PiEDLTROITJEMileiRONICLA
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and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE
By- the-Way
Tidbits and News
16
among the Jews on p. 596 of the Hibbert
Journal for July, 1932, is not justified by
By DAVID SCHWARTZ
the evidence, I hereby withdraw the note.'
and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE
(Copyright. 1932, Jewish Telegraphic Agency. 1nel
By HELEN ZIGMOND
"Dr. ,F. J. Foakes-Jackson, an authority
Pulilleised Weekly by The Jewish Claweicbs Publishing C•., Ir.
THE PASSING OF REINACH
Ilwbored as ileerosd-lone matter March 1. DM at the Peet•
cited in the note, writes from New York as
By ARTHUR MEYEROWITZ
HOLLYWOOD. — Ed Wynn's
elle* at Detroit, Minh, ander the Aet of March a, 11111.
The death of Solomon Reinach in Paris undoubtedly removes a
follows:
favorite quip is about the doctor great scholar and a great Jew, though opinion would perhaps differ
General Offices and Publication Building
(Caparight, 1992. Jewish Telegraphic Agency. lne
who
cured
Ed's
uncle
of
drinking
as to whether one would describe him as a "Jewish" Jew.
" 'I deeply regret that the writer on
by removing a piece of brass rail
525 Woodward Avenue
He was, of course, active in Jewish affairs and interested in the
things are His creatures; He is that had been pressing on his foot Jewish scene, but if my impression is correct, he had little hope for
Three centuries have passed
Tehrimasat Cadillac 1040. Cable Addreest Chronicle "Biblical Mistranslation" has seen fit to
Lemke Offiros
the first cause; the all-absorbing for 20 years.
since Baruch Spinoza was born
a Jewish future, disbelieved in Zionism and was quite severe about
use
my
name
in
connection
with
the
"blood
14 Stretford Piero, London, W. 1, England
By the way . . . you've known some things of the Jewish past.
unity of the universe. Spinoza's
—November 24, 1532—but Spin-
formula, on the other hand, is: all along . where Ed got his
oza is one of those great figures
Subscription, in Advance-- ...... ---$3.00 Per Year charge" which has done so much harm to
It has been some time since I looked into his "Orpheus," the
"Deus, sive, natua, sive cause nom de theatre . . . evolved it
in human history whose impor-
the Jewish community in many ages. No tance and influence grows with prima,"—God, or nature, or first from his own middle monicker, classic on the religions of the world, but I recall for one thing, for
IN bear. publication. all •ormpoodene• and Dews matt.*
sent reads this Ob.. by Tuesday evening of ash week.
all three of which are iden- his full tag being Israel Edwin example, that he regarded the act of Moses in setting aside one day
one who knows me, or has even glanced at the lapse of time. Today, Spin- cause,
only,
M ► sa tallied mullets, kindly nee ma side of the P.P.
tical. In the Alexandrian epoch Leopold. Because his ether pop- of the week as a day of rest, merely as an act of codifying a taboo.
oza, his saintly personality, his
my
book
on
Josephus,
could
believe
that
I
of
Jewish
history Philo Judaeus ularity is no great, the producers In other words, that Moses was not animated by any feeling in the
philosophy,
is
more
of
a
living
Tbe Detroit Jewish Chrookle inviter correepondeure on sub.
was confronted with a similar hereabouts are dusting off his old matter for the necessity of a day of rest, but acted purely from
influence than it has ever been be-
limbs of hitereet I. the Jewish people. but disclaim. respomb
have ever countenanced that charge.'"
Nay for an indorsement of the views exproseed by the writers
problem, trying to bridge over the pictures to see where they didn't superstition.
fore. As Jews we are particular-
• • •
Irresponsible editing which caused such ly proud of the contribution that pantheism of Plottnus, the Neo- do right by our Ed..
