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Pentateuchal portion—Lev. 9:1-11:47,
Prophetical portion—II Samuel 6:1-7:17,
Rosh Chodesh lyar Reading of the Law, Friday,
April 17—Num, 28:1-15,

April 10, 1931

Nisan 23, 5691

The New Campaign Method.

To aid the group enlisted in the speakers'

bureau of the forthcoming Allied Jewish

Campaign for $215,255, an interesting

series of bulletins have been issued. These

are serving as invaluable in the pre-cam-

paign propaganda efforts, and are excel-

lent advance commentary on the efficient
manner in which the ground is being pre-
pared for the drive.

In one of the latest bulletins issued by

this bureau, a comparison in old and new

methods of campaigning is made, and the

advantages of the present united effort

over the old multiplicity of drives is set
forth in the following:

Tho Allied Jewish
Campaign Wayt
1. One systematic cam-
paign —quick, inex-
pensive, effective.
2. One pledge of finan-
cial assistance to one
committee.

3. Many thousand sub-
scribers sharing the
financial responsibil-
ity.
4. Economical and accu-
rate audit of as-
counts.
5. Financial demands
limited by budget
committee.
6. All worthy agencies
assured of minimum
financial support for
imperative needs.
7. Detroit Jewry having
a complete and con-
structive social Beni-
ice program.

8. United and unselfish
service to all unfor-
nates.

9. Highly trained peo-
ple giving full time to
directing charitable,
health, and character
building work.

10. Citizens called to
duty but once, and
that on a big project.

The Old Unbusinesslike
Wayt
1. Many different drives
—Long, tedious, of-
ten upsuccessful.
2. Doling out $10 here
and $20 there, to 20
or more different so-
licitors.
3. A few subscribers
carrying practically
the entire burden.

4. Haphazard records of
receipts and expendi-
tures—if any.
5. Unlimited demands
upon the public.

6. Some popular agen-
cies over -financed
other worthy ones,
severely handicapped.
7. Field of endeavor
limited to a few char-
ity organizations
which have the "ap-
peal."
8. Creation of religious
and class distinctions
through
disastrous
competition.
9. You and a few other
interested citizens
giving thought, time
and money to unfor-
tunate individuals—
families or "domestic
cases."
10. Requested by most
of the organizations
many times to serve
as a solicitor on a
comparatively small
project.

It is unnecessary to make further corn-

ment on this comparison. It is an excellent

argument in favor of the allied effort as

against the disunited and antiquated cam-

paign methods which have been discarded

in this city. Certainly the desire to unify

the community should be a great aid in du-

plicating the success of the last year by an

oversubscription of the $215,255 quota set
for this year.

Who Reads Pro-Jewish Works?

Heywood Broun and George Britt, in
their excellent study of anti-Semitism in
this country, which they appropriately lab-
eled "Christians Only," state that a num-
ber of Jews advised them not to open the
subject for discussion, arguing that discrim-
ination might be strengthened if attention
was called to it. The authors disagree On
the ground that "truth comes best out of
full and free discussion."

We agree entirely with the Gentile au-
thors of "Christians Only." If we were to
be asked to recommend the best volume on
the question we could name none better
than their own book, in which they man-
aged to give a complete picture of discrim-
ination in employment, in schools, in social
clubs, etc. But our agreement with their
views does not come out of a conviction
that by opening the question for discussion
it will bring us nearer to a solution. Far
from it. We agree with them because we
favor the free and untrammeled airing of
the Jewish problem; because we do not
fear the revelation of truths even if they
may at times react against us, and because
we are confident that the fact that the Jew
is justified in his complaints and his pro-
tests will in the end bring our people com-
pensation for the sufferings of centuries.
But we do doubt whether the airing of
the facts in "Christians Only" will bring us
nearer to a solution of the Jewish problem,
which is not the problem of the Jew alone
but is a sore spot in the story of mankind.
Primarily we doubt it because experience
has taught us that when books of the type
of the Broun-Britt product are published
they are the Jews, who need it least, who
read it most. It would be interesting, and
it might prove the most important commen-

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tary on the book, to make a survey of its
readers. We wonder if the number of
Christian readers, who are in the main un-
aware of the facts contained in the book,
would in any way approach the number of
Jewish readers, who know the facts and
therefore read the book to soothe their an-
guished souls.

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BY-THE-WAY

Tidbits and News of Jew-
ish Personalities.

