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An Indian Chief and the Lost Tribes.

EDETROlrtJt1VISitOROM1CIL IA E

When "Uncle Sol" Levitan, State Treasurer of Wis-
consin, was dubbed Chief Tchay-ska-kah, or White
Deer, of the Winnebagos; and when the Chippewas,
more recently, adopted him as one of theirs and named
him Chief Bimwewegijig, or Roaring Sky, he was hailed
as the first Jewish Indian chief in history.
If the beliefs and investigations of ethnologists are
to be taken seriously, however, the term "first" is a mis-
nomer because the Indians are said to be the Lost Tribes
of Israel. These investigators, who lived among the
Indians and made a study of their characteristics and
tribal laws, point to many reasons for their beliefs that
the Indians are descended from the lost ten tribes.
James Adair lived for forty years among American
Indian tribes and wrote a book in 1775 declaring with
certainty that the American aborigines are descended
from the Israelites. In 1825 the Rev. Ethan Smith of
Poultney, Vt., published his "View of the Hebrew, or
the Tribes of Israel in America," in which Mr. Adair's
arguments are summed up and a comparison is made
among other things of the languages of the Indians and
Hebrew to prove their similarity. As an instance, and
in proof of the Indians' Hebraic spirit, the following
is quoted by Mr. Adair from an address of a captain to
his warriors:

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The Jewish Pseudo-Clergy.

NEW YORK, Aug. 17.—(Jewlstt Telegraphic Agency)
-.:-Sender Fmk Horowitz, who was arrested on it charge of
attempting to smuggle jewelry into the Unites) States when
he arrived on the steamer Isle de France on Tuesday, is
not a rabbi, as he described himself, declares a statement
issued by the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of
America. The statement declared that Rabbi Israel Rosen-
berg, president of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the
United States and Canada, stated that Horowitz has no
right to call himself a rabbi. At one time he was a solici-
tor for a charitable institution, Rabbi Rosenberg stated,
and in this capacity he had used a clergy ticket.

I know that your guns are burning in your hands; your
tomahawks are thirsting to drink the blood of your ene-
mies; your trusty arrows are impatient to be upon the
wing; and lest delay should burn your hearts any longer
I give you the cool, refreshing words: Join the holy ark;
and away to cut off the devoted enemy.

Elijah M. Haines, in his "American Indian," is "in-
clined to adopt the theory that the aboriginal inhabit-
ants of this country are descendants from what is
known as the Lost Tribes of Israel, or those ten tribes
spoken of in Jewish history, concerning whose descend-
nts no account is given us." Mr. Haines goes on to
aeclare:

The above J. T. A. despatch Is of more than passing
importance because it reveals a much-abused practice
on the part of a Jewish pseudo-clergy. On the face of
it, the above news note appears to speak of only one
individual who has posed as a rabbi and has thereby
disgraced a holy calling. But in back of it is a more
serious situation.
American Jewish communities, from coast to coast,
are suffering from an invasion of fake rabbis which is
an insult to our people in this country. Especially since
the war, which offered an excuse for multitudinous ap-
peals for the needy, orphaned, widowed and other
grades of European sufferers, every "meshulach," col-
lector of alms or representative of institutions of greater
or lesser importance, has learned to style himself
"rabbi." In addition, many Hebrew teachers in smaller
communities, and Shochtim, also adopted the rabbinic
title, with the result that the non-Jewish population is
confused, the Jewish people fooled and the rabbinate
disgraced. , Furthermore, the wrong, unearned, unau-
thorized and abused appellation of the title by many
unscrupulous individuals has seriously injured the suc-
cess of worthy causes which have lost in trust and con-
fidence because their representatives proved unworthy
of the people's faith.
Although the ancient application of the term
"rabbi," the literal meaning of which is "my teacher,"
was used as a title for all distinguished for their learn-
ing and knowledge, the modern use of the title, unless
greater abuse is to be invited, must be limited to those
who have earned a right to it from recognized sem-
inaries. The organizations and schools of Reform, Con-
servatism and Orthodoxy owe it to American Israel to
see to it that the dangers of a Jewish pseudo-clergy are
removed.