Sabbath Readings of the Law
MOSES AND THE SABBATH
Platonic, with the "Nus" of the
this son of our people, one of the
Pentateuchal portion—Gen. 18:1-22:24
an outrageous charge to creep into the greatest thinkers of all times, Bible, the One God of Israel. In
This announcement ekes out
A mere layman hesitates to take up the cudgels against a savant
Prophetical portion—II Kings 4:1-37
spite of all dry mathematical for-
god-intoxicated mystic, as he
of the Goldwyn film factory:
of the Reinach type, but it seems to me that the Reinach contention
pages of so important a journal is only the
mula in which Spinoza expounds
was called, has made to the ad-
"A last and final change will
cannot be altogether true. The whole life of Moses seems to negate
Cheshvan 19, 5693 partially atoned for by this apology. In vancement and enlightment of his philosophic system, he cannot be made in the title of Samuel the view that he was prone to the mystical or superstititous aspects
November 18, 1932
humanity. I will confine myself
escape the emotional seasoning of
picturiution of the of religion. The whole Biblical story presents him more in the guise
view of its stupidity and falsehood, Ilibbert to a few aspects of his philosophy Jewish piety and Jewish belief in Goldwyn's
stage success Tyner.' . . It of a social reformer rather than a metaphysician.
God
as
practiced
by
his
parents
which
show
Jewish
though
and
The B'nai B'rith Celebration.
Journal should have been much more out-
will be called Tyner..." That
The laws against usury, the land laws of the Bible, the kW of
and his fellow Jews for genera-
Jewish influence.
The community's spotlight is on Pisgah
and the election being settled,
the jubilee or debt repudiation, the various humanitarian regulations
tions, in the Jewish ritual, in the
spoken not only in its withdrawal but also
we can all go back to work.
To every student of Spinoza, it
all
seem
to present the figure of a leader more interested in prevent-
Lodge of B'nai B'rith. Having reached its
synagogue, in the Jewish prayer-
clear that his whole system of
ing the exploitation of the under dog than one trying to get them
book, and in the Jewish home
seventy-fifth birthday, the local branch of in its condemnation of the view originally is
A
staff
of
mathematicians,
stati-
philosophy, his way of thinking
into
a
mythical
heaven after this life is over.
every action in daily life is
the international order has the good wishes propounded in its pages. But perhaps we and mode of living, are based where
either connected with or attribut- sticians and what-have-you has
What theology indeed is presented to us by Moses is of a medium
upon
two
outstanding
facts,
finally
balanced
the
books
on
the
of all elements for continued service in be- should be satisfied that a scholar of the namely, his early Jewish educa- ed to God. The Jewish philosophy
kind. Instead of the plurality and ever-present gods of all types,
the medieval age as it flourish. Olympic games . . . to find the Moses forces the Israelites to content themselves with one unknow-
half of Jewry.
standing of Dr. Foakes-Jackson was at tion in the rabbinical school of of
amazing sum of $1,000,000 on the
ed
on
the
Iberian
peninsula,
the
invisible spirit. Of the after life, he is conspicuously silent,
B'nai B'rith's contributions and activities least honorable enough to condemn the Amsterdam, and his introduction native land of Spinoza's parents, black side of the ledger . . . and able,
in the natural sciences, particu-
the flicker producers, who stay up and he appears to try to keep the Israelites from overspeculation in
were ably described in a series of articles
is
full
of
this
unique
mixture
of
the
matter
by the ban on seances and the like. His stand was not
larly physics and mathematics,
exaltations of Jewish nights figuring out what the pub- unlike that of Thomas Paine: One world at a time.
which we were pleased to publish from the charge and to express regret at the misuse which stood in the center of edu- pantheistic
lic wants, are frankly puzzled ...
monotheism.
