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July 20, 1928
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Will Colonization End Anti-Semitism?
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Maxim Gorky, noted Russian author and Socialist,
expressed his belief that the Jewish colonization move-
ment will help to put an end to anti-Jewish prejudices
In Russia. Long ago, leaders among our own people,
in their ahllety to speed the solving of manifold Jewish
problems, pointed to the - heed for constructive efforts
among Jews to lead them to adopt a more normal mode
of living. Being predominantly middle class our peo-
ple, particularly in times of depression, ham been sub-
jected to severe attacks by mobs to whom even the
poorest of Jews wan a speculator and a parasite. Be-
cause a Jew was the owner of a small store, he was a
capitalist, even though he was barely able to eke out
a livelihood from that store. lie watt accused of living
off the fat of the land and wax therefore an object for
persecution.
But how wax that problem to be solved? Prior to
the war the storekeeper could not turn farmer because
In Eastern European countries Jews were not permitted
to own land. Conditions preceding the World War
period forced the Jew into the middle class. The new
order that followed the world struggle opened new
economic avenues, and In Russia as well as in Zion
former tradesmen are becoming peasants. Reports
from other lands indicat'e a tendency among Jews to
turn to farming, and the vast stretches already being
cultivated by Jews in this country are evidences of a
happy turn In Jewish activity, which will transform
the so-called "white-collar" element and will eliminate
the charge of Jows being parasites. ..
But will this transformation in Jewish activity,. aside
from the fact that it Is a healthy sign in the life of our
people, help to put an end to anti-Semitism? Will the
Christian worker in I tummia, laboring she by side with
Jews, fighting the same economic battles, struggling for
the same necessities in life—will the non-Jew learn to
respect his Jewish fellow-worker as a fellow man? If
the anti-Semitic outbursts in Soviet Russia are to be
accepted as samples of Gentile sentiments, there fs no
hope for an end to the hatred against the Jew, even if
Jews are to succeed in placing themselves on farms and
in factories.
Under the Czarist regime the ambition of the Black
Hundreds was to eliminate the Jews by forcing one-
third to emigrate to America, another third to be con-
verted to the Russian Orthodox Church, and the re
mainder to be massacred. Due to the decline in religious
sentiment, talk of conversion has ceased; conditions
doom Russian Jewry to remain in their motherland;
but that the passion for massacring Jews is not extinct
is evident on all sides. Thum, in the factories, Jews are
taunted, called "Zhids," and their lives are made miser-
able for them; on the streets, on street cars, in their
homes, even in the capital city of Moscow, Jews are
not safe from anti-Semites. The hounding of Jews has
become a serious problem for Soviet Russia, and while
the anxiety of the government to put 0 stop to these ion-
bursts of Jew-hatred is in itself commendable, the seri-
ousness of the situatiolopells danger for our people.
Meanwhile the proportion of Jewish unemployed to
the number of Gentiles out of work is three to one. More
than a million Jews are without the Melilla of a liveli-
hood and are threatened by starvation. Driven by hun-
ger on the one side and an ever-increasing anti-Semi-
tism on the other, their lot is the most pathetic in the
history of Jewish suffering.
Russia vs. Zion.
The disclosure of certain facts in connection with
the planned colonization of the Bureya region aroused
doubt as to the possihjlitKof success in such nn effort.
The investigation which brought the facts to light was
conducted by Ozet, the Society for Settling Jews on the
Land, and by the Jewish Communist leader Merezhin.
The latter. in his disappointment over the very evident
certainty that the Agrojoint, the agency of the J. H. C.
in Russia, will refuse to participate in the Bureya pro-
ject, places the blame at an entirely ditTerent door.
"Mr. Marshall and Mr. Warburg have entered the
Zionist carriage." he is quoted by the J. T. A., and "in
view of this fact" he does not expect the Agrojoint's
participation in the settlement of Jews in Bureya.
Which gives cause for an important question. When
work for the colonization of Jews on farm lands in
Russia
was
first begun. there were some among, those
in "the Zionist carriage" who charged that it was a de-
liberate and mean effort to detract attention from Pal-
estine. If that implication was unture, why does Com-
munist Merezhin resent the new affiliation of MesSrs.
Marshall and Warburg? Is his statement to be inter-
preted as a substantiation of the original Zionist
charge? Otherwise. why should anyone interested in
the constructive work of settling Jews on the land ob-
ject to any worthy colonization project,- even if it is to
be in unholy Zion?
