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Sabbath Readings of the Torah
Pentateuchal portion- Num. 4:21-7:m9,
Prophetical portion---Judges 13:2-25.
June 6, 1930
Sivan 10, 5690
Non-Jewish Gifts to Jewish Causes.
Should Jewish institutions encourage
gifts from non-Jews?
The formation, in Boston, of a non-Jew-
ish committee to aid the Associated Jew-
ish Philanthropies of that city in raising
$250,000 to cover its deficit aroused an in-
teresting discussion on this question. Moses
Mishel started a dispute when he charged:
Ne Jews of America always prided our-
selves upon the fact that we take care of our
needy ones, and Boston, to my knowledge, is
the first big city in the country that broke the
old tradition. It is indeed a disgrace to our
community that our philanthropies are over-
looked while we spend hundreds of thousands
of dollars on golf clubs and in other places
where we feed our bodies and neglect our
souls.
To this Sidney Dreyfus, chairman of
Boston's $250,000 Emergency Campaign,
replied:
Instead of criticizing what we are doing,
let Mr. Mishel review and realize the •facts
which led up to the organization of such a
non-Jewish committee. He knows that the
campaign for this year's expense's has been
going on for months, and yet we have not been
able to meet the quota—the irreducible mini-
mum necessary for the maintenance of our
present charities. Some of our institutions
are among the finest in the country, and yet we
must continuously beg for their proper main-
tenance!
Charity knows no race, creed or color. My
personal charity list contains no less than 73
organizations, embracing every kind of charity
appeal for all people, regardless of their re-
ligion. Since 1917, no appeal has been made
to the non-Jews of the city for any kind of con-
tribution to Jewish charity. On the other
hand. many Christian institutions are con•
atantly appealing to us for help, and many of
us are glad to respond.
Here is an argument in which it is pos-
sible to say to the contending factions:
"You are both right." Surely Mr. Mishel
was justified in taking Jews to task for
spending their fortunes on private club-
houses at a time when our communal, insti-
tutions are suffering. At the same time Mr.
Dreyfus was equally as justified in pointing
to the aid that is constantly and consist-
ently given by Jews to non-Jewish institu-
tions, thus warranting a return of interest
and courtesy on the part of Gentiles.
And yet Mr. Dreyfus admits negligence
on the part of Jews when he states that a
campaign of many months, to wipe out the
existing deficit, has failed. This gives
weight to the charges of Mr. Mishel and is
an accusation against the failure of our
people to honor their obligations to their
oven community, Many Jews who consid-
er it an honor to be called upon to aid
Christian movements are misers when it
comes to Jewish charity. Surely it can't
be denied that our obligations are first to
our own, and only after our own instant-
tions have been taken care of are we to
share our neighbors' wants.
The rebuke against the formation of a
non-Jewish committee in the Boston emer-
gency campaign was ill-founded only be-
cause the action of the non-Jews was taken
not on the invitation of the Jewish com-
munity but was a voluntary offer of public-
spirited Christians. To slight such an offer
is an act of ungraciousness. It would have
been equally as ungracious, to quote a lo-
ud instance, to refuse the voluntary $1,000
gift of Tracy McGregor to the Detroit Al-
lied Jewish ('ampaign. But to conduct a
drive for such funds is wrong, just as it is
wrong for Jews to give to non-Jewish
causes before they have cared for their
own,
Which Class Are You In?
In a recent interview with a replesenta-
tive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
Wickham Steed, noted British journalist.
placed Jews in four categories. "World
Jewry," said Mr. Steed, "can be divided
into four types: 'Daylight Jews'. i. e.. the
nationalist. Zionist element which sees
things in a clear light; 'Twilight Jews', who
try to hide their Jewishness; Midnight
Jews', those who fear for their shadows;
'Benighted Jews', who do not at all com-
prehend their position in the world,"
Not a bad classification, is it? Even if
you would substitute for "Zionist" another
term to denote loyalty to Jewry, it is a good
classification. Now, then, which class are
you in?