Spinoza
studied
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pen of Edward E. Grusd, associate editor of his name in the original unfortunate cation at that particular period. these medieval philosophers, par- how could a show with three-dol- REINACH'S POLICY
His Jewish learning and studies
of the B'nai B'rith Magazine. In this series, footnote in the article by the writer from have laid the foundation for his ticularly Ibn Gabirol, Chasdai lar top and an eight-day run pack
Reinach was peculiar among authors in one respect. It is said
Crescas, and that sceptic poet, that much profit?
moral education, his system of
the final article of which appears in this India.
that of the numerous editions of his works that appeared from time
Abraham Ibn Ezra. Not only in
ethics,
which
name
he
gave
to
to
time,
no two were ever Identical. Ile was always correcting them,
During a recent golf tourna-
issue, B'nai B'rith's spokesman convinc-
Ibn Gabirol's famous work, a
the most important and immortal
ment Chico Marx was asked by as more information came to him, and he protested against the com-
classic of medieval philosophy,
ingly outlined the efforts of the order and
of all his works, namely, the
mon
tendency
of historians of allowing their first editions to remain
a cameramen to pose with the
"Mekor Chayim " or in the Latin
"Ethica." About the inner de-
Jews in High Political Offices.
its aspirations along two lines: that of edu-
translation, "foss Vitae," but
trophies. "Look up, and smile," final•
velopment of Spinoza, particu-
Michigan Jewry, for whom the last elec- larly in the early years of his particularly in his "Kether IMal- directed the photographer. "Not
cation and of defense of Jewish rights.
Perhaps had Reinach lived longer, he would have altered his
" "The Royal Crown,"—as
with the score I had," moaned
animadversions on Moses—and Zionism,
In its efforts in behalf of these two aims tion passed without any outstanding selec- life, we know very little, his edu- chat
may
be
read
in
the
classic
Eng-
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Chico.
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B'nai B'rith, and particularly the local Pis tion of Jews to public office, has that great cation at the very best took an lish translation of Israel Zang-
JEWS ON JEWS
irregular course, Two elements,
Doug, Jr., has been elected
gah Lodge, have our sincere good wishes satisfaction of sharing with the Jewish peo- however, of his philosophy are will—we find this dangerous
I am afraid that, as a whole, we will get scant justice from Jewish
between Jewish mono- president of the newly-formed
ple at large the knowledge that lead- particularly discernible and sig- proximity
theism and Spinoza's pantheism. Hollywood Chess Club .. . Ile's writers on great Jewish figures. Especially in the matter of religion.
nificant,
namely,
the
Jewish
ing Jews have been honored with impor- sources and the influence of the
Read what a writer like Reinach mid about Moses, and what a
Hadassah's Luncheon.
The fact that Spinoza became an expert player.
lesser man, say Lewis Browne, says, and then compare with what
the founder and originator of
Detroit Iladassah's $20 donor luncheon , tant political positions by several of the natural sciences.
a "goy", Ilenry George, says about him.
modern
"Bibelkritik"
(Bible
Before
leaving
for
Washington.
to be held on December 20, represents a states in the Union. Not only has New York DEEP-ROOTED JUDAISM
criticism) is naturally due to his President Hoover paid a visit
Where the Jewish writer is apt to depreciate, Henry George
challenge to the responsiveness of the com e elected Herbert H. Lehman and Illinois ele-
Hebrew learning and his famil- to Louis B. Mayer. This was takes off his shoes, metaphorically speaking, before his presence.
His philosophic conceptions are
munity. Similar luncheons sponsored dur - vated Judge Henry H. Horner to their gov- deeprooted in the religious liter- iarity with historic Jewish tradi- a thank you call in recognition of Perhaps George could appreciate Moses BO well, because he himself
tions. The space does not permit the latter's work in the campaign was of the same stoical reformer type. I contend that the best
and culture of Judaism. No
ing the past three years were outstanding ernorships, but other states have also given ature
to discuss the amazing analysis . . . and will probably mark thing ever written about Moses was the essay on him by the California
matter how great his opposition
successes. In view of the increased anxiety positions of importance to Jews. New against traditional Judaism was, and criticism to which Spinoza Mayer"s retirement from politics. printer and father of the single tax, Henry George.
