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Sabbath (Chamisho Osor b'Shvat)
Readings of the Torah
Pentateuchal portion—Ex. 13:17-17:16.
Prophetical portion—Judges 4:4-5:11.
January 22, 1932
Shvat 14, 5692
Jewish Arbor Day.
Saturday, January 23, is Arbor Day on
the Jewish calendar. Chamisho Osor
b'Shvat, known also as Rosh Hashonah Le'
Ilonoth, the New Year of the Trees, is a
traditional festival, observed by Jews
throughout the world, honoring not only the
time when Jews were an agricultural peo-
ple but also the present efforts for the re-
generation of Israel on its ancient soil.
What is especially significant in the cele-
bration of Chamisho Osor b'Shvat is that
it is glorified by the children. Wherever
there• are Jews, especially in Hebrew
schools, special programs mark the festival,
and Palestinian fruits are served. But in
Palestine proper the children are particu-
larly concerned with this holiday. The chil-
dren have made of the holiday a Chag ha-
Eilonim, the Festival of the Trees. They
are not satisfied with the mere eating of
fruits from blossoming plants. They aid in
the reforrestation of the land by planting
trees. The fact that it has become a tradi-
. tion 'for the children of Palestine to plant
trees on this holiday makes the festival
stand out as a great occasion in the Jewish
year.
In the Diaspora, the children of Palestine
are being emulated by the planting of trees
in Zion. Every man and woman, every child,
is asked by the Tree Fund of the Jewish Na-
tional Fund to plant a tree in the Land of
Israel and to carry on a beautiful tradi-
tion. It is a custom like this one that helps
to beautify Jewish life, at the same time aid-
ing in a great reconstruction movement.
The barren land of Palestine is being caus-
ed to blossom forth again because men and
women, boys and girls, are planting and de-
veloping roots for a redeemed physical and
spiritual Zion.
A Noteworthy Book
Elsewhere on this page appears a review
of Rabbi Goldman's "A Rabbi Takes
Stock." Here is a volume which, both for
the diversity of the subjects it covers as well
as for the courage with which the author
views them, stands out among the most im-
portant of the recent additions to Judaica.
Rabbi Goldman's volume stands out as
of particular value because of the manner
in which it approaches the two subjects of
religion and nationalism. With science and
internationalism making serious inroads
upon both, the author's views deserve ser-
ious consideration. In his preface to this
interesting volume, Rabbi Goldman offers
an interesting explanation of both subjects.
"Religion," he writes, "has embraced
demons, taboos, scruples, and human sacri-
fice ; yet, to many it has come to mean the
determination to build Utopia and the con-
viction that it can be done. So, also, nation-
ality has inspired militarism, war, auto-
cracy, imperialistic ambitions ; but to many
it has meant the totality of a people's lof-
tiest aspirations and its cultural achieve-
ments—the personality of a people."
Recognizing that the latter understand-
of both religion and nationality are
best expressed in Jewish experiences and in
Jewish ethical teachings, Rabbi Goldman
has offered an explanation of certain Jewish
terms, for modern readers, which deserves
the widest possible audience.
A Charming Visitor.
It is to be regretted that the Jewish com-
munity of Detroit should have been de-
prived of the pleasure of welcoming and
entertaining one of the most charming per-
sonalities, who visited Detroit last week.
Sir Norman Angell, one of the sincerest
friends of the Zionist movement in Christ-
ian ranks, did not stay in Detroit long
enough to be greeted by local Zionists, but
he took occasion to express his views to the
representative of The Detroit Jewish Chron-
icle, thus in some measure fulfilling a gen-
uinely sincere desire to be of service to the
Zionist cause wherev he goes.
Sir Norman. assn s us he will take ad-
vantage of the liest opportunity to re-
turn to Detro , and to meet with Jewish
spokesmen, i an effort to be of service to
the movement for Palestine's reconstruc-
tion.' Should such a planned visit material.
ize, we assure local leaders that is will be
their privilege to meet one of the noblest
champions of Zionist ideology.
