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Fraenkel's Success
Pub liehed Weekly by The Jewleh Ch
rael to its responsibility to neglected duties,
ronicle Pubbablae Ea,
then Rabbi Goldman will have made the
By DAVID SCHWARTZ
Entered at, Second-claes rn•tter March 11, 1916, at the Peet•
Paris Correspondent Reviews
ollire at listrolt. Mich.. under the Aet of March a, 1879.
Interesting Career of Man
most important contribution of any individ-
Who Made Money in
(eoPYright, 1912, Jewiih Telegraphic Agency. Inc.)
ual Jew for the good of his afflicted people.
General Offices and Publication Building
Book Business.
By OSCAR WASSERMANN
One thing is certain: that his paper is
I MOSES DID IT PLAINLY
525 Woodward Avenue
By LOUIS ATLAS
Telephone: Cadillac 1040 Cable Address Chronicle
About five years ago, when neither Phil Slomovitz nor
destined to arouse a discussion unparalleled
had as
Lender) Office
much as one gray hair, and life seemed like one great song, we both
(copyri At, 1932,J. T. A.)
Editor's Notes—The author of the following article
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in American-Jewish controversial matters.
w or k e d
Stratford Place, London. W. 1, England
—t h
at is, Slomovitz and myself—for the Zionist Organization
is • prominent Jewish leader in Germany, actively identi-
of America.
And the mere fact that there are to be aired
Subscription, in Advance
fied with the Jewish Agency for Palestine. Herr W
' 13.00 Per Year out
PARIS.—Perhaps only a hand
I don't know whether Slomovitz recalls it. I am not sure that he
problems of poor leadership, religious
mann is a director of the Deutsche Bank. He discusses
ful of people in Ameri ca know o , was present at the time, but one afternoon several of us were gath-
To insure publiention, all eorreapondenee and news matte,
the means for Jews to preserve their unity in the face of
bootlegging, communal irresponsibility,
triu•t rowels this office by Tuesday evening of each week.
"Werther's Younger Brother." Bu ered around the nearest thing to a fireplace we had, and were talking
the present world situation,
When melding notices, kindly use one Ide of the
etc., is sufficient eventually to bring much
only
thousands of people know o of Palestine and its projects.
Michael Fraenkel, the young man!
The netroit Jewl-b Chroniele invites corre.pondenet on iub
The head of the department was among those present, and I said
good.
/eels of In rrrrr tit the Jewish people. but disclaims respon•i
(Copyright. 1912. Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)
who,
upon retiring from the book to him, "How is it that Moses led the Jews into Palestine without
hility for an
emeno et of the views eaves .•e•I oy 'h.
In discussing Rabbi Goldman's thought-
business with a small fortune, an .1 drumming around for funds from the Jews of Ethiopia, and the Jews
nounced to the world through the' of Car th
age and the
ew s J o f Ph
es nec ?"
a
provoking address, one thing must be avoid-
Sabbath Readings of the Torah.
of Harper s Magazine why
In these hard times that we
And the head of the department responded: "Well, they had a
This unity can come about in pages
Pentateuchal portion Ex. 21 :1.24 :18.
eel: a spirit of gloating over the fact that are experiencing there has no
he h a d
b u siness.
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,
Board
Miracles wor ing then, but the board had adjourned."
other way save through a
Prophetical portion I. Sam. 20:18 42.
Fraenkel's life is one of those]
Rabbi Goldman has chosen to criticize and come also for us Jews a new thought about Palestine, the
And I responded that I thought that just the contrary was true--
Res Chodesh Adar Rishon Readings of the Law,
period. Almost 150 years ago,
thought of restoration by us, idylls of which every young immi-, that the Jews of today were trying to work the miracles, but that
Sunday and Monday Num. 28:1 15.
attack the leadership of American Jewry. after
the French Revolution of
grant
dreams.
