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Sabbath Readings of the Torah:
Pentateucbal Portions—Ex. 25:1-27:19.
Prophetical Portions—I Kings 5:26-0:13.

February 24, 1928

Adar 3, 5688

"Martyrs of Learning."

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The pogroms in Russia at the beginning of the pres-
ent century created two Jewish treks. One of these
wound its way to the United States, and tramping over
it were the hundreds of thousands of physically abused,
economically oppressed and religiously persecuted of
our people. Trekking in another direction were the
thousands of Jewish students for whom the doors to
Russian universities and colleges were.closed and whose
urge for learning drove them to the liberal universities
of Germany, France and Switzerland.
These "Martyrs of Learning," a.o the Jewish stu-
dents wre generally referred to, are now finding heirs
to the injustice leveled against them in the Jewish stu-
dents of Hungary. The "numerus clausus" law of the
Magyars is almost a duplicate of the percentage norms
in Russia, and in both instances were aimed against
Jews as Jews and for no other reasons. In Hungary,
however, Jewish conditions generally have become
more serious because of the student riots resulting from
the Parliamentary discussions on the modification of
the "numerus clausus" law. It is unfortunate for Hun-
garian Jewry that the supposedly enlightened student
class is leading in the anti-Semitic movement.
In spite of the fact, however, that anti-Semitism is
so evident in the happenings in the Hungarian univer-
sities, the Commonweal, a Catholic publication edited
by laymen, one of the best periodicals of its kind in the
country, is fooled into believing that "the ferment at
work is economic rather than social or religious in char-
acter."

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It is contended, states the Commonweal editorial in
its issue of Feb. 8, that as far back as 1901 Jewish lead-
ers themselves realized that any attempt on the part of
their brethren to "monopolize" the professions would result
in trouble, and that "proportional representation" in the
universities was necessary. Nothing was clone, however,
at the time. Disturbances incidental to the war and the
proletarian resolution brought matters to a head. Veteran
students, returning from the front, were angered at find-
ing the professional school crowded with Jewish students;
and after these had in some cases taken a share in the
bolshevist uprising, resentment grew strong and bitter.
Thereupon the government decreed "proportional represen-
tation" by law. The number of students is limited accord-
ing to the facilities available and the ability of the country
to absorb professional graduates. Each religious group,
furthermore, is entitled to that percentage of student
attendance which is approximately equivalent to its nu-
merical strength in the population. Minister Haller con.
tends that the percentage accorded to the Jews is actually
higher than they are entitled to. All this procedure must
seem cramped and dictatorial to us. But it appears that
the ferment at work is economic rather than social or
religious in character.

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all Jewry, these anniversaries are occasions for cele-
bration not merely by Jewish periodicals whose needs
this news agency serves, but by a wider public, which
would have remained uninformed of Jewish happen-
ings throughout the world had it not been for J. T. A.
Prior to the organization of the Jewish Telegraphic
Agency, the Yiddish press was limited in its sources of
news to the Yiddish dailies arriving from abroad. This
necessitated the dissemination of news much too old for
the consumption of its readers. The more prosperous
publications had representatives in three or four of the
European capitals, and the more important news, such
as the progress of the Beiliss trial in Russia, or the oc-
curence of pogroms, was fed them by the Associated
Press and United Press. For the latter, however, the
Jewish press was dependent upon the mercy of the non-
Jewish agencies which discriminated against Jewish
news, with the result that Jews generally were seldom
offered timely information about the conditions of their
kinsmen abroad.
It was even worse for the Anglo-Jewish press. Un-
less the editor of a particular weekly could read Yid-
dish and was interested enough in the needs of his read-
ers, the latter remained ignorant of Jewish happenings.
A study of the pages of the average Anglo-Jewish
weekly of eight or nine years ago reveals that its con-
tents were limited to sermons by local rabbis, syna-
gogue news, the reprint of a speech by a governor or
senator, telling us how fine we are, and no more. Only
in exceptional cases did these weeklies contain Jewish
news, and such news was almost invariably limited to
the publication of a photograph of Nathan Straus, or
Oscar Straus, or Justice Louis D. Brandeis.
The J. T. A. has succeeded in filling this need for
Jewish news. It has enabled the Anglo-Jewish weekly
to serve the Jewish people on a par with the Yiddish
daily; by publishing the Jewish Daily Bulletin it sup-
plied the non-Yiddish reader with the same daily news
services enjoyed by the Yiddish-reading public; it has
stretched its hand across the waters and brought Euro-
pean and American Jewry into a closer bond of Jewish
fellowship by keeping each informed, in a twenty-four
hour service, of the happenings in the camps of each.
We greet the Jewish Telegraphic Agency and the
Jewish Daily Bulletin with wishes for many more happy
birthdays.

