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Orphans' Passport: Constructive Effort.
When work was begun by a handful of loyalists and
enthusiasts for the settlement of war orphans on farms
President
JOSEPH J. CUMMINS
in Canada, constructive effort and, to whatever degree
Secretary and T
JACOB H. SCHAKNE
Managing Editor
PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
it was humanely possible, self-help on the part of these
Advertising Manager
MAURICE M. SAFIR
unfortunate youngsters became their passport for en-
Entered as Second-claw matter March 3, 1916, at the PoatoMce at Detroit,
Mich. under the At of March Z. 11, 714.
trance to American shores. The Am-Ca ( American-
General Offices awl Publication Building
Canadian) Orphans' Home and Farm School at George-
525 Woodward Avenue
town, Ontario, now the home of these orphans, has the
Cable Address: Chronicle
Telephone: Cadillac 1040
London Office:
aim of self-help and constructive endeavor as the foun-
14 Stratford Place, London, W. 1, England.
dation for its existence, and when the orphans come
$3.00 Per Year
Subscription, In Advance
here this Sunday evening (March 25), to present a con-
To Insure publication, all eorrespondence and news matter must reach this
office by Tuesday evening of each week. When melting notices,
cert at the Masonic Temple, they hope, with their songs
kindly u-e one side of the paper only.
and recitations, and the music of their orchestra, to be
The Detroit Jewish Chronicle invitee correspondence on eubJects of interest to
the Jewish people, but disclaim. responsibility for an indorsement of the view.
able to earn sonic dollars which should help guarantee
eat, eeeee d by the writers.
the existence of their farm school.
Sabbath Readings of the Torah:
Pentateuchal Portions—Ex. 35:1-40:38:12:1-20.
Whatever assistance it is possible to offer them,
Prophetical Portions—Ezek. 45:16-46:18.
therefore, through the purchase of admission cards to
Nissan 2, 5688
March 23, 1928
their concert, ought to be offered to them gladly, will-
ingly. But it is well also to remember that the proceeds
of a concert, or a dozen concerts, never supported any
Dr. Weizmann's Sixth U. S. Visit.
institution. To guarantee the farm school's existence
Dr. Chaim Weizmann, president of the World Zion-
and to keel) faith with the Canadian government, to
ist Organization, who arrived in this country this week,
whom assurances were given that the orphans would
for his sixth American visit, brings with him the one
not be permitted to become public charges, free-will
offerings are needed, and contributions should be made
thing that American Zionists are sorely in need of. Ile
without expecting entertainment in return.
brings with him that faith and confidence which was
Detroit Jews have already contributed many thou-
responsible for Zionist triumphs in Palestine and on the
sands for the upkeep of this farm school. They will
field of diplomacy. His almost religious trust and be-
be asked for many more thousands. They should give
lief in the powers of the Jewish people to build a great
them gladly.
Jewish settlement in Palestine should help restore
in American Zionists that confidence which was shaken
A Non-Jew Challenges Jewish Indifference.
by the cry of "Wolf, wolf," which, in the case of Pales-
A very serious charge of indifference to the suffer-
tine, was translated into the terms "Crisis, crisis."
Dr. Weizmann is now in this country for the prin- ings of their people is hurled at Jewish journalists and
financiers by Henry Noel Brailsford, in his discussion
cipal purpose of raising funds, through the United Pal-
of the rights of oppressed minorities in the March Me-
estine Appeal, to continue the work begun in Palestine
norah Journal. Mr. Brailsford expresses the belief
by the various functioning agencies,—the Keren Ilaye- that "when Jews seek to act for the preservation of
their race they incur risks only if they act secretly."
sod, Jewish National Fund, Hadassah, etc. Whatever
He declares that "it is furtive, backstairs action which
his intentions are with regard to the Jewish Agency
will, we hope, be revealed to us in the early stages of creates resentment and fear," and concludes by saying
that the League of Nations is "an automatic machine
his stay with us. But to his first call, to give of our
for dispensing justice. It is at best a register of public
money for the U. P. A., the response, if American Jew-
opinion. The Jews must learn to create that opinion."