Charles H. Joseph

By DAVID SCHWARTZ

SOMEONE asks me if I think its proper for Rabbi
Wise to take part in New York City politics.
Why not? There is a moral issue involved and if a
religious leader wouldn't do something about it who
should? One reason that the church has such com-
paratively little influence in the daily lives of men
is because the solution of the problems of society
are evaded by the clergy. They seem satisfied to
preach and to endeavor to create an urge for well-
doing among the pews, in the hope that by so doing
the pew's will go forth and crusade against the
forces of evil. Well, it doesn't work out that way
in real life. In the city of New York there seems
to be more corruption and crime than good citizens
car, stand. Why, then, shouldn't Dr. Wise or Dr.
Holmes assume the leadership in cleaning house
Everybody seems satisfied to have a minister do
things so long as he doesn't interfere with their pri-
vate interests. The steel manufacturer, or the coal
corporation or the textile baron will occupy the
front seats in the temple or the church and con-
tribute liberally to its upkeep, and applaud the
sentiments of the rabbi or the minister if his re-
marks don't come too near home. But once let him
begin to reach in language they can understand
and to point out specific instances of graft, social
injustice, high-class racketeering, legal evasions
and what not, then there is a great deaf of sputter-
ing and much indignation on the part of the pillars.
Dr. Wise will be abused by Jew as well as Gentile
because he has seen fit to go after corruption in
high and low places in New York City. But he is
proving that religion is something else than the
mere mumbling of prayers.

0.

But we disagree also with the solution
prescribed by the authors, who urge that
Jew-hatred be answered with ridicule. In
the closing chapter, "The Way Out," one
of the two authors states:

EAST AND WEST
Just after we had been lament-
ing that whereas out west where
men are men, Jews are elected gov-
ernors, in the east, a Jew can
scarcely rise higher than a judge-
ship—well, the situation has al-

To a certain number of humorous and intel-
ligent people there lies the remedy of treating
the whole sorry scheme of discrimination as
a joke. I am aware that any Freudian will
identify this as defense mechanism. Yet it is
effective. For instance, I ant thinking of the
encounter between Harps Marx and a well-
known Long Island resort. The comedian had
telegraphed for accommodations, and when he
arrived a clerk eyed him and made inquiry as
to his religion. Mr. Marx's answer was to walk
boldly to the register and sign liarpo McMorx,
which answered all objections and certainly
made the hotel the butt in the incident.

Right now, not less than three
Jews are being mentioned for the
New York governorship: Lieuten-
ant Governor Lehman, U. S. Dis-
trict Attorney Aledallie and Max
Steuer, Lehman and Steuer are
Democrats, while Medalie is Re-
publican. What will happen of
course no one may know. It seems
possible that if the Democrats
name a Jew, the Republicans may
counter by naming a Jew—and
then again, there are rumors that
Aledallie does not even aspire to
the Republican nomination for the
governorship, but would like a Fed-
eral judgeshi
p,
The father of Medallie, by the
way, was the editor in pre-Soviet
days of the Hamalitz, a Hebrew
periodical, published in St. Peters.
burg, well-known throughout the
world of Jewry.

Evidently the authors, thoroughly as
they have gone into the question, do not
fully understand the psychology of the an-
ti-Semite. The fact is that Jews do joke
about their enemies. We may perhaps best
illustrate our point by recalling the story
that is told about a German Jew who was
seen parading the streets of Berlin with a
button in his lapel, reading "Number
One." When asked the meaning of it, he
explained: "I play safe. Hitler announced
that he would kill every second Jew," It
is well to talk of ridicule within our own in-
ner sanctums. But when you deal with the
type of mind that believes that Jews resort
to human sacrifice on Passover; when we
are compelled to battle with blood-thirsty
university students who are to be the fu-
ture leaders in their respective countries,
but who are now making hotbeds of hittred
and bigotry of their universities, it ap-
proaches the ridiculous to speak of ridicule
as the solution of the problem.