Washington on Genuine Religion.

At Epiphany Church in Washington, D. C., at the
annual service of the Sons of the Revolution, last Sun-
day, the Right Rev. John Gardner Murray, D. D., Bish-
op of Maryland and Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal
Church, read a letter written by George Washington in
August, 1789. In view of present day religious discord,
one paragraph of this little known letter is worth quot-
ing. Writing to the Episcopalians then in convention
in Philadelphia, the first President of the United States
said :

On this occasion it would ill become me to conceal the
joy I have felt in perceiving the fraternal affection which
appears to increase every day among the friends of genu-
ine religion. It affords edifying prospects, indeed, to see
Christians of different denominations dwell together in
more charity and conduct themselves, in respect to each
other, with a more Christian-like spirit than ever they have
done in any former age or in any other nation.

Those who would divide this country's sentiments
on religious issues in the coming Presidential election
have something to learn from this. "More Christian-
like spirit" is needed even more in the present-day bit-
terness that divides Catholic and Protestant.

they had been wearing.

The ninth anniversary of the Jewish Telegraphic

Agency, and the publication of the one-thousandth
number of the Jewish Daily Bulletin, the only Jewish
daily printed in English, were events of the past week.
In view of the J. T. A's. accomplishments benefiting

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yellow badges to distinguish them from their non-Jew-
ish neighbors. It means a return to the humiliations of
the Dark Ages. Self-respecting Jewish students should
never have consented to wearing special badges to dif-
ferentiate them from non-Jews. Such an admission of
inferiority does us little honor.

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By RABBI HERBERT PARZEN.

The next time r. Mencken, when I come to your

Congregation Avaltai Sholom, Portland, Oregon.

town, you will please stay at home. I have written evi•

dence that you threatened to have me murdered for $45
and my carcass thrown into the Potomac River if I ever
dared to enter Baltimore. Well, I am prepared to sum-
mon eight hundred good-natured, tolerant, patient wo-
men who will testify that sey sat an hour (that most
have seemed an eternity) listening to me speak in liar
Sinai Temple, on Monday afternoon, Feb. 13. And I dis-
covered while in your city that you have Jewish neigh-
bors of whom you and your fellow-liberals may well be
proud. I know that you will congratulate them on the
fact that they are unable to become members of the
Rotarians, the KiWalliS or the Shriners. After all, we
Jews do have something in life to be thankful for! A fine
Jewish community indeed is Baltimore's, which maintains
the finest traditions of its faith.

The Irish around Tammany Hall are raising the Dutch
because Tammany is trying to "high hat" them and pre-
venting them from going to "Manny" Smith's party down
in Houston, Texas. I imagine there is a lingering sus-
picion that maybe "Manny" has sonic Jewish blood con-
cealed somewhere on his person. For you must remem-
her that Al's other Christian name smacks of Jewishness,
which is none other than "Emanuel." But knowing Al
to be a Democrat who wears his hat on one side of his
head and his cigar at the other site of his mouth that I
can fraternally address him as "Manny."

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The Historical Background of Central
European Jewry in the I 9th Century

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The following is the second in aseries of four articles by
Rabbi Parsen, a former Detroiter. The third and fourth articles
to follow will discuss the coming to this country of Eastern
European Jews and to ■ general discussion of the problems
affecting American Israel.

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Just listen to the rude conversation of the editor of
the Gaelic American, who is pleading for "home rule":

Many leaders are men of experience who know
that if they accept the advice (or orders) of a
group of Jewish women and a handful of men of
the same race and exclude every man of Irish
blood and every Catholic, there will be desertions
by the thousands and the state will go Republican
. . • The advisors of the Governor (Smith) are
Mrs. Belle and Dr. Moskowitz (both Jews), Judge
Joseph Proskauer (a Jewe, Judge Bernard Sheen-
tag (a Jew), Robert Moses, secretary of state (a
Jew), Col. Herbert Lehman (a Jew), Nathan Bur-
ken (a Jew).
I knew there was something suspicious about that
name 'Manny."