At
the
age
of
9
he,
Moses
went at it in a plain, common sense sort of way.
not in the sense of a passive
People usually derive fun out of hearing 1789, there began an epoch for Messianism
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which quietly awaits was sent to America from his home I
February 5, 1932
Shvat 28, 5692 others attacked. But the present condi- us Jews, which has now come salvation, but in the sense of a in Russian Poland to join his LOAVES AND FISHES
to an end.
parents. At 12, he ra n away I
tions have passed the stage of fun and hu-
unified and co-operative en-
Moses, I said, solved the problem of immigration in the plain.
We Jews emerged from the
from home and began to earn his , ordinary way that it has been solved immemorially, and he solved
deavor on the part of all Jews.
mor. Rabbi Goldman presents for discus- ' ghetto
full of hope, full of faith,
That Annual Federation Meeting.
It is clear that this is the right living—first as a newsboy, th e n i the problem of economics in a similar fashion. About all that he
sion
a serious matter, and once it is taken henceforth to be freed from all thought. The Palestine idea of later, as he began working his way' made the Israelites bring along with them was their cattle. That
Last Sunday, the Jewish Welfare Feder-
miseries and oppression. This
high school and college, I gave them milk—which is almost all that is necessary for food. It
Zionism has made it possible through
ation of Detroit held its annual meeting. seriously the resulting discussions may was an egregious error and re- to
as a tutor. Before h e was 15 he
I gave them also meat, and the cattle even helped to fertilize the lamd.
inspire and rouse for Juda-
Convening simultaneously with it were 15 bring the desired solutions, the wresting of mains so, because we expected ism and Jewish thoughts many was lecturing to workers on street i Moses, I said, didn't establish any universities. Nor did he go in
corners.
help, progress, development
individuals formerly alien and
for heavy expenditures for education. He gave them certain rules
constituent social service groups. And at- the present leadership from undesirable from
Ile wanted to write. It was in . of hygiene, but he didn't go in for a costly nursing system.
others which we should ex-
to them. We have another
tending this joint meeting of 16 important hands, and the building of a new and re- pect only from ourselves. What lost
his blood.
Was not his uncle'
But we Jews of today, I continued, we are trying to work min.
proof.
We
are
in
the
position
is happening today is a conse-
communal agencies were less than a hun- ±sponsible helm for Jewry of America,
(Abromovich) the Yiddish Shakes. acles of the New Testament—to feed thousands with a couple of
of Jews colonizing a country. In
pease?
quence
of
this
cardinal
error.
He
steped
himself
in
,
loaves
and fishes. We are trying to take the little money that we
but
a
few
years
there
has
arisen
dred people.
Preserving our individuality
in Palestine an agriculture the classics, and when he entered have and spread it out on a bunch of secondary things instead of
Which inspires the question; Is such a
and
preserving
our
loyalty
to
City
College,
was
already
deter-
concentrating
on settling Jews in the land.
which mty yet be greatly im-
Discriminating Jewish Employers.
Judaism we desired to penetrate
meeting worth while and profitable? Does
proved, but which indicates that mined to become a professor of
Of course, what I was saying was not new—though at the time I
The
Jewish
editorial
office
is
the
clearing
the life of the nations among
the Jew who studies in the Ye- Latin or Greek. And then one a-as not aware of it. For Justice Brandeis was contending for a con-
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whom we lived and spread
shivah, the Jew of Lodz who day, during the vacation period, he siderably similar idea—the
of building up the country economi.
spokesmen for as many very important house for Jewish troubles. Here men and among them. This was impos- dealt in clothing, can become a saw an advertisement in the news, rally, and letting the country idea
itself take care of the secondary things.
community groups should rattle off facts women come to complain against signs of sible. For centuries in the farmer, that through his elan paper. There Was a great educe- But Brandeis was rejected at, the time, with the results that are
apparent
today.
we were allotted to but
and enthusiasm to bring about tional mission to be performed'
and figures for a handful of men and wo- anti-Semitism in the press, in the pulpit, ghetto
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few callings and forcibly har-
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much good in a calling which and young men were needed, seri- „
men, most of whom are either social work- in public institutions. Employes come to nessed in them, so that when was utterly strange to him.
ous young men who wanted to IN OLE VIRGINY"
freed
we
were
unable
to
ob-
succeed
and
help
others
succeed.
