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parents, to convince them of the need of a Jewish edu-
cation before the young are to receive their elementary
training as Jews?" They showed signs of despair, that
!resident
JOSEPH J. CUMMINS
at portion of the community should have failed them.
Secretary and Treasurer
JACOB H. SCHAKNE
Their true idealism, however, would not let their "stub-
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PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
Manager
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born knees" bow, and the pioneering effort of the
MAURICE M. SAFIR
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solve this problem by reaching the vast majority of the
Sabbath Readings of the Torah
Jewishly untrained youth are therefore pioneers in a
Pentateuchal portions—Num. 13:1.15:41. .
great undertaking.
Prophetical portions—Josh. 2.
'entateuchal readings for Monday, June 18, and Tuesday, June 19
Pioneers have no right to despair. So long as they
—Num. 28:1.15.
succeed in trekking new roads and are invading new
areas, their efforts will bear fruits. So long as Jewish
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education is a problem with American Jewry, it may
be necessary to force schools upon certain communities.
Lord Alfred.
The results, in our own city, have been so gratifying
The King's Birthday Honors, by including in the that even if it is necesary to force schools upon our
list of new barons the name of Sir Alfred Mond, af-
people it is worth the effort, for eventually they join
ford occasion for rejoicing by Jews throughout the
in it.
world. The new Lord Alfred's affiliation with the
There is no denying the problem. It exists in our
Zionist movement, his devoted interest in the affairs of own city; it exists in every American Jewish commun-
his people and his encouraging utterances on the up-
ity. In our neighboring city of Cleveland, the failure
building of the Jewish Homeland in Palestine during
of a recent Jewish education campaign necessitated a'
his visit in the Land of Israel several months ago have
desperate call to save the Hebrew schools; without im-
earned for him the esteem of Jewry.
mediate aid, it was stated, six of the existing branches
Lord Alfred has been called a second Disraeli. A
would have to close down. This is a serious business.
leading British statesman recently declared that Mond
When Jewish communities fail to realize the impor-
would have been the present Prime Minister of Eng-
tance of unqualified support of educational institutions,
land had it not been for his foreign birth and accent.
on a basis of self-imposed taxation, the problem be-
The modulation of his voice was thus described by the
comes more aggravated. Thus, even where the move-
London correspondent of the New York Times:
ment is strong, and the educational efforts unques-
tioned, there must be no let down, let alone despair.
lie brought to the House of Commons an insight into
To spread knowledge among the young is the greatest
modern industry and finance such as few politicians pos-
sess, but he has had a bad parliamentary manner, and his
need of the community, and those who lead in this ef-
rather throaty utterance has been known to mar the effect
fort must be strong and courageous.
of a carefully reasoned speech.
The Locust Visits Palestine's Fields
PeAliviwall Weekly by The Jewish Chronkle Publishing Co,
According to this correspondent, Lord Alfred had
the habit of interjecting "What?" at the end of every
sentence, and they used to call him "What-what?" in
the House of Commons. We are also told that the new
Baron
has also the name of being a bad party man. His political
enemies say he has boxed the compass on every known
issue. His political friends say that he is a follower of
Burke's gospel of political expediency. Whatever the
fact may be, his political career appears to be a string of
inconsistencies climaxed by his change-over two years ago
from Lloyd George's Liberalism to Torryism. Through it
all, however, he has always been consistently against
socialism and for trusts and industrial amalgamations.
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Lord Alfred, from the composite picture presented
to us by his friends as well as foes, appears as the Colos-
sus in British industry, and it is as an industrialist
rather than politician that he has become great. He
has inherited many of the traits of his father, the late
Dr. Ludwig Mond, who established the Brunner Mond,
together with the late Sir John Brunner. This firm,
which was recently swallowed up into the Imperial
Chemical Industries, with Lord Alfred at the head,
makes Mond one of the world's greatest industrial
giants. The late Dr. Ludwig Mond's, and the present
Lord Alfred's, ideas that "the workers are directors'
partners in their daily work much more than the stock-
holders," is perhaps one of the reasons why there has
not been a labor dispute in the Brunner Mond works in
56 years, since it was started at Winnington in 1872.
Lord Alfred's Jewish interests and affiliations have
placed him among the heads of international Jewish
leaders. His devotion has been a source of joy to Is-
rael everywhere, and from all corners of the globe the
sincerest greetings on the honors he has received on
the sixty-third birthday of King George will undoubt-
edly come from his Jewish brethren.
