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Americall "wish Periorfical eater

CUSTOM ATINU1 • CINCINNATI 10, OHIO

litEPerRondeasnaRDNICIE

"MARTYROLOGY"

FIRST

(Continued

and

SECOND

MORTGAGES

and

Land Contracts

Bought

from Page One)

will of the majority. And now by
the way of those underground
channels which all rebels in all
times and places have managed to
establish, the news was carried to
t all the people of Judea that the
rabbis had decretid that as long as
man refrained from committing
the major sins of idolatry, adultery
and bloodshed, he could abandon
for a while the minor customs of
Israel and so save his life.
Teaching Never Stopped.

died upon the word, One. "Hear,
0 Israel, the *Lord our God, the
Lord is One."
Thus Akiba established the bra-

ROSENWALD OFFERS BETH EL ANNOUNCES NEW COURSES;
FRANKLIN, FRAM, ZEIGER TO TEACH
$10,000 PRIZE FOR
ESSAY ON JUDAISM

dition which has since been fol-
lowed by all Jewish martyrs. With
(Continued from Page One)
their dying breath they have all re-
cited the shema. The act has be- New York to consider the conduct
come known as the Kiddush Ha- of the prize essay contest and to
shem, "Sanctifying the Name of formulate the inquiry.
God," and these martyrs are known
The sub-committee of which Dr •
to Jewish tradition as Kedoshim, Samson !tenderly, director of th
"holy ones."
Bureau if Jewish Education o
Rabbi Akiba is the classic proto- New Yurk is chairman, mole&
,
type of Jewish martyrdom.
Ile the following: Elisha M. Friedman
M. J. Karat, Dr. Solomon Lowen
died because he would not compro.- stein, Dr. David de Solo Pool an d
miss. with the principle of teaching Dr. Abba !Who' Silver.
Contest Explained.
Judaism—even when he compro-
The statement issued by the cam .
mised with its practice. In the
mittee
adds
the following in ex
•centuries that followed Jews were
planation of the purpose of the con-
so hard-pressed that their compro-

e

Of
course
it's
Forest's
work

interest. The course will begin
(Continued from Pace One.)
with a description of Palestine in
pecially for teachers who are the days long before the Hebrew
already teaching in public schools tribes invaded it. It will survey

and teachers who have already
taken courses in psychology and
pedagogy, because it is the point
of the course to apply the hest ex-
perience and the most advanced
science of the educational world in
general to the special aims of the
Jewish religious school.
The course consists only partly
of classroom instruction. Its main
feature will be observation of ac-

the period (of the conquest by the
Hebrews told in the Bible, go on to
expulsion ..t the hands of the Ro-
mans and study the vicissitudes of
Palestine through medieval times
and on to the rise of Zionism, the
liritish mandate and the United
Jewish Agency.
Miss Rose Pike of the United
Hebrew Schools will continue to
give her two courses in elementary
and advancd Hebrew, and if there
is a sufficient number of advanced
pupils who wish to take a course
in Ilehrew literature, a third
course will be arranged.
The course in social servcie will
be given by Samuel Levine, execu-
tive director of the Jewish Centers
Association, who will teach "Meth-
ods of Club Leadership." The
course is intended to train young
people of the community to take
charge of groups of adolescent
boys and girls. Students of the
course will be given opportunity
to do practice work with group:
of the Jewish Centers Association.

Tits. Roman officers henceforth
made fewer and fewer arrests.
They reported to IlatIrian that the
Jews had repudiated their rabbis
on Personal Property
and given up their faith. Hadrian
, was very much pleased—he was
Automobile Accounts
Clothes I thought
mises went even further than those tent:

