?AGE FOUR
kwun Oppmaz
which good, trusting Christians are the victims at the hands
of so-called "Jewish converts." Ile shows how these fellows
play into the hands of the churchmen and how any man may
gain a reasonably good livelihood so long as he presents him-
MICHIGAN'S JEVIISII HOME PUBLICATION
self to the leading pastors of the orthodox denominations as a
converted rabbi. It is really a first class job.
Published Weeky by The Jewish Chronicle Publishing Co., Inc.
Joseph J. Cummins, President
Jacob H. Schaltne, Business Manager
\Ve say this not because we challenge Dr. Vance's diagnosis,
,
Entered as second class matter March 3, isln, at the Postoce
lffi
at Detroit, of the situation with which he was dealing, for perhaps he
By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
entirely correct. But we do believe that his citation of "his old
Mich., under the Art of March 3, 1879.
friend"—the ex-rabbi of Mobile—was most unfortunate.
Rabbis in ‘‘ • arsaw as well as. New
General Offices and Publication Building
Moral :—Before giving a historical example, one must be York joined in the protests against
the execution of Archloishop Zepliak
sure that he stands upon historical ground.
850 High Street West
and NIsgr. Butchkavitch by the Soviet
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government. Despite this expression
of friendship toward a sister religion,
Icontempt and ridicule is the lot of
Itgo.
LONDON OFFICE
both the Polish and American rabbin-
14 STRATFORD PLACE
We hear much-discussion these days in disparagement of ical assemblies. I,, Warsaw, an anti-
LONDON, W. 1, ENGLAND
the young men and the young women of our time, of whom it Semitic demonstiation demanded that
Subscription, in Advance $3.00. Per Year is said that they have lost all idealism, that the search for pleas- all Jewish rabbis be arrested and held
as hostages until the priests are re-
ure is their only concern, and that, fearful of being accused of leased. The New York rabbis' action
To insure publication, all correspondence and news matter must reach
prudery.
they
have
cast
all
modesty
to
the
winds.
is ridiculed editorally by the Moscow
this office by Tuesday evening of each week,
•
Particularly it is said that a new spirit and one that is not Pravda, whose interpreation of the
rabbinical pretest is that "their fear
RABBI LEO M. FRANKLIN
Editorial Contributor
wholesome has come over many of the Jewish young men and is that they will be selected next for
The Jewish Chronicle invites correspondence on subjects of interest to women of our time. And it is pointed out that they are to be persecution." Pravda says the rabbis
the Jewish people, but disclaims responsibility for an indorsement of the found in places :tint sharing in forms of amusement against know that it is "today you—tomorrow
1." Thus, the very attempt by the
view expressed by the writers.
which less than a decade ago clean minded young men and I Jew to prove his liberality to ether re-
, women would have turned in horror and disgust.
ligions is ridiculed and his co,operat-
perhaps there is some basis to these charges. We do not Don rejected.
Henceforth our spiritual leaders
like to think so. Of course, it is a fact that there has been had better liusy themselves with af-
a breaking down of restraint in these last times and that the fair of their own people. If they de-
to protest, there are plenty of
Reports that have been seeping through the public press new-found freedom has led young people of this generation to sire
outrage's practiced against their own
during the last week as to conditions of the Jews in many coun- seek pleasures and to frequent places that to their elders would fellow Jews that they can object to,
tries are disquieting in the extreme. In Warsaw, the Jewish seem altogether strange. We cannot deny that the mania for without incurring the ridicule of
quarter has been newly looted and hundreds of Jews have been pleasure has taken hold of many, practically enslaving them those whom they would help.
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Fixing the Responsibility.
Nisan 27, 5683
Where Is the Voice of Protest?
killed or maimed.. In Roumania, the Ministry of the Interior
has issued a proclamation calling upon Jews to disband their
self-defense units, which had been considerably strengthened
following the recent outbreak of anti-Semitic riots in that corm=
try. From Vienna conies the report that the anti-Semitic or-
ganization "Ilakenkreuzler" threatens the Jews that if there is
any interference by the Socialists with their military exercise,
a demand will be made for the expulsion of the entire Jewish
population to Palestine and that if this was not accomplished,
all the Jews of the country will be made to pass through a
"blood bath."
Scores of Jews are alleged to have been killed in almost
uninterrupted warfare launched on them by the Moslems at
Yemen in southwestern Arabia. Some of them, it is said, in
order to escape with their lives, have nominally accepted Mo-
hammedism, while representatives of the Yemenite Jews in
P alestine have appealed to Jewish organizations to provide aid
by which their brethren in Yemen may be able to escape to
Palestine. And thus the story goes.
To these nameless and innumerable atrocities of which the
Jews are the victims, the public press gives now and then a
passing paragraph. But the horror of it all, the tragedy of it
all, the inhumanity of it all, does not seem to make the slightest
impression upon anybody and least of all upon the professing
Christians of this year of our Lord nineteen hundred and twenty-
three, else a Christian world would rise in indignant protest
against what is happening.
Where is that boasted brotherhood of which we have heard
so much? What hats become of that keener conscience of hu-
manity of which the preachers in Christian pulpits are con-
stantly telling their congregations? Is it possible that in so
many countries of the Old World the butchery of Jews just be-
cause they are Jews can go on without arousing even a sem-
blance of hid' 'nation at the hands of Christian men and women
and that the ewspapers can be so callous to these things be-
cause of theivery familiarity that they pass over the murder
of thousands Jews with less concern and treat the event in
smaller space than they would give to the account of a drunken
brawl or the arrest of a dive-keeper in our own city?
Is it not time that the horror of this situation should dawn
upon the people of the churches? Is it not time that the con-
science of humanity should utter its protest? What has become
of the so-called Christian conscience? Or is that term after all
•but a vague phrase with which there is no reality to correspond? •
and robbing them of serious purpose and high idealism.
"Today You—Tomorrow I."
And yet we cannot feel that the responsibility for this
The communist Pravda surely could
change lies wholly with the young people of our day. We look
not have dreamt that ito . s prediction
about us and we see that the attitude and the habits of their
"today you—tomorrow I. would be
elders also have undergone changes that are little short of revo- realized en the immediate morrow.
lutionary. The mother whose sole care was for her home and While its editorial was directed
her children and who regarded the business of homemaking not against the Jews as a religious group,
Polish anti-Semites made capital
only as the highest responsibility but as the greatest dignity the
of the part that Jews play in the Sov-
that could come to a woman, is after all comparatively rare. iet government, and by declaring the
The attractions of the bridge table, the lure of club life and a execution of 3lsgr. Eutehavitch to
hundred influences that tend to take the woman out of her have been carried out by "the red Jew-
ish tyrants" have instituted a series
home are constantly at work.
of attacks on the Jews. It is always
Let it not be thought that we bemoan this fact. Personally. so with us, that we suffer front all ex-
we believe that the woman whose circle of interest is widened tremes. The Soviet will hound us for
and who is brought into contact ever more intimately with the our religion, and in Poland the anti-
Semite will maltreat the Jew because
social, the political, the intellectual and the moral problems
his fellow ecereligionist in Moscow is
that are stirring in the world is the better prepared to meet a commissar.
the sacred duties that are hers as wife and mother than is her
'ose•
--
sister who holds herself aloof from every interest that is not
The Yemenite Jews.
intimately connected with her immediate problem. So we will
The report coming from Jerusalem
not be construed as narrow, we trust, when we assert that much that the Yemenite Jews are given the
alternative of either death or conver-
of the responsibility for the attitude of the younger members sion by the Moslems of Yemen should
of modern society rests squarely upon the shoulders of their not I confused with the anti-7ion ist
elders. How many young men who spend their time and their Arab procession hat took place in
money at the gaming table have had before them the ,example Jerusalem the same day. That an an-
cry is heard on Easter day
of their fathers? How many young women who are attparently ti-Zionist
in Palestine from a handful of agita-
utterly devoid of serious purpose have mothers who are sacrific- tors is to be expected. The instiga-
ing themselves for the sake of an ideal? Indeed, as we took tors of anti-Jewish feeling in Pales-
occasion to say to a group 'of mothers recently, there are some tine are unfortunately receiving silent
from Christnin circles
parents today who do not even follow the doings of the young encouragement
In Yemen, on the' other hand, the an:
boys and girls of the family with that same intelligent interest tb ewish persecutions are not out- J
that a parenthood which is something more than a physical breaks but have previously been the
cause of the settling of Yemenite Jews
fact ought to demand.
in Palestine during the early years of
Parents there are who do not know what books their chil- the Zionist movement. The Venus
dren read; what companionships they keep; what play s they atrocities are excesses that would lie
attend, or even what their grade in school is. Under such called pogroms had they taken place in
circumstances, what can one expect of the younger generation? 'Poland or Roumania er Russia, The
antnLewish feeling 9
has
Yemenite
long
been felt
The attempt at changing conditions for the better must begin in 1 clown and the hope
with the parents and the home. We do not believe that con- J leaders is to be able to settle e
ditions are as they should be with the rising generation. But the pe.opie in Palestine. Yemen is
we do not like to lay the full' responsibility for this condition merely another angle of the Jewish
problem. The difference loetween
upon that generation.
Yemen and Roumania is that the for-
The B'nai B'rith News and the Ku Klux Klan.
it ,
Mr. Adolph Kraus, president of the Independent Order of
B'nai B'rith, recently had a two-hour conference in Chicago
with I)r. II. W. Evans, Imperial Wizard of the Knights of the
Ku Klux Klan, concerning the Klan and the B'nai B'rith. In
this interview, Dr. Evans stated that the Klan was not antago-
nistic to the Jewish people. in reply to Mr. Kraus' contention
that certain anti-Semitic speeches had been delivered by officials
of the Klan and that editorials antagonistic to the Jew had
appeared in certain Klan newspapers, Dr. Evans stated that Teutonic Names Substituted for
Jewish Ones in the
such statements were not authorized and that he had sent for
Scriptures.
publication to the "New Orleans Item" an official statement on
that question.
BERLIN. —(J. T. A.)—The Old
A carbon copy of this article was thereupon sent under his ' Testament has been revarnished a bit,
own signature to Mr. Kraus and the article is reproduced in the Jewish names exchanged for 100
full in the latest edition of the B'nai B'rith News. We have per cent Teutonic ones and the Jew-
rtad the ariicle, every line of which belies I)r. Evans' assertion ish cripturus can now be read by even
a Bavarian anti-Semite without dan-
that the Klan is not anti-Semitic in its attitude. It is full of ger of Jewish infection, All of this
historical inaccuracies and of statements about the Jew that Imo been accomplished by the German
facts familiar even to the tyro disprove. It is such an article national author, Heinrich Lhotzky,
as one might have looked for in the Dearborn Independent at who has just published a book in which
the Ohl Testament is rewritten in Old
its worst.
Germanic terms. The books of the
No doubt the gentlemen who are responsible for the publi- Bible are renamed according to Old
cation of the B'nai B'rith News had some wise purpose beyond German mythology "Wihinei," "Urd,"
the ken of us common mortals in publishing this article and "Werdandi," "Skull."
Acanrding to l•hotzky, Urd is Ab-
giving it the place of utmost prominence in their paper. No raham. Under Yerdandi, the history
doubt also there was wisdom in the indefensibly weak editorial of Rebecca and the combat between
comment that accompanies the article. But there are many Esau Una Jlieell is told. Under Skull,
men and ninny organizations whose ways are beyond our com- the story of Joseph is related. In a
similar way, the whole of the Old
prehension. \Ve confess that we have always regarded the Testament has been retold.
B'rith News as one of the best of our Jewish publications.
Max Maurenbreeher, chief editor
Can it be possible that the editor was away when this article of the German national organ "Deut-
sche
Zeitung" welcomes the Lark as an
was printed in its columns? Surely some explanation must be
A
forthcoming. It is due not only to the thousands of members
of the B'nai B'rith but to the Jews of this country and the world.
BIBLE REWRITTEN
TOSUIT GERMANS
attempt to de-Judaize and its place
Germanize the Old Testament.
"Many German Nationals" he
reig, anrsdeit,ht e dbigutitlicy,a fl oon l
r
much as we must reject the Holy
Scriptures in so for as they are the
Scriptuies of the Jewish people. The
difficulty is solved when we realize
that the Old Testament is greater
of a vast mower which was not relaly
than Judaism, that it is the revelation
understood by the Jews and which
udaism has brought to degeneration.
Many clergymen after reading this
book will again have the courage to
preach from the Old Testament texts.
All National teachers to whom the
Biblical stories have hitherto been a
difficulty will find in this book how to
tell the Old Testament stories to Ger.
mans and make the live."
NOVEL ON RELATIVITY
BERLIN.—(J, T. AL—The cowl-
ist, Richard A. Edon has just publish-
ed a new novel entitled "The Einstein
Sonata" in which the Relativity The
ory forms the main theme.
The author takes as his starting
point the non-existence of Time in the
affairs of humanity, and his hero, an
American named Mr. Run, is at the
same time the Jewish pseudo, Messiah,
Sahliati Zeri.
mer look to Palestine for the solution
of their ills, while the latter have not
yet entirely realized that the rebuild-
ing of the homeland will also solve
their problem.
The Sanballats.
From time to time, individuals
without faith in the Jewish people and
in the possibility of their second com-
ing as a nation will express fears of
a "massacre" in Palestine. Arthur
Brisbane does not believe there will
be a "massacre , although he says:
"there may be a fight." This populai
editor writes that "the sixty thou-
sand Jews in Palestine are armed
with modern weapons. Anybody seek-
ing to 'massacre' them will meet with
11 surprise." Mr. Brisbane has read the
Bible, and he knows that history re-
peats itself. Ile knows that Iluring,
the first return of the Jews to Pales-
tine, under Nehemiah, there were the
Sanballats who aimed at frustrating
the plans for the rebuilding of Jeru-
salem. And Nehemiah (IV, 9.12)
says that:
/
"it came to pass, that when our ene-
mies heard it was known unto us,
God frustrated their counsel: and
we returned, all of us, to the wall,
every one unto his work. And it
(Turn to last page.)
L
•
Q.:timer
a
ausinsmiimiaseassianuctomuninues
,
FUNNY, ISN'T IT?
or the "foot-piercers"—from tL, l
gans which they adopted.
And o r many months the budding
of the mikvah was suSpenolea, while
Don't you think this world is funny, the quarrel went on, and opine,- y e a,
eltIllate411 and propaganda
With its silly human race?
N))),S))))»1)),
7111)1 slander Witt: enlisted in t) )I
People, for a little money ,
1.) ,
1111,1 it came to the point whole HI ood
Risking ruin and disgrace.
might begin to Mow,
Nearly everybody feeling
So a couple of wise Jews de, idea to
That his treatment is unfair;
('heating, gouging, grafting, stealing, ciall in an arbiter, and a faio. es Ilir
was sent for from a big town. A ,
Needles trouble everywhere.
d the
question was submitted to his
Envy driving people crazy ,
And the Ray delivered the
Gambling bringing fools to grief;
decision—•to the satisfie Loh af
so careless or so lazy
Loth parties: that the plark Load(
That their children need relief;
lie planed and snitoothened on .1..
Mothers from their babies turning
and left rough on the other
To enjoy forbidden things;
side, .)nol
the planks should he laid mwei the
Few with patience to be earning
mikvah with the rough side (taco, and
The reward contentment brings.
the
smooth
Stile Up.
Menand women telling others
There ,as great rejoining.1i
What they should or shouldn't
the
village: the two parties k\ tat. 1))))»11-
think,
Sons who cause their gray-haired eiled on the sled, and work ea- ions
ceeded with immediatel•_
.1t
mothers
for
all we know these baths are
In the depths of grief to sink;
I loc.
ing used to the satisfaction of
Laws and rules and regulations,
Wrangling, jangling, curses, tears; cerned.—The Day,
By George Lester.
Men in high 21111 humble stations
IF THEY DO NOT CAR
Haunted by unholy fears.
(The 1)ay.1
Ignorance and superstition,
Robbing, riots and regret;
about the Jewish I...r
girls who do not cares.' It has •' — ut
Many ills that no physician
those who say that they mud
Cures or can subdue as yet;
oli
very well without Jewish chi ,
Jealousy, suspicion, lying,
L.
out Jewish activities, witinao
Slander, sorrow and despair,
•ost
in Zionism, in the
Hatred, hunger, sobbing, sighing,
mg,
.• e?
What about those who
Gallows and electric chair.
done
perfectly' comfoi table
Evil
dark apprehensions,
that they' are happy, ante.
Foolish haste and sad mistakes;
tent without thinking about I!
Sordid motives, false pretensions,
isle origin? 11'hat can cci• '
Needless pains and cruel aches;
111
them? Have we a right b,
Honor kicked aside for money,
rlo
their content? Are they to
love lust for a little chink;
Don't you think the world is funny — of becbming good, useful io■
society. without stir inter Ides
That is, if you ever think?
This is the burden ef le eo
letter that reaches us.. It w...•
TWEEDLEDUM AND
very well, say some of the, ..
TWEEDLEDEE
if Jews were interested
Dean Sc, ift, the Irish satirst, ins things; the problem then
vented the words "Tweedledum and he that of finding a way of --.••
Tweedledee" in a certain couplet which their wants.
But it is cc., t'.
goes:
creating Jewish consei...aa
I dent see why this fuss should be t ones not seem to exist? I Ir e „ • - .1
Twist Tweedledum and Tweedledee. to a specific question that till
Thereby Swift meant to indicate times ask, is it worth trying to make
the tee. British political parties, who Jews want Palestine if they ale lie
make a tremendous fuss about differ- litTerent to it'l
ences which in his opinion were sb-
All of us, Jews or (Tenths, :ore ■•■ .in-
smalls' trilling.
postal, in our mental and spirit
And he took another dig at the dif- tivity, of two parts. There is ..to ,.
ferenc•s over whet, the nations have scions mind, and there is our oo°..n-
waged war, in his Gulliv•r's Travels. scious mind. And those a h. 1,,o) e
Ile described how two nations, Lillipat studied the processes of our Mind sill
and Nepali, went to war over the tell you that the unconscious mind is
question of breaking an egg. One of the more powerful of the two. It is a
'the nations broke the breakfast i•gg larger, more sustained, and
at the big end; the other at the little the sources of human energy.
end. And the passion which arose be-
The healthiest and most user.° in-
tween"
"Big-endians" and the "Lit- dividual is he who manaegs to leak,
tle-en
led to a long a bloody his un•onseious mind co-operate wail
war
"
his conscious mind. The wei,ke-t i•
The Jewish peel• is happily blest Ile in whom there is conflict. His coio-
with its own replica of these differ- seious mind sincerely desires oo e thing
ences, and the Jewish faction,: which and his unconscious mind desires the
all claim to serve the interests of the opposite—. His intelligence ilia,'” him
Jews as a whole, fight with one !M- to one goal: his Irlstlnrt drive• Lim to
other for generations—to the delight another.
If the conflict bet wet., the
of anti-Semites.
tWO is very strong, he devoilops what
And there is also a Jewish replica the modern psychologists cull :d •etn-
of the Mary of the Ilig-•ndians and 'lex. HO tietUltily becomes n O. I. 11
the Little-emlians, and perhaps this with a sick ni•ntality.
All of as have these "coomple , cs"
story is even wittier than Dean
,Swift's
because none of us have nuudagel toy
.
little village, they say, the Jew- reconcile instinct with intellig, .e.
ish community once decided that its But the problem is to reduce the
numbers and its dignity merited the gle to a minimum.
11'e Jews have inherited from a cc.).
erection of a Jewish public baths. And
in the baths there was to be, of course, long past 0 list let and powerful um
a Mikvah, a bathing rued which was CollSrifillS mind. The brain of the low
„large enough for the total immersion like the brain of every other typo• of
of an adult.
national, is peculiar. It has it, ones
On the building of the !oaths the en- fi,nuntiuns and its OWII ner d s. Aii ■ t
Ir.:
tire commonly was unanimous, and these needs have found neon ,
i.i-
all went merry as a marriage bell un- satisfaction in the mist in
til it came to the building of the mik- ture.
ao
A Jew can of course go
nab. And it was not the mikvah it-
self, this ritual center of the baths, Jewish culture which is pecniiio iy•
ish
which occasioned the quarrel, but the adapted, by long practice, to
border which was to run around the mats's, and he can give himself op en-
I.
tirely to other culture's. Ile can
" Here the community ran up against
achieve brilliance. But, taken by
a terrific problem. One party of Jews large, he will nut find there H. -alb'
dal
urged that the planks that ran around scope, the same satisfaction, U
the tip of the mikvah should be plan- usefulness, as in Jewish cuil,t••
I! o-
Of course there are except i• •
ed and smoothened--otherwise bath-
ers would get splinters in their feet. man beings are not machines. I '
An opposing party arose which insist- rule holds good. The Jew "
ed that the planks should be left rough peculiar mind, with its ;recut,.
•
otherwise bathers wouhLoslip on them This inherited mind of hi,
:),1
the unconscious mind.
and might break their heads.
-
And the two parties crystalized out with his conscious mind, the
and waged a bitter min One party himself aims •ith+ do not al , .•
was called the "Brach-die-kept-nikes," isfy the unconscious mind, la
or headbreakers and the other party himself and impairs his own •
was called the "Brash-die-kep-nikes," ness.
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An Unfortunate Illustration.
In what must have seemed to his auditors—both those wh o
were present in person and those who heard him over the radio
—as a most convincing argument, Dr. Joseph Vance, one of
the leading Presbyterian divines of this city, set out recently
to prove the validity of the claims of Jesus of Nazareth as the
one source of salvation. Eloquent and scholarly as Dr. Vance
unquestionably is, he brought forward every evidence that from
his viewpoint would logically and legitimately establish his
thesis.
But at one point he seems to have fallen down through what
is no doubt failure on his part to know a bit of history. To
illustrate his thought that a man sees a new vision and that a
spiritual regeneration takes place within the individual when
he recognizes Christ as his saviour, he said: "A very dear
friend of mine, a converted rabbi formerly of Mobile, Alabama,
told me when I asked him why he had forsaken Judaism for
Christianity that there were no outward influences brought
upon him but that he had seen a great vision of the salvation
of Jesus and from that moment he was a new man."
We do not doubt that Dr. Vance met the converted rabbi
referred to or that the latter told him his experience as related
above. _But we, too, happen to know the former rabbi of Mo-
bile and we have known him no doubt even longer than Dr.
Vance. We happen to know that instead of the great regene-
rating vision that came to him and through which he saw the
light, there were many outward circumstances, untoward so
far as the gentleman in question was concerned, but which were
of no uncertain character. More than this, we know what ap-
parently is unfamiliar to Dr. Vance, viz:—that some ten years
ago, or thereabouts, this same converted rabbi, having appar-
ently played his last card among the Christians who had sup-
ported him for a long term of years, returned to Judaism and
that upon so doing he wrote a book which he calls "A M ission-
ary's Return to Judaism." In this book he tells not only of his
own supposed conversion—which was a fake from the begin-
ning—but he also tells of the fakery and the imposture of
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