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LUQWIG LEWISOHN This column is copyright by the •Seven Arts Feature Syndicate. Reproduction in whole or In part strictly forbidden. Any infringement on t h i s copyright will be prosecuted.
Entered as Second Class Mall Matter on January 21. 1921, at yostotnce ot Omaha. Nebraska, under the Act or March S. 1879
OMAHA, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY JANUARY 1,1937
RABBI EQPz ARRIVE HERE
Religious Instruction This column is copyrighted by the Seven Arts Feature Syndicate. Reproduction in whole or In part strictly forbidden. . Any infringement will be prosecuted.
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.Rabbi Milton A. Kopstein, new rabbi cf the Vaad, will arrive in Omaha, Sunday morning. Rabbi Kopstein •will start conducting- t i e daily services next PALESTINIAN ARTISTS TO week and will deliveT his first APPEAR IN LOCAL KECiTAl sermon Friday evening. He will be the guest cf the LaThe Jewish. National Worker* dies' Auxiliary of the Vaad at a Alliance cf Omaha announce tea, Tuesday afternoon. that Bracha Elijah, famous singer, and Nachua Nsxdi, compose-, S/"•••• will appear in a joint recital, Ft1!1ruary 16. Both are considere ' among Palesti-e's outstandiru Tl ' artists. Organizations are urgx not to scaedcle any actiTities lc~ this date. Further details regarding- t r c .i i appearance cf 'Ihese tvro will be in a later issue cf .te Palestine Wcsaa Leader to announced Jewish press.
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To Hold Reception On First Night
.- There Is a group of people in Colorful ^•erson'ANNUAL MEETING OF New York, how large or how enality to >amiary' ergetic I do not know, which is HIGHLAND-NEXT 13 a. 14 working toward what it calls the "release" Bystem in the public TUESDAY schools. It Is proposed to arOn Wednesday evening JanuAfter weeks of careful planrange the schedules of the pupils The annual meeting of the ary 13, Ittamar Ben Avi,'one of ning the College of Tewlsh Stuin the school system in such a dies will begin the first semester Highland Country Club will be the most colo-'ul of modern Palmanner that they will be "reof its third year at the Jewish held Wednesday, January 6t at estinian personalties, will speak leased" during certain periods for Community C e n t er, Tuesday, 6:30 at the Clufs downtown at a mass meeting at the Jewish religious instruct'.™. I take it January 5. Dr. Philip Sher is quarters iu the Paxton Hotel. Community Center. that the proponents of this plan The following soon, be will adhonorary president of the Col- This, a stag meetirg, will be open include both Protestants and to members only. dress a luncheon -meeting at the lege. Catholics. Election of officers will take Hill Hotel. A reception honoring the ad- place. Cards and entertainment Ittamar Ben Avi speaks EngDr. Louis I. Newman, the well visory board and faculty of the are scheduled for the evening. lish perfectly and is famed as an known rabbi and scholar protests College will follow the first sesAt a board meeting held Tues- eloquent and forceful orator. He vigorously against thi3 proposal sions the opening night. day, December 29, William Ra- comes to Omaha as the guest of • a n d is of the 'opinion' that the Dr. George Dobuevage, editor, cusin was elected new secretary the local Zionist group and esI • Jews-of New York should never Speak st L-sucheos at consent to it. He sees in it a de- publisher and lecturer, will be to-succeed J. Harold Saks. Since pecially of the Jewish National J. C. C. the opening of the new downtown Fund Courcil." secularisation of our school sys- guest speaker. The clashes will be limited to quarters of the club, there has tem, a subtle planning, conscious The son of the famous Eliezer Proceeds from the luncheon to or not, toward an alliance of forty persons each. Subjects of- been considerable activity. Ben Yehuda, father of modern \churcn and state, the beginning of fered will include Hebrew, Yidspoken Hebrew, Ittamar Ben Avibe given in honor of Eeba I&elis a native of Palestine. All his son. secretary of t le Worae.i a negation of American tradition dish, Jewish History,. Great JewA t e a i n h o n o r of K a b b i Miland a danger for the future of re- ish Personalities, Jewish Customs life he has devoted himself to t h e J ^ / " * " 8 ' C o u : 2 C 1 1 c f Palestine, and Ceremonials, and-Jewish Litligious liberty. ••z.