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With Very Best Wishes for
Rosh Hashonah

Review of the Year - -- 5689

By HARRY SCHNEIDERMAN

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. resolution con/ained a preambh
which, had the resolution been
adopted, would have committed
! the representatives of the United
States to such a conference to
!sponsoring a scheme of reform
which proposed that the year con-
sist of 13 months of 28 slays each,
a total of 364 days, plus ono
"blank" (lay, which was not to be
given the name of any day of the
ordinary week or any date. If
adopted, this device would destroy
t i he existintl
i eh .itand r itirfenri!t y

In the meantime, owing to the
initiative of the Rev. Dr. Muses'
Ilyamson of New York City, rep-
resentatives of some 25 national
and central Jewish organizations
met in conference and constituted
a league for Safeguarding the
Imported and Domestic Woolens
Fixity' of the Sabbath
pos-
sible encroachment by calendar
reform), adopted a resolution of
During the Jewish year 5689, Roumania, which for
protest against calendar simplilica-
several years preceding had been in the forefront or the
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a
( ay ea-
Jewish scene, faded almost into the background; the eco-
lure for tranamission to the presi
Itno
nomic misery among Jews of certain parts of Europe was cnu ing it '
l (Ian different days dent and the Congress, and em-
accentuated in several spots, especially Bessarabia and from vear to fall
year . It was
was against powered its executive committee
Lithuania; and more incidents of anti-Semitism were re- this proposal that leading Euro- to take all necessary steps to op- ,
ported than ;Ti some years before. These and other factors, however, pean rahbis hail protested in 1925 pose thy adoption Of .a simplified
GREETINGS
Will in time join many similar episodes of the recent history of the before the special committee of in- calendar, involving the blank slay I
Jes ish people and will not for long be associated with any particular quiry on the reform of the eaten- feature Resolutions against this
■ eer. There are, however, two reasons Why the year 5689 will no tar appointed by one of the tech- were adopted also by a nuniber of
dos n in Jewish history. On the one hand, it marks the consummation meal commissions Of the League 4 national . Jewish organizations at
of the enlargement of the Jewish Agency for Palestine by the incite. Nations. The introduction of the their annual conventions la-t
spring. and summer.
shin of representatives of non-Zionist elements; on the other hand, resolution in Congre ss
.Movements for the erection of
.
it
.
of
4,1 , at this .
disniay in Jewish circles, because
monument..
to two American Jew-
.writing, appears to threaten a are -'
of
the
conviction
that
a'reform
of
,
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niendous setback to the progress • eemovr. puling the same month the calendar which included the ish patriots made considerable
Plate Printers, Die Empowers
of Palestine, whose prosp ects h a d was held at Rochester the sixth blank, day feature, by confronting headway during the year. On •
been brightened so much by the . quadrynnial convention of the Fed- observant Jews with the dilemma Alarch 2, 1929, the iiresident ap-
LETTERIIEADS, BUSINESS ANNOUNCEMENTS, BUSI-
union of Zionists and non-Zionists. Council. At one of the ses- of keeping the Sabbath on differ- proved a joint resolution intro-
NESS CARDS AND ALL
ALLFORMS OF COMMERCIAL EN-
We refer, of course, to the anti- snots of this invention, Rabbi l'hilip ant days of the week from year to duced in Congress by the 11021.
GRAVING, WEDDING INVITATIONS, ANNOUNCEMENTS,
Jewish uprising on the part of :1 S. Bernstein of Rochester was, year and suffering material losses Emanuel Cellar of New York City,
CALLING CARDS AND ALL FORMS OF
the courtesy of the platform thereby, or of refraining from providing that a site be net aside
portion of the Arab population of
SOCIAL ENGRAVING
Palestine which occurred toward and spoke on concrete ways in keeping the Sabbath therebyt- on public ground in the city of
which the Council can further uns ing their conscience, would before ' ashington for a monument or
the end of August, 19'29
, 170 East Lamed St.
eerstanding and good-will between long result in the virtual destruc- memorial in honor of the late
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Jews and Christians. Other incl. tion of the Sabbath. Prompted by Oscar S. Straus, to be erected by
Thc United States,
dents showing the spread of the this belief, a number of Jewish a society or association
t e a gift
a
In the United States, the year be- • good-will idea included the partici- rabbis appeared before the Com- to the people of the United States.
gat wth an event that was pro- [union of Christian clergymen in mittee on Foreign Affairs of the In June, the Oscar S. Straus Me-
