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Sabbath Readings of the Law
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Pentateuchal portion—Gen. 6:9.11:32
Zionist efforts in Michigan.
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Professor Gottheil at Seventy

By BARUCH BRAUNSTEIN

Our Film Folk By- the-

By HELEN ZIGMOND

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Tidbits and News

By DAVID SCHWARTZ

(Copyright, 1532, Jewie h Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)

-I KOSHER OVER THE RADIO

There are those who will tell you that Al Smith does not use a
HOLLYWOOD.—Music is again
becoming more and more impor- correct English.
His speech the other night at Newark shows that he can not
tant to the movies , .. and you'll
be proud to know that most of only still make the most interesting speeches of any of the cam-
it is being written and directed by paigners, but that he employs some of the most rarely used words
Jews. All music on the Metro- in the dictionary.
I wonder how many people know what the word "kosher" means.
Goldwyn-Mayer lot is under the
guidance of Jack Chertok. Not I am talking of the English word "kosher."
Look in your Funk di Wagnalls and you will see it defined thus:
Finston supervises the numerous
musicals produced at Paramount "Permitted by our fulfilling requirements of law; clean, pure, usu-
- (Copyright, 1932, Jewlyh Telegraphic Agency, Inel
. he was formerly with the Vic- ally said of food, composed o r ."
You probably never heard of that word before. Yet it is there
mel
od was Dr. Hersh "See what tor Phonograph Company. At in all its glory ensconced as a member of the brotherhood of English
It is exceedingly rare to fi nd
he has done," Professor Gott- R. K. 0. there is Max Steiner,
a man of strong convh:t ions, uni-
a
Viennese
musician,
who
sur-
words.
heil quietly said one day, 'he
versally loved. Isolation, often
And Al Smith used it the other night in his Newark speech. Yet
gave all of his own as well as the vived the handicap of having been
hatred, is the price one pays for
resouces of his family and a child prodigy. Warner's head there are people that think that Al doesn't know a correct and proper
convictions. let Professor Gott-
friends, and above all he gave man is Leo Forbstein, who used word when he sees it.
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hell is such a rare person. Ile
his own life. In truth, Ilerzl is to conduct orchestras in middle-
possesses the harsh sting of the
one of the martyrs of the Jew- west theaters. Al Newman, a for- JUST AROUND THE CORNER
prophet, so tempered by an un-
mer New York East Side boy, is
ish people."
I was sitting the other day in a doctor's office and couldn't help
derstanding heart that all who
in charge at United Artists Studio overhearing it.
TRAINED HUNDREDS
know him love him.
. . . he studied in Paris and then
A young women was chopping a teapot, (and that expression,
Cheshvan
5,
5693
Professor
Gottheil
is
an
out
November 4, 1932
The Professor is primarily a
standing teacher and scholar. For conducted musical revues on by the way, ought to get in the dictionary, too) to someone at the
The Victim of a Fast.
Jew. Ile has never disavowed
Broadway. George Lipschultz, side of her. She apparently was a nurse, and she was tellins: this
45
years
he
has
taught
at
Colum-
origins, yet the homes of the
After 16 days of fasting, as an his
bia University, his alma-mater, though not at the helm, contrib- second party that she had an opportunity to get work in Rusms, but
Political Viciousness.
great of all peoples have always
and has grown with it from a utes a goodly share of the music friends here had advised her against it and had told her that here,
Politicians will stoop to anything in ultimatum to God to speed the coming of been open to him. He never bar- provincial college on Forty-ninth recorded at the Fox • lot,
too, "the revolution was just around the corner."
the Massiah, Samuel Bloch succumbed on tered his tradition for social pres- street in New York, to a wor
•
You could have knocked me over with a chocolate soda straw.
order to capture coveted offices. The
The strong convictions he
S-die Meyer, telephone girl I could have melted in the air, just like that.