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Lassalle and Bismarck.
A Jewish Telegraphic Agency report from Berlin
states that "the sensational discovery" that the Iron
Chancellor and the Jewish labor leader Ferdinand Las-
salle were in correspondence'on ways arid means of
recon•iliating their monarchial and socialistic views has
"gripped the entire German press." According to the
story, documents leading to this sensation were discov-
ered due to the collapse of an old filing case in the Prus-
sian ministry of state.
But historically we never knew it to be a secret
that Bismarck and Lassalle frequently conferred and
that the Jewish labor leader won Bismarck's recogni-
tion. The finest picture we have of the relationship
between these two great figures of the past century
was drawn for us by Emil Ludwig in his "Bismarck :
the Story of a Fighter." Ludwig tells us that "it was
the magnetism of genius, nothing else, that drew Bis-
marck and Lassalle together," and he draws an excel-
lent comparison between the Junker and the Jew.
We learn from Ludwig's biography that "no sooner
did they meet than they recognized one another's
worth ;", that "the thing that brought the two men to-
gether was the fight against the bourgeoisie. Bismarck
wanted power to use against the constitution; Lassalle
wanted to mobilize the masses. Bismarck had weap-
ons in his hands, weapons with which he forcibly equip-
ped men; Lassalle had men at his disposal, men who
were vainly clamouring for weapons." The Kreuzzei-
tung is quoted as having said about the two: "These
are real men; whereas the liberals have at their dis-
posal neither bayonets, nor lists, nor the charm of
genius."
At a meeting in Rhineland Lasalle paid a compli-
ment to Bismarck: "If we had to exchange volleys
with. Herr von Bismarck, justice would compel us to
say, even while the shooting was in progress: 'lie is a
man, and all the others are old women.'" And Bis-
marck, in a return compliment, at a time when he had
already discarded his anti-Semitism, is thus quoted by
Mr. Ludwig, who reveals in his book that Bismarck
had a genuine admiration for Jews:
The only people to whose convernation Bismarck referm
with pleasure in these days are Jews. Ile speaks of
Lassalle an one of the most brilliant of men, as one from
whom he is loath to part even when they have been talking
far on into the night. Bleichroder, whom he employs as
confidential nifent, always has the entry; receives the power
of attorney for the administration of Bismarck's property,
and, at the premier's instigation, Is raised into the ranks of
the hereditary nobility. For years a certain Doctor Cohen
acts as both friend and physician, the relationship continu-
ing until Cohen's death. Thus Bismarck entrusts both his
health and his property to Jews. ''My intercourse with
Simon in a real pleasure to me. • . . He is a man of
genuine talent. When he came to visit me he was most
entertaining—a thUtg I cannot say of the majority of my
visitors. Ile in filled with genuine patriotism; in a noble
vessel into which the most sublime sentiments have been
poured." That characterization cannot be paralleled among
all those penned by Bismarck. Yet, twenty years earlier,
as secretary In the Erfurt parliament, he had made fun of
the mime Simson. "My father would turn in ebilgrave if
he saw me here, acting as clerk to a Jewish pridelmr." In
a dispute, Simson had actually culled the minister a rope-
dancer, Bismarck had certainly not forgotten these things.
At a later dote, he was full of praise for Disraeli. We can-
not but ark why it was that he should make so much of
Illeichroder instead of Hapset:limn; of Cohen instead of
Frerichs; of Lassalle instead of Liebknecht; of Simson
instead of Richter; of Disraeli instead of Salisbury.
The light that has already been thrown on the char-
acter of Bismarck by Emil Ludwig dispels doubts as to
the iron Qhancellor's friendship for many Jews in his
later yearsf. The biography of Bismarck by the noted
Jewish writer also reveals that what reporters termed
a "sensation" about Bismarck and Lassalle is really
known history.
"Comfort Ye, Comfort Ye kly People."
Another Tisha b'Ab, marking the anniversary of the
Destruction of the Temple and the Jewish Exile, will
be here on Thursday. On that day the extremely re-
ligious, who insist that only the coming of the Messiah
will bring salvation to Jewry, will no doubt again sit in
mourning over Israel's departed glory; while the pessi-
mistic among Jewish nationalists are already showing
discouragement over recent tiethacks in efforts for the
upbuildink of the Jewish Homeland by human attempts.