Particularly at this time, when all eyes are directed
at the Mond home, which is housing the Non-Partisan
Palestine Survey Commission of the Jewish Agency,
whose deliberations may have tremendous effect on
the course of the upbuilding of the Jewish Homeland,
the Jewish people is watching with great interest the
House of Mond. Because of its wealth and influence,
it promises to compete with the Houses of Rothschild
and Montefiore in Jewish world leadership, and many
Jews will undoubtedly ask : What about the inheritors
of the Mond peerage?
"Newsman," writing in his columns "Men. Women
and Affairs" in the May 11 London Jewish Guardian,
strikes a pessimistic note:
By awarding the Kenneth Sterling Day memorial
for "essential Christian worth" to the Jew, Louis Behr,
brilliant student and athlete at the University of Wis-
consin, serious discussion was aroused in Jewish as
well as Christian circles as to the application of the
term "Christian" to a Jew.
That the Kenneth Sterling Day Memorial Commit-
tee members were also troubled by the inconsistency
in the terms is revealed in a letter addressed by Prof.
Carl Russell Fish, chairman of the committee, to the
editor of the Daily Cardinal, University of Wisconsin
student publication, which read in part :
In congratulating Lord Alfred we dare to hope that
the inheritors of his peerage may lend honor and dig-
nity to the Jewish name, on a par with the services
that the first Lord in the Mond family is rendering to
world Israel.
Forcing Schools on the Community.
i
The cornerstone was recently laid here for a new
Hebrew school, in the Dexter boulevard section. In
the audience, gathered to rejoice at the creation of a
new educational center, in a newly developed large
Jewish neighborhood, were officers of the United He-
brew Schools, a number of the pupils of the existing
Talmud Torahs and a group of parents whose boys and
girls are already receiving training in the local schools.
Jewish residents of the section of the city that is to
benefit from the establishment of a new school were
conspicuous by their absence.
It was natural that the few idealists, for whom the
creation of another Hebrew school marked a great day
in their lives, should have been discouraged. "Must
we force schools upon the community?" they asked.
"Are we first to launch a missionary campaign among
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Yes, we have glorified loafers in Jewry exactly as
we find them among our neighbors. The Jew takes on
the coloring of the life about him. Ile is quite a human
being, so it is not surprising that with the coming of easy
wealth that he should begin to indulge himself in waste-
ful leisure, because,you must know that there is a con-
structive leisure. Far worse, when he acquires great
wealth in his earlier years, or when the younger folk
find it dropping easily into their laps from the hands of
fond and not overwise parents. Then they become gen-
erally moral and mental bankrupts. Because God really
is just as smart as they are, though they may not believe
it. They become superficially cultured and are super-
ficially educated, using the term education in its proper
sense. They do not employ their leisure, but they waste
it. With the means and the time to improve themselves
and to work for the improvement of society at large,
they prefer to become habitual loafers. I am in receipt
of a great many communications from readers from all
parts of the country calling attention to this "wild age"
of Jewish youth and elder who have more than enough
money. But as I stated many times, I ant not a profes-
sional reformer and do not intend to be. Why worry
about the loafers? Nature will take care of them in
good time.
Applying Term "Christian" to a Jew.
I shall not be surprised if. on 4th June, when the king's
birthday will be celebrated, the honor of a Viscounty is
conferred on Sir Alfred Mond, who is now in his 60th
year. I have no idea if his son and heir, Mr. Henry Mond,
who was 30 years old yesterday, 10th May, is, like his
father, an ardent Zionist. lie has given no expression of
sentiment, and the long list of his directorships in Who's
Who does not seem to leave much time, allowing for
hunting and polo, to spare for visits to Palestine. Nor
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does his marriage, in 1920, to Miss Wilson, of the
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vaal, encourage hopes that a Mond Viscounty wet
counted in future as a Jewish peerage, any more than is
likely in the instance of the allied house of the Reading
Marquessate.
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In discussing the names of those nominated to us by
various organizations, there was a general agreement that
the best exemplar of the various conditions of the award,
character, ability in religious organization, energy in
improving conditions on the campus, accompanied by
reasonably good scholarship, and at least a normal athletic
activity, was Louis Behr of Rockford, Illinois. When we
were about to make the award final, we suddenly remem-
bered that the first item of requirement was christian
character and that the most striking evidence of Mr.
Behr's religious activity was his holding of the Presi-
dency of the Hillel Foundation.