Despite the many centrifugal
also very much mistaken, as you of the garret-meeting in Lud. In
Furniture Account.
were "done for"
and I are here to witness.
:Spain, for instance, they even win, forces to which the spiritual life
Radio Accounts
of American Jewry is exposed,
. . . now they're
Electrical Appliances
But before the rabid, adjourned shipped publicly a strange god,
of
Store Fixture. and
that meeting in the garret they while they continued the practice there is evidence that a process
just like new. I sent them to Forest Cleaners
of Judaism in private. crystallization, accelerated by the
passed one other resolution. At ,
Factory Equipment
virtual cessation of immigration.
and it seems remarkable that they could put
the motion of Rabbi Akiba it was
Garage Equipment
Tricot by the test of history the is also in progress. It is a process
them back in such beautiful condition. So reas-
decided that while the practicing , secret confeenece in the garret on on which the fate of American
of the Jewish religion may for a
onable, too. Try them'!
the perpetuation of Judaism was a Jewry and Judaism depend. Too
Om , be suspended, the teaching of
success. The New Year season. what extent can the process be con-
the Jewish religion must never
, and particularly the Day of Atone- trolled? Is it possible to spilat its
star, No Matter at what risk, the went, is. according to an old ter „,,, se ? i s i t „smith,. by 0 rofi .
rabbis must continue to teach the dition, the appropriate time for re- ized wisdom and intelligent
Randolph 2484
deVo-
children.
hearsing the story .stf the Jewish lion, to "channel” it for the great-
Cadillac 7602
ea., ut least for the rabbis ' martyrs.
Machzorim and the ,,,,rionnt,nt o f Jewish
and
life
Associated Companies
themselves, a lotal resolution. Be- Sclichas, or the prayer books
533.547 FOREST AVE E
for the creative functioning of the kW-
I
81111311AM COOPER, Preeldent
fore a year had ;hissed every Mall
the New Year season, were desig- ish group in the life of America?
Total Paid-in Capital and Sarah.
501111 had attended the meeting in
natio('
as
the
most
appropriate
"It
is
the
hope
of
the
committee,
j
82,000,000
the garret was undo r arrest, appre- books for recording the li ves
and first that the Julius Rosenwald I
Ground Floor, 320 W. Fort
hended in the act of teaching. The deeds and deaths of the nuirtyn.s.
E ssay caiiteiits will act as a ,
rabbis had been wise and lenient in • To no other book would those pre-: leaven upon the intelligent minds
behalf of the people, but they had cious sacred records be entrusted' in American Jewry, and stir them
Rabbi Jacob Freedman of New
not bet en lenient with themselves. host they be lost.
York City and Springfield, Mass.,
to think deeply and constructively
RABBI BERNARD ZEIGER
To save the lives of their people,
conducted services at Temple Rath
Leopold Zunz, that bosom friend. upon its future. Nor should inter- I
they had declared an emergency'
of Heinrich Heine's, gathered the est in the subject be confined to I tual teaching at the Temple and Jacob, Pontiac, during Rosh Hash-
and liberated them from the duty
stories of the massacres and mar- scholars or (other restricted groups.. other schools and the giving of ex- onah, and will conduct l'om Kippur
of obstrving the outward ritual trydoin contained in these prayer
"Furthermore, the committee en-: rerimental lessons to pupils of services.
laws, but they had refused to de-
During Rosh Ilashonah, Rabbi
books into a little volume called ,tertain the hope that out of this in- Beth El School of Religion by stu-