the threshold of a synagogue in the vllage tige.
center
of
learning
on
Morning-
are not theories of the aca-
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viciousness, however, with which a group of Zloczow, near Lemberg, Poland. The holds
side heights. Throughout al
at a local movie palace, blushed
demicians, untouched by the re-
years, years of forgetful-
furiously the other day when BUT AREN'T WE ALL?
of anonymous bigots is seeking the defeat 53-year-old victim commenced his fast on alities of life. His convictions these
ness upon the part of many Jew-
a patron culled to ask, "When
were tested in the arena of life.
yet amazing as such sanguine faith is, I wonder, if and
for re-election of a Wayne County Jewish Yom Kippur, and as his fasting period con- Consider his work for Zionism: ish teachers, he has been firmly do you have that 'Blessed when And
a revolution does come, won't the majority of we less believing
and actively a Jew. He does not
Event?''
His
book
"Zionism"
is
a
classic
folk be equally skeptical.
official transcends all bounds of decency. tinued, doctors predicted that he would
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meet with classes on Sabbaths
The ability to divine properly impending great events is most
treating of the early stages of the
Ile has been in-
Did you know that Al Jolson rare. History shows. that the wisest are always blind. How many
There can be no objection to a campaign succumb to hunger. But Bloch persisted movement. But he left his study and holidays.
point
for
Jewis
.
rival
. . . in the days of "silents" . . . Americans thought of independence until the few months before
serving as a sacrifice in what he hoped and stood in the market place the
in
against any public official on the ground would lead to the redemption of the Jewish in behalf of Zionism. Ile was at Columbia. His influence broke his contract with D. W. July, 1776, though the struggle had been going on for years. Consult
among many generations of Jew- Griffith and quit the movies? Ile
one of the early leaders of the
be surprised now few..
of policy or merit. But when a group of
ish
without
C I students,
mbia has within
been and
vast.
lie I looked at the "rushes" (the day's your history
and you
will the Civil War offered to drink up all the
people.
movement. In the pictures of
Southerners
before
hiding
under
the
mask
of
anony-
work
before
the
camera)
in
the
the
second
Zionist
Congress,
he
blood that would be shed, so little of a war did they expect.
bigots, ,
Thus, what was a successful weapon
helped to found the colegiate
action room and thought him-
Dr. Herz' are seen standing
And why go buck to old history? Consider Mr. hoover himself.
I mity, undertakes to slur the Jewish people in the hands of Gandhi proved fatal to this and
Zionist group. He was one of
together,
together, symbol of the unfailing
Ile's a smart man. Everybody must admit that. Ile started out
founders of the Zeta Beta Tau self terrible! • . •
an
effort
to
defeat
a
Jew
for
office,
it
trust
they
had
in
each
other.
And
Jewish
martyr
in
the
cause
of
the
coming
as
a
poor farm boy. lie worked his way through college. Made
Fraternity and for years its head
in
somewhere in the background,
—the fraternity which may yet I And Edward Robinson credits millions in mining. Became an international figure in food relief.
of a Messianic era.
is time to call a halt.
scarcely discernible, are seen
rise to great heights if it presevers 1 his theatrical career to George Became president.
is a source of deep regret to us that
While history is replete with numerous some of the leaders of the move- in its motto: "Ziyon B'mishpat lArliss. When Robinson was a
I started out, too, as he did—and haven't even gotten through
ment in our day. Professor Gott-
(Zion will he redeem- j young chap he was stage-struck. the first stage. Never got through college. And there are fifty
it should have been left to a Jewish period- similar instances of self-sacrifice and mar- hell was a leading Zionist in Tipadah."
ed with judgment). The writer 1 bull his folks wouldn't hear of million like me.
early days when it was not
knows that many hours of the ! suc h a profession, as the theater
Hoover is smart. And, oh, yes, he was Secretary of Commerce.