The distinguished Englishman's advice
through these columns to the Jews of De-
troit is that Jewry should begin to approach
the Palestinian problem with understand.
ing. In this advice there is more truth than
poetry. The reason for the slow progress
of Jewish work in Palestine is as much a
lack of Jewish understanding as it is a lack
of English and Arab understanding. The
sooner Jews understand their own needs,
the quicker will be the pace of reconstruc-
tion work.
A s:D racut
The Pro-Palestine Committee.
Hitler and the Jews
The formation of a Pro-Palestine Com-
mittee, with leading United States govern.
ment officials forming the nucleus for its
By PIERRE VAN PAASSEN
membership, marks the beginning of a new
(Copyright, I032, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inv)
era for the cause of the rebuilding of the
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Jewish Homeland.
One of the things Chancellor
what every party leader in Ger-
Backed by such a defense force, which Bruening
of Germany told the
many would like to say openly
should prove of great influence in prevent- French prime minister, M. but dares not. To be sure, all
Laval, on the occasion of
of them, from Herman Mueller
ing the recurrence of events which marred Pierre
his visit to Paris two months
to Stresemann, Wirth, Trevia-
Palestine progress in 1929, and which should ago was that the advent of Herr nus and Bruening have pro-
Hitler to supreme power in the
Germany's desire to live
help to secure the maximum of co-opera- Reich must be considered a cer- claimed
up to the obligations imposed
before the coming of
by the successive reparation con-
tion from the British government, a new tainty
spring. Nothing has occurred in
ferences that have followed the
lease of life ought to be given to Zionist the time that has elapsed since original "Diktat" of Versailles.
that visit to invalidate the Chan-
But every one of them knew
activity in this country.
cellor's grave warning. To the
that this would be impossible.
The Pro-Palestine Committee is a great contrary, the National Socialist Just as impossible as changing
party in Germany instead of de-
proverbial Ethiopian's skin.
and important project deserving of encour- clining in influence has not the
Hitler has said this outright.
agement and support from all quarters. But ceased to grow in numbers and And that is wherein lies his ap-
strength. So confident, in fact,
peal to the careworn and ex-
in their enthusaism for it, Jews should not do the Nazi chiefs feel about the boasted masses of the Father-
future that they have
land.
forget their own prime responsibility. Un- immediate
in advance proceeded to a di-
Lately he has expressed his
less Jews themselves pay their debts to Pal- vision of the cabinet roles. Herr willingness
to talk the matter
Philip Rosenberg, Hitler's chief
estine, the cause cannot prosper. Add to lieutenant, an extremely able over, to negotiate with foreign
powers when he shall have at-
the fulfillment by Jews of their duties to man who may be called the tac- tained
power. But this remains
tician of the Nazi movement, is
Palestine this encouraging effort, and the visiting the chancellories of his chief thesis: Germany can-
not
pay
and ought not to make
London and Paris to confer on
work becomes more completely effective.
the sinister pretense to try just
certain phases of Germany's for-
to
keep
France
lie may
The sponsors of the Pro-Palestine move- eign policy, as if he were already still modify this content.
position when
occupying the chair of the late
ment in non-Jewish ranks have earned the Dr. Stresemann. At the same the day of victory dawns. Let
us not forget how Benito Mus-
thanks of the American Jewish community time the "Drummer" himself solini, Hitler's flamboyant pro-
has gone to Rome like a reign-
for this important achievement in behalf of ing chief of state to call on totype, marched away from
Milan at the head of his Black-
Benito Mussolini,
the Zionist cause.
shirts fully determined to chase
Can You Answer This One?
Two noted artists came to Detroit in the
past month. Victor Chenkin and Isa Kre-
mer won the acclaim of their audiences and
of the press. In their latest local appear-
ances they have not lost an iota of their
artistic magnetism. And yet, their audiences
were too meager to cover even the rental
costs, let alone the compensation of the ar-
tists themselves. How is this to be ex-
plained? People, after all, have not quit
seeking recreation, and amusement. And
Chenkin and Kremer have a popular as
well as cultural appeal. Why is it then that
Jews should so fail to encourage Jewish
artists? Can you answer this one? We
can't.