Many writers and ethnologists have found in the native
tribes oLAmerica various traits and customs like those of
the JeA, some of which are identically the same, pre-
senting coincidences in this regard which it would seem
could not exist, except upon the theory that they sprang
from, or were at some time connected with, the latter
people.
And so in regard to the implements in use by the
natives of North America at the time of the discovery,
which were identical in many respects with those in use
by the inhabitants of Asia. The bow and arrow ftund in
use by the natives of North America were essentially the
same implements used by the Tartars and other inhabi-
tants of the Asiatic continent, including the ancient Jews.

The Fate of Yiddish in America.

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Twenty years ago, the Czernowitz Conference of
Yiddishists proclaimed Yiddish as "the National lan-
guage" of East European Jewry. Sentiment for Yiddish
has since spread to this continent and has created a
group of Yiddishist patriots for whom Yiddish stands
out above everything in the language question, insofar
as Jews and Jewishness are concerned.
The sentiment for Yiddish has even gained sup-
porters among the so-called assimilated and thoroughly
Americanized groups. The most powerful comrade to
be enrolled under the banner of the Yiddishists is Louis
Marshall, president of the American Jewish Committee
and leader of the non-Zionist group that is joining
hands with the Zionists in the creation of the Jewish
Agency. In an interview in London, where he was in
attendance at the meetings of the Non-Partisan Pales-
tine Survey Commission, he gave emphatic answer in
the affirmative to the two questions: "Will Yiddish
live?" "Is Yiddish a language?"
Mr. Marshall, as one who has for years followed
events in the Jewish world through the Yiddish press,
and as one who reads Yiddish fluently, may have been
influenced in his answers by sentiment. It is possible
that on the question of Yiddish Mr. Marshall's wish
fathered his thought. But looking at facts as they are,
without being biased by sentiment, we fail to find a
tendency in American Jewish life leading to the per-
petuation of Yiddish.
The best way of judging the strength of Yiddish is
by evaluating the strength of the Yiddish press, the
Yiddish theater and the Yiddish school. Uriah Zevi
Engelman, in a study of the Yiddish problem in Amer-
ica, published in last month's Menorah Journal, point;
out that the boom year for the Yiddish press was 1916,
when the aggregate circulation of the twelve leading
Yiddish periodicals was 717,146. In 1927 the circula-
tion of these papers was 536,346, and with the passing
out of existence of the Tageblatt even this figure must
have been considerably reduced. With immigration
reduced to a minimum of less than 10,000 newcomers
a year, the Yiddish press has no new field to look to
for new readers and if anything its'circulation is des-
tined to decrease rather than to increase.
The Yiddish theater is faring much worse than the
press. A report issued this week by Reuben Guskin,
manager of the Yiddish Actors Union, states that only
18 of the 24 theaters which functioned last year will
be reopened during the approaching season. The six
defunct theaters are in New York, and there are reports
also of the closing of Yiddish theaters in Chicago, Los
Angeles, Baltimore. Cleveland and Boston.
Yiddish, schools may have shown great spirit and
their students are undoubtedly loyal to and enthusiastic
for Yiddish, but when they leave their classrooms they
turn to their natural medium of conversation and ex-
pression: English.
With the great environmental pressure, and the
romantic appeal of Hebrew insofar as the spiritual side
of Jewish study is concerned, it is difficult to see how
Yiddish can possibly grow as it has in the past, no
matter how desirable such growth may be.

