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Indeed the attitude of the new
Jews have, it is true, come to Pales-
of the need of translating the lie-I land of its birth? Or will the Jews tine now that the gates have been Palestine on questions religious is in
brew Bible into the language of the, of l'alestine, like the Jews of Amer- opened. But they have come because close accord with that of the Jewish
The build-
s I unsung whom the Jtsws were( ica and of those other lands where they wish to die rather than to live youth of all lands to to
scattered. The class in "Compare- Judaism does not survive chiefly as
. Their (aces ers of Palestine recognize the inef-
in t e tins
a
reaction
to
oppression,
find
that
ficiency of the older type of Judaism
I tine Religion" is taking up the study
110 and their hearts are set not towards in meeting the spiritual problems that
of primitive beliefs and superstitions. the religion of their fathers is
longer adequate to meet their spirit- , the future but towards the past.
1 The class in "Pedagogy" is taking up
But to the great mass of young beset them. They do not, however,
therefore deny the value, even the
the problems of class-rule m anage- ual needs?
It is impossible as yet to say with .lees, upon whom will rest the chief necessity of conscious spiritual force
Sunday Morning Services:
ment. The class, in "Modern Jewish
• borilen of creating and directing. the
On Sunday morning, Nov. 21,, History', studying the career of certainty what form the spiritual ac- new Jewish renaissantse, the sanctions in the molding of the life of the land.
Rabbi Leon Frans will occupy the! the Spanish-Portuguese Jews in the tivity of the pioneers of the land will and traditions of orthodox Judaism All they insist upon is that these
take. But this much is already clear.
Jewish intolerance is just as undesirable as Christian intolerance. I am pulpit of Temple Beth El and speak American colonies.
spiritual forces shall not be merely a
The orthodox piety which for so are neither meaningful nor binding. passively accepted legacy from the
just as much opposed to Jewish Fundamentalism a- I am to Christian on the subject "The Sesquicentennial
many centuries characterized the , The ritual and the ceremonies which past, however precious, but shall
Fundamentalism. Jewish fanatics to me are just as loot as Christian fanat-
and the American Jew.
January 12:
Jewish lifts of those lands whence , were practiced by their parents they arise, even as prophetic Judaism
s. And you may take my word for it that we hove plenty in our midst.
i c
Something wonderful is to happen most of the settlers come will play have discarded. For they 110 not
Some of us do not approve of our neighbors' superstitions and legends and Saturday Morning Services:
once arose, out of the actual spiritual
at
Temple
Beth
El
on
Jan.
12.
Make
no part in the rebuilding of Palestine. share the beliefs on which these needs of the land and of its people.
myths and what not that are bound up with their creed and we usually
Rabbi Leon From will occupy tlx
no other appointments for that tilde. A few of the older type of orthodox j rasped.
applaud a Modernist Christian clergyman who has the courage to attack
N (A. • 20 , A more definite announcement will
pulpit
Saturday
morning,
the superstitions of his brethren. But on the other hand our own group
and speak on the text "I Have Seen be given later.
hug close to their hearts all their own pet superstitions and myths and
God in the Face of My Brother."
legends and what not
Memorial Gifts:
Friday Evening Services Begun:
There are several opportunities for
Here's a letter from Rabbi Elefant of Donors, Pa. Ile thinks it's wrong
The first of a series of Friday eve-
for a Jewish newspaper to publish recipes for housewives that suggest the nine services to be held under the memorial gifts by which dear, de-
who
,
use of meat and butter. That is he supports the position of a hly
auspices of the Men's Temple Club Partesl ones may be commemorated.
files a protest. 1 disagree with the rabbi. If a Reform Jewish journal is of Temple Beth El will be given Fri- You are invited to consult Dr. Leo
not permitted to print such a recipe or to do anything else that is opposed day evening, Nov. 26. The sermon M. Franklin on the subject.
to strict Orthodox recluse, then no Jewish journal should advertise; il should will be delivered by Dr. Samuel Gold-
' Gymnasium Class:
encourage going to Reform temples because, why encourage Jews to attend enson of Pittsburgh, Pa. The musical women's
.Jacob Mazer announces that a spe-
worship without their hats? That is if we are to be governed in our conduct setting of the service will be rendered
dal class has been organized for the
by Fundamentalist Jews.
by Mr. Galyani's symphonic choir.
women of the temple. One of the
best women's instructors in the city
I completely disagree with Rabbi Elefant in his statement that "the The Temple Arts Society:
The opening performance of the has been engaged for this class. It
dietary laws are one of the most important institutions for the preservation
Temple
Arts
Society
will
take
place
will
meet Friday mornings, 10 to 12
of Judaism and an essential guide against assimilation." That is on a par
Styles. New Patterns and
Orthodox Christians who believe that every Christian Tuesslay evening, Nov. 23. Two plays a. In. The women of the temple are
Big Boys' Wool Overcoats,
with the attitude Of
by
Richard
Harding
Davis
will
be
cordially
invited to enroll themselves.
of
Gallilee
will
be
consigned
to
Colors. Firm Finish Fab-
who denies that Jesus walked on the sea
with
plaid
backs.
hell. The fault with unbending orthodoxy of :my kind is that it is unbend- given, "The Littlest Girl" and "Miss
rics.
ing. It is not pliable, it is not flexible, it Is not adaptable. It fails to meas- Civilization." The thirst play will be Men's Gymnasium CI
Big Boys' Wool Overcoats,
ure the march of human progress. It still uses the Bible as an authority a satire on modern life, entitled "One The men's gymnasium classes are
Big Boys' Two-Long Pants
wool lined.
on geology. The result is that its followers worship forms, and ceremonies, Hundred Dollars." The society is held Monday and Thursday evenings
and languages—in a word, externals. We lint them in the Jewish church planning later in the season to cele- from S to 10.
Vest Suits.
Junior
Boys'
Wool
Over•
—