The entire committee were still in favor of giving him
the award, but they were doubtful as to whether it lay in
their power, considering the designation of christian by
the original donor. Consultation with his representa-
tives, however, brought out that they were at one with the
committee in considering that christian character might be
displayed under more than one form of religious organiza-
tion and belief.
This is an extremely interesting illustration of the
change in the use of the word christian. I find in the
seventeenth century that the word is used to designate the
organization to which a person belongs regardless of per-
sonal character, so that you may have a blackguardly
christian but not one unaffiliated, or affiliated with an
organization possessing a different creed. Not very long
ago indeed the name was denied even to Unitarians by
most of these of the so-called orthodox bodies.
It is plain at present the word denotes the possession
of certain qualities and may be applied to persons of any
organization or absence of organized connection, but is
less and less applied to those who show undesirable moral
qualities, regardless of the orthodoxy of their affiliations.
This explanation, excellent in itself, does not wipe
out the inconsistency in terms. Because so long as it
is not taken for granted that excellence in scholarship,
good moral character and desire to attain the better-
ment of communal life, whether it be on a college
campus or elsewhere, are characteristics possible in all
people regardless of race or creed. bigotry will rule
the earth. From a Jewish point of view, the require-
ments of the Day Memorial might well be called "es-
sential Jewish worth." From Buddhist, Confucian or
Mohammedan viewpoints, their names might well be
substituted for the term Christian. But in the sense
that there is good in all men, character is undefinable
by terms "Christian" or "Jewish" or anything else.
It was a fine distinction that was conferred upon
Louis Behr, and should give Jews a thrill to know that
a worthy award was won by a fellow Jew. But the
discord among all peoples, regardless of religious be-
liefs. will not be eliminated so long as the term "Chris-
tian" or "Jewish" is used to explain nobility of char-
acter. "Goodness," "virtue," "kindness" are after all
non-sectarian.
A Sick Head Denoting a Sick Body.
Of the 270 affiliated members of the Zionist District
of Detroit, 45 voted on June 3 to send delegates to the
annual convention of the Zionist Organization of Amer-
ica. Reports from other cities throughout the country
indicate that the same lack of interest exists as a gen-
eral rule. In Chicago this unconcerned feeling stamped
even greater discredit upon Zionists there: only 63 in
the second largest Jewish community in the land.
whose Jews number .100,000, voted to send 30 dele-
gates to the convention.
There is no wonder then that there is something
wrong with the administration of the Zionist Organi-
zation of America. The sick head of the movement
denoted a sick body, and if it is important to revive
interest in Zionism and to build a great and dignified
force behind the movement for Palestine. it is neces-
sary, above everything else. to rejuvenate Zionism cul-
turally and spiritually, in every district in the land, so
that the constituency of the movement may exert an in-
fluence upon the leadership.
This is rather interesting. Last year, the Allegheny
County Bar Association, which includes the city of I'itts-
burgh, Pa., elected Joseph Stadfield as its president, Oho
first time in its history that a Jew had thus been honored.
So at this time I find n clipping from the Pittsburgh Legal
Journal, which reads:
It is no ordinary honor to be elected president
of the Allegheny County Bar Association. in its
entire history, covering a period of 58 years, the
association has had but 26 presidents. Under a
custom, dating since 1890, it has been the practice
to re-elect for a second term each member of the
Bar honored with the presidency. To continue
this makes possible in a period of 50 years to thus
honor but 25 members of the Bar with the high-
est place in the gift of the Allegheny County
lawyers. It was an especilly fine tribute to the
present incumbent (Mr. Stadfield) for the Alle-
gheny County Bar Association to close the nomi-
nations for the president, who will be elected
next month with the suggestion of Mr. Stadfeld's
name, after he had given the members the impor-
tant thought that he felt this honor was sufficiently
great to change the custom so that out of a Bar
at the present time of more than eighteen hundred
lawyers, in a period of 50 years, at least 50
lawyers could thus be honored, instead of 25. In
other words, that no president should succeed
himself.
The fact that the association disregarded his sug-
gestion shows the high regard that this outstanding law-
yer enjoys from his colleagues. It is always a source of
satisfaction to record high recognition of a co-religionist
for meritorious service of an unselfish character.
In line with this thought I wish to call attention to
another well-known co-religionist, Mr. Jacob Epstein, of
Baltimore, who for years has been recognized as one
who has interpreted citizenship in the finest meaning of
that term. To solicit and to work for political jobs is
one thing, to contribute serviceto a community without
thought of reward is another and a much finer thing.
