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Sabbath Readings of the Torah:

Pentateuchal Portions-Ex. 27:20-30:10; Deut. 25;17-19.
Prophetical Portions:-1. Sam. 15:2-34.

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1928

The Lesson of Purim.

In the Book of Esther, Haman, in pleading for the
destruction of the Jewish people, tells King Ahasuerus
that "there is a certain people scattered abroad and
dispersed among the people in all the provinces of thy
kingdom; and their laws are diverse from those of every
people; neither keep they the king's laws; therefore,
it profiteth not the king to suffer them. If it please the
king let it be written down that they be destroyed."
This Hamanic plea for the destruction of the Jewish
people is of interest because, although uttered, accord-
ing to the story, about 2,300 years ago, it quotes the
same reasoning against Israel as have anti-Semites
down the ages. Haman hated only one Jew, Mordecai,
but he asked for the destruction of the entire Jewish
people; he charged the Jews with disloyalty; he com-
plained of their laws. And throughout the ages, perse-
cutors of our people have used the same reasoning.
Because the Purim story is only a forerunner of the
thousands of other instances of anti-Jewish persecu-
tions in the last 20 centuries, it has had a great lesson
for our people. It has prepared us for the bitter hat-
reds that were heaped upon us and has taught us how
A Cause may endure. Anti-Semites have appeared and
disappeared, but Israel has survived them all.
This powerful Purim lesson not to despair in the
face of most threatening dangers has been a contribu-
ting force towards Jewish existence. Based upon the
first Purim, many others have gained a place in Jewish
history. In Florence, Italy, on the 27th day of Sivan
in the year 1790, the Jews were saved from the hands
of a threatening mob, and Florence has since celebrat-
ed that day as a local Purim. In Rhodes Purim is cele-
brated as a double holiday because on Purim day in
1840 the Jews of the city were vindicated of a murder
charge for which many were imprisoned. The "Purim
of Chios" is still celebrated by the Jews of Chios in
commemoration of the accidental discharge, In 1595,
of a cannon by a Jewish woman, bringing victory to the
Turks against the Spaniards and rescue at the same
time to the Jews in a fortress on the island of Chios.
For these reasons, the joy, the fun and the frivolity
of Purim. A merry Purim!

Palestine and Jewish Labor.

The opening here this week of the Gewerkschaften
campaign, in the course of which a fund is to be raised
for the purchase of tools and agricultural implements
for the workers in Palestine, is of great importance for
the Jewish Homeland ideal,
During the past year and a half, since the depres-
sion set root in the Jewish settlement in Palestine, the
wrath of the disappointed ones in the Zionist move-
ment was poured out against the Jewish workers. In-
evitable economic occurrences, for which the Palestine
administration was primarily responsible because it
lacked vision to foresee that concentration of effort in
large cities like Tel Aviv must be accompanied by a
crisis, was blamed 00 Jewish labor. The sudden rise
of Tel Aviv brought with it speculation and a deviation
from the natural farm-ward movement to settlement in
the cities. The prominent position held by labor lead-
ers in the Palestine Executive drew the blame in the
direction of the workers.
But while blame is being-apportioned it must not be
forgotten that without the Jewish labor element what-
ever was accomplished in Palestine would have been
impossible. It must ever be remembered that the foun-
dation for a Jewish Palestine must lie in agricultural
settlements; that we must guard ourselves against du-
plicating the Middle Class of the Diaspora in a Jewish
Homeland ; that the Land of Israel must be built only
by constructive methods, and not through speculation.
Dr. Theodor Herz', in his vision for a Jewish Pales-
tine built on most ideal methods of social justice, also
gave thought to a banner, and he visioned nothing more
noble to lead the march into the Promised Land than
"the badge of labor." We quote from his Judenstaat
under the heading of "The Banner:"

If this sounds like a lot of "Jew" salesmanship, over-
look it. I'm not a "Jew." Just let me send you a
sample . . .

To which Conrade of Shakespearean fame would
undoubtedly have replied:
"Away! you are an ass!"

Have We Lost the Right to Self•Defense?

Suicide Among Jews.

