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. coming of the revolution, this Was A NEW APPROACH TO THE PROBLEMS
.:
By.irloorrdett.A:vallan
• made practically impossible as the
0F
4.w ..V.D.AISilit so,
government is itself engaged in pro:
men.
of
Judaism.
-
during and marketing the necessities SURVIVAL OR EXTINCTION; SOCIAL AS..
PECTS OF THE JEWISH QUESTION.;
of life. The Russian government real. !
By Chas. H. Jos11.)
liCopywright, 1921.
By Elisha M. Friedman. Thom.. Seltzer.'
•
ow youngsters izes the great suffering brought about i LIBIRALlf,ZNG LIBERAL JUDAISM. By
The way
through this phase of the govern-
is
certainly
a
jazz
age
we
are
living
in
l'his
•terman w• Ise. The mmillan
James
p
are cutting didoes these days is a caution. Why, the other day, I noticed meat's activity and is anxious to het
ComPanY•
ry at
eiss, aged 10$ ears, was invited to a hathin g party
where
Chaim
Rockaway
Beach, and it is said that Chaim and his rumored affinity, Blum adjust
the present
unbalanced
econom-
At last the Jew has paid himself I
ic condition
of the
Jew.
"It was for this purpose " sabi M
high compliment of criticism. By
Goldberg, a mere slip of a girl, only Set years of age, were some pebltks
that:the
'Com;et' was or- the
on his own problems the luta-
"that
on the beach. A few shy young girls, merely in the early eighties, tried ;
it "ening
it was his ho phat
e t
to vamp Chaim, but the beach patrol soon put an end to that sort of pastime. ' gani
zed,
and
would be able to give extensive help in . lytical faculties which he exerts on ,
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all other questions he has testified to
e
Berman Bernstein obtained an attachment against Ford money in Na settling many thousands of families ' a faith in his power of self-improve-
pride in the task of
York to the extent of $55,000, in connection with a $200,000 libel suit on the land. This, in his judgment,
Hitherto it has
lent an d i d a
brought against Ford because of articles in the Dearborn Independent in was the only solution of the problem. self-determination.
informant. Ford tried "Ile informed me," says Mr. Brown . ' been the habit of the Jewish people
which Bernstein was alleged to appear as Ford's
a p-
hbiere,tt "that the government had already
,
i1
y
to plead with God and to appeal to '
to get this money released, but Judge Knox said that the limit ha
propriated 500,000 rubles (over $250,- the Gentiles for alleviation of the
reached in motions touching upon the technicalities of the law an I
1
000) and that
they for
were
asking
after merits of the suit must engage the attention of the court.
rubles
next now
year.
The I wretched conditions which they were
I obliged to endure; it has been their ,
for 500 ;0110
But the interesting point is that Ford, in the affidavit submitted, whined amount the Comzet will eventually re-
that he did not write the article in question, that he had no paricipation ; ceive will be much less than that asked'
in the
writing
of had
it, did
nut to see
it, its
did
not approve
it,
or so know
that
it belief
they
could
ease
their lot
was
to be
printed and
nothing
do with
printing,
publication of
and
for,
that this
organization
will that
be! by
sounding
pitiful
lamentations
to

