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Sabbath Reading. of the Torah.
Pentateuchal portion—Gen. 47:28-50:20.
Prophetical portion—I Kings 2:1-12.
December 28, 1928
Tebeth 15, 5689
Danger in Calendar Reform.
It has already been pointed out in these columns
that there is grave danger for the Jew in the proposed
reform of the calendar. The Foreign Affairs Committee
of the House of Representatives now has before it a
resolution of Representative Porter requesting the Pres-
ident to call an international conference for the re-
vision and simplification of the calendar, as recom-
mended by the Pan-American Conference at Havana.
The recommendation calls for the division of the year,
beginning with Jan. 1, 1933, into 13 months, each hav-
ing four weeks, with an additional day, unnamed and
unrelated to the rest of the year, thrown in annually to
complete the reformed cycle. Calling for the begin-
ning of every year and every month on a Sunday, this
extra day would so move around the Jewish Sabbath
Day that it would fall one year on Saturdays, the next
on Sundays, the third on Mondays, and so on down
the line. Therein lies the danger in the proposed re-
form for the Jewish people.
It may be argued by some Jews that so few of our
people now observe the Sabbath that it is not worth
while, for the sake of a handful, to battle against the
proposed reforms. In reality, however, an important
Jewish principle is at stake. Because so few observe,
and because so many misunderstand the relation of
the Jewish calendar to the civil one, the recommend-
ations for reform, should they be adopted, may
so confuse matters for the already misunderstanding
further to weaken the faith of these uninformed. It is
well that it be understood that the Sabbath, having been
raised by Judaism into the realm of supreme holiness,
has served as the most important backbone in the Jew's
struggle for survival. Because a minority insisted on
keeping the Sabbath clay holy, it was made possible
for the entire people to pivot around this one great
principle in retaining Israel's individuality. So that
even for the sake of the smallest minority of Sabbath
observers, it is important that Jews exert every effort
against the proposed reforms in our calendar.
In our Jewish argument against the reform of the
calendar there also enters an element of sentiment.
We have observed the seventh day in the week as the
Sabbath for thousands of years, and by endangering
further its observance we will also endanger the very
foundation of all Jewish sentiment. But the New York
Times of December 20 editorially disagreed with the
importance of laying stress on sentiment when it stated:
15 ' WO' 'eti"
Stephen S. Wise—"Front Page Copy."
James Waterman Wise has something to say in
his latest book, "Jews Are Like That," about the
charge that his father, Dr. Stephen S. Wise, is a "pub-
licity hunter." Says the already famed son of a famed
father :
Wise is a picturesque fighter. His entry into, his par-
ticipation in, any organization or activity, galvanizes, dyna-
mites and occasionally dynamites it. Into any situation
he injects an electric quality which is his personality. Ile
is incapable of dullness. lake Roosevelt, whom people
often mistook for a publicity hunter, he cannot escape
attention. He is sought by rather than a seeker of it. His
walk, his voice, his manner, inevitably command it even in
the most irenic circumstances. And when he fights in some
cause or upon some issue he abundantly provides what is
known to the newspaper world as "front page copy."
There is no denying the prominence of the "Wise
co py" in the Jewish as well as the non-Jewish press.
To quote many instances in proof of this: For many
ye ars Reform rabbis have taken the "Jesus theme" as
to pies for their sermons, and none became the center
of attention until Dr. Wise tackled it; then came his
to rn to be tackled and attacked in a manner that made
hi m the center of a most interesting religious discus-
si m. During the war Dr. Wise allied himself with
th e most rabid of pacifists, yet none of the opponents
of America's entry in the war attracted the attention
th at fell to the lot of Stephen S. Wise. In numerous
of her instances, it was inevitable that the rabbi of the
F ree Synaggoue should have the attention of the land
fo cused upon him.
But if Dr. Wise is"sought by rather than a seeker
of publicity, it is difficult to understand his most re-
cent conquest of the "front page." If Dr. Wise craved
to battle against the Jewish Agency, at the Berlin
meeting of the Executive Committee of the World
Zionist Organization last week, why didn't he live up
to his name, meditate before taking the trip and ar-
range to get to Berlin in time for a fair and unbiased
discussion of the issue? In what way did Dr. Wise
either benefit his cause or add to his picturesqueness
as a fighter by coming to the Berlin meeting an hour
before the balloting on the question of approving the
Jewish Agency agreement between Dr. Chaim Weiz-
mann and Mr. Louis Marshall? It surely wasn't neces-
sary to go to Berlin to deliver an opposition address.