An anti-Catholic film was ordered withdrawn in
Ii
Germany and an anti-German picture was ordered
stopped in England. But when a Jewish protest is
raised against the "King of Kings," we are charged
with being an over-sensitive people.
There is no question at all about the justice of the
demands of the Catholics in Germany and the German
representative in London, but there is at least as much
merit in the Jewish protests against the "King of
Kings." In fact, if appeals to justice are to be based
on proportionate danger to the people attacked, we
have a greater right to demand the withdrawal of the
inciting anti-Jewish film.
For centuries subjected to persecutions, always in
ss.ss
danger of suffering from riots and pogroms when at-
tacked under the banner of those who charge us with
being "Christ-Killers," the "King of Kings" is perhaps
the most damaging piece of work ever perpetrated
against Jewry. And yet, when some brave Jewish souls
dare in self-defense to protest against the injustice of
this film, we are called over-sensitive.
-There is something cruelly inconsistent about Chris-
tian sense of justice.

Klan Economy.

Add to the list of thrift movements: the Ku Klux
Klan. Until Washington's Birthday last week the price
of a hood, mask and card of admission to secret meet-
ings was $10. Now, it will cost only $1;to remove this
mask and be classed with the Knights of the Forest.
"The only serious competition," says a writer in the
New York Times, "is to be anticipated from American
public opinion, which has for some time been engaged
in stripping the mask from the Klan without charging
a cent for the operation."

WeAitAkAQ.

At the Jewish College of Budapest, Leo Bruck, a
professor, made his exit in classical fashion, a la Socra-
tes, by drinking poison in front of his class. In Ru-
mania, 95 per cent of the pupils of the Jewish high
school at Grosswardein failed in their examinations be-
fore the Rumanian School Board. The flunked youths,
in their despair, are threatening to commit suicide.
An increase in suicides among Jews has always been
noticed in times of oppression. Where anti-Semi-
tism affects the Jewish students, self-murders naturally
increased in numbers among the young. Morselli at-
tributes a great influence of religion on the suicide rate,
and declares that Catholics and Jews are least liable
to commit suicide. The increase in suicides among
Jews in recent years is therefore also directly arrtibut-
able to the decline in religious devotion.
Taking Prussia as an example, Morselli has com-
piled a table to show the Jewish suicide increase. Ilis
figures are:
46.4 per 100,000 Jews
1849-55
"
"
"
96.0 "
1869-72
"
"
370.4 " "
1892-1901 Jews
"
"
"
124.1 "
Jewesses
The increase is of course not confined to Prussia,
and is said to be greater among Jew than non-Jews.
Taking into consideration the bitter Jewish struggle
for existence and the decline in religious piety, this is
perhaps not at all to be wondered at. Aside from the
fact that anti-Semitic feeling continues to spread and
thereby to increase despair in certain Jewish quarters.
Given a chance to share in normal living, suicide con-
ditions in Jewry would undoubtedly be wiped out over
night.

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Aaron Sapiro, in the language of Octavos Roy Cohen,
is the "organizingest nom" in the United States. When
he went to New York recently to take up the practice of
certain phases of law, I asked him if he intended to drop
co-operating marketing. He thought that it had gotten a
pretty good start, and that it probably wouldn't require
no much of his time any longer. At any rate, I find that
he has interested himself as one of his first New York
activities in the formation of the Motion Picture Exhib-
itors Association of New York. Its purpose is to (organ-
ize the independent exhibitors on a basis to compete for
film bookings with producer-controlled theaters. Mr.
Sapiro has been elected president. One thing I am sure
of, the independent small theater owner is going to get
a good run for his money if Anton Sapiro is doing his
fighting for him.

Welcome, Rabbi Ginzler.

Shakespeare's sixteenth centruy ass, however, was
as nothing compared with the twentieth century Chi-
cagoan, Lawrence F. Kreger, a manufacturer of auto-
mobile specialties, who "wrote himself down" in these
words in a sales letter to a local concern:

BY

It is not going to take me very lung to make up my
mind as to who is entitled to the Gottheil medal for
greatest service to Jewish life in the year 1927. This
medal is awarded in honor of Prof. Richard J. Gottheil
of Columbia University, by the Zeta Beta Tau Frater-
nity. Eleven Jewish journalists are chosen to serve as
the committee to make the selection. I helped choose
Dr. Stephen Wise in 1926, David A. Brown in 1927, and
my mind is quite made up in 1928, though my colleagues
in 14) other cities may outvote me. No, I am not going
to publish my choice. That wouldn't be fair. The selec-
tion will be made on March 15, and on May 10 a dinner
will be held in New York at which the Gottheil medal
will be presented.
•

