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Sabbath Reading. of the Torah.
Pentateuchal portions—Deut. 31.
Prophetical purtions—Huss
14 ' 2-10 ; Jed 2:15.,15'
or 27.
Tom rrippur Reading. of the Torah.
Perdateuchil • iertions—Let'. 16; Num. 29:7-11;
Afternoon Lev, 18.
Prophetical portions-- It't. 57:14-58; afternoon:
Jonah.
October 11, 1929
Tishri 7, 5690
Atonement.
"Fasting, prayer and charity will avert
the evil decree," the Jew proclaims on Yom
Kippur.
On this, the holiest day on the Jewish
calendar, the supposedly stiff-necked and
stubborn Jewish people makes a confes-
sion of its sins and bows in humility before
God. In the words of the liturgy:
sat
For we are not so bold of face and stiff-
necked as to say to Thee, We are rightemis and
have 'not sinned; but of a truth, we are sin-
ners May it be Thy will that I sin no
more; be pleased to purge away my past sins,
according to Thy great mercy, only not
through severe chastisements.
The Yom Kippur liturgy thus presents
the Jew as a humble being appearing be-
fore his Creator begging forgiveness and
confessing sins. This humility, which pre-
sents all Jews as equals before their God,
thus become a great occasion for equaliz-
ing all classes and for making all Israel
one united people. It suggests the hope
that the Day of Atonement influence may
be extended throughout the year, to elimi-
nate hatred and to unite our people for a
common effort striving for the realization
of Israel's mission on earth.
MacDonald and Palestine.
As we go to press the Jewish world is
eagerly awaiting the statement of James
Ramsay MacDonald, Prime Minister of
England, to the delegation from the Jewish
Agency, headed by Felix M. Warburg, on
the question of the Palestine disturbances.
5
Mr. MacDonald's life-long efforts for so-
cial justice augur well for the Zionist
movement. In our issue of June 7, eight
days following the Labor Party's triumph
at the polls in England, placing Mr. Mac-
Donald at the helm of British affairs, we
took occasion to quote from his writings in
which the present Prime Minister described
his visit to Palestine and showed how "Zion-
ism has blown over the dry bones of Juda-
ism." At that time we expressed the hope
that:
There is, in Mr. MacDonald's interest in
Jewish aspirations in Palestine, the combined
sympathy of the man battling for social and
economic justice, as well as the Englishman
whose inspiration is derived from the Old Tes-
tament. It affords a great feeling to know that
such a leader is sponsoring and defending the
movement which has fired the imagination of
Jew and non-Jew, and which in held out as the
hope of many thousands. His victory at the
voting booth in England a week ago Thurs-
day was the indirect victory of the Jewish
national movement.
Similarly hopeful were the editorial
opinions of the other Anglo-Jewish and
Yiddish newspapers throughout the coun-
try, and we have reason to believe that Mr.
MacDonald and his government will jus-
tify the faith we placed in him. A man
who has sacrificed so much for his 'deals
will not betray a movement which has had
his endorsement and encouragement. We
look forward anxiously to his statement,
but we predict in advance that it will be in
complete sympathy with Jewish aspirations
in Palestine, and that it will again reaffirm
Britain's determination to honor the Bal-
four Declaration,
Jewish Encyclopedia are not at present
available. The Jewish Encyclopedia ar-
ticle on "Suicide," which draws a compari-
son of averages of suicides among Jews,
Catholics and Protestants, declares, basing
its opinion on Morselli, "that religion has
a great influence on the suicide rate, and
that the Catholics and Jews are the least
liable to commit suicide." In view, there-
fore, of the generally accepted fact that
economic problems more than any other are
responsible for the modern increase in Jew-
ish suicide rates, the condition suggests a
problem far more pressing than any purely
materialistic one can possibly become.
dom for the sake of God, which the rabbis call
sanctification of the name of God, is really the
assertion of the divine life in the midst of
death. But desertion of life from selfish mo-
tives through suicide is all the more despic-
able. lie who sells his human birthright to
escape pain or disgrace, though greatly to be
pitied, has forfeited his claim and his share in
the world to come.
The evils of suicide cannot be counter-
acted by mere preaching. It is necessary
again to instill in Jews faith before the des-
pair that accompanies economic ruin will
be lessened. Perhaps, also, the reinstilling
of faith will lessen the materialism in which
our people is now so engrossed, and which
now so shamefully overshadows the great
heritage of the people of the prophets. And
such faith will not again be instilled un-
less idealism is restored in the home and
we cease arguing over Jewish education
but make it the all compelling movement
wherever there are Jews.
