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Sabbath Readings of the Torah:

Pentateuchal Portions—Ex. 30:11-34:35; Num. 19.
Prophetical Portions—Ezek. 36:16-38.

March 16, 1928

Adar 24, 5688

The Criterion of a Crisis.

The most natural way of judging the crisis in Pales-
tine is by balancing the figures of incoming and outgo-
ing immigrants. As a result of the depression in the
Jewish Homeland, approximately three times as many
emigrants were listed opposite the number of immi-
grants during the past year. The report for January,
however, gives the most encouraging signs that the cris-
is is coming to an end. During the first month of this
year, 259 persons arrived in Palestine, as compared
with 217 who emigrated. When immigration figures
so overwhelm emigration numbers that there will not
even be the inclination for comparisons, it will mean
that the hard times in the Jewish settlements are over.
Provided that measures are taken to absorb immigrants
in productive efforts for the upbuilding of the Jewish
Homeland, and 'preferably in farming settlements, the
January figures give augury of the return of happy
days in the colonization of Palestine.
To guarantee, however, that Zionist efforts will not
fall short of expectations and that the movement for the
upbuilding of the Jewish Homeland should not bring
disillusionment to those who are striving for its attain-
ment, it is important that Zionists decide upon a defi-
nite policy of action and follow it as consistently as
possible until the aims for a Jewish Palestine are
achieved. That there is no set policy is to be gleaned
from the editorial of the London Jewish Chronicle com-
menting upon an interview granted by Dr. Chaim Weiz-
mann to our contemporary across the Atlantic. The
London Jewish Chronicle is one of the best informed
periodicals in the world on the question of Palestine's
reconstruction, and when its editor expresses the belief
that Dr. Weizmann is abandoning the idea of the Jew-
ish Agency, it is time to stop and consider anew the
pressing needs in Zionism. We quote from the London
Jewish Chronicle editorial:

agate for a Jewish Agency one year and suggest its
burial during the next twelve-month period ; which ask
for the hushing of all criticism "for the sake of Pal-
estine," and thereby leave doubt in the minds of many,
instead of strengthening faith in the Land of Israel.
On one point we take issue with Mr. tie Haas. In
his recent article in the Menorah Journal on "Thirty
Years After Ilerzl," he said: "The creation of the
Jewish Homeland is the one opportunity that has come
to the Jews in nineteen centuries. There will be no
other." We refuse to doubt the success of the present
effort. 1Ve, too, have faith that the roots struck by the
Jewish settlers in Palestine will not be destroyed anti
that the Jewish settlements are in the Land of israel
to stay. We refuse to doubt in their stability. Very
naturally, however, we are dis-satisfied with-the slow
process and believe in the possibility of greater progress.
That is why we earnestly hope for such changes in con-
ditions, even if they call for complete changes in admin-
istration, which will create a leadership that will help
build in Palestine to the greatest advantage of all Is-
rael, and which will make for a unified Jewish action
for Palestine.
In the meantime, Jewry's obligations to the United
Palestine Appeal remain among the supreme duties in
the life of our people. The work in Palestine must not
stop for a single day, and our contributions must not be
diminished even by a single penny.

The outview Dr. Weizmann takes is of so optimistic a
nature that he has probably now placed carefully on one
side, even if he has not buried, that fantastic idea of an ex-
tended Agency—extended for thy purpose of trying to get
National work done by those who, most of them quite con-
scientiously, loathe and detest the very idea of Nationalism
in association with Judaism. In any case, we are pleased
to see that the Zionist leader did not think it worth while
even to mention the project to our representative . • .
Dr. Weizmann will find himself without the Agency idea
far nearer than he would have been with it to the hearts
and souls of the Zionists who are to be provileged to wel-
come him In the United States. They will realize, among
many other considerations, that a source of disunity and
fissiparousness which is just now rife among them has been
removed if the Agency notion has indeed gone over to the
etcigkeit. And there is, as for as we know, no reason, ex-
cept petty personal ones which Zionists should spurn with
contempt, why all those in America who desire to we
the upbuilding of a Jewish National being should not,
joining hand in hand, rally to Dr. Weizmann's support and
bring to him, as lender, the sacrifice that is demanded of
us Jews by the loyalty we bear to our race, our religion,
our history and our traditions, to that we in this genera-
tion shall net the foundations of the solving of the Jewish
problems upon which the generations that succeed us may
be able to raise the glorious structure of Israel redeemed.