You remember that story in American history about the first
ers affiliated with these groups or officers protest against discrimination in employ-
In a few years we have es-
tain another vocational orien-
He Forced His Way In.
tablished in Palestine a city
attempt of the settlers of Virginia to establish a university when Vir-
of these agencies who are of necessity ac-
tation, because emancipation
With a prospectus in his brief ginia was just a rude colony,
which today contains 46,000 in-
ment.
Every
sign
of
ill-feeling
against
the
quainted with the facts in advance?
was only an external act, since
habitants, Tel Aviv, a city in case, young Fraenkel went to
Perhaps I remember the story so well, for the fact that it was
the Jew was despised and re-
Such a system, it appears to us, is a bun- Jews is aired out at the editor's desk.
which only Jews reside, a city Monticello, N. Y., and commenced the first time that I had read the dord "damn" in a text-book.
mained so. "Toleration" was a
paign to educate America.
wherein
all
are
Jews,
from
For those who don't remember the story, let me say that some of
But the most bitter of all complaints for promising sign for us of what mayor and judge to policeman, A
dle of errors. Not only is the number of
buff by the priest of the town the settlers cane to the attorney-general of the Virginia colony with
the re cam
people who evince an interest in this rou- many months has been the protest of young would be brought to us. Tolera- night watchman and street- —the first man on whom he called an application for the establishment of a university there.
We were glad and con-
cleaner. This city is as well —was responsible for the making
The applicants said that the university would provide for the souls
tine practice too insignificant to warrant the Jews and Jewesses against the cruel and tion!
tented when we were tolerated
managed as any city elsewhere; of his career. He rang the bell a of the Virginians.
trouble taken to convene the meeting and to unfair manner in which Jewish employers and we said to ourselves that though
it has debts, they have second time and forced his way in.
And the attorney-general was rude. Ile said: "Damn their souls.
time was working in our favor.
herald its importance many weeks in ad-
He made the priest listen to him. Let them raise tobacco."
been virtually paid. I saw this
will enlighten the others;
city four years ago, where it And when he left he had in his
I was shocked and you were shocked when we read that story,
vance, but the hasty manner in which fig- practice discrimination in employment. Time
It will improve them through
a crisis somewhat sim- pocket 10 orders and a batch of but who knows but that the attorney-general w
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ures of the North End Clinic are given Without mercy, admitting that they prefer their culture, their ethics, and suffered
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otters introducing him to every
ilar to ours. Shops and fac-
one moment, and those of the Hebrew Free non-Jews on the false ground that Gentile then people will any that we too tories then came to a standstill person of prominence in the town. THE BURDEN OF DEBT
human beings with perfect-
e remained there all summer
and there was much unemploy-
I am saying all of this because it is an open secret that the princi-
Loan the next, etc., etc., cause such rapid trade demands it, these Jews—some against are
ly justified equal rights. We . went. I was then skeptical as and when he returned to headquar pal t roubles facin the Zionists now is the weight of the debt incurred
blending of reports to lose the entire pur- whom the complaints are launched are have always expected others to to how such a city could be ters, the boss made him a flatter- b y t he
provisions g for the educational system, and other s
d
purposes in the past.
step forward and improve our
pose of the meeting.
without a hinterland, ing proposition.
known as leaders in the community—com- conditions and we ourselves did ' • helped
without a harbor, without a sea-
Fraenkel refused. He went on
Instead of buying more land, and getting more settlers in there,
It appears to us that far more profitable to
little or nothing in this direc-
we went off trying to match II
shore,
supported
on
orange
establishing
the community at large, and to the agencies mit crimes a thousand times worse than tion.