Poe and the Bible.
The eightieth anniversary of the death
of Edgar Allen Poe, which occurred on Oc-
for you? Will there be any Jews
tober 7, serves to remind Jew's of the influ-
left?
ence of their Holy Scriptures upon this
"I believe they will. They have
great writer. William Mentzel Forrest, survived the Pharaohs, Nebudha
nezzar, ( onstantine, 'Mohammed;
John B. Cary professor of Biblical history t
hey have survived the inquisition
and literature at the University of Virginia, a nil assimilation; they will survive
in his very interesting and valuable volume, t he automobile.
Find. Existence of God.
"Biblical Allusions in Poe," leaves no doubt
Following a masterful review of
that the Bible had the strongest influence t he agonies he suffered through
Inubt and of the joy he found in
on Poe. Professor Forrest even suggests
aith, /leg again addresses him-
that Poe knew Ilebrew.
ing to their ideal. With Israel the wailing
umphs and splendors which the early prophets
sang to them in times of calamity. They had
re-established their state after the Exile with
such hopes luring them on. Then weary cen-
0
An appalling increase in suicides among
East European Jews now finds a sequel in
a similar condition in this country. The
almost daily reports of Jewish self-murders
appearing in the New York newspapers,
and the increasing number of suicides in
other ..cities suggest the changes affecting
Jewish life as a result of the materialism
affecting this age.
A report recently made public revealed
that Vienna's Jewish suicides increased 100
per cent in 1927 over those in 1913. The
increase among Jewish women was even
larger, approaching the 127 per cent mark.
Now come the reports of suicides from
large American Jewish centers, and the
prominence of the men committing self-
murders in many instances serve to aggra-
vate this problem. The report of the sui-
cide committed by one of Cleveland's most
prominent Jewish citizens, who for more
than a decade was the president of his
city's United Hebrew Schools, is proof of
something very radically wrong in Jewish
ranks.
Unfortunately late statistics to supple-
ment those quoted from Morselli in the
to rule them instead of coming to lick the dust
at their feet. Prophetic voices no longer spoke
to them. . .. Then arose the new order of
seers. In new fashion the hope of Israel found
voice: in strange guise the mysteries of life
were expounded. The prophecies were not to
fail. God would yet avenge.
■ e
and h•sina found it twain. I wnold it
live after me more •lise than it is with-
a Jew herao.e the faith of in.
rani demands no abdication of no mind.
"I ant Jew because the faith of 14-
mei a.-Its eery po••ihle sacrifice of
lay
"''' ' 1 1 am a Jew bees., in all Placen
where there are tears anal suffering the
wee,.
I am • Jew hereon... in every ere
when the cry of daps.- 1. heard the
J ew
'I am • Jew beestfite the manage of
1. el the most ...tent and the most
modern.
"I •
a Jew beemlne Israel'• ;Tont-
ine is a onivers•I promise.
• nt • J•w herau-st for ' Israel the
orld
not finished; men
complete
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elf to his grandson and asks:
"And tell me, if
this unique
not feel
res
ist°crYcC. 'nfi
e
m td fa7: tzstie lxii W,V.
ordained its mission to this
hp ave
etude and have made its fulfill-
ment possible, in trying it through t,
t"' offering, in saving it through
rials, in guiding it step by step
f rem its unhappy past to its tri-
mphant future. As for me, my
Mid, who have no long sought for
he evidence of the existence of
t o d, I have found it in the exis-
G
t ence of Israel "
Then he sets down his creed as
a Jew which deserves to tie en-
graved in gold letters.
His Creed.
Here iv this creed:
"I: as, a Ji•w het.aose horn of Israel.
h
ni
We learn from Professor Forrest's very
7,
"1 ant • Jew beeoe
mn
interesting volume that "numerous pass-
als
a
not yet
elt ed. -;„ nt.
e j aerwe eat i,11‘ tt
ages in Poe express or imply some knowl-
inn ! •n:1
edge of Hebrew," In a lengthy discussion,
:'onve a l'srael
dhinitSnerlif!'
i
,lise Thove i m7n. im the
marked by references, Professor Forrest a - Itham i t Jew bera
Pe ewhicyl:nr.
acer
defends Poe against the late Professor Ilar-
This great story, ably translated
riaon's charge that Poe brought his reputa- fr om the French by Mrs. Stephen
tion "perilously near charlatanry" by way- g; (Louise Waterman) Wise, is
ether enhanced by the fine fore-
ing repeatedly a passage in Hebrew with w nrd
by [)r. Wise.
ise.
which he was assisted by Professor Charles
"Fleg's book is an exultant wit-
Anthon.