There has been much ill feeling over the question of
the Jewish Agency on the one hand, at the last Awo
International Zionist Congresses, and so much hope was
placed upon it on the other hand by Zionists in this
country, that suddenly to bury "that fantastic idea,"
RS our contemporary calls it, is to attest to the incon-
sistencies that mark our Zionist efforts. There is proof
in this of a need for a definite and consistent policy with
regard to Palestine which will prevent the recurrence
of such practices which led to Tel Aviv speculations and
booms,—booms which, as Dr. Weizmann stated in his
London interview, he fears more than crisis.
"There is much more danger," Dr. Weizmann told
his interviewer, "particularly with us Jews, in over-op-
timism than in undue pessimism." For this more than
any other .reason, Dr. Weizmann, who comes to our
shores this month imbued with great confidence and
faith in the Zionist ideal, owes it to the movement he is
guiding to help clarify the many issues at stake and
to prepare for a clear road for an all-Jewish participa-
tion in Palestine's upbuilding.
Dr. Weizmann, when he comes here, will be called
upon to answer to questions of Zionist policy not only
pertaining to the world movement, but also those which
concern the American federation. There is growing in
the ranks of American Zionists an ever-spreading dis-
satisfaction with the manner in which efforts for Pales-
tine are being directed. In a communication to the edi-
tor, published in this issue, Jacob de Haas, executive
secretary of the American Zionist Federation under
Justice Brandeis and Judge Mack, points out that "the
formulation of a real constructive program is not diffi-
cult," and declares that "those who desire reform and
re-organization must bestir themselves to the point of
careful observation and serious thinking."
We are in agreement with Mr. de Haas that it will
• be dangerous to howl down criticisms. One of the first
concerns in the movement for Palestine should be the
creation of a well-informed and intelligent Zionist con-
stituency, one that is acquainted with the facts with re-
gard to Palestine Land is able to judge without calling
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all criticism destructive. Mr. de Haas is right when he
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says that "the boycotting of critics is not a curative pro-
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cess." In the demand, therefore, of a statement of facts
with regard to Palestine, it is our hope that Dr. Weiz-
i" mann, bringing to us as he does his great faith in the
Jewish Homeland ideal, will help to clarify matters to
the elimination of such conflicting emotions which prop-

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The Polish Elections.

When Morris D. Waldman, in his report on Jewish
conditions in Poland, emphasized that the Jew there
has gained political equality, there were some who
doubted the truth of this statement, and his-report was
also subjected to the criticism of some of Polish Jewry's
representatives. The elections of last week, however,
offered proof of the truth of Mr. Waldman's estimate
of the political situation. Many Jews, no longer feel-
ing the need for political pressure to guarantee their
rights as citizens, even abstained from voting, and the
Jewish parties which presented candidates at the polls
no longer joined in a union with the other minority
blocs. Jewish support of the government party in this
case, was also stimulated by theo,equality our fellow
Jews attained in the Polish Republic.

It is one thing, however, to possess full equality in
the eyes of the law, and it is another thing for such
equality to be enjoyed without interference from the
rioting mob. The riots that followed the elections at
Lemberg revealed that while equality is enjoyed by the
Jews of Poland politically, there continues to rage that
social anti-Semitism which moves the mob to rioting.
In the case of the Polish excesses, there are the same
regrets as in the pogroms in Hungary and Rumania.—
that the leaders should be the representatives of the
supposedly enlightened elements in the land, and that
the instigators of massacres should be the university
students.
It is pleasing to note, however, that the government
has taken a firm stand against the pogrom instigators.
To the cry of the anti-Semitic students that "it is a
shame for Polish Lemberg to send two Jews to Parlia-
ment," the dean of the University of Lemberg replied
that it is "unworthy of Polish students" to act as they
did, and the liberal Polish students and the press pro-
tested against the occurrences. At the same time, the
Pilsudski government organ, Glos Prawdy, declared
that "Poland cannot tolerate militant methods modelled
after those of Rumania and Hungary."
The Polish elections served also as proof that riots
followed by additional riots are not the methods to be
pursued for erasing from the Jewish minds the sad ex-
periences of pogroms. The excesses against Jews only
served to emphasize the need for sending Jewish
spokesmen and defenders to the Sejm, and the election
of nearly 20 "Jews to the Polish Parliament was an ex-
pression of Jewish sentiment that our people in Poland
feels the needs for direct Jewish representation to pro-
tect their rights, socially, politically anti economically.
When hoodlum students riot against such Jewish ex-
pressions at the polls, they not only fail in their anti-
Semitic purpose, but serve to encourage the sentiments
they aim to suppress.
In the meantime anti-Semitic feeling in Poland con-
tinues. It is admitted in Socialist ranks that Lieberman
and Diamond, two Jewish leaders of the Polish Social-
ist Party, were defeated by the votes of their own com-
rades as a result of anti-Semitism in Socialist ranks and
in spite of the great Socialist victory in the popular
elections. It is also admitted by Deputy Gruenbaum
that where there was a fusion of Jewish and other mi-
nority candidates, the non-Jews failed to live up to
their bargain and did not cast their ballots for Jews.
Even minority elements are imbued with the anti-Sem-
itism of the Polish masses. There remains much to be
done to translate the political rights granted Jews on
the statute hooks into actual practice by the people of
Poland.