Mr. Steed, it will be remembered, made
a study of anti-Semitism in many European
countries. He met Dr. Theodor Herz] in
1896 and first thought him a dreamer, but
when he realized the effect the 1ferzlian
Zionist program had on the Jewish youth
he joined the increasing ranks of Christian
Zionists who appreciated that Zionism "put
a new strength, a new dignity, a new sin-
cerity, into the Jewish soul, that it had
straightened bent Jewish backs."
mi■t■was■H.. 1
r
Scanning the
The statements made to the editor, first
by Mr. Frank Cody, Superintendent of Pub-
lic Schools of Detroit, then by Mr. Frank
Egleston Robbins, assistant to Dr. Alexan-
der G. Ruthven, President of the University
of Jlichignan, seem to point to the cloning
of the time when Hebrew Will be taught
in our high schools. Mr. Cody's statement
recognized the importance of Hebrew as a
language rich in literature and therefore
calling for its inclusion in high school cur-
ricula, and the only obstacle he saw in its
catty was the financial situation of the
school system in Detroit. Mr. Robbins as-
sured its that the University of Michigan
would accept Hebrew toward fulfilling the
foreign language requirement for admis-
sion.
And yet modern Hebrew, as taught in
Jewish schools and used by Jews in and out
of Palestine, is subject to struggle for IT•-
°guidon by American institutions of learn-
ing. Mr. Robbins' statement that Hebre•
would be acceptable as an admission sub-
ject by the University of :Vlichigan is never-
theless qualified by the following reserva-
tion; "This is on the assumption of course
that we are speaking of the Classical He-
brew."
This reservation means that the !Mira-
ists will have a battle on their hands. Be-
cause the Classical Hebrew spoken of by
Mr. Robbins is the Hebrew which is being
taught as the dead language of an ancient
people. While the Hebrew as taught in
our own Hebrew schools is the revived
tongue of It living people. It is the lan-
guage of the Bible removed from the mus-
eum and made to function as a living real-
ity. It is as such that we hope to see the
langauge taught in our high schools,
Horizon
This would be a sensible argument in
favor of Jews retaining their Jewish names,
The Cohens and the Levys and the Abra-
hams and the Gideans, when they adopt
names to disguise their Jewishness, betray
their people. But what about Jews who
come here to adopt the United States as
their homeland, but whose names are nev-
ertheless foreign-sounding, rev - eating not
an ancestry of prophets and priests but of
people who at one time or another massa-
cred Jews? Are we to blame these whose
names end with 'vitch and - 'sky for adopt-
ing a name to correspond with the nomen-
clature of the adopted country?
Somehow we fail to agree with those who
place a label of treason upon name-chang-
ers, in instances where the names were
originally non-Jewish, and where the in-
tention is to get the name to correspond
with their newly-adopted Americanism.
Only when the priestly name of Cohen, or
the traditional name of the Levites, is given
up, it is difficult to excuse the action.
This' business of changing of names is
not without its humor. Our readers will
no doubt get a kick out of the following
Ilea's
item that appeared in the New York
Berald-Tribune:
Erin: the non,. Itabitsky to Babbitt
Was the
,•,' •
71 at Elizabeth, N..1.. by Solo-
!
yea-s old, and his two broth-
-. iie,1 Max, 21. The brothers
• y Judge Lloyd Thomp-
-
itirt and asked that the
- facilit•ite our business
r read the novel 'Babbitt,'
t ypi•al go-getter business
Iiiibitsky was asked.
a too, busy. but I've heard about
- • tepla-ol.
"I'm with a shoe concern
• ,k
0- 'II
stores in New York. New
rsev ar .
I e •
and if the original
Babbitt get s :i•
ts.
r than we do hell have to
hurry"
s
I
Solomon Halt • v - or Babbitt—told the
court that in sigr:• g the charter of the shoe
rorpiration he used the name Babbitt. His
ir.thir Abraham is associated with him while
Max is manager of a chain grocery in Roselle.