ical to voice this protest against political tyrdom, an examination of various periods those
to be a Zionist. Thousands
in which such occurrences were particu- easy
And there he was great on preparing reports on business conditions,
Professor's workinfog r d ay (an un- I wasn't considered quite Ile respect-
of the rich and influential Jews
bigotry and indecent viciousness. It should
finally reducing business and business conditions to a science, making fore-
he ris es at able in those days.
long day
larly numerous will reveal that they were scoffed at it and would do every- usually
really have been the job of the non-Jewish times of economic and political stress. False thing to crush it. Today it is five) are still given to Jewish I wrote Arlis.s, asking the best way casts, etc.
students who come to him for 1 1 to learn the business of acting,
And yet you remember not so long ago, one recent day he
press to condemn such dishonest methods Messiahs always made their appearances much easier to be a Zionist. In help and encouragement. Proles-
came out and pontifically said, "The Worst is over," which meant to
the former days to be a Zionist
sor Gottheil has been a positive thoughtful letter of advice. This say that prosperity was just around the corner.
of villification against an entire people. during periods of oppression and want. meant to be marked as a rebel Jew in his university life. Ile letter, coming from such an es-
And the next day occurred the greatest stock crash in history.
an utter non-conformist to
advanced in the academic ma- i j timable source, made a favorable So take your choice between Herbert Hoover and the young Com-
But in the absence of a protest from such There is reason for believing that the death and
the prevailing ideas which were
chine, as an avowed Jew, and he •mpression on Robinson's family,
of
the
present
martyr
was
occasioned
by
held
for
the
solution
of
the
Jew-
munist
nurse.
a source, we take this means of condemn-
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one of the most loved i l and he was allowed to attend the
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mental anguish and fear for his sorely lob problems. Professor Cott- remains
and respected men of Columbia. American Academy of Dramat • SPINOZA'S NEPHEW WRITES A BOOK.
ing this vicious underground campaign as
heil
labored
for
his
convictions.
,
rmore'
people,
and
that
he
was
driven
Let
his
life
be
recorded
as
a
pro-
1
i
Art
in
New
York.
Furthe
later
oppressed
This year is the tercentenary of Spinoza's birth, and we may
Thousands of Jews still re:nem-
ians ,
politically and morally dishonest.
tet against thos" e "
continued to model his
ourselves for a deluge of literature on the Dutch lens-maker.
to this act by an obsession caused by want. , ber his addresses and his writ- of s Jewish birth who have s sId Ihe
career on that letter which he prepare
on
Zionism.
Though
an
Already Lewis Browne, with rare forevision of timeliness, has
tings
their birthrights for reason of still treasures.
Samuel Bloch of Poland Is not the only aristocrat by training d tea
prepared one biography of Spinoza, and now we hear that shortly
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academic
pottage.
Some
Jews
if prosli-
Benjamin de Casseres will have an opus on Spinoza.
of the present crisis. We shall prob- perament, he put himsslf
The Names of Our Schools.
there are who have risen to great
Al Santell . . . whom we
in this mass
I imagine that if one could wake up old Spinoza and ask him,
A non-Jewish reader objects to the ably never know the true number of sui- gaily
ehights in the academic world
s become
haven't
mentioned
before,
but
which in our day hamovement
he would say that he would prefer deCasseres for his biographer.
and who have lived as avowed
.
names of the branches of the United cides and of the victims of the current victorious.
who is nevertheless a lop note • h
he would say: "Sure, give my nephew a chance." Casseres is
Jews and who haze participated
director . . . was telling is a grand-grand.nephew of Spinoza.
Hebrew Schools of Detroit. He is repelled crisis which is world-wide in its effects.
HIS ZIONIST EFFORTS
in their people's life.
favorite story the other noon-
On second thought, I am not sure that Spinoza would say that.