ry is to be true to itself and to all Israel, must be spon-
taneous and wholehearted. As Dr. Weizmann pointed
How is such public opinion to be credited? Mr.
out in one of the farewell addresses he delivered in Lon- Brailsford believes that Jewish writers who have won
don prior to his departure for our shores, American
the ear of the world—he mentions Lion Feuchtwanger
Jews were downtrodden 40 years ago and driven out
as an example—are in position, "if they would use
of the countries they then resided in, and the opportun- their genius," to make the non-Jewish world under-
ity that is theirs was given them in trust. This trust can
stand what life is like for the Rumanian and other
only have a value if the duty to Palestine is nobly per-
East European Jews. But he charges that Jews do not
make use of their power in the press and in finance to
formed.
This call of the U. P. A., now being sounded far and aid their kindred. After expressing doubt whether a
wide throughout the land, will soon reach also our own non-Jew, however sympathetic, can have much of value
to say when his words are weighed against those of men
city. By the time the appeal is sounded here, on April
who ponder incessantly on the problem, Mr. Brailsford
22, for $110,000 from Detroit Jewry for Palestine, we
hope that much of the Weizmannian faith will so inoc- risks a question :
ulate local Jewry that the name of not a single individ-
Do Jews make the utmost possible use of their power
in the press and in finance to aid their kindred? I am, of
ual in our midst will be missing from the roll call of the
course, well aware of the reasons which may lead them to
builders of Zion.
regard as imprudent any use on behalf of their race of the
Published Weekly by The Jewish Chronicle Publishing Co.,
A Civic Responsibility.
3
S.
The Detroit Symphony Society, responding to a
growing demand, has changed its Friday evening con-
certs to Friday afternoons for the coming season. Wom-
en's organizations, realizing that the responsibility is
now theirs to make the change an unqualified success,
are now charged with the duty of guaranteeing that
every Friday afternoon concert for the season 1928-29
be greeted by capacity audiences.
Upon the Detroit section of the Council of Jewish
Women falls perhaps a greater responsibility than up-
on any other women's group in this city. During the
past year, many more Jewish subscribers should have
been listed in the records of the holders of season tickets
with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. To increase the
numbers aiming to fulfil an important civic responsibil-
ity, the Detroit Council has an important task before it,
and an interested Jewish audience, we have confidence,
will respond worthily to the women's call that a larger
proportion of Jews be listed among the season ticket
holders for the coming year.
The responsibility is clearly that of the women, and
the inducements are such that it is impossible to expect
anything else but a fine response to the call to them to
purchase season tickets. The absence from the city
during the coming year of Mr. Ossip Gabrilowitsch will
be offset by the visits here of such conductors as Men-
gelberg, Damrosch, Molinari, Beechem, Goosens, Enes-
co, Van Hoogstraten. Among the soloists for the corn-
ing season are listed some of the best known vocalists
and violinists. For preparations such as are now being
made by the Detroit Symphony Society to retain the fine
reputation it has established for itself throughout the
country, only an affirmative response must come to the
plea for civic responsibility to which the local Council
of Jewish Women adds its voice.
Jews are generally known as music lovers. and a
very large part of every attendance at Symphony con-
certs is Jewish. The plea, therefore, for the advance
purchase of season tickets to attend these concerts does
not call for sacrifice. It asks for the fulfilment of the
responsibility towards an important civic institution,
and it is expected that the call of the Women's Council
will be met with a great success.
Have You Given Mo'os Chittim?