is studies, became a pro- a complex school system, lest perchance some e of on—and
the ounger
Pales-
orchards in the vicinity. But
fessor, as he had intended, and tinians might be able to conjugate the Greek verb, andsent nurses to
We cannot today, as formerly, : the city was helped, not because
Involved, would be to broadcast the,reports were those of the bloody murders in po-
began to write poetry, which ap- teach them how to use the toothbrush. I am not against the use of
as
centuries
ago,
take
Jews
and
the
government
helped
it
or
be-
containing these facts and figures Yong be- groms. They not only rob their flesh and Judaism as synonymous terms. . cause help crone from without, peared in various magazines both toothbrushes, but I might point out that for at least 100 years after
fore the annual meeting. It costs very little blood of the means of a livelihood, but they Today they are quite distinct. but because 38,000 Jews daily America.
here on the
Continent
and in the establishment of the 13 original colonies in America there wasn't
Another
proposition
a
to mimeograph a set of reports and financial also almost justify the discrimination of And we must admit that for a I sought a way out of their mis- came from th ebook concern and solitary toothbrush in one of them.
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large part of us, life has become
ery through self-help. And they eventually he yielded.
statements, and the small expense enables non-Jews.
completely denuded of its Jew-
emerged successfully. The city
But at 30 I will quit," he BLUNDERING GOVERNMENTS•
those who receive the reports to study them.
ish content. How may we find
is today without any unemploy- said. "I will then devote myself
Speaking of Zionist blunders, we may perhaps find dubious con-
How are we to complain against Gentiles a way out? Those Jews who ment and not a single industry to writing." In a few years, he solation in the similar blundering of general nun-Jewish statesman.
After such distribution of reports, the
have abjured their Judaism
collapsed and it is our hope that had set up his own business. He ship. The thought comes to me with particular force after reading a
Federation would have the satisfaction of who demand "Christians only," when Jews gradually
deserted us. German
it will not have to suffer under had managers and sub-managers. little booklet on the present depression by Laurence A. Steinhardt, a
knowing that it offued the community a subscribe to bigoted choice of employes on Judaism was always strength- the present world crisis more He advertised for college students. partner of the firm of Guggenheim-Untermeyer, of which the late
than
is necessary.
ened
by
East
European
Jews;
Ile took over an entire floor in the Louis Marshall was a member,
chance to study the achievements of its the basis not of merit but of religion—and
but now also this has ceased.'
Consider, for instance, the following paragraph from the afore.
GET MORE THAN YOU Strauss building on Fifth avenue.
constituent organizations, and that failure at the expense of their own. They use the RECALLS HIS VISIT TO PAL- YOU
GIVE
Ile had a branch office in Chicago. said booklet: "At a time when it was generally known that Europe,
South America and the Orient
on the part of Jews to join in a discussion
ESTINE
It is important to remember
When Enough Is Enough
g great d eulty
Then one day he looked at his their national and commercial debts to the United (St ates, I pa‘f ing
that he who is interested in Pal-
of these reports is due to communal indffer- argument that their trade is non-Jewish and
Now it is a question of find-
nd hen
the total of these debts vastly exceeded the tota
estine
and
actually
takes
a
part
therefore
their
sales
and
other
forces
must
ing
something
l go
that may be
ld su pp y a o bust-
ence for which the Federation is not respon-
bank account. It was enough. He world, the resident of th United
States, who had
promised
the
in what is happening there, co- notified
his associates that he was ness administration and to e
maintained in support of Juin-
do o n away with poverty and unemployment,
sible. But the Federation should at least be Gentile. Have you ever heard a non- lam, new ideals, new thoughts. operates with Me spirit demon-
retiring
for
good.
They
thought
called
the
Congress
of
the
United
States
into
special
session
for
the
attempt to inspire interest by making the Jew say that he must have a thoroughly We lack every central authority, strated there and supports the the
he had
his wits. Ile a was
on sole and express purpose of increasing the tariff."
way lost
to becoming
million-
work there, such an individual
means of cohesion which
reports of its constituent agencies available Jewish sales force because his trade is Jew- every
Think over one of these sentences again: Trying to get as pay-
will realize that he receives aire!
might make it possible to bring
he said, "I'm ment of debts more gold than there is in the world. Who tried to
t oa larger audience than a hundred men ish? Of course not. It took a bigoted Jew- about regeneration of the Jew- more from Palestine than what through. "No,"
The wise man is he who do this? Why, our own greatest statesmen.
he can give it. Ile sees there a knows when he has had enough,"
and women.
ish content in our life and to
Almost immediately thereafter
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ish mind to concoct such a reason.
land in the making, a land with
supply a remedy against the
"QUOTES"
Jewish settlements, a land he sat down and wrote "Why
great division in order to make
Quit
What
is
to
be
done
about
such
discrimin-
Bus
iness."