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In an attempt to revive the old theory of the affinity
between the American aborigines and Israel, the Mil-
waukee Journal quotes these authorities as well as
Thomas Jefferson, Dr. Jedidiah Morse, William Penn,
Dr. Boudinot and others who found the Indians "with
like countenances with the Hebrew race." This paper
also publishes the summary by Rev. Smith of Mr.
Atlair's arguments that "the natives of this continent
are the ten tribes of Israel," in which the following 23
points of supposed similarity are quoted :
Division into tribes; worship of Jehovah; notions
of a theocracy; belief in the administration of angels;
language and dialects; manner of counting time;
prophets and high priests; festivals, fasts and religious
rites; daily sacrifice; abolutions and anointings; laws of
uncleanliness; abstinence from unclean things; mar-
riage, divorces and punishments of adultery; their sev-
eral punishments; cities of refuge; purification and
preparatory ceremonies; ornaments; manner of curing
the sick ; burial of the dead; mourning for the dead ;
raising seed to a deceased brother; change of names
adapted to their cicumstances and times; their own
traditions; the accounts of English writers and the
testimonies given by Spaniards and other writers of
the primitive inhabitants of Mexico and Peru.
In view of the fact that the Chinese, Eskimos and
other peoples have at different times been claimed /as
the descendants of the Lost Ten Tribes, there is need
for further proof that the Indians are the direct
descendants of the Israelites. Perhaps Mr. Levitan's
chieftaincy will arouse new interest for a renewed
study of the Indian and his origin.
But if the theories of those who claim the Indians
to be our lost Jewish brothers should prove true, think
of the plight of the Nordics!

The Tragedy of a Misinterpreted Law.

The Lantern, a magazine "focusing upon Fascism
and other dark disorders of the present day," in an ar-
ticle from the pen of Creighton Hill on "Alvan T. Ful-
ler—Failure," makes the charge that "to Fuller there
are never any extenuating circumstances. It is the
law—and he enforces it with a complete lack of imagi-
nation or the least humanity of feeling." To prove his
point the writer quotes the case of Nathan Desatnick,
the only Jew to die on the electric chair in Massachu-
setts, for the death of his 15-month-old baby. Mr. IIill
states in his reference to this Jewish 'base:

Desatnick, the Jewish peddler, who gave his 15-months-
old child to another man to drown, went to the chair de-
spite the strenuous efforts of religious leaders who
explained to the governor that the man's act was influ-
enced by remorse because the child could never be received
into the Jewish faith. Its parents had not married until
after the baby's birth and this stamps the child forever
as illegitimate in the eyes of the church.

There is such a vast difference in Jewish and Chris-
tian conceptions of the term illegitimacy that this state-
ment calls for correction and explanation. According
to the law as set down in Deuteronomy (XXIII. 3), "one
born from prohibited connections shall not enter into
the congregation of the Lord ; even the tenth genera-
tion of him shall not enter the congregation'i of the
Lord." But the Jewish term "mamzer" is, according
to the explanation in the Jewish Encyclopedia, "some-
thing worse than an illegitimate child." The Encyclo-
pedia offers further explanation of "one born from pro-
hibited connections:"

He is the offspring of a father and mother between
whom there could be in law no binding betrothal; issuing
either from adultery between a married woman and a man
other than her husband, or from incest within the for-
bidden degrees of kinship or affinity defined in Leviticus
XVIII and XX.

But Jewish law is not so cruel as to include in the
category of those "born from prohibited connections"
girls with whom there could in law' be binding betroth-
als. It is quite possible that Desatnick's misunder-
standing of this law. provided the Lantern writer is
correct in the cause he attributes for his act, may have
been responsible for the loss of two lives, his own and
his child's.

