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of :\merican Rabbis has given the timely suggestion that it would be
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Rabbis of America in the course of their sermons would make appro-
priate mention of the part France played in winning the war and of the
President
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CUMMINS
J.
JOSEPH
Secretary-Treasurer untiring efforts of the French l'eace Delegation to achieve a just and
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under
the
Act
of
March
3,1879.
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twenty years of active service with his congregation. During these two
to decades Rabbi I:ypins has worked diligently and effectively fur the
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the love and admiration of all his congregants and the utmost respect
How Well Do You Know the Bible?
The House of Israel is called the "People of the Book." This title
of course refers to the giving of the Bible to the world by the Jews.
The Bible is without a doubt the greatest contribution to the ethics,
morality and religion of all times. It has outlasted the abuse, the criti-
cism and the misinterpretations of the ages. It is still called "The
Book" or "The Good Book." It contains the best thoughts ever con-
ceived in the minds of men. It is a great storehouse of universal truth,
MY GIFT
—To 11 Flit'1141 011 BIS
Seventy-seventh Anniversary.
passed aloag,
I hat , e .wondered and woodered as years
..Ind I blundered through life with my burdensome song,
Just tchat was the gift man reckoned as best—
•he staunchest, that stood time's rigorous test.
I have thought that the work of hoe's calling was such,
rt was gathered fur merey's soft touch.
In the wealth t o
But these means we get are just held in trust,
iron rust.
. Ind corrode, not used, iii does
I thought of the virtues men coltivate-
Just the varnish in life that the ).ears dissipate.
I.eaving the crude grain—the hare grinning truth
To mock the veneer of unstable _youth.
Ind it clone as a vision as the \Tors passed along,
That though I he lost in the maddening throng
Of it stru.oling wor/d in its blood erased trend,
I hod found my gift in the heart of it friend.
—By ENOCII )1E1 IS.
of the entire non-Jewish community. IZahhi 1:ypitis is a scholarly gen-
tleman and is indefatigable in the work for his congregation. Ile has
served on important committees for the Union of .\ merit:an Hebrew
Congregations and he is at the present time President of the Alumni
The Beginning of a Great Establishment
Association of the Hebrew l'inint College. I:abbi Rypins went to St.
BY LEON ZOLOTKOFF, OP CHICAGO.
Paul from Evansville, Ind., :Ind during this lung period of service he
has deservedly merited the encomiums of praise heaped upon him. The
One day, during the recent war, ca- l society came to Palestine with a view
Chronicle extends to him its heartiest congratulations and earnest felici- Ides brought the information that the of beginning operations.
The Jerusalem Printing \Yorks inn-
tations for continued vigor and strength in his chosen work.
oId established printing and publish-
Jewish Homeland and Jewish Book Land
ing house of the " \Vidow and Broth- mediately made an effort to get in
ers Rosso," in Vilna. had been demol- , touch with the representatives of the
ished and that all plates and stereo- Petrograd society. Simultaneously a
types had been requisitioned by the 'like effort was made by the Petrograd
communicate with the Jerti-
Russian military authorities, to be re- society to
cast into bullets. salem Printing \Yorks in America.
ancestors.
Shortly afterward a like report Both proposed a consolidation.
Me of this justified pride, in spite of the abundance of
Ant )'et in spite
The consolidation has now been ac-
Nv ar ,aw „h e , t h e G enna n
A JEW FOR AN HOUR i DOWNING THE JEW
came
f rom in
beautiful and helpful ideas contained itt the Bible, and also in spite of
military,
quest of metals for war complished through efforts of the
Even in this fair and free land err- muses, made similar disposition of Je w'- American members of the Palestine
the admitted good which can be derived from the mere reading of
(Continued from Page 1.)
tain individuals are bent on downing ish printing houses in Poland. Then Commission as evidenced by the fol-
Scriptures, the average Jew is utterly ignorant of the content of the midst of us Gentiles, no matter . n ow I the jew. .