-nnict Zionist «.„«». cause. Wednesday at 1 o clock at the ton A . K o p s t e i n , n e w Epiriturll ' I am unwilling to argue with erature. He has been lecturing from Jewish Community Center will go l e a d e r cf t h e V a a d , will b e g i v e r Dr. Newman. I am not even sufFaculty members are: Jacob coast to coast in the interest of towards the upkeep of the nine a t t h e regxiiar m e e t i n g of t h e LLcc-- f f\ * *""" '"y'v '*'" ^ » •" »• " ^ r T-*training farms »v Palestine spon- dies A u x i l i a r y of t h e Vaad ? T u e s - i \ \ | NS ' r \ •' ! ficiently acquainted ' with local Kahz, Judah Wolfson, I. Morgenthe Jewish National Fund. w Tentative plans for the nest ina y JJanuary ancarr o ee B ' n a i IsIs ' - - - * * • * - - » ' « w«->.- » 5, a att tthe B'nai 3chool. conditions in Greater New stenr Rabbi David Goldstein, The mass leeting at the Cen-sored by the .Pioneer Women. dday, York to do so. I am sure that Harry Mendelsohn, and A. Katz. ternational A. Z. A. encampment ter will be r>pcr. to the public. ! Members of tha Gcldie Meyerson rael synagogue, ISth and Chicago when I see Dr.' Newman again he Arrangements are being made to were made at a meeting of the There will be no admission fee. jclub and the Pioneer Women art streets, at 2 o'clock. Merabe-s> s) financing the luncheon and a o a -are urged to bring their friends. will add to the general reasons have Rabbi Milton Kopsteln teach executive committee of the Supreme Advisory Council of the |.jey paid for reservations will go A board meeting will be held 11 ' which he gives, strong and sound Bible; • organization held in Omaha last 'jjto this fun! \rhieb. supports 170 one o'clock. enough reasons in themselves, Officers of the college are: German Jewish refugees beside Members are also requested <.o other specific ones that strengthen Honorary president. Dr. Philip Sunday. many other Caalutzim. The proposed rite for the camp bring their tickets for the drav the case. Sher; president, Sal Michnick,' Mrs. Idelson who is tearing the Ing for the .electric clock to be What I want briefly to do is to vice-president, William W o l f ; is the Naponock Country Club at ,oEnd - the country in t i e Interest of these (held at the meeting. i offer..certain larger considerations tentative dates of the convention trainiEg farms is one of t£e outMrs. J. Bernstein in In charge cl that bear on the specific local 18- surer. Loyal Kaplan; registrar, standin- personalities of Pales-1 the tea and is being assisted I; ' sue and will bear on the same is- Max Resnick, and publicity direc- are Juno 25 to July 2. The next 5'iC.l I."" v — convention will be called the tine. 'She has made her home I the Mesdames Sara Epstein, Da^ c n I.c : ..,.> C o ^ i . i n c o : sue wherever it will arise and I tor, Milton Frohm. "Bar Mitzvah" convention, as am- pretty sure «hat it will arise ? C . . . 1 1 L1 Serving on the advisory board this year marks the thirteenth an- Refuge in Biro-BIdjan Offered there since 1921 when she was!Epstein, Meyer Katzmrn, Osc; " exiled froni Russia for her Zionist Belzer, and I. Fiedler. in other places sooner or later. v CL ^ i l o ' ; are: Ruth Alleu, Frank Acker- niversary of the founding of the to Blore Polish Jewish activities. The Bake Sale sponsored I: --- --, - We Jews are confronted by so man, Rabbi Frederick Cohn, Dr. organization. Families In her official capacity during the Ladies' Auxiliary of the Vari — , ^ many problems, so desperate and I. Dansky, Paul Goldblatt, Rabbi A national "Bar Mitzvah" day the recent riots she was respon- will be held at the Branded often so complicated and infuriat- David A. Goldstein, William HolzNew York (WN£)—An increase will be celebrated May 3 or 9 at sible for caring for many cf the Stores, Tue: .ay, January 12 ing, that we sometimes quite par- man> Sam Beber, Philip Klutzall chapters of A. Z. A. An ex-from 1,000 families to 2.000 donably think our Christian lel- nick, Jack Marer, Henry Monskyt tensive program for this day is families and 500 individuals of Jewish families made homeless as Those desiring specially goods are asked to call Mrs. A. N lowmen have no problems at all. Dr. Philip