The Palestine Labor Campaign.
In the meantime adhesions to
the Nazi party flow in uninter-
uptedly at the various "Brown
Houses," no that the boast of
Hitler that nearly 50 per cent
of the voters in the Reich may
be counted upon to support him,
even if it contains an element
of exaggeration, cannot be to
very far from the truth. The
Social Democratic party con-
cedes that Hitler would poll
about 40 per cent of the total
votes. In other words, a man
disposing of so formidable an
array of votes can not possibly
be kept out of the government,
either as a participant or as sole
detainer of power and Europe
had better prepare for a Hitler
victory within the next few
month. No sensational Musso-
linesque march on Berlin need
now be expected or is now neces-
sary. Hitler will attain power
without a coup d'etat or
a "Putsch." The very institu-
tions of democracy which he
despises so deeply will carry him
into the seats of the mighty.
Moreover, time is working for
Herr Adolph. And time hap-
pens to be equipped with wings
on this occasion: the terrible
wings of destitution and mane
misery. The German people
have come to a point where they
are frankly desperate and are
ready to take a fatal leap into
the unknown with Hitler or any
other demagogue who promises
a quick way out from the eco-
nomic wilderness. Germany's
experiment in democracy is
about to end up in Caesarism.
But what of the new Caesar?
him to whom he slightingly re-
ferred as Victor Savoie, and
how almost immediately he came
to be the strongest prop and re-
generator of the unquestion-
ably moribund Italian mon-
archy. Between the cup and
the lip lies not only many a
slip, but with the advent of re-
sponsibility the interval may be
productive of many a change in
policy.
CRY OF "JUDEN 'RAUSI"
To begin with, as indicative
of a change in program, it must
have been noticed that the fore-
most Hitlerite spokesmen,
while lately being rather lo-
quacious in the presence of for-
eign correspondents have never-
theless scrupulously refrained
from mentioning the Jewish
question. This was no mere
oversight. The program of the
first hour of Naziism summed
up in the cryptic-barbarian cry:
"Juden 'Roust" is apparently
to be modified by orders from
higher up. The Hitler emissar-
ies who are in Holland, Belgium,
observing what there is to ob-
serve, are strangely silent on
the subject of Germany's Jews,
but so recently the universal
subject of their vengeful talk,
The truth is that Hitler plans
nothing as crudely drastic as an
old-fashioned Czarist pogrom or
a wholesale expulsion of the
Jews in the event of his corn-
ing to power. Ile has some-
thing far more diabolic up his
sleeve, a far more cunning
scheme has been elaborated in
the inner sancta of the Munich
"Brown House." A pogram
worthy of Michiavelli has been
elaborated in respect to the
Jews of Germany, a plan, let it
be said, that surpasses the idea
of a simple pogrom, in which
"the heads of the Jewish rab-
ble will roll in the land" by
far in cruelty and evil intent.
RUTHLESS SYSTEM
In short, the plan of Hitler
resembles that of the Polish Ex-
treme Nationalists, to-wit: Os-
Mother's Sacrifices
For Education
How Jewish Women of Today
Strive for Hebrew Culture
of Their Children.
By-the-Way Tidbits and Newi
By DAD
VI SCHWARTZ
(Copyright, 1032, Jewlrh Telegraphic Agency.
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INTERMARRIAGE •
The rate of intermarriage between Jew and non-Jew in Russia is
terrific, Morris Waldman of the American Jewish Committee tells me.
By AN OBSERVER
Whether you think that is a good thing or not, depends of course
on your religious or racial viewpoints. I do not set up as either a
I People are wont to speak of th
religious teacher or biological expert, so I have no expert opinion to
' good days of the past, of the day
express.