Rabbi Arthur Ginzler's coming to Detroit is worthy
of the attention of the community at large. Called to
this city by a much neglected congregation, his experi-
ences as a communal leader and his secular and re-
ligious learning qualify him for leadership which, we
hope, will result in greater Jewish effort by his syna-
gogue.
Shaarey Tefillah, located as it is near Grosse Point,
has been practically cut off from the rest of Detroit
Jewry. Blame for the lack of co-operation between
this and the other congregations lies in the direction
of all parties concerned,-the East Jefferson congre-
gation for having so readily alienated itself from the
rest of the community, and her sister congregations for
having failed to encourage her when encouragement
was so sadly lacking.
The lack of competent leadership is perhaps re-
sponsible more than anything else for Shaarey Tefil-
lah's failure thus far to contribute to the general wel-
fare of all-Detroit Jewry and at the same time to
increase its own activities and to further among its
members a more ideal spiritual effort. Rabbi Ginzler's
coming here, there is reason to hope, will be a boon not
only to Shaarey Tefillah, but to the community at large.
Rabbi Ginzler has our welcome and good wishes for
success in his new congregation.

Dost thou not suspect my place? Dort thou not sus-
pect my years? 0 that he (the sexton) were here is write
me down an ass! But, masters, remember that I am an
AAA; though it be not written down, yet forget not that I
am an ass.

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The now generally accepted blue and white flag,
with the Shield of David in the center, which was de-
signed in 1880, was never threatened with displacement
by the emblem of Dr. Herzl's imagination, except at
the First Zionist Congress, when "the badge of labor"
was in vogue. But actually, this labor emblem has
ruled the efforts for Palestine. The Ernek Jezreel
would not have been the flourishing settlement it is to-
day without the pioneer Jewish workers; the swamps
would not have been drained without their sacrifices;
the Jewish population would not have risen as it has
since the war without attracting Jewish labor.
The Gewerkschaften campaign does not interfere
with the forthcoming United Palestine Appeal. On the
contrary, it supplements it. And if we are to be true
to a movement for the upbuilding of Palestine, we must
guard ourselves against abusing the Jewish workers,
and Jewry is obligated also to support the fund that is
directly aimed to encourage further efforts for Jewish
labor in the Homeland.

"Away! You Are An Ass!"

"A Christian Looks At Judaism"

0<91-1T5

We have no banner, and we need one. If we desire
to lead men forward, we must raise an emblem above their
heads.
I would suggest a white banner, bearing seven golden
stars. The white field symbolic of our pure new life; the
seven stars, the seven golden hours of our working-day.
For we shall march into the Promised Land carrying the
badge of labor.

Dogberry, the constable in Shakespeare's "Much
Ado About Nothing," in response to Conrade's "Away!
you are an ass, you are an ass," cries out:

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A Review of "Judaism in the First Centuries of the
Christian Era," by Prof. George Foote Moore
of Harvard University.

By RABBI LEON FRAM

may be completely detached, with
Here is a book which is decided-
y not a best-seller. Very few pen- out obligation to any special or-
ganizalion
or sect. And yet Sir.
de will ever read it. It is written
Lewis Browne, being a Jew, ends
for specialists, for scholars. Here
and there, particularly in the sum- his chapter on "Judaism" with the
wary chapter on the "Character of phrase "Judaism works" and his
Judaism" or the chapter on "Char- chapter on "Christianity" with the
ity," are passages which a layman phrase "it has worked-in a Incas-
night read with interest and en- ore."
joyment. But, on the whole, the
Professor Moore is, as far as I
book will be read only by profes•
sors of Semitics, students of or:- know,
the first writer
on permitted
compara-
tive religion
who has
ental literature, teachers of an- another religion than his own to
c ient history, and preachers of speak for itself, and has not at-
scholarly inclinations.
tempted by seeking out faults in
his neighbor's religion to make
Despite its limited public, how-
ever, this book will outweigh in capital for his own. As far as he
its influence on human minds most is concerned Christianity will have
of the widely-read books that have to recommend itself to Christians
been written in these times. It on its own inherent values and not
is a fact, paradoxical though it by invidious comparisons with
may sound, that the books which Judaism.
An Open Secret.
are least read are the must influ-
ential. How many people have
Professor !Moore has lung been
read
Francis How
Bacon's
"Novum
Organum?"
many
people wondering why it was that Chris-

