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THE JEWISH CHRONICLE
Congregational News
TEMPLE BETH EL NOTES.
SHAAREY ZEDEK NOTES
Sabbath Services.
Saturday morning services begin at
9 o'clock.
Rabbi A. M. Hershman will
Sabbath services will be held this
week in the assembly rooms. Serv-
ices begin at 10
.„ o'clock. The solo will
be rendered by Mrs. Max Finkelston.
All are welcome.
Beginning Sabbath, Sept. 8, services
will be resumed in the Temple proper
at 10:30. The music will be furnished
by a full choir.
Red Cross Sewing and Surgical Band-
age Classes.
The ladies of the Temple continue
to meet in the parlors to sew for the
Red Cross Society on Tuesdays and
Thursdays of each week. Classes in
surgical bandages meet on Mondays,
Wednesdays and Fridays. All women
are cordially invited to participate in
this work.
Supplementary Services.
Arrangements are well tinder way
for the supplementary services which
are to be held under the Temple aus-
pices in the Unitarian Church on Rosh
Hashono and Vont Kippur. All those
wishing to attend these services are
requested to send their names to the
committee on supplementary services,
Temple Beth El. phone Grand 345.
Rabbi Mayerberg to Assume Duties
Sept. 1.
Rabbi Samuel S. Mayerberg will as-
sume his duties as Assistant Minister
of Temple Beth El Sept. 1. The date
of his formal, induction into office will
be announced hereafter.
Prayer Books.
Prayer books for the Sabbath and
for the holydays may be obtained at
the Temple. The y will also be on sale
at the supplementary services to be
held on Rosh t lashono and Yom Kip-
pur.
CLASSIFIED ADVERTISE-
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Terms $2.00 to $4.00. Call at 1018
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ROOM WANTED—Young Jewish
business man desires furnished room
in private congenial family. Call
Cherry 1043 or Cherry 4109, between
5:30 and 6 P. M. or between 10 A. M.
and 12 M. Sunday and Labor Day.
BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY—On
account of an accident, I will sell at a
sacrifice my wet-wash laundry, which
is clearing $75.00 a week, and can be
doubled. Call East 265 or East 3032-M.
THOUSAND OF JEWS RENDER-
ED HOMELESS BY TERRIBLE
FIRE.
Catastrophe in Salonica, Greece,
Sweeps City and Wipes Out Great
Part of Jewish Quarter. Appeal to
Jews of America for Aid.
Jews in Salonica, Greece, are in
destitute straits as a result of a fire
that is reported to have devastated
almost the entire city. The famous
seaport that has figured so prominent-
ly in recent events of military and
diplomatic importance contains a
population of about 200,000 Jews.
deliver his weekly sermon, beginning at
10 o'clock.
A JEWISH SOLDIER "LEARNS"
BLATT GEMARAH ON
BATTLEFIELD.
"Dr. Bloch's I sraelitische Wochen-
schrift" published in Vienna' -prints
the following interesting extract from
the diary of a Jewish soldier serving
in Hungary:
"For the past three days we have
been pursuing the Roumanian enemy.
Vont Kippur morning during the
Shachrith prayer we were compelled
with heavy hearts to close our mach-
scrim and place them in our haver-
sacks for the cry 'March' was heard.
We marched across hills and through
valleys, through forests and villages
without a stop.
"On the third day we were permit-
ted to rest. I, however, went to look
for a place where to daven schachrith.
In a little street in the village which
I reached the signs of Roumanian
`freedom' could be seen. Doors and
windows were shattered, the furniture
broken and littered in front of the
houses. At the door of an empty
store I noticed a mezuzzoh. In a cor-
ner of the store I found shreds of a
talith covered with the torn leaves of
a Hebrew book. I picked up the
leaves and found them to be pages of
a Gemarah Pesachim. Deeply moved
and with love I fondled these pages.
1 forgot everything; the reason of my
coming was forgotten and the de-
struction around about me was no
longer in Inv mind. I did not hear
the cannonading of the big guns. I
became • again the Talmudist. I
thought that i was sitting in the Yes-
bibah and began learning a Blatt
Gemarah in the well known sad sing-
song melody. My hunger was gone
and I immersed myself in the intrica-
cies of the Geinarah.
"I do not know how long this
would have lasted, had not another
Jewish soldier who had also gone in
search of a place reminded me that
the army was marching on. Full of
sadness I wrote upon the margin of
a page of the Gemarah: 'I passed
through this place and have seen the
churban. Because of this I weep and
my eyes shed tears. A Jewish Sol-
dier.'
"You old. Jew when you will 'learn'
in this Gemarah, think of the en-
thusiastic Talmudist who was torn
away from the Pressburg Yeshibah
and immediately grasped a gun. And
thus I 'learned a Blatt Gemarah on
the battlefield to the accompaniment
of a bombardment in the year five
thousand six hundred and seventy-
seven, since the creation of the
world.'"
"EUGENE HERSHKOWITZ."
Probably 75,000 Jews are affected.
The following cablegram dated
August 26th was sent to American
Jewish relief organizations by Jacob
Cazes, president of the Jewish Con-
gress Committee of Salonica:
"We regret to inform you that a
terrible fire has ravaged and laid'
waste almost the whole of Salonica.
The population is homeless, and in
immediate need, of food and clothing.
Hundreds of thousands of people in
sad plight of which three-fourths are
Jews. All our communal institutions,
schools and synagogues are destroy-
ed. We urgently implore help, also
food, bedding, clothing, and building
material. Immediate help is impera-
tive. Situation exceedingly grave."
Chief Rabbi of Sweden Believes War Will
Solve Jewish Problem
Rev. Dr. Marcus Ehrenpreis, chief
rabbi of Sweden, is firmly convinced
that the world war 1611 bring in its
wake a permanent and satisfactory
solution of the Jewish problem. Even
as the French revolution proclaimed
the rights of man, so this war will
proclaim the rights of the peoples, is
the opinion of this distinguished and
learned leader in Israel.
"I firmly believe," said Rabbi Eh-
renpreis to a representative of the
London Jewish Chronicle, "that this
world war, in which we Jews have
participated in a proportion of three
• to every Serb, and four to every Bel-
gian, and in which a great part of the
Jewish people has suffered far more
than even the Belgians or the Serbs-
1 firmly believe and sincerely trust
that this world war and all the Jewish
blood that has been shed—which we
hope will not have been shed in vain
—will also bring to our question a
satisfactory and permanent solution."
Dr. Ehrenpreis could hardly sup-
press his emotion as he referred to
the plight of the Jews in Palestine.
"It is shocking and deplorable in the
extreme to see the work of tens of
years being foolishly, wantonly de-
stroyed, work which had been brought
together by the whole of Jewry the
world over, all destroyed in a few
hours by the military," said the chief
rabbi. "There is really not much that
we Jews have not suffered in this war,
but this blow is the hardest of all that
have descended upon us, for it caught
us in a very tender and sensitive spot.
"But our only answer must be: The
work must go on!'" he declared.
"Our projects and our plans in Pales-
tine, which at all times have been
loyal and without 'arriere pensee,' will
remain unchanged by these happen-
ings. The coming peace conference
will have to declare the rights of the
Jews to an unhindered development
and the emancipation of all Jews
who at present are not free. We must
very strongly emphasize the point
that the Russian emancipation does
i any way, minimize the mean-
not, in
Thinking
ing of Palestine for us.
men have never asserted that Jewish
colonization in Palestine could ever
solve the economic question of the
millions of Jews in Russia. But Pal-
estine must become the place where
the Jewish absolute culture will be
fostered and from which a radiance
shall spread in all directions. It must
constitute the solution of the question
of the future being of Jewry.
"Millerand said recently that as the
French Revolution proclaimed the
droit de l'homme so the present war
should proclaim the droit des peuples.
Now, we demand the right of that
part of the Jewish people who do not
want to live in their present domiciles
to live their own life on their own
historic soil. And it is the whole
logic of the war that this right must
not be denied us. Further, whatever
may be the fortune of war, concern-
ing Palestine we have the right to
proclaim our demand, and this we
should proclaim no matter in which
our inner sympathies may lie."
FALL TERM OF PHILOMATHIC
TO BEGIN.
The first meeting of the Philomathic
Debating Club will he called to order
on Sunday evening, September 2, at the
Talmud Torah Bldg., 47 Division street,
at 7 o'clock. All members are urged to
be present, as important and vital is-
sues will be discussed.
The following members of the
Board of Directors are urged to report
at 7:10 o'clock: Simon Shetzer, Mau-
rice Goldstuck, Israel Pearlman, Sam-
uel H. Rubiner and Maurice Klein.
The appointment of committees for
the coining term will feature the first
meeting-, as no program has been ar-
ranged. Mr. Klein, the retiring speaker,
will give his farewell address. A cam-
paign for new members will he the out-
standing work of the next administra-
tion. All high school and college young
men between the ages of 15 and 21 are
invited to attend the meetings of the
organization. Everybody is welcome.
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