Professor Forrest calls this t j; ss to the undimmed radiance of
rasp's faith and the unlessened
charge "not altogether fair or accurate," r rsuasiveness of Israel's life," Dr.
and declares that "Poe was not entirely de- 3 ise writes. "It is of the essence
romance, for it is a tale orno-
pendent upon Anthon,"
ble
Poe is not the exception among the great
English writers who were influenced by
the Bible. In fact, Bibically-inspired men
of letters are the rule in the English-speak-
i ng world. There is much to be learned in
brevity, conciheness and beauty of style
from the great Biblical works. Jews who
have forsaken the Bible, please take note.
By Hillel, The Observer
T
can sacrifice himself in a great cause. Martyr-
arose from measuring their condition by the
glorious rhapsodies concerning national tri-
WASHINGTON JEWISH
MIRROR
Charles H. Joseph
MY WORD! Blimey! 'Ere we 'avc an Ilenglish-
man who writes a Mt of blithering rot to 'rime
with a very nawsty insinuation against the Jews.
The gentleman's name is James C. Critchell-Bullock,
By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
„
who served during the war in the Near East cam
eaign. I haven't room for his entire letter but th
e OOSE ROSENBERG was sought THF: veterans of the America
following
is
sufficient
to
give
you
an
idea
of
wha
WHY I AM A JEW.
Ednion,
t
n after almost as much as Ram-
he meant:
Fleg. l'ranslated by Mrs. Stepp
Legion depend on Jews fel
say MacDonald during the few
And now as I look back it seems strange to
en S. Wise. F'oreword by Dr
their he
atelhA
leyt,nha:Aituntlt,hi;h.i:nn -
days the British Prime Minister
me that, in all those years and along all that
Wise. Published by Bloch Pub
and his secretary were in Wash- catty.
awful trail, I should have served side by side
fishing Co., 31 West 3lot street
ington.
Legion chaplain
with Arabs, Italians and Indians, but net-
New 'York. ($1.25).
with a Jew. Once in Cairo I net a Jew deco-
Reporters from every paper and
a rabbi'!
Twice in recent months the pres-
rated with the Victoria Cross, and I shall never
every news agency were looking tional medical consultant is a Jew-
ent reviewer was privileged to laud
forget hint; that man was a MAN. But where
for colorful stories to weave about
ish
physician?
the works of Edmond Flog, in Eng-
were the rest of his race? I expected to find at
the confidential secretary whom
lizb translation from the French.
least a few of the many millions.
Dr. II. D. Shapiro of Washine -
'MacDonald found it necessary t
ton was again selected to the high
"The I.ife of Moses" was the tirst
bring all the way across the "mean °
Gentlemen, the Arab is a Man. Let the Jew,
They
ets
medical
position in the Amer,
masterpiece of this great French
if he must conquer Palestine, show the Arab
on his trip to America.
writer to attract the Jewish natt-
can Legion at their national C■ .I.
his mettle. It is not enough for hint to be a
crowded around her from the mo-
er during' the past year. "The
in Louisville
last weal..
businessman and money-mhker—a colonizer
went she landed; they begged for vention
Dr.Shapiro's
experience
in t
u another recent
Boy Prophet" as
must demonstrate his ability to out-class the
interviews; but they were reward-
, ,,•
cap it al has been c olorful.
work. In "Why 1 Am a Jew" NI.
native where the effect is most likely to be
nilby a pleasant smile and a
Ile I.
called upon by practi•ally ever,
Fleg presents us with another fan-
felt. The Arab is a warrior, and those of us
flash from her dark and attractive
e>r
eyes.
Senator and Congressman to o
dilating essay the like of which is
who know hint admire him for it. We are ready
representat. yes Of the
to a t.
press Were
aid in the early and favorable di.
seldom duplicated because of the
our ats to the Jew, many of them
quite impressed with position of veterans' pleas for pain.
beauty of its prose-poetry and the
on my friends alreday, but first let him prove
her
pitched
voice,
her business_ shins, disability payments, etc. Dr.
depth of feeling displayed by the
his capacity to command the respect of the
like low
manner
and
dignity.
author.