JEWS WHO WOULD BE
"BABE RUTHS"

By BERNARD POSTAL

Editor's Note,—In
a land
where
Jew* play •n ever increasing part in the
development of eporte. they have been
comparatively ineonspiell.A,
in
the
great American game of baseball. As
a new season I. about to get under way
Jewish loasehall fan, throughout the
coontry will be interested in this ar-
ticle written for the Jewish Telegraphic
Agency and The Detroit Jewish Chron
icle./

Baseball is one of the few sports
in which Jests have nut as yet
reached the top although that is no
fault of the fans, managers, owners
or sporting writers. Organized
baseball has long sought a Jewish
star who could draw the Jewish
fans. John McGraw of the New
York Giants has spent much time
and considerable money in exepri-
menting with likely Jewish hall
players. He thought he had his
luminary in Andy Cohen anti
again in King Solomon but both
petered out.

On April 11 a new season _of
America's favorite sport gets un-
der way anti once more a handful
of aspiring Jewish athletes seek to
climb the path of glory that leads
to the fame of a Babe Ruth, a Ty
Cobb, a Walter Johnson and a
Mickey Cochrane, When the um-
pires shout "batter up" Jewish ball
tossers will be in the line-ups of
six of the major league teams,
The Jewish lad most. likely to
make good this year is Ataxic Ros-
enfeld, a converted infielder who
is making a bid for an outfield job
with the Brooklyn Dodgers. Ros-
enfeld, once up with the St. Louis
Browns, returns to the major
leagues after several seasons in
the minors. A native of Alabama,
where he played with Andy Cohen
on the University of Alabama nine,
Rosenfeld's fielding and batting
has impressed Uncle Robbie and
the Jewish player is expected to
be in the line-up when the Dodgers
open their season.

PRESIDENTS of the United States, distinguished
senators and congressmen, leaders in all walks
of life, editors of prominent newspapers all have
united in an effort to pay tribute to the memory of
the Polish Jew who gave so much financial aid to
the country. But now comes Max Kohler, vice-
president of the American Jewish Historical So-
ciety, and says it's "bunk." Ile doesn't use that
word, but he suggests it in connection with Ilaym
Salomon's alleged sacrifices for the Revolutionists.
lie gives as his opinion that while Salomon was
undoubtedly a patriot of highest standing, yet we
don't owe any one of his descendants a penny. That
these financial claims are a lot of hocus-pocus. The
Polish Jews counter with the charge that Kohler, a
German Jew, has been engaged by the German
Jews in America to prevent a Polish Jew from be-
ing honored! Now that's more hocus-pocus, The
German Jews in the United States have a lot of
other things to worry about to bother whether
Haym Salomon should have a monument or not.
Mr. Kohler is a sincere historian. And I believe
that he believes what he says, lie may be wrong.
Because, after all, there can be differences of opin-
ion between biographers and historians as there
are between handwriting experts. He is doing what
Rupert Hughes did to George Washington and what
another writer has done recently to Abraham Lin-
coln. I think Kohler is going to lose out, because
after all there is sufficient evidence that Ilaym
Salomon deserves at least a monument from a
nation which benefited from his activities in times
of trial and tribulation. In the meantime please do
not revive that German-Polish Jewish feud. That,
too, is a lot of bunk.

CHESS—NOT PYORRHEA
An international chess masters
tournament will tie held in New
York soon and those who will com-
pete are Capablanca, Horowitz,
Lasker, Marshall, Kashdan, Stein-
er and Turnover, I don't know
about Turnover, but Horowitz,
',esker, Kashdan and Steiner are
Jews. Thus at least four out of
seven of the masters are Jews.
Chess has really been the Jewish
sport throughout the ages. Even
the rabbis esteemed it, some of
them prescribing it as a cure for
melancholia. There have been rab-
bis of course who have felt that it
was a great time waster. And
Moses Mendelsohn became the fast
friend of Legging over the chess
board. Mendelsohn made one of
the best observations about chess
that has ever been made. "Fur spiel
ist es zu ernst, and fur ernst ist
zu fiel spiel." "Foie a game, it is
too serious, and for a serious thing,
it is too much of a game." And
that truly is the paradox of chess.

battling for the shortstop berth on
the weakened St. Louis American
team. Levy, a former Marine, is
a hard-hitting boy who if he stays
with the St. Louts team, will head
the batting order and lend strength
to the team's offensive.
Jewish Owners.
While no Jew has become an out-
standing star in major league base-
ball and while few Jews have even
broken into the major league line-
ups, Jews have long played an im-
portant role in the ownership of
big league baseball clubs. The late
Andrew Freedman, traction mag-
nate anti philanthropist, once owned
the New York Giants. Today
three of the 16 teams are owned by
Jews, and oddly enough all are in
the National League.
The dean of the baseball stag-
nates is Barney Dreyfus, owner of
the Pittsburgh National League
club. A leading figure in baseball
for two generations, "Barney,' us
he is known in the profession,
broke into the game as the owner
of the Louisville team in the old
12-team league. When the Louis- sod
vale franchise was shifted to Pitts-
burgh, Dreyfus went along. Get-
ting along in years, he had recent-
ly turned over much of the club's
affairs to his son Sam, but some
weeks ago Sam died suddenly and
the elder Dreyfus suffered a blow
from which it will be difficult to re-
cover.

