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Review of the Year --- 5689

With Very Best Wishes for
Rosh Hashonah

resolution contained a preamble'
which, had the resolution been
fed , would haw committed
A d op
Editor's Note: The Detroit Jewish Chronicle is pleased to
the „representatives of the United
publish the following scholarly resume of the past year simul-
States to such a conference to
taneously with the American Jewish Year Book and the Jewish
sponsoring a seheme of reform
Publication Society of America. The period covered by this
•which proposed that the year con-
review is from July 1, 1528, to June 30, 1925. It is based
. silt of 13 months of 28 days each,
chiefly on dispatches of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, the
a total of :164 days„ plus one
Jewish and general press and reports of many organizations.
: "blank" day, which was not to be
,
: given the name of any day of the '
During the Jewish year 5689, Roumania, which for ' I ordinary week or any date. If
several years preceding had beim in the forefront of the I adopted, this device would destroy
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a reague for Safeguarding the
Fixity of the Sabbath (against pos-
sible encroachment by calendar
reform), adopted a resolution of
protest against calendar simplifica-
thin involving the blank day fea-
ture for transmission to the presi-
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d dentand the Congress, and em-
powered
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to take all necessary steps to op-
pose the ailoirtion of a simplified
calendar involving the blank day
feature. Resolutions against this
were adopted also by a number of
national Jewish organizations at
their annual conventions tart
and summer.
Movements for the erection of
monuments to-two American Jew-
ish patriots made considerable
headway (luring the year. On
Maeeh 2, 1925, the president ap-
proved is joint resolution intro-
duced in Congress by the Hon.
Emanuel Cellar of New York City,
providing that a site be set aside •
on public ground in the city of
Washington or a monument or
memorial in honor of the late
Oscar S. Straus, to be erected by
a society (sr association as a gift
to the people of the United States.
In June, th!: Oscar S. Straus Me-
morial Association was incorpor-
ated in New York State with the
purpose of erecting and maintain-
in sac I monument or memorial
Its into porators include many
promi Americans of all faiths.
In New York
ork City, the Municipal
Art Commission gave its approval .
to the erection of a monument to
Ilaym Salomon, the fatuous patriot
of the American Revolution, and
a site for this monument, which is
sponsored by the Federation of
Palish Jews in America, war also

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In the meantime, owing to the y

initiative of the Rev. Dr. Moses
Ilyamson of New York City, rep-
resentatives of some 25 national.