Arab at his own game.
Shapiro has a fund of huninrou,
Rosenberg refused interviews be-
s tones in connection with his wort. k
cause
she
belieta,
a
private
seem-
The method of approach in the
HE only comment is that Mr. Critchell-Bullock
the
Catholic, Protestant
writing of "Why I am a Jew" is
tary has no place in public print. and Jewish
persuasions
who come
went through the our with his eyes and his mind
The American reporters were sur-
similar to that in "The Boy Proph-
tight shut. There were JEWISH BATTALIONS
prised to learn that Rose Rosen- t"him every day for assistan ce.
et." His home has failed to offer
engaged in that campaign. General Allenby has re-
berg has a right to walk into the Ilut the best yet is the remark of
the author the needed Jewish in-
ferred to them; other British officers have men-
House of Commons and take a seat
spiration. Ile turned to Christ and
N.'eTe4,-rraunt s' I I B l untr'ss, a' u l, ist'hi
that nh te eirxpetz-I t's
tioned
the
part
the
Jews
played
in
that
campaign,
in the official stand next to the
for a time thought that he found
yet here we have this person rushing into print not
speaker's chair merely because she the medical man to represent the
inspitation in Christianity. Then
Ku
Klux
Klan
soon,
knowing the facts and endeavoring to create an
now that hi s
is the Prime Minister's private sec.
came disappointments, he is dis-
work brings him in contact with
unfavorable impression aiming others concerning
rotary. Swell, I'll sziy.
illusioned, he embarks upon self-
hery religious denomination and
the lack of valor on the part of the Jews in Pales-
study in Judaism, and he emerges
In Washington she had little ev
ot er groups.
tine. If Mr. Bullock will communicate with the
a powerful advocate for his ;mo-
time for social calls and personal
ttle.
editor of the American Jewish Year Book he may
matters, being too busy taking care neatt in the Senate relies heavily
learn
something
concerning
those
Jews
that
he
was
Inconsi.tency Scored.
too blind to see.
ence.
While England's premier upon the medical man for advice.
M. Fleg scores inconsistency in
and Mr. lloover were smoking their Dr. Copeland, in spite of his name
the Jewish home. Forced to ad-
I HAVE been asked if Col. Nobile Judah, who has
here t■ I'l strktest Orthodox observ-
pipes in the Virginia hills, she was nd fame as an authority on medi-
been representing this country in Cuba, is a Jew.
working at her private suite at the cal subjects, seems to think highly
ance, he suddenly begins to real-
I think he is, yet I cannot find any information con-
Mayflower Hotel in an effort to of the young, Washington physi-
ize that while he is not permitted
cerning
him in any Jewish reference book that I
reduce the accumulation of mail. c'an's expert advice on medico.
to write on the Sabbath his father
own. If names mean anything he should be a Jew-.
legal problents.
does because business demands it
However, I am going to pass the question along to
his brother does because college de-
TEN years ago Roar Rosenberg,
By the. way, this American Le-
the author of "Ask the Rabbi," none other than
mands it. At home he is served
a girl of 19 or 20, attended a ghat work and similar activities in
Rabbi Morris lazzaron of Baltimore. I happened to
only kosher, but when the family
business school during the day and behalf of the veterans of foreign
pick up that Quiz Book containing 2,000 questions
takes a trip father and mother
university extension courses at wars involves thousands of tik-
‘Ve need it. Come on, Bloch Publishing Company,
and brother mix the milky with
ni 'lit
abled, wounded and ill young men.
Ilrr aspin dion
a urn • -
useful
information. chat book should be in every
the meaty, and even ham
It is a very important and signili-
ver=ity degree was never realized.
la_4Jewish home. While on the subject I wish that
served.
cant piece of work.
She went to work as a stenog-
some enterprising publisher would get out a single
Si, he turns. Ile reads the Ne
raphe r for the Labor party at Par-
large volume containing facts concerning Jewish
Testament. Ile looks for inspir a w
Bement, although' this position JEWISH visitors to ‘Vashington
.
individuals of prominence, as well as of events of didn
tion in the gentle Jesus. Ile lit
' t rate her a "civil servant"--- during this holiday season
'-
re.
