v 4stericait Apish periodical Cater CLIFTON ATINUI • CINCINNATI 30, MO PAGE SEVEN E bETROITAtilSil EIRON ICU CHANUKAH LIGHTS Chanukah Candles Chanukah Greetings to You All K - .-1:-.irEE - •••••• •. On Han • u • kkah at close of day, A 'to - ry •• .-- Mamba. j j— --1 ---- An MEM= IIMM . • IMP _,_ In MP is re - told ; — _ ...... _.. . "I ••••ff m • When Judea won the battle Ag•Inet Antioch., Ile raked the Jewish twiner And passed it on to no. die-light we -1 . =5111•=d=1M1 11M1 -2 , . .......== • - .,,-=iErM.E=d6- MO -.,-., . CM - we fight To •WINIIP ' =...... ......, 1.•••= b. JEWS IN MANCHURIA VICTIMS OF POGROM p keep our Tern •ple . .... • — IMP ■ • MM. . = =MI .n.. == Na INNSBRUCK. — (J. T. A.) — The Christian population of this city is boycotting the offices of the two Christian lawyers who defend- ed Philip IIalsmann. This action is imperiling the existence of the attorneys. SAM GRANADIER, Tailor American Radiator Building 1346 Broadway Cherry 2452 Ir a r 1, DAEMICKE COMPANY "Butcher Boy" Refrigerators and Refrigerator Counters, Butcher Blocks and Full Store Equipment Cadillac 3903 Season'S Greetings Smith & Stone Garage. General Repairing. Fender, Body, Axle and Frame Work Oxy-Acetylene Welding and Brazing We Repair Wrecked Cars 2723 Joy Road = : .= =A., > > > eV, •• MIMIAMIND ■ 10.= I 6:1 Ea - DID THE JEW APPROVE OF MISSIONARY WORK? MANUFACTURERS OF 1513 Adelaide etj > - PAUL J. • ,sible the explain the development I of Christianity, formed another source of literary propaganda. MMO •MaMMI •■••■ MIMINf_ripl••••_ It is said that when the first (11, ==.1 ■ 11•1•1 Wi g .Mlial•• ■ ••• L.= OMMI ■••■■ •••• ■ •1•1 • AMMAN , Jews went about preaching Chris- •■•■• aMIL•mam tianity, they found awaiting them close of day, We light one can • die more, To eel • e•brate a .ictory gay, Won in the day. of yore. throughout the Mediterranean > > world large numbers of Jews and > > > I ' I 1 I I other people who had already been MM. 1,•••••••• M.-at M/MMOMI ■ 111•• MIMI influenced by the thoughts pro- AMR •MMI MAN Mil ■ IM•• ■ •11 ME= CEP AM M il OM MM-••• NO , claimed by l'hilo, by the sect of • 1, 11. Ithe Essenes, by the books of the •r«. Apocrypha and the books of the I Apocalypse that told of the new kingdom that was about to dawn Ord _. on earth. The doctrines of Juda- --ar, MMIMII ■■ ism had even made their way into the highest circles of Rome. Aqui- A Hanukkah song for she ehildten, reprinted through courtesy of Yonne brae/ /Vega:Ise, December 1929 Isom,, las, of the Roman nobility, trans- lated the Bible into Greek, for the lytes. The Bible presents evidences benefit of cultured Romans. It is reported that Gamaliel, the great of both tendencies. The national- Jewish teacher of the first con- istic bias is revealed in the t test against an edict forbidding of Ezra, who orders his people to Jewish proselytizing, which was Secretary of the American Pro.Falasha Committee. put aside their strange wives. The under consideration following the conversion to Judaism of Flavius more universalistic thought is ex- By RABBI J . MAX WEIS Clemens, the cousin of the em- In the midst of recent discus- of having been divinely select pressed in the Book of Jonah and peror. When Rome, the conqueror ed sions about _Christian missionizing for a mission to mankind is like a in the story of Ruth. The startling of the state of Judea, and Chris. among thjrZews, it might be inter- bomb set to go off at a specific (I fact is today accepted that the tianity became one, through Con- , eating Weak ourselves whether the time. An explosion, in some for l'harisaic rabbis of Palestine even stantine's recognition of Christian- 'Jew, who has expressed his resent- or other, is bound to come, • sent missionaries into distant lands ity as the religion of Rome, the ment over this activity, ever en- If we scan the world today • , a each year. The Maccabean king, Church became militant toward gaged in missionary work. One shall find in China the very la st John Ilyrcanus, had gone is far as the Jew, and Jewish missionary would expect missionary y e 0 remnants of a people that ob- forcibly to convert to Judaism, activity of all forms practically be a logical outcome of the Jew's served Judaism for many cell. following a military victory, the ceased. belief that he had been chosen by It is quite evident that the far- , people in the land of Idumea, to God to spread the true knowledge thries. A large collection of their the south of Palestine, from which flung reach of Judaism can be ex- of Him among the peoples of the literature and prayer books was plained, not by the story of the group came the most ruinous of recently acquired by the Hebrew earth. Union College of Cincinnati. In Israel's rulers, King Herod, whose Lost Ten Tribes, which no serious Does it not seem amazing that a far-off India, in the city of Bom- Idumean family had achieved po-I student of Jewish history accepts people with this sort of belief did' bay, one meets the Bene-Israel, a litical power and royal marriage today, but by a definite Jewish mis- not become militant, to