When I think of Mr. Epstein. I think, too, of Julius
Rosenwald and Bernard Baruch and Louis Marshall and
"Manny" Strauss and Marcus Aaron and Rabbi Stephen
Wise, Nathan Straus, the late Frederick L .vanbur(s and
at number of other Jews who have given freely of them-
selves for the benefit of their cities, their states and
their nation. Yes, and I shouldn't forget the name of the
late David I,ubin. When we have another volume such
as the late Simon Wolfe wrote, referring, to the Jew as a
patriot. we will have to include the long and honorable
list of high-minded Jews who have rendered constructive
service unselfishly in times of peace to their country.
We too often are prone to associate patriotism with war
service when the finest examples of patriotic effort are
found in making our country a decent place to live in.
For several years Mr. Epstein has been a member
of the I'ublic Improvement Commission of Baltimore,
but because of his inability to continue to give sufficient
time to the work, he resigned, and I find this editorial in
the Baltimore Sun, which indicates the value of the
service rendered:
The resignation of Jacob Epstein from tne
Public Service Commission is one of those occur-
rences which serve to remind us that Baltimore
has not become a cleaner, healthier and more
attractive city, accidentally, but to a large extent
through the unremitting efforts of public-spirited
citizens, who have given freely of their time and
energy to the work of municipal betterment. High
in the ranks of those who have labored volun-
tarily in behalf of the Community is Mr. Epstein.
His decision to leave the commission, though
anticipated for over a year, is none the less
regrettable.
After referring to Mr. Epstein's letter of resignation
to the mayor, and the work of the commission, the edi-
torial closes with this statement:
In all its work Mr. Epstein has been an active.
forceful and self-sacrificing member. lie speaks
with mode/sty when he says "I have done my share
as a citizen of Baltimore.' Mr. Epstein has done
very much more than his share. It will be a prob-
lem of no small magnitude to find a man who will
as adequately fill the place he has decided to
vacate.
A remarkable tribute from such a representative
source!
Well, well, so our aristocratic President-General.
Mrs. Alfred Brosseau, of the Daughters of the American
Revolution, has just come home from King George's tea
party at Buckingham l'alace. She is as flushed with
pride over her social victory as some of her Revolutionary
ancestors were at another Tea Party held in Boston.
under the patronage of another King George. It is really
unfortunate that the officials and other members of the
D. A. R. have no sense of humor.
A young man living in Florida writes me that after
a lecture delivered in Miami recently by Rabbi Stephen
Wise, two Gentile women came up to him and asked
him many questions concerning Judaism. He says they
believed that we still sacrifice animals on our altars, and
that they showed an amazing ignorance of our religion.
Well, we shouldn't be surprised. An intelligent woman
told me the other day that when Al Smith is elected
President the Pope is coming to live in the White House.
In fact, they have the room already picked out. Even
that sin't so bad compared to the miracles we read about
in the daily press. Oh, we have a long road front Day-
ton, Tenn., to civilization.
A young lady writes me from Chicago, asking if I
have room in Random Thoughts for an enclosed article
entitled "Adam and Eve." I am sorry that I haven't,
but at least I will pass along to the readers the gist of her
statements. She complains that when young Jewish
women attend a temple or a club dance she relies upon
the respectability of her environment to protect her from
"advances." But it seems that she becomes disillusioned.
The young men adopt the loose manner of present-day
vulgarity, and seek to capitalize on the acquaintance-
ship begun at the temple or club social to an extent that
self-respecting girls must resent. She is told that in this
day and age it doesn't pay to be a prude, but she must
"play the game." She asks if this is true. It is really a
question for Beatrice Fairfax or Dorothy Dix, but since
the lady seems very much in earnest, I will answer her
earnestly. We are living in a very vulgar age, more
vulgar than immoral. but there are a few gentlemen
still left. So, I would advise that she doesn't lose faith.
Instead, she might develop the art of repartee, which
will be an effective weapon because the young men she
refers to are usually wisecrackers, whose reading has
been confined to the Sunday Comics. A dose of sarcasm
leave!' them mentally confused.
I notice that Rabbi Silver of Cleveland was honored
ha the Western Reserve University with the degree of
Doctor of Letters. Dr. Silver is one of the most bril-
liant members of the American rabbinate, and such
signal recognition of his worth is a source of great satin.
faction to those of an who know how richly he deserves it.