I when our fathers and mother
In America, I should say that the melting process seems just a
brought sacrifices for the sake o
little bit extra-hazardous, to use insurance phraseology. Of course, I
education. We read it in books
we hear it from the pulpits, and offer this merely as an unexpert
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all in one spirit, in the spirit o A SECOND VICTIM
the maxim of the Talmud: "If ou But take the recent case of Dr. Thomashefsky, son of the famous
ancestors were to be compared t Jewish actor, Boris Thomashefsky. You recall that as the result of
angels, then we are only pose
mortals," which means that i the little triangle, in which he was playing the central role, he was
comparison with the past genera shot and now lies paralyzed for life.
But there was a sequel to the story, which was never printed in
lions we are nothing but pigmies
We are told that this is especially the newspapers. After the shooting, the brother of another nurse
true with regards to the education visited the hospital. This visitor was a non-Jew, whose sister had
of our children. Our fathers married a Jewish physician on the staff. The Jewish physician and
brought untold sacrifices in order his non-Jewish brother-in-low, got into a discussion of the Thoma-
s
that their children might be edu- hefsky case, the Jewish physician siding with Dr. Thomashefsky and
cated properly. They deprived his non-Jewish brother-in-law arguing for the non-Jewish girl, who
themselves of bread in order to did the shooting. The discussion ended with the brother-in-law shoot-
to ply S'char Limud (tuition fee), ing the Jewish physician. So there are now two Jewish physicians at
whereas we have turned our backs the hospital lying in the patients' wards.
Which all goes to prove that we are all still a little too touchy on
to the heritage of our fathers.
But while this is true to some the question of race relations—in other words, there are still seem-
ingly many pitfalls to inter-marriage.
extent there are still, as Bialik
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expresses in the Ha-Mathmid:
WHEN STALIN RAGED
"There are abandoned corners,
Talking about Russia, and who isn't these days—there is the story
forgotten cities,
told to nie by Leo Glassman,
Where still in secret burns our
It
seems that one day the watchman guarding Tovarisch Stalin's
ancient light .
quarters, heard an uproar within.
There are still mothers and
Stalin's
voice was booming like a couple of cannons. The guard
fathers to whom the Jewish educa-
tion of their children is part of listened and he heard Stalin giving someone hail Columbia.
"You
offspring
of a pup," shouted Stalin, "you crook, you insect,
their very life, of their very exist-
ence without which life and its you blankety-blank, blank blank, you ought to be torn from limb to
limb.
You
should
go to the earth. You should catch the cholera.
Joys would be meaningless to
them. Here are a few illustrations Someone ought to give you a sock in the eye—two socks on your
feet. You should be shot at sunrise—well, anyway, not later than
of sacrifices brought by Jewish noon."
mothers of today:
So it went on terrifically, furiously. The guard stood quivering,
Interesting Illustrations.
as Stalin's fury was let loose.
I A group of women, Jewish
The guard's curiosity was aroused. Who was this that was get-
mothers, can be found day in and
ting all this abuse? He peeped through the door. There was nobody
day out, in fair weather or foul,
seated patiently in the corridor but Stalin. Ile entered. “Tovarisch Stalin," he said, "you sure are
giving that man what he deserves. There was no mincing of words
of the main branch of the United
there. But where is the man?"
Hebrew Schools sewing, mending
"You idiot," shouted Stalin at him, "don't you know that every
and chatting. For a moment you
good
Russian must set aside 10 minutes a day for self-criticism?"
would think that you were in the
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midst of an afternoon seming cir- GOOD, MILT, COME AGAIN
cle composed of ladies belonging
Credit this one to Milton W. Goldenberger of the Memphis He-
to the leisure class, but upon brew Watchman.
closer observation you see that
Little Isaac was crying bitterly on one of the main streets of a
these women are hard working,
big city. His sobs soon brought a large crowd about him. He was a
busy housewives. They sit here
for one and one-half hours wait- miserable looking little rascal and his crying was loud and terrifying.
An
elderly woman stepped from the crowd, and placing her arm
ing for the time when their chil-
around the boy, asked sympathetically, "What's the matter, my child,
dren will come out of the class- are
you lost?"
rooms.