the Bible and other Iloly It is logical to suppose that with
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over the existing economic situation, i t Mexico re-elected Governor Arthur Selig- it cannot be denied that his phil- subjects
Scriptures. Spinoza remains the Roosevelt's inauguration, Jack JEWS ON GANDHI
osophy and particularly the ethi-
would be surprising to learn that the com - man to a second term. A fourth Jewish cal
originator and the source of the Warner will become the political
outlines of his system received
The Jews somehow have a weakness for foreign gods. Our own
munity is responding as readily as it did governor now in office is Julius L. Meier of the first impetus from his inheri- later sciences such as Bible Crit- potentate of cinemaland.
representatives are apt to be more appreciative of the virtues of a
Comparative Religion, etc.,
Oregon. A number of Jewish newspapers ted Jewish spirit. This can be icism,
on previous occasions.
Jesus
than of a Moses, At any Jewish women's circle, you can always
of
which
such
modern
scholars
Kenneth McKenna, erstwhile
best illustrated by comparison.'
The unfortunate harvest reaped by the saw fit to include in the list of Jewish gov- While Spinoza's teacher and the like Welhausen, David Friedrich, actor-director, is in New York be sure of hearing the praises of Mahatma Gandhi.
I have no objections to the praises of Gandhi. Unquestionably
depression includes among its victims nu - ernors the name of Governor-elect David outstanding philosopher of his Strauss, Schuerer, etc., are out- rehearsing for • play, and wifie
standing examples. What does
the Frenchman Rene Des-
Kay Francis was so.o-o lone• he is a significant and shrewd figure (I use the word shrewd advisedly)
merous important non-local causes. Ha - Scholtz of Florida, whose parents were time,
the revelation on hit. Sinai mean
cartes, whose aim , like Spinoza's
some after leaving him to return but nevertheless, isn't there any tendency among certain types of
dassah, ministering as it does to the needs Russian-Jewish immigrants. The Jewish is to seek and find the truth for as accepted by the Bible? Spin- to the Warner Studio that she Jews to overpraise him.
answers and deductions are
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wept all across the continent.
of a populaton several thousands of miles Telegraphic Agency reveals, however, that truth's Bake, as Descartes says oza's
not destructive, but, to the con-
matter what the result, Spin-
On her arrival she discovered WHAT ABOUT INDIA?
remote from American shores, is in danger Mr. Scholtz is a Congregationalist, a fact no
trary, constructive—filled with
oza declares that his aim was to
her next picture wouldn't start
After all, we must judge a leader by his fruits. Moses produced
of suffering from the cry that charity that was emphasized in his political cam- find tranquility and happiness of religious piety and moral pre- for a month, so she hopped a Israel.
India—modern India—is part the product of Gandhi. Well,
cepts. It is true that the Bible
the soul in the intellectual love
plane back to hubby. Sounds what have we in India.
should begin- at home. This is a cry tha t paign.
is
not
a
piece
of
literature,
whose
and recognition of God. It is
like real love in reel-land.
is dangerous from two viewpoints. In the
In addition to numerous county, state significant that Spinoza called chief aim is to teach us a proper
It seems to me that if there is one mad-house in the world it is
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India.
of life, that God's ob-
first place, it endangers the position of an and local offices won by Jews, the follow- his whole system of philosophy conduct
ject as revealed in the Bible is • After a very high-grade im-
"ethics." llerein we may recog-
Imagine a country where more money is spent in feeding and
institution doing important Jewsh work . ing Jews will be members of the newly- nize one of the Jewish character- righteousness, legal enactment of ported director finished the work fattening
bulls and cows to be worshipped than is raised for all public
In the second place, it helps to cut the links elected United States House of Representa- istics in the system of Spinoza. his law, obedience to the eternal on Jolson's flicker (which, by the purposes by taxes. Yet that is the situation in India. And even
laws of God, good will, and peace way, has returned to its original Gandhi is not against cow worship. Ile says, indeed, that cow worship
But even the pantheism of Spin
tives:
which keeps Jewry everywhere united.
among men, mercy and charity to title, "Hallelujah, Ins a Bum"), is India's one contribution to civilization.
oza in which the idea of God oc-
Important Jewish health centers were
Lewis Milestone was called in and
From New York: Sol Bloom, Emanuel cupies the center of his think- the helpless and the poor.