Fortunately, there is always a prophetic word of
encouragement for every disappointment, and 'immedi-
ately following Tisha b'Ab conies Sabbath Nachamu.
the Sabbath of Consolation, on which Israel is cheered
and promised a better day. Sabbath Nacho= this year
should serve an especially timely purpose. The turbu-
lence of the recent Zionist convention has brought dis-
appointment to many among American Zionists; dis-
satisfaction with some of the provisions in the ,Jewish
Agency report has disheartened Zionists internation-
ally; failure on the part of Great Britain] fully to co-
operate in the Jewish national effort has brought many
a protest from Jews throughout the world. But Jewish
optimism rises to console and to cheer and to proclaim
the words of Isai a h:
Comfort ye, comfort ye My people,
Smith your God.
Bid Jerusalem take heart,
And proclaim unto her
That her time of service is accomplished,
That her guilt is paid off;
That she hath received of the Lord's hand
Double for all her sins.
For the first time in Iwo thousand years, the joyous
words of song that come from Palestine are stronger
than the lamentations. Zion is being redeemed. The
Land of Israel says to Diaspora Jewry in the words of
Zephaniah: "I turn your captivity before your eyes. -
Prophecy is coining true. Zion is being redeemed with
j notice.
This is the lesson that conies to Diaspora Israel from
the Land of Israel. on Tishri b'Ab and Sabbath Nach-
amu of 5688: "You dare not be divided in your ranks;
if there is a single thing that you owe the Homeland,
even more than money, it is to offer us that encourage-
ment which will reveal unity in Israel, and share with
us in the joy of our work." it must have been for such
a day on which Jewish unity will have been attained
for which another Prophet, Amos, premed:
And I will turn the captivity of My people Israel,
And they shall build the waste cities and inhabit them.
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A couple of years ago Dr. Stephen S. Wise voiced him-
self very indignantly against a form of application Wank
used by certain Jewish social clubs. In fact, he men-
tioned the matter to me and thought it an outrage that
Jews should require of a candidate for admission to regis-
ter the place of his birth, and the birthplace of his parents
and grandparents, too. Be felt that it was a clumsily
veiled effort to discriminate against those who were not
born on the Rhine. To him it indicated a narrowness and
an intolerance that reflected discreditably upon those re-
sponsible. Since that time I have seen several applica-
tion blanks from Jewish city and country clubs that have
those objectionable features. After all, it's rather a
stupid piece of business and shows how little these social
arbiters know what's going on in the world. If they were
to begin to comb their membership of Jews who were
born, or whose parents were born, in Russii, Poland, Ru-
mania, Hungary, Austria, or any other of the proscribed
countries they would be amazed how rapidly their mem-
bership would dwindle. Don't they know that in this
country these geographical lines are being obliterated
through marriage?
I wonder if the Germans ever stop to realize how
completely ignored they used to be by the Portuguese
Jews in this country In fact, the contempt for them and
their society was so pronounced that the daughters of
the ruling Jewish class at that time preferred to marry
out of their faith than to ally themselves with German-
Jews. So it seems to me to be quite out of keeping for
Jews to resort to the - tactics copied from the anti-Semitic
Gentiles.
The kind of blank sent out by these Jewish clubs
reminds me of the application forms issued by certain
private nehools who ask for information regarding the
name( ORIGINAL and ADOPTED) of the applicant, as
well an the birthplace and so on. This is done to prevent
Jews from getting in. I have always believed that men
and women should be accepted on the basis of character
and culture. I know Jews who are able to fill out the
club-blanks satisfactorily and would probably be admitted
on the basis of family connection who are unfit to associ-
ate with. While on the other hand, someone whose fam-
ily tree wasn't planted in the right soil would be su-
perior in every way. If I were promoting an anti-Semitic
campaign and wanted to keep Jews out of hotels, clubs,
apartments, etc., I wouldn't want any better ammunition
than to use the application blanks of these clubs. lea
about time that they found some other yard-stick than
a man's birthplace with which to measure his qualifica-
tions for membership.
A Jewess interviewed Ilindenberg and the interview
was syndicated throughout the Jewish press of this
country. The lady suggested to Ilindenberg that the
impression prevailed among the Jews in various countries
that the Jews of Germany do not find much favor in the
eyes of the president of the German republic. Ilerr Ilin-
denberg seems disturbed that such a thought should exist
in the minds of any person and he asked that the infor-
mation be disseminated to the effect that nothing in his
private or military life would indicate that he ever dis-
criminated against Jews. First of all, I did not know
that the Jews of the world believed that Ilindenberg was
anti-Semitic.