The boy sobbed a moment and then paused. lie looked around at
There are several grandmothers the large audience he had assembled. Then lifting his voice, he
in the group who patiently wait shouted, loudly, "Yes, ma'am, I'm lost. Will somebody please take me
for grandchildren to emerge from home to Jacob Silberstein, the well-known clothier of the west end,
the rooms.
who has just got in his winter stock of spring overcoats, suits, neck-
There is a mother who is usu- ties, shirts, hat and umbrellas, which he will sell cheaper than anyone
ally busy with some mending. Her else in the city,"
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children cannot take advantage of
the bus system because she lives BRIDES AND CIRCLES
too far from the school. In fact,
Dr. Bloch, the big chief of the Jewish division of the New York
instead of a regular address she public library, is a sort of national "Ask me another," Many are
has just a lot number and in order the curious queries to which he is supposed to know and answer. The
to come to the school she has to other day, a non-Semitic reporter of the Bronx Home News ap-
take the city bus and several proached his rostum with the question, "Why does the bride circle
street cars. The trip generally the bridegroom seven times at a Jewish wedding ceremony?"
consumes one and one-half hours
Before the doctor could answer, his pretty assistant shot forth:
one way. Yet you find her at the "Sure, don't you know, in order zu verdrehen ihr die kopf." The
Hebrew school daily. Of course answer, however, proved inadequate to the non-Yiddish comprehend-
there are no Hebrew schools in her ing reporter.
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vicinity and the fear of having
her children grow up without a AN INGENIOUS PROFESSOR
hey
Jewish education is such that it
it hap
d at thee beginning of the semester in the
compels her to travel that great Hary Tard Law
say Sch ool , pene
in the cla s
certain Professor McCullough.
distance daily, wait for an hour
The prof had not yet gotten the roll of students at the initiation
and one-half at the school and then of his classes, and was in a quandary as to how to call on his students.
An idea finally struck him.
turn homeward.
"Mr. Smith," he called out.
Another mother brings three
There was no response,
children daily from a far eastern
"Mr. Johnson," began again the prof.
section of the city and waits for
No response again.
them until they have learned their
"Well, this ought to get a response," said the prof as he shouted,
lemons. The children are in dif-
ferent classes and attend at dif- "Mr. Cohen."
It
did—five of them,
ferent hours, and she waits pa-
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tiently for over three hours every
HATS
AND JEWS
day.
As one might have expected, it appears that the rage for the
Untold Sacrifices.
Are these sacrifices? Can they Empress Eugenie hats is all due to a Jew—none other than Iry Straus,
publicity exploiter.
(Turn to Next Page.)
It appears that Straus was besought by Harry Glemby, a manu-
facturer of hair nets, who complained that the hair net business had
so failed off that the net from the hair net business was almost
nought, to be slightly alliterative.
Straus had an idea. Ile got in touch with a French milliner to
design a hat which would show as much hair as possible, The Eugenie
hat was the result, and now Glemby is netting again,
Within a month, spokesmen for the Pales-
tine Labor Party will direct their annual
appeal for funds to the Detroit Jewish com-
munity. And in spite of the depressing
financial conditions, this plea should, by all
means, meet with the hearty response which
the cause deserves.
Those who have even superficially stud-
ied the Palestinian situation ought to know
that the Jewish labor element in Palestine
is the very backbone of the reconstruction
movement. It has been said on numerous
occasions that the most strategic position of
Jewry in Palestine is in the Emek Jezreel,
in the Valley of Israel. The colonies that HIS APPEAL TO MASSES
It is utterly foolish to go on
are now blossoming in this valley have
blandly that Hitler is
guaranteed this strong position for Jewry. a affirming
sort of super hot-air artist, a
And had it not been for the Chalutzim, for man without a program, an ir-
the sacrifices of our pioneers, the creation responsible demagogue who
could easily be set aright by the
of such an important position would have first
liberal journalist who comes
been an impossibility.
along. When Hitler says that
the German people are not for-
But it is not in the Enlek alone that the ever going to bend under the
Chalutzim have done pioneering and his- yoke of staggering reparation
(Turn to Next Page).
toric work. Whatever has been achieved payments, he puts into words
in Palestine is directly attributable to the
efforts of the young men and women who
sacrificed their positions in the Diaspora
by Charles
for the sake of building a home for Israel.