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A Controversy In A Swiss
Synagogue

GIAS. I+. (.1 OSEPH-.='"—

They were having a grant) time down in the shade of
the University of Virginia when my friend, the Reverend
Albert C. Dieffenbach, Unitarian and editor of the Chris-
tian Register, published in Boston, set off some anti-
Catholic fireworks. Truth to tell 1 have been expecting
this for some time past, because a year ago I sat along-
side of Dr. Dieffenbach at a dinner, and we were discus-
sing Smith, and the possibility of a Catholic becoming
president of the United States. The Unitarian clergy-
man told me at that time that he didn't think it would
be a good thing to have the Roman Catholic church in-
trenched in government. It wasn't so much the question
of Smith the individual as Smith the Catholic. He seems
to think that the Catholic Church insists on obedience in
the church first and to temporal powers second. Even
Smith's famous letter to Charles Marshall, that created
so much comment when it appeared in the Atlantic
Monthly, was not conclusive evidence that a Catholic
president would not be forced to bow to the authority of
Rome if the issue was ever forced. I couldn't see it that
way, but I knew from the temper of his remarks that he
would be opposed to Smith's candidacy. So, when the
reports appeared in the daily press the other day of his
disapproval of a Catholic for president, I was not in the
least surprised.

I was very much interested in the very sharp come-
back of others regarding the interference of the Protest-
ant fundamentalists in the politics of the country. And
the speakers weren't a bit polite about what they said.
They felt that the Catholic Church couldn't possibly be
worse than the Protestants have shown themselves to be.
And one speaker in particular said that he would like
to see a Catholic elected as a protest against this intoler-
able meddling on the part of churchmen who ought to
attend to their own church business and let the nation
take care of its public business. The statement was made
that if the Catholics had done what the Protestant funda-
mentalists did in Tennessee there would have been a
national riot. I have felt like many other paragraphers,
that we haven't so much religion that we can spare any
of it for political purposes. And it is unfortunate that
certain church organizations, regardless of what they
preach and what they say privately are nevertheless
working in machine-fashion to make of this presidential
election a religious and not a political fight. I cannot
agree any more today with the position of Dr. Diefen-
bach than I did a year ago. Ile is a man of sincerity and
of highest integrity. Ile has no political axes to grind
and when he takes his position, erroneous though it may
be, in my opinion, I know that he believes a Catholic
president would be a national menace.

I hail occasion to comment editorially in one of the
Jewish journals on the article which appeared in a United
Presbyterian church paper published in Pittsburgh. But
I feel that it should be broadcasted to a wider audience
to give them an idea of just what intolerance there exists
in some church circles with reference to the Jew. The
writer in question said that "children of the Jews are as
a rule lawless." There is something for the intelligent
Jew of this country, yes, and for the intelligent Chris-
tians to think over. That was not the statement of an
ignorant know-nothing, said in the heat of a backyard
fight when Jewish children were being chased for tres-
passing, but written by a writer of standing and approved
for publication by the editor of a representative Chris-
tian church publication. If you can beat that you will
have to go some. Here we have good-will groups, good-
fellowship and good-fellowship dinners, we have exchange
of pulpits, we have Jews and Christians working together
for the general community welfare, and despite all this
we have such a malicious falsehood spread on the pages
of a publication that goes to thousands of Christian
homes. The charge made in the same journal that the'
Jews are offensive as neighbors, we are willing to pass
by, because perhaps the author of that statement may
have had at some time Jewish neighbors who kept their
homes cleaner than he did his, and perhaps lived in a
little better style. There may be a trace of envy in that
remark on his part. We can excuse it coming from a
small mind and an envious soul. But to charge that Jew-
ish children are as a rule lawless is an attack upon the
character of our children, and if the writer has any rem-
nant of decency left, he should apologize, and if the
United Presbyterian has any respect, it will remove him
from further opportunity to ever again sully the pages
of its publication. So much for that Christian gentle-
man.