N. ,i., near Linden. Ile said he might as well
be rallied Babbitt -everybody was calling
hint
that anyway.
They were not joir.eil in the petitiiin by a
Morris Babitsky, a minor,
student in a school of chiropody
in c hicago. It would have been necessary to
have named a guardian for him for the change.
i•ll•10,-r
brother,
cab ,, .w a
But the question remains: what if Ka-
botyhnik does become t'abot, and liabitsky
Babbitt, when the intonation of the voice
will not yield to legal change, and the curve
of the nose refuses to relax, and that well-
savoring pudding known as "kugel" con-
tinues to draw to the Sabbath table?
CONSIDER Dr. Clarence True 'Wilson of the
Nlethealist Temperance Board the type of citizen
who is a menace to the nation. I ant not consider-
ing at the moment the liquor question. But any
man who will go to such lengths as are indicated in
the reports of his group regarding the recent presi-
dential election to introduce the questions of class
and religious hatreds is a greater menace to the
welfare of the nation than the traffic he so fanati-
cally opposes. Ile indicates that the Catholics and
the Jews and "foreigners" and what he insinuates
are the elements in the population opposed to a
Christian standard of conduct (which of course
means the standard of the Bishop Cannons and the
Dr. True Wilsons and the Dr. McBrieles), united to
put Smith into office. Dr. Wilson is a fanatic and
nothing else seems to matter in this world so far as
he is concerned other than the question of prohibi-
tion. And it is astonishing for a minister to so far
forget himself as to excite religious dissension and
hatreds. The report that has been published regard-
ing the attitude of the Jews in the• presidential elec-
tion is a malicious falsehood. If the Jews had been
engaged in a conspiracy with the Catholics to elect
Smith the story of New 'York state would have been
a far different one Ile refers to the fact that tin e
or two leading rabbis were drafted into service to
"whip the race" into line. This statement is another
lie out of the whole cloth. If he refers to Rabbi
Stephen Wise as one of the rabbis he knows, or
ought to know, that Dr. Wise is a Democrat, that
years ago Dr. Wise spoke at a Democratic conven-
tion. And that whatever activity in the Hoover-
Smith campaign was his was as a citizen and a
Democrat and not as a Jew. Ile never played
church politics, as did Dr. True Wilson and his
crowd; he never appealed to the Jews as Jews, as
did the fanatics of the anti-Catholic group. It is
no wonder that the senate was shocked by the
"revelations" in the report of Wilson. Talk about
an alliance of church and state! Its outstanding;
champions are the men like Wilson and Cannon
who go about trying to instil the poison of religioals
prejudice in the minds of the people! This i.c writ-
ten mot as a Jew but as a citizen of the United
States who deplores the abuses to which certain
elements in the population are using the power
which is theirs. Letthe senate takeup the task
of investigating and making Wilson PROVE the
statements he has made.
Time to award that prize in our
national joke finals. I shall ha ,
to ask the forbearance of the rea ,
es for a little lime, owing to II ,
absence from the city of one of tl o
judges. Announcement of ll
award, however, will at the mo
not be delayed beyond two week
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PRETTY GIRLS, HOT STOVES
AND RELATIVITY
I have hong been waiting for
simpl e definition of relativity.
Now it's out and sure enough tls
great Einstein himself has givi.
it. It is said that when Einstein
first announced his theory, he was
boonibarded to such an extent by
questions as to just what relatil
ity is, that he hired a girl to ans•,
the people flocking to his (lomici-•
and he instructed. her, when s I
other efforts to elucidate tro
theory failed, to define relativit..
to-wit:
"If you sit on a pretty girl's hp
for an hour, it seems like a min-
ute. If you sit on a hot stove to r
a minute, it seems like an hour,"
Which goes to prove that Nis
great physicist is a great humorist
as well
CLOSE YOUR DOOR, PROFES-
SOR
At last we RCP getting a morn
detailed picture of this greatest
thinker of our present day.