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make settlers."
only very Mr.
modest
loans'
the Almighty and by serving a hu-
the to Jewish
Brown's
I But
now the Jews are realizing that
bognized
"crawls." It imazing that this mn can
a
stand efore
the he
country,
con-
sponsors
and interview
then proceeds
as follows:
I inquired
of him, 'Will
participa- their salvation rests neither on the
fessing that ins aa publication which is generally rec
"
which he has promoted, he does not know what appears. What manner of lion of American or world Jewry in ,
a man is this who thus shields himself behind technicalities while maligning bounty I of
God
nor
the mercy
of
that
none
but on
themselves
can and
a people in the most vicious and scurrilous campaign of its kind ever Mango- helping the Jews of Russia to unfav-
settle the Gentile; they are learning at last •
on the land, react favorably or
I will solve the Jewish question and
rated? I have nothing but contempt for such a character, even though he , i orably upon the government's present, relieve the misery of Israel.
The publication of these volumes
' policy?'
claim to be the richest man in the world.
-- • ■ •••-•
"Ile replied that the government I
would look with favor 011 any agency , testifies to this new attitude and
The Jew is a capitalist. The Jew is a socialist. The Jew is a radical,
ttlement , evinces the different course. The
The Jew is a conservative. The Jew is stingy. The Jew is extravagant and
books form a three-fold inquiry into
I that would speed up land se
e j ew i s a
lshevi
fur the Jews; that the present limited
w Jew is a Bohe
raises Prices wherever he goes. The
Jewst.is th
Th e worker in •
the development
and direction
•
the
sweatshop.
The Jew
Jew is
overlord
the
industry. The Jew I resources of the government made it Jewish
the period
of Exile
profiteer.
The
is the
rich.
The of
Je
i. needle
T
into life during
impossible to do all that they would ' --
wish to do and help learn outside strength
of the Jewish
outlook,
into the
and survival of Jewish
mt•'
is an idealist. The Jew is a materialist. The Jew is a revolutionist. The
Jew is the friend of kings and queens and strives to maintain the status
, [tonal traits, and into the value and
quo. Of one Jew the world has made a god and of all other Jews devils.' sources
make
it possible
a much
larger would
program
with
the resultant
re. • !variation of Jewish religion. And they
ever is, j
lief to thousands of dews.
The Jew is everything that the mind of man can conceive. Whatever
"I asked, 'What will the government , all urge the readjustment of Jewish
life into more normal and, therefore,
is the Jew's. Whichever way the will blows, the Jew blows it. So what I
als '
logical and more honorable •
"
'
re natural than that a Jew, Bernard Baruch, should give a quarter of a do with reference to schools, hospit
mo
profit out of war? and
other social requirements ?'
to "take pro
an
rs
to
be
used
in
finding
a
Way
channe
million dolla
He
stated
that
this
phase
of
col.'
more
ls,
The
first, Rabbi Kaplan's volume
Mr. Ford, who does not know what goes into his newspaper, may find in
has had serious thought at '
this undertaking of Mr. Baruch's another Jewish menace, but this time onization
: meats
"
are usually paid for through
' of essays, is the most eloquent as it
ele-
is
the
most
profound approach to I
their hands. All of these social
not to the world, but to Mr. Ford's war profits.
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i
a
over
thought
much
of the at
practical
value
of Bob's Peace
Plan
Award.
Kaplan
conceives
Judaism not as
It's I like
trying
to pull
unreel(
by one's
bootstraps.
I have
always
taxation, but in view of the fact that these
problems
of readjustment.
Mr.
there
are
no governmental
funds , religious philosophy but as a religious
contended that the world has had for several thousand years a plan already • ent
these
new
colonies
are
exempt
from
taxation for three years, and at pre.,
shalt not
f
at hand to stop war--namely, the Ten Commandnients. I
steal; thou shall nut commit murder; thou shalt not covet If the churches civilization. "It is a cultural and
would get behind these commandments and "sell" them to the world, war availahle for this purpose, for the spiritual
, complex of language, Merit•
tutions
organized
a convey.:
would be unthinkable. The trouble is that the church has been so busy present there will be some hardships ture
history,
customs about
and social
in-
further
stated
was
no }ton
of God which has the most far- I
trying to sell a job-lot of worn-out dogmas and creeds that it has completely ' that "Ile
these
pioneers
will that
have it to
under-
sti
reaching
social
and
spiritual
implicit-
go.
out many of life's essentials and in buns for bunion life of all times, . . •
failed in its opportunity.
aism is the spirit of a nation and
When one takes time to study the organ grinder and his monkey, one is new experience for the Jew to do with- Ju d

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this emergency he believed they would not the cult of a denomination." And
inclined to ask if William Jennings Bryan doesn't take too much for granted.
An article appeared in a ---9-•••■••--
few Jewish weeklies entitled "Are Jewish adjust themselves as they had in the hence his measure of the Jewishness,
which the idi-
xten t to of
Children Less Grateful to Their Parents Than Others?" It is one of those past. He did not doubt that the got- religious the
or e national,
any individ- I