I am in receipt of a most abusive letter from a
Lutheran Jew in Baltimore. He sends it to me registered,
to be sure that I will receive his Christian-Jewish or
Ilerew-Christian
good-will greeting. What he says does
b
not in the slightest degree change my opinion that I have
never known personally a Jew to become converted to
Christianity because he believes that Christianity was a
better religion or that he could find salvation for his soul
in following Jesus of Nazareth. The Jews that I have
known, and I repeat it, are those who have become con-
verts for business, political, social or financial reasons.
I was careful to say and I repeat that part of my state-
ment, that there may be Jews who have become converts
from conscientious motives, but I don't know them. I am
like the late Houdini in that respect. Houdini always
told me that he never took the position that spiritualism
was not possible nor spirit messages could not be received.
But he insisted that he had never received one, that he
had never seen one that he couldn't duplicate, that he
had never met a spiritualist whose tricks he could not
duplicate. And so I say that the Hebrew Christians I
have known never appealed to me as men who were con-
verted because of a deep religious conviction. And while
I am on the subject I will say that it is a crying shame
that fortunes are spent by Christians and Christian
churches in trying to wean Jews away from their religion.
That money could be spent for a far better purpose.
namely, converting Gentiles to Christianity. And just
one more thought and then I am through. The fact that
Christians and Jews held a meeting recently in New
York to stop the practice of ENTICING YOUNG JEWS,
through favors and social attentions, to become inter-
ested in missions, indicates that there must have been
good cause for such a move.

This is Indignation Week for me and I was just get-
ting warmed up for a tilt with Time, that rather smart-
alec magazine that can never refer to a Jew without using
the word "sleek." And it was sleeking Mr. Lewis Ein-
stein, Minister to Czechoslovakia, riding his sleek limou-
sine, and all the rest of the suave sleekness that Time
alone knows how to suavely insinuate in its writeups,
and I was getting madder and madder, when all at once,
like n thunderbolt from the blue, I came across this item:

Married :—Myron Weiss, Associate Editor of
Time, to I.uba Wies, Boston law student, by Rabbi
Stephen S. Wise.

And I just fainted from surprise.

Well, here's a free ad for a moving picture. A reader
in Baltimore asks me to see a picture called, I think,
"The Love of An Actress," dealing with the life of Rachel,
the famous Jewish actress. The leading part is played
by Pols Negri. He thinks that the play is historically
inaccurate and asks me to see it and give my opinion. It
may be appearing in other cities, but it has not vet
reached Pittsburgh. But I am always glad to receive
suggestions of this kind, because I know my readers are
interested in pictures or plays that have a Jewish appeal,
and they will be glad to know of the picture my corre-
spondent mentions.

It looks as if the people of Cleveland don't know the
war's over. The other day a copy of Ford's "Interna-
tional Jew" was unearthed in the public schools of that
city. How it got in no one seems to know, as the super-
intendent and the assistant superintendent are away on
their vacations. But a co-religionist, Albert Benesch, a
member of the Board of Education, is going to the bot-
tom of the matter and when the board meets on Aug.
27, there is going to be an explanation. Can anyone
explain how a normal minded person occupying • place
of authority in the public schools of any city. could pos-
sibly permit the use of such a scurrilous pamphlet dealing
maliciously with a people, in the schools? It seems that
more education is needed in higher educational circles.
The person responsible, I am sure, would never be able
to pass an intelligence test.

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(News-Letter from Zurich)