H. Joseph
Now, the party speaking for these pion-
eers pleads for a modest fund with which to
ONLY EIGHTY-FIVE MILLIONS?
From the New York Sun: "Junior Ilada.ssah expends the sum of
carry on its efforts, with which to finance WARBURG'S CHILDREN
being breakfasted by a noted law- Jewish question, but the seed ha.
the labor institutions, with which to assist
Arthur Brisbane writes:
yer who is an agnostic. My cor- already been sown, and I fear the $85,000,000 for its responsibilities in Palestine, this budget being
"Anyone with money looking respondent says "the two gentle- the Jews are in for a bad time with raised annually by 10,000 young Jewish women who, in this way, con-
the Palestine Chalutzim in providing them
for an example to follow might men were preparing for a debate or without Hitler sitting in Hin tribute toward the rehabilitation of a national homeland for the
Jewish people in the Iloly Land."
with social, educational and health facili- consider this one: Felix M. War- to determine whether or not 'Life denberg
s seat. It just goes to
Which goes to show what young girls can do. These girls, it would
ties. Certainly their accomplishments in burg of New York has four sons. is Worth Living.' And he adds show what loose talking will do.
seem, raise more annually than all the adults have contributed to
Yesterday
their
father,
67
years
that
'the
Jews
of
Chicago
ought
Hitler's
fault
has
been
that
he
the past decade have at least earned for old, celebrated his birthday. Th e to protest against such state-
Palestine since Theodor Ilerzl first wrote his Judenstaat!
kept his mouth open and his mind
this vanguard of Israel's hopes the small sons might have given him a pa l y
" Of course even at the closed.
sums which are asked of American com- of slippers or a new automobil e . distance of a thousand miles I can
—*—
Instead they chose to pay on h ;5 identify the agnostic, none other EMPLOYMENT
DISCRIMINA-
munities for the Palestine labor, or Gewerk- birthday
all the expenses for the t than the genial old Clarence Dar-
TION
schaften campaign.
day of the 91 Jewish charities i n row. The rabbi I don't know. My
I
note
in
the
news
of
Perhaps one other reason ought to be ad- New Y ork. To run these charitie 5 impression is that if the statement the Chicago Sent i n e columns
l that the
costs $11 a minute, multiplied b y was made that the rabbi was try-
A Review of Books for the Jewish Reader,
vanced in behalf of the labor party's ap- 60, multiplied
by 24."
ing to be facetious and did not leaders of the B'nai B'rith in Dis-
peal. It is the fact that the Jewish labor
By BERNARD POSTAL
Well, this prove, that some pa r- realize the importance that would trict No. 6, with headquarters in
element has a sane view on the Arab-Jew- ents know how to rear their chi I. be attached to his words. The Chicago, are going to attack vig-
pro bability
h
h e
ex-
dren
in
the
way
they
should
go,
A
Rabbi Faces the Facts ) individual dare be overlooked i
ish question. Avoiding stupid conflicts, co-
pected the reporter to quote him. orously the problem of Jewish un-
At any rate it is always wise to employment due to discrimination.
operating with the Arabs by organizing JUDGE CARDOZO
Rabbi Solomon Goldman of Chi- its perspective." Both Reform
choose
your
words
when
speaking
Funds
are
being
raised
to
make
cago has long been recognized as and Orthodoxy, he Resells, "stil
them into labor unions on a par with the
United States Senator Wagner to a newspaper man. I can speak
an exhaustive survey of the entire a keen student of Jewish life and cling to the theology of the Middle
Jewish workers, the Chalutzim are making of New York as well as the pow- from experience!
Ages."