As I write this I am interrupted via radio by the
tumultous outbursts of enthusiasm at the mention of Gov-
ernor Smith by Franklin Roosevelt at the Democratic
convention in Houston. And it's sonic demonstration.
It sounds like a whirlwind. If noise will elect a man
president, Al Smith has the job in his vest pocket. But
votes rather than sound are the necessary requisite. I
will say this, however (just a moment, the noise is deaf-
ening, yet it holds my interest; I don't like to turn off
the radio—there, that's better), that if Smith weren't a
Catholic the election in my judament would be a run-
away race for the governor of New York. We have had
too nli ty adding machines, comptometers, auditors, and
other such business-like appurtenances in Washington.
And the ise_ople want a little heart, a little humor and a
little enthusiasm. They are hungry for an honest-to-
goodness, heart-warming smile. When you take Calvin
Coolidge, Charles Evans Hughes, F'rank Kellogg, Andrew
Mellon and a lot more of such best minds, it's a pretty
chilly aggregation. And the atmosphere makes a com-
mon, every-day man feel as much at home as if he were
asking the president of the biggest bank in America for
it loan; without an endorser or without collateral. Yes, I
guess it's about time that folks threw their hats up in
the air std started to whoop it up a bit. One thing
about Al, there is nothing high hat about him, as he
intends to wear a brown derby. Nevertheless, Old Effi-
•iency Hoover may nose him out, its this country cer-
tainly likes the music of the bell on the cash register.
At any rate, it's a great celebration and I am having a
good time listening to it.
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And before I forget g, I want to say that Franklin
Roosevelt put some sense into a nominating speech. He
talked logically and didn't pull a single feather out of
the eagle's tail, for which I personally owe the gentleman
a vote of thanks. Preceding him was a gentleman from
Georgia who gave one of those non-stop southern flights
of eloquence that made him sigh while it was going on
and to cheer when he stopped.
I am in receipt of this letter from a reader in Nor-
wood, Mans., and it will be of special interest to smaller
Jewish communities and may prove an inspire'on to them
to do bigger things in a communal way. Ile tiles:
In your column, "Random Thoughts," ppear-
ing in the Boston Jewish Advocate of June 21, I
read your article on Christians contributing
money to a synagogue. It may be of interest to
your readers throughout the country, particu-
larly those of New England, to know that such a
spirit exists right here in our midst. The record
of Nonnood, Mass., may not quite equal that of
our friends in Williamson, IV. Va., but with a
eottintunity of 35 families building a house of wor-
ship at a cost of $25,000, our Gentile friends very
considerably contributed over $4,000,1avith such
men as Lieut.-Gov. Frank G. Allen and the late
Charles Sumner Bird leading the list of contribu-
tors.
I'll say that Norwood, Mass., Jewish community is
progressive.
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I dislike very much to scold a lady. And such n nice
lady. And such an unusually intelligent lady as Mrs.
Sidney Borg, the well-ktiown Jewish social worker in
New York. When I saw her very attractive face en-
hancing a cigarette advertisement I felt like, well, to be
honest, I felt like shaking her. Here is one of the out-
standing Jewish communal workers in this country, the
founder of the Jewish Big Sisters movement, chairman of
the Women's Division, Federated Jewish Charities of
New York, putting her name to this applesauce.
The charitable activities in which I am en-
gaged make it necessary for me to meet women at
all kinds of functions. I am often invited to
smoke, but I smoke so little that my throat pro-
tests immediately unless the cigarette is very
mild. So it was with particular delight that I dis-
covered the Blank cigarette in blindfold test.
Now I wouldn't blame Mrs. Borg as much if she were
act so vitally interested in the Jewish Big Sister work. I
',may that Anne Morgan also endorsed the same cigarette
blirdfolded. It looks very much to me that in blindfold- '
ing theladiee the advertising department of the cigarette
makers pulls the wool over their eyes. Please don't do
it again, Mrs. Borg.
Touting a cigarette isn't really
quite the thing, do you think?
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Arthur Brisbane found room for this in his column:
Judge Proskauer, learned American jurist of
Jewish birth, has been preparing in New York n
platform for Democrats at Houston.