Ein-
stein, we hear further, is absent-
minded, and (often forgets to close
the door---so the American Maga-
zine correspondent declares—whoa
he takes a bath.
Our own Benjamin Franklin
had a similar weakness. Frank-
lin Was a staunch exponent of the
virtues of the air bath—Franklin
would of souse (ordinarily serial',
himself when exposing the totality
of his body to the radiations of the
ozone, but aometimes he would
forget, and the neighbors would
pass and say, "Well, of course, its
Benjamin — he's a little, you
know, •uckoo."
WE'RE LIKE THAI, TOO
And Einstein further
like order, except in his thinking.
Ile likes to feel that each new da•
is a new adventure, and not to be
bound by any premeditated and
planned designs. His rule, as he
exiolains it, is to have no rules.
Which recalls the similar advice
of Walt Whitman: "Take my ad-
vice—don't take advice."
A BIOGRAPHY of Meyer London has been written
by Harry Rogooff, managing editor of the Jew-
ish Daily Forward. It is called "Meyer London—
An Epic of the East Side." I shall look forward
with great pleasure to reading this volume because
I had an extraordinary regard for Meyer London.
Ile was the only Socialist congressman from New
York, and a man of remarkable ability and charac-
ter. London was not merely liked but beloved for
his many fine qualities. When I mention London
somehow I always think of Morris Hilquit, another
high-minded citizen who makes us believe that
Socialists are pretty decent folk.
I
I have long contemplated offering you my
congratulations upon your wisdom in advocat-
ing that the Jews should try to come to an
understanding with the Arabs in Palestine by
means of compromise. The paragraph in your
last week's "Random Thoughts" telling of the
visit to your office of our mutual friend, Jacob
Landau, and the discussion that ensued,
prompted one to carry through my wish without
further delay. NOW while I am on the subject,
let me relate to you a recent occurrence in
Chicago which proves the need of continuing to
your vies's on the Arab-Jewish question.
THERE'S MANY A SLIP—
Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver spoke here a few
days ago at a big mass meeting in behalf of
the Jewish National Fund. And it is not neces-
sary for ne to say that his appeal to our peo-
ple to help rehabilitate our ancient homeland
was very effective. Ile spoke with his charac-
teristic warmth of Palestine and its needs with-
out once mentioning the Arabs. On the (other
hand, our local Zionist leaders, who followed
the gifted rabbi on the program, did not follow
h is example but instead quarreled with our
cousins, the Sons of Ishmael—thus pouring oil
on an already all-too-dangerous fire.
SUNDAY SCHOOL SCINTILLA.
TIONS
IN A LINE OR TWO
The author of the anonyirvus
"Ex-Baby" is Eben Kendall.
Emanuel F:isenberg, press u•-nt
is bound for Europe, who ri he
plans to write a play, on :iss s•-
ment of Producer Charles Er- in.
Harry Glucksman, genial snd
efficient director of Jewish Wel-
fare Board, of late has been steep.
ing himself in dense ultra-Joosish
atmosphere of Second avenue—
and points East (side I.
Its "olav hashalom" with the
,lowish Outlook of New Yerk-
the second effort at a newspapi r in
New York by Dr. Brill. some ...me
with the late Tageblatt.
The author of "Watch Y , iur
Margin." issued under a pseu-
donym. is Jessse B. Lilienthal. v e•e-
president of a bank in San Fran-
Simon & Schuster, publishers,
issued only 27 books last vo-ar.
The S. & S. firm works on the pol-
icy of issuing few tomes, but Imp
do believe in making a noise about
these.
A swank edition of "Prologue
in Hell." by Alfred Kreymborg, is
off the press.
Roger Woolh. Kahn can be seen
mostly at the flying fields these
days perfecting himself in all the
newest lore of ether sailing.
Maurice Rosenthal, big jewelry
man, has left for Europe to nego-
tiate for the purchase of the how-
els of the late Sultan of Turkey.