One of the most beautiful traditions in Jewish life
is to provide Mo'os Chittim for the poor during the
Passover festival. Mo'os Chittim is the provision of
Matzoth and other Passover necessities for those with
whom poverty interferes in an appropriate celebration
of the Festival of Freedom. At this time, while unem-
ployment rages both here and abroad, it is important
that the more comfortably situated remember their
Passover charity. Let them give their Mo'os Chittim
) to the needy in our own community, and let those who
44 :7 have poor relations overseas remember to brighten
their Seder with an offering, even if it is necessary to
cable it. So that when the "Kol dichfin ... "—let all
those who are hungry enter and eat"—is recited, the
spirit of the law may brighten up the Seder table.
I just finished reading a little book written by Joseph
Bondy of Syracuse, N. Y., on the subject of "Religious
Liberty in the Constitution," dealing with the history of
the efforts of the Colonies to establish religious liberty
as a part of the supreme law of the land. I was just a
little amused to note that according to the author, that
it is quite difficult to believe in these times to what extent
religious intolerance and hate were carried in earlier
times. We have not the slightest difficulty for we find
plenty of bigotry and intolerance today, only the mailed
fist is covered with a velvet glove.
-
-
Take for instance the clipping that I have before me
at this moment. It is taken from a journal called The
Protestant. It discusses a talk given by a Catholic priest
in which the priest discusses "Bismarck, Gladstone and
Gov. Alfred E. Smith." So the Protestant makes this
Christ-like comment:
The lecture title would be more striking and
equally more consistent if he had called it "The
Whale, the Elephant and the Mouse." Neither
Bismarck nor Gladstone had to get a Jewess to
edit their speeches to make them grammatical.
The reader who sends me the clipping asks: "Who
is Al' Smith's Jewish lady friend that edits his speeches,
'Random Thought'?" Tell us who it is, Joseph? Nothing
like coming to headquarters when readers want informa-
tion, but I really thought that everyone in the country,
thanks to Smith's enemies and friends. knew that Mrs.
Ilenry Moskowitz is the Jewess referred to. Perhaps
other readers will be interested to learn something about
Mrs. Moskowitz, who is such a power at this moment in
the political life of the nation. She is Public Relations
Counsel of New York. At one time she was manager of
the labor department of the Dress and Waist 'Manufac-
turers' Association; secretary mayor's Committee on Na-
tional Defense; secretary Governor Smith's Reconstruc-
tion Committee; secretary governor's Labor Board; sec-
retary Educational Counsel, Port of New York Authority,
and she helped write a recent life of Governor Smith. So
Mrs. Moskowitz is quite competent to know what's what
and who's who in politics, and the governor is a wise
man to lend an ear to her advice. So the statement in
the Protestant is rather a nasty little dig.
potential influence which they might exert in these two
fields. A Jew who occupies an editorial position on an
English or American or German paper is expected to write
from the standpoint of the interests of his adopted country.
If he were to allow Jewish interests to dictate his policy, he
might provoke just resentment or suspicion. I question
whether that consideration need have much weight in this
case. It is not an English or American or German interest
that Jews should be ill-used in Rumania, or that the facts
should be concealed. Indeed, it is plainly a European
interest that all the minorities in Rumania (Magyars,
Saxons, Bulgarians, and Russians) as well as the Jews
should enjoy their rights. I cannot conceive that any
reasonable Christian could resent plain speaking by a
Jewish journalist on such a question. Little, far too little,
is done to insure a wide knowledge of the facts. I believe
that much might be achieved by a skillful and systematic
effort to influence the press in London, Paris, and other
centers.
It is useless to discuss whether public opinion is a
power, unless every fair means is taken to inform public
opinion. There is scope here for organization and inge-
nuity. One wants reliable news. One must have a sense
for the psychological moment. I would suggest an occa-
sional visit to the east of Europe by Jewish writers who
have won the ear sof the world (such a man as Feuchtwan-
ger, for example). If they would use their genius to make
us understand what life is like for the Rumanian Jew, I
believe, if the articles were widely scattered, that Bucha-
rest would be seriously embarrassed. The facts are not
known, nor is there any attempt to counteract the social
influence which Magyars in London and Rumanians in
Paris systematically exploit. Only after the organized
use of such methods, in every civilized country, over a
number of years. would one have the right to inquire
whether public opinion is effective.