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Vivid Description of Spectacular Insect, As Trouble.
some Today as Milleniuma Ago;. Driven by
Hunger Their Multitudes Migrate for Food.
News Letter from Jerusalem.
By 'HILDA SHOMEA
Every reader who has even the faintest recollection of
his Sunday School days and Bible readings has vividly in his
mind the locust which is no often mentioned in the Iloly
Scriptures as the terror of the tillers of the soil in ancient
Judea. This year the new settlers in Palestine encountered
the locust not in a passage of their Bible, but in their daily
work of watching over the crops. Modern devices were made
available by the Palestine government to conduct regular
warfare against tne onslaught of the migratory locust. This
news letter from Jerusalem describes the locust as it affected
Palestine and shows the problem to be one of concern to many
agricultural lands, including the United States.
The recent visit to l'alestine of
swarms of migratory locusts re-
minds one that, notwithstanding
the serious effect of such visitation
and the voluminous literature
about them, little is known as to
the exact causes of the occurences.
The popular belief in their recur-
rence at definite intervals has even
less to support it than similar tra-
ditions about the outbreak of
springs. There are some insects
whose visitations can he predicted.
Of these the must extraordinary
is the "17 year cicada," a North
American land-bug. The adult
creatures live only a few weeks,
and deposit their eggs in slits cut
in the bark of trees. The larvae
hatch quickly and, dropping to the
ground burrow into the soil. There
they live for 16 years moulting
repeatedly and in the 17th sudden-
ly come to the surface again, bor-
ing their way through gravel paths
overcoming any obstacle, and then
ascend trees and go through the
final moult. The date of the re-
currence depends on the definite
facts of the life-history, and the
appearance of the swarms has
again and again been successfully
predicted with as to place and
time.
There is no such certainty about
the swarms of migratory locusts.
In Algeria the first. invasion after
the country came into possession
of the French was in 1045, the
second in 1861, a third in 181:6, the
next two in 1871 and 1091, and
since visitations have been less fre-
quent and more irregular. Ril-
ey, a well-known American ento-
mologist, at one time thought that
there was an 11-year period, but
the Rocky Mountain locust visited
Kansas in 1866, 1874, 1875, 1876,
since when there have been no im-
portant visitations, although there
have been local migrations of less
destructive locuats in East Colo-
rado and West Kansas. Another
migratory locust, a native of the
Chilean Andes, visits the wheat-
fields of Argentine nearly every
year. The north-west migratory
locust, the chief pest of India, now
found in Afghanistan, Arabia,
Persia, North Africa and Cyprus,
is believed to have come originally
from South America and to have
reached the Old World through
Africa. It is a very strong flyer,
and has the odd character of
changing its color when about to
swarm from a dullish yellow green
to a vivid red. The late Profes-
fair Lefroy made the suggestion
that this woo a recognition mark
enabling the swarms to keep to-
gether.
Are Extremely Destructive.
True migratory locusts are only
a very few out of some 4,000
known species of short-horned
grasshoppers. They have a very
wide distribution, and isolated in-
dividuals not reaching dangerous
numbers have settled in many
countries. Three weeks ago the
present writer now individuals in
the South of Spain, and they may
be found in Italy and in Belgium
in summer. The species vary in
size from an inch to nearly two
inches in length, the latter having
a wing span of from three to four
inches. They are easily recognized
as true grass hoppers by the enor-
mous size and strength of the hind
legs. They are. powerful but not
very rapid in flight and have air-
sacs in various parts of the hotly
which have been supposed to have
some buoyant effect. More prob-
ably they may be compared with
the spongy spaces in the skull of
the elephant and are no more than
a mechanical device for giving in-
creased surface for the attachment
of muscles without adding weight.
They are short-lived creature,. The
eggs, from 25 to 125 in manlier,
are placed by the female in a slight
excavation she makes is the
ground. In some tames there are
two broods, more usualy only one
a year. Those laid in autumn gen-
erally hatch in spring. The young,
called "hoppers," are like the
adults in shape and appearance,
but have fewer joints in the feel-
ers and neither wings nor wing-
covers. They go through a series
of moults, at each becoming rath-
er more lilt the adult. The dura-
tion of the adult stage varies; in
many the whole cycle front the
egg to the end of the adult life is
only about a year in other species
the adult life may be rather long-
er.
The hoppers are extremely de-
structive, as they feed voraciously
on all kinds of vegetation. In In-
dia, indeed. they are more feared
than the descending swarms of
adult migrants, for the latter may
be frightened away. The hoppers
migrate locally in search of food.