clare an emergency for themselves. "The Sufferings of the Jean
in the tellectual ferment may emerge dents of the course lit is intend- Freedman reviewed .fewish events
They had refused to liberate Middle Ages."
$8 to $10 Weekly, Single
The story goes something for the constructive ed that the taking of this course of the past year. Referring to the
themselves from the duty of
$12 to $16 Weekly, Double
that the (original manuscript is guidance of American Jewish lead. shall constitute advanced standing Palestine situation he ;stinted out
teaching and so had forfeited their blotted for Zunz wept while he orship. No definite profram of ac.I
$1.50 to $3.00 Daily
in the faculty register for teachers that the land is linked with the
own lives. The story of their mar- wrote it. Ludwig Lewisohn, a Jew tiotn is necessarily looked for, but already in charge of classes.
Jew• and inseparable from him. He
trydom is read in the traditional who. despised his race, happened to some investigator, gifted with
outlined the obligations under the
The New Instructors.
service of Yon Kippur. They are
There are two new members on Balfour th,claration and declared
,see this volume. It opened his knowledge, acumen and vision, may
known as the Ill who were slain.
eyes to the nobility of his race, and sueossal in unraveling the tangled the faculty. One is Rabbi Bernard that the Jew will go On building.
WILLIAM n. LEE, Mgr,
Tarphon was burned, Ishmael was
On the question of Jewish solo-
the novel, "The Island Within"—, threads in the fabric of the future, Zeiger of Temple Beth El, Flint,
31 C. tin. r.. - ea 1 ■ 001.
flayed alive.
as those of you who have read
John R. at Columbia
and produce the synthesis out of Mich., who will give two courses, cation, Rabbi Freedman eloquently
Akibas Martyrdom.
"A Home Away From Home
know--is a direct result of Lewd- whirh a stronger and nobler and one on "Modern Religious Move- urged that the youth be trained
Ilis
Rabbi Alsiba's turn came.
sothn's reading of the nnarty'rology.'nor e spiritual American Jewry ments and Their Historical Back- Jewishly, declaring that education
body was to be' raked with iron
Our own Day of Atonement sere- • can come into being."
ground:" the other on "The l'oetry is the backbone of our people.
(snobs. The. Talmudic legend says ice is still full of the traces and re-
President Saul .1. Iiirnkrant of
The essays in both contests are j of the Bible." Rabbi Zeigtor is El
that when the fiendish raking 111:s-- minders of those Jewish saints.
required to be in the hands of the graoltutte of the Hebrew Union Temple Beth Jamb announces the
chine passed over his body oncv,
Coolle t , "of the class of 1929 and following Yom Kippur service:
We Furnish
W. BECK, JR.
The
10
martyrs
whose
story
is
sononitDoe
not
later
than
Dec.
31,
and Akiba made no outcry, his given in full in the Orthodox Mah-
throughout his career in the semi-
Sunday. Oct. 13:
executioner asked him what magic zor are also referred to briefly itt
iory he has made a special study
5 p. in.—Minch& Service
was using to still his pain. our own prayer book.
Several
sf these subjects which he is to
e P. to—,ail Nitirr
k ha replied, "I take no ntotive tines, in the course of this service
c, ,30 p. tn.—Sermon
leach at Beth El College. Another
- hid Mil re in the Life of ',reel."
el. the pain, because I am interest- we have sung the psalm "The Lord
w member of the faculty is Sam-
ed in a great discovery I have just Is My Light and Sly Salvation,
uel Cohen, who will teach the Monday, Oct. 14:
EDGEWOOD 2751
in tile. Whoa ter I have read the Whom Then Shall I Fear." This