Professor
Gottheil
has
trained
Together
with
Pinsker,
he
be-
by the idea of having schools referred to
day. It concerns • crook who Ile didn't get along, you remember, so well with his relatives.
hundreds of men and women,
lieved that the Jew dared to wait
went
to
Al'.
dentist
to
have
a
as "Philadelphia - Byron" or "Parkside-
But anyway, in this case, my advice to you is that the best
many
of
whom,
as
teachers
and
no longer for his salvation to
Pharisee vs. Essene.
tooth pulled. "Which tooth?" volume on Spinoza will be by deCasseres. And my reason is simply
Midland" branches. If it were up to him,
from without. The Jew
rabb. is and ministers, have car- •
for this: That Spinoza has been a lifelong obsession with deCasseres. I
out
David Lloyd George, Premier of Eng- come
the
D.
D.
S.
Find
asked
his words everywhere. ills
he tells us, he would name each branch land during the period of the war, unbur- must redeem himself out of his rigid
yourself," scowled the patient. can't remember when he wasn't saying one thing or another about
greatness as a teacher lies-n his
own resources. This is vital Zion-
after an outstanding Jewish personality.
pers
"I'm no squealer."
him, while Browne's book is obviously just another book to capitalize
dened himself of a pointed attack upon Sir ism—it is not only a solution for knowledge, enriched by
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sonality so frankly human. The
At first thought we were inclined to
isolated and rophaned and home-
the timeliness of the event.
Herbert Samuel, former Home Secretary less Jews. It is the regeneration influence of a teacher, living
a comfort to know that if
concur in the objection and to endorse of the British government and leader of of the whole Jewish people. Ile through his students, is a ver - the It's Marx
Brothers ever retire, ,.. s N THE PARLOR WALL.
the recommendation that an appropriate
table immortality. His students Mitzi Green can take the place of u
of it aloud, he spared none
the Liberal Party, when he stated during spoke
It is rather breath-taking to meet a man today who traces him-
have prepared a series of scholar- either or all of them . . . She
and raised his voice like a mighty
name be given each branch of the schools.
Spinoza.
ly essays, soon to be published does a perfect take-off of them se If to
debate in Parliament:
trumpet. Ile believed that the
a
But if that is nonplussing, what will the children of deCasseres
To refer to a school by a street name is
problem was a world issue
in book form, in honor of his in "Little Orphan Annie."
"The great race, of which Sir Herbert Jewish
y?
For
he married an Indian girl. I mean American Indian.
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as
and ought to be openly discussed
seventieth birthday.
comparable to such obnoxious nomencla-
Someday, Pocahontas Casseres wi
II point to two portraits adorn-
the world. This is the GREAT SCHOLAR
Twenty years ago when Eddie
ture which calls synagogues "Galitzianer Samuel is a distinguished member, used before
the
parlor
walls. One of them will be Sitting Bull and the other
corollary to vital Zionism--wheth-
Dr. Gottheil is the scholar par 1 B...en war a ki
nnually steered in aruch Spinoza. And Poky . will :ay: "Them's my grandpaps."
Schul," "Russische Schul," or "Litwische to be divided into Sadducees and Pharisees, er at Basle or Geneva—the Jew- excellence,
he has written much. through the Orpheum Circuit in B
the former taking a broad, tolerant view ish problem was dignified enough
Schul." There would, for instance, be
e
muc h , indeed, that he has of- Gus Edwards
d revues,
THEY DO COME BACK.
of their faith and doctrine, not believing to be discussed before the world! So
ten forgotten his writing and is B
up • friendship with
greater dignity attached to a school if it
Well, Lefcourt is coming back. The former newsboy who flashed
What
Professor
Gottheil
has
rtled
to
hear
them
quo-
often
st•
in
the
resurrection.
The
Pharisees,
how-
0'Mera MGrath, a stagehand. across
the horizon as a great real estate meteor, dropping huge
were to be referred to as "The Ilerzl ever, were narrow and self-righteous, done for Zionism will not be writ- ted by his students. He has en- from hundreds of other stage.
skyscrapers
on every corner lot—and then when the crash came,
ten
here.