There remains the weapon of financial boycott. The
risk is obvious. There would soon be talk about "the
hidden hand" and the Elders of Zion. The reaction would
chatter about "an international conspiracy" against Cath-
olic Poland or Christian Rumania. But why should the
Jewish "hand" hide its doings? I believe that when Jews
seek to act for the preservation of their race they incur
risks only if they act secretly. But would there be the
.same alarm, if a group of Jewish bankers were boldly to
issue a reasonable public statement, which would sum up
the evidence of persecution, and state their determination
to oppose any loan to the nersecuting state? I do not think
so. On the contrary, I believe that the manifesto would be
regarded by every decent Christian with sympathy and
respect.
To the well informed Jew, Who has followed the
t nd f Jewish thought and action during the past
quarter of a century, this is a brilliant summing up of
sad condition. In everything that has been done, the
Jew alw.- ays needed the "Ilechshar" of the non-Jew
V) hen N ewark, N. J., Jews wanted to protest against .
the Rumanian anti - Jewish outrages, it needed an United
States Senator. But when this Senator was urged by a
hater of an important section of American Jewry not
to raise his voice against Rumania's barbarities, because
it was the opinion of this leading Jew that "the intro-
duction of further resolutions on this subject in Con-
gress would occasion the Jews of Rumania serious in-
jury and would certainly not be productive of good re-
sults," Newark Jews remained without a spokesman,
and Rumania's outrages continue. A certain fear and
diffidence has animated Jewish action, especially in this
country, on behalf of fellow-Jews abroad. Perhaps air.
Brailsford' article in the Menorah Journal will serve to
awaken Jewish journalists and financiers to their re-
sponsibilities and powers. At any rate, here is hoping
that it will help to teach the Jew that it isn't always
necessary to have the non-Jew's advance approval for
everything we do. Let us do the right thing by our
people, and the applause of the Christian world will
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Just happened to hear that Joan London, the charm-
ing and clever daughter of the late Jack London, mar-
ried a Jew by the name of 51alarnuth, a professor in ths
University of California. Joan London is a writer and
a lecturer.
Recently I quoted some of the crazy questions that
are asked of Jews who want to immigrate to this coun-
try, in order to test their mental competence. So a
reader in Minneapolis sends me this doggerel which he
calls, "Official Questions," which reflects the situation and
if you don't mind it, some of the insane questions con-
tained in this poem (?) were actually asked by the immi-
gration officials abroad:
OFFICIAL QUESTIONS.
There are certain officials of consular rank
Who, in the interest of Mammon's bank,
Clamor to limit immigration
To produce a purely Nordic nation.
The thoughts they think and the questions they
ask
Their prejudice and hatred unmask.
Here are a few to serve as example,
Their utter absurdity is ample:
"How many feathers has a goose?"
And what does one do when one is foot-loose?
"Tell us, how long is a piese of string?"
What do you do when you do nothing?
"How many stars are there in heaven?"
Can you raise cabbage by means of leaven?
"Iley, you there, how many teeth has a crow?"
A white crow or black crow, sire, do you know?
"How many feet has an American cat?"
Please, Mister, a Nordic or Alpine cat?
"Can you make a stove out of butter?"
Can officials ask questions who mentally stutter?
E. S.
By DR. GEORGE). SAYLIN
It is a curious prenomenon how
he crisis in Palestine attracted
both the Zionist and the non-Zion-
ist. Neither of them were equipped
to accept it as the natural out-
come of overconfidence, of an
overestimate of the capacity of lit-
tle Palestine neglected for many
centuries, of history repeating it-
self in the building of a nation.
The conviction of each became
deeper, stronger, and their activi-
ties in their respective fields inten-
sified. The answer of the Zionist
leaders became a determination
akin to an obsession to build Pal-
estine by means fair or otherwise,
while that of the non-Zionist
group was Crimea and more
Crimea.