The South African species show
the gregarious and migratory hab-
it when quite young. After hatch-
ing, the various families amalga-
mate and when they have exhaust-
ed one locality set out for another.
Accordins. to the late Dr. Sharp
they are known as "voetgangers"
—pedestrians—and travel rapidly
by short leaps, following roads
which give an easy line of march.
They attempt to cross rivers which
lie in their way and fanciful ac-
counts hate been given of their
passings up and down the banks
in search of a ford. But this is
an interpretation of their restless
pursuit of foul rather than a man-
ifestation of an intelligence or of
a well-directed instinct, for some-
times their course leads them to
the sea, where they are drowned
without a ny hope.
Ploughing Keeps Them In Check.
American researches on the
Rocky Mountain migratory locusts
seem to show that their native
place is at elevations from 2,000
to 10,000 feet. When from time
to time they multiplied beyond the
food supply, they rose in the air
in vast swarms, restless with hun-
ger. It is to be noticed that mi-
grating locusts a re hungry locusts
and very possibly tne color chang•
to which Lefroy called attention is
a physiological effect of starvation.
Rising into the air, they were
caught by the wind drifts, which
carried them south-east to the rich
plains of the Mississippi, on which
they descended to ravage. But the
conditions there proved unsuitable
and they seldom survived beyond
one or at most two generations.
After a visitation, moreover, the
eggs were ploughed up, and such
hoppers as succeeded in hatching
were killed by rollers. Now this
locust has ceased to migrate, part-
ly, it is said because increased cul-
tivation provides more food in its
native home, and partly because
it is kept in check there by plowing
and rolling.
1Conyright, 1925, J. T. At
COLUMBIA GIVES M. A.
TO BLIND JEWISH GIRL
NEW YORK.—(J. T. A.)—Miss
Mary Bierman, said to he the first
blind girl ever to receive a master's
degree front a New York College,
was graduated from Teachers Col-
lege, Columbia, with high honors.
Miss Bierman, who is a member of
the New York Association for the
Blind, received her A. B. degree
last year.
Miss Bierman helped defray her
expenses by teaching aesthetic
dancing at the Lighthouse. She
specialized at college in speech
education and hopes to get a pos-
ition teaching in a college next
winter. She was born in Germany
and was brought to this country
when she was six months old. Her
parents are dead. She is a gradu-
ate of ‘Vadleigh High School and
is an acomplished musician.
MIZRACHI LEADER DIES
JERUSALEM.— (•1. T. A.)—
Samuel landau died here June 3.
Chief Rabbi A. I. Kook, Dr. David
Yellin, Sprinzak and Rabbis Meyer
Berlin and Fishman, eulogized the
late Mr. Landau. Samuel Landau,
who was a member of the World
Mizraehi Committee. was 36 years
old.
THE RABBI KNOWS
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A Sheaf of Sheilas
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By RABBI LEON FRAM
alasatten, 'Temple Beth El.
of Religmaton,
(Readers of the Detroit Jewish
Chronicle are invited to submit
questions for Rabbi Fram to an-
swer. Address Rabbi Leon Fram,
Temple Beth El. Detroit.)
1. What is the Union Prayer
Book?
2. What important prayer in
the traditional prayer book is
omitted by the Union Prayer
Book?
3. What change does the Union
Prayer Book make in the prayer
on "Life After Death"?
4. Who was the editor of the
latest revision of the Union Prayer
Rook?
5. To what extent is Hebrew
used in the Reform service?
6. Do all Reform congregations
use the Union Prayer Book?
7. Tne Union Prayer Book con-
sists of how many volumes?
8. What is a special name given
to the Orthodox Prayer Books for
Rosh Hashono, Yom Kippur and
other Holy Days?
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9. What important prayer in
'he Orthodox Machznr for Yam
Kippur is omitted in the Union
Prayer Book?
10. Is it customary for Reform
Jews to fast on Yom Kippur?
11. What is Krishma?
12. In what books of the Bible
is skepticism expressed?
13. In what book of the Bible
is sensual love expressed?
14. In what book of the Bible
is intermarriage condemned?
16. In what book of the Bible
is intermarriage condoned?
16. Who were the bitterest de-
nouncers of the Jews in ancient
times?
17. What prophet protested
against the tolerance of God?
18. What book of the Bible
contains the broadest universal
note?
19r What is the meaning of the
word "Jonah"?
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