With the birth of the nineteenth
century, approximately figured,
western civilization underwent a
series of revolutions—political,
economic, cultural and philosophic
—whose effects and influence still
pervade the world. So deep root-
ed were the upheavals that funda-
mental attitudes and age-long con•
cepts of men changed. Not a sin-
gle phase of human life was left
unaffected. The world was in re-
volt and in turmoil. Humanity
almost blindly and naively but en-
thusiastically hewed new channels
for its life activities. Politics and
philosophy, religion and science,
economy and education, literature
and art—all sought new forms of
expression as if tired and fatigued
with ,its old, traditional, formal
habits. It was a changing world.
As is always the case with men,
the reaction to the old staid, long
established system of life and
thought was extreme and radical.
The world turned from a religious
idealistic "Weltanschaung," based
uponanagricultural-maritirne econ-
omy, and became thoroughly irre-
ligious and materialistic in its out-
look, accompanied with the new
industrial regim e '. Romanticism
was replaced by rationalism. Skep-
ticism, agnosticism and even athe.
ism struggled to overthrow the his-
toric faiths. Every human institu-
tion had to fight for survival and
justify its existence.

devising means to subdue the wild
erness and to win the West. The
European scientific theories wens
applied to inventions to enhancs
life. Here there was just as much
change and turmoil as in Europe
but it manifested itself in differ
ent forms. In Europe the new
life benefited immediately the
few. In America it benefited the
masses. Perhaps it may be said
that in Europe there was chiefly a
cultural revolution. Here oc
cursed an economic revolution.
Promised Land for M
Democracy, the nineteenth cen-
tury hope of mankind, was dy-
namically functioning in Anierica.
There was no need to struggle to
procure it and to share in its bless-
ings. It existed. It wns a fact.
In Europe it was a dream, a
Utopia. There men struggled for
it and for every right gradually
acquired torrents of human blood
were expended.
Naturally therefore Anierica be-
came the promised land for vast
masses. They began to come to
procure these American boons—
economical political opportunities.
To win for themselves in reality
the things about which Europeans
dreamed was the cause of the flow
of European immigration to Amer-
ica. Among these migrating mass-
es were also Jews who were de-
feated and disappointed in their
dreams and expectations.
Jewish despondency was all the
keener because, in addition to the
failure of the modern movements
to effect human happiness, there
was also the unfulfilled exp•cta-
tions of assimilation and the un-
fulfilled expectations of assimila-
tion and the unfulfilled promises
of governments.
The world of west European
Jewry at the dawn of the nine-
teenth century changed even more
radically and stormily, than the
Gentile world because they entered
society without experience and
knowledge of the new epoch. They
were completely loosened from
their moorings without under-
standing whither they were drift-
ing. They thought that they were
entering Paradise—but as matter
of fact, they were faced with a Ge-
hennah of problems.

New lima.

A reader sends me a clipping which refers to a raid

by a prohibition officer on the home of a Rumanian sub-

ject in New York. It seems the agent was a rude fellow
so that the subject in question appealed to the Rumanian
minister to the United States, George Cretziano, who in
turn appealed to the state department for an investiga-
tion. In Rumania they get away with murder, literally
and figuratively, while Minister Cretziano writes com-
forting letters to the Jews in America. And Mr. Louis
Marshall, who for some reason or other has had his fight-
ing ardor cooled, says that we should take the minister
at his words. And wait. You remember the ancient
Spanish war-cry of 1898, "manana"—tomorrow, always
tomorrow? I felt like yelling with the small boy, "ba-
mans," or for the more discriminating, "banana oil." It
is really a shame that a Rumanian in this country should
suffer such an indignity as being insulted by a prohibition
agent. He should go to Rumania and learn from the
anti-Semites in that country how to act like a gentleman.