Well, it appears the Lsraelites used to worship cows occasionally.
has directed re-takes on about
ing,
is
deep-rooted
in
Jewish
mon-
built in Palestine in the past decade Celler, Samuel Dickstein, T. A. Peyser, Wil-
OBJECT OF "ETHICS"
of the picture. Trouble will And you remember what happened once, when Moses came down
otheism. Paradoxical as this
The whole religious teachings half
through Hadassah. The Zionist hospita l liam I. Sirovich.
a mountain top, and saw them worshipping the image of a golden calf.
arise
as
to
which
director
is
to
may sound, at the very end of
of the Bible aims at the moral
In wrath, he even threw down the Ten Commandments and shattered
system is today among the finest medica l
From New Jersey: Isaac Bacharach.
the line of thinking when we Ig-
conduct of man, and that God get screen credit.
them.
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achievements in the world. To handicap
From California: Mrs. Florence P. Kahn. nore the anthropomorphical ways makes for righteousness, or, as
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expression, there is no differ-
Gossin from hither and yon: COW WORSHIP
Spinoza expresses it, the purpose
this system would hurt the Jewish position
From Connecticut: Herman P. Koppel- of
ence between monotheism and
of all revealed religion is to in- Ernst Lubitsch, seeing London,
in Palestine. Furthermore, it would en - man.
How can there be a humane civilization where values are an
pantheism. It becomes mysticism.
culcate obedience to the divine has the English press walking on
Spinoza's conception of God, of
order. The whole system of legal tip-toe, so awed are they of the distorted that cows and bulls are worshipped; where, as in India,
courage the cutting off of the importan t
From Illinois: Adolph Sabath.
even
the excreta of these animals are regarded as a sacrament and
course, is not identical with the
genius
.
..
With
"Blondie
John-
enactment, or appeals and threats
relationship between the Diaspora and
From Pennsylvania: H. Ellenbogen.
transcendental God of the Jew-
in the Bible is directed toward son," Joan Blondell begins her partaken of by the priest in his devotions; where hundreds of these
Palestine. That must not be permitted .
When Judge Irving Lehman of the Court ish theology. The majesty of the securing good will, charity and thirty-fifth picture at Warner's, bulls are allowed to gore human beings, because they must not be
God is shining in every-
peace among men. In a similar and all that in the space of two offended,
In order that the security of the health of Appeals of New York administers the Jewish
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thing that is in nature, and next
way Spinoza explains his philo- and a half years Dreiser, who
system in the Holy Land may be assured oath of office to his brother, the governor- to this majesty everything is neg- sophy
of state. The authority of fought Paramount and was one of BURNING WIDOWS
ligible
and
unimportant;
God
and that the unity of Diaspora and Pales- elect, on Dec. 31, he will be reflecting the
Cow worship, untouchables, the burning of widows on the fun-
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neral pyres of their husbands—that is India. And, incidentally, I am
tinian Jewries may go on unimpaired, i t wish of the people of the Empire State that above, outside of nature, all
told
that even today, with British rule, several hundred widows are
is important that the Detroit Hadassah an able and deserving public official be
• annually
burned in India, and that if not for th e fear of the English
luncheon project should succeed.
honored and justly recognized. The opin-
soldiers, the practice would be far more prevalent.
All through the injunctions of Moses ran the strain: Protect the
ion generally expressed about New York's
arles
widows and orphans.
next governor is echoed in the following
by
Ch
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Mrs. Wineman's Appointment.
H.