read it indeed when it first ap- tian
scholars-even
who
'prided
themselves on those
their scien-
phi - tific
tific detachment-have been un-
e
w
f
ply
-
D.?sis
Yo
ras
few
o
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8'
;
r
o°
to
give
unprejudiced
accounts
n
saorpeh
deris
e
R
1
I P (e
sics. Yet it founded the inductive of Judaism. Ile contributed a
logic,
the which
scientific
of think-
ing, by
we way
do our
daily striking article on that subject to
I remember that famous exclamation of a former
the Harvard Theological Review
member of New York's Four Hundred: "Who's Looney
under the title "Christian Writers
work.
Now!" And 1 am forced to inquire of the psychologists
on Judaism." lie discovered this
Building From the Top.
who have devised the inteligence tests for Polish Jews
desiring to come to this country, "Who's Loony Now?"
The worth of a book can never paradoxical situation: that Chris-
be
measured
by
its
popularity.
tian
writers on Judaism are unani-
The immigrants or the phychologists? I am inclired to
Great ideas can seldom be ad- mous in their admiration of the
favor the immigrants. Listen, sane reader, to this:
dressed directly to the masses of Prophets, they are equally unani-
the people. They always seep mous in their abhorrence of the
Wilat happens to a goat after it is seven years
down from the top. Not only con- rabbis. Jesus they regard as a
years old?
structive but also subversive companion of the prophets, but as
What kind of an umbrella is the king of Eng-
movements, not only ideals but also an enemy of the rabbis. The pro-
land carrying when it rains?
prejudices have always originated lessor had long been wondering
What do you call a child who has eaten its
among the masses. Anti-Semitism, what was the principle by which
for instance, can frequently be these scholars vindicated the
father and mother?
traced to the most educated and prophets, the authors of the Bible,
What is the difference between a Polish and
intellectual group of the country and condemned the rabbis, the au-
an American horse?
in which it appears. In Germany thors of the Talmud. lie was
it is the professors of history with genuinely puzzled, when one
No, these are net imaginary questions, but have been
It day
was
their fantastic theories that are at the solution came to him.
put to those desiring to conic to this country, in order to
the
root
of
the
anti-Jewish
move-
not
a
matter
of
principle
at
all.
that
determine whether they are mentally competent. I have
meats.
Intolerance
is
here
seen
to
The
secret
explanation
was
written several times about these crazy questions. But
the result not of a lack of edu- most Christian writers knew just
be
every time, some psychologist with a pet line of bunk
able to read
cation, but of too much bad edu- enough Hebrew to be
attempts to justify his position. It's about time that we
cation. The pity of it is that this the Prophets, but they do not
had a little less psychology and a little more common
know
enough
Hebrew
to master
academic prejudice is frequently
sense in these matters.
due to the honest error rather the peculiar dialect and the in-
than to willful malice. The error volved style of the rabbis. These
It keeps one busy trying to select suitable books for
of the professor becomes the con- scholars know Isaiah and Jere-
other people. In case you want to escape the pest selling
viction of the student and the fa- miah, and knowing them, they
popular novels, I suggest Andre Mauro's' "Disraeli,"
naticism of the mob. If, therefore, cannot help loving them. But
these Christians do not know the
which has been translated by Hannish Miles and pub-
there appears a book on Judaism,
lished by Appleton. Maurois, in the event the name has
written by a non-Jewish scholar of rabbis and so they are afraid of
unquestioned authority, which by them and are willing to suspect
escaped you, wrote the admirable "Ariel." Lawrence
an unimpeachable logic corrects the worst octtzni.
Abbott says that sonic of the flavor of "Disraelo" has
serious. not being
all the mistakes with regard to What is mo
been lost in the translation, but you don't have to worry
Judaism which have been circu- able to read the works of the
much about that. It is interesting enough for a gift
rabbis
or
the
Talmud
at first hand,
lating
among
the
professors
of
ori-
book-and to read yourself.
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ental literature, Semitics and the- Christian scholars are ready toac-
cept
without
question
the charac-
ology, then a salutary influence is
I am much obliged to "Time" for discovering to us
terization of the rabbis given by
set to work among men the con-
the fact of several statues in this country erected to the
the
New
Testament.
What that
sequences of which are immeasur-
memory of Jews. The Jewish Tribune, through its read-
characterization was, Moore
ably important.
ers, encouraged a statue to Oscar Straus ("Time," by
U3 by informing
The book will, I amconfident, drives home to
the way, spells it "Strauss," and I can't refrain a grin of
create a new era in the attitude of us that the word "hypocrite" in
satisfaction in tripping the weekly that prides itself on
Christians toward Judaism. Hence- the sense of an insincere person
being always accurate). We are told that there is a sttue
forth anyone seeking authentic in- was first introduced into human
of Ileine (if you don't know who he v,•is, read Lewis
formation about Jewish belief and language by the New Testament
Browne's "That Man Ileine") ; the late Nathan Barnet of