foundly saddening. On Saturday, • the laying of the cornerstone of it House of Representatives and pre- morial Association was incorpor-
A Happy and Prosperous New Year to
sh community center in Stath sented these views, insisting that a New
w or State with the
Snit, 22, a flour-year-old girl, the ,
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Everybody
.
daughter of one of the residents
of « mat ion of the the resolution be so amended as purpose of erecting and maintain-
Massona in St. Lawrence county, first ,
at Millville, N. J., 11 to eliminate that part of Out' in such a monument or memorial
New York, disappeared; en the fog and in a good fellowship service Treamble which favored the 13- Its incorporators include many
lowing day, after a search for the — which concluded the four-day cele- month 28-day plan, and (2) to pr o . prominent Americans of all faiths.'
child had proved vain, a state' bration of the seventy-fifth anti- vide that American representatives In New York City, the Municipal
trooper interrogated one- of the ‘,.,"•sari
.Of Congregation B."nai to an international conference, Art Commission gave its approval
.
Abraham; Newark, N. J. :Ministers gfiould one be held, be instructed to the erection of a monument to
Jewish residents of the village
and. of all faiths took part in a sentinar not to favor any plan of simpli! Ilaym Salomon, the famous patriot
also to the
rabbi of the
the custom
congregation
whether
exists in Columbia University, New York fication, employing the blank day•• of the American Revolution, and
among the Jews to offer human City, in January, for the discussion device. In the new Congress which a site for this monument, which is
of vocational adjustments
ents made' et in April, 1929, Mr. Porter re! sponsored by the Federation of
sacrifice,
904 Metropolitan Bldg.
Randolph 2868
ably,
with in
the connection,"
Vim Kippur presum-
holiday'
holiday' necessary by inter-religious con- introduced his resolution m i nus the Polish Jews in America, was also
'which was to be ushered in on the flirts, the misrepresentation Of re- i exceptional preamble.
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ligious beliefs and _practices,
evening
that day.
rabbi in-. community areas of conflict and •
dignantly of resented
the The
implication.
•
'In Februar y, at
this question, and later the co-operation.
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that it was la who hail sugges ted ' hundredth anniversary'of the birth gO
that the rabbi be called to police of the German dramatist and lib-
headquarters f o r questioning
g. ' .r:l,
' Gotthold Ephraim Leasing,
the at occasion for a good-100
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t,yranr, (1,, , t he ,thce lo e sth t ilodf wasf
fio d u lon w; int.!' %as
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meeting
which ministers of
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various
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the woods about a mile from her, April an inter
- collegiate confer.'
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, home, where she said she had gone
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to seek her seven-year-old brother,' ence for better understanding be-
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and while straying in •the forest, tween Catholics, Protestants and
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had been lost. The American Jew- ' Jews was held at Rollins College, 100°
Par, F la.; and
in May Il p
)sh Committee and the 'American Ih'inter
.
.
i
was
Eewish7Congress and other organ- third annual good-wi ll dnner
izations took u,p this matter with held at Chattanooga, Tenn,
.the mayor of The town and with Toward the end of May, the I
t he State authorities, vigorously Committee on Good-Will between At
protesting against the action taken Jews and Christians of the Federal
byrthe mayor and the state troop. Council elected the Rev. Dr. S.
sr, which, by giving countenance. Parkes Cadman as chairman and
to a slander against the Jewish issued and announcement of its
ps olds • which had in the past plans for future work and a re-
caused notch suffering, threatened statement of its principles. These
to spread this heinous superstition are I
to create conditions that
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of the Dark Ages in the United will not permit Of the growth of
States. The late Louis Marshall, ahli-Sealitism; 121 to promotee tog-
the president of the American'Jew. crane() in the sense of appreciation
ish Committee, dsmanded a public and mutual respect, and CO to un-
apology from the mayor and in- dertake program of actual co-
sistkil that the state trooper who operation in interests which are,
questioned the rabbi be disciplined. common. Shortly after this an-
Subsequently, an inquiry was nouncement, the Rev. Dr. Alfred
made by the state authorities, at Williams Anthony, g„ member of
th e request of the American Jew- the committee, addressed a C0111-
ish Congress. Both officers made munication to Mr. Marshall, presi-
public apologies for their part in! ent of the American Jewish Com-
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suggesting that ritual murder is , matey, asking him whether it was
4^PlYthi01 , 11in
actually practiced by the Jewish , true, as had been stated, that he 0/
people, and the trooper was !e- hod expressed the opinion' that tho
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verely reprimanded by the super- Committee-on Good-Will "had the
is.
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intendent of the state police, by the ulterior motive of converting O
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whom clue was
w
as indefinitely susped. the Jew's."
This inquiry resulted
tO
.1 "foe
lack of discretion in in a spirited correspondence he' I I
the exercise of his duties and for tween Mr. Marshall and Dr. An 7 0
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 OA
recognize the implications of this church for the conversion of Jew!
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rti
occurrence and it was made the to Christianity, and Mr. Marshall
subject of comment in the edi- took the position that Christian
tonal columns of many news- churches had before them a suf A
r
papers, all of which expressed in ficiently difficult task to Mfluence
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dignation that the circulation of their own membership to practice
".)far.-
thsi glands.r should have emanated the principles of their faith, and
from public i(erVants.
that if Jews went to become better
Another event, affecting vela- Jews, and Cho turns better Chris- Or
,se
do ns between Jew and their non- tians,' "genulne good-will would In.
Jewish neighbors, which aroused ushered into existence automata-
much discussion was the produc- rally- without meetings or confer- r
thin in New York City in the once); or discussions." This con A
spring of 1929 of the .Freiburg respondence was made public and E0
by
a producer,
Morris
Passion
Play. Mr.
Early
in Gest,
Apr a aroused a great deal of discussion
when the announcement w as made in the Jewish press and pulpit. The 0
subject of future „co-opertition '
to with the Committee on Good-Will #
Jew, that he expected to wrote
present
was placed on the agenda of the g
I,
this play, Mr Marshall
Mr. Gest pointing out that plays of Central Conference of American
this kind invariably result in a r e . Rabbis for their annual convention
Between the Eleven and Twelve-Mile Road on the
crudescence of anti-Semitism and early•in.July.
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suggesting that Mr. Gast take steps
. World's Greatest Highway, Woodward Avenue
Social Ostracism.
to cancel the production. Mr. That the remedy for social ...:
Gest, however, refused to pay any tracism does not lie with ti'
heed to Mr. Marshall's protest, courts but is cultural and eduoa-
which was echoed in the Jewish done! and to some extent legisla- /
FAMOUS FOR IT
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press and pulpit. A number of tive, was the opinion expressed by 50
Christian clergyn also deplored the' Supreme Court of the State of r
the production. The Passion I'lay Wiscensin in the suit brought by a 0
did not become a public sensation, Jewish citizen against the Mil-
and it was taken off the boards waukee Golf Club, which had re-
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" Probl em ,
These events combined to focus deprive the plaintiff of any solo-
public attention in the Jewish cm. able right, that he was left free
munity upon the relations of Jews to refuse to resign and that no long r/
with Christians. The more or less as the consequences are not an-
organized movement to cultivate lawfully to deprive the plaintiff of
ff
"good-will between j ew A' ' an d a valuable right he has no cans,. •
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Christians which was inaugurated of action in law or in etmity.

Editor's Note: The Detroit Jewish Chronicle is pleased to
publish the following heholudy resume of the past year simul-
taneously with the American Jewis,h Year Book and the Jewish
Publication Society of America. The period covered by this
review is froth July 1, 1928, to June 30, 1929. It is based
c h iefly on dispatches of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, the
Jewish and general press and reports of many organizations.

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of Christ in America, about five
Two events =raced to bring the ;
years ago, showed signs of much subjeq. of Sabbath 'observance to
activity. Good-will meetings and the fore during the year
First
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PIA
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