It
is
enough
to
say
here
riched
the
scholarly
world
by
his
Branch of the United Hebrew Schools,"
Eddie
that
he
met,
but
1
hands
came down like a fizzling firecracker—is soaring again.
straining at gnats like your constitutional that he gave to it the choicest writings in the fields of Jewish
by thought him great because he ap-
rather than that it be called the "Westmin-
years
of
his
life.
When
he
felt
This
time
he enters in the role of movie producer. And seems
history,
Biblical
criticism
and
points after they had swallowed a camel, he was no longer young and vig-
plauded the youngster's songs.
researches in the fields of Arabic ' I, About six months ago, Burnt', to be succeeding.
ster-Delmar Branch."
and
professing
belief
in
the
resurrection."
orous
enough
to
meet
the
heavy
Lefcourt,
in
his crash, had at least one consolation. When one
and
other
Semitic
and
Oriental
But Bernard Isaacs, superintendent of
ne•r the old soldiers' home,
But Sir Herbert was not to be outdone, demands of a pioneer work, he languages. Although at the ' I dri•ing
after another that he had built was taken out of his hands,
slowed down at the crossing for • building
the United Hebrew Schools, immediately
cheerfully gave his tasks to
is
still
work-
his
,
"
his
name
still
shone
in the skyline of New York. He had always
age
etiring
snapping back the following remark with other men. Ile never fe l t that "r
bent•over pedestrian on • crutch.
• g.
came to the defense of the appellatives for
li e is now in Paris, on a The figure seemed f•miliar — it taken the precaution of drilling the name "Lefcourt" in the marble
ni
reference to Lloyd George's bolting from what he gave to Zionism were year's
leave
of
absence,
writing
of the structure, and the new owners preferred to keep it there
his schools when he was informed of the
the Liberal Party: "There were also Es- sacrifices; rather it was as the life of his father, the late was McGrath, now a disabled war rather than go to the considerable expense of removing it.
though he was sharing his sub-
stated objections. To quote Mr. Isaacs:
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senes who retired into the wilderness."
stance with one he loved. His
ANHEUSER AND GRETA
The Kirby School, and now the Ferry School,
Aside from the wholesome humor in the
And as Lefcourt makes his Hollywood debut, another movie
were given the name "Tushiya," meaning
producer, I hear—Samuel Freedman—had left Hollywood for Cin-
original comment as well as the retort in
"learning." In addition to the direct meaning
cinnati.
this political polemic, there is proof here
of learning, the name also contains the syllable
Freedman figures that beer is coming back and that Anheuser-
"Yah," meaning "God," therefore meaning
not only that the British statesmen know
Busch will shortly rank in the star class of money-makers with
"learning by the help of God." It. is generally
their Bible and the history of Palestine, but
Douglas Fairbanks and Greta Garbo.
synonymous with the word Torah. And it is
Well, Pabst, as you might say.
that they are quick to apply their knowl-
an euphonious name. Just repeat it a half-
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edge to their own needs. Indeed, these
do:en times to be convinced.
sure that after Hoover's election too many of "regulars." Maybe he NOT INTRODUCED
POLITICAL CLUBS
The Philadelphia-Byron Talmud Torah was
political "devils" know how to quote scrip- JEWISH
I am in receipt of a letter from ' the newspapers freely commented , is right, but when I find evidence
Speaking of something else, a quaint story comes to my ears
named "Moriah." This school was named after
Irving Chayken of Hammond, Ind., on the fact that Donovan was op- ' throughout the country that many of Dr. Rosenbach, the dealer in literary anitquities.
ture for their purpose.
Mount Moriah. Here, too, the name has the
who encloses the copy of a commun. posed by Hoover's advisors for a of our rabbis cannot find congre-
Rosenbach, it is said, on one occasion sent a wireless to Lord
in the Cabinet. Hoover him- Rations to properly su
suffix "Yah."