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articles that deals in sweeping generalities and the author of the articles ernment would do something as it was ual is
does some tall sweeping. An indignant reader files a complaint with me to the government's interests to keep victual identifies himself with the or-
asking if the Jewish press cannot find something better to print than such the people well and provide education. ganism of the Jewish people. In this'
problem enters on the establishment'
unbalanced inaccuracies, reflecting in a most insulting way upon the great Just how much o WOUld
be done, e or theory the solution of the Jewish '
n pos ition t o sta t
number of young men and women who are most considerate of their parents. tvhen, he was in
I quite agree. Mr. Zalowitz, the author of the article, makes the point that at this time. of Palestine as a Jewish state. For a
in the Home for the Aged in almost every large city will be found parents , " To you believe the Jews will go Jewish nation will serve to unify the
of we and in some cases wealthy Jews. That doesn't make nut a i on the land?' I asked. 'That they will distinctive force which underlie every
case. I would want more information on the subject. It is true that many make a success of it? And will they vital Jewish contribution to civilize-'
rices to send , stay if the economic policy of the vat'- tot and will revitalize within every
s yore ungrateful ernment is broadened so that private Jew, no matter where he has his be-
ewish boys and girls are ungrateful to parents who made
e.
Thy
are
not
ungrateful
Jews,
his
people. powers and sari-,
boys
and girls.
You'll find e 'ern everywhere, brother. Also speaking "gen- business is made possible and profit., lutesof
ing, the
peculiar
tm
through
coleg
Jhe
l
Mr. Friedman is in complete accord
'
erally," I am inclined to the belief that Jewish children do honor their able? Been on Land 100 Y ears.
"Ile replied that the Jews in limited' I aideration of the numerous social as-
fathers and mothers. At any rate, the Jewish newspaper can find some- ,
numbers had been on the land in Ras- pacts
with these
views.
His
work force
is a con-
of Jewish
life
which
the
thing much more worth while with which to fill its columns than such articles
sin for over 100 years. ire called my
as Mr.
Zalowitz's.
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What's in a name? Well, Abraham Lieberman, a Brooklyn lawyer, attention to the fact that even in Czar- Jew, on pain of extinction, to accept
thinks there's a whole lot. Ile changed his name to Ben Harris the other ' ist days special dispensation was made ' these concepts; and his proofs are
for numbers of .lews who established many and various. Mr. Friedman I
I
day,
because name
"The and
name
Harris
is more to
Americanly
nomenculturist
than a' colonies which have been in existence , shows the futility of the promiscu-
my present
it Ben
is more
appealing
the public
at large and has
much higher social and business value." You remember that old story, Mr.; ever since; that since the revolution I ors and perverted solutions which the
we were boys, of the aged colored I many thousands of families have es- desperate
sought for
and
their
disorganized
troubles; Jews
he studies
have
th- . the social forces to which the Jewish
-
Lieberman,
that wishing,
used to and
be told
i wi le is subject and finds that they
ithout
man who was
he when
decided while he was wishing he might as , tablished themselves on the
land •
well wish for millions as for hundreds. I am disappointed in you, Mr. ' out any help of any kind, and w
relentlessly lead to extinction. Ile,
Lieberman; pardon me, Mr. Harris. Since you decided to make a change : being urged by relief organizations or Peop

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for
the
better,
why not invoke
the to aid
of your
Wouldn't
it , the
g•overnment.
have
been
a satisfaction
to you
have
your imagination?
cards engraved
with such
' "Mr.
Smidovitch continued 'These I too, points to Palestine as the only

a name as Mr. Otto Kahn, or Mr. Calvin

Cooli deis, or Mr. Nathan Straus'? I own free will, because it offered op- I people. Incidentally he indicates that
, portunities of providing a living for I the
only
justation of of a the
distinct
contributions
Jews Jewish
during

their families. That they had remain- exile
have been incomparably inferior
I
I am afraid, Mr. Harris, that you are not such a good picker.
___—.......-s--- splay an intolerant attitude I ed on the land is an answer to the to their earlier achievements, since
.
.
he fact that I
ersion "they have lust the
'hl
}t
,
t
to
u
question I p
The Zionists must be careful no
power to contribute as a people to
toward every enterprise that threatens to take away a little interest or a I
little income from their pet project. S. Niger of the Yiddish Day takes thuosands of families who have made the harmony of world culture."
excep tion and I hink quitepropely to the attitude of many Zionists toward , application for settlement on the land
The authors are agreed that the
Russia and towards the forthcoming cam- and who have before them the history
J ew
fah
d experience of their friends and
the colonizationt plans of Jews in s
relatives who have gone into agricul• most has
enervating
been the influence
Reform Movement, i
paign of the Joint Distribution Committee. The Zionists seem to recte
believe
life
to
.
he diills
which
cast if the ancient garb of
rises
p
lure,
is
a
further
answer
to
the
ques-
i
wh
ffort put into the enter
ofdthe
the
orthodox religion and thereby de-
re all shldewish
that all the money and Zionists do not hope to c uJ
J ews lion
Surely the Zi
"Now with reference to that part
stroyed the distinguishing and cohe-
Pale stine.
world
by developing, Pa e... . Aft r all there will always be more
u
question that asks, "Will the Jew sive characteristics of the Jewish
your
outside of Palestine than inside. And our Zionist brethren should
ppo
-
mode of life. It raised to the dignity
mind that there are other matters with which Jews have to concern them- I I remain OT1 the land if further o p
I (unity for engaging in business is ee-
selves besides rebuilding Palestine. Selfishness isn't a very nice trait.
1 tic Monthly milted by the government;"' this has assimilation to the Gentile world and ,
foundations
of
Professor Morgan Barnes, whose article in reference
the y to of
the a
supposed
religious
change doctrine
in thus undermined
the the
process
of
its own existence. Mr. Wise con-'
on college board examinations has attracted nation-wide attention, drops the new economic policy. There is nor
has there been any fun damental terns himself primarily with this
change in this policy, nor will there
me a line to say that:
questions of Jewish life incidentally.
Some day we shall become more sane in the matter of our college
be.
, "The government policy on business As
movement
and considers
the
other
an ordained
minister in
the
Re-
education admission processes, as well as, let us venture to hope, In
I formed Synagogue and a disciple of
I
and
trading
is
divided
into
three
cafe-
many other inveterate institutions in our American life that have
its reatest figures in England
and'
gories:
First,
the
government
intends
.
.
'
become case-hardened by tradition and prejudice. The day, how-
.
I am
g
I to remain the large factor in business America, he is able to investigate in-
ever, seems sometimes very far in the future. It will come,
organized
I and is or
• i zed to hold this position., ' timately and sympathetically but
f none the less truly its achievements
sure.
----.....--e--
is an optimist, for it surely is dis- I Second, the 7-operatives, lwyause they
and failings. He credits it with "the
Barnes
couraging
I am glad
to see
that
how
Professor
difficult it is to make headway against the unreasoning I and
are with
compose
of elements tnat
are the
o !enfranchisement of the spirit from
the government.
Third,
I
o f w hi c h the
and unprejudiced unAmerican "100 per cent" Americanism that is simply
,,
another name for intolerance and the denial
thinking
of personal
through
liberty.
church-inspired
We are 1 small
iJew has
trader
been
or
a merchant,
large form
part, of
will
always, binic
those
and
traditions
of had
the
present
govern•
or customs
Orthodox
Judaism
which
t?s,haN ..e. meaning and purpose,
under the
in
our
rapidly becoming standardized
ment, lead a very uncertain business itor
for ne, l i k e his teachers, is under the
I influence of nineteenth-century fiber-
____-.......-e--
legislation.
policy
new economic
" ' alism, which ignored the aesthetic
the
ne
I note where Gregory Zinovieff, one of the Jews who is holding the reins
existence.
"'
Under
f
ur.
i ; value of ancient ritual and saw in it
ere was
a g
'
. . , t t here
I.■ . 22 , 1923
overnment, is out with an announcement that he is enc.? ,
xt- I only the bonds of dogma. But he
ling, but
g agency of the Third Internationale to start a Communistic I I o 1921,
of
the through
Soviet the
aged
in Asia. Ile takes credit to himself for the expansion
of
private
trai
inscribes on the debit side the
I anion and competition drove them out i I justly
equally dogmatic, false and noxious
drive
Great
Britain he has in mind starting something in India.
revolt against
in China.
I suppose
ctrine
of a Jewish mission which
Samuel Spewak makes the interesting observation that there is no conflict I of business. Now with modifications
between such concessions to capitalism as Russia has already made (which with reference to taxation, hope has was substituted by the leaders of
are not so great as they have been advertised) and the Red conspiracy
in , sprung
anew
and there
has can
been
some
moveff
I renewed
activity,
but you
rest
as- do Liberal Judaism" to distinguish the
cw•sZhinovie
b resulting creed from the other forms
- i cured that private trading will
. e
t . not
Asia. But the point I would like to emphasize is this, that beca Juse i
of Unitarianism. Mr. Wise, in com-
hn t irle ofor the Jew.
and some other leaders are Jews does not make CCommunisma
uncer
(mits,
I mon with Mr. Friedman and Mr. Kap-
esedo
t.
ment. The other evening, i n a company with nine others, I listened to a a sat' e , v e
lves attacks the fallacy of this "Mts.
t em Ian,
g
ews
once
.
eying
do
•
. reviewer,
.
. e
„
discussion of Bolshevism between eight Jews and one non-Jew—and the: the
And the
have uproot themselves1
willingly
mon of Israel.
into the , lion
only Bolshevist in the group was the non-Jew! But the world tags all Jew. 1 lin, will not a
I
from
a
certainty
to
plunge
trading
with
all
of
its
den-1
who
has
been
characterized
as a ,
with
I prime and blaspheming opponent of
with the label of Bolshevist.
' field ,o,f
this dogma, finds the indictment both
ger s.
A call will shortly go out to bun - sacred and satisfactory.
event was a soft ball game between
Though all of the authors have dis-
the Juniors and Seniors, in which the , dreds of men and women in every part ,
, of the United States who were the I cussed the Jewish problem with the
Juniors won, 31 to 2 4.
A. Rubenstein. Mr. and Mrs. Leon leaders in the Jewish war relief drives intimacy that presupposes a concern
during the years 1915 to 1921, includ- 1, with and a knowledge of the subject,
Cohen and Ben Cohen have returned ' mg the national officers of the Amer- only Rabbi Wise writes his criticism
from Saginaw, where they attended can Jewish Relief Committee, Central I from within. He addresses a limited
Relief Committee, and People's audience even in Jewish circles. The
the funeral of A. A Kanter, formerly , i J
Wan of Port Huron. Mr. Kanter was one Relief Committee, for a national con e
The body of Morris SlutskY
ferenee
which will he held early in the!
other works
be safely
I mended
to the may
Gentile
reader recom.
who is
found at Stag Island last Tuesday of the charter members of the Mount -
; Fall to consider the question of re-
morning, when he was accidently Sinai Society.
obilizing their relief forces in view in the first rational Jewish efforts to
drowned. Be was the guest of his
m
solve it since ilerzl's "Judenstaat."
at
Lee Iliger has returned from Be'-
uncle, Benjamin Slutsky. and lived
troit, where he has been for several , of the astounding news from Russia, __Johan J. Smertenko in the Nation.
and plans will be made for the pro-
523 Hancock avenue, Detroit.
posed
money-raising
campaign.
weeks because of illness.
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Yiddish Playhouse to Re-Open
The Jews of Port Huron are receiv-
PLAN RESEARCH WORK
ing the congratulations of their fel- HEBREW UNION COLLEGE
in September. . Offer Ben-
low townsmen on the completion of
BEIRUT.—(J. T. A.)—An archae•
APPOINTS INSTRUCTOR
efit Program.
WOO re-
their new synagogue, which
ofigical mission headed by M. Basmard
--
cently dedieatd by Rabbi Leo M.
t end
a
arive ere
ront
Frnce
he
f
h
The managers of the Yiddish Play-
Much credit for
CINCINNATI.
--
Dr.
Solomon
IL
willr
Franklin of Detroit.
The mission will engage house, Hastings and Alfred streets,.
st
f A
ffi cers an d
this work is due to the o
Finesinger has
been at
aPP
ebrew
the Hebrew in excavations and research work in announce that their iniital perform- I
Sinai Society
H
members of the Mount
in
whose un- 1 structor Coll ege, according to an an- the valley of Nahr Kadishal and in once of the theatrical season will be
and the ladies Auxiliary,
e this Union
staged in the early part of September.
by Dr. Julian Min . .: the vicinity of Antelias.
tiring efforts have made possibl
years of nouncement made
The managers, Abraham Littman and
25
rn,president
of the institution.
splendid edifice after
pr
ANNOUNCEMENT
r. Ruben- genste
Mischa Fishson, announce that the
r will begin his work in
planning and working. M
•
I
playhouse will be represented by an
stein is president of the congregation;r.
Aaron Rosenberg,
Has attorney, with
Leon Cohen, viceresident; L. Bergs- September, when the new term opens.
street and I A-1 Union company.
The new instructor in Hebrew is a
Weil, treas.
Organizations, societies, lodges, may
k officers
were lauded for graduate of John Hopkins University,' offices at 2705a
has moved
man, secretary,
and Louis
apply-1
their work
which of
institution
he Philosophy
received the
, 754
Penobscot
oa on behalf of the syna- from
degree
Doctor of
inithe
latter
office to Building,
larger quarters at obtain benefit performances by
tires.
1924. He has served as student in- 1702 First National Bank Building., to Mr. Fishson on Tuesdays and
Rogue.•
or Playhouse,
by calling1
An enjoyable day was spent at the structor in Semitics in his Alma Mater For the convenience of his clients
heFridays
at g"
the street,
Yiddish
2814
Heatin
outing of the Mount Sinai niors at and during the past year be taught in I 'street
still maintains
his appointments
office on Hastings,
for evening
only.; Cherry 2523.
Ju
Stag Island last Sunday_ The main New York City.

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English Grill ( reserved for men at the
noon hour.) A $2.00 Dinner de Luxe
and a Special Luncheon at $1.25 are
served daily, Sundays excepted, in the
Grill and Blue Room.

Venetian Room a la carte.
Cafeteria service in Coffee Shop

Club Breakfast, 85c and $1.00•
AfternoonTea served inChino is
and Palm Rooms.

on ground floor.

DETROIT

THE BOOK•CADILLAC HOTEL COMPANY,

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