A common every-day example
sometimes speaks louder than
pages of arguments. Supposing a
man tied up in investments is sud-
denly confronted with a financial
crisis. What is likely to happen?
It may ruin him, or, by hard labor
and perseverance he may pull
through 4111(1 save his name and
fortune. On the other hand, more
often than not, he is tempted by
easy money and he may accept a
loan at a usurious rate of interest.
As a result he may crawl from
under or beconie ruined despite of
it, and, as it frequently happens,
because of it.
We cannot blame a drowning
man catching at II straw. But we
do scorn a man who prefers the
path of least resistance because of
lack of ability and sound judg-
ment. The world loves a man who
never loses confidence in his own
strength and intelligence to breast
a crisis. By accepting this type of
a loan he not only admits defeat
but encourages and patronizes it
system of ruthless usury, of graft-
and winking at the law, which is
the bane of human society. And
what is more often than not, he
learns the trick himself and likes
it.
I am genuinely glad that Dr. I. Rosengarten has been
able to pilot his magazine, The Jewish Forum, through
10 successful years. It's not an easy task to publish a
Jewish literary monthly with definite Orthodox leanings.
If you doubt my word, try it! They are going to cele-
brate the event in New York on Sunday evening, March
25. It will take the form of a dinner and a dance. Now
I hope my good friend Rosengarten won't take offense
if I suggest that the dance could have been eliminated.
In this country they dance on every occasion. Even eat-
ing is getting to be nothing more than an excuse for
dancing between bites. However, all this has nothing to
do wtih the value of the Jewish Forum, which has be-
come one of the most active agencies for the promotion
of interest in Orthodox Judaism in this country. Dr.
Rosengarten is to be congratulated upon the high stand-
ard of his magazine and I certainly hope that he will con-
tinue for many more years of useful existence.
Now this time everything will be all right. A delega-
tion representing the United Rumanian Jews of America
called on our old college friend, George Cretziano, the
minister from Rumania, and they just had the loveliest
time you can possibly imagine. It would take Lloyd
Mayer to write it and John Held, Jr., to illustrate it to do
it justice. It was a heart-breaking conference. Cret-
ziano broke down and cried when he discovered what hail
been going on in Rumania all these years and the United
Rumanian Jews wept when they saw how much George
suffered. It was most affecting. After they hail dried
their eyes, Minister Cretziano made this statement:
The delegation and the Rumanian minister,
after exchanging views on the Rumanian subject,
are in full sympathy with the conditions abroad
and are sorry for past occurrences. Both will do
everything possible to carry out the suggestions
and recommendations made and filed so that peace
and happiness will prevail in Rumania.
I emphasized that word "filed." It should really be
changed to "buried." At any rate now that we have
heard this beautiful bed-time story for the thousandth
time, won't they please tell us a new one?
---
I don't like to rub salt in a wound, but the sensa-
tional activity of General Motors, recalls the wonderful
assistance Mr. Ford gave that organization when he
allowed his mind to drift from the automobile business
to international Jewish affairs. While he was trying to
make out a case against the Jew which caused him years
of aggravation and irritation, the General Motors de-
improving the Chevrolet and developing
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We have a g r eat deal m of l co plete y unintelligent
• activity among certain of our Jewish Smart Set in
social
every community of the country. They seem to have
caught the spirit of the time, "on with the dance, let the
jia.
t stleme unre,fi b rrd." Our Gentile neighbors are having
em. Quick money and slow culture. Not
problem.
sn long ago I suggested that men having control of our
leading social clubs should establish a basis of behavior
that would protect ladies and gentlemen. If young and
old men and women want to get drunk and disorderly,
they should be escorted to a place where that sort of
thing can be done without annoying others. Young peo-
ple who want to make exhibitions of themselves should
be sent home by officers of the club; they owe that much
to self-respect. I happened to see in a paper that Albert
Berney, after nine pears' official connection with the
Phoenix Club of Baltimore, had retired. Mr. Berney,
as 1 happen to know, is one of the few presidents of
prominent Jewish social clubs who. during his regime,
demanded • standard of conduct belonging to ladies and
gentlemen. Unseemly behavior either in dancing or any
other form of social activity met with reprimand and w
not permitted in that club. All this seems trivial, but
is most important where vulgarity is getting to be all to
Zionism.
