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DR. HYAMSON GIVES
JEWISH WINE LAW
SENIOR JUDAEANS TO
GIVE DANCE MARCH 4
Bible and Talmud, He Says,
Not Opposed to Its Use in
Moderation.
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ZIONISM UNDER THE CZAR
Amazing Story of Growth of Zionism When Officially Banned
By DR. ALEXANDER GOLDSTEIN
(Copyright, 1921, by Jewish Correspondence Bureau.)
It WAS the old story of a cat play- tral Committee. When we sent out a
ing with a mouse, not wishing to call for a meeting, it was an invite-
kill it, not wishing to free it. That tion to a wedding Or birthday party.
w as the plight of Russian Jews under We had a bride, bridegroom and rabbi
the Czar. Russia didn't want them, and buests already, refreshments
but the Czar wouldn't let them go. spread, every phase of an actual wed-
While she persecuted them, thousands ding carefully arranged in case of a
of young and old Jews were . looking surprise visit by Cossacks. We used
hopefully toward Palestine and were synagogues largely for our meetings,
striving to effect a Zionist Organize- for in the event that they were raided,
tion which might provide a land of and very often they were, we turned
refuge for them, So, the Russian our faces to the wall and chanted our
government which hated the Jews and, prayers.
Maps an Receipt..
• proven, sponsored pogroms
it has loon
"On our Central Committee were
against them, decreed that Zionism
was an illegal movement, forbade many prominent business men. When
meetings, publications and activities decided to send out several hundred
in its behalf throughout the empire. form letters, we divided them among
But in 1917, when the Kerensky gov- these business houses, sent out letters
ernment permitted Zionists to hold on their stationery with their mail.
their first convention, and to take the All letters were in code. When we
first membership census, it was dis- asked for 1,000 price catalogues, we
covered that there were 179,000 pro- were actually requesting 1,000 shekels
fessed Zionists in this secret organi- (a shekel is a Hebrew coin, represent.
ing the membership in the Zionist
zation.
The amazing story of the growth of movement). We sent maps of I'ates-
Zionism under Czar Nicholas was re- tine AR our receipts.
"We never published minutes. Our
lated at Hotel Conmaalore, New York,
e
by a man who was a gui ding spirit 'memories served this purpose.
in that movement. Ile is Alexander held our conferences abroad. In 1914,
Goldstein, a lawyer, who came to because of the war, our work became
America recently with Nahum Soko- much more difficult because all cables
low, Vladimir Jabotinsky and Pro- and correspondence were strictly cen-
fessor Otto Warburg, as memlwrs of sored. When in 1915 we sent three
the Zionist Delegation to assist here delegates to the Zionist convention at
the growth of the Keren Ilayesod Copenhagen our representatives were
arrested, despite declarations that
(Palestine Foundation Fund).
they went on private business and
A Game of Wits.
Surrounded by official spies, every the fact that no incriminating papers
movement wacthed, the Zionists play- were found on them. One was ex-
ed a game of wits, out.plotting those pelled from Petrograd. The other two
who plotted against them. Prison were released.
and Siberia were the penalties for
Many Meetings Raided.
holding Zionist meetings and accept-
"We were able to organize the Zion-
ing collection's. In 1912, there were
145 trials for collecting funds and Hit Club.We called it Bezalel. Its
purpose was ostensibly the develop-
other Zionist activities. Many of the I ment of Jewish art. Tic carry out this
defendants were sent to prison, amongi subterfuge we had a few painters as
them a member of the former Central members. We also had a police rep-
Committee at Vilna. Hereupon the resentative on our payroll, whose job
Zionists found it necessary to work was to see nothing, hear nothing.
illegally. They transferred their com- Bezalel held balls and bazaars. The
mittee to Petrograd, where its activ- money went for Palestine. When it
ities could more easily he concealed became necessary to send out letters
and for five years Zionism grew and to the 800 towns where he had
flourished in the shadow of the branches, we used envelopes of dif-
Czar's palace.
ferent sizes, shapes and colors, ad-
"iVe devised codes and planned dressing them in different handwrit-
every step carefully," Mr. Goldstein ings, sending them at different times.
explained. "our code word for ('en- We wrote our letters in Hebrew, for
tral CommittKowas "Merkaz," a Ile- we were practically certain that the
brew word. When a member receiv- language could not be understood.
e letter telling him to "please send to Nevertheless raids were frequent and
Mr. Merkaz," he knew that he was punishment drastic. One meeting at
directed to communicate with the Cen- l'insk seas raided and 23 persons sent
to Siberia "
With Vladimir Jabotinsky, the Bas-
• lan "advocate" who founded the
Jewish Legion, Mr. Goldstein publish-
ed "Razweit" ("The Dawn"), the only
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The second annual dance of the
Senior Young Judaea Council, which
includes all the senior clubs of De-
troit and the one in Windsor, will be
held in the Board of Commerce Audi-
torium on March 4.