Sher, Harrr Silverman! being planned. the quota of Polish Jews to be a result of Arab depradations. We think, even more paidonab- Rabbi David Wice, and Harry admitted to Birobidjan during It has been the special task of Greenbaum, Walni;t 1422 or ?,'••<• Simoa Heller of Denver was ly, that if we had no worse trou- Wolf. ~ 1537 has been made by the Soviet her organization to rehabilitate D. Crousse, Gleru'.aie CS42. the only out-of-town member of bles than they.have, we would be The college will be divided Into the committee who was at the Government, Lord Dudley Mar- those Oriental Jewish "families T~» T well content. And It is natural two semesters and there will be meeting. ley, vice-speaker of the British who are akin to the Arab.*! in evHouse of Lords, declared in an erything save religion. Their that we should feel and reason two sessions of classes during the . F< thus. ' But Christians have their evening. ; A diploma will be address at a farewell dinner In-} standard. ol living approsiraates problems? especially^JPrutestant awarded, .•whEtt..a.-stiidcnt has-comhis honor by the Asnerxcaji Com- that of tee Arabs ccd. their way Christians andiit:'ibehobves""us,' as pleted two years of either Hemittee for the Settlement of Jews of life is in all respects Arab raAmericans and as Jews, to take a brew or Yiddish; one year of Jewin Birbidjan. Lord Marley, who ther than Jewisl.. r r--.r'- ,. Warsaw (JTA)—Foreign T.Ii: - ^ r ' sympathetic cognizance of these ish History; one year of Bible: is honorary president of the Com- For the first time in centuries ister Josef Beck, reporting to tic " • " '-'fr ,and one'year of subjects selected mittee, said that he had been in- they have been forced to seek Committee o£ Foreign Affsi-r. problems. F V 1 M~ The Protestant ministry and from the remaining courses. Warsaw (JTA)—Poland, cast- formed while in the U. S. S. R. help from their Palestinian Bre- toached the problem of Jew•a o n serious-minded Protestant parents A class of women is meeting Ing about for likely outlets for some month ago that the Soviet thren. E* i. ish emigration but failed to str r are not at all happy or satisfied every Wednesday morning at the her allegedly surplus Jewish pop- authorities would also admit a c: r-cc=p Mrs. J. Kaplan will preside r.t whether the Polish gorernmct 1 on the score of their children. Center for "instruction in Hebrew. ulation, has approached France certain number of refugees from the meeting and Mrs. Herman j intended to push recently prc - A~£.b 1 n i. 1.1 The churches are not conspicu- Registrations mny be made at the on the possibilities In that con- Eastern Europe and Germany to ^; € " sojr f i v ously empty but the Christian life Center main office. • Tuition is nection of Madagascar, her pro-Russia proper. Alexander Troy- Cohen will introduce the speaker, j ected plans for mass emigratior Ti ee J t i i=.l . A .musical program will precede of Its Jews or how they were rer is rare. The conventional Sun- one dollar per semester. As many tectorate off the southeast coast anovskj , Soviet ambassador to u i C T>' C ' l 1 k. •>! ceived at the League of Natio- ? l r r . of tl r ."-' day School, whein was well subjects as one desires may be of Africa. the United States, sent a telegram the talk. Reservations for the luncheon Council meeting. enough when it was the adjunct taken without additional cost. to the dinner in which he anThe French government, fol- nounced that the immigration of must be made by Sunday. Mrs. Ke declared: "TTe raised, tit tl of devout Christian homes, Is term.c. .or lowing Inquiries of its Madagas- the Polish Jews would begin in Herman Cohen, Mrs. J. Felaman international orcm, the ribly ineffectual in Us modern 1 car officials, is understood to have February or March, the delay be- and Sirs. S. ileiches axe in charge regarding colonies, referring P.'-5"! VC. i. i condition of bein^ torn cut of the Violence Continues . contest ol living experience and Sporadically by Arabs informed Poland that In view of ing due to the housing shortage of reservations. Only a limited to Jewish emigration which 1= I climatic and other conditions, the number can be accommodated. practice. The most liberal, the important because a. large sectioshortage, Jerusalem (JTA) — Sporadic j Hand could absorb only a few least dogmatic of Christians— of the Jewish population is msi.