That could have been cabled, if necessary. What a
man in Dr. Wise's position should have gone for, if
his views are worth battling for, was to convince his
fellow Zionist leaders and to convert them to his
views. The vote of 39 to 5 in favor the Jewish Agency
is convincing proof of the miserable failure of Dr.
Wise's feeble attempt.
Thus, Dr. Wise remains an anomaly. lie makes
"front page copy ;" by his picturesqueness he attracts
attention, and wins admiration. But his methods of
approach to his problems, like his present trip to Ber-
lin or his flight from the World Zionist Congress at
Basle last summer, remain a mystery.
YSO
GAS.11:
The Jewish Inventor of the Zeppelin.
• 0- Ag9.Q.9•R SOM.
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"The Outlawry of War • A
Delusion"
01..f9 FIT S.
Ci OSEPIt."=—
I lunched with John Mulholland, one of America's
outstanding magicians recently, and we were discussing
fortune-telling. Mr. Mulholland surprised me by saying
that a large number of Jews visit fortune tellers—quite
out of line from a percentage standpoint with other racial
groups. Ile himself holds the same attitude toward
fortune tellers and fortune telling as Iloudini did toward
'spiritualism. fie doesn't condemn them, he merely du-
plicates all their tricks, which is a much more efficacious
way of disposing of them. He challenges any one of
them to "tell a fortune" that he can't expose, and he con-
fesses his astonishment at the number of highly educated
men and women who "fall" for such charlatanism. The
higher up they are the heavier they fall. He is very
anxious to find out from historical records just what
influence there has been in the life of the Jew to make
to many of them so much interested in this pseudo-
science. Perhaps some Hebrew scholar can enlighten
him. Mr. Mulholland was a former instructor in the
Horace Mann School for Boys—one of the Teachers'
College group of Columbia University. Ile has written
several important books on magic, has lectured before
many learned bodies and can fool the educated as easy
as he can the most illiterate. Ile can read your mind
with amazing accuracy and do those things that we are
accustomed to consider beyond the natural powers of
man.
Simultaneous with the twenty-fifth anniversary of
the first sustained flights in a powerful flying machine
ever to be achieved by man, accomplished by Orville
and Wilbur Wright, come the demands for recognition
of David Schwartz of Zagreb, Jugoslavia, as the inven-
tor of the Zeppelin.
Although a timber merchant, David Schwartz stud-
ied engineering and had a great love for mechanics.
His experiments convinced him that no airship could
be built of textiles, and he was the first to utilize alumi-
num for his invention, now known as the Zeppelin.
He negotiated with Germany and Russia for financial
support of his experiments. In St. Petersburg, now
To the suggestion that individuals would with for
Petrograd, he made two successful experimental flights
reasons of sentiment to keep their birthdays and the present
but on the eve of his third experimental flight, feeling
holidays (as the Fourth of July, Washington's Birthday,
the pressure of Czarist anti-Semitism, he destroyed his
Christmas, etc.) it is answered that Washington's Birthday
model and fled the country.
was, after all, 11 days before the 22nd of February, ac-
cording to the old reckoning, and Christmas had not origi-
It was on Jan. 13, 1897, when he was notified from
nally any association with the 25th of December. As to
Berlin by telegram, by the German government, that he
the Fourth of July, for those who still cling to the Old
he would be backed in his experiments, that his heart
Style, it came before the end of June, which is a more
gave out as a result of his joy, and he died without see-
comfortable and convenient season for its celebration.
ing the success of his life's work. Count Zeppelin later
The proposed calendar recommends itself especially to
purchased the invention from Schwartz's widow. For
those engaged in business, to scientists and government
three years Mrs. Schwartz was the recipient, annually,
bureaus—in fact, to social and business life generally.
of 3,000 marks from Count Zeppelin, but on the fourth
And it has left over a day in which the world may in com-
year payments were stopped. In 1916 the late Maxmil-
mon celebrate what it puts above everything else.
lian Harden, editor of the Berlin Zukunft, protested
The first portion of this statement appears to have
in the columns of his paper against Count Zeppelin's
been answered at the hearings before the House For-
failure to recognize the claim of Schwartz's widow,
eign Affairs Committee on December 21, at Washing-
and urged that David Schwartz be acknowledged as
ton, when Dr. Charles M. Marvin, chief of the Weather
the inventor of the dirigible to which the Count now
Bureau, who appeared as a witness, said he understood
gave his name and from which he derived so much
that the present Sabbath was the result of the Fourth
glory.