Dreyfus represents a type of
baseball president that will be gone
when he is gone. Baseball has been
his life and when his team lust a
game it was as if he had lost some-
thing precious. The Pittsburgh
team is his personal creation. in
the smoky city baseball anti Drey-
fus are synonymous. In the affairs
of the National League he has long
liven a power. It was he who led
the fight to get Judge Landis to
become the czar of baseball when
the game was under a cloud follow-
ing the scandals of 1920.
The fighting Boston National
League team has as its owner
Judge Emil Fuchs who is moving
heaven and earth to raise his club
from the tail end of the team
standings. Two years ago he start-
led the baseball world by assum-
ing the management of the team.
In view of the fact that he never
played a game of baseball in his
life, being familiar with the sport
only front a financial point of view
his action created something of a
sensation. Judge Fuchs is a former
New York magistrate, an immi-
grant from Russia who moved to
Boston and bought an interest in
a baseball club.
Schacht and Altrock.
The youngest and newest of the
big league club owners is Sidney
Weil of the Cincinnati Reds, An
o 'n
es of stock in the Cincinnati
m since he was a kid, Weil
bought the whole club two years
ago after having made a fortune
as an automobile merchant, His
team has not gotten anywhere in
the last two years and the chances
are not bright for this year but it
is no faut of Weil's. lie has spent
money left and right in an endeav-
or to build up a winner for the fans
but the jinx of hard luck and in-
juries has trailed his team.
Besides the Jewish baseball mag-
nates anti hopeful Jewish players
there is another Jew in baseball of
whom all too little is known. He
is Al Schacht of the Washington
American League team. Schacht's
active playing days have long since
been over but as half of the fam-
ous baseball comedy twins of
Schacht and Altrock he has enter-
tained thousands of baseball fans
for years. Together with his part-
ner Altrock, he has developed a
bagful of tricks and stunts anti
nonsensical acts peculiarly adapt-
ed to the baseball field. Between
innings, before games and in the
intermission during double headers
Schacht and Altrock keep Washing-
ton's baseball fans in fits of laugh-
ter.