Jewish interest. It drives a columnist crazy trying
comes like the Christian. Ile eve
the British term which is cornpara- vived two told jokes that are well
to
get
Jewish
information
from
the
meager
library
hates the Jew. Until another tur n
ble
to
an
American
civil
service
known
to
Washingtonians.
One
of
at his disposal. Give us a ready reference book.
of events drives hint back to hi
employee. Working for the Labor these was the story that was told
-
•
own. Like Ilerzl and Nordau an
party, she had no civil service by a certain bus announcer when
AFTER reading the following article I now believe
scores of others, the Dreyfus a f-
status, he was guiding his tourists past the
in
fairies,
ghosts
and
in
every
miracle,
that
was
fair awakens him. Ile begins t
She was still working there in Ford Theater tin which, of course.
ever chronicled in ancient or Modern times. And
study Jewishness and Jewish ethic
192:1 when Ramsay MacDonald be- Lincoln was shot). Ile used to till
s
if the Gentiles of Shreveport, La., can swallow hook,
histary and facts which he neve t
came party leader and as such
up time between important build-
line and sinker, the story that the , reverend Jewish
before knew. He takes time t
anseke:1:1-dfu; the
ritio
atheasned gut ar i ty. She
ings by shouting through his mega-
study the Mishna. A new era i p'' Christian gentleman is alleged to have told them,
phone to the pop-eyed sightseers,
Judaism develops for M. Fleg
then they certainly have an amazing amount of
Next year the Labor party won "Lincoln was a Jew. Didn't you
With the result that what ilea
in the general elections and Mac- know that? I can prove it to you
faith in humanity. Here is the story which I reprint
and Norilau were for the Jew po
from the American Mercury, which magazine repub-
Donald became Prime Minister for in three ways if you doubt lily
litically, M. Fleg is for us cultur
lished it from the Baptist Message of Shreveport,
the first time. Miss Rosenberg
Downing statement: First, wasn't his name
ally.
We had a treat this morning. A se rmon by
went with hint M No. 10
Abraham?: second, didn 't he have
the Rev. Jacob Rosenthal, a converted Jew.
Jew. Will Survive.
street. But the party remained in a beard?: and third, wasn't he
1%
hat made it so interesting to me was the fact
Flog addresses himself to the fu-
power only from January till No. killed in Ford's Theater?” 1"..0
that he served for quite a while as rabbi in
ture generation. Ile dedicates his
vernber, 1924, and then MacDon- can readily see that this story is a
Jex' ish synagogue in Alexandria, La., and that
new volume "ti my grandson who
alt, though still party leader was hang-over from the days when
the head nurse of the Baptist Hospital at
is not yet born," and he tells him
only a member of Parliament Henry Ford was in his hey-day.
Ale xandria was the means of his conversion.
again.
of his spiritual trials that he be
The other joke revived was the
Nlss Rosenberg continued with
lie says that a wealthy Jewess of Alexandria
guided by his grandfather's exper-
him as his private secretary. The kosher law. A Jewish tourist re-
asked him to slay one-half dozen chickens as
iences. A few lines in his intro-
Conservatives were in power for marked to his Washington friend:
rabbi for her. Ile did so, but inadvertently for-
duction contain the meat of the
"The kosher la
law is a joke like all
got to bless the knife. She called his attention
five full years.
This year there
All I
to the fact. She told him to give those fowls
was another general election, the other laws of Congress.
tthence:. When will you read what
Laborites and MacDonald went could get in a kosher delicatessen
to the Gentiles and then furnished others to be
I here set down? About 1950,
itn-z
— know the rest.' The vis-
s jm
slain in a proper manner for the ceremonial
1900? Will people still read in
back into the saddle, and Miss Ito. wai
ts
entirely
rfely pariiiggr,
h t‘si,it
observanceof the Passover, for he says they
1960? te What form will the world
senberg went back to Downing his characterization
e av‘
r a
use- chickens in the United States instead of a
then like? Will the echanical
m
men
Dickstein's
famous
kosher ho w
b.
have suppressed the spiritual? Will
While her boss is head of the
for the District of Columbia but
He thought the best place to take the fowls
the mind have created a new uni-
British government, she is a "civil
not all problems were solved with
was as a gift to the Baptist Hospital. The lady
servant."
verse for itself? Will the prob-
the
passage of that bill.
in
charge
at
the
hospital
thanked
him
and
said
lems that trouble me today exist
Man asserts himself in braving temptation
and trial, in overcoming sin and grief, Greater
Mill is the hero who, in complete .self-mastery,
In the (1,V of both the Jewish writers and
Poe the explanation is found in the contrast be-
tween what was and what ought to be accord-
e'10.11'11.05'011
A Review of Edmond
Fleg'a "Why I Am a
Jew."
