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CLIFTON Anna • CINCINNATI 10, OHIO
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THE DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE
THE STRIKE OF THE FASTERS
BY MAXIM.
Real Influence of Judaism as a Re'
ligion l'pon the Jew of Today?"
Rabbi M. S. I.azaron, "How Has Im-
migration Affected the Religious Sit-
nation?" Rabbi M. Lefkovitz, "What
is the Influence of the Snagogue on
the Jew of Today?" Rabbi Louis
Grossman, "Does Sunday School
Make for a Religious Consciousness?"
Rabbi Charles S. Levi, "'What is the
Situation in Orthodox Jewry Today
in America?" Rabbi Martin Zielotika,
"Social Service and Religion.," Rabbi
Samuel Koch, "The Problem of the
l'nsynagoguedi' Rabbi G. Deutsch,
-nu. Jew in Economic Life, with
Special Reference to Poland," Rabbi
Solomon Foster. "The Aim of Re-
ligious Education in Our Schools.
Rabbi Henry Etielson delivered the
Conference sermon.
The place of the next conference
will be determined at a meeting of
Mc Executive body in the call,
On the morning after Ro,h Hasha- bery, pure and simple. You are an
nah, Zalman Velvet Adder, the leader old pious Jewess and go twice a
of the communal fasters, rose early day to synagogue; you ought to be
the morning to resume his daily ashamed of yourself."
"Shame yourself!" the old lady said.
work,. namely, that of fasting both
for Milken and for other,. Zalman "For your piety and your justice I
Velvet's business in life is that of fast- don't give 0 cent because you deceive
ing for other people on the occasion the people. \\lien you fast for on e
of the yahrzeit. For fasting and pray- yo u eat (or five and when you fast
ing for the souls of the departed he for five you don't stop eating all day.
receives the royal fee of $1.50 per day. Maybe you think 1 don't know it?
You better take care. 1 tell you you
Zalman Velvet, or as he calls him
self, Reb Zalman Velvet, has been for are going to pay $1.25 every week for
the last fifty years a resident of Ness your room, and if you don't want to
York, yet he has never seen Broad- do it, you can clear out right away
way. He speaks English just as flu- for I can get an honest boarder any
ently as on the day he arrived in this day for such a nice and beautiful
country. Nevertheless, he is very room. You must not forget that the
clever. He knows every Jewish man room in itself is worth twenty-live
and woman in Brownsville; he knows cents a week more than other rooms
when they have yahrzeit and knows because using it one can spare light.
all the particulars of their family In the daytime there is plenty sun-
lives. When lie has reason to believe light and in the evening there is light
that one Or the other of his friends is from the electric street lamps. Why
already so Americanized as not to should you have it for nothing? Be-
fast on the occasion of the death of sides, people say that you are a mil-
his parents, he approaches this friend lionaire :that you have $500 in cash.
with the view of securing the job for If I had $500 in cash I would marry
news-
WARSAW—The anti Si
himself. That is to say, he would off my two daughters and still be a paper. "Dwa Groselie," lo., come for-
take to fasting and praying for the millionaire. Si) you surely can pay $1 ward with the project Mat the Jews
salvation of the soul of the deceased, a month more on the room."
.hold he limited to ,spat ate cars Ott
Rd, Zalman Velvet was a clever
if the fee of $1.50 was paid in advance.
c trains. II proposes further that
Sometimes it happens that Reb Zal- and shrewd business man and recog- --pecial ticket oflices and station en-
man has to last for tire and some- nized at mice that there was nothing tmuces be established for them.
times ten people the same day. It to do with his landlady; that de-
This proposal was made in a
also happens that he is sometimes termined to exact the pound of flesh. "i irndly" spirit a, a solution—so it
caught eating on the day he is to fast. instead of continuing to argue with
alleged—to the problem which, ac-
When such a tragedy occurs, he finds her, he just simply said, "If you, a
cording to it, must result from the
a quick excuse. "It is the other matt's pious and hottest Jewish woman of
government order to bar all unclean
fast I have violated, for you I am .event y- five, deem it just to exact
persons front traveling on the trains.
from
me
money
without
reason,
you
fasting," he says.
If this order is strictly applied. jests
Lately, Reb Zalman Velvet has should have it. But I will give them
Mi. journal. "the whole Jewish na-
taken to reorganizing his trade: The a lesson."
By them, of course, he meant his tional minority" will not be allowed
number of his clients, above and be-
to
travel on the railroad. Therefore,
his
neath the earth, has increased to such ClistmiterS. Upon returning to
the best thing to do is to establish
an extent that he cannot carry on room. Itch Zalman Velvet said to Mul
Jim
Crow cars for the Jews.
his business single-handed. Now in len, "If my landlady can increase the
order to run its business. he engages relit without any reason, can make me
friends of his, who would be fasting pay 25 per cent more for the room
at any event, and pays them 75 cents. though I don't eat the bricks nor the
thus making a net profit of 75 cents for walls nor the ceiling, and though I
O more than I have
.e the MM
use
himself on each transaction. Rel. Zal-
man firmly believes in the 50-50 pol- up till now, I don't see why. I should
fast
all
my
life
for
the same money.
icy in business. Within a very short
time,Reb Zalman Velvel has succeed- Just because the food prices have
gone
up
I
should
pay
more for my
ed in organizing his business to such
an extent that he is now practically room? All right, 1 have to do it. But
because
the
food
prices
have gone up
the head of the fasting trust. Instead
of going from house to house himself I will have to charge more for my
to solicit personal orders for fasting, fasting. In times like these when
he now sends his lieutenants and everything is so expensive—bread,
agents to take these orders. For each meat, milk and even tedium, I cannoi
order he pays a commission of ten to afford to fast any more for $1.50 a
fifteen cents. After receiving these day and they'll have to par me more
orders, he distributes them among his as I have to pay more. But if they
don't agree to it, what I am going
friends.