practice will have to go to Moore's and introduced for the sole and
Paterson, N. J.; Nathan Morris of Indianapolis; Alfred
"Judaism." There he will find the only purpose of characterizing the
Benjamin, in Kansas City, Mo., and Israel Marks in
work miracles on prejudice. It is rabbis. The original Greek word
Meridian, Miss. Quite an interesting collection. But I
work miracles on prejudice. It is "hypocrite" means an actor, an
confess that the only ones I ever heard of were Heine,
significant that at the same time actor in the Greek drama. In this
Barnett and Straus.
that a Christian scholar writes a meaning it might never have en-
work of that nature on Judaism, a tered the English or French or
Here's setise. It is a meeting of the !Lome Missions
Jewish scholar should have writ- German languages. But because
Council of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ
ten a-work of equal scientific im- the New Testament authors used
in America, being held in Cleveland. There is a warm
partiality on Jesus. I refer to it to depict the rabbis as actors,
discussion on a subject that always develops more heat
Joseph Klausner's work "Jesus of displaying piety without living it,
than light-converting Jews to Christianity. Especially,
Nazareth." There is evidence here the word entered, by way of Bible
translation, into all the languages
that liberalism is as contagious as
those young Jews who wonder what it's a about and
of Europe. As a result, the Chris-
reaction.
whose Jewish ties are ropes of sand. Sai the Rev. Dr.
tian scholar whose sole informa-
The Great Temptation.
Ernest Halliday: "I would say to those oung Jews who
Any man who writes an account tion about the rabbis comes from
have left their synagogues: '(',o back to your rabbi and
of a religion other than his own the New Testament can have only
your synagogue, and the God you and I hold in com-
is subject to a great temptation. one impression of the rabbis and
mon.'" Now, if there were more liallidays in the Chris-
It is the temptation so to present their work: Rabbi-hypocrite.
tian missionary groups, there would be fewer frauds com-
the other man's religion as to jus- Since the Judaism of the first 10
mitted on well-meaning but gullible ministers in the name
tify his own. Most works on com- centuries of this era is the work
of Jewish conversions.
parative religion turn out to be not of the prophets, but of the
mere efforts on the part of the rabbis, not primarily of the Bible,
What I want to know is, is Si. George Cretziano, Ru-
author to bolster up his own re- but of the Talmud, the Christian
manian minister to the United States, going to deny the
ligion at the expense of all the scholars whose only source of in-
Emery
Deri,
Budapest
newspaper
statements made by
others. Human nature, being what
formation is the New' Testament
man, living in America, which appear in The Nation of
it is, that temptation is almost ir- cannot help but be inclined to re-
February 15. I am repolishing the most significant
resistible. There is no more lib• gard Judaism as an hypocrisy
paragraph and ask those Jews who have been pleading for
eral theological seminary in the which Christianity came to cor-
an acceptance of M. George Cretziano's promises at face
world than the Union Theological
rect.
value, to please call his attention to this:
Seminary in New York, and there
The Divorcing Couple.
are few more liberal men than
With a breadth of soul which is
There were no anti-Jewish riots in Rumania.
Prof. Robert Ernest Hume, the
matchless in the history of
What happened in the first and second weeks of
professor in history of religion in scholarship, this Christian scholar
December in Transylvania was a country-wide
that school, and author of the sets it down as a guiding principle
bloody pogrom, directed against the national mi-
work entitled "The World's living of his work that the New Testa-
norities, organized by responsible government offi-
Religions." Ile presents a very ment is not a proper source for the
cials, supported by the government, aided by the
fair account of all the religions study of Judaism. The New Tes-
but cannot help closing his book tament was written at just the
army and the police, planned, prepared, executed,
with the statement that it is the time when Christianity and Juda-
and finally hushed up and camouflaged by the gov-
Christian beliefs especially which
ernmental machine of M. Vintilla Bratianu. It
ism were parting company. It re-
will be the finest aspiration of flects all the heat and bitterness of
was a pogrom made to order and executed in
mankind and which "constitute a
classic Russian style of the Czarist regime, with
that separation. As well expect
prophetic fulfillment of the re- a divorcing couple to say fair
the same purpose of distracting the attention of
ligious history of the world."
the maws from the paramount political issues
things of one another as expect
There are few more liberal the New Testament to speak judi•
and of dealing a blow to the seething and embit-
writers than Lewis Browne, au- ciously of Judaism.
tered national minorities. It was carried out ac-
thor of "This Believing World," The great thing Moore does in
cording to a pre-conceived scheme planned to the
that best-seller which has made(' this work on Judaism is to open
minutest detail.
religion as readable as fiction. He up the Talmud to other Christian
gave up a career as rabbi in order
I shall await a reply.
that in his writings on religion he
(Turn to next page.)