Talbot, owner of some of the original manuscripts of Boswell, offering
cation sent to the daily paper of his place
too
The Fenkell School. is named Neriyah,
faultabluyi a quarter of a million dollars for the documents.
A Maritime School in Palestine.
meaning "The Light of God." It also has
Jewish
Lord Talbot hurriedly, on the receipt of the wireless, summoned
allusion to Baruch, son of Neriyah, the scribe.
On the occasion of the inauguration of
tt e wit t o comment an the fact that his secretary and asked who Dr. Rosenbach was,
es i s t .
You see, therefore, that we have fine names,
t
too
great
or
m
to
r
ma
e
from
t
me
to
t
me
-gains
Qot
work
on
the
Haifa
Harbor
project,
in
1933,
Ile was told.
such un-American organizations same time I think that the presi- ONE HUNDRED A P P L ICA-
but like other important institutions we like
"Well," said his lordship, "tell him not to write to me. We
when the Prince of Wales is expected to be this statement of the leaders of dent offered him another position TIONS were received by a congre-
at the same time to tell the community where
Ind., Jewry is interest- the exact nature of which I cannot gation in need of a rabbi. That have not been introduced. •
we are located. In the beginning we were in
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Palestine's guest, an interesting project is Hammond,
in recall, and this offer Donovan seems to indicate that maybe we
the habit of writing "Tushivah," located at
announced from London by Mrs. Henrietta "We, the undersigned Jewish turned down. President Hoover is have too many.
ON BOTH SIDES THE FENCE
Kirby and Antoine, and similarly directed our
and I certainlr would
They used to tell a story about a certain congressman from
people to the other branches, but since Phila-
learn with not a bigot
Diamond. A committee is being formed in citizens of Hammond learn
and of that. le is a LOVE FOR PALESTINE
Ohio who was once asked whether he thought hamlet was a greater
delphia and Byron, Kirby and Antoine, etc.,
h ua ii er an
the
English
capitol
to
endow
a
Maritime
si attempt is l (Quaker
A young man called on me the lay than Macbeth.
?found
regret
that
Quakers
above
all
give the exact locations, the popular names
what it i to be per- other day just prior to leaving for
Training School in Palestine, for the pur- rsi :ing made to organize a Jewish .
thus developed. To omit the location would
"Down my district," he replied, "some of my constituent favor
political club in our city, according scented for religious beliefs and Palestine to continue his studies
pose of training Jews for seafaring.
mean to eliminate a certain vital point of
to a recent announcement in your should be free of prepudice against at the Hebrew University. He was' hamlet and others Macbeth. I do not care to commit myself."
But perhaps a story more apropos to a recent incident in our
information.
ethers. Without in any way con- an unusually interesting person-
Here is an additional element of romance esteemed columns.
"We believe this to be contrary meting Mr. Hoover with this corn- ality and I quizzed him a bit as American-Jewish life is the story they tell of a European writer,
With all its merit, Mr. Isaacs' defense which promises to play an interesting role to the best interests of our eom- went I am free to say Quakers who to why he was going to the Holy who wrote under different names for a conservative morning sheet
am l arge hotels in At- Land. He was enthussd over the and an afternoon liberal paper.
has the one weak point that while the in Jewish actvities in Palestine. Already, munity and country for religion and owned cert
In the morning he shot a bolt at the liberals.
n
must under no circum- antic City were among those who life there. He ARS enam ired of the
names of streets are emphasized, those of the fisherman's - post is being ably filled i politics
In the afternoon, he turned a barrage at the conservatives.
stances
be
allied.
denied
Jews
admittance.
So even work he was doing in the university
Zion.
In
Tel
Aviv
there
is
a
Marine
Life-
The friction grew, and the personalities became so acute that
the
schools
are
forgotten.