Joseph
I
MORE JEWISH GOVERNORS
editorial
view
of
the
New
York
Times:
Mayor Frank Murphy is to be com -
The elections have added to the list of Jewish governors. There
mended for appointing Mrs. Henry Wine -
The people of New York State have declared
to be four now, it appears. You may now swell with pride, pro-
FOUR JEWISH GOVERNORS I received the support largely from the harm this swashbuckler has are
man as a member of the Detroit Welfare
in an unmistakable manner that the high tradi-
vided, of course, you are a pride sweller.
done
to
their
country.
our
neighbors
which
shows
funda-
am
particularly
glad
that
Judge
I
tion of Integrity, ability and social conscience
Commission.
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I think on the whole, however, that Jews have learned a more
Horner was elected governor of mentally a respect for the CHAR-
which has ruled in the Executive Chamber at
For years active in welfare activities, as
becoming modesty as to such things. They are more likely to defer
Illinois. Never was a campaign of ACTER as well as the ability of COTY'S OUTBURST
Albany for a decade and a half shall be pre-
villification worse than that direc- these men. What's the answer?
Francois Coty seems restless with their swelling to the time that the records in office of the Jewish
a leader in the Jewish Welfare Federation
served. Herbert IL Lehman exemplifies to a
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ted against Judge Horner by that
only the task of perfuming "my incumbents justify it.
conspicuous degree that combination of heart
and as one interested in communal efforts ,
glorified public clown, Big Bill SWASHBUCKLER HITLER
lady" but insists on covering a lar-
and mind which the office of Governor of New
Indeed, the whole tendency of history nowadays is to depre-
Mrs. Wineman should be in position to
Thompson.
Ile
headed
a
traveling
York demands. It is not sentimentality to
Mr. Hitler is disturbed. The rec- ger area for his energies by spray- ciate the importance of the office holder. It used to be that the
circus, which, of course, was in ent elections Were a warning that ing the atmosphere with poison. histories of the country devoted themselves to the stories of the
specify a good heart. The business of the
render important service in ministering to
keeping with Thompson's role. He his power is vanishing. Ile realizes, gas directed against the Jews. 1S1. presidents largely. History today is written from a considerably
state is by no means "business" in the ordin-
the needy of this city.
attacked the Jews, he emptied buck- too, that the Jews have been in a Coty has a keen scent for anything different point of view. It concerns itself very frequently with those
ary sense. The greater part of it is with hu-
ets
of scandalous stories about the great measure responsible for the which may be used to Jewish dis-
Mrs. Wineman's appointment should be
man values. Three-fifths of the state budget
Judge, and aN in all with his more slowing down of his machine. They advantage. Ile is a Paris playboy holding lesser offices or no offices at all, but who nevertheless affected
particularly welcome to the Jews of thi s
goes into education, hospitals, health and other
the course of events. The political point of view has given way to
or less Small candidate, he disgust- threw a monkey wrench into the who has managed to gain control of the
social and economic.
social activities. It is a humanitarianism
city because it adds a leading Jewish citi -
ed the electorate of the state of Nazi works. Like so many others the Paris Le Figaro and has used
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which has worked not only for greater indi-
Illinois.
Now
it
will
be
the
hope
of
zen to Mayor Murphy's official family. So
who wake up too late his followers his organ to annoy the Jews. In THE CELEBRATED "THIEF CATCHER"
vidual happiness but for social stability, as we
every decent-minded man in that are now offering the olive branch' parts of Canada efforts have been
few Jews have been asked to participate
have good reason to know in our present eco-
state that Thompson will remain to the Jews. I am informed that made to show annoyance of M.