as well as the Christian church. These extremists who consider it a greater brute a "Zatorwill Night" at which
Big Boys' Long Pants-Knick-
coats, with plaid backs.
plays by Israel Zangwill will be pro-
sin to violate a rite than a right.
er Vest Suits.
duced.
Junior Boys' Admiral Wool
—
I forone would feel very sad if I thought that Judaism had to be pre-
Boys' Golf and Knicker Vest
Lined
Overcoats.
Young People's Temple Club:
t
adherence
to
the
dietary
laws.
It
is
another
misunder-
(Continued
front
last
page.)
hrnug 0
se
For its November affair the Young
standing of the real values in religion. I know Jews who eat Kosher w o
certain. After almost 2,000 years
Suits.
New Box Back Models—in
are very, very but Jews, and I know Jews who eat Kosher who are good People's Temple Club is plannint, a of Jewish exile, Palestine is once
Junior Boys' Long Pants-
Jews, and I know Jews who do not eat Kosher and who are very good Jews collegiate dance. The collegiate dance more to become what it has already
firm wearing materials.
and those who do not eat Kosher who are very had Jews. In other words, •s to be given on Saturday night, begun to be in part, the central point
Knicker Vest Suits.
Single and Double Breasted
Nov. 27. All the members of temple of Jewish interest, of Jewish effort,
. h • • h • no influence upon the moral life of the individual. It is
Pa mg
Frank & Seder—Third Floor—Cho to Ac aunts Invited.
worshipping a tradition, it is following a custom. If you believe the custom households who have attended the of Jewish inspiration. It is to be-
is a good one and you think it best for your health to follow the dietary highly enjoyable affairs already given come again, us one of the builders
if I by the Young People's Society will
ns eat that way. But please don't become indign
of the New Zion has put it, a central
laws, by a ll me a
and say that I am not as good a Jew as you are. Again I reserve that date.
national home for a roving spiritual
refuse to do so,
say that too many Jewish leaders are too busy with law and laws and rites
ideal.
and ceremonies that they give them too important a place in the sight of The Bethelite:
The question very naturally arises
141.1 to 14 1 7 epee,a WOODWARD AVE
Has you child subscribed to the at this point as to the type of re-
God. What we need these days is some good old-fashioned prophet who
school
paper,
the
Bethelite?
The
rab-
would tell the Jews once again that God is less interested in ceremonies
ligious faith which will predominate
bis request you to see to it that your among the Jews of the new Palestine.
walk humbly, love mercy and do justice.
than He is in having the Jew
child is a subscriber. The subscLip- Will Judaism, the chiefest glory of
lion price for eight issues is only ancient Israel, again flourish in the
I lunched the other day with a member of the Queen of Roumania's
50 cents.
entourage. His name I will nut mention. I pledged not to do so, though
he was generous enough to say that he did not care. We discussed the Jews Young Israel:
of Roumania. We talked of the Jewish question in Roumania. I asked
Is your child a subscriber to Young
him what he thought of sonic of the vigorous attacks that had been made on Israel? Young Israel is the national
the queen by the Yiddish press and others since Her Majesty has been in Jewish children's magazine published
this country. He smiled and shrugged his shoulders. He gave an answer by the Union of American Ilebrew
that I have heard quite a number of wise Americans give in similar circum- Congregations. It is full of stories,
stances: "You can catch more flies with molasses than with vinegar." And pictures and articles attractive to the
children. The rabbis recommend
I quite agreed with him.
that you subscribe for your children.
Ile started out by saying that he is not anti-Semitic. Ile has a Jewish The subscription for Young Israel is
secretary. lie called my attention to the fact that a government should not $1. By special arrangement, how-
be held responsible for the actions of a group or a mob, whether that gov- ever, our school office can give you
ernment be in Roumania or in the United States. Ile insisted that the a combined subscription to the Beth-
King and Queen of Roumania are in no wise unfriendly to the Jews and elite and Young Israel for $1. (lave
that when the queen in an interview on board the Lev'athan said that the your child bring $1 to his teacher
Jews were her people as much as any other Roumanians that she meant and the subscription will be made,
every word she said. He cited the fact that a Jew was an important Rou-
manian emissary at the Versailles Conference, his name being Rosenthal. High School Athletics:
The gymnasium committee has
Ile pointed out that a great many Jews occupy positions of prominence,
granted the use of the gymnasium to
that they have achieved outstanding commercial success in Roumania.
the boys of our high school on Satur-
As
day nights at Beth El. A basketball
He gave me specific instances of where the king had gone out of his league is being organized. Your
way to favor the Jews. He insisted that frequently reports sent to this
boys are invited to join.
country concerning anti-Semitic excesses against the Jews were maliciously
he slid
distorted and exaggerated. That there have been attacks on Jews he tines The Choral Club:
not deny. That there have been tlisturbances in the universities
If your child has a singing voice,
nut deny. But he emphatically disclaims the government's sanction or re- encourage hint to join the choral
sponsibility for these anti-Jewish outbreaks. He believes that the cultiva- group of the School of Religion. This
tion of the goodwill of nations is as important to a nation as the
cultivation
h,
e contends club is now preparing to produce
Roum ania.
of oodwill
of indviduals
b y an intlividual. And
i
of Handel's "Judas Maccabbeus" in cele-
g
prejudice her position among the nations
bration of the Chanukah festival.
is not deliberately seeking to
the world by indulging in acts against any group of her people that would The club meets Sunday morning af-
The Packord Sir Club Sedan 0 the ideal cornhinalion
ter class hours under the direction
invite condemnation.
ear for borne., racial and louring use. Many other
of Mrs. Benyas.
beauhful and distinguirhed body Nor are available.
In view of the severe attacks that were made upon Justice Brandeis at

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the time of his appointment by President Wilson, it is interesting to read
ate on th e occasion of his seventieth
at the New Republic has to say el of hint
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birthday anniversary, which was cebrd on ov.

Attention Parents:
The rabbis and the teachers of the
School of Religion appeal to you for
co-operation in regard to promptness.
It is worth while on this occasion to congratulate him upon the
If your child attends a high school
kind of service which in his present capacity he is rendering to the
clasi—seventh to twelfth grade—he
American people on the integrity, the legal ability and the practical y
should be in the assembly room no
ildantl
li
later than 9:30. If your child at-
wisdom which he has brought to his present work. Ile has bran the
tends a primary or intermediate
vindicated the good sense of Mr. Wilson in appointing him
class—kindergarten to sixth grade—
confidence of his admirers in fighting for his confirmation. His
he should be in the assembly room no
technical performance during the 10 years on the bench has earned
later than 10:30. If your child be-
the respect of his former adversaries.
longs to the confirmation or the pre-
confirmation class, he should be at
This statement of Sir Conan Doyle's I would characterize as traducing
the temple Tuesday afternoon at
the dead. How any man could ever say that Harry Houdini was a spiritual-
4:30.
ist is completely beyond comprehension. And Doyle in even quoting some'
any
other person to that effect does the memory of Houdini an injustice. en If oa a, r
Boy Scouts:
man was in a position to know what Houdini thought of psychic ph
The Boy Scout troops of the tem-
it was Doyle himself. When Houdini appeared in Pittsburgh last year he
on his posters a paragraph from Random ple will hold their meetings on Wed-
nesday night. The Wolf Cubs meet
had no hesitancy in Wing
Thoughts, which was quoted from a California paper. It was in effect that
on Wednesday afternoons.
Doyle and Oliver Lodge were no better equipped to catch fake spiritualists
than an ignoramus, that it took someone who knew the tricks to catch the
n
a
Scouts:
s
tricksters. Now if Houdini had ever had the lightest
inclination in the Girl
Girl Scout troops meet on Monday
ett such a qu o tation. The
of spiritualism, he would never have us ''s tricks and that they night and Wednesday afternoon.
lire
fact that Doyle says he cooking .t
seemed scarcely human is just about as sensible a foundation for thinking
School Registration:
that Houdini might have been a spirit medium as Doyle's own experiments
fhe ffice
of the School if Religion
the de ad. To
o
are for his belief that it is possible
messages from
.
the memory is now open for the registration o
.. to receive
h
stiv
jokts
upon
play
new pupils. The school is now in
even suggest that harry Houslint
h ery
ve fiber of his being.
of a man who hated spiritualism wit
session.There will be no registra-
rt lions made on Sunday. All new pu-
The statement has been made that United States Senator-elect Robe
r
Wagner of New York is a Jew. Ile is not. Ile is a Geman-American.
pits must register during the week.
on seems to bo The Sunday School office on the sec-
and floor of the temple building is
coming to this country at a very early age. The impressi
_ open from 9 until 5 every day except
that because he was an East Side bo y he .----
has to be a Jew.
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Seventy Per Cent

Advanced to Packard Ownership
P

ACKARD has just analyzed the
last two thousand Packard Six
sales. Factory officials wanted to
verify their conviction that the im-
proved Packards were actually doub-
ling the market for fine cars. The re-
sults of the investigation were sur-
prising even to those in closest touch
with the new trend in automobile
investment.
For it was disclosed that 1,400 out of
the last 2,000 buyers of the improved
Packard Six had never before owned
so fine a ear-- or even a car in the
Packard Six price class. Seventy
per cent had broken their previously
fixed habit of frequently buying
lower-priced cars.

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I for one shall await with interest the appearance of Dr. l'aul Nathan's Saturday.
book, "Das Problem de Oestjuden." No man in Europe is better acquainted'
e reg.
with Jewish problems than the president of the Hilfsverein der Deutschtoi I Cradle
Roil:
to have
As we
wifsh all
the a completwithin
in
e of the Je w ish Telegrve
children
aphic- istration o
w with a re presentativii in
.laden.
In an intervie
J
•s
in Russ i a that ha
•
the households of our members, we
Agency discussed phases of the ewes q
d
terested me for a long time. First of all, he belcives it woul be
a serious earnestly request that all members o
WO ula he trans-
mistake it' Inc mass of Jews or an overwhelming majority
Only our congregation whose house o a
b.
,listribute
d.
•
work mut
should,
into
agriculture
in
Russia.
t
those who have a special inclination and capacity for agricultural work have been blessed with children dur-
should, he argues, be diverted into this channel. It would be senseless to ing the past five years should please
mployed as workers send their names and the exact date
e
h
a third
o
eliminate
fro
prgram
those wo as
could
be category. merchants, of their birth to Rabbi From without
r
m the elief
a
districts,
and
mining
es,
or
factori
in the the
when
merchants can become a useful and necessary element in the delay.
The Sisterhood Lebkuchen Sale:
Russian economic fabric.
The sisterhood announce! , that the
delicious lebkuchens are now on sale.
suggestion. Ile says:
Dr. Nathan makes this significant
The proceeds of the sale go to the
Hebrew Union College Scholarship
colonies created by the American Jewish Joint Distribution
se
The
Fund. Women who desire lebkuchen
m to be wisely located and conducted, hob ting promise
e
iser sof
Committee
se
are asked to communicate with the
i•less,
a
certain
nuni
vertheless.
N e
of good development.
chairman of the committee, Mrs. Ju-
colonies are too near the western frontier and here is where the
lius Rothschild, 10 Moss avenue, Apt.
danger lies. Na one knows whether new European war in which
305; telephone, Arlington 5527.W.
Russia will be involved is far or near. Such wars are within the

limits of political possibility, and when they come the Jewish colonies
will again be subjected to the drs•itsiful fate of the Jewish settlements
which were destroyed or burned and forced to be evacuated. A wiser
rior of Rus sia,
n the o intenmen
policy would be to place these colonies iviet
t
more to the east. In this respect the So gvert mus be
prepared to agree to such a direction in the solution of the Jewish

problem.

The foregoing seems such good common sense that it is hoped that
11 lend an ear.
.
the leaders of the A. J.

time.

Now, the significant thing is that

These buyers needed only simple
arithmetic to prove that they could
actually save money by owning
Packard cars—if they merely would
use the desirable mileage of first-
class transportation built into these
fine cars.
If you propose to pay more than
$1,500 for a motor car you can afford
onQ'of the new and improved Pack-
ards beautiful, comfortable, distin-
guished, and with a performance
range now the constant delight of
every owner.

As an example of Packard Six prices,
the five-passenger sedan is $2,696 de-
livered at your door. You may spread
the payments over a year if you wish.
Our phone is Cadillac 7000 at our Jef-
ferson Ave. store and Empire 7123 at
cur Woodward Ave. store.

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The Library:
Among the books you may now
I borrow at the Temple Beth El li-
brary are: "Stranger Than Fiction,"
by Lewis Browne; "Dreamers of the
Ghetto." by Israel Zangwill, "Chil-
dren of the Ghetto," by Israel Zang- •
will; "The Vale of Cedars," by Grace
Aguilar; "Mental Marantz," by Da-
vid Freedman; "Kiddush Ilashem,"

Said Bishop Manning of the Catholic St. John the Divine. New York by Sholem Ash; "The Origin of the
m t,"
Form , of Govthernen
City, into which have been poured untold millions for its erection, on a Republican
e " Illus-
by Oscar Strauss and
trated
Bible,"
by
Abel
Penn.
recent Sunday morning:
be
We want to see this great cathedral finished because it
Beth El College:
l
. . mightiest and most inspiring witness for Christ in the whole il and.
the
The class in "Jewish literature
reading
than t he Bible" is by
ed
I regret very much indeed that I must disagree with the distinguish
nowthe new
ous ghe e litera re
bishop. The most inspiring witness for Christ or any other great re, tu inspired
teacher must be found not in magnfficent marble edifices but in human conditions created by, the dispersion
lived by his followers then of the Jewish people; the Book of
was
hearts. If everything that Jesus stood for the value of his teachings. It's Tobit, which tells of the effort to
to
solidaritY, ,
that would, Bishop
"mightimst
witness"
Manning, but one the truth of which is not lessened maintain Jewish family
and the letter of Aristeas which tells
I
an old ory
st, the

by the pa ssage of

The average mileage on the speed-
ometers of the miscellaneous cars
turned in by these Packard Six buy-
ers was only 19,388. And the aver-
age age of all these cars was but two
and one-half years!

these 2,000 new Packard Six owners
say they expect to keep their Pack-
ards an average of 55 months—
nearly twice as long as the cars they
recently turned in.

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