A British syndicate is offering the
tidy runt of 50 millions for the or-
naments. Rosenthal has ossas, s ,d
an American syndicate, which will
b loats Alder, realtor and bui'der.
said to he the first builder who
ever returned unexpended
in a government contract, ha• roar-
chase,' a whole block on 11'311
is •&-.1"4."Fe-ro'r.-'1'e'r.T.I',Trre
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HAVE received a most interesting letter from
Mr. S. 13. Kornaiko, a well-known writer of Chi-
cago, who I trust will pardon me for taking the lib-
erty of publishing it in this column:
The Jewish Meneken, Dr. S. M.
Melarnmed, is back in New York
for a visit. At the Yiddish literati
rendezvous—the Cafe Royal—we
glimpsed him, and one of his
friends with him, and detailed to
us this story.
For all his brilliance, Dr. Melam-
med stutters a bit. One day he
was shopping for a pair of shoes.
"How much are these shoes?'
asked the doctor.
"Eight dollars," replied the dealer.
"I'll give you s-s•S•S nine," he
wound up — the seven just mould
not come out.
Someone (ought to get up a col-
lection of bright child remarks at
Sunday school. Sara Fos, who
peditgoogued at a Dallas Sabbath
school, convinced us the other day
that the flashes of wit let loo s, by
these youngsters are worthy of
gathering. Verily, out of the
mouths of babes cometh wisilem.
On one occasion, Miss FOX asked
the children what Ruth said to
Naomi, when the latter suggested
that Ruth depart from her own
hearth.
A little boy arose and jazzily
sang the answer: "I want r,, go
where you go—play where you
play—and I'll be happy."
At another time, this venerable
Sunday School marm was telling
the children of all the neighbors of
the Hebrews in Palestine.
"There were the Hittite , . the
Arnorites, the Canaanites-- -
"The mosquito-bites." chirped
up one of the youngsters, much
embarassing all the decorum of
the Sabbath School.
By PIERRE VAN PAASSEN
I
WE'LL TELL ANON
Shakespeare said there is nothing in a
name, but judging, by the way many Jews
rush to have their Jewishly-sounding names
changed there must be a whole lot to nom-
enclature.
A number of writers have recently dis-
cussed this tendency at name-changing in
a series of articles in the Jewish press, and
a writer in the Yiddish Forward went so
far as to charge that the changing, of one's
name is a sign of the person's loving
ashamed of his race. Said Nathaniel %al-
owitz in the Forward:
are, all of us, either foreigner, or the
descendants of foreigners; in every instance
our surname "betrays" the country whence ire
01 Our
ancestors emigrated. The United States
is made up of many people; the Yankee, in
spite of the Ku Klux Klan, has not exclusive
title to this sail. Even the proud Cabot's of
Boston trace their ancestry to John and Sebas-
tian Cabot, who were Italians in the service of
an English king, just as Christopher Columbus
was an Italian. When Levy becomes Le Vey,
does he thereby get a French ancestry? When
Schwartz becomes Blackman, does he at the
sante time acquire an Anglo-Saxon family
tree?
Charles H. Joseph
By DAVID SCHWARTZ
What's In a Name?
We
PASSING MY WINDOW
HAVE received a letter concerning the old sub-
ject of missionaries to the Jews. My views are
rather well-known. It has always been a matter
of keen regret that to many worthy Christian
clergymen and Christian laymen and laywomen have
been influenced to spend their time, their money
and the money of their organizations in chasing
such a shadow. Any number of America's most out-
standing Christian ministers deplore such activity
just as much as I do, They believe that the Jew has
a good religion and that he should be left alone in
the worship of his religion. I have never believed
that ALL TRUTH is the sole possession of any indi-
vidual, any group, any church. It is quite natural
that the devotee of any religion should feel that his
or hers is the only true religion. But I have always
felt that before Christians should seek to convert
otherso Christianity they should concentrate on
the Gentiles. It was estimated at one time that in
a certain "missionary campaign" to the Jews it cost
about $15,000 to "save each
N"•o good
soul a ' great
Christian friends (and I Is have
many
Christian friends, both in the clergy and in lay
circled, I know and have known all my life thou-
sands and thousands of Jews and I have never met
or saw more than three "converted" Jews and they
were "professionals." By that I mean they were
professionally engaged in conversion work. So I
know how futile the whole thing is. Yes, I have a
communication before me right now of a Jew
"going Christian"—what I mean, this man joined
a church because he was ashamed of the tact of
being a Jew and wanted to gain social recognition
in Christian circles, But he hasn't even a soul
worthy of the name. Sometimes we find such Jews
in Christian ranks, but it is rare to find a Jew who
genuinely becomes a convert to Christianity far
religion's sake. In Europe they become Christians
to escape "Christian" persecution—what a mockery!