Well, here's one right out of the oven. It comes
written on a piece of asbestos, from Washington, D. C.
The writer is a Jew—at least I so suspect, as he has been
reading a Jewish newspaper (and these days that's about
as accurate a way to discover who's who in Jewry as some
others).
So he writes:

Because of the cowardly manner in which you
attack anti-Semites by your writings, it is only
reasonable that they should fight back. It seems
to me (and many others) that some of your
article-writers have been in a sort of slavery—per-
haps under the Czar's rule—and now that they
have acquired some sort of freedom, are running
wild. Some of you are such poor Jews that you
cannot follow the teachings of our sages. There-
fore I would advise you to do as Christ said, and
turn the other cheek when attacked. Or at least
you can fight back fairly. How would you have
felt had your parentage been made fun of, as you
did in your attack on Cecil De Mille. It was the
most brutal and cruel disgrace you could have
caused a man to suffer.

I accept full responsibility for any attack made on

Cecil De Mille. But it seems a pity to waste my energy

There are several slurs contained in this editorial.
Jules Verne Was Not a Jew.
The first and most offensive is the inference that Jew-
Pierre Van Paassen, Paris correspondent of the New
ish students crowded the professional schools of Hun-
gary at the time that their non-Jewish fellow students
York Evening World, writing apropos the approaching
were busy at the front fighting the fatherland's cause.
one-hundredth anniversary of Jules Verne's birthday,
Nothing could be more injurious to our people every-
makes the claim that a matter "that is certainly little
where than to disseminate such false charges. No na-
known is that Jules Verne was a Jew, and that he came
tion has suffered as has the Jewish people as a result
to France from Poland when a young man."
of the World War. German Jew was pitched against
A writer in the American Hebre• denies this claim
the French Israelite, the Russian Jew against his Aus-
and points to the town records of Nantes, the chief city
trian co-religionist, each with the same "Shma Yisroel," of Brittany, for proof. The father of this distinguished
—"Hear 0 Israel"—on his lips, but each fighting val-
prophet-author, whose works were translated into
iantly for the land of his birth, even though his fellow
every important language including Hebrew and Yid-
Jews have been oppressed for centuries in that land.
dish, was an attorney-at-law who wanted his son to fol-
The proportional loss of Jewish lives, as compared with low in his footsteps. Ile dispatched Jules to Paris, with
non-Jewish casualties, and the lives of hundreds of the object of the boy's entering the legal profession,
thousands that fell victims in the pogroms following the
but the son's artistic urge drove him to the Bohemian
war, are other reasons why a periodical like the Com-
life of the French capital, to art and to poetry.
monweal should not quote as facts the ridiculous
The legend of Verne's Jewishness developed from
charge of Jewish participation in Bolshevist uprisings.
his name. According to the story, his name was origi-
To contend, futher, that the Ilungarian university nally Olschewitz, from Olscha, meaning an alder tree
uprisings are economic rather than social or religious in Polish, and becoming Vergne, or Verne, in French.
in character is to ignore the facts in the case. In the
This is one of the claims that are being made from
course of the Parliamentary discussions at Budapest
last week on the government bill to modify the "numer- time to time upon the Jewishness of great men. It is
time, however, to declare a halt. If we will be given
us clausus" law, Deputy Patrovac, representing the
Christian Socialist Party, even made demands upon his due credit for our genuine claims. and Jewish genius
will be permitted the freedom of exercising its ability
government that "a numerus clausus should be intro-
unmolested and unpersecuted, it will be sufficient. It
duced not only in the field of education but also in in-
is not necesasry for us to place non-Jewish names on the
dustry and commerce." Such is the spirit of Magyar
law. Once students are limited "according to the facil- roster of our great men in order to prove that we make
contributions to the world.
ities available and the ability of the country to absorb
professional graduates," anti-Semites will go a step fur-
ther in oppressing Jews. Experience throughout the
A Return to the Yellow Badge.
history of Jewish suffering has taught us to expect in-
tolerance to engender greater intolerance. Thatjs why
In the series of humiliations to which our people is
the "numerus clausus" law must be opposed to the bit-
being subjected in the anti-Semitic wave now encircling
Europe, the following cable of the Jewish Telegraphic
ter end, lest there be several such measures to fight.
In the meantime it is well for Hungary to be careful Agency from Cracow, dated Feb. 16, reveals the most
disgraceful of all insults:
and not abuse the loyalty of her citizens. The "numer-
us clausus" law may do to the land of the Magyars
The controversy between Polish and Jewish students
what the percentage norm has done to Russia. It may
over the uniform and insignia of the Jewish students'
organization, which led to several riots, was satisfactorily
send her Jewish students trekking to foreign univer
settled. The settlement was brought about by the inter-
sites, and Hungary will be the sufferer. Because it
vention of the dean of the University of Cracow, it being
all of the world's history no land on earth has yet beer
understood that the members of the Jewish student organ-
ization have agreed to wear caps of a different color than
known to benefit by exiling its Jews.