Scripps-Howard New York
situation and to adopt some prac- problems. Hence it is no surprise
friends of the Arab masses. In other ways, erful
that he, and not rabbis that are
In similar vein Rabbi Goldman
World Telegram are urging the HITLER'S HARM TO JEWS
tical method of combatting the
perhaps better known in American attacks the Jewish Sunday school.
and thanks to the able leadership of men appointment of Chief Justice Ben- The increasing recognition given
evil. Personally, I fail to see that Israel, is the author of "A Rabbi "Once and for all," he declares,
like Dr. Chaim Arlosoroff and others in the jamin Cardoso of the Appellate to Hitler by the present govern- very much if any progress can be Takes Stock" (Harper & Bros.), "we must abandon the sham of this
of the state of New York to ment in Germany is creating a
labor party, steps are being taken in the Court
in the direction of alleviat- one of the most searching and educational system. To decei ve
succeed Justice Oliver Wendell teeing of uneasiness among the made
.
expositions of the Jews into believing that their chil-
right direction to assure co-operative and Holmes, retired, of the United Jews of that country. While there mg the situation. Of course, if penetrating
large concern, whether it be ri t of modern Judaism and dren are being educated at the
peaceful relations with the Arabs. The ' States Supreme Court. While is no doubt that as Hitler sees a some
President Hoover has intimated a possibility of becoming dictator a department store or any other Jewry that has been written in the Sunday school or that the Sunday
Labor Party has a sane platform, and there- high regard for the character and he is modulating his voice and is industry which deals with the pub- last decade.
cacdoeu
school is in any way adequate as a
of the problem of Jewish
fore deserves financial as well as moral qualifications of Justice Cardozo, quieting his sputterings, yet the lic is found to be discriminating With courage all too rare in solution
d
eucat
ion is to be downriis-
it seems quite unlikely that he will influence of his ideas insofar as' against employing Jew's some pres- the American rabbinate, Rabbi ho
g ht d
encouragement.
nest."
sure may be brought to induce
RANDOM THOUGHTS
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Readin' and Writin'
Something to This Name.
Diem Shin Hay, columnist for The Zionist
of New York, writes;
According to the newt, columns of "Opinion,"
Dr. Charles Weizmann is to be the next president
of the English Zionist Federation. To Balfour,
Lloyd George and MacDonald, and some sixteen
or seventeen million Jewn, he is Chaim, but John-
ny Smertenko's "Opinion" insists on Charles
You said it, Mem Shin Hay! You might
just as well call Jochanan ben Zaccai
John, There are times when there is a
great deal to a name. And there is a great
deal to the name Chaim when it is followed
by Weizmann.
Baroness Helene Nostitz von 'linden-
burg, niece of President Paul von Hinden-
burg of Germany, has faith in the German
people's insistence on orderliness, and does
not believe anything grave will result in
the event Hitler gets into power. This is an
optimistic note sounded in a very pessimistic
time. Here is hoping the rest of the world
is wrong and the Baroness right.
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receive the appointment. New the Jews are concerned has already
To Rabbi Goldma n J e w-
York state already has two jus- worked much mischief. Hitler has' ' them for "business" reasons to Goldman exposes the weaknesses ish education without Hebrew is
of
Judaism
as
practiced
and
taught
inconceivable
and he demands that
be
more
fair.
But,
generally
tices and it seems likely that the encouraged a feeling against the
today, strips it of its superficiali- w e
"foster Hebrew as our people's
far West will be the home of the Jews and nothing he can do now speaking, nothing much, in my
and lays bare the canker that living robust language."
new justice. It is unfortunate can stop it. If he ever gains opinion, can be done. This ques- ties
is eating away its vit als
Heidi
that the legal talents of Justice power he may want for political Lion has been a burning one for he declares that the "synagogue
Discarding the attitude of both
Cardozo, recognized by the pro- reasons to turn about face on the many years; Jewish organizations has ceased to be a dynamo in Jew- Reform and Orthodoxy as regards
fession as brilliant, will not be
as well as other groups interested ish life. The most vital endeavors Jewish law, Rabbi G
s inve
given the opportunity to express
in good will have attempted to of Jewry today are initiated and that the law need oldman insists
investigation.
themselves i in the august tribunal
grapple with it but with no results. promoted by the 'unsynagogued.' Jewish (Meg, customs and cere-
ibu
FAITH
in W ashington.