Since Moses came down the mountains with
commandments ell written out the Jewish race
has offered many important contributions to
humanity.
A Jewish scholar is said to have written the
Koran for Mohammed, whet probably couldn't read
or write. Mohammed's followers didn't know it.
Two Ways of Helping Jews In Russia
Colonization is All Right, but it Doesn't Fully Solve
the Problem; Plans for Industrialization
Put
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Forward.
( News Letter from Moscow.)
Br B. SMOLAR
At No. 10 Nikolskaya is the
chief office of the Central Com-
mittee of the Ozet in Moscow.
There we sat and discussed the
present condition of the Jews in
Russia and their future.
"It is about time that the addi-
tion to the slogan 'Jewish colo-
nization' we should come out with
a demand also for 'Jewish indus-
trialization,'" remarked A. Bra-
gin, the leader of the independents
in the Ozet.
One could see that Bragin had
not made this remark casually. It
was evident that the question of
Jewish industrialization had been
harrassing him for a long time;
but he had given this subject much
thought; because now, as he sat
here talking with us, he immedi-
ately became quite excited, al-
though his statement had met with
no opposition from his hearers.
"Do you understand?" he turned
to me. "Here in Russia there are
some people who are afraid to tell
themselves the truth about the
sad plight of the Jewish popula-
tion. They are afraid to admit
that of the more than two million
Jews living in the Soviet union, a
whole million of Jews have no
occupation and no means of liveli-
hood. They know very well that
the plight of this million Jews is a
desperate one, but they persuade
themselves that they will be able
to help them all through Jewish
colonization and this is where the
error lies.
Colonisation's Own Merits.
"Jewish colonization in Rus-
sia," continued Bragin, "has its
own merits. It can be made to
assist, let us say, tens of thousands
of Jewish families. It consider it
to be the most important achieve-
ment of the present moment,
otherwise I should not take such
an active interest in the work of
the Ozet. But does this mean
that we may not at the same time
conic out and demand from the
government an appropriation of
money for the industrialization of
the Jewish town, just as it has ap-
propriated money for Jewish
colonization in Biro-Bidzan?
"The 'Jewish town," continued
Bragin, "has all the possibilities
for the development o certain in-
dustries. If mills and factories
were built there, they would pay
no worse than mills and factories
that are being built in the cities
of central Russia. So much is said
here about an intensified indus-
trialization and there is even a
special budget or the construction
of new factories. Why, then, can
they not build these factories in
regions where the Jews form 90
per cent of the population? Two-
fold results would be attained by
this procedure: First of all, Jews
would be given an opportunity to
find employment; and, secondly,
this would transform them into
true proletarians."
Believes U. S. Jews Will Help.
"And do you believe that Jews
are really fitted for factory
wen k?" one of those present inter-
rupted Bragin. "Do I believe so?
year 10 new factories in the Po-
Of course I do. Just open this
dolin, Yolhynia or Odessa re-
gions, where the Jews are starv-
ing and suffering from unemploy-
ment and you will see within a
year whether they won't show the
best results. Who built up the
clothing industry in America if
not the Jews who emigrated there
from these very regions? And
the leather factories, who if nut
the Jews, used to work in them in
the Russia of old? And how
many Jewish carpenters are walk-
ing arount without employment in
the Jewish town? And mechan-
ics, locksmiths, blacksmiths? And
the Jewish youth who are pre-
pared to do whatever work may
be given to them? And is there a
lack of Jewish unskilled laborers,
I should like to know?
Bragin spoke much longer. The
longer he spoke, the clearer be-
came his point of view. We must
not rely upon Jewish colonization
alone. Jewish colonization is a
very good thing, tut its extent
and possibilities are too small in
the face of the great destitution
that reigns in the Jewish town.
This poverty must be alleviated
partly through having Jew's settle
on the land and partly through
factories to be built by the goy-
ernment in Jewish sections of the
country. Such factories, it is
Bragin's belief, would be given
technical support by Jews outside
of Russia. American Jews would
surely assist the technical equip s„
ment of such factories,just as
they are now helping with Jewish
colonization.
Why, then, doesn't the Soviet
government consider the indus-
trialization of the Jewish masses
in the same way as it assists their
colonization?
of
The answer to this question is
short and simple. It is not in the
best interests of the Soviet gov-
ernment to build factories in such
parts of Russia as are situated
near the frontier.
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Soviet Fears Attacks.