One gets so fed up with the same names of promi-
nent Jews that when I see a new one that has possibili-
ties I am after it like a streak of lightning. It may seem
strange to the Jewish population of Cleveland that I
admit to the colossal ignorance of never having heard of
Maurice Maschke until the other day, when I came across
his name in connection with Senator Willis of Ohio. At
first, I wasn't sure of his Jewish affiliation, but I was
suspicious enough to look up the "Who's Who in Ameri-
can Jewry," and, sure enough, there I found him. Mr.
Maschke is not a farmer, but a lawyer and a politician,
and judging by the reports I read, he knows his votes.
Apparently, he is sufficiently a political power in that
100 per cent political state of Ohio to puncture Senator
Willis's presidertial ambitions so far as delegates from
Ohio are concerned. Yes, indeed, Maurice Maschke
seems to be quite a person and I shall have to keep my
eye on the lookout for that name hereafter. I have a
hunch that he is going to supply me with some good
"copy."

What hypocrites we mortals be. The other day they
wouldn't permit Mrs. Russell, the wife of the famous
philosopher, to speak before the Student Forum of the
University of Wisconsin. It seems that President Glenn
Frank, whom I esteem and admire for his common sense
plus, thought that the lady had exhibited bad taste in
some of the statements she had made and for that reason
an address should not be encouraged. The lady had a
hard time to find a place in which to relieve herself of
her ideas and finally found an Open Forum in the Uni-
tarian Church. But the point I wish to drive home in
connection with the subject of bad taste are the hooch-
saturated jokes one finds in college magazines of the
humorous type. It seems the jokesters of the Octopus
of Wisconsin as well as similar magazines in other col-
leges, draw their inspirations from hip pockets, necking
parties, short skirts, garters, and other such personal sub-
jects. It really seems to me that the college humorist
should learn that his field is a bit too small and too sloppy.

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A Sheaf of Sheilas

• By RABBI LEON FRAM
Director of Religious Eda.ation, Temple Beth El.

(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. The first
two questions in this week's series
were submitted by readers.)

1. Was Queen Esther a blonde or
a brunette?
2. Will a Reform Rabbi perform
a marriage ceremony for a person
who was once married and divorced
in court but having no Jewish or
Rabbinical divorce?
3. In what way is the Book of
Esther different from all other
books of the Bible?
4. Why did Mordecai. refuse to
bow to Haman?
6. What is the traditional expla-
nation for Mordecai's refusal to
bow to Haman?
6. Who is Ben Hecht?
7. Who is David Warfield?
8. Who is David Belasco?

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9. Who is known as the first an
ti-Semite in history?
10. Name three women promi-
nent in Bible history?
II. What is Shalach-Stones?
12. What is a hiegillah?
13. Where is the oldest Megillah
in Detroit to be found?
14. Why has the Ku Klux Klan
unmasked?
15. Who is Mendele Mother Se-
forim?
16. What is a Hamantaach?
17. What German statesman
was a great admirer of Benjamin
Disraeli?
18. What is wrong with this sen-
tence: Palestine, the land where
Moses taught and David sang?
19. Who is Abraham Mapu?
20. Who was the Detroit writer
that translated one of Mapu'a nov-
els into English?

(Answer, on last page.)

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