Car doso
as
, Surveys and investigations have ... Are we waiting for a miracle ie
monies must be searchingly stud-
; been
achieved an extraordinary nation-
d
,
"
find
made but nothing worth to bring these apikorsim back?
nays. "Many of them we
By ABRAHAM RAISER
; while has ever developed as a re- Shall
wide reputation and conditions
o bso lete—these
we stupidly consider our- well
we must
salt.
Resolutions
may yet shape themselves to per-
have been selves the 'remnant?' Or shall w
lose no time in discarding if we
Translated by Marie Serbia.
important
mit him to receive the honor which
adopted by impoant
Jewish ' try to understand what it is that t ho pe t o
o con C inue Jewish communal
we
he so richly deserves.
groups protesting against such made men so thoroughly
I believe the moment still -
In short, Rabbi Goldman
--e—
discrimination, essays
essays have beenlabandon the age-old center
of advocates that the reconstruction
Jewish
A RABBI'S "HAM AND EGGS" Comes, when through my door she written, speeches have been made. '
of Judaism must begin with
Jewish life and thought?"
the
Yet day after day in papers in
A reader living in Chicago Steal to sight
•
o the synagog ue,
a frankness that is as which must be made
larger cities we
e find the classified
write. asking that if letters from Toward twilight.
al
pages filled with want ads boldly amazing as it is refreshing and needs of modern Jews ive to the
readers are published in this col-
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and must
umn to pleaee make room for this
proclaiming that Jews need not 14
.elcome, Rabbi Goldman charges, make room for men of divergent
one. I want to say that I wel- Standing in the lonely gloom
apply. What are we going to do . that "we have permitted the syn.- .
Of my cold and quiet room
belief
and
challenging
skepticism.
come letters and if they are of She will be
about it? What are we going to : Rogue, that is, official Judaism, to i
Of such thought-provoking and
sufficient general interest they will Sweet to me.
do about anything that has preju-, consecrate upon prayer and rit- ,' stimulating
stuff is "A
dice as its basis? If some folk : sal. As a result those who were ' Takes Stock" made of. With Rabbi
appear either in full or in part.
the
I don't like Jews and don't want to disinclined to pray or practice sit- same pungency he di
My correspondent is indignant be- In her rustling silk she'll bow
..
(Inlet
i e ern or their offices or other
e us•
e
e failed to give the various definitions of •. Jew and
i ' "I was astonished to read of Eyes
ant of
her
eyes down shy and low. businees how can anyone influence synagogue the proper ventilation; after discarding them all offers as
blue
• one of our outstanding ratAi• Glancing dew.
them? I wish the B'naiB'rith in therefore it lost touch with its , an ■
acceptableinterpretation "a
Chicago success and when they' greatest
sons and the most vital vague feeling of oneness," a con-
porter that 'Life is certainly I
have made progress I wish thee] Jewish movements,"
'hall
her—who are you?
'
scioueness
of kin. In like manner
I worth liv ing ecause
,
would
let
me
know
b
of ham and What far lards
so I can tell ,
ds and
Pleading for a redefinition of he attacks the anti-Zionists with
; eggs!"
through
pathways Jewish organizations in other cities Judaism in terms of the whole life, pnwerful thrusts. Hie snort bitter
I This statement was alleged to Came you here,
u i how to break down the barriersiRabbi Goldman says "nothing that onsla ght is reserved for Orthodox
have been made while the rabbi was Oh, my dear?•
which keep our people out of jobs enhances the
physical, ethicaLi Jewry, which i, dealt with in a
I just because they are Jews.
spiritual or esthetic welfare of the
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