purled than in sonic years before. These and other factors, however,' pean rabbis had protested in 1925
will in time join many similar episodes of the recent history of the bef le the special committee of in-
Jewish people and will not for long be associated with any particular
year. There are, however, two reasons why the year 5689 will go dar appointed by one of the tech-
down In Jewish history. On the one hand, it marks the consummation nical commissions of the League of
of the enlargement of the Jewish Agency for Palestine by the inclu- Nations. The introduction of the
resolution in Congress aroused
sion of representatives of non-Zionist elements; on the other hand,
dismay in Jewish circ les, b ecause
it was the year of what, at this.
of the conviction that a reform of
.writing, appears to threaten a tre•1
comber. During the same month the calendar which included the
mendous setback to the pr ogress
was held in Rochester the sixth blank day feature, by confronting
Of Palestine, wifilt:le prospects had'
been brightened so much by the quadrennial convention of the Fed- observant Jews with the dilemma
I,ETTERIIEADS, BUSINESS ANNOUNCEMENTS, BUSI-
eral Council. At one of the ses- of keeping the Sabbath on differ-
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shins of this invention, Rabbi Philip eat days of the week from year to
GRAVING, WEDDING INVITATIONS, ANNOUNCEMENTS,
We refer, of course, to the anti-
S. Bernstein of Rochester was year and suffering material losses
OF
CALLING CARDS AND
Jewish uprising on the part uf
given the courtesy of the platform thereby, : or of refraining from
SOCIAL ENGRAVING
portion of the Arab population of - .,
spoke
on
concrete
ways
in
keeping
the
Sabbath
thereby
viola-
Palestine which occurred hiwnr d k
which the Council can further un- ing their conscience, would before
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Iderstandin(z and good-will between long result in the virtual destruc-
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t'• Jews and Christians. Other inci- titls of the Sabbath. Prompted by
dents showing the spread of the this belief, a number of Jewish
good-will idea included the partici- rabbis appeared before the Conl-
in the United States, the year be- potion of Christian clergymen in mittre on Foreign Affairs of the,
gan wth an event that was pro-
the laying of the cornerstone of ,a House of Representatives and pre-
foundly sad
g. On Saturday,
commtin,ity center in Staten rented these views, insisting that
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Sept, 22, a denin
fbur-y ear- old girl, the Jewish
Island, in the dedication of the. the resolution be so amended as
dau g hter
first synagogue at Nlifiville, N. J., (I) to eliminate that part of the
Massena in St. Lawrence county, and in a good fellowship service :preamble which favored the 13-
New York, disappeared; on the ful- which concluded the four-day tole- month 28-day plan, and (2) to pro-
lowing day, after a search for the bration of the seventy-fifth anni- vide that American representatives
child had proved vain, a state terser)
of Congregation B'nai to an international conference,
trooper interrogated one of the
Abraham, Newark, N. J. Ministers shbuld one be held, 'be instructed
Jew ish residents of thy village
of all faiths took part in a seminar not to favor any plan of simpli-
so
l the rabbi of the congregation at Columbia University, New York fication employing the blank day!
as to whether the custom exists .
city, in Jai nary, for the discussion device, In the new Congress which
among the Jews to offer human of vocati nal adjustments made met in April, 1529, Mr. Porter re-
sacrifice, in connection, pres necessary 1by inter-religious con- introduced
is es
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the
ably, with the Yom Kippur holiday
bets, the niisrepresentation of re- exceptional preamble.
(Turn to Page Six.)
was to be ushered in on the '
ligious beliefs and practices, and
evening of that day. The rabbi in • community areas of conflict and , e
dignantly resented the im p licationsI
co-operatio
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th 1111e I '1'emple of the two
been consulted oh t h e matter
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that it was he who had suggested:
the German dramatist and lib-
t hat the rabbi be called to police ' oral
Gotthold Ephraim Leasing, 00
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headquarters f r
questioning.
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was made the occasion for a goods ,/
Toward the close of the following
will meeting at which ministers of
afternoon, the child was found in
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various tlenominatoins sp oke;
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home, where she said she had gone
to seek her seven-year-old brother, enre for better understanding be-
tween Catholcs, Protestants and
and while straying in the forest,,
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had been lost. The American Jew- Jews was weld at)
Winter Park. Fla.; and in May a
ish Committee and the American
Jewish Congress and other organ- third annual good-will dinner was
held at Chattanooga, Tenn.
izations took up this matter with
Toward the end of May, the
the mayor of the town and with
the state authorities, vigorously: Committee on Good-Will between
protesting against the action taken I Jews and Christians of the Federal
the Rev. Dr. S .
by the mayor and the state troop- Council
Parkes Cadman as chairman and
cr, w hh,
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coun enance
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to a slander against the Jewish issued and announcement of its r
people which had in the i . : ,,; plans for future work and a re-
caused much suffering, threatened statement of its principles. These • 01
to spread this heinous superstition : are (1) to create conditions that
of the Dark Ages in the United will not permit of the growth of
to promote; tol-
States. The late Louis Marshall, anti-Semitism;
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the president of the American Jew.: (Tanta in the sense of appreciation