the exten dark-skinned people that practices with the 111accabeans. sionary zeal, richly varied in its of using the sword, like Moham the Jewish faith. More potent than the acceptance forms of expression. inedans, to compel others to ac In Jerusalem and Arabia we , of proselyte, or the compulsory cept its faith? That sort of idea have large numbers of Yemenite , adoption of Judaism through mili- Jews, who show definite traces of a tary force, was the literary pro- racial mixture with the Arabs. A paganda in which the ancient Jew- Season's Greetings few months ago the world was ish world engaged. When the in- startled by the story of a French fluence of Greek culture, in the Season's Greetings and aviator who, in flying over the Sa..i wake of Alexander the Great, was hark desert, came upon a settle. moving across the Mediterranean Best Wishes ment of people who regarded world, the Jew produced count- themselves as the only Jews left on less works that enabled the Greek earth. and the Roman to gain the Jewish In Abyssinia, in central East point of view. The Septuagint, Africa, there are 100,000 to 150,• the Greek translation of the Bible, 000 Falashas, a dark-skinned peo was but. one instance. Philo, the pie that has followed the faith of great UeArish philosopher of Alex- E. M. WATTERS, Prea. Judaism for at least 2,000 years andria, on the eve of the birth of Christianity, wrote for the non- Shortly more than a year ago, Painting Contractors spoke with a Jewish merchant ., Jewish world of his day with such from Afghanistan in Southern power that his influence on Chris- Asia, who described to me the tian thought has persisted to this Melrose 4212 wretched plight of thousands in day. The books of the Apocrypha, his country who fear openly to without which it is quite impossib 4628 St. Aubin A Architectural Bronze, avow their Judaism. Right in our without which it is quite impos- own New York City, in the Harlem I Brass and Iron district, there is a congregation oil Negro Jews, who wrongly claim TABLET WORK A an Abyssinian origin. They were SPECIALTY most likely taught their Judaism' by Portuguese Jewish masters inl the West Indies. Doors, Grates, Grilles, Host' did Judaism make its way Wickets and Railings around the world? On the sur- face, it seems that we have a prob- lem in explaining how it happened Patented Interchangeable An examination of the literature! Brans. House Numbers and records of the Jew shows no! "Jerusalem Society for Promoting! Judaism Among the Heathen," as Alterations of All Kinds a counterpart of the "London So. ; ciety for Promoting Christianity Among the Jews." We have no I Glendale 5399 "Home Missions Board" or a "For- eign Missions Board." We had no' 35-37 West Jefferson Ave. 4440 Grand River St. Patrick to convert the Celts of Cadillac 4185 Ireland. We had no special order, of Dominicans to accompany a Marco Polo on his world travels. , We produced no Francis Xavier who did not rest until he had plant. ed the cross in Japan. And we had no David Livingstone to penetrate Chanukah Greetings into the heart of Africa. The incontrovertible fact re- mains that the Jew did engage in missionary work. If the Jew had not possessed a missionary spirit, there would have been no Chris- tianity today and no Mohamme- danism. These two religions are the most potent answers to the' ' question of Jewish missionary ac- tivity. They are the ineradicable HOWARD II. CRAWFORD, Pres. evidences of the mood and spirit Complete Family Service of the ancient Jew, who through , these two daughter religions was Wet Wash and Rough Dry able to overthrow the religions of 2209 Fisher Bldg. Empire 3359 Ancient Greece, of world-conquer- All Flat Work Ironed ing Rome, and of the keen and in- telligent Arabic tribes. This sweeping change in the re- ligious map of the ancient world did not come about mechanically. The Jewish personal factor and the Jewish group factor were con- stantly at work. Granting that no "Board of Missions" existed in Je- rusalem to control these activities, the missionary ferment was cease- lessly operating. One-Day Service We ought to explain at this , point that the Jews were by no We Use the Soft Water System means a unit on the subject of ac- Special Discounts on Cash and cepting proselytes from other races. The extreme nationalists , We Buy Scrap Iron, Scrap Steel, Structural Iron, Carry aimed to keep their people intact Copper, Brass and Aluminum. and unmixed with foreign units. Those who possessed a more uni- 555 Farnsworth WE SOLICIT YOUR INQUIRIES versal outlook could see no objec- tion to admitting foreign people , 9100 Hall Street into the Jewish community either , Whittier 0672 as half-proselytes or full prose- 5 Season's Greetings and Best Wishes MOSCOW.—(J. T. A.)--Jews in a city in Manchuria were the victims of a pogrom perpetrated by former Russian White Guards, re- ports received here state. A num- ber of Jewish casualties occurred. The attack upon the Jews seas made in the course of the White Guard retreat. 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