Just like the man who, tempted
by easy money at a usurious rate
of interest, is not alone creating a
vicious circle for himself, but
lends encouragement to a system
of parasitism, so does the Zionist
in suss( ndering his ideology to
money at any price not alone con-
done, but actually help create a
pseudo-Zionist program which, in
the long run, is bound to corrupt
the original Ilerzlian concept and
transform Zionism into a variety
of territorialism.
Psychology of Delusion.
And when this is pointed out to
that particular Zionist, he most
strenuously resents the innuendo.
In his delusion his conscious mind
fails to recognize his subconscious.
All would be well if human psy-
chology were non-existent, if the
conditioning of the human mind
under constant environmental pres-
The Analogy.
sure were not to yield inclinations
If we understand the intent of from which we, ourselves, should
the comparison, it is neither plati- we become victims, cannot escape.
tude nor far-fetched. We are
Unless one has become schooled
judging here human frailties, tend- to contemplate and to avaluate
encies, quality of leadership and
wealth and the atmosphere it cre-
ability to decide under stress. It
ates from the standpoint of objec-
is these we are endeavoring to tivity. whether it be religious, phi!.
analyze and compare. After all,
ossphic, class consciousness, or
to degrade oneself fur private gain
what not, then one is bound to
is one thing, and to accept humili-
fall for it. And how often did we
ation, even ostensibly, for the see good and consistent Zionists,
sake of an ideal is quite another
even of the old school, enter into a
"temporary" bargain with wealthy
thing.
The reason for all this is human
non-Zionists, suddenly begin to
nature. The Brandeis controversy
talk the language of the non-Zion-
split the Zionist movement. Those ists. And here it is not "tempor-
who sided with Weizmann pros- ary," but they continue to advo-
pered for a while. And now chal- cate a "zdoko" Zionism, a "haven
lenged by the crisis in Palestine, of refuge" Zionism, just as though
they have lost their bearings and they never knew any other, against
are looking for loopholes to save their own previous resolutions and
their faces. With a gesture expectations. In other words,
characteristic of bewilderment, where they confidently expected to
they have hypnotized themselves convert they have become converi•
into a state of cock-suredness in
ed, where they egpected to lead
tempting the non-Zionist and his
they have beconie followers.
money. In return for his cash
Is it or is it not degrading for
they are willing to bargain away a Zionist, who is a conscious and
concessions which threaten the consistent Jew precisely because
very foundation of the Zionist he is a Zionist, to suppress the
movement. And if one may regis- Jewish instinct within him, to sil-
ter at all an exception in the com- ence within him his revolt and re-
parison, it is to absolve the non-
vulsion against any such atrocity
Zionist. From his standpoint he as the "King of Kings," for exam-
is far more consistent than the
ple, to run away from Jewish life
Zionist accepting his money under
and its expression as a Talmud
a compromise, under a specious Torah or a Kehillah movement,
philosophy of expediency.
merely because it might become
The point is that there is an
controversial in nature and offend
analogy, a definite analogy in prin- some wealthy non-Zionist, a pros-
ciples. And in following it out, pective contributor to a "Joint
we contend that no one but the Drive?" Is it or is it not degrad-
most rabid anti-Zionist would ven- ing for the scholarly and intellec-
ture the assertion that Palestine,
tual Zionist to retire into obscur-
in its present stage of develop- ity, accept all sorts of innuendo,
ment, if left to itself and the sup- effrontery, at the hands of wealthy,
port of consistent Zionists, would well meaning mediocrities, whose
go to smash and ruin. There only claim to the "speakers' table"
would be hardship and privation no or "honorary chairmanship" is a
doubt. There might come soup fat bank account?