Commandment of Moses. Perhaps this commandment
Now, however, the name of David Schwartz ap-
ought to be read again at this time:
pears to be recognized as the real inventor of the Zep-
pelin, whose recent flight to the United States created
Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days
such a furore. Jugoslavian newspapers are emphatic
shalt thou labor, and do all thy work; but the seventh day
is a sabbath unto the Lord thy God, in it thou shalt not
in their demands that the honors and credits due to
do any manner of work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daugh-
Schwartz be accorded him unstintingly, and the inven-
ter, nor thy man-servant, nor thy maid-servant, nor thy
tor's home town of Zagreb asks that Schwartz's body
cattle not thy stranger that is within thy gates; for in
be brought there from Vienna for re-interrment.
days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and
Silt
The honor due to David Schwartz, but which he
all that in them is, and rested on the seventh day; where-
could not enjoy during his lifetime, may yet be shared
for the Lord blessed the seventh day, and hallowed it.—
by his family. The Jewish people will naturally share
(Exodus xx, 8-11.)
in the glory of David Schwartz, the inventor of the
Representative Sol Bloom of New York, in reply
Zeppelin.
to a question by Representative Cole of Iowa whether
the Sabbath or Sunday is "still identical with creation"
Two Honored Jews.
replied: "No one has ever challenged it—absolutely."
But even if there are some variations, the religious
"For outstanding contributions to the field of nitro-
sentiment, inherited from the Law of Moses, remains
gen research," Prof. Jacob G. Lipman, director of the
New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station, last week
with the present Sabbath.
won a $1,250 prize offered by the American Society of
In the Fourth Commandment there is also an answer
Agronomy. Professor Lipman, who was a member of
to the last portion of the New York Times editorial,
the Joint Palestine Survey Commission which prepared
plea
is
made
for
"a
day
in
which
the
world
a
wherein
the report preparatory to the formation of the Jewish
may in common celebrate what it puts above every-
Agency, gave this prize money to the trustess of Rutgers
thing else." Is it possible to substitute for the origi-
nal Sabbath whose sentiments embody the first prin- University to make it the nucleus for an endowment for
investigations in soil science.
ciples of social justice? We have much to learn from
It is worth noting the honors awarded during the
the command of Moses to observe a day of rest, and
same week to another Jew. Sidney Hillman, president
by taking the religious sentiment out of this command
of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America,
we are exposed to the danger of commercializing the
received a gold medal and $1,000 from the Harmon
Sabbath and of going back thousands of years, when
Foundation of New York "for outstanding public serv-
Moses
to
proclaim
the
holiness
a
need
for
there was a
ice during 1927.",
of a day of rest.
Thus the Jew makes himself felt, and devotes his
Already, we are robbed of too much sentiment in
best energies to every worthy work, to science as well as
modern living. The proposed reform in the calendar
religion, for the welfare of labor and in the interests of
threatens to rob us of another sentiment. Let us
all movements calling for social justice.
fight it.
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Here is an interesting statement regarding the sig-
significance of the succession to the throne of England by
the Prince of Wales, made by George W. Bird, a lawyer
of Plainfield, N. J. Mr. Bird, we are told, is a Baptist
and a student of Zionist affairs.
Inasmuch as Palestine is now under the man-
date of Great Britain," Bird states "the as-
sumption of the title King David by the Prince
of Wales would bear out the fourth and fifth
verses of the third chapter of Hosea, written 2,700
years ago.
In that part of the Scriptures we read:
"For the children of Israel shall abide many
days without a king and without a prince, and
without a sacrifice, and without an image, and
without an ephod, and without Teraphim; After-
ward shall the children of Israel return and seek
the Lord their God and David their king; and
shall fear the Lord and His goodness in the latter
days."
And again in the ninth verse of the thirteenth
chapter of Jeremiah, written 2,500 years ago, we
also read:
"But they shall serve the Lord their God and
David their king, whom I will raise up unto
them."
The Bible is the one book in the world that contains
passages which may be interpreted in a thousand and
one ways. Which is probably one of the many reasons
why honest well-meaning men differ so much on the sub-
ject of religion. It seems unfortunate that a book which
plays such an important part in the lives of men and
which we are asked to look upon as the inspired word
of God should be written in such a way that it reads
differently to different minds.