Samuel Hoffenstein, poet and movie writer: "We writers for the
It was p bl
a way for the Jews in establish. where Jews can live and work,
d
Bialik and Jabotinsky.
motion
pictures, here we work our at
not as among as in the Dias- anonymo usly. "IVhy did I uishe
quit?" from our lords and masters, and wh findo
gerswe to the bone, take abuse
an improvement of the rela-
For the first time, and exclusively in The ation on the part of men who forget that ing
he wrote. "Because I was too tune."
pora, where Jews, after all,
get out of it? A for-
tionship to our environment
much in love e with it. Business is
they
belong
to
a
race
which
has
suffered
for
but
tolerated,
but
a
land
where
generally prevalent. And there
Detroit Jewish Chronicle, English readers
al
a
does no
Dr. Abraham A. Brill: "Valentines are symbols. They are
they
are
naturally
and
unapolo-
is
but
one
possibility
for
the
pre- often startling avowals of desire and frustration."
were presented recently with a transla- centuries from bigotry and prejudice? It Jews to Join closely in one getically Jews and as such can vides! one is not too successful.
Mr Pine Tvy
k y, a fellow literateur, erstwhile from Chicago
F
ers
. . . rom my own personal ex- wrdes a letter to
this
de rt
tion from the Hebrew of Chaim Nachman is time that men whose opinions count in unity and that is Palestine.
(Turn to NeP
x t age.)
pa ment, which I should print if for no
(Turn to Next Page),
other reason than its flatterMg
this
community
speak
up
and
begin
to
act
beginning.
Bialik's latest poem, "Again I Have Be-
a
can't print the whole letter, replete though it I is am
withfraid,
though, I
-
in
remedying
this
shameful
condition.
No
quancies,
for
held You Powerless." The Chronicle is
-- the F. reason
that
Jewish
columnists
can't
afford
to
do pi those
kings.
P. A. and
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one
who
tolerates
such
discrimination
in
his
Heywood Broun can very often fill their columns with
pleased to have been in position to publish
the contributions of others, but when a Jewish columnist does that he
by Charles
this poem in English, in a translation pre- business organization deserves to be count-
gets no pay. "You didn't write it, did you," says the boss, "why
ed
as
a
member
of
the
community
should
you get money for it?" So I will merely reprint the last
H. Joseph
pared for it by Jeremiah Haggai, an able

Crisis Brings Dawn of New
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paragraph. At the most, they can only deduct about a hundred
dollars for such a small contribution,
"In conclusion," writes Twelsky, "I have one more vers
right nn the heels of the depres-
e to add
War affects every person in the shin! I guess Japan thought the treaty with Tripoli. Read it, you to your free translation et "Zell ich rein a Melammed?"
world whether or not our country rest of the world had so many Blue Law advocates! "The gov-
"'Shall I be a writer,
is actively engaged. This is writ- troubles she could get away with ernment of the United States of
Replies the rejectionslipstic;
America IS NOT IN ANY SENSE
Shall I be a fighter,
ten on Sunday, Jan. 31, and I have murder!
FOUNDED ON THE CHRISTIAN
just finished` reading the news-
s ar e pacifitic.'
s
—.—
"Plenty
of
Isores,'
Mbet eves nee
. In face of this it
paper reports of the Sino-Japan RELIGION AND U. S.
e, whata life, whata life."
seems
incredible
200
years
later
eau trouble. The trouble appar
You're
right, Pine—whata life! But as Commodore Decatur said,
Thanks to B. H. Hartogensis,
"don't
give
up the slips."
ently seems to be that Japan ha 5- Esq., of Baltimore, a zealous i that sectarians still insist that this
had inferior press-agent wor k worker in the cause of religious 11 a Christian nation and that the
coupled with its misjudgment in liberty in this counts and h courts of some states have so
de it 19 true that the URGES SYNAGOGUE
doing the "Kaiser" act in Shang has contributed many valuable ar- ruled.
