTse I>ay* frora PcccIni'E cpera, ! officers and leaders in Jewish Community life—$2.50 i Etitution that has been so vital; ton destruction, the burning of Council Bluffs Chamber of Com"Madame ButterHy." | a part of tbe Ontana Jewish coin-' per plate.. crops* the uprooting of trees <and merce, and the mayor of the,city The seccsd prize cf ten dollar? 1 " f t *• inunity. by.Hhe obstruction of traffic and will give "welcoming addresses, to Eleanore Fredtin, roun? ' June 6, 1926 the cf other normal processes . has An election of officers < will fol_ iras thrown ©pea to the I p * " t ^ r l~-*'~!'^U"~l *]tt - bbek very great and very grevious low a report iy Philip luutznick :> on the condition of the ^ , ,, . . t,.. . "•"* 1,. - "year-oTtl Ecrc'oatic dancer, - • and tlts: 'Jewish-: people iB now " -A: ouffet called upon 'to ^sustain our * ~' vated the hearts of the tut v , ren in Palestine and also to safe- ed at 12:30-and will be immedinext day a kosher banquet WES h e r 5m.Bm a n n e r a n f i h e r guard the investment not only of ately followed by. an -illustrated rserved to tbe members of the tbe! t ^ l e n t e a d a B o i l l g . • Center. Xor did that complete v rf " "*many millions of money, but of lecture by C. Hochman of Council Little • Robert Levy, fire-year- j r dedication program. T u e s d a y heart and soul work and blood Bluffs.- - •--• old son fo Mr. end Mrs. Abr.L,evy, |* June 8, was Ladies' day, a glorand hope and redemption which Habbi David A. Goldstein ious celebration that was cli- despite t h e handicap of an tin- . r" the Palestinian Yishub represents Omaha "will, lead an open Forum controllable cerby and the persis-; C1' There has always been anti- the anti-Semitic program o the maxed by a grand ball. in the living history of the Jew-in the. afternoon on "What Part Semitism in Germany among certent t e m p t a t i o s t o nibble on a L r On Wednesday, Judge A. L. bun, danced his v~zy to the fire ' ~~ ish people. And our immediate the B'nai B'rith. Should Play in tain elements of the middle class, Nazis." special meetAs to the future of the Nazi Sutton spoke at a question is: "How are'Jews, how the Field of Jewish Education." according to Gerhart Seger, fordollar third prize. j ?•' regime, Seger believes that the Ing of the Hebrew club, its first • American Jews going to answer An eHdienee t h a t literati;- orer- ] S At;the banquet to be held at mer Social-Democrat member of Blood Purge of 1934 showed the in the new building. End on that call?" '••..».flowed -onto t h e street -witnessed j 6:30 Florence and Esther Stein- the German Reichstag, who spofce pier r~ It is significant that the call berg -will g i v e s musical progTam. Friday evening at Temple Israel. first traces ot dissatisfaction on;Thursday the B'ca.1 B'rith witnj the fourteen araateur acts. Perch- | the part of the Germans. (their special ceremonies closed] ia already being marvelously res- Mrs. L-eo Fitch ol Council Bluffs "Because of the old discriminated on •windoTrsills and radiators | F" 'Hitler has promised every-1 the dedication program. During j and occupying ever inch of avail- j • i ponded to in Europe. In Holl- and Dr. I. Danskytrill present a ing laws the Jews were confined thing to everybody. Some ele-ithe first week, over five thousana I able standing room, an apprecia- i IT F - I - Drr and, in Belgium, in England monto certain professions as law, ments are bound to be disap- persons Tisited the new Center. ey is pouring In upon Dr. TVeiztive audience thrilled to Yiddish I"1" ? CI"! r Xouis-Katelman and Nathan medicine, trade, and finance, Upon the dedication of the pointed. Likewise the indebtedmann, who is personally conduct- GHinsKy are in charge of arrangesor.g-s and . applauded e r e r r en-j O members of building an enormous memberthe .mid- ness of the country has increased ing the appeal. And here? And ments for the-conference. Omaha, •When the dear or. : ~ in Holland and Belgium and Ens- rincoln, Council Bluffss, and die class entered these profes- to such an alarming extent that ship campaign was launched. RalThe " J l a j o r " — none other ; ~ lies were held at the Community sions they of course come into a. break is inevitable. Hitler's forland who are giving so generousthan At) Kaiman — brought \ ' Sioux City chapters will De rep- competition with the Jews." eign policy is heading toward a Center In which enthusiastic Ehreiks from t h e resemblance v s - — s ly are far from, being all professOmaha. Jewry participated. Mr. Seger is a. non-Jew, having, war." ed and ideologically trained Zion- resented. = Present' officers of the with his patter. At inter-rals he The younger people did their •was interrupted by H j m a n Shrists. Of course they are not. But council are'Dr. H. N. Levin •, of as he describes it, blue eyes and By B y a policy of of terrorism, t e , a p polrp • " " - " r' Sioux --City, -president; Nathan blonde hair that Mr. Hitler would icy of imprisoning for what might I share a n d o r g a n i z e d t h e ways j ier, ^w h o disguised their hands are on* the pulse of. E-S everyone | h i e ; f c o d i s g l : s e the world situation of Jewry -r- GilinBSy o l , Council Bluffs, .vice- like. During the war he was a happen, the people are kept in a and means of raising funds to fill; f r o m H y s t r i e r t o Eolz- ' -p the empty shelves o£ the library. | literally so! They feel the throb, president; Julius Bisno of Omaha, pilot in the German air force. In subduedness. attempted to sing O Sole! r-° secretary:. Jack " W V Cohen of "Lin1930 he was elected a member Williasn R. Blumectbal was es-iMio. Collusion was almost BUS-j *^ the quiver, the fever and the "The great tragedy of the of the Reichstag and served four regime' is that the younger gen(Continued on page 4.) pain; And the fever spreads. coln, treasurer. j pected when Irv Kaiinan appear- ! P c All sessions -will be at the Hotel sessions, being placed in a conf Even in London a Fascist horde ; ed on the program, but the ever- jv eration is being poisoned with the Chieftain." •,. ' • ; ' . centration camp at Oranienburg virus of anti-semltisin." invaded Whitechapel; in France ,'ready Master ol Ceremonies dis-:,~ after Hitler came to pow.er. the Croix de Feu and the Action | claimed EEy relsiloa fierpite the ; t Mr. Seger believes that democ"The rise of Hitler cannot," racy will replace Hitlerism and Francaise menace the republic; worthy iraits-tion of George Givot j b Mr. Seger said, "be blamed en- that communism will find a diffithe shadow darkens over Spain. tirely on the Treaty of Versailles. cult field for the people, who The.gloom deepens over manthers takiKg part were: Eud-; *• Ii Germany despite Its advanced have been denied all sorts of civil kind, and for Jews and for the , ^ idy Barish who' impersonated I culture was politically one hun-liberties," are not . anxious to With plans practically complete | s t e p i a F e t c h i f Kobert Rimermtn ! best among the few remaining dred and fifty years behind the change one dictatorship for an- for the opening of the' thirtieth 1^.%,^ R,tXlg .ij- Aot pi e i l ty o£ Noth-! Christians there is one light in annual Tuberculosis Seal cam- j United States, England, and the other. the gloom — one light, the light Philip Sckoloif, tap-danc- i paign in Ornalm Thanksgiving! of Palestine, the light of our peo- An appeal-to-return all lost-or Scandanavian countries. . Tradisieger; Mas Bauraer, who i day to continue through to New! overdue boots borrowed from the tionally the country l a s been ple and its work In our land. Yiddish; &£d s. j-oung • ang m Tear, vartcrus Jewish women's Or- | The Weimar Jews of America/those of you library ot t h e ' Jewish Community anti-democratic. ""iltoa Koaecky. | ganisatioa will at'ain be asked to I rooner, Ji whfi are not Zionists, those of you Center was.issued this weefe." Old constitution which brought devolunteer for service preparing SO j who have been frightened or debts or fees due the library: for mocracy to. Germany was given and daneed; Arthur Kulak- | thousand letters for mailing at As- j made uncomfortable by some of rental books are asked to be the same year as the Versailles »r; Norman. Kahn j . . the harsh and bitter truths that paid. Treaty, and the two were considThe tree campaign being spon- sociation^ headquarters, 400 Pas- E.nd Sidn£y Greenbauin, ss-^ji- i Zionism must proclaim* those o£ ,phoEe duet; and Milton Goldberg.! sored by tha local Jewish. National ton Block. The collection lot.- debts . and ered inseparable." Last year many of the mosi ac- a c c o r d i o a i s t £ i s o participated. you who are trying to turn your fines-and the return of books, be"But-even at that in 1930 Fnnd Conuncil to hare Ossaeyes and your hearts away from longing to the Center is being there -were only, thirteen Nazis in hans plant a qnota of one thou- tire workers is. the Seal saio drive Outside cf the cpsl- prites two the Jewish world crises and who made so that the library may ob- the Keichstag. Hitler's coming to sand trees in Erets Yisroei to were representatives of Jewish I free tickets to the Orphenm vere Mrs. I given to each performer. Winners 'nevertheless know deeply within tain fniseis to purchase new books power was the result of the eco-take the place of those destroyed Women's organisations. is a !-K-ere determined by en s.pp'^" you that it exists and that it is for -the coming season^ nomic situation. He promised by the Arab rioters . . . is prouse. of dir but one-question and one crises everything to everyone. When gressing splendidly, with leaders j t u ^ s | meter that registered tbe OT ion The Center library serves as a for all -the world — all of you, after he became Chancellor,. he of the drive confident of reach'°""'given by the audience. headed the workers at the booths high and humble, apparently In- reference room.for the.students of couuld not muster a majority, he Ing their goal. A short zaeetiEg of B'nai B'ritli 'stationed in clOTrnto-sra stores and precedsd 'tis jser£orDianc£. Bedifferent, apparently totally im- the College of Jewish Studies and resorted to the political trickery At a meeting last veei as a reading, room for the generI office builfitacs. Mrs. Korris cause of the mersed In your normal American of burning the Reichstag and imMrs. ge audience, Katlenian and Mrs. Slax Holzmar, lives — you, all of you, each of al public. It also contains a large prisoning his opposition in the chairmen were liered ta t a r e been the lar est Horwits is p_3iblicity chairiaan were in c&arge of two booths for you — if a messenger came to rental department with more than Reichstag." . to vitnesfi & Center activity, ice , Mrs. Isadora Daasky ehair=.2.n o the Council c* rewis'i Women. you suddenly and said; "We arefour hundred popular titles for program •will be Eiven aiiEUj the National Fund ^ift eonrrslt As a member of the powerful public circulation at.three cents Mrs. .Tact Pramson, health | defeated; we are plowed under; relations, tee; Dr. O. Belcer chairaaaa ol the chEinaaa for the Fa-rent-Teachers j * there is no more Yishub in Pales- per day. -Proceeds.from the ren- committee on foreign B : tine;" that dream and hope are tal library , are .-used to defray Mr. Seser sat at the same com- Golden Book asd Children's Gold- group, is" B2other vrfeo ts.s ions j V i c e r o y ih«ea l B r d W51;ir-E eommittee X ^in I been actire daring Seal sale csn-1 Simla, mtix over an! « a t light is quenched costs-of a scholarship loshi grant- mittee table with Goebbels, Goer- en Book. ^ ^ T e a r £ i e v R 1 b 5 juJfloT., Ticurr- cT IT>O«, *pwft ,o aali nothing i3 left ns now except ed to Jewish-girl students by the ing, and Rosenberg. Even knovr- charge of contacting the Omaha I l g n £ workers a t ! r e c e i T e charge c f ToI*unte2r to ask for sterile charitable gifts local Council ~ot Jewish Women, ing them, he didn't believe them organisations on the tree K CEm-| anf i hear capable of permitting the terror co-sponsors of the library. paign consists of Mrs. S&cX * j g uarters. view's on tfce for those in.the somber lifeless Dea n lightless Galuth of an ever wid- - Books may .be returned or pay-that existed in the concentration man and Sirs. SI. F. l*eveason. Mrs. Hersiaa AUErbich, TrhoES ening area of total misery . . . if ments made- to-'th elibrary any camps. Mr. Seger after serving j : brother, Dr. Kas Fleishman of

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The Center ; library ' is open to tor and the Duchess pt Athoil..'" "The Nuremberg Laws," Mr: Oh, you might appear to go on the general, public each -weekday Seger said, "were ' to foxes, the with, your ordinary occupations evening except" Friday, ' and German population to recognise every Sunday afternoon. (Continued on. page 8.)

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