The tin-Jewishness of the act of soicide
is explained in the following brief para-
graph in the late Dr. Kaufman Kohler's
"Jewish Theology."
turies wore away and their enemies continued
Suicide Among Jews.
tv
remaestuar
The Creed of
A Jew
The materialism governing the life of so
many Jews today, the-manner in which so
many of our rich and newly-rich fly high
find compete with each other for life's lux-
urtes:,the stock market craze has so blinded
these . people, that in their homes Jewish
tradition and idealism must have been
shelved. Else it is impossible to imagine
• why SO many should „now resort to so un-
Jewish an act as suicide. The time is with-
in the memory of most of us when the Jew,
no matter how pressed for the material in
life, %vas always able to derive inspiration
for living in the great spiritual heritage of
his people. Increased materialism seems
not only to have weakened this idealism,
but scents to have eliminated that vision
without which a people must perish. Hav-
ing eliminated it in their own lives, it is no
wonder that these materially crazed Jews
now assume to end their own lives in a
shamefully un-Jewish way.
In an appendix to his volume, Professor
Forrest quotes innumerable Biblical and
Hebraic phrases in proof of the extent to
which Poe drew upon the Bible for his sub-
ject matter. Comparing the mysticism of
Poe with those of Jewish writers, Professor
Forrest says:
` S■1••■•■•• ••Wwwww ie
is
ness and spiritual suffering, of
chivalry and triumph. And while
not untouched by the inherent
pathos of his people's life, the Ju-
denschmerz is subordinated to the
Hallelujah of a joyously self-af-
firmant and self-liberated Jew."
The Bloch Publishing company
is to be commended for the publi-
cation of this fine volume, the ex-
cellence of which deserves that it
have the widest audience: that it
be placed in every Jewish home.
te..9.1 '44:1A:,0
1w1MPMc
he had a big heart to think of the sick. lie told
her ti-e- chickens were condemned as far as
were concerned. She said to him,
"Though you are a big-hearted man you are
condemned also." He wished to know why ,he
spoke in that manner to a holy rabbi. She
quotedAite verse froth St. John's gospel, with
the closing clause, "But he that believeth not
is condemned already, because he believeth not
on the only begotten Son of God." She also
advised him to read the New Testament and
learn of this Son of God.
He kept in mind what she had said to him,
bought a Bible, carried it hint him carefully
concealed and read it—not at home, but in the
synagogue—and was converted. Of course, he
lost his position and was placed under the
curse. His wife and children went to her
family. His wealthy relatives in New York
and elsewhere considered him an outcast, lie
said, humorously, that the synagogue at Alex-
andria was certainly made clean after he left,
for every inch of the interior was thoroughly
trashed with water containing carbolic acid, in
order to purify it from the pollution of the
Gentile Bible he had kept there and the Chris-
tian it had made of him."
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tremble?" from Amos
Nlarkson said in part:
Mr.
and inspiration? How many of
them have felt a real shock and
genuine shiver at the stunning
news of Hebron, Sated and Jeru-
salem? The contributions for the
emergency fund speak eloquently a.
and thunderingly our shame, and
proclaim in the most ringing voice
our deplorable lack of self-respect
and genuine Jewish consciousness.
Does their hearts' pulse throb with
the great and gigantic national
struggle which we have been car-
rying on to regain l'alestine as our
homeland?
"flow do the Jewish people re-
spond to the blowing of the bugle?