S rsium on "The Synagogue, Its
hal.
The Japanese always im tidies on the subject, I am in re- nterpretation is g e n e r a I 1 y a
e;ea.t!on to Modern thought
pressed me as being smart folk ceipt of a sermon prepared by the 'loose" one based upon the fact ASSUME DUTY FO
and
but it looks at this distance tha t Rev. C. S. Longaere which will be that most of the population are COMMUNAL EFFOR
TS
they got off on the wrong too t delivered in the Seventh Day Ad. believers in Christianity, neverth
Ludwig Vogelstein, chairman of
neverthe-
less, even such an oblique recogni-
the board, reviewed the activities
when they were jockeyed int o
ventiat churches on the
(Continued from Page One.)
of the organization since its found.
position which forced them to of the George Washington bicen- t ion is contrary to the spirit of the
ing
founders
of
the
nation.
We
have
slaughtering civilians in the city .tennary. There are only one or a
in 1873 by Rabbi Isaac Wise.
of Shanghai.
The organization, he pointed out,
We are used to two quotations I have room to e t this hour in our public schools jests; they would also do su
ch hash 2 58 congregati
much in time of war but none of make but they will interest those t xercises that are definitely con: clinical work as the nature of t ere.
ona affiliated
h
swait
. it with a
us have yet been able to stomach who are fighting today for re- f rary to what Washington fought subject made possible. In tu urn
id membership
of
name be
of religious free- they would instruct the
58,871. "We are trying to me-
the bombardment from the skies ligious liberty in these United or d in It the
might
pu
a good idea generally in behalf of the au b
lic er
serve the faith of our fathers in
of thickly populated ciaies. It States. Washington had to op- dom.
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the schools have exercises in which they would thus be tot sea the light of modern thought," he
savors too much of cold-blooded, pose a great deal of fanatical sec- v.hen
c
unwarranted murder and nothing tarianism in his day. There was b ommemorating the two hundreth sated; they would labor for su
the Japs did in Mukden or Man- a demand to make this a CHRIS- irthday of Washington to READ cause s by arousing public inter t d.'
The organization this year had
EXCERPTS
FROM Ills PAPERS
' st. a deficit of $3,150 for 1931, its in-
churia over a period of months TIAN country and the
ther e'. '
F
''
en D
has harmed her good will with the went as far as to demand that 1 EALING WITH RELIGIOUS Would HparovpeolamisporatacicsotnE
linffg
ant • come being $222.632, while its
relit of the world as the few Christ and Christianity be OFFI- „IBERTY.
expenditures totalled $225,785,
—s,..-.
hours of uncalled-for slaughtering CIALLY recognized in the Consti- s
their
author,
are
made
to
affect
t to George Zepin, secretary of the
of civilians in Shanghai. China has tution by an act of Congress.
TUDENTS AND SABBATH
three m
he
board,
announced. Economy will
oragjaonr izme
at in
soid:r ata,
i
m . be necessary in the coming
had irresponsible government and
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Seattle Jewry is much excited munal
to
f i'rh ace a if the organization is to meet year
Japan has been plenty of ground WASHINGTON'S ATTITUDE
0
its
for provocation. But there was
ed
Washington, however, resolute- s i ver the decision of the Calves- Zrwhilsahnelni;e
fi n ' rneach)f cocnri lin'unr! it y, obligations, he said. The sum of
no excuse for her invasion of ly opposed such action and pointed h ty of Washington Law School to not so much for
the purpose of i
$50,000 was contributed to the
Shanghai. Unless the Jays have out the inherent dangers of giving D old sessions on Saturday. The being
Union in the past year by the
ready upon occasion t is
lost their reason completely they to the Christian religion official th can of the Law School realizes spring into
action on behalf o National Federation of Sisters
surely will not invite war with the sanction. He showed that it would st e effect it might have on Jewish' Jewish causes,
of f;
a
s rather
of havin
whole civilized world. Neverthe- be a denial of religious freedom iu udents, but he insists the curries'. it continuously working
for
the
less the situation is so charged and the equality of all faiths be-
O
m demands it. Now let's put a 2, to have every member of t
dollars
to the S3.000,000 endow-
with dynamite, no one will dare fore the law. But we find this ertinent question or two. What Jewish community interested
he ment funds of the Hebrew Union
to predict the final extent of the startling statement inspired by nes each Jewish student now do
Jewish
damage. It is interesting to those
ashington in the draft of the t. n Saturdays? Does he refrain gaged work by being actively e in College are to be spent within the
coming year, the board decided
in some form of it most co ❑ a"
who have memories to recall that
om all work and does he b .