I 0 :30 a. m.—Shatihariii Service
_
alumni class. Unlike the other
1.:315 a. m.--Sermon
rare. 'Thou shalt love the Lord was the song on the lips of all the
dosses at Beth El College, the
"Contemplation, Repentance. For-
DETROIT, MICH.
flee I,.d with all thy heart and all 100,000 Jews who were cut down
(Continued front Page One)
alumni class meets on Sunday
alerness."
by so•ul and all thy might,' I have by the sword in White Russia in
11 a. m.--•Yirkor" Memorial Sere kir.
morning. It is composs•d exclu-
All Our Men Are Bonded
1 1 :10 a. rn.—Mtmaph Service.
always wondered how sloes one the year DliS. The epic heroism tin Ilills Country Club, is past sively of graduates of Temple Beth
i n pH •• ,I1 jl. 11 t f the Phoenix Club , Ivan
2:1 ,', -.3 :I —Intermission,
.-
hov e with his soul? I know' what
vividly d escr ib ed
El High School and it takes a
2.40 to. m.--tipecial Children's Tom
athat day
it means to Isve God with my Sholom Ash's recently published resident of Summerfield and , course of study of its own choos-
Kippur Service.
,
RESIDENTIAL
•ht
formed
(of
Detroit,
and
3:13 p. m.--Minch Service.
heart and with my might—but novel, "Killdush Ilashem—an Epie
ona( s. a'ssociated Y with Alfred Hecht ing.
4:30 p.m.—Nr•illa or Concluding
NIGHT PATROL
with my soul—you, my friend, are of DAS."
Ur. Franklin's course this year
Servitir.
in the Alfred Realty Company.
is moment t o
pang
will
be
"The
New
Testament
from
In the afternoon service we read
McGregor Lauds Move.
(Sol with my soul, for my soul is
the Jewish Standpoint," to be
the prayer called "Unesane Toe
Mr.
Finsterwald,
chairman
of
being raked out for His sake.' And
kef" ("Let Us Sanctify This the Service Group hoard, is prom- 1 given in response to numerous re-
Probably because of the proximity
Day"1. It was written in the thir- meet as a financier and clubman. I quests from both Jews and non-
of the phrase: "Thou shalt love"
teenth century by the Rabbi of Ile is a governor (of the Jewish Jews for a course giving a Jewish
to the shema, Akiba thought. of
interpretation of the New Testa-
Nlityence while on his deathbed. He Welfare Federation, at diroadoor
Mandell Ghinasin, well-known
pronouncing the Shema, and he
had been tortured by the local the l'nion Trust Company and the I ment and the life of Jesus. This •local
Call Longfellow 4000
clothing merchant, died sod-
preach Phoenix Club, a member of the In- is the second lime this course is
prince
who
wanted
him
to
Checker Cabs. Empire 7000 baptism to his people. The dying
given at Beth El College, having :dolly at his residence, 1210 Hazel-
ternatittnal Yacht and Country
'
wood
avenue, Nlonday, Oct. 7, at
rabbi does not complain against Club, and of the Franklin Hills been given in the first year of the • 1:30 p. nt. Ile Wan
years odd.
Goal, nor does he curse his tortur- Country Club, it trustee of the • llege by Rabbi Fram.
Burial
took place at Silver Hills
"The History of Palestine."
ers. He attributes the troubles of Jewish Child Care Council and the
Cemetery, (on Tuesday, with funer-
In
addition
to
his
course
in
his people to their own sins and Cltovelanol Orphan Homo, and treas. ,
al services preceding at the home.
L. G. AUERY, Manager
calls on them to repent.
ore'. and past presi.hnt of Temple 'Methods of Jewish Teaching, -
"Re-Roof the Jenesco Way"
Surviving NIT'. Chinasin, who wa
Our entire memorial service Beth El. Mr. Finsterwald is pees- Rabbi From will give a course stn well known in the Detroit Jewish
'The History of Palestine." This
originates out of these martyrolo- ident of the Fintex Corporation
community, are his wife, Ethel; a
dle Age and the Finsterwald Investment course is given especially in view son, Samuel II. of Niagara Fulls.
w of the MidDay
gies. .The Jes
of
the recent developments in Pal-
o
f
Company'.
would menti on on the
N. Y., and a daughter, NIrs. George
"The plan to re-organize the lie- t estine which have made that coun- Weingarden.
Atonement not all their departed,
ry the center of the whole world's
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thee now! Spirits of the mar-
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troit's Jewry will again set higher
your souls that went forth from standards of giving."
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'up teaching. We must find ways explain their election to these im-
to make our teaching organizations portant posts."
ever more and more attractive and I
effective, to give it more and more
of our attention, of our sympathy,
of our help. The Jewish layman I
must demand of the rabbis that
they do a better educational job
than they have been doing. You
must demand that we give your
children more time than we have
been giving, that we teach them
more than we have been teaching
them, that we use our buildings
more than we have been using
them. The physical martyrdom
which saved our people yesterday
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We have served the Lord today
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