We have had the same stirring
and penetrating peals last year and
the year before. last. In the light
of a critical examination of all
Jewish activities and all under-
takings of constructive work we
must come to sad and discourag-
ing conclusion that we have blown
the bugle to deaf ears and stony
hearts. It has failed to awaken in
"Shall we despair? Shall we
the hearts of the Jewish people
abandon the Shofar because it is a
who came to pray on Rosh Ilasho-
voice in the wilderness? No, we
nab all those dear memories close-
ly associated with our great past
shall blow it stronger than ever.
and SO deeply rooted in our Jewish
Blow, bugle, blow, don't let those
who are still awake fall asleep, re-
conscience. The bugle has failed
mind them that just now they must
to awaken them to the fact that
O \ \' here is something else again. We expect
mutiply their effort and fight
we have received the Torah and
against tremendous odds. Let lit-
that we have lived and died with
occasionally a dumb student to send in a wise-
tle David with the spirit of God
it no that it became an inseparable
cracking answer that may be meant seriously, but
fight the great monster Goliath.
surely we have a right to expect that a staff con,,' part of our Jewish soul. Ignorance
Instill this handful of men and
of Judaism now reigns supreme in
tributor to an important weekly like Life should
our Jewish life more than ever - women with zeal and vigor to over-
not be quite so dumb. Here is an amazingly ignor-
come that giant indifference and
before. The Jewish people lost
ant comment on the Arab-Jewish imbroglio which
is no far beside the question and shows such a lack
apathy. Disturb the peace of mind
the sense of the great value of
of those who are fast asleep. Some
Hebrew being studied by old and
of understanding of the entire situation that Life
of them will open their eyes, they
young. No wonder they have lost
should give "J. F." a job nearer home, covering
will frown upon you, they will
all sense of responsibility to keep
night dubs or some other assignment that he might
scowl, they will even use abusive
know something about:
up in a respectable manner their
institutions of Jewish learning.
language against your ancient and
Army and navy circles are deriving im-
peculiar and melancholy tune, but
The Hebrew schools all over the
mense sardonic satisfaction at the uproar of
they would not fall asleep again."
country have a life and death
the Jews over the little Arab rough-house in
struggle to maintain their exist-
Palestine. As the Jews and the Jewish press
ence.
The
synagogues,
the
towers
have been the leaders in international paci-
of strength fur thousands of
fism, their clamor for the extermination of the
65
years, are desolate. In their holy
Arabs (by somebody else) suggests that paci-
arks and bookcases the scrolls and
ADRIANOPLE, Turkey.—(J. T.
fism isn't even skin deep and that it's only a
A.)
—
Chief
Rabbi
books
lie
gloomy
and
forlorn
in
question of whose on is gored, as the New York
Ilaim Barmoi-
dust.
rasche of Adrianople died here at
Times might say. When Sandia" was shooting
the age of 65. Ile was a descend-
up Americans in Nicaragua we were asked why
"How much has the Shofar re-
ant of a famous rabbinical family
we were in Nicaragua anyhow? When the Chi-
minded our people of the land of
and occupied the chief rabbinate
nese attacked American "foreign devils," we
our past and future, of our hope
here for the past 10 years.
were asked why we should send marines to
Shanghai. But when the Arabs shot up a
handful of Jews, the American Jews and the
.lewish press roared for blood. It was "Call out
British navy!" It was "Protest to Washing-
ton!"
ton
p
circles regard the Palestine affair as
an Arab effort to work out constructively the
great social experiment, noble in motive, of
giving the Jews somebody else's country as a
Now that the holy days are upon us some of us are going
national homeland. So long as the British were
to take our religion out of its moth balls and give it an air-
ing for a week,
prepared to do the dirty work, it was all right;
but once the Jews were left to fight for them-
selves, it was "Where are the police?" It was
Weizmann Urged to Resign—Headline. Well he is resigned to his
never,
never, "Let's clean up on the Arabs our-
position
as leader of World Zionism.
selves!" Biblical authorities agree that the
only time Palestine was a Jewish national home
Fannie Hurst has
written a book called "Five and Ten,"
was when the Jews massacred the Canaanites
but the Jones law isn't even mentioned in it.
and whaled the Philistines. That was over
two thousand years ago. Of course the British
wail' crush the Arabs, simply as a matter of
Louis Baniberger's employees received a million dollars as gifts, at
least those who had been
British prestige, but a rare that, with all the '
working for him for 15 years. They were
offered cash or annuities, and the majority took the former. They
money and brains in the world, can't set up in
believed in the cash and carry idea.
10 years a self-sufficient state the size of New
Jersey without calling on all Christendom to
help them do it, aren't going to command the
Hoover Proposes Drive to Dry Up Capital—Headline.
sympathy of the British taxpayer very much
Does that mean that he is going to stop Congressmen from
longer, as the capital sees it.
talking?
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