I wonder if the Orthodox group in this country is
not greatly strengthening its position through the
establishment of the Yeshiva College. This is the first
institution of the United States to combine a seminary
for rabbis with a college of arts and sciences. In other
words, if we interpret it correctly it holds exactly the
same relation to Orthodox Jewish life in this country as
a atholic college holds in Catholic life. Of course, there
is this difference, not all Catholic universities train for
the priesthood, but there are some that combine theology
with a training in the arts and sciences and it is
all done under exclusive Catholic auspices and direction.
Instead of the Orthodox Jew who desires to enter the
rabbinate taking a course first in a university like Co-
lumbia or Yale and later pursuing his theological studies
in a rabbinical seminary, he is able to take all his studies
in one college under Jewish control and direction. Which
seems to me to be the first Jewish university in this
country. I am not familiar enough with the situation to
be able to intelligently express an opinion as to the value
of the course in arts and sciences in the Yeshiva as com-
pared with those institutions which have outstanding
teachers. I imagine that it would be rather difficult to
staff such a college with professors on a par with those
to be found in the great universities of the land. There
is another point which is not clear to me and that is
whether it is obligatory for a Jew to take a rabbinical
course? Or whether he is obligated to dedicate himself
for a period of time at least to professional work in the
orthodox field either as teacher or rabbi.
I am in receipt of the following letter:
How can you reconcile the Fidelity and Cas-
ualty article with that of Isaac Gruenbaum in
your column appearing Dec. 7? In the former
you find fault with those Jews who refuse to raise
their voices when an injury is done and in the
same breath you take to account Gruenbaum,
deputy in the Polish Parliament, for becoming in-
dignant and resentful against Polish officials who
are negligent in their duties. For being cour-
ageous enough as you yourself would have it.
, •. . Now which would you have? You can't
fall on both sides of the fence at the some time.
Why find fault with the Fidelity and Casualty
Company, which I am making no effort to defend?
Why not begin at home first? Just present a
printed blank to a hundred Jews to fill out requir-
ing answer to: NatiOnality, Religion and Race
and not less than 90 out of the hundred will fill in
"Jewish" after these questions. If you doubt it
then investigate the blanks that are required to be
filled out by parents when first registering their
children in school. Or go to any employment
agency where office employes register for posi-
tions and you will be astounded in looking over
the applicants' cards to find that most of the Jews
will answer "Jew" after Nationality and again
after "Faith." The non-Jew will answer "Ameri-
can" to "Nationality" and Protestant or Catholic
to the question of faith. Whose fault is it? We
need a little educating on these lines. Why blame
the Fidelity when really the fault is more ours
than theirs?"
By RABBI LEON FRAM
century or are likely to fight in the
future that could not be accommo-
dated under these
•
' exceptions,"
The treaty as presented to our
Every warring nation has always
Secretary of State contained but
claimed that it was fighting in
two clauses, one to the effect that self-defense. Professor Borchard
war was renounced and the other goes further and says that so far
to the effect that the solution of from constituting an outlawry of
conflicts would be sought only by
war, the treaty because of these
pacific means. The treaty was dis. exceptions constitutes "the most
tinctively a triumph for Levinson's solemn sanction of specific wars
idealism. Once the draft was pre- that has ever been given to the
seated to Kellogg, things began to world." By specific wars, the pro-
move faster even than the most professor means wars claimed to
sanguine friends of the idea had be
They had thought b
anticipated.
of those special regions in which
that the treaty concluded between
Great Britain has such a vital in-
France and the United States terest, p resumably Gibraltar and
would serve as an example which the Suez Canal, and wars in behalf
other nations would gradually fol- of our American Monroe Doctrine.
low until finally it became a uni-
As a matter of fact, a war for na-
versa! treaty. The thing was to tional self-defense is under mod-
have taken years. But Mr. Kel-
logg's first official reply to Briand ern conditions a pure myth. The
interpreted such a treaty between enemy does not suddenly appear
in full force at the gates. We
United States and France as mere- fight in so-called self-defense only
ly another alliance, and suggested
that to give it real value, it should because we all choose to fight and
the alternative of judicial arbitra-
be changed from a bilateral to a
lion has not yet supplanted the
multilateral treaty—that is, it
should be opened to the signature habit of military arbitration.