a
nil
mutual
respect,
and (3) to un-
•ish Committee, demanded a (midi, •
apology from the mayor and in- dertake a program of actual cis-,
sisted that the stoic trouper who operation in interests which are
qu es ti o n e d the rabbi be disc ipli ne d. common.- Shortly after this ail-
Subsequently, an inquiry was nouncement, the Rev. Dr. Alfred
made by the state authorities, at Williams Anthony, a member of o
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the request of the American all'W- the committee, addressed a cons-
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ash Congress. Both officers made . munication to Mr. Marshall, presi-
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public apologies for their part in :dent of the American Jewish Com-
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suggesting that ritual murder is : orifice, aSking him whether it was
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people, and the trooper was se- had expressed the opinion' that tho
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intendant of the state police , by the ulterior motive of converting
whom he was indefinitely suspect- the Jews." This inquiry resulted :
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the exercise of his duties and for tween Mn, Marshall and Dr. An.
conduct unbecoming an officer."
thony, in which Dr. Anthony de-,
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The American press was quick to fended the efforts of Christian
recognize the implications of this church for the conversion of Jew, 0
occurrence and it was made the to Christianity, and Mn. Marshall
subject of comment in, the edi- took the position that Christian
torial columns of many news- churches had before them a suf-
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dignation that the circulation of their own membership to practice / 0
thsi slander should have emanated the principles of their faith, and
that if Jews were to become better
from public 'servants.
Another event, affecting rein; Jews, and Christians better Chris- •
tions b etween Jews,
s, and their non- liens, "genuine good-will would be
Jewish neighbors, which aroused ushered into existence automati-
much discussion was the produc- tally without meetings or confer- &
antes or discussions." This cot- FI
tins in New 'York City in the rim
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spring 1 1929 of the Freiburg respondence was made public and
Passion Play. Early in April, aroused a great deal of discussion
when the announcement was made in the Jewish press and pulpit. The
by a producer, Mr. Morris Gest, a subject of future co-operatiun 01
Jew, that he expected to present with the Committee on Good-Will de
this play, Mr. Marshall wrote to was placed on the agenda of the
Mr. Gent pointing out that plays of Central Conference of America,:
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is for their annual convention
this kind invariably result in a re- Rabbis
cTudescence of anti-Semitism and early in July.
WOEld'S
Social Ostracism.
suggesting that Mr. Gent take steps
That the remedy for social 0 ,-
to cancel the production. Mr.
Gest, however, refused to pay any tracism does not lie with the
heed to Mr. Marshall's protest, courts but is cultural and educe- 0•
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which was echoed in the Jewish : tional and to some extent legi , ln-
press and pulpit. A number of five, was the opinion expressed by
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Christian clergymen also deplored the Supreme Court of the State of
the production. The Passion Play Wisconsin in the suit brought by:.
(lid not become a public sensation, Jewish citizen against the 51i1- 00
and it was taken off the boards waukee Gulf Club, which had re- 0
before the announced termination quested its Jewish members to re-
its production.'
sign. The court held that the re-
quest for the resignation did not
The "Good Will" Problem.
These events combined to focus deprive the plaintiff of any valu-
public attention in the Jewish tom- able right, that he was left free
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munity upon the relations of Jews to refuse to resign and that no long
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with Christians. The more or less as the consequences are not un-
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organized movement to cultivate lawfully to deprive the plaintiff of
"good-will between Jews and a valuable right he has no cause i
Christian, which war inaugurated of action in law or in equity.
by the Ne.rieral Council of Churches
Sabbath Ob aaaaa ace.
of Chriit in America, about five Two events served to bring the 5
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years ago. showed signs of much subject of Sabbath observance to A
activity. Good-will meetings and the fore during the year. Fir ,. /j0
conferences were held in not a was the progress made in the di- I,0
• few places during the year. In rection of the five-day working
August, 1928, for example, there week by large groups of organized 0 1 0
was a Jewish-Christian fellowship workers ..1 New York City a
meeting at the Racine College, Ra- elsewhere, which by agreement
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under the auspices of with employers' associations, se-
the Midwest Council for Social cured this reduction in their work-
Discussion. A league for Inter- -ing hours. The second event was
Religious Good-Will was estab- the introduction by the Hon.
on. Ste-
shed in Baltimore last November.: phen G. Porter of Pennsylvania, in
, The Men's Club of Temple Emanu- the United States House of Repre-
' El, the largest and most influential sentatives, of a joint resolution re-
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congregation in New York City, 1111( sting the president to call, or
held a good-will conference which to send representatives to, an in- •IP
was participated in by leading ternational conference on the aim-
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