By A. SCHWEITZER

opponents of the projects are ask
The quiet, peaceful, everyday life
of the Jewish community of Zurich, ing whether it is just that all the
the largest in Switzerland has re- architects on the committee, form
ing, as they do, the majority
cently been s‘Imewhat disturbed by
a public disagreement and dispute.
should be non-Jews. Is it not an
The topic under discussion is the insult to Jewish honor and self-
erection of a new synagogue and respect? Is not the building of a
the ensuing argument is being car- synagogue connected in addition to
ried on with a great deal of passion, technical and urtistics questions
bitterness and anger.
with a great many considerations
Like the other Western European
which must be taken into account
cities, the Jewish community of and which cannot be felt or under:
Zurich is divided into two camps, stood by non-Jewish experts? Is
if one is to leave out of considera- it sufficient to know how many seats
tion some smaller groups. There a Synagogue is to contain? Is it
are the Israelite Kultus Commun-
nut also necessary to have a deeper
ity (reform) and the Orthodox Re-
understanding of Jewish ritual
ligious Society.' The Religious So-
with the "hakafes" at "Siinchas
ciety completed several years ago Torah" with the kneeling on the
the erection of a large and beautiful high Holy Days and so on. Why
synagogue. Now the time has did they not invite to serve on the
come for the Kultus Community to committee some of the distinguished
bring into execution its plan for a foreign Jewish architects who have
new temple, a plan which has been
become famous for the synagogues
under discussion for a considerable they have erected? Besides all this,
time A site has already been pur-
would it not have helped to
chased, all necessary financial ar- strengthen the authority and im-
rangements have been made, and a
partiality of the committee which
special committee has been chosen
is greatly lessened when it consists
whose deity it is to prepare a plies solely of local forces? Such are
for a competition of architects. The the arguments of the opponents of
committee soon completed its labors the plan.
While the plan has aroused the
and a few weeks ago it announced
opposition of the Jewish press, it
its conditions.
The publication of the conditions
did not receive any friendly recep-
tion from the Swiss a rchitects
for the competition has acted like
a bomb upon everyone, has called either.
Fight Plan Publicly.
forth great opposition, and the
usually peaceful atmosphere of the
Their grievance against the com-
community has suddenly become
munity consists of the fact that in
charged with gunpowder.
working out the conditions of the
The question which has created contest, the committee did not pay
all the trouble is not concerned with any attention to the rules adopted
the necessity of building a new
for that purpose by the "Swim
synagogue. It hinges upon an en-
Society of Engineers and Archi-
tirely different matter, that is, tects" whose members consider it
"Who is actually going to erect the
a point of honor not to take part in
building.? Who is to be on the
such contests either as architects,
committee of judges who are to
or as judges.
select the best plan?"
Members of this society have be-
A Point of Difference.
gun to combat the project publicly
It is proposed in the plan of the
in the general press. They a re
general committee that there shall
protesting against the fact that ac-
take part in the competition all cording to the plan, the community
architects who are citizens of the will not be obligated to award the
city of Zurich and its suburbs with- building of the temple to the in-
out any difference of belief or re- dividual receiving the first prize;
ligion, and as to the participation
they are also complaining that the
of architects living outside of Zu- community has set aside for the
rich, there- are indicated the names prizes a smaller sum than specified
of only eight Jewish architects who
in the rules of the society.
have been generously permitted the
So far, the community has made
privilege of submitting, their plans,
no reply to all the attacks and
and that means one architect from criticisms. It is to be assumed that
each city: Saint Gall, Strasburg, it will be willing to make some
Stuttgart, Constance, Berlin, Vien- concessions, to consent to some
na, Prague and Budapest.
changes in the project, and in this
This point of the project of oval t' to arrive at some compromise.
course aroused immediately the
No matter how the project should
Jewish press. This indignant mood
he changed, it will be impossible to
found a strong reflections in the eradicate the fact and will long re-
local Jewish-German weeklies.
main as a sign and proof how deep
The community is reproached a Western European congregation
with the fact that such a proposi- could have sunk in its Jewish and
tion if it should he adopted, would
religious feelings, that in beginning
mean nothing less than theintroduc- to build a synagogue, it did not find
lion of a numerus clausus for the it necessary to invite to the compe-
Jewish architects and would re- tition, Jewish architects, and to
main forever as a brand of shame leave the decision as to the best
for the Jews of Zurich. The great-
plan to a committee of Jewish
est Jewish architects and artists
judges, but has considered it neces•
are excluded from the contest. Such nary to hand everything over into
architects of international fame as strange, non-Jewish hands, is the
Mendelsohn, Messed, Prof. Frank, view in the opposition camp.
George and others are simply for-
(Copyright, 1925, J. T. A.)
bidden to take part in the competi-
tion, while the right is given to
Seminary Publishes "Geni-
approximately 80 to 100 non-Jewis
zah Studies in Memory of
architects who are living in Zurich.
Dr. Solomon Schechter."
In this connection the question was
raised whether a non-Jew has the
The
Jewish Theological Seminary
right to build a Jewish synagogue?
It is very rarely that a Catholic is of America announces the publica-
tion
of
two volumes of "Genizah
invited to build a Protestant place
Studies in Memory of Doctor Solo-
of worship. It has never happened
mon
Schechter,"
forming volumes
that a Jew should be invited to
build a Catholic church. Why do 7 and 9 of the Series of Texts and
the Jews have to be an exception Studies published by the seminary.
In 1902 when Doctor Scheehter left
and entrust the building of their
holiest edifice to non-Jewish hands, England to become president of the
to people who cannot have any seminary, the University of Cam-
bridge permitted him to bring over
spiritual connection with a syna-
gogue and who are not connected a considerable number of Genizah
with it by any religious, spiritual manuscripts which he hoped to pub-
lish in the course of time This he
or traditional bonds, is the argu-
was prevented from doing and
ment of the partisans.
The Jewish communities of Vien- members of the faculty of the sem-
na and Sarajevo, when they re- inary undertook to edit these in his
honor.
cently built synagogues. understood
The first volume is devoted to
that the contest should be limited
Midrash and Haggadah and is edit-
to Jewish architects only.
ed by Professor Louis Ginsberg,
Thus Argue Plan'. Opponents.
Even if the project has been and the second volume is devoted to
I.iturgical and Secular Pa-try,
gracious enough to include only
eight Jewish architects, it makes no edited by Professor Israel David-
son. In the latter volume, besides
less scandalous the stipulation con-
cerning the membership of the the Genizah Fragments in Cam-
committee of iudges. The three bridge, texts are included from
architects of the five members of other distinguished public and pri-
vate collections, although the main
the committee have already been
portion is of the Taylor-Schechter
named, and not one of them is a
Collection. Publication of these
Jew. One of them is the city ar-
volumes were made possible
chitect of Zurich, the second a pro-
through the generosity of Messrs.
lessor, and the third a practical
architect, who is not distinguished Louis Marshall and Felix M. War-
by great artistic ideas, as well as burg, members of the board of di-
rectors of the seminary.
by anything else. Once more the