A
FAITHFUL reader of Random Thoughts living
in Philadelphia writes to correct my spelling of
Judge Cardozo's name. I spelt it "Cardoza." I ore
always glad to know that I am checked up so care-
fully, as it will make me watch my pen! Speaking
DR. GEORGE J. SAYLIN. who contributes a col-
umn in the B'nai B'rith Messenger of Los An-
geles. under the name of "The Lancet," is an optim-
ist. Ile would have Jewish education sponsored in
this country by the B'nai B'rith and he suggests
that it would merely involve the raising of dues to
$15 a year, which would raise an additional total
sum of about 550.000.
I can readily see that Dr.
Saylin has never been either the secretary or the
treasurer of a B'rith bodge. I recall secre-
taries that I knew in the good old days running
around trying to get the members to pay fr.
a year
—and "arrears" used to be their nightmare. The
idea of the I. 0, B. B. sponsoring such a movement
is a gam( one, as it should he properly a B'nai B'rith
anti. its- . But I imagine with the Hillel Foundation
to after and a few. "[her activities of national
•,-, , toc the -infer has its hand full and then some.
'I .1: T , e,. '1' •I: • 'I '
'1. • '1'
.1.
It was only fit that the Duce should
have his chance to shine forth. The
appointment of a number of
prominent Italian Jews to the eco-
tannic council of the country led
to the disceovery.
31 r. Hoover
will probably be next for appoint-
ing Herman Bernstein to the post
MEYER W. WEISGAL
of American minister to Albania.
The editor of the New Palestine
. And then why not the Pope?
official organ of the Zionist ()rpm-
Conte to think of it, General Lu•
izatioon, Meyer 'W. Weisgal, has re
- dendorIT hasn't been honored yet,
linquished the important post
either.
which he has occupied with distinc
tion for a number of years. It will
HIGH PRESSURE SALESMAN
seem unusually quiet at Zionist
WANTED
headquarters the day after he.
Symbol if eulturoil progress
goes. Men will book at each
spotted in the gentle and hu-
other, I imagine, in an astonished,
manist "Voelkische Boobach-
puzzled son of a way., like soldiers
ter," official (organ of the Hit-
did at the front, for instance, when
a long stretch of high explosive
ler racists in Germany and
published in the city of Ein-
lo(ominordnient suddenly came to a
stein: "The National Social-
stop. The bombardment in this
ist smokes only Anti-Semite
case is simply shifting to another
section of the Jewish front, Mr.
famous, highly aromatic to-
bacco. Fine and heavy cut.
Weisgal goes to Toronto assume
Half a pound, 2.50 Reich-
the editorship of the Jewish
mark. Ludwig Boettcher,
Standard. The periodical is to be
Hamburg II. Representatives
congratulated on this acquisition.
sought everywhere!"