- e. Mr. Troyanovsky declared, has these, indeed, perhaps more than Arab disorders, renewed after a hundred immigrants. ing an effort to create a. natior'' been remedied by including Biroothers—are not happy over the lull of several weeks following According to the advices, Madahome in Palestine. Howerer, tl < i= • c ,-cv bidjan in the 1937 housing proincreasing religious Ignorance: cessation of a six-wonth Arab gascar is willing to admit that is not only a Palestine probls~, gram. among their children. The Bible general strike, continued last number < of immigrants, but on but a general European and « • Mrs. Estelle M. Sternberger, is becoming an unknown book— week. condition that they are not repecially an East European prc* • If Ci executive director of World which hits Anglo-American ChristAn armed Arab band attacked stricted to Jews. lexn since the Jews, losing grourr Washington, D. C. (WNS) — Peaceways, emphasized that it ians hard from the point of view the Jewish colony of Meshek would be cheaper for American Charges cf anti-Semitism against seek opportnuities for themsehes of both their spiritual and their Haotzar near Kfar Saba, north of PROBE DISTRIBUTION of the and for their children tfcrou-1 Jewry to "contribute millions high-ranking officials linguistic and cultural tradition. Tel Aviv. The attack lasted more OP LEAFLETS American embassy in Berlin have emigration." now to plant a fruitful garden in Young Christians, no less than than _an hour. No casualties were Praha—Minister of Education Birobidjan to which hundreds -of been laid before U. S. Senator young Jews, ignorant of history, reported. Franke has ordered a strict inves- thousands ot bruised creatures William E. Borah, ranking ReWOMEN'S DIViSIQE philosophy, religious culture, pick Many Arabs were, wounded, tigation into the spreading of may go in years to come, as ad- publican member of the Senate The nest regular classes of t^2 ' - " I up Marxian babble and come home four of them seriously, during a with it and thus substitute- con- clash between Arab groups at anti-Semitic leaflets at the Praha versity and intolerance compel F o r e i g n Relations Committee, Women's Division will meet cs <?,; i German University. them to seek a new home" rather who will make ihem the basis for January 6 at 1.45 o'cloclr at t ^s version or pseudo-conversion to a Tira, south of Haifa. than to permit hundred of thou- a demand of a Senatorial investi- Jewish Community Center. Riil i Simultaneously, the police raidT'T Utopian secular mas3 religiosity The authorities suspended two ed homes of a number of students sands of\ Jews to "stew in the gation. Goldstein will conclude his lee- i*-r rfor the faith and principles of their fathers. It is not a bit more Arab dailies, El Llwaa and El Is- to establish, whether any of their juice of Europe's war-spilled Among the charges are that De- j tures on Palestine. lamia, for three weeks each, and typewriters had been used to type blood." Suggesting a cornmsision Witt Clinton Poole, counsellor to will later be guests at the receramusing for Christian th^n it is of American Jews to go to Biro- the embassy, is the ringleader of tion for Eiias Nswman. the stencil used for the leaflets. for Jewish parents. And it is a third, Adifaa, for three days. bidjan and report, Mrs. Sternber- a group of N?.zi sympathizers not in the least surprising that ger declared that "for the bene- among the American consular sooner or later they hope to do fit of underprivileged Jews, wher- staff who have deliberately blocksomething about it. ever they DOT may be, we must ed the emigration of German raise Birobidjaa to a position of Jewish refugees. It is also asWhat are they going to do front rank in our American Jew- serted that American diplomat;; about It? We Jews are accusish philanthropies. We dare not, channels in Berlin have been used tomed to bearing double and treif we abhor the shedding of blood to denounce German Jews having ble burdens. Yet how many JewA book, "WisCom from the BiEg with an Hiustrate" hold back our dollars that can money'on deposit in Swiss banks ish- children go to religious ble and the Talmud," written by lecture on "KoUera