By
using
the
"We wish to assure our fellow- Quakers sometimes are not corn- and his admiration for Dr. Magnes,
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the editor of the morning daily, not knowing, of course, that
names and locations of the schools in direc- Saving Station as well as a Federation of citizens of Hammond and partici,- pletely immune from prejudice the chancellor, was limitless. To finally
have an opportunity to study under the champion of both sides was the same peraon, suggested that no
• • •
f public off
ting the community's attention to their ex- Marine Sporting Clubs. Grouped together, _y all candidates
the
inspirational
guidance
of
Dr.
other
recourse
was left to him but to challenge his opponent to a
whatsoever
party
that
no
politi-
''QUACK" RABBIS
Movies was in itself a great
istence, there is an opportunity to popular- these interesting activities, tending as they of
duel
cal organization can speak for u
le
. Something like this seems to be called for in the case of the
The life in Palestins appealed
ize Hebrew terminology and thus add to do to add to the constructive and produc- as Jews. There has never been Dr. Cyrus Adler. says there are legs. him
Jews
an d he as
felt
that
we honestly believe there never too many "quack" been
rabbis,
that is were certainly
graduated
well
off the
and prob- recent syndicated appeal that American Jewish organizations delay
the popularity of the Talmud Torahs. We tive efforts of Jewry, make of the great and
will be a 'Jewish vote in America. for • the profession. But he feels
way
than action in the case of David A. Brown's whitewashing of the Po is
experiment
in
Palestine
not
only
a
great
ably
better
off
in
every
are inclined to continue to endorse the
We vote as American citizens."
treatment of the Jews. Almost simultaneously with
in most parts of the world. Some- government's
All
the
rabbis
as
well
as
Mr.
that
there
are
not
by
any
means
romance
but
also
a
remarkable
miracle.
recommendation of our non-Jewish reader.
.
y oun g Jews of the issue of that statement, the same syndicate helped frame a state_
tiwhen
I mee t •oun
mss
Chayken, president of the B'nai
this
type
who
are
no
eager
to
spend
ment
severely
derogatory of Mr. Brown and upholding the vi
By saving words in publishing an address,
Brith, signed the protest. We hope
part
of
their
lives
in
Palestine,
voiced
by
the
Federation
of
Polish
Jews
and
leading
Polish-Jewish
a
we only lose the spirit provided by an
other communities will take a lesson 1,000 in Pilgrimage to
I wonder if I have an- newspapers.
The Anti - Semite's Mezuzah.
•
•
•
from this.
Grave of Sara Ahronstel sometimes
appropriate name. Certainly the children,
dervalued genie phases of the Zion-
In Czernowitz a police order called upon
• • •
THE
"MOSAR"
IN
JEWRY
ist
movement.
least,
should
not
be
robbed
of
the
spirit-
at
Jews to state their nationality outside their HOOVER AND A CATHOLIC
JERUSALEM.—(J. T. A.)—
• • •
Of course, this writer's ability to carry water on both shoulders
ual element with reference to the schools stores, inns, and wherever else they
A reader from Washington, D. The first pilgrimage to the
does not exculpate David A. Brown.
C.,
sends
me
the
following:
grave
of Sara Ahronson, known EMPLOYMENT PREJUDICE
.
they attend.
do business. It was an order intended to
Perhaps the least esteemed among Jews the world over i s the
Samuel Tenenbaum, in the cur-
"Concerning your statement
in as the Palestinian Joan of Arc,
rent issue of the B'nai B'rith Mag. personage known as the "mosar." The informer. The man who
single out the Jewish stores from among your column of Oct. 15, that Col. , was undertaken Oct. 18.
went to the government telling tales about his brethren.
Donovan (candidate for Governor
A thousand members of the *tine, discusses the question of
the non-Jewish ones, thus making the boy- of
We hesitate to class Mr. Brown in that category, but the clue ."