-
T he nu m b er o f stud
o him, and incidentall
Japan is playing exactly the same
en ts at th e
the Sabbath? When he is ad- thereby to have
y
Hebrew
Union College
game and using the same tactics in
that work di
was se-
mitted to the practice of law will tributed as fairly in the comma
a- duced by 18 per cent this year
this war with China (because it is
That Word "Kibbitzern
he refuse to take cases on Satur- ity as possible; 3, to interest s n- because of the difficulty of plac-
a war) as she employed in her
day or will he be satisfied in view .
ing rabbinical graduates in syna-
young people in the sot l, 5-
conflict with Russia. Her methods
of "practiclisteb
al usine ss" consider. ' pecially
By Rabbi Louis I. Newman,
•• gogue posts,
ing o f Jewis communal
Gong t o
are surprise attacks — planned
Dr. Julian Morgen-
n to his client's perfo rmance h roblems and th e rsetepronr,ted
c
MONTHS and YEARS in advance.
the institution's president,
ommunal work.
on the holiday? Now these are
The derivation
"Kitihitzer" questions that should not
These radical changes are need
We now have an opportunity
be evad- ed in order
from the German word of "Hie-
to find the true value of the
to restore the syna
League of Nations and the world's
hitz," meaning the lapwing that ed. Sometimes I think that we Rogue to its former position as th -
THE PAINTER'S JEW
ourselves are too intolerant of the center
e
peace propaganda. In the mean- fluttira ah'ut the other birds'
from which emanates al l
other
side.
If
there
are
any
stu-
worthy
communal
work, Judg
By Jew. E. Sampter.
time Mr. Brisbane is foolishly ex- nests, has not met with universal
cited over the possibilities of at- agreement. I am told repeatedly dents who have conscientious ob. Stern awned. Synagogue ac An artist tried to paint a Jew
jections
to
studying
on
Saturday,
tivities
have
shrunken,
and
more
that the word comes from the
from Japanese airplanes on
perhaps
An outcast beggar that he knew
Shulamith Schwartz, newly elected na- tacks
they can arrange to study over there is nothing distinctive'
our seacoast cities.
we went Hebrew "Kabatz," meaning to some other
time. But I fail to see
In Amsterdam of old;
tional president of Junior Hadas ,.ah, is the to war with Japan I If
Jewish about the program ar Y' He painted rags
hardly be- gather in, to collect. I was told
where
all
Jewry
has
to
rise
up
and
ranged
by
its
organization.
Ex
and grime with
recently
that
the
word
for
the
that the Japanese would rare
protest against a
daughter of the poet and Hebrew scholar, ' lieve
to go far from home and
university hold. plaining the causes for this, he Yet, throaurge
it's quite tent in which the Mongols as- ing sessions on Saturday.