The Jewish Snob.

Dr. Stephen S. Wise is doing a great service to his
people by calling for self-criticism. Before we criticize
the non-Jew for his prejudices against us, it is well that
we have a searching of our own actions that we may not
expect others to do what we ourselves refuse to prac-
tice.
Dr. Wise was referring to Justice Tompkins' with-
drawal from the New York Metropolitan Masons' Coun-
try Club for excluding Jews from membership when he
said:

It was something for which I had been waiting 54
years. And now I shall wait 54 more years for a Jew to
resign from a Jewish club because there are as many mean,
contemptible snobs in them as there are in the Christian
organizations.

Backing his denunciation, Dr. Wise read the con-
tents of an application blank for membership to a fash-
ionable Jewish club which called for the listing of the
birthplaces of the applicants' parents, grandparents
and parents-in-law. The evident desire on the part of
such clubs to exclude Jews of Eastern European stock
places them in the same class with the non-Jewish clubs
who discriminate against Jewish applicants. Their snob-
bishness was given a well-deserved rebuke by Rabbi
Wise.

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A noted leader in American industrial life is speaking
to a group of employees and visitors at the Ileinz "57"
plant in Pittsburgh. Be says:

It pays to be polite. I recall iris time when I
was a young chap working in the Pennsylvania
Railroad shops in Altoona, Pa. Whenever I spoke
to a lady, of course, 1 always raised my hat, and I
also adopted that rule when speaking to older
men. 1 felt that there is a courtesy due elderly
people.
At any rate, it friend of mine (lied and I ills-
covered that I wen made executor of his estate and
bond was required. The exact amount I have
forgotten just now, but I think it was $40,000. In
trying to think of someone I could get to go
on my bond, I thought of a Jewish clothier in
Altoona, when I kr.ew slightly.
I called on hint and told hits what I wanted. Ile
looked at me for a moment, took my bond, went
into his little office in the rear of the store, and in
a moment came back with the bond signed.

• I asked him why he did it. And he answered:
"Because, Sammy, you are always such a polite
boy. Every morning when you pass my stow
you say 'Good morning,' and lift your hat, while
other boys call me 'sheeny.' "

This is not a bedtime story, but a fact. The man
who told it the other day on himself is Samuel Vauclain,
president of the Baldwin Locomotive Works, and the
clothier was a Mr. Scheeline, of Altoona, one of the
pioneer merchants of that city.

Some Hebrew-Christian has sent me a letter but I
can't find it, but I have found un enclosure that was in
it, which is very much to the point. Ile writes:

Another article quoted shows the cynicism of
Charles II. Joseph, in that he' doubts whether one
Jew out of a thousand who is converted is ever
converted except in name only, and that some day
the Christian Church will realize that their hard
earned money will be devoted to more practical
purposes: stone more of his "Random Thoughts."
1 looked up the word "Random," in the dictionary,
and how well it covers Mr. Joseph's thoughts.
"Random: want of definite aim or method of pur-
pose, without direction, aimlessly." Well, his
thoughts about Jewish converts are certainly very
much at random.

Weil, it seems that in this one instance tny aim was
pretty good as I hit a convert right on his sensitive spot,
and 1 promise you to find a sensitive spot in a Jewish
convert is an achievement. Some (lay the Christian min-
isters will wake up and realize how they have wasted
the money of their followers in a futile attempt to make
Christians out of Jews. It's a tragic farce.

After writing the previous paragraph I discovered
this letter from a Reverend E. M. McFadden of Pitts-
burgh, Pa., in which he says:

A letter received from a very good friend of
mine this morning contains some reflections on
two articles which appeared in the Jewish Cri-
terion. Thinking it might be of some interest to
you to learn something of the reaction of a He-
brew Christian, I take the liberty of tending you
a ropy of same. This gentleman is a man of
standing and, as you will note, not lacking in edu-
cation. lie was for many years a member of the
Rodef Sholom Congregation.