For if it so happens, that its aim
and mission should be capable of
THE "EXPLODED" MYTH OF
firing 31r. Weisgal's imagination,
THE THIRD TEMPLE
it can be said that a new era of in-
A Protestant periodical in Hol-
tellectual quickening MA broaden-
land
recently
published a repeti-
ing of outlook is about to open up
tion of the old yarn that God Him-
for Toronto Jewry. I know To-
self had nonifested His displeas-
ronto quite intimately, its Jews
ure when the Jo-,VS set about clear-
Mr. Weisgal will bring them
ing away the ruins on Mount Zion
the flavor of the metropolis, the
under
the inspiration and encour-
restlessness of a nationally con-
agement of the Emperior Julian
scious American .Ito•, a tine dig-
with
a
view to rebuild the third
nity of style and anunquestion-
temple on the spot where Tit us
ably great talent. One has only
wrought
his havoc in the year '710
to look at his performances in the
of the common year.
past to know that this is no exag-
There
is no doubt at all, of
geration of mine, dictated by a
course, that something extraordi-
close friendship of long standing.
nary
beholl
the builders at that
The New Palestine, which achieved
time. The testimony of eminent
a literary standard and a general
historians
is
positive on the sub-
excellence unsurpassed by any
ject. The Emperor Julian had
other magazine. in America, some-
abjured
Christianity,
which his
thing that was, as I happen to
predecessor, Constantine, sur-
know, fully recognized by the most
named
the
Great,
had
elevated
to
discriminating members of the
the position of state religion. Con-
publishing craft, was Mr. Weisgal's
stantine
when
visiting
personal creation.
Judea in
company with his mother, Helena.
ills editorials were at all times
had built there the Basilica which
characterized by a lucidity of
is still to be seen in the crypt of
style and a fearless faith in the
the Holy Sepulchre. Helena ads,-
justice of his ideal. Sometimes, it
caused to be constructed or to Iso
is true he shouted. But his shouts
enlarged the edifice which is today
were cries of sincerity. The fact
the Mosque of the Fathers at
that he could always summon at a
Hebron.
moment's notice, as it were, the
Julian gathered the remnant of
foremost literary figures of the en-
Israel around him when he visited
tire world bespeaks his human
Palestine
in turn and indicated his
qualities and his knowledge of
desire that the stews should rebuild
men more than anything else. No
their
national
sanctuary on Mount
man could refuse that queer half
Moriah. He wanted it to be a
imperative, half cajoling call to
magnificent
structure,
dwarfing
collaboratian when it came. The
the new Christian temple erected
great special issues of the Zionist
by
his
predecessor,
it
is
said. The
periodical which he devoted to the
Jews fell in with his plans and
Hebrew University, Lord Balfour
actually
set
to
work.
But
when
and Theodor Ilerzl remain monu-
workmen started to dig into thit
ments to Mr. Weisgal's ability and
debris
and
ruins,
large
balls
of
taste. In years to come they will
fire were seen to issue from the
he looked upon as the text-books
ground,
so
that
the
excavators
that guided American Jewry to the
rushed away in terror and refused
realization of its destiny in Pales-
to return. The plan was abandoned
tine. Personally I feel a pang of
for a time and before Julian could
regret to see Mr. Weisgal leave the
begin anew, he was called to de-
milieu in which he grew and grew
fend
his empire against the invad-
strong. "Schneiden tut Weh," say
ing Parisians. Ile was killed and
the Germans. This is true. For-
his successor was a Christian. Gib-
tunately it is also true that "(lie
bon is the historian who investi-
Liebe heilt Alles."
gated the appearance of the fiery
balls, which the Dutch periodical
MUSSOLINI, A JEW?
cites as evidence of the divine dis-
It had to come. It was overdue.
pleasure. And he comes to a per-
But now it has arrived. Musso-
fectly natural explanation of the
lini is a Jew, or at least of Jewish
phenomenon. Below the second
descent. His ancestors came from
Hebrew temple which Titus de
Salonica. They were peddlers in
strayed was a vast system of
the 31iffille Ages and sold muslin
crypts, containing reservoirs of
(hence the name Mussolini) at the
water for t he defenders in the
fairs in Venice, Veronica, and
event of a siege. There were also
other North Italian cities, finally
extensive stables and drains where
settling in the neighborhood of Bo-
the blood of the animals sacrificed
logna. The bulletin of the Anti-
on the altars collected. The last
Semitic League, appearing reg,-
Hebrew defenders withdrew into
larly irregular in Paris, has made
these subterranean labyrinths
the sensational discovery. Hinden-
when they saw the Temple go up
burg had his turn. T(orquemada
in flames and perished themselves.
came long ago and so (lid El Green.
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JEWS IN THE NEWS
By BERNARD POSTAL
The ousting from his professor-
ship at the University of Missouri,
of Dr. Max Meyer, for thirty years
head of the department of psychol-
ogy' there, has brought into public
notice Rabbi Samuel Mayerberg of
Kansas City, a Southerner by birth,
and a member of that growing
group of young liberal rabbis that
is adding so much to the intellect-
ual stature of the American rabbin-
ate. When the University of Mis-
souri situation became public as a
result of Dr. Meyer's sex question-
naire Rabbi Mayerb•rg assumed
the leadership in the movement to
remove Stratton D. Brooks, presi-
dent of the University. As a mem-
ber of the University's faculty in
social science, Rabbi Mayerberg
testified that Dr. Brooks domineer-
•d over the faculty and caused them
to lose all sense of personal integ-
rity. The young rabbi's fight for
academic freedom has given hint
considerable tame and added to his
reputation, already notable by vir-
tue of his work as, spiritual leader
and teacher.
In a modest office in the financial
section of New York the inquisi-
of the great jurist reminds me that he celebrated
his sixtieth birthday recently. Cardozo is gener-
ally recognized as one of the greatest jurists of the
present generation and it is unfortunate that
through political necessity that he does not sit in
the Supreme Court of the United States,
from his vantape post in Paris Pierr
c
Van Pursen, one of the oid ,
tanolin
newspaper corre , pornients
in the work "
and dad), contributor to the rolunt
•
- Through hio
Window" in the new Yor k
Evening World, continent, in hi, ow
inimitable way on Jewish events an
personalities of Europe in hi, inci,iv ,
column - l'as ,
ina MY Window."
live visitor will find Joseph G. Hy-
man. To the average reader th
name may mean very little lout t
the leaders of American Jewry an
to those in touch with American
aid to the Jews of Eastern Europe
the name means much. As the right
hand man of Felix M. Warburg and
a deputy member of the Jewish
Agency's administrative committee
Hyman has been busy as bees in the
last fortnight—what with: the pen
litical situation in Palestine and the
Allied Jewish Campaign. From a
war-time official of the Jewish Wel-
fare Board this unassuming young
executive has risen step by step
through the ranks to the secretary-
ship of that great eleemosynary
institution, the .loint Distribution
Committee. The various economic
undertakings for Palestine, such as
the Palestine Economic Corpora-
tion, have also found him a willing
worker. The creation of the Jewish
Agency gave Human a new role, a
sort of dual role by virtue of his
position with the J. D. C. Both
jobs have la-en handled with his
usual efficiency and tact.
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VIEWS OF LEADINGJEWS
DR. STEPHEN S. WISE: "The Jew abhors the Christian groups
engaged in missionary work among the Jews. After 3,000 years of
un , wening
loyalty to ethical monotheism they have earned the right
to he exempt from this dangerous influence."
RABBI ISRAEL GOLDSTEIN: "If there are churches and syna-
gogues today which seem to lay greater stress upon dogma and ritual
than upon principles and ideals, then it is so much to their shame. If
there are religious teachers today whose vision does not reach beyond
particularistic forms and sectarian diatinctions, then it is they who have
failed to catch the mountaintop vision. But
I have such faith in the
vitality of religion that I believe it is bound to purge itself of whatever
elements obstruct its progress and that it sill continue to lead men
forward."
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MRS. FEI.IX M. WARBURG: "I have seen at first hand and have
heard from my husband, in his endeavors with the enlarged Jewish
Agency, how much gond can be done in Eastern Europe with compara-
tively small sums. Therefore I am doing my unmost to enlist the
interest and
co-operation of every conacious Jewesa to do her bit
toward the ameliaration of the condition of her brethren in other
tar.)'"
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