Goldman of Cleveland,
In Cleveland,
Goldman, a
former New York high school star,
is the regular shortstop of the
Cleveland Indians. Although he
only made his big league debut last
In the instance of the excitement that has
year he has already made good. lie
been aroused in Paris by the presentation
has gained his spurs anti the Cleve-
of the play "The Dreyfus Case," we have
land fans are looking to him to
help
the Indians climb in the Amer-
proof of how dangerous it is to irritate en-
ican League race, Chicago, the
raged anti-Semitic feeling. It would have
second largest Jewish community
been far healthier for the non-Jewish as
in America, has two major league
A VERSATILE CHESS
teams but only one of them has a
well as the Jewish community if that play
MAESTRO
Jewish player, Moe Berg, the schol-
were not repeated after it met with riots.
ar of the big leagues. Berg, a
The most interesting of the Jew-
and we can just picture to ourselves what ish chess players that America WALTER LIPPMAN, who used to be the editor of Princeton graduate, master of half
a
dozen languages, came right
an assinine thing it would be to attempt ever produced was the late Isaac
the New York World, will now be an editorial
from college to professional base-
L. Rice, There was a versatile per•
writer
on
the
New
York
Herald-Tribune.
Lipp-
to laugh off the consequences and to try to sonality for you. Ile was the foun-
ball. Ile tried playing the infield
man is one of the profoundest thinkers in the
for a while but later became a
der of the Forum magazine, the
ridicule the rioters.
country and his attitude toward social problems is
catcher and as the backstop of the
first man to manufacture electric
The exceptions we take to the conclus- automobiles, a great lawyer and extremely liberal. Writers of the type of Walter White Sox, the American League
ions in the book should in no way impair railroad magnate and many other Lippman have done much in creating an intellectual team, he is now a regular. His
journalism. When the World passed into the hands throwing and hitting have raised
things besides.
the circulation of the book which deserves
of the Scripps-Howard group there was much specu-
him to the level of the best catch-
lie had a room hewn almost out
a place in every important reference li- of rock underneath his home where lation as to what would happen to Lippman. One era in the game.
story had it that Hearst had offered his $50,000 a
The other three Jews seeking
brary. The completeness with which the he played chess. The subterranean year to go with the New York American, Hearst,
room was for the purpose of mak-
berths on major league teams are
subject is covered has earned for it a rec- ing it noise proof. Rice was the by the way, pays the biggest salaries of any pub- not no sure of being in the game
ord sale. And if Christians will read it as inventor of the Rice Gambit in lisher in the United States. We have Arthur Bris- when the season starts. Two of
bane's own statement that he receives $250,000 a
readily as Jews are certain to, we may af- Chess, and a gambit, if you don't year as a Hearst editor. This exclusive of what he them are not even certain of re-
know chess, is a stragetic maneuv-
maining with their clubs for the
receives
for his column "To Day," which must
ter all hope for much good as a result of it. er by which at the sacrifice of a
duration of the season. Jimmy
net him an enormous income, as it appears in almost
piece, you gain advantage of posi-
Reese, the expensive second base-
two hundred papers. Journalism, like every other
tion.
man of the New York Yankees, is
profession, holds rich rewards for those who can
hack again with Babe Ruth and his
On Being a Jew.
reach the top. It is interesting to note that while
ADDING TO UNEMPLOYMENT
gang and it looks as if he will stay.
the Herald-Tribune is a conservative paper it
Although he has little chance of
Recently, so my informer tells
"If it makes so many people happy, why
intends giving Air. Lippman the opportunity to ex-
being a regular this year, Reese
me, Harry Hershfield met Irving
press himself as he pleases , . . which, by the
deny it," was Charlie Chaplin's recent re- Straus just back from Florida.
who hails from Cincinnati and
way, is the only condition under which he would
whose real name is Goldschmidt,
"What did you do down there,
mark in answer to a question as to his Jew-
ever consider accepting a contract,
will get plenty of opportunities as
queried Hershfield.
ishness. The curious ones are now consid-
a utility man and a pinch hitter.
"Well, among other things, I res-
erably enlightened by Professor Albert Ein- cued four people from drowning,"
T IS always heartening to see the younger gen-
The two unlikely to shine this
year are Jim Levy of the Pitts-
stein's statement that Chaplin is half a retorted Strouse.
erations in Israel carrying on the work of their
"But why, with all this unem-
burgh National League team anti
fathers. We will lay aside for the moment all dis-
Jew. Dr. Einstein said: "Chaplin is of Jew- ployment," came back Hershfield.
Harry Greenberg of the Detroit
cussions of the merits or demerits of Zionism. Just
Tigers. Greenberg, a New York
ish descent and so far as I know one of his
LOWELL, THE STATISTICIAN
boy,
is only a youngster. He had
now we are interested in expressing our apprecia-
grandfathers was a Jew."
a tryout last year but failed to