New York on the Republican' B'nai Binyamin and the Brith employment conditions in New
The Detroit Spinoza Street.
cott
of
Jewish
businesses
easy.
The
order
lion is, has not Brown himself, by his reprehensible interview with
York
and
found
that
some
of
the
ticket), was denied • place in the 1 Trumpeldor marched in the
For several months, a committee has
cabinet because he is a procession to the grave located best jobs in the city are closed to the Polish Telegraphic Agency, put himself there?
been active here in preparation for the was annulled by the Minister of Interior, Hoover
After all, we but register the fact.
Catholic, doesn't your statement ,
Jews. This is not news. He men-
•
•
•
celebration of the three-hundredth anni- but its original promulgation was another
tions a significant fact that dis-
crimination is greater against the A PRESENT UTOPIA
versary of the birth of Benedict Spinoza. evidence of the means to which those who
rank and file, but IS Jobs increase
livelihood are
Some people are waiting for Hoover to relieve the depression,
These efforts will culminate in a public would deprive Jews of a
in importance the tendency is to some for Roosevelt to end it with the return of wetness, and some
meeting which will be addressed by Will prepared to resort. The Czernowitz police with the members of the Calvert I ceeded to the grave where be tolerant as to race and creed. look ardently for the Communist upheaval. But the more disillusioned ,
invented a new mezuzah with which to
wreaths were laid and d a num- This, of course, is easily under- especially among the artist class, seem to have their mind's eye on
Durant.
propaganda: To my recollection you bar of eulogies de li
by stood. Even our good Christian Majorca, that elysium oft the coast of Spain, where, it is said, one
to ever mark
The proper tribute, however, has already carry on the work of anti-Semitic boycot- are the first writer bigot.
a couple of 'servants, the best of food and
Seriously, , the president of the colony and friends are inclined to be a little can have several rooms, day.
ters. Once upon a time it was the yellow Herbert Hoover a
The steamboats lately have been doing
broader when their businesses are wine for eighty cents a
been paid the memory of the great Dutch-
badge which was a target for anti-Semitic do you think he turned down Dons-, others.
Miss Ahronson was the head likely to be affected by ines•es,e- a rushing business to Majorca.
Jewish philosopher by the naming of a
van merely because he is a Catho- . of the volunteer pro-British tent executives. We Fs , •:d - ^ -:
But it seems, that while living is cheap there, it is not as cheap
In our time the type of mezuzah lie?"
there
street in River Rouge Park, by action of missiles.
Generally speaking, I trust to Jewish Intelligence in Pales- of this on eve,- bond But that as has been supposed. Perry Waxman, the author, who escaped
of hate proposed by the Czernowitz police
during the world war. She isn't much to their credit, because to beat the cost of living, writes: "It's not eighty cents a day— i 's
Detroit
City
Council.
This
alone
should
tine
for the basis of many' ,
the
one does not inquire very 81.60 and we dont get wine with it I do, however, get • tiled private
1917
at-
after
all
is even more deadly in that it proposed, in my memory
suicide in
of my comments. I did not go , committed
give the Spinoza Tricentennial Committee
ter having been tortured by the deeply into the religion of a life bath room and three good meal and • good b red. At a fonds you can
economic manner, to deprive Jews through the files of 1928 reasonably
to confirm ,
wel L"
I Turks. • preserver. live for seventy-two cents a day, but not vey
satisfaction that it has achieved a practical a severe
am
my
statement,
but
I
of the means of a livelihood.

Editor's Note: Professor Richard J. H. Gottheil, head of
the department of Semitic languages of Columbia University,
in the City of of New York, celebrated his s eventieth birthday
on Oct. 13, in Paris. .The writer, who is at present ■ Iso in
Paris, is studying and travelling during a year'. leave of
absence from Columbia University where he is counselor to
Jewish students. Professor Gottheil has just been award ed
■ ti honorary degree from the Jewish Institute of Religion.

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