I do not know whether Bragin
is familiar with this reason, but
such is the impression which I
have carried away with me after
a series of conversations in Mos-
cow.
No matter how firmly Soviet
power seems to be intrenched in
Russia internally, it still lives in
fear of an attack from the outside.
They are afraid of a war that can
break out any day in the direction
of Poland, or from the Rumanian
side, or from an altogether unex-
pected direction. There is a great
deal of anxiety in this respect, and
war is expected at any season.
This is essentially the reason
why such a city as Odessa is now
industrially dead. Herein lies the
secret why Moscow and not Len-
ingrad is the flourishing city. With
the limited finances which the Sov-
iet government has at its disposal,
it cannot invest them in such cities
as are situated near the fron-
tiers. If they do erect new fac-
tories, they build them nearer the
center of Russia. They do be-
lieve in industrialization, but not
around the frontier towns.
The cities and towns happens
to be such that they are to be
found close to the frontiers of
other countries, countries that are
sworn enemies of Russia, that
would gladly bring about its de-
struction. At the present mo-
ment, they are too weak to execute
their plans, but Europe is still a
boiling cauldron, and who knows
what can happen later?
Bureya as Republic Harmful.
"I consider the proclamation of
Bureya as a Jewish republic to be
premature," Bragin expressed as
his opinion. "I am supporting the
practical plans for Jewish coloniza-
tion in Bureya, because so far
,Jewish colonization in general is
now the only means of salvation
for the Jews of Russia. But when
the Jewish communistic section
creates a sensation and proclaims
Bureya as a Jewish republic, I say
that this is harmful. One should
not shout 'Jewish republic' ospr a
stretch of land which has not yet
been accurately investigated, and
where it is not known with what
success the colonization of Jews is
going to meet. It is more sensible
to come out with such a slogan,
say in five years from now, when
we shall know exactly what sort
of a future Jewish immigrants
may expect there,"
Very few Jewish leaders agree
with Bragin's idea that a general
Jewish conference ought to take
up the Bureya question. As far
as his argument about the prema-
tureness of proclaiming Bureya a
Jewish republic is concerned,
there is not an Ozet worker who
fully agrees with Brazin. There
would be plenty of time to pro-
claim Bureya a Jewish republic
in a few years from now, after the
Jewish immigrants have had time
to settle down with sufficient com-
fort to make them wish to remain
there.
No matter haw reasonable they
may be, Bragin's opinions do not
interfere in any way with the work
of emigration to Bureya. Bragin
himself, although having enough
objections to Bureya, is doing a
great deal of work for that immi-
gration project. But he also de-
mands that in addition to the cobi•
nization of Jews
a beginning'
should he made of , industrializing
them, and he is certainly right in
this respect,
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THE RABBI KNOWS
e/ISK HIM
A Sheaf of Sheilas
By RABBI LEON FRAM
• riot of Religious Educat;on, Temple Beth El.
(Readers of The Detroit Jewish
Chronicle are invited to submit
questions for Rabbi Fram to an-
swer. Address Rabbi Leon From,
Temple Beth Ni, Detroit.)
1. Who is the chief editorial
writer of the New York World?
2. Who is David Lawrence?
:1. What is meant by a "David
and Jonathan" friendship?
4. Whitt Jewish firm introduced
the Vitaphone into the field of en-
tertainment?
5. What is the Lim of Holiness4
6. Into what countries havd
Jews been immigrating since the
restriction
of
immigration
in
America?
7. Why did the Spanish-Portu-
guese Jews of America snub the
German Jews?
le Why did the German Jews of
America snub the Russian and Po-
lish Jews?
9. What recent event has tend-
ed to unite Jewry and eliminate
international prejudices?
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10. How were the Jews got
erned after the destruction of the
Jewish State?
11. What is the Golden Calf?
IS. What is the Cloud of
Glory?
13. In what part of the Temple
was the Cloud of Glory thought to
have its seat?
14. What is the Synagogue
Council of America?
15. Who is Henry Hurwitz!
III. What Jew formerly owned
the land upon which the Jewish
farm colonies of Ukraine are now
established?
17. What does the expression
"Vanity of Vanities" refer to?
Is. Of what two characters in
the Bible is it said that "they
watked with God"?
19. What great institution is lo-
cated on the spot where Titus di-
rected the siege of Jerusalem?
20. What is meant by the ex-
pression "Am Ha-Aretz"?
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