An Event in Jewish Newapaperdom.

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for such apologies for Jews as signed the foregoing let-
ter. I said that De Mille was half Jewish, and for that
reason, if no other, he should not have produced the
"King of Kings." If that be treason, make the most of
it! And I might add that I have not and never intended
to turn the other cheek. The Jew has had one pretty
well slapped. And before he turns the other he wants
to see a few followers of Jesus experiment in that line.
If they like it, perhaps we will follow their example. But
in the meantime we shall pursue our policy of watchful
waiting.

Dr. John Haynes Holmes, in an address before a Jew-
ish group, took occasion to express surprise over the fact
that there is prejudice among Jews, that is, prejudice of
one group of Jews against another. lie seemed to think
that the JON has enough persecution to stand from the
outside without encouraging it from the inside. Unfor-
tunately, the statement of Dr. Holmes is true. There is
a social prejudice that seems to exist among all peoples.
Even Christians have it one for the other. Yet, in jus-
tice, it must he said that whatever prejudice may exist
among Jews themselves cannot compare with that which
they experience from the outside world.

A writer in the New York Evening World attempts
to show the different relationship that exists between
the Jews and Christians in New York's East Side at
Christmas time, and in the homelands whence came the
Jews. After reading the statement, one begins to glmipse
something of the reason for the amazing success of
"Abie's Irish Rose." There is a camaraderie among the
Irish and Jews in the poorer sections of New York that
is reflected in such plays as "Cohens and the Kellys,"
"Abie's Irish Rose" and others of like type that I can't
recall at the moment. Soppose we give over a lengthy
paragraph to this article in the New York paper. It's
quite interesting:

Very different is the experience of one who
came to America when four years old, the child of
devout Jews who merged their family into the
New melting pot. It is a tradition of his family
that at Christmas time in Prague when he was but
two years old, his nurse, a Jewess, of course, took
him in her arms across the bridge over the Mol-
dau River past the garlanded Christian inrages
along the roadway, and whispered in his ear, "Give
the Goy saints a slap, baby!"

But five yea later, a toddler in the Tompkins
Square neighborhood here in New York, the same
Bohemian Jew baby Was initiated into the neigh-
borhood gang. Ile went through the ordeal if
being pointed at and jeered as a greenhorn be-
cause his pants buttoned behind; his tiny shirt tail
was pulled out so he could not get it tucked in
again without going home to his mother.

But in time he was taken into the homes of
the other fellows. Ile saw the preparations for
Christmas and heard of the beauties and joys of
the Christmas tree and went home in sorrow to his
mother to know why he, too, could not share in the
joy of the Christian season of worship. And his
mother and older sisters made a tree for him, told
him to hang up his stocking and put gifts in it.
And to he has grown up in th eland of tolerance
to find the Jewish and Christian friends entering
together into the good will of the season.

Within the week we have learned of a scien-
tific study made by a chain-store merchant dealing
in Christmas notions as to the amount of business
derived in the season from Jewish and Christian
customers; his reports showed that 30 per cent
of his Christmas sales were made to Jews.

New isms—cosmopolitanism, in-
ternationalism, nationalism, capi-
talism, socialism and anarchism—
appeared in simultaneous waves
on the political arena. Each pro-
phesied its own Utopia and assured
the salvation of man, a salvation
of this earth and not of "the other
world."
New methods of thought of sig-
nificant consequence were pro-
mulgated. The historical, scien-
tific comparative method under-
mined the accepted idea of religion
and sociology. The Bible was put
to the test of the new standard and
found to be a human document
without any special divine inspira•
thin or supernatural influence.
'Higher Criticism" directed Scrip-
tures into documentary atoms.
Human customs and habits, re-
ligious ceremonies and concepts,
were revealed as universally pre-
valent in certain stages of civiliza-
tion. The industrial revolution
had full sway. It created unprece-
dented misery and wretchedness
as well as undreamed-of wealth.
The new economics too was hos-
tile to religion because its suffer-
ers—the proletariat—were made
to believe, that religion was an
opiate used by the capitalists to
keep them in their drudgery. The
church was utilized by capital, so
they were told, to advance its in-
terests at their expense.
Men became pessimists. They
were disappointed at the failure of
the new isms to produce happi-
ness on this earth. And they no
longer had faith in the happi-
ness of the next world. They grew
weary of struggling for a pitiful
livelihood as well as for 'political
opportunities. So immigration to
America began, in large numbers,
as a last hope for happiness and
life.

The Jew's New Makeup.

We must remember that the
Ghetto life was still prevalent. its
walls were just beginning to
crumble. Its inhabitants were
emerging into the light of the
broad world. They were dazed
and dazzled at its brightness—
and dumbfounded. After some
hesitation, they hurled themselves
into the maelstrom with all their
nervous energy. The thirst for
learning which for ages was limit-
ed to rabbinic lore was quenched
at the fount of Western thought.
Nothing was questioned.
Every-
thing was accepted at its par value.
The more steeped the Jew became
in Western learning, the more he
deprecated Jewish culture. Like
every novitiate he entered fully
and enthusiastically and uncom
promisingly the new life. Just as
the peacock is proud of his colorful
garb, so the Jew prided himself on
his new makeup.
The strivings of the Jew were
encouraged and abetted by the
government. The various chancel-
lories held out to the Jew the
promise of emancipation from the
old Slavish burdens and the in-
human rightlessness. "Become
European," they intimated, "then
we will give you the prerogative
of the European." "Remove the
Oriental characteristics and cus-
toms, then we will recognize you
as Western men." "Evidence your
loyalty to the state by renouncing
your historic allegiance to Zion."
"Learn to speak our language and
to think our thoughts, then we will
emancipate, liberate you from
your servile status."
Jews, in huge numbers listened
to these official Hosannahs, and
presumably acquired their human
rights at the baptismal font. Many
more, for philosophic reasons, dis-
associated themselves from Jewry
and plunged completely into the
vortex of the Utopian ideologies
which dominated European life
without officially adopting Chris-
tianity.
For the Sake of Tradition.
Through the Napoleonic Syn-

Influence on America.

In America, too, life flowed
swiftly and turbulently. The in-
fluence of European thought was
indeed felt. But it was intensive
rather than extensive. It was
principally manifest in the larger
cities along the coast. But it was
utilized for different ends, for
practical purposes to enhance the
struggling economic fabric of
Young America.
The new world, as a whole, was
too busy wrestling new fortunes
from its bountiful resources to
care for illusory Utopias. The
American possessed an actual
Utopia in lands that thirsted for
the plow. he had no time for the
new European theories.
Young America had practically
no vested interests. Economic op-
portunity, certainly in the West,
beckoned to every energetic
character. Poverty, the mother
of all human rumblings, was prac-
tically non-existent. Work ac-
complished here what Kutopian
dreams failed to produce in Eu-
rope.
The intellectual forces in Amer-
ica were primarily interested in

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WHY NO T

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ASK THE RABBI

A Sheaf of Shetlas

By RABBI LEON FRAM
Director of Religious Edwation, Temple Beth El.

10. What were the chief agricul
tarot products of modern Pales
tine?
11. What are the chief agricul-
tural products of modern Pales-
tine?
12. Who is the president of the
Bar Association of Detroit?
13. Who is Mark Gunsburg?

(Readers of The Detroit Jewish
Chronicle are invited to submit
questions for Rabbi Fram to ans-
wer. Address Rabbi Leon Fram,
Temple Beth El, Detroit.)

1. What Jew secured the 'Suez
Canal for the British Empire?
2. What is a shekel?
3. How much is a shekel worth
in American money?
4. When was the first Jewish
coin issued?
5. Where in Detroit can one see
one of these original Jewish coins?
6, What is the Sabbath of the
Shekel?
7. What modern Jewish organi-
zation still imposes the poll tax of
one half-shekel?
8. Where in the Bible can .one
find a description of the ancient
Temple of Jerusalem?
9. What Methodist minister has
exchanged pulpits with a Rabbi?

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14. What is a Yiddishist?
15. What is a Volkschule?
16. How many volkschule are
there in Detroit?
17. What is the Fenkell Branch
of Temple Beth El?
Is. What Jewish composer has
advanced the jazz music to the
symphony concert platform?
19. Who is Leopold Pilichovaki?

20. Who is the leading writer
and composer of American popular
songs?

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