I have told quite a number of
tion as one of a large group of journalistic spokes-
In direct contrast with Chaplin's answer anecdotes in this column, but the
make the grade. This year he is
men for American Jewry of the fine spirit displayed
back strain and while he may not
as to his Jewish origin is the interesting best anecdote of the year has not
by James Marshall, son of the late Louis Marshall,
stick his innate abilities have im-
appeared here and I must quote it
view held by the celebrated biographer, M.
and Nathan Straus, Jr., son of the late Nathan
pelled Bucky Harris, manager of
from George Britt's and Haywood
the Detroit team, to keep a watch-
Andre Maurois. In an interview with the Broun's "Christians Only."
Straus, in taking their fathers' places in carrying
ful
eye on him. Jim Levy, a pro-
"President
Lowell
announced
American Hebrew recently, M. Maurois,
on the work of Zionism. Not that we are particu-
duct of the Pittsburgh sandlots, is
about eight years ago, that Har-
(Copyright, 1031, J. T. A.)
one of whose ancestors in generations back vard was giving serious consider- larly interested in that cause, but because it is
gratifying to see such an interest displayed in a
ation to the question of limiting
intermarried with a Protestant, made this
the
number
of
Jews
in
the
univer-
serious
Jewish
problem,
We
are
always
worrying
interesting statement :
sity. Dr. Lowell made the state-
who will carry on when the elders of the House of
ment that it was necessary to re-
Israel pass on; we find the answer in such sons as
What is it that makes me a Jew? Our tra-
strict Jewish enrollment because he
found that the moral influence of
James Marshall and Nathan Straus, Jr. These busy
ditions, our cultural background, our glori-
Emil Rothenstreich of Warsaw, a member of the Jewish Parliamen-
students from this group was open
men of affairs are able to find time to consider the
tary Club, was invited by the Polish government to serve as
ously fertile history have given each and every
the club's
to question. As a proof, he cited
welfare of their fellow-Jews. Louis Marshall and
representative on the Sejm's constitutional commission without the
Jew a definite philosophy, a definite point of
that out of all the thefts of books
Nathan Straus were great Jews and in continuing
voting right. A similar invitation was extended to Rabbi Aaron Lewin,
view from which he can never divorce himself.
from the Widener Library, those
the work they did, their sons are honoring the
Agudist deputy. Since Deputy Isaac Gruenbaum became a member of
which had been traced to definite
In my writings, for example, I am convinced
memory of their fathers.
the commission by forming a technical bloc with the Ukrainian deputies
culprits showed that the Jews were
in order to circumvent government opposition to his being a member
that I reveal the self-same characteristics that
100 per cent guilty. The statement
of the commission, this body now has three Jewish members represent-
distinguished the writings of other Jewish au-
NOTE where Zionist Revisionists tried to prevent
was checked and found to he ab-
ing as many parties.
thors. Take Heine, for example, or Disraeli,
solutely true. One hundred per
Dr. Magner from speaking before a certain organ-
•
•
•
ization. I get pretty much out of patience with our
cent consisted of just one man.
or any other Jewish writer you wish, and you
Gustavus Loevinger, St. Paul attorney, Jewish leader and associate
Jews who fill the air with their protests when free
No other case of theft has been
will notice three underlying strains in their
editor
of
the
American
Jewish
World,
has
been appointed to the Ram-
traced."
speech is denied THEM, but who are quick to
se y Countysucce
District Court
writings: sadness, a whimsical humor, and
nch b y Governor Floyd B. Olson. Mr.
I.o eeds
vinger Judge Charles
throttle others when they have something to say
Be
choefer, for man years one of the
human sympathy. I do not wish to compare
which does not meet their views.
THIS AND THAT
Once I spoke
leaders of Mt. Zion Temple, who resigned because of ill-health.
before a group of radicals in Pittsburgh and they
myself with these two geniuses. Nor am I going
Herman J. Manikewicz, big man
R
almost
threw
me
out
of
the
window
and
refused
to
so when I say that such three characteristics
of the Paramount Organization
abbi S. Meyerberg of Kansas City, Alo., was unanimously elected
allow me
pr oceed because my ideas were not
toss at one time assistant editor of
president of the Jewish Orphans Horne at the annual meeting. George
can be found in my writings too. French crit-
theirs. Think of it
an English-jewish publication. ,
Radicals and laborites and
Sittenfeld,
retiring president, will retain the financial chairmanship of
ics have more than once pointed this out to me.
socialists, the fellows who demand that they be per-
Noel Meado• sends me the news
the home to relieve Rabbi Meyerberg of the financial responsibility. In
mitted to hold meetings on street corners if need
These strains are the result of something Jew-
that Lee Posner discovered the col-
assuming the leadership of the home, Meyerberg, who is a Reform
be in the INTEREST OF FREE SPEECH. Three
ored dancing genius who invented
ish that is in me—something which neither I
rabbi, pledged "to maintain the Orthodox character of the home as its
