• Til PAGE SIX 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 HOGARTH 1175 14290 MEYERS ROAD 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 I MORGENSTERN TO EDIT • between husband and wife in the lands this is impossible. Moreover • matter of their mutual relationa even when a ,e —aJewis h ! BIBLE SECTION OF NEW 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 Special Machinery and Designing CINCINNATI.-1.1. T. A.1---Dr. ''';.:. 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- ♦ 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 Greetings meet her brother-in-law, as the TELEPHONES: ceremony must be performed in every "Ketubah" expressly stating, person. A case point came to "That he may not marry nor take DETROIT: LONGFELLOW 7535 the notice of the writer only a few during his wife's lifetime and while ROYAL OAK 1080 years ago when a young woman sr. she is with him, another wife, wife- rived from England, spending slave, or concubine except with her 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. 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