Committees were chosen at the last
meeting of the council to take charge
of arrangements for the dance. Har-
old Levin was appointed committee
manager. The tickets for the dance
will be placed on sale next week.
Jewish congregations throughout the
KNIGHTS OF JUDAEA
mented wines in religious services.
Circumstances necessitated the post-
ponement of the Knights' debate on
the question: "Resolved, That the
three Zionist parties should combine
in their work of rebuilding Palestine."
The debate will, however, be held dur-
ing the meeting of Saturday, Jan. 21.
Team 4, consisting of Sam Firestone,
Sol Slomovitz and William Lankin,
will uphold the affirmative; Irving
Cohen, Morris Waxman and David
Cooper making up Team 5, will de-
fend the negative.
As a substitute for last week's pro-
gram, the Knights had extemporane-
ous speeches by the members on cur-
rent Zionist news.
BAR KOCHBA JUDAEANS
Sam Weisberg, active member of
the local chapter of the Intercollegi-
ate Zionist Association, last Sunday
took over the leadership of the Bar
Kichba Young Judaea circle. Mr.
Weisberg, who has had considerable
experience in the past, is arranging
for a series of interesting programs.
The club will henceforth meet on
Monday evenings.
The following new officers were
elected at the last meeting: Isadore
Silverstein, president; Jacob Gilbert,
vice-president; Sam Goldman, treas-
urer; Isadore Burnstein, secretary.
Plans are being made by the group
to celebrate their first anniversary of
the club's existence. The B'nos Yis-
read were invited to attend the anni-
versary celebration.
YOUNG JUDAEA DAY
NEW YORK 4—(J. C. B.)—Feb. 12
has been fixed for the celebration of
Young Judaea Day. The Young Ju-
daea Day celebration was a great
success last year. In order that it
should be still more successful this
year, preparations should begin very
soon. The national office is issuing a
special program outlining suitable
events to bring home on this occasion
to parents and members the signifi-
cance of Young Judaea. Every Ju-
daea Club is expected to celebrate
Young Judaea Day, the national office
proclamation states.
MACCABEES OF JUDAEA
The Maccabees of Judaea, under the
coaching of Allen Blonds', a former
('ass Tech man, organized a strong
basketball team this year. The first
real game of the season resulted in
the defeat of the Maccabean Sports
by the score of 17-5. The Maccabee
team is composed of Nate Lesser,
Charles lilondy, lien Labret, Maurice
Goldman and Sam Silverstein.
SOVIET RUSSIA MAY
BE VISITED AGAIN
Cunard-Anchor Line announces that
they are ready to accept bookings for
Soviet Russia provided passengers
will obtain permission from the Soviet
Russian foreign office to enter their
territory.
Cunard-Anchor Line has prepared
application blanks which may be ob-
tained from any steamship ticket
agency representing the Cunard Line.
Such application blanks will be fur-
nished free of charge and the agents
will furnish the necessary information
and will also assist the intended pas-
sengers to fill out such declaration. It
must be certified by a notary public.
This filled out application should be
sent to the Cunard office or to their
branch agencies who will forward
such applications to the Russian au-
thorities, without expense to the ap-
plicant, except where a cable answer
is requested, the nominal charge will
be $1, to cover cable expenses.
The company also advises that they
are selling prepaid tickets for Rus-
sians to visit the United States. The
Cunard office abroad are in postal
communication with the northwestern
part of Soviet Russia and are able to
reach passengers in that district for
whom prepaids have been purchased
or may he purchased. With these
prepaid tickets, a reasonable amount
of cash may be included to be paid to
passengers for their expenses.
The Cunard Steamship Company
has printed application forms which
will be furnished free by any of their
agencies, upon request.
Third class rate from New York to
Libau via England is $110, plus $5
war tax. Prepaids via England to
New York are as follows: From War-
saw, Libau and Kovo, $106; Riga,
$107. (U. S. head tax $8 additional.)
LONDON.—(J. T. A.)—That the
Arab delegation from Palestine in-
tends to put their case before the
electorate during the forthcoming
general elections is a statement made
in well-informed circles here.
Funds for this purpose are said to
have been collected in Palestine and
in England.
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NEW YORK.—The Rev. Dr. Moses
Ilyamson of 1335 Madison avenue has
recently had printed and distributed
among the rabbis and members of ,
country a four-page leaflet giving
"The Jewish Concept of Wine and
Its Use." - The leaflet has particular
try
significance at this time in view of
the discussion of the use of unfer-
Dr. Ilyamson has met with some of
the committees at work on a plan to
guard against the abuses that have
crept into the handling of sacra-
mental wines.
In the summary of his treatise on
the subject Dr. Ilyamson says:
"The Bible and the Talmud are not
opposed to the use of wine in moder-
ation. They are opposed to intem-
perance. They recommend abstin-
ence for the sake of example..
"Wine should be used for Kiddush,
Ilabdallah, marriage ceremonies and
the first nights of Passover. But it
need not be intoxicating, and, dor
Passover, mead may be used if wine
is not procurable. On Purim and for
grace after meals its use was cus-
tomary. The quantity of wine to be
used each time is a fourth of a log,
equal to the volume of an egg and a
half.
Wine of Non-Jews Prohibited.
"Yayin Nesech does not exist in
civilized countries, as the Gentiles are
not idolators. But Stam Yayin (wine
of non-Jews) is still prohibited. I
Hence the need of having wine pre-;
pared by Jews under proper super-
vision, with proper precautions to'
guard against direct intentional con-
tact by non-Jews, in order that it
may be fit for the use of Jews who
observe Talmudic and Rabbinic Jo-
deism."
Regarding kosher wine and non-
kosher wine, he says:
"Kosher wine is wine that has been
prepared by Jews and under the su-
pervision of Jews and not touched in-
tentionally by a Gentile. The prohi-
bition of the use of the wine of Gen-
tiles was already known in the Baby-
lonian captivity. Dank.' did not de-
file himself with the food of the king I
of Babylon nor with the wine of the
palace. (Daniel 1:8.1
"In the upper chamber of Chana-
sin, son of Chizkia ben Gorion, the ,
school of Shammai were in the ma-,
jority over Hillel's school, and 18 de-
crees were passed. The seventeenth
was a prohibition of the use of the
bread of idolaters, their oil, their
wine, and intermarriage with their
daughters. The prohibition of the
oil of idolators was never generally
accepted, and so the ordinance be-
came a dead letter. (Aboda Zara
:16 a.) But the prohibition of wine
was accepted, on the ground that
drinking with idolators would lead to
immorality and mixed marriages and
subsequently to idolatry. (Aboda
Zara 36 a.)
"There is a tradition that, on Bi-
leam's advice, the Moabite women se-
duced the Israelites by first offering
them wino. To partake of this wine
was not yet forbidden, and when they
were inflamed with wine the tempt-
resses took out of their bosoms idols
and said to the Hebrew youths: 'Wor-
ship these.' (Sanhedrin 106 a.)
Wine Poured Out to Idols.
need nut dwell at length on
Yayin Nesech, as this is of purely his-
torical interest. Wine poured out to
idols, or made expressly for that pur-
pose, was Yayin Nesech, and express.
ly forbidden to be drunk or to be
used in any other way. Contact with
it defiled as much as an idol (Aboda
Zara, 30 b).
"Wine prepared by, or belonging
to, an idolater, concerning which we
do not know whether it was intended
or had been used for idolatrous pur-
poses, might not be used and defiled
in a lesser degree (ib. 31 a).
"Wine belonging to a Jew that has
been deposited with an idolator may
not be drunk but may be used other-
wise (ib. 31 a).
"Boiled wine, or wine mixed with
honey and pepper, cannot be Yayin
Nesech (ib. 3 Oa).
"Prohibition of the handling or
touching of wine by an idolator be-
gins when the juice of the grape com-
mences to flow in the wine press.
"Mere touch without moving the
hand when it is in the wine, an in-
voluntary touch, or moving the wine
with a stick, would not make it Yayin
Nesech.
"Nowadays, according to Iserles'
Nots (Joreh Deah 123:1 and 132:1),
there is no Yayin Nesech. But the
prohibition of the drinking of wine
that a Gentile, even Moslem, has
touched intentionally is still in force.
"In Italy it was the custom of the
Jewish communities to buy contents
of wine presses full of grapes through
Gentiles had trodden it. Jair Bache-
rach (Chavath Jair 114) extenuates
the practice, though he does not jus-
tify it, on the ground that as the
juice is still mixed with skins and ker.
nels it is not yet wine.