cheers! Yet they are the most intolerant fanatics
the Lindy Hop while having his
founders originally intended. Every effort will be made to bring the
nor anyone else can hope to explain. It was
shoes blackened . So what? ...
when it conies to permitting the SAME RIGHT to
children an even greater degree of Jewish education," he declared, in
inevitable that, if I was to express myself in
some
one
else.
So
it
is
in
the
Editor Isaac Rosengarten asks me
his inaugural address.
ca s e of Magnes. I
to call attention to the fact that
literature, my utterances would be tinged by
wonder what Reform Jewish congregations whose
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Jewish Forum is to celebrate its
pulpit and board are anti-Zionist, will permit Dr.
these three characteristic..
For the first time in the history of Bergen count y, New Jersey, a
bar mitzvah with a great juicy
Magner to speak before them? I always feel sorry
Jew has been appointed to a judicial post. The distiio
It in for this reason that I say that, although
n goes to
number ... Meyer Levin who au-
for persons who are afraid to hear the other side.
Abram A. Lebson of Englewood, N. J., who, though onlyy 8 years of
I might be as much a foreigner to Jewish cus-
thored Yehuda is staging some
It shows that their prejudices are stronger than
age, has been appointed judge of the county criminal court
their
reasons.
toms as a Christian, yet I remain a Jew in
very intriguing marionette plays.
by Gover-
nor Larson. Judge 'Assort is president of the Rotary Club of Egle-
heart and soul. It is something much more
wood and is active in Jewish communal affairs.
far-reaching than mere patriotism. It is the
JUDGE LEWIS TELLS ONE
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ISAAC
ROSENGARTEN,
editor
of
the
Jew-
realization, rather, that in temperament, in
Judge Wm. M. Lewi s of Phila-
ish Forum, advises me of the Bar Mitzvah anni-
More than 900 people gathered on Wednesday night at a dinner ten-
sensitivity, in outward and inward character-
delphia told the story the other
versary of his splendid publication. It is thorough-
istics I am as one with sixteen million others.
to Walter Lippmann, former editor of the New York World, by
ening Orthodox, and extremely well edited. It has dered
night at the meeting of the Jewish
the Academy of Political Science at the hotel Astor. Sir. Lippmann
It is the realization that I am near to these
Consumptive Relief dinner. A gen-
always carried articles of high literary merit and
was introduced by former Ambassador Alanson B. Houghton.
people and that I belong to them. It is the
tleman was up before his court on
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Jewish value. It is interesting to note that Dr.
realization that Judaism is something infinitely
the complaint of his wife.
Jacob de Haas, in the anniversary number of the
Dr. Karl Landsteiner of the Rockefeller Institute, Nobel prize win-
more than an outward religion—something hu-
"Your honor," said the wife,
Jewish Forum, is exceedingly pessimistic in a dis- h ner in medicine for 1930, and Dr. Sigmund Freud, eminent psychologist,
man and palpitant which applies to • whole
"this man, my husband, wants to
cussion of the Zionist movement when he says: "We
have received honorary membership medals from the Austrian Medical
people scattered over the face of the earth. It
be married one week and divorced
are about to witness a recrudescence of the war on
Association, according to an announcement made in Vienna. The Aus-
is this, I repeat, which has made me a Jew.
the next. I can't live with such a
Zionism. The anti-Zionists are lining up to over- i trian press comments on the rectification of the Vienna University's
fellow. He's against marriage."
throw and destroy Zionism at what they consider a s njustice, since both scientists were not appointed to ordinary profes-
Just because it is no one's affair as to
"I ain't against marriage,"
sorships because they were Jews.
favorable, even a fortunate, time.
which group the child of an intermarriage shouted out the husband, "I'm up moment during the 38 years that I recall no
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I have been
against it,"
chooses to affiliate himself with, we quote
associated with the movement when it has been in S The board of directors of the Ilebrew Sheltering and I,iimigrant Aid
That of course reminds us, Judge
a
worse
plight."
This
is
only
one
of
a
number
of
e
ociety
(Hies),
425
Lafayette
street,
New
York City,:/at its annual
with considerable interest and pride the Lewis, of the tilt' gag about the de-
brilliant articles in this magazine from which its t lection of officers, elected Abraham Herman to his sixth consecutive
who got up in court and
sentiments of a very noted author. There fendant
viewpoint has interpreted the currents in Jewish
said: "I deny the allegations and
erm as president of the society. In addition, the following officers
life in a scholarly manner. I
is much in it for avowed Jews to imbibe.
defy the alligator."
certainly congratu- A ere elected: Vice-presidents, Aaron Benjamin, Jacob Masse!, Max
fated Dr. Rosengarten on the thirteenth anniver.
!Copyright, 1911, J. T. A
leyerson, Nathan Schoenfeld; treasurer, Barry Fische!, and honorary
ecretary,
easy of his fine publication,
Dr.
James Bernstein. The general manager is Isaac L.
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