Pa'.esticirsend, forth thousands of Jews to and that Rngh H. Teller, schools—to Hebrew school or Tal- Lr. Philip Sher, has recently do for the human race in Asiatic consul at stuttgaii, is so pro-Nazi mud Thora or -cheder—in addition been published by George Dobse5, Elias Nev,-iaan< prominent Pr.to their secular school? The num-vage of New Toik. Much of the Russia" what the pioneers o£ in his views tha: the-Germans call estiniaa. artist, will present c ber- is absolutely large but rela- material includ.l In the volume him "Storm Troop Commander America did, on this continent, tively small. (I refer for the ac-wa3 originally published by Dr. | three day exhibit at the Jevris-j Tor the people of the globe. Let Teller." tual figures to the American Jew- Sher in his column "'Jems of the us prove anew as we already nave Spying on German Jev? i: IT It! ish Yearbook). Our Sabbath Talmud," which Is* a weekly feain Palestine, tha; the Jew has theto Robert-W, Kerngartner cf t^?j Schools and Sunday Schools, a ture of the Jewish Press. hardihood and the vision o* theAmerican consular staff end Hiss j V good many of them pretty feeble, pioneer, the blazer of new fron- Heingartner, clerk in the A c s : - j Dr. Sher, prominent In .Omaha are probably upon the whole more tiers for the world's economic res- [can consulate at Berne, Svitrrr-' as a physician and public-spirited effectual than the Christian Sunurrection. It is far "nobler that land. I day Schools for the reasons that man, was' originally trained for the Jew, becomt a, hero' • .battler the rabbinate, . having attended Judaism is more than a religion, i with'nature in the Far East than i As> that we are a self-conscious mi- the famous Ychivah at Telz, then i a Wandering Jew in many parts presided over by the greatly-esnority dopendent upon a minimum 7 | oE Europe, eternally beseeching of self-affirmation for the funda- teemed Rabbi J21eazar Gordon. our sympathy and oar alms." After his ordination at the age mental decencies of human life Pledges totalling $80,000 were The second is a series c£ CEIICGS >: and that therefore Jewish homes, of .seventeen he, came to America made at the dinner: $25,000 from sponsored by f-"; Round vrhile in Philadelwhether religious or Zionist or and in :e c:i the dress industry, 135,000 from Jewish Youth both, are apt to be more'Jewish phia he substituted v for the then be h e ' i bun-: the graphic arts industry, $7,500 day, January in than Christian homes in this age dean of Orthodo " Rabbis of from the Boston saciion cf the J Comnmidiy Center Et at fthe Jc:v; : ;;| are apt to be specifically Christ- America, Chief Kabbi B. L. LevinCommittee, 1,000 ircr> the machthai of Philadelphia. Rabbi LevinFreddie Zbener's orcLc'tra Ian. '.-: Nevertheless the religious ine industry, and $1,000 from furnish the instruction' of on" children is one thai at that time commented on T:c'-r',s William w . .Cohen, chairman of these dances are ose £?'.'.: , of our gravest problems. And soDr. Sher's talents; "He is at home the Committee. couple for the season ar;l r, a little, imagination and observa- midst the entire range of Talmud Dr.. Phi'.lp Sher obtained from neaibers. c; tion will instruct us as to the and Poiskim, while his familiarity committee in charge or c, •gravity of this problem among with later rabbinic knowledge is to medicine. He has been active. Win Bailway Posts Indisputable. His skill in re- in every phase of Jewish com- j Moscow —•" Forty Jews have Jewish\Coni2iunsty Cenur. Protestant^Christians. ; search a n d interpretation is munal life in Omaha and for the been accepted • Now it is por'cctly patent that boundless." : past several years has been b the eers for service in the Far East, Christian children will not go to Despite his great talents in the donor of a cash prize for essays it was. ar.nounctd hy the railws (Continued on page 8.) rabbinical field, Dr. Sher turned on "Tolerance." 1664 ta 16SS. authorities.
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To Honor Rabbi Kopstein a t Tea | :s,d Tuesday.
Tentative Plans for Conclave of A, Z. A. Are Made
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Serious Problem
Jews Is Sought to Madagascar
Anti-Semitism Is Charged Against Consular Heads
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