But speaking about Jewish office holders, there is among the
nomic distress.
exiled from public life. Perhaps in several instances definite over- Coty's policy through certain Jew- collection of lithographs on exhibition at present at the New York
in the local government in recent years
These great social services call for manager-
King George, more charitable than tures have been made to Jewish ish druggists refusing to handle I Public Library one of some Jewish interest.
that this appointment helps to offset the
ial talent of the highest order. Mr. Lehman
Big Bill, will give this clown who leaders looking for a complete Coty products. Generally speaking, It is a picture of the first railroad train in America. And among
will bring to his new duties the experience of
disappointment experienced by many of
made this country a laughing stock change of Nazi policy in relation I am not in favor of boycotts even the list of riders depicted is a Jewish chief of police of New York,
a successful business man, supplemented by
abroad because of his anti-British to Jewish affairs. The Jews will of the product of a gentleman of Chief Jacob Ilayes, who was known as "the thief catcher." Ile had
our people on this score.
tERONIC LE
b.!EIT{0111 EWI
The Philosophy of Spinoza in
Its Relation to Judaism
Our Film Folk
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RANDOM THOUGHTS
Hibbert Journal Apologizes.
Three months ago, English-speaking
Jewries and scholars of note were outraged
by a statement in the Ilibbert Journal,
which is recognized as an authoritative
quarterly review of religion, theology and
philosophy, giving credence to the stupid
ritual murder charge. The statement was
then made in a footnote to an article by
Ray Knight of Assam, India, entitled "Bib-
lican Mistranslation." As a result of the
pressure exerted by a certain amount of
public opinion upon the Ilibbert Journal,
its editor, L. P. Jacks, makes the following
withdravail in the current issue of the
-quarterly:
"In a footnote to an article on 'Biblical
Mistranslation' by Mr. Ray Knight in the
July number of the Hibbert Journal, cer-
tain statements appear which give the im-
pression that the charge of ritual murder
brought against the Jews at various periods
Is supported by modern scholarship. The
editor has since corresponded with Mr.
Knight, who withdraws the footnote in the
following terms:
"'In view of the editor's judgment that
e statement regarding ritual murder
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four years of special training as Lieutenant
Governor, It has been a standing complaint
that politics in this country no seldom enlists
the type of business leader which in other
democracies takes' a prominent share in gov-
ernment. In the case of Mr. Lehman we have
a man of large private means devoting him-
self, at personal sacrifice, to the service of the
community. It is an excellent qucation for
the American people to see for itself that a
banker is not necessarily a maleficent creature
with horns. Ile may be revealed as a man,
like Herbert Lehman, with a passionate interest
in non - banking subjects—public education,
public health, public recreation, the protection
of women and children, the protection of old
age, the care of the mentally afflicted—and
carrying on this work by sound business
methods.
The extraordinary vote which he polled is
both a tribute to him and a sign that the people
know how to appreciate and reward • faithful
and able public servant. It most also be a
great encouragement to young men thinking of
the possibilities of • political career. They
will see in Mr. Lehman's success a crowning
proof that ability and high character and un-
selfish devotion to the public good are sure of
approval by the American people.
In the long run, the Jews fared well in
the last election, both from the point of
view of the number of high positions won by
popular vote as well as from the viewpoint
of the caliber of the men who emerged as
victors. With Bernard Mannes Baruch,
Henry Morgenthau, Jr., Jesse Isidor Straus
and Dr. Felix Frankfurter widely men-
tioned as possible candidates for Presi-
dent Franklin D. Roosevelt's cabinet, Jews
are destined to play an important part in
national politics.
attacks, a soap box in Ilyde Park, make a serious mistake in co-op- such questionable odor as Coty. a reputation for success in catching thieves.
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where he may fulminate to his crating with the Nazis. They sure- However, it seems to that since
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heart's content.
ly are not to he trusted and once there are many other hundreds of THE SPINOZA HARVEST •
Considerable interest is occasion- Hitler gains his point he will throw beauty accesones as good as Coty's 1
Two volumes on Spinoza are now out .
ed because there are four Jews overboard promises he makes to that our women need not assist in and the other by the grand nephew of Spinoza, Benjamin de Casseres.
who are now or shortly will be, Jews to gain their support. The piling up profits for a man who I If that is not enough to satisfy your appetite, three more are to
governors of states. It is indeed' most serious error Hitler commit- uses them to fight THEM. I thing appear within the next few months, according to publishers' