A mericall Ara Periodical eater CLIFTON MINUS - CINCINNATI 30, OHIO PAGE ELEVEN TIr; i)LTROIP , jENISfl CIRONICLE SABBATH KEEPERS ' FORM ASSOCIATION HEBREW UNION COLLEGE STUDENT BODY Bosh Hashonah Greetings to All My Jewish Friends and Customers Premier Radio Shop Berlin Committee Aims to Spread Movement Over the World. PHILCO The' World Association of Sab- bath Observers, organized recent- ly in Berlin for the purpose of guarding and protecting the Sab- bath as the Jews' day of rest, in a statement to the Jewish press throughout the world, makI•s known its 'its. The statement is issued ois .hir signatures of the following board: D o cent Dr. Sam_ uel Gruenberg, chairman; lir. Emil Hirsch and Dr. P. Sulzberger, as- sociate chairmen; II. Abramczyk, cashier; Rabbi Dr. II. Klein, Al- fred Marcus and Dr. Werner Sil- berstein. The aims of the association, as outlined in this statement follow: "1. We want to recall to all Jew- ish circle's the claim of the Sabbath The above is a group of the 21 faculty and 123 student body members of the Hebrew Union Col- as the ground idea of Jewish doc- lege at Cincinnati, Ohio, for the year 1928-1929. This is the largest enrollment the college has ever had. trine and Jewish life. Sabbath is In the last row, center, is Mrs. Carrie Lesem Fist, matron of the college dormitory. again to be life-forming and return to Jews the idealism which enables them to show mankind the way to rim. And even during the war TEAM WORK OLD SLOBODKA AND pure amorality and true humanity, the Yeshiva went on. Owing to AMERICAN JEWRY war conditions it had to move to "2. It is our intention to corn-; Once when bread and honey 1 mine the Shomre Shatilmos (Sabbath Krementchug, but that was only By RABBI I. L. BRIL temporarily. As soon as circum- were up for discussion a little girl'[ lbservers) Associations of all from the city asked her country c ount ries. stances permitted the Yeshiva re- Slobodka! cousin this question, "Does your "3. We want to try to influence To the average American Jew it turned to Slobodka. papa keep a bee?" And that is all t meanso nothing at all. But Eastern European Jewry there is of the story. But let me he legislation of countries, as far as it concerns rest from work' But what is Slobodka? has fallen upon evil days. here state a great, undisputed fact: Well, $lobodka is. if you must It has become a supplicant in- •A bee alone can make no honey. , t (Sunday rest, time of work, pro- ection of employees, payment of know, a suburb of Kovno, the stead of being self-supporting. A bee alone is not self-supporting. wages, etc). We want to induce famed Lithuanian city. I heard the story of Slobodka In fact, a bee alone loses heart I Milk and town authorities to em- Well supposing it is, you ask, from two visitors who are now in absolutely; its intelligence van- what then? this country, to-wit: Rabbi Boruch . ishes, it even forgets how to sting. ploy workers who keep the Sob- i bath and who work on Sunday in Then I have to go further and Hurwitz, the Rosh Yeshiva of So- And separated a distance of from s lead of Saturday. tell you that in Slobodka there is hodka and president of the Agu- three to live miles from its hive it "4. We want to support inde- a world-renowned Yeshiva by the dath Harabbonim of Lithuania, will soon droop and die. Bees are Sabbath-keeping exis name of the Slobodka Yeshiva. and Rabbi Isaac Ogulnick, known surs:essful only as they work with t pendent snow and help Shomre Shabbos to Now a new light may dawn upon as the Passvoler Rav, and a mem- get I you. c • ber of the executive committee of A man alone will accomplish "5. We want to induce organi- Let me tell the story of that the Lithuanian Agudath Harrah- nothing. All of his thoughts and zations working on Sabbath to ens- Yeshiva. bonim. acts have a direct relationship with r ploy a percentage of Sabbath-ob- Rabbi Israel Salanter. It is a sad tale. In the course others. Men succeed only as they servant employees and workmen, Fifty years ago, Rabbi Israel of years Slobodka has accumulated Salanter, whose real name was a deficit of $50,000. Approxi- work together. Without compan- eventually with longer daily work. "6. We want to facilitate the con- Israel Lipkin, founded the Ye- mately $36,000 annually are re• ionship ambition droops; courage flags; reason totters; animation Ishiva in Slobodka. quires] to maintain the Yeshiva. vanishes and the men dies.—Elbert tracting of insurances of Sabbath- oliservant circles against lack of Yisroel Salanter, so called after The leaders did not bother much Hubbard. work and rt e p mIr os nun his place of residence Salanty, was about the deficit. But at last they "7. W ewant to create credit ta- not only a great scholar, but an had to, things simply could not go r PROBABLY A FRESHMAN stitutions on strictly mercantile I author, an organizer and an ad- along. Leon Meyeritz, the Templ e foundation for the furthering of ministrator. And so Rabbis Hurwitz and Yisroel Salanter, we are told, Ogulnick have come to America. brurian, was roused out of bed late Shomre Shabbos. one night by ring from his tele- ' "8. We want to combine Sabbath was considered one of the most Where else could they go? There eminent Orthodox rabbis of the are so many Slobodker here and ph one. Taking down the receiver, observant merchants and artisans he heard a voice say: r into companies, in order to enable nineteenth century, because of his the center of Jewish life has "Hello, is i this" --- them to help themselves. broad Talmudic scholarship, his shifted to the United States, that "No!" cried Leon irascibly. : "9. By exchange of workers and deep piety, and his personal influ- it was the only logical place to "Isn't this----" experiences between one country ence for good. Ile was probably comic to. "No! Wrong number, And and another we want to facilitate the only rabbi of his time that And here are these rabbis and exerted a wide influence on his fel- leaders, not pleading for them- , what the deuce do you mean drag- the employment of Sabbath-observ- low rabbis and on the Jewish com- selves, but for their beloved insti- ' ging me out of bed at this hour of , ant employees. the night. Who the deuce do you "10. We want to influence Jew- munities throughout Russia and tution. ish organisations such as Agra even beyond that country. Learning, scholarship, Torah "Isn't this the Temple librar- Joint, Oct and others, in the Hew It is not, therefore, at all sur- know no frontiers. They are ian?" of our endeavors to incite the foun- prising that there should have world-wide. ' a . . . . Goodness, dation of Shomre-Shabbos colon- flocked to Slobodka students from U. S. Jews Must Pay Debt. all over the land. To have studied I recall that in days gone by Dr. has anything gone wrong? Is—is e at the Slobodka Yeshiva, to have Israel Ilildesheimer, the head of there a fire?" "11. We want to further all "No, everything's all right. But movements concerning week-ends identified with Yisroel Salanter the famed Rabbiner Seminar in gave one standing and was a life- Berlin, would turn to Russian I'd like to know, when do you open and five-day work, in order that be- ' long source of pride even handed Jewry for financial aid and receive the library in the morning?" sides Sunday, also Sabbath be "Nine o'clock. Why?" free from work. down as an heirloom. it quite liberally. "Couldn't you open a little' "12. We want to deepen and From Slobodka have come some And yet German Jews could 'of the most learned and greatest have maintained the Hildesheimer earlier? Say 7 or 7:30?" spread the idea of Shabbos through "Well, of all the impudent ras-, intellectual proposals. A World rabbis of modern days. The Yeshiva quite comfortably. • graduates of the Yeshiva, rabbis The Jews of America have not eals! Do you mean to tell me you Congress will be called in the near and laymen, have left their impress received, thank Heaven, do not have disturbed me at this hour to future to consider the final means upon Jewish life in the last three need any material aid from their ask such a question? Who are you,' for the realization of these ideas and four decades. brethren in other countries, but a member of the Sunday School?" and tasks. "Yes, sir." First the influence of Yisroel they have received, and that quite "One may see from the above "And where are you, you ras- how many tasks await um, offer- Salanter and that of the leaders lavishly, spiritual sustenance from cal?" who succeeded him created in Slo- these old Yeshivas and these now ing possibilities for the realization "Locked up in the library, sir." : of Sabbath ideal. However, the bodka an atmosphere, fostered an poverty-stricken seats of Jewish —B'nai B'rith Magazine. I Purpose can only be reached if we environment that left an everlast- learning. ing impress upon those who lived get the support of all those to American Jews are in honor I whom the religious national and within it. bound to repay the debt. A strong committee of represen- social importance of Sabbath is a In this country there are thou- And so the appeal is going to go , sands of old Slobodka Yeshiva out first to all the old Slobodker tative laymen is being organized. conviction of the heart. May I appeal to all those who Bochurim who lovingly look back Yeshiva Bochurim who are in this "Declarations for joining our upon the days spent in the old Ye- country and then to all other Jews are interested and want to help to Association to be addressed to the shiva. These memories are so to wipe that debt. Fifty thousand communicate with either Rabbi M. oflice of the secretary, 7 Thomas- precious that even the rush and dollars is not so great an amount S. Margolis, 25 East Eighty-sixth iusstrasse pt., Berlin NW 40; mon- street, New York, or with the re- ey remittance's to past cheque ac- the noise and the hustle and bustle that it cannot be quickly raised. of modern American life have been Rabbi M. S. Margolis, Rabbi Is- lief committee of the Slobodka Ye- count Nr 49 8 14 (Abramczyk for r- ir unable to obliterate them. rael Rosenberg, Rabbi E. Silver, shiva, 30 Canal street, New York. World Association.)" There in brief you have the Rabbi J. Kahanowitz, Rabbi J. story of Slobodka. Siegel, Rabbi J. H. Levenberg, and Not Interrupted by War. other leaders of the Union of Or- The Slobodka Yeshiva always thodox Rabbis are behind this had between 300 and 400 bochu movement. 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