to do? I cannot possibly fast for the
In this manner he has conducted
same money. 1.,f they don't agree to
his business for the last two years and
it then I strike! No more. fasting un-
has been prosperous and happy.
til they pay the full price. The full
Sometimes he thinks of enlarging his
V a day. Why, every loafer
lousiness by including all the districts price is
gets $2 a day for his work; why
of the city in the circle of his trans- should I get less, and fasting is, of
actions, but for reason known only course, a nobler profession than brick-
to himself he postpones embarking
laying, or wall painting." Reb Zalman
upon the new enterprise. It may be Velvet left the room with the decision
because he is too old and hasn't got to eventually organize a strike if the
the strength to go into a large busi- clients refused to pay hint standar.,
ness, or it may be that he is waiting fees. Two weeks later the entire
for the war to end, when new people community was startled by the new:.
would be coming from the other side that Reb Zalman Velvel Adder, the
of the Atlantic, who in all probability head of the fasting trust, haul not only
would ask him to do the holy work; himself stopped working, but had in-
every newcomer would certainly be duced his fellow workers to do like-
deploring the death of a son. Should wise. and that the fast strike was in
this happen, he would not have to pay full swing. How the strike ended 1
any commission or brokerage.
am unable to say.
Reb Zalman Velvet ioilows his daily
work industriously and systematically.
In spite of his flourishing business.
however, he continues to live the
same simple life as in days gone by.
Being a widower and not having to
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care for any children or relatives, he
lives in a room on the fourth floor
Israel, and above all for the sake of
which he climbs twice daily without
the practical help to Palestinian
any feeling of fatigue and even con-
Jews, some plan for the union of
tinues to prepare his own meals.
Jewish forces may be devised.
Everything goes on quietly and
Palestine Not Homeland.
smoothly, Rd) Zalman has no trou-
In the present circumstances we
bles and no tzorres. Even when he
performs his duty, tie never feels any declare that while nothing Jewish is
hunger before sunset and when he alien to our Jewish hearts, and while
feels especially earnest, he asks him- we are ready to help in the work of
self why people give him money since r ebuilding Palestine for sonic Jews,
fasting means nothing to him. He not we re-emphasize the view of Jewish
only lives on fasting, but has made life for which our conference stands:
large sums of money on it There is That Israel is not a nation. but a
a rumor among his friends that he is religious community; that Palestine
a millionait lie has five hun- is not the homeland for the Jewish
re—tha cash. Ile himself people, but that the whole world
dred dollars in
hoped that this paradise-like life ought to be its home.
would last forever, but he was wrong.
In conclusion, we congratulate the
One day, the day following Rosh President once more and hope that
lloshonah, which is a fast day, he was he fine service which his last year's
surprised by a notification from his administration gave to American
landlady that from that day on he Judaism will stimulate us all to earn-
would have to pay $1.25 a week for est endeavor for the blessing of
his room instead of $1 which he had Israel, and our fellow. men and for
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Zalman, not accustomed to any
In a sermon, "l'ossessing Our POS•
Reb -
. revolutionary changes in life, was sessions," delivered Saturday morn-
ing, Rabbi Harry \V. Ettelson urged
nearly shinnied when he heard
hat
he would have to pay a dollac
the Conference to take a greater in-
month more for rent. He could not terest in the social problems of the
figure out why he should pay more day, and to be governed by the ethics
just because prices of coal and food on Which its faith is founded.
had gone up• lie therefore called on
"Our place is on the firing line,"
his landlady, a charmer of seventy- Ile said, "and not on the parade
five who spoke in the language of ground- Ours is the religion of the
hell, and took up the matter with her. prophets. that religion which is the
A lively discussion ensued at once.
application to private and even more
"You would have to pay more even to public life of those principles of
in ordinary times," his landlady told justice, truth, equity, peace and
him. "Being a faster you make brotherliness which a just and holy
money, but don't spend it. If you God requires of his worshipers, and
can't enjoy your money yourself, let which no beauty of ritual. no cere-
other people do so."
monial piety can be a substitute.
Rev. Zalman Velvel, however, being
"In proclaiming this message did
alive to his task, said: "My fasting not the prophets speak terms rather
and my eating is my private busi- than generalities against any pr all
ness. It has nothing to do with you. forms of oppression? Did they not
I am a pious Jew and a just Jew, I meet the vital issues without evasion,
can't tolerate your injustice in raising speaking front the compulsion of
the rent 25 per cent without any rea- authority of their ethical judgments,
son."
even though they knew they were
"Without any reason!" the old not economic experts? And when
charmer began to shout. "You old they inveigled against the false
faster, you old eater! Hasn't every- prophets did they not have most
thing gone up in price—bread, treat often in mind comfortable and com-
and milk? Even for a sheitel I now placent leaders of public opinion.
have to pay more than I used to and some, even pillars of congregations,
of course we have to pay more for who were either unwilling or unable
rent than I did a year ago. I have to see anything radically wrong with
to pay more, so you have to pay more conditions and who, in the name of
and that settles it."
religion and ethics, denounced as
Whereupon Reb Zalman Velvel anarchstic and atheistic any real at-
said: "1 don't cat here at all Even tempts to apply religion and ethics
if prices of food have gone up, what
to the social order?"
has that to do with rent? The bricks
Splendid reports were presented by
of the house are the same and the Rabbi I.ouis XVolsey, of Cleveland, on
sunlight which I use is just as cheap
"Survey of Religious Conditions,"
as it was. Can you therefore give one
Rabbi William Fineschriber on "De-
any good reason why I should pay I
Religion:"
in
1
more for my rent? Your attempt to cay
Goldesison, "What is the
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