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THEY ALSO SERVE
f)LTPD1T, /Els IS/leIRON ICU
UNJUST LAWS AFFECTING JEWISH
WOMEN
ly transcribed the entire services
exhaust the catalogue of women al
for the holydoys and Rabbi Aaron-
disabilities under the Jewish law,
Rohn used this book when he con-
but if something could be done to
By JUDITH I. STEIN
remedy these mentioned, the miti-
ducted services at Columbia, Mo.,
Rabbi Michael Aaronsohn, field
gation of others might follow. It
during the Iloly Days.
By C. DAVIDSON
representative of the Union of
seems that the very laws that were
This is believed to have been the
made in order to preserve the soli-
American Hebrew Congregations,
first time that services were read
has just been presented with a
In order to preserve the integ- trip, for the express purpose of darity of the home may make for I
from a Brailled prayer book in the
Union Prayer Book containing eve-
history of the synagogual service, rity of the home—the bulwark of exacting release from her brother- its disintegration unless something
ning services for the Sabbath. The
and the prayer books are the only Judaism—laws in reference to the in-law. She had been a bride of is done to meet changing condi- I
Many Jewish women's or-
ones written in Braille known to "mothers of Israel" are very atria. only a few weeks when her hus-
be in existence. gent. Seemingly these laws mili. band died and she had an opportu- ganizations all over the world have
tate against their freedom of wo- nity of remarrying if she could ob- passed resolutions, at sonic time
Louis Braille.
or other, to put themselves on rec-
The man responsible for this men, but in reality they are prob. tain "Halitzah." The brother-in-
great blessing to the blind was I ably responsible in large measure law perceived an opportunity of ord as favoring legislation for the
amelioration of laws concerning I
extracting
money
from
the
dis-
Louis Braille. He himself lost his I for the survival and comparative
sight at the age of 3, and at 10, a! purity of the Jewish race. Cer- tressed woman and insisted on reed in securing the sympathy and
Jewish
women, but unless they sue-
compensation.
The
whole
matter
he entered an institu- tainly they were not intended to be
f
Wn
unjust when they were first enact- resulted in heartache and expense the help of the rabbis their posi-
lion for the blind in Paris.
tion
will
remain a hopeliss one. 1
When t eewsa aane- which could so easily have been
Ile became proficielt in music and drin, the interpretation of the law avoided had a clause been inserted
(Copyriiiht, Isso, J. T. Al
became organist in a Paris church. was fairly elastic and individual in her marriage contract, (and
At
such a precedent exists in which
blind, and while an instructor he cases could be adjudged on their "the brother of brothers-in-law ob- QUITS AS REGISTRAR
own merit.
m. e
Thus arbitrary as the
devised and perfected this system
. ght seem there was a pog- ligate themselves to free her by OF H. U. C. TO DEVOTE
of point writing for literature and' si
law nu o f • being mitigated. F or Halitzah without demands or
HIMSELF TO TEACHING
music known as the Braille system. the Jews who, nowaday, have no claims upon her.
It is now used almost exclusively scruples in disregarding the old
The
problem
of
the
"Agunah"—
CINCINNATI.—After If years !
in institutions for the blind
Louis code there is no problem, but a the deserted wife—is similar to of service in the office, Dr. Henry
throughout the world,
Braille died at the age of 43 and large majority who still adhere to that which brought forth the Englander has resigned as regis-
the letter and the spirit must often "Enoch Arden" enactment in many trar of the Hebrew Union College:
little is known of him but the her!- endure great hardship.
countries. The late war intensi- here to give all his time to study
rage which he left—this marvel.
In these modern times when fled the tragedy that this law en. and teaching as a member of the
ous system of point writing.
Iwomen all over the world have sue- tails. In Poland alone there were
Three years ago the National ceeded in emancipating themselves over ten thousand Jewish women,
...
Federation of Temple Sisterhoods 1—in abrogating old laws and in some of them quite young, who
elected
to add the department of having new ones in their favor could bring no proof of their hue-
FIRE BRICK — SEWER PIPE
Braille transcribing to its program enacted—it seems incongruous band's death and therefore could
—its aim being to develop a Braille that the Jewish woman whose po- never remarry. Many of the misa-
WALL COPING — FLUE LININGS
of Jewish
content and
to always a lit- ing men may actually have lost
1 library
: aition
in society
was
! furnish religious school text-books ; tie better than that of other wo- their lives in the war while others
GENERAL BUILDING MATERIALS
in Braille for Jewish children who men outside the Jewish faith, has perhaps seized the opportunity to
are sightless.
been unable to free herself legally disappear often leaving their forth.
from irksome Jewish laws due to lies behind destitute. This problem
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When two men quarrel, he who the fact that there is no Jewish of desertion is not peculiar to our
in first silent is the better man.— law-making power to which she can own time. It has existed for cen.
appeal. For a long time Jewry, as turies but formerly it was possible
' Talmud.