THE RABBI KNOWS

ASK HIM

A Sheaf of Sheilas

By RABBI

LEON FRAM

D.•ector of Religious Educar:en, Temple Beth El.

(Readers of The Detroit Jewish
Chronicle are invited to submit
questions for Rabbi Fram to an-
swer. Address Rabbi Leon Frani,
Temple Beth El, Detroit.)
1. Can a Jewish marriage be
held on the days between Rosh
Hashonah and Tom Kippur?
2. During what long period of
the year do Orthodox Jews forbid
marriages?
3. On what special days during
this period may a marriage be
held?
4. What is the reason given for
this prohibition?
5. What other people besides
the Jews prohibit marriages dur-
ing this period?
C,. What reason do these other
people give for the prohibition?
7. During what other period ell
Orthodox Jews forbid marriage?
S. What is the reason offered
for this forbidden period?
9. Why do neither Reform nor
Orthodox Jews celebrate marriages

on the Sabbath or on festivals?
10. Does Judaism permit crema-
tion?
11. What great leaders of Re-
form Judaism requested cremation
in their wills?
12. Where is the International
Conference for I.iberal Judaism
meeting this year?
13. What Detroiter is an Ameri-
can delegate to the conference?
14. What is the meaning of the
phrase "Shaarey Zedek"?
15. What is the complete phrase
of which this phrase is a part?
IC. Where does the verse occur'
17. What is the meaning of the
phrase "Emanu-El"?
18. Where does the phrase oc-
cur in the Bible?
19. Why do Christian churches
as well as synagogues use the name
"Emanu-El"?
20. What is the meaning of the
phrase "Beth El"?

(For Answers See Last Page).

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