Dr. A. S. Schwartz, and granddaughter of a nifty flying
And
said
it
is
h
the
truth
he pictured
due
trip, if you stop to sembled to converse is "Kibbit-
there,
part to the
are fact
not
the renowned lecturer, Rev, Zvi Hirsch measure it over the oceans. And ka." I am still inclined to favor particularly if some of the Jewish that synagogue in members
He
knew
not
what
he
told.
the Japs might have some trouble
students
or
perhaps
ALL
of
them
called
upon
to
do
work
which
is
Rabhi Freehofs suggestion of
Masliansky, What an argument for the , i
do not observe the Sabbath. Soon co-related to the general scope He called it "Jewish Beggar."—See
its origin in "Kiebitz." though
n getting back home again. There
we
will
be
asked
to
establish
importance of heredity in moulding human will
be no world war but
there will so many pspular Yiddish wards
Jewish university because the J a and plan of activities as a whole . , How clear an artist's eyes can be,
character and ability!
be a lot of trouble in getting the are derived from the Hebrew is
Judge St ern's project was
What light his visions bring!
oys are
pre- Althou
gh
asked to study on pared at the request of the Council
grimee
painted rags and
situation ironed out. And this,' rather than from the German.
the
Sabbath!
Let's
not
be
such
of
the
Union of American Hebrew
fussbudget&
Congregations as part of a spur. Yet, gracious, noble and sublime,
The Dictum shows a king,

young student who has mastered Hebrew,
Jewish Conciliation Court.
because of the controversy that these verses
When, several weeks ago, we pointed to
have aroused in many Jewish centers
the value of Jewish arbitration courts, we
throughout the world.
did not realize that the progress thus far
Interpreting this poem as an attack upon made by already existing institutions of
the Zionist-Revisionists, the militant leader this type is much more far-reaching than
'A this militant party, Vladimir Jabotinsky, has been expected, The Jewish Concilia-
so severely attacked the great Jewish poet tion Court of America, at its recent annual
that a controversy has arisen creating much meeting at which Dr. Israel Goldstein of
Congregation B'nai Jeshurin of New York
ill-feeling. Thus far, however, and rightly , was re-elected president, reported such an
so, Jabotinsky stands alone in his attack interesting and steady growth that other
upon Bialik, and his invectives do little cre- communities ought to be encouraged to es-
tablish similar institutions.
dit to the Revisionist leader.
Louis Richman, executive secretary at the
Jabotinsky, in an article in the Jewish
Morning Journal of New York, assumes to New York court, in his annual report, point-
speak in the name of the Jewish people in ed out that this tribunal has been operating
under state arbitration law and has on two
demanding that Bialik be forgotten, that important occasions been backed in its de-
his works be removed from Jewish schools, cisions by the State Supreme Court, What
that his name be erased from memory be- is of especial importance is the fact that
cause of his attack upon the Revisionists. this arbitration court seeks to solve dis-
It is difficult to understand such a viewpoint. putes affecting Jewish religious and educa-
Isn't there still room in Jewish life for ser- tional institutions, persons whose lack of
knowledge of English would make their
ious differences of opinion on political, rel- appearance in civil courts difficult, and
igious, social and economic matters? And othe'r matters which, from a Jewish view-
why is Bialik's view not to be honored as point, do us more credit in a strictly Jewish
much as Jabotinskv's?
court than in a civil tribunal.
One answer alone can possibly be given
To quote one instance of the value of
to the entire controversy: that the works this court, Mr. Richman states in his report
of one of the greatest Hebrew writers in that "the committee has made efforts and
rrany generations is not so easily erasable; succeeded in placing old and indigent par-
that Bialik's name will live in spite of the ents in institutions where they could be
militant opposition of Revisionism; that cared for W a much better manner than at
there is still room for tolerance in Jewish the homes of sometimes unkind and un-
life towards the views and opinions of Synilikthetic children."
i. others.
Of such unquestioned value is the Jewish
arbitration court that its establishment in
A Rabbi Takes Stock.
every community in the land would react
Rabbi Solomon Goldman of Chicago took to the greakbenefit of Jewry.
stock in the brilliant paper he read during

the symposium of the Jewish Welfare Fed-
eration of Detroit. The result of his in-
ventory of conditions in American Jewry
wed a very stagnant pool to be running
h the heart of American Israel,
e salient points of Rabbi Goldman's
Ily interesting study of conditions in
Jewish communities, reprinSed• else-

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