Hypocrisy.
of all the nations.
It is not only these written res.-
On Aug. 27, 1928, only about a
ervations
which
nullify the treaty
year after Briand's unobtrusive
anniversary felicitations to the but the cavalier attitude in which
United States, the plenipotentiar• it was signed. At the very hour
ies of 15 governments signed the that France and Gteat Britain
pact which made of the pet idea of were signing a pact to outlaw war,
an obscure attorney in Chicago a French and British diplomats were
solemn article of international law. meeting behind Mr. Kellogg's back
The text of the pact, a model of to effect a secret Franco-British
purity and simplicity (something naval accord against the interests
new at diplomatic texts) is as fol- of the United States. It was only
by the sheer audacity of the
lows:
"The high contracting parties Ilearst press that this secret ar-
solemnly declares in the names of rangement was exposed. At the
their respective peoples that they time that our Secretary of State
condemn recourse to war for the was presenting the pact at Paris,
solution of international contro- he was himself engaged in making
versies, and renounce it as an in- war, under the shield of the Mon-
strument of national policy in roe Doctrine. While he was in
their relations with one another. Paris thousands of United States'
"The high contracting parties marines were in Nicaragua burn-
agree that the settlement or solu• ing, maiming and killing. Ameri-
tion of all disputes or conflicts, of can airplanes flew over Nicaraguan
whatever nature or of whatever villages dropping bombs, destroy-
origin they may be, which may ing property and killing innocent
arise among them, shall never be men and women and children.
sought except by pacific means."
Finally, at the very same ses-
But things had moved with such
sion of the Senate at which the
dramatic rapidity to an astounding pact for outlawry of war is being
climax t hat I fear the sponsors of
presented, there is being offered
the idea could not quite keep up also a big navy bill, said by ob-
with the rush. They were stunned servers to be sure of passing—a
with success and had no eyes for big navy bill which,' although ap-
the fact that the same diplomatic
parently modest in its demands, is
creepers and parasites which had the beginning of the most vital
strangulated Wilson's tree of 14
part of a program of armament
branches had already begun to which threatens to start the navies
twine themselves around the ten- of the world into a new and dis-
der sapling of their simple treaty. astrous competition. These mere
I wish there had been less drama signatures to the outlawry treaty,
about the thing and more solidity. involved as they are with reserva-
What has occurred?
tions and constructions—can they
' tions.
The Fatal R
outlive the hypocritical atmos-
It does not require an expert in
phere in which the signing is being
international law to know that the done? Is it worth while getting
notes with which nations accom-
such a treaty signed when it is
pany their signatures to a treaty obvious that everybody is signing
are as important as the treaty it- with tongue in cheek? Why con-
self. The interpretations or con- fer upon international law no ob-
structions on a treaty are as im-
vious a dead letter? Do we need
portant as the text proper. France
a prohibition in international af.
and Great Britain signed the fairs with everybody pledged not
treaty but they accompanied their to make war but everybody making
signatures with notes and construc- bootleg war? The irresponsible,
tions which seemed to nullify its
haphazard, cynical spirit in which
value altogether. France under- the treaty was signed was made
stands that the outlawry of war
evident further by two statements
does not exclude making war in
quoted in the press from represen•
self-defense. Great Britain un-
tative men of two signatory pow-
derstands that not only does it not ers, Lloyd George and Mussolini.
prevent Great Britain from fight- Lloyd George said:
ing in self-defense, but that it also
"Since we signed the Kellogg
does not prevent her from taking
up arms in behalf of "certain re- pact armaments are steadily in-
Kellogg says, 'Thou
creasing.
h
t
egrity
ag ni ' odnsino
of which constitute shalt not kill,' and at the same
a special and vital interest for our time 'Fill your waist belt with
The British knives and pistols so as to be ready
peace and safety."
note does not even take the trouble to kill.' What more is needed," he
asked, "but to sign the 'hallelujah
to name these regions in behalf of
s ' ?"
aahrne. chorus'
thfit oonuitsl may lotei
ac t h Great Britain
lature addressing the Italian
exc ept i on
l egis
(so-called) said:
"We all favor peace and all of
British note expressed the betliinenf
that the United States will as a us signed for peace. The Kellogg
pact is so sublime that we could
matter of fact claim an exception
characterize
t as
i transcen ent
d a I"
.
from the treaty for the opera
(Much laughter by both spectators
of the Monroe Doctrine.