I appreciate the sincerity of Dr. McFadden's letter,
but it in no wise changes my attitude toward Hebrew
Christians. I reiterate that it is my honest conviction,
based upon observations and experience, that the Chris-
tian Church is wasting money in endeavoring to bring
Jews to Christianity. That money would be better in-
vested in bringing Gentiles to Christianity, and I say
this most earnestly.

I wish to apologize to Louis J. Livingston of Chicago
for not replying earlier to the letter he wrote me some
time ago in care of the Chicago Sentinel. But I'll turn
my attention to it now. He thinks that I have unjustly
criticized Queen Marie of Rumania for the anti-Jewish
outrages in her country. Ile says that she is such a
noble woman that she could do no evil. He also calls
attention to the fact that 20 years ago he wrote a letter
to "Carmen Sylva," then Queen of Rumania, on the
same subject, but he never received a reply, and attrib-
utes that to the evil persons surrounding her. Ile pre-
sents an argument that if Queen Marie was so unfriendly
to Jews she would never have accepted attention and
hospitality from Ira Nelson Morris in Chicago. And
finally, he compares her position in relation to the Jewish
riots to that of the President of the United States in
relation to lynching of Negroes.

I am sorry that Iam not convinced. I published not
so long ago a statement that calls for an answer from
Cretziano, the Rumanian Minister tn the United States,
in which his government was definitely accused of being
responsible for certain outrages in December, 1927.
There was nothing equivocal about the charges. The
President of the United States does not plan oppressive
measures against the colored people of the South. The
Congress of the United States does not encourage lynch-
ings. The Legislatures and the Governors of the various
states do not place weapons at the disposal of mobs for
lynching purposes. But here we have definite charges
that the government officials of Rumania, the police of
Rumania, helped in the nefarious business. Cretziano
has promised that reforms would be instituted. For
years and years anti years the same promises have been
made and still the outrages continue. If Queen Marie
has authority, she should be able to improve conditions
materially. Even her graciousness, her smiles, her
charm, her English ancestry', her education, her culture
cannot blot out the inhumanities that stain the name of a
country that pretends to civilization.
After the above was written, I find this startling con-
firmation in a dispatch from Vienna, dated March 5, to
the Jewish Daily Bulletin, which is as follows:

Startling facts with regard to the attitude of
the Rumanian government in the anti-Jewish ex-
cesses in Transylvania during December were dis-
closed in testimony presented before the military
court at Cluj.
A detailed report of the proceedings of the
military court which is now trying the last group
of students who participated in the riots, tele-
graphed here by an Hungarian news agency ,
quotes the Rumanian student haler, Popescu, in
his statement before the military court, that the
government had greater guilt in the Transylvania
pogroms than did the students.
This statement caused great surprisit in the
court, the government attorneys urging the judge
to prohibit the publication of the statement in the
The court, however, declined, but con-
press.
sented to continue Popescu's interrogation in
camera.
Popescu, in his testimony before the closed ses-
sion, declared that the government had had ample
time to prevent the devastations. "I myself tele-
graphed to Tatarescu. The chief of police of
Oradeamare also telephoned hourly to the Minis-
try of the Interior, declining responsibility and
requesting instructions." The government, how-
ever, apparently had no desire to give the instruc-
tions as requested. "As additional proof I can say
that Tatarescu told me later .than everything
would have been all right if the Oradeamare riots
would have remained limited in scope. Later,
however, when the thing was repeated in Iluyad,
Osucsa and Cluj the government was compelled to
apply reprisals."

I have been asked by a reader to reprint in this col-
umn an editorial on Senator James A. Reed of Missouri
which I wrote for one of the Jewish newspapers. It
would take up too much spare and I feel it is quite un-
necessary, as the Democratic party should know, if it has
the brains of the donkey which is its emblem, that if they
lean upon the senator from Missouri as a presidential
candidate they will lean upon a broken reed.

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A Review of Andre Maurois' Biography of
Beaconsfield.

By RABBI LEON FRAM

The road to greatness lies

the Church of England —how was

through frivolity. This was the

Beniamin Disraeli, ever going
to set foot into that tournament of
ambition and power where his tal-
ents shall one day bring hint the
prize of victory? Delivering
splendid (orations, publishing pro-
found political treatises--he tried
all of these things but !tone of
them advanced him a step. But to
be the must exciting subject in the
gossip of the women of Lo n don's
smart set—that he predicted would
bring him to his goal.

cynical philosophy with Which Ben-
jamin Disraeli began his career.
The road to success in the political
world winds gracefully through
fashionable, teas, gay midnight
suppers, daring conversation, rid-
ing to hound:, betting on horses
and extravagant dressing. W hat
was needed above all, he noted in
his diary, was the attention of the
%contra of Mayfair. Whether this
attention took the form of criti-
cism or adoration did not matter.
The point was that he who would
achieve greatness must have him-
self talked about by women. So
he played the game of smart so-
ciety with painstaking diligence.

He out-dandied all the dandies,
out-Brurnmeled till the Beau Brum-
mels of Landon. Whenever "Dizzy,"
as the women of the fashionable
set nicknamed him -- whenever
Dizzy entered a drawing room,
and he invariably came late. it was
as though a curtain had been
drawn and the company invited to
view a dazzling spectacle. There
he stood in a purple coat, green
trousers and canary waistcoat,
buckle shoes, lace cuffs, gold chains
strewn all about him, and his hair
done in ringlets and curls. Ills
manners were not only faultless,
they were fa:Odious. Ile affected
a morning cane and an evening
cane. Promptly when the bells of
London struck the noon hour, his
valet withdrew the morning cane
and handed him his evening cane.
Ile also wrote society novels—and
this was something most dandies
could not do--novels replete with
veiled references to well-known
persons, which the people of the
frivolous set read greedily. In all
this luxury and finesse he indulged
himself, despite the fact that he
was hopelessly—and this also was
fashionable — hopelessly in debt
because of unfortunate specula-
tions.
Not a Newly - Rich Vulgarian. .

Where did Benjamin Disraeli
get these notions? Some biog-
raphers, noting the flashing over-
dress and self-conscious bejewell-
ment of nouveau-riche Jews of our
(lay, have seen a Semitic quality
in Dizzy's early flamboyancy. But
Maurois knows better. Ile knows
that Disraeli was descended from
an aristocratic Spanish-Jewish
family—a family of great mer-
chants and scholars—a home of
subdued tones and quiet intellectu-
ality.. His father was a book-
worm, author of the six volumes
of the "Curiosities of Literature"
which are still and will continue to
lie the delight of all bookworms of
all time No, this Benjamin, son
of Isaac the scholar, grandson of
Benjamin, the merchant of Venice,
was no newly-rich vulgarian.
There were centuries of nobility,
culture and good taste behind him.
In this newest biography we have
the correct appraisal of Disraeli's
dandyism. It was a pose, a de-
vise, a system, a definite means to
an end, the means to be drooped
as soon as the end was attained.

Ile was a brilliant young, man.
Ile knew it. It is as vulgarity to
be conscious of one's mental pow-
ers. The career of a statesman
captured his youthful fancy. Ile
had clear and original ideas about
the next step in England's policies,
internal and external. While he
was still in his teens, he had con-
fided to his diary and to his de-
voted sister, Sarah, that he intend-
ed to be Prime Minister of Eng-
land. How was he to get his
start? How was he to enter par-
liament? How had the great Eng-
lish statesmen of the past begun
their career? How were other
brilliant young men of today going
through their first paces? William
Pitt, Robert Peel—they were vir-
tually born to parliament, they
had entered it as soon as they had
come of age. Family prominence,
influence. and wealth had paved a
royal highway for them from Eton
to Oxford to parliament. William
Gladstone, his immediate contem-
porary, was already in parliament,
having entered by that same cer-
tain route.
A Superficial Fop.
But he—Benjamin Disraeli—of
a family obscure in the political
world, of a brilliance `of mind
which aroused the distrust rather
than the sympathy of politicians
in power, obsessed by an ambition
which he had impulsively exposed
to the world in an obviously auto-
biographical novel, "Vivian Grey,"
and possessed of a Jewish name
the negative effect of which was
not likely to be neutralized by the
mere fact that he was baptized into

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Such was actually the condition
of London's political life that
melt's diagnosis was correct, and
his method perfect. The introspec-
tive young man became a super-
ficial fop The mind which had
inherited a tendency to brood on
deep problems expended itself in
small talk about horses and dogs.
The aristocrat born to dignity and
reserve transformed himself into
a theatrical type, a matinee idol.
Disraeli was reduced to Dizzy.

Maurois has found the evidence
that he hated the business. It was
not in hint. It was all artifice. But
the young man was a realist. Ile
knew. what he wanted, and all the
realities of English political life
clamored in his ears. The road to
greatness lies through frivolity.
Into the sea of fashion and frivol.
ity then he dived and swam brave-
ly and with bold strokes, till he
reached the glittering shore of his
heart's desire. The system worked.
A talkative little woman, Mrs.
Wyndham Lewis, who took a giddy
liking to this very different young
man, talked about him and talked
and talked until site literally talked
him into a seat in parliament.

This first stage of Disraeli's life
is so picturesque, so astounding,
and so much like comic-opera, that
most biographers and commenta-
tors have never gotten beyond it.
They have made it the keynote of
till his subsequent career. They
have taken the 40 years which fol-
lowed this "coat of many colors"
stage—years during which, Jo-
seph-like, he was second only to
Pharaoh in power, and his genius
fed an empire and have given
these provident years the label:
"adventurer" and "ambition with-
out conviction."

Never Denied His Ambition.

Disraeli paid the price of hon-
esty. lie never denied his ambi-
tion to reach the top of the greasy
pole. To little minds that is un-
forgivable. Little minds prefer
politicians like Gladstone, who
moved heaven and earth to get
himself into power but who could
in self-delusion say, "I do not
think I can tax myself with over
having been much moved by am-
bition." The mob needs leaders,
but it does not like to have these
leaders say: "We are the head be -
cause we have talent and ambi-
tion." It prefers to have them
cloak their ambition with noble
sentiments. Therefore, such biog-
raphers as reflect the little mind
of the mob have never forgiven
Disraeli the theatrical device by
which he' played upon his coun-
try's foibles to get hint:elf into
the arena of the great. They for-
get thAt once there he became it
veritable English country gentle-
man and a model husband. (Ile
married this felicitously talkative
Mrs. Wyndham Lewis, when her
husband, Disraeli's political pa-
tron, died.) They forget that
once he reached parliament, lead-
ership flowed naturally his way.
They forget that once he attained
power he acted with genuine con-
sistency upon a political philosophy
clearly outlined in advance in his
political novels and realized to the
letter. They forget that all his
tainteniporaries, Peel, Russel and
Derby and Gladstone, are en-
tombed between the pages of books
while Disraeli is still a living
reality in England. Every April
19, the anniversary of Disraeli's
death, Conservative England cele-
brates Primrose day. Thousands
wear the primrose, Disraeli's fa-
vorite flower, in their buttonholes,
and his statue in Parliament
Square is bedecked with flowers.
No mere adventurer could have
won such an immortality in the
hearts of the English people.
Ile must have employed the ener-
gies of his ambition to some
great ends outside of himself.
Maurois has recognized these
things which Disraeli achieved for
England: Ile rallied its decadent
aristocracy to a revived sense of
noblese oblige and articulated its
interests by creating the Conserva-
tive Party. Ile gave the British

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A Sheaf of Sheilas

fly RABBI LEON FRAM
[)lector of Religious Education, Temple Beth El.

1Readers of The Detroit Jewish
Chronicle are invited to submit
questions for Rabbi Fram to an-
swer. Address Rabbi Leon Fram,
Temple Bet El, Detroit.)

1. What is Philo-Semitism?
2. What is a Blood Accusa-
tion?

3. Who was the last Jew to be
a victim of that Accusation?
4, What is the relation be-
tween Passover and Easter?
5. What symbol have Easter
and Passover in common?
Cr, What is the common origin
of Easter and Passover?
7. What is an Ethical Will?
8. What great Jews have writ-
ten Ethical Wills?
9. What rabbi of Temple Beth
El, Detroit, left a famous Ethical
Will?
10. Who was the latest rabbi
to have left an Ethical Will?
II. What Jewish scholar has

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made a collection of all the Brea
Ethical Wills?

12. What is the Pro-Jerusalem
Society?
13. Who is the latest person of
Jewish origin to have received the
Nobel prize?
14. Name three Jewish win-
ners of the Nobel prizes.
15. Name two Jewish corn-
posers of comic opera.
16. Why are the liberal Hun-
garians of America boycotting the
dedication of the Kossuth Me-
morial?
17. What is the Cup of Elijah?
Di. What figure in Christian
legend does Elijah the Prophet re-

semble?

to

19. What is the purpose of
Elijah's visit?
20. (Submitted by a reader):
in what century did the story of
the Book of Esther take place?

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