"As the Gentiles now are not re-
garded as idolators, if a Gentile
touches a Jew's wine, unintentional-
ly, or to save it from leaking, or in-
termediately by pushing in the spigot,
he does not make it unfit for drink-
ing. (Joreh Deah 124:24.)
"Where a Gentile touches wine be-
longing to a Jew in spite to make it
unfit for Jews, Jews should drink it
in his presence, so as to teach him
not to do so again. (Joreh Deah
124:27.)"
Dr. Ilyamson also points out in his
article on what occasions wine is re-
quired.
STATE OF SIEGE PLACED
ON ARAB VILLAGES THAT
FAILED TO PAY FINES
JERUSALEM. — (J. T. A.) —A
number of Arab villages upon which
a fine of £6,000 pounds aech had been
imposed by the government for their
attacks on the Jewish colonies subse-
quent to the riots in Jaffa have been
surrounded by the military in an at-
tempt to compel payment of the fine.
British troops and Egyptian and
Arabic military police, flanked •by
armored cars and machine guns, have
surrounded the villages, including the
large township of Tulkeran. Arab
notables and sheiks have been arrest-
ed and a threat to confiscate the cat-
tle unless the fine is paid has been
made.
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JEWISH IMMIGRANTS
CALLED BOLSHEVISTS
Senator King of Utah Reveals
His Antagonistic
Attitude.
WASHINGTON—(J. T. A.)—In an
interview granted the J. T. A. cor-
respondent concerning the recent bill
he introduced in the Senate to reduce
immigration to 2 per cent of the na-
tionalities in America, based on con-
tinuance of the present quota system,
Senator William King, Utah, Deeps
crat member of the Senate Immigra-
tion Committee, revealed an unusual-
ly antagonistic attitude towards Jew-
ish immigration.
Jewish immigrants, he declared, as
his firm opinion based on two years
of close personal observation, are
"overwhelmingly Bolshevistic" and
objectionably radical in type.
Senator King made a frank revela-
tion that it was in a large measure
because of the Senate's fear of this
radical tendency on the part of Jew-
ish immigrants from Eastern Europe
that led that body to enact the pre-
vailing strict quota regulations. The
sentiment of the Senate has grown
0. 1 132!
evenmore antagonistic, and the Sen- it quite clear that ho is in no way
ate would, if possible, close the doors anti-Semitic; on the contrary he is, he
said, a life-long friend of the Jews
altogether, the Utah Senator said.
and was chiefly responsible for the
Makes Trips to East Side.
election of Governor Bamberger of
Senator King claimed that he makes Utah.. As a Mormon, the Senator
frequent trips to New York's East even believes Jewish blocal flows in
Side, traveling incognito, mixing his earn veins. His son married and
among Jews, and finds the vast ma- is living happily with a Jewess.
jority sympathetic to radicalism. Ile
"This objectionable radical type is
had, tie his utter consternation, dis-
not Jewish," Senator King said, "for
covered this to be equally true of
they have deserted the God of Abra-
Jewish college students and so-called
ham, Isaac and Jacob. I view their
intellectuals.
apostasy from Judaism with anger
At a number of Columbia Univers- and disappointment. They are bring-
ity meetings he states he interviewee ing grief upon the Jewish race which
many Jewish students, finding prac- has made supreme moral contribu-
tically all of them atheistic and radi- tions to civilization. A Jew who de-
cal.
Mee God is inconceivable to me."
During the past two years, Sen-
Senator King also said that no ma-
ator King says, he has talked to more
terial has been furnished him to re-
than 2,000 Jews personally, in the
fute his impression of Jewish immi-
course of a special study of their
grants, but he would he delighted to
leaning towards radicalism.
be proved wrong, and would gladly
At his recent debate with Senator
read and study any literature fur-
France on Soviet Russia at Carnegie
nished him from Jewish sources.
Hall, the Senator continued, 80 per
Judging from Senator King's in-
cent of the audience were Jews, and
every time Lenin or Trotzky was tense feeling on the subject it is quite
possible that he may air his views
mentioned they applauded wildly.
Senator King indicated that his in- publicly either on the Senate floor or
formation about the radicalism of the in committee.
Jewish immigrant type was obtained
Insofar as his bill was concerned,
from other sources also.
the Senator said he had not consulted
with any colleagues before introduc-
Prof
Friendship for Jew.
ing it and made no effort since to
The Senator was anxious to make ascertain the sentiments of others.
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