Just how these reservations in and deputies greeted that state-
ment.) "If tomorrow similar pacts
the French and British construe-
tions of the treaty nullify its effec-
were in sight, we would hasten to
tiveness will be understood when I sign. We should not, however, de-
quote the statement of Prof. Ed- lode ourselves if others speak of
win M. Borchard, professor of in- peace. The truth is that the whole
ternational law at Yale University, world is arming."
In an address on the Kellogg pact
Then Mussolini announced that
delivered before the A illiamston
as soon as the country's financial
Institute of Politics, Professor Bor-
convalescence has advanced to a
chard said: "Considering these stage to permit it, he would ask
reservations, it would be difficult that another effort be made
to conceive of any wars that na-
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tions have fought within the past
In the first place, my criticism of Deputy Gruenbaum
was not so much that he protested discrimination against
the Jew as the manner in which he did it. I accused him
of being unnecessarily tactless and undiplomatic and of
acting in such a way that instead of easing the burden
of the Jew in Poland he was likely to increase it. I
agree with my correspondent that the blame is largely
our own in making possible the appearance of such
blanks as those of the Fidelity. Many Jews contend that
we are a separate race, a separate nationality and of
course definitely Jewish as religionists. I have repeat-
edly asked for a clarification of these issues by some
authoritative group, representing all elements in Jewry,
but they seem stone deaf to such appeals. Either they
don't know themselves what it's all about or they fear
that a discussion would accomplish nothing. Another
statement calls for attention. I never knew that Jewish
parents are required to place "Jewish" after "National-
ity" in a blank used for registering children in the public
schools. And until I see such a blank filled out in that
fashion I cannot accept the statement. As for the cards
in employment agencies, I know that Jews are asked to
identify themselves in such a fashion that there can be
no mistake about them. This is due to the fact that
there in definite discrimination against Jewish help on
the part of employment agencies, due not no much to the
owners of the agencies as to the demands of their clients
who insist that they do not want Jews.
(Concluded from Last Week.)
Gems From Jewish Literature
Selected by Rabbi Leon Fram.
LOVE
' Love. • crown?" she one dap asked,
With Loves burden overtasitecti
ler tired heart it made mistake,
• Love." It answered, "Love is ache."
Slumbering faith was wakened lob
Wet, blue eyes, they fl•shed out "No"—
Thin. worn fingers, aching feet,
All protested, "Pain is sweet."
file, who know hold this for 'ore:
Love My hurt, but lone hurts m ore!
Work you, weep you, for love's sake:
Not to lose would be the ache!
—Lady M•ngus.
SIIOLOM ASH AT HIS
TENDEREST
"Very early the following morn-
ing, the second day of the festival,
Shlomele was sitting in his room
studying his portion of the Tal-
mud. The little window was open,
and the trees which grew behind
the window looked into the low-
celled room. The sweet singing of
birds could be heard outdoors, and
a sweet scent of honey Wan wafted
from the honeyflowers of the step-
pe, and filled the low, little room
of the young husband and bride.
The young wife was standing over
the chest and taking out her fine
dresses and jewels with which she
decked and embellished herself to
go to the synagogue with her
mother-in-law. A great charm
rested on her that spring holiday
morning. Her cheeks were ten-
der, the bliss of the night still lin-
gored on them, and her large eye
were veiled with a brilliant dew as
though they were not yet awake
from the dream of the night. And
a great love for his wife was kin-
dledlirtlie heart of the young man,
and he felt for her a great pity
and tenderness. And he laid both
his hands on her beautiful head
and spoke as fololws:
"May your loveliness remain ever
with you as with mother Rachel."
And the young woman took her
large prayer book with the covers
of silver which her father-in-law
had given her, and with a great
flourish, decked out in her holiday
finery, she sot out for the syna-
gogue.
(From "Kiddush HaShem" by
Shalom Ash)
A BITTER NOTE
"The people here (Lithuania)
may be divided into four classes:
(a) learned idiots, oxen that lick
the grass on one side of the moun-
tain, not knowing that a green,
pleasant field is stretched out on
the other side: (b) pious idiots,
who observe all the minutiae of
the law without studying them;
(c) intelligent idiots, who allow
themselves a certain latitude in
their religious life, because they
have heard somebody say that it
is permitted; and (d) plain
idiots."—LEON GORDON.
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