followed the mass expulsions from 'lowing cablegram:
assertion is not infre- Kovno, Grodno and other provinces. ' "Jerusalem, July 22.—The proposi-
sacred writings. It is quite out the way to find one of our co-religion- V., mell we liked and "'Peel," them !' The absurd
it's too late to talk about that l quent 1 y ma( ! e 1 )). ,
mit
which caused the abandonment by lion to consolidate the American "Jr-
ists who can intelligently discuss any passage in the Bible. For the most no w, isn't't it?
himself
largely
people that the Jew
Je some
of is
our
own Jewish refugees of their libraries and rusalem Printing \\'orks Association'
You'll laugh at iny ignorance, but
part it is all a mystery, a riddle. With the exception of the Rabbis
the destruction by vandals of great lw nil the Petrograd Society "Kiryath
I didn't know until I talked the mat-
responsible
discrimination
,•against
him. for
Our any
hypercritical
eye
pher" (City of the Book) whose ob-
very • few know where to locate even the most popular and most fre-
Hebrew books
account-
S ■
and quantities
late(' in Of
centuries.
jest
in common
is to establish in Je-
J ewish friend lat e ly , often discovers a lack of n modesty
ten
over
with
a
quently quoted passages. Many, too many, of our people do not know that any Jewish boy might have saidsocial grace in our ow brethren to
rusalem a modern printing and pub-
the prayer for thy dying a s well as a i account for social discrimination
This destruction
may he
considered
the
most
vital
spot
of
lisping
house,
has been effected by
whether the Ten Commandments occur in Exodus and Deuteronomy or rabbi. I just kept thinking all that •
Oil this score the ex- an attack 1111
, representatives of both organizations.
clusion them.
of Jews from summer hotels Jewish spiritual life.
in Genesis and Leviticus. A sentence like "Thou shalt love thy neighbor evening—John passed away at mids.againSt
I The American members
! on the Pales-
night—that young Cohen aught to and certain clubs is frequently not
•
Book" tine I. ommission,
Dr. Harry Frieden-
Since time immemorial 'T
as thyself," which is found in Leviticus, chapter 1! , may be variously have a Jewish minister with hum, a only excused. but even justified. Such
of
Baltimore,
Mr.
E. \V. Lewin-
has
accompanied
the
Jew
in
his
Wan-
Wald.
only is, however base and base-
placed from Numbers to Ezekiel. Isaiah's famous Vrophecy con- Priest of his own church, just as John !an
and Mr. Robert
the
had had. The nurse told me the boy less. Evidences of anti-Jewish dis- derings, protecting him against coin- Epstein, oi New York, represented
cerning the beating of swords into plowshares and spears into pruning was very low—it was just a matter crimination come to light almost plete submersion and dissolution as a s'iold. of Chicago,
people.
The
Jew,
in
turn,
has
invar-
American
organization,
while
Mr.
S.
iin
attempt
hooks, is glibly quoted but cannot lie located with any degree of exact- of hours. Ile was delirious a good
deal of the time, but he had rare in - . daily
to convince
us that V1 hi) are not iably field "The Book" in supreme Saltzman, and Mr. J. I.. Goldberg rep-
is made
to down Jews
ness. The Sh'ina and the Kedusha are attributed to the Prayer Book and
wanting in any of the virtues which v neration and assigned to it the place ' resented the Petrograd society. Mr.
e
tenals when II , was painfully lucid !
. Jacob De Haas, executive secretary of
and talked of home and other things we call social manners and amenities.
!
honor.
Psalm 101 is often supposed to have flowed from the pen of Mrs. Eddy. which might have interested a rabbi In such instances at least it must be of \\'llen
'the
Zionist
Organization
of
America
the printing press came into
By contrast we cite the familiarity of the average non-Jew with both had lie been there—bar mitzvah, I admitted that the Jewish victims of
the
being in the last decades of t he I assisted in arranging the details of
the Old and New Testaments. Passage after passage is recited by them think he called it, going to cheder, racial and religions prejudice are in teenth century, the Jews at mice util- consolidation and undertook to de-
and all that. Kept telling the nurse no way responsible and that the dis- ized its services for the multiplying liver the document to the meeting of
without difficulty. Of course all Christians do not know the Scriptures, that he came from a "real Jewish ! crimination is due to nothing else but
and spreading of the Book. The art subscribers which is to take place in
but those who do are to be found more frequently than can be found lionie" and his folks WOuld take it to narrow bigotry and prejudice. of printing assumed in their eyes the Chicago about the middle of Sep-
hard if he died "like a goy." So she Might not such instances point to the
among our co-religionists. Jewish children are often put to shame by asked me to come over and talk to advisability of reconsidering our judg- character of it sacred profession, a
In the
h meantime the Hebrew daily
ment also in other cases of social dis- semi-religious function. In the preface telber
their failure to recognize a Biblical quotation found in classical liter- him.
to many an old volume mention is paper "Hadashot I faaretz (The News
1 rung Cohen was polite to me, but crintination against the Jew?
ature, when their Christian classmates answer the question without hesi- he wasn't interested. Said he knew , As a matter of fact, social dis- made of the printer or the typesetter of the Latoll was started and a suit-
able site for the building is being ne-
we dido't have a Jewish chaplain in .crimination is probably the worst engaged in the "holy work" and gotiated by the Palestine Committee."
tation.
division and that it was all right me thod o f d ow ning the Jew that our faithfully performing his duties.
The documents bearing on the con-
This general state of ignorance is deplorable. Jews cannot be ex- our
Having learned of the destruction
and that there wasn't anything I bigoted and prejudiced friends can
solidation of the two societies (Which
pected to be conforming Jews unless they know something about the "old do for hiss. .\nil then he turn- adopt. If their aim is to keep the of the old printing houses the thought will
henceforth be known as the Je-
ed his head on his Pillow and pre- • Jew front rising in the world's work occurred to the writer of these lines to
masterpiece of all literature. We suggest that a chapter of the Bible, tended to be asleep. or the world's importance, they are propose the establishment of a mod- rusalem Printing \\'orks) are on the
way
to Chicago in possession of Mr.
Did
i
tell
you
that
the
explosion
.
helping
rather
than
hindering
him
by
ern well-equipped printing horse in
it matters not whence it is taken, be read every day. Aside from the
that caused his death had blinded their method of discrimination. True.
Which is destined to be- Robert Szold, of the Palestine Com-
wholesome effect the reading will have upon the moral fibre of the him, too? I kept thinking of his by keeping him out of certain organi- Jerusalem,
come the spiritital center of the world- 111i SSi011. and will he presented at a
meeting of subscribers to the Jerusa-
reader, it will in addition educate the reader in the literature of things bandaged eyes when I scent away and nations they make his struggle to rise Jewry.
tried to get a little sleep. But I harder. hit they make also his desire
The proposal took root. Shortly lem Printing \Yorks to he held at Chi-
spiritual. Parents require their children to practice their piano exer- couldn't. Father had been so fond to rise greater and his incentive to
thereafter the Jerusalem Printing cago. Sunday, September° 14111, next.
cises and the steps of their interpretive dances. Why should they not of old M r. Jacobson that I felt I conquer stronger. Throughout the Works Association was organized in 'file building of the printing house
ought to do just a little more than ' long and varied history of our people,
also lie required to familiarize themselves with the greatest writings my duty for that young Jew, who !the very attempt to down the Jew has Chicago With the following objects in will soon be started fn Jerusalem
∎vhile a selected committee in Allier -
extant, with writings which will influence the whole current of their wouldn't last another day. I didn't !often enabled him to rise. !rie ver ■, view.
The proposal took root. Shortly ica is negotiating with experts in the
want him to pass on feeling all alone. I effort to keep hint from certain pro-
future moral and religious thought ? The same may profitably be So—well, you're going to tell me ! fessions has given him a mastery in thereafter the Jerusalem Proton); printing line to organize the necessary
in machinery for the plant.
applied to adults. Let the whole house of Israel become familiar and Whether I (lid the right thing or not,' those professions. The effort to shut \Yorks Association was or
aren't you him out from the world's work has Chicago with the following objects in
The establishment of the Jerusalem
intimately acquainted with the Bible so that the pride of possession may
Ed met one of the Jewish \Velfare called forth his self-denying devotion
Printing \\'orks in Jerusalem within
print, publish and supply He- the next two years seems to be as-
1.Tri
workers in l'aris, and he'd given me 'to the world's work.
be real.
the little khaki prayer book your pro-I If the Jew ever rises to the great- brew books, both religious and secu- sured,
ple had distributed to the Jewish sol- est possible height of honor and lar, to the Jewries of the world.
Eighteen hundred years and more
diers. I had it with me, along with achievement. he w ill, like the Hom-
2. To provide employment for the The Book constituted the spiritual
one from a Catholic priest—in case eric hero who, upon entering the Jewish printers, typesetters and me- homeland of the Jew. No land—not
Olympus, bent his knee in gratitude
Mr. Arthur Brisbane, noted writer for a large syndicate, has the I'd he in a pinch, you know. And I to his life-long enemy, Juno. acknowl- chanics who have lost their means of even •retz Israel—is likely to become
knew just what to learn; for once
earning a living by reason of the de- the physical homeland for any part
following to say about Poland's treatment of the Jews: "Forty thou- when toy father and old Mr. Jacobson edge that much of his phenomenal struction of the old printing Moises. of
the Jewish people if it should fail
success is due to the age-long and
had
been
having
one
of
their
good-
sand Polish Jews ask permission to come to America. They should he natured arguments over religion Mr. ubiquitous attempt to down the Jew. 3.To carry the considerable indus- to also become at the same time the
try of printing and publishing Hebrew home of the Hebrew Book.
—Jewish
Ledger.
made eagerly welcome here. And if they come Poland will learn by Jacobson had said
books on a large scale into Palestine
"You'll never convert me, Foster.
and make it a Jewish national industry
experience what happened to Portugal and Spain when brutal religious
PALESTINIAN
AWARDED
till
you
cut
your
religion
down
to
one
The Welcome Committee, estab-
as bents the people of 'clic Book.
hatred drove out all the Jews, compelling - them to build up, which they God. That's the cornerstone of ours,
HARVARD B. S. DEGREE 4. To produce a superior grade of lished on the East Side of New York
promptly did, Holland and England. The Jewish race is a radio-active and as soon as we Jews learn to talk
printing for the university and schools to welcome returning Jewish soldiers
we learn to say the Shemah. And
and for government and commercial and especially those of the 77th Divi-
force in the business of the world, in commerce and industry; it is a ice say it every day all our lives, and
Nfr. Samuel Heyman, of 24 Delmar
sion, has decided not to disband be-
uses.
avenue,
received
word
Monday
that
force that quickens immediately the prosperity of all. Read the history it's the last thing they say at our beds
S. T. further the economic develop- fore some steps are taken for the
he
was
awarded
the
degree
of
Bach-
dying.
'Shemah
Yisroel.
'
re
We
when
Jews."
ment of the country by creating an ex- erection of a monument on the East
of Spain after bigotry, with fagot and sword, had driven out the
Hear, 0 Israel. the Lord our God, elor of Science in Engineering by
port business of Hebrew books to sup- Side.
nail
on
the
head.
I
lis
com-
flaunt('
University.
the
Lord
is
One.'
fhat's
our
relig-
\Ve believe Mr. Brisbane has hit the
ply the needs of the Jews in other
Nf
r.
Heyman
graduated
from
the
ion,
Foster."
parts of the world.
ment On the Polish situation is based on the facts of history . . There
1 was just a student at college then, Massachusetts Institute of Technol-
The family of the
6. To form a center around which
is no denying the truth of his statement that Spain and Portugal suf- but I never forgot it. So I knew just ogy last October. Born in Jaffa, Pal- shall
group themselves those who
to say. And the little Hebrew estine. Heyman , came to this
late departed
fered in every way by the treatment of the Jews and that I lolland and what
message
for
their
peoples
or
country
at
the
age
of
six.
Ills
par-
have it
I'd taken at my theological seminary
England profited by their immigration. \Ve hope that conditions will helped me out. 1 had no difficulty in ents were among the earliest settlers for humanity and are in need of the
Harry
Meyers
'coding the service when I looked it in Palestine, his father having been printing art to convey such message.
not continue so ill Poland that the Polish Jews will find it necessary to lip in the little prayer hook. So when killed by an Arab while defending a A capital of $200,000 was deemed
desires to express sin-
sufficient for the beginning to estab-
resort to a wholesale exodus, even though their leaving may be a benefit I scent bark to the hospital I put it fellow-J•wish colonist.
Mr. Heyman is residing at the lish the works in Jerusalem and to
cere thanks for the
to other lands. \Ve trust that Poland will let her Jews play the great in my pocket.
above address with his mother and begin operations.
Cohen lingered through the day. three brothers. lie is planning to re-
\\'hen the association had about
many kindnesses shown
economic role they should play' in the upbuilding of her land. It will He was painfully clear-minded when turn
to Palestine next Spring.
.$30,000 subscribed the il•IA'S came from
do the Jews no good whatever to be the instrument through which he died, but he could not see the cross
during its recent be-
abroad
that
a
society
with
a
similar
on my collar, and as lie didn't recog-
The Progressive Order of the \Vest
Poland may learn a hard lesson. It will he much more to their liking nize my voice it was easy to deceive has just concluded its 21st annual object under the name of "Kiriath Se-
reavement.
I told him the nurse had convention. which was held at Chica- pher" had been organized itt Petro-
and by far more salual)le to them if Poland learns the lesson front his- hint.
sent for me that he might have a go, III., and attended by 192 delegates. grad and that representatives of that
tory rather than from experience before she continues to treat them rabbi with him at the last, Ile smiled.
"That's nice," he said. That was
cruelly and drive them away.
O
all but I was satisfied. And a little
later: "You can write my folks, es-
pecially mamma, it was all as Jewish
as if Ed died at home. That going
On Saturday, September tali, a double celebration will be observed to tickle them, isn't it?"
When the end came he groped for
in France. The two-fold event is termed "Lafayette Day" and "The my band, and I stumbled through
that
all
Americans
observe
the
words as best I could. I know
proper
Day of the Marne." It is eminently
lie 'ever suspected. And I was glad
this day in fitting manner just as the citizens of France rejoice with us he didn't have to know.
Again. my friend, the army Chian-
on Independence day and other national holidays. The part that France
leaned across my desk. "Did I
played in the war can never be adequately related. Her sacrifice and lain,
do the right thing? he repeated.
is
beyond
comprehension.
Our
tribute
to
her
is
more
than
"You're
a Jew. and maybe you wan
her loss
Independent
For the Wife and Kiddies
merited. Indeed the day is as truly American as it is French, for with- tell me?"—Hebrew Standard.
it overflows with inspirational subject matter. The Jew considers it his
greatest heritage, his transcendent and peerless gift to humanity. The
average Jew is proud of this great and unsurpassed product of his
Hitting the Nail on the Head
Honoring an Ally
SAVE RENT /
SECURE COMFORT
out the aid of Lafayette in the Revolutionary days the American cause
might have been crushed. Without the victory of the . larite a catas-
trophe, horrible in its consequence, might have befallen the world.
In order that the Jew's of America may do their full share in show-
ing recognition to France for all that it has done for the Jews of the
world at the Peace Conference the President of the Central Conference
Rabbi Jerome Rosen has resigned
from Temple Emanuel, Spokane,
Wash , to take up extension work
under the auspices of the Union of
American Hebrew Congregations.
Rabbi Julius Leibert, of San Fran-
cisco, has been engaged as his suc-
cessor.
A SAFE INVESTMENT
CROWING IN VALUE
Be
021=Et
_ girrETsC3 AV—g