kitchens and further restriction in But, argue our present leaders
Immigration for a tints. But of the Zionist Organization, what
eventually, Palestine would be difference does that make? What
built, and built with no record of difference does it make whence
compromise and humiliation be- the money comes or what "kind"
hind them. And if to reach that of money it is as lung as l'alestine
eventuality it might take two cen- will he built and its spirit devel-
tunics instead of one, as Dr. Weis- oiled!
mann appraised it, what difference
i t
does that make as long as Zionism
This, "Spir
our o p i n i on,
will remain intact, will remain it-
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self and help create the spirit of greatest
question arises what in its last re-
l'alestine while it is being built
sort
is
the
aim
and
aspiration
of
and before it is built?
Zionism? If its aim is to colonize
The "Mean■ to the End."
a half million or more Jews then
For only the Zionist fanatic will the non-Zionist is right.
It is
insist that the Zionist movement more practical to colonize a half
in the Diaspora is but the means million or more Jews in Crimea,
to the end of building Palestine, Siberia, Argentine or Canada. But
and that whatever benefit will ac- if the aspiration of Zionism is to
crue to world Israel will come only create a Jewish civilization in Pal-
after Palestine is built. Since estine that its spirit may perme-
emancipation and the war, break-
ing up the ghettoes in Europe, un-
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THE RABBI KNOWS
e/ISK HIM
A Sheaf of Sheilas
By RABBI LEON FRAM
Director of Religiout Edwarion, Temple Beth El.
(Readers of The Detroit Jewish
12. What Sabbath is known as
Chronicle are invited to submit the Great Sabbath?
questions for Rabbi Fram to an-
13. Which of the boroughs of
swer. Address Rabbi Leon Frani,
New York has the greatest Jewish
Temple Beth El, Detroit.)
population?
1. What novel of H. G. Wells'
14. Why do Orthodox Jews re-
is modeled after the Book of Joh? frain from wearing any garment
2. What nation claims descent which contains both wool and
from the union between King Solo- linen threads?
mon and the Queen of Sheba?
15. What is the Shulchan
3. Who was Shalmaneser?
Aruch?
4. What is a Schochet?
16. What poem of John Mil-
5.
On
what
holiday is
the ton's is based upon the Book of
Song of
Songs
of Solomon
read
in Genesis?
the synagogue?
6. On what holiday is the Book
17. What poem of John Mil-
elf Ecclesiastes read in the syna- ton's is based upon the Book of
gogue!
Judges?
7. On what holiday is the Book
18. What poem of Henry
of Ruth read in the synagogue?
Wadsworth Longfellow is based on
R. On what day is the Book one of the books of the Apocry-
of Lamentation read in the syna-
pha?
gogue?
Is. Who are the Wahabis?
9. On what holiday is the Book
20. What is the John Simon
of Esther read?
Guggenheim Memorial Founda-
10. What is Tisha b'Ab?
tion?
, tcommon.
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shackling the Jewish mind an
rendering it more susceptible to
secular thought, the Zionist move
meat has become as much of an
end in itself as is the building o
Palestine. And let not the reader
misunderstand us. We have no
quarrel with secular thought. On
the contrary, we welcome the con-
tact. But at this transitional period
from the dogma to reason we need
the Zionist movement to stabilize
the Jewish mind, to give it
strength, self-reliance and a con-
sciousness based upon ethnic value
and history in order that the Jew-
ish mind may hold its own in this
modern amalgam of Jewish and
secular thought.
Yet, our short-sighted Zionist
Moguls would have it otherwise.
Why, is hard to say. There is de-
lusion or there are motives. There
are motives or there is delusion.
Which ever it is, the fact remains
that the Greater Agency became
the wedge for joint drives, and the
Joint Drive is becoming the wedge
and denationalized
foL anmanemic
is
11. What poem of Jehuda Ha-
levi is read on Tight b'Ab.
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