a whole, has been looking forward to trace the husband and finally
- - — --- — to a Sanhedrin as of yore, but force a divorce from him. The
there seems little hope that such a story is told of Solomon Maimon
! body will be formed in the near in the eighteenth century whose
future. Nevertheless the Jewish wife, after sending messengers af-
law is elastic enought to bs circum- ter him from city to city, finally
'vented if the rabbis would court followed him personally and forci-
to sonic decision with the means at bly dragged him before the Beth
I their disposal without a Sanhedrin. Din ad succeded in obtaining a
Primarily it is important that divorce. Such a task would be al.
the women themselves be informed most impossible in our day, since
as to their status under the Jewish distances are greater and a Beth
law. They must interest them- Din not always conveniently Is.'
selves in Jewish legislation for rated. In order to prevent such a I
their own benefit. Often they have state of affairs the "Ketubah"
p
a solution , by
Y hav-
paid dearly in acquiring this a in resents
DR. HENRY ENGLANDER
r.
knowledge, and it is much simpler ing a clause inserted as follows,.
not
take
a
sea
voy- j institution's faculty. Dr. Englan-
to know the difficulties beforehand "That he shall .
distant
unless der is professor of medieval Jew- cRt
1..
than to learn by bitter experience. a ge
Once the majority are aware of the he leaves her a bill of divorcement ish Exegesis at the College.
pitfalls there will be a concerted conditional upon a specified time
The Board of Governors accepted
effort to remedy the evils. for his return.
the resignation with regret and ex-
The divorce question on the pressed appreciation of his services.
The laws regarding marriage
Dr. Englander was president of
and divorce are particularly i n whole is a very serious one for the
need of revision, but in view of woman. According to the Jewish I the Ilebrew Union College Alumni
the fact that this cannot at present law a man can obtain a divorce I Association 1920-22 and Rabbi in
Come to pass, a preventive meas- without even stating a cause, but , Ligonier, Ind., 1901-05 and in l'rov-
ure might be adopted in drawing his wife can secure one only by I idence, R. I., 1905-10, when he join- I
up the "Ketubah," or marriage first getting his consent even when ed the II. U. C. Faculty. Ile was ■
contract, in such a way that the grave charges are proven against I aceociate editor of the Jewish Con-
wife will be protected in accord. him. Formerly it was possible for e servator in Chicago 1901-05,
Designers and Builders of
once with modern conditions. The the Beth Din to force an agree-
rabbinical lawpermits agreements meet from him, but now in many
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between husband and wife in the lands this is impossible. Moreover
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matter of their mutual relationa even when a ,e —aJewis h
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vorce--is
obtained
those
ignorant
I and such agreement is binding and
valid provided it is made in proper of the laws of the country in which JEWISH ENCYCLOPEDIA
they
dwell,
to
not
realize
that
they
!legal form and not contrary to
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Biblical law or public weal. Spe- are still • bound unless divorced by
also,
e
Julian Morgenstern, president of :■ •
cial clauses can be inserted in the
i : the Hebrew Union College, will be I Si
Ketubah and many old Ketubot their ignorance find themselves in
SOLE MANUFACTURERS
Conversely—and I editor of the Bible department, ...-E,
I attest the fact that this has been great trouble.
AND DISTRIBUTORS OF'
this is a trick sometimes practiced' and Prof. Jacob Lauterbach will' 4 •.
done.
a designing husband on an in- edit the rabbinics department of
I In reference to "Halitzah"—the by
nocent wife—if a divorce is grant- the new Jewish Encyclopedia, it =.• ■ •,,
I release of the childless widow—a
by the civil court, thewomanI was explained here March 19 by 4:.
woman is cometimes compelled to ed
according to the Jewish law i s still' Rabbi Isaac Landman, editor of I. C S-':
undergo great humiliation. Ac- bound unless she e
1
secures a et. the new encyclopedia, at a lunch-1 'C',
cording to the law if her husband This evil pactice has
grown to such eon tendered to him by Maurice c'.:
'dies without issue, her husband's an extent that a movement is no
vv , Friedberg, an executive of the .4 4',i
brother is compelled to marry her on foot to get the consent of civil
Union of American Hebrew Con-
I unless he releases her from the courts that they will grant no final gregations and one of the gover-
obligation.
She
may
experience
OC:=,e
!
decree to a Jew unless he presents nors of the Hebrew Union College.
difficulty in obtaining the release, his wife with a "Get."
I for large sums of money are occa-
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In the Orient where polygamy is •
sionally demanded or a long jour-
ney may be necessary in order to still permitted by law, a clause has
automatically
been
inserted
in
Passover
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meet her brother-in-law, as the
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money she could ill afford for the consent."
As before mentioned there are
many Jews who take it upon them-
book was transcribed in Braille by
Mrs. Johanna Oppenheimer of Chi-
cago, for Rabbi Aaronsohn, who
lost his sight in the World War.
Beautifully bound in flexible
leather, the prayer book, contain-
ing 95 Brailled pages, was present-
ed to Rabbi Aaronsohn in Chicago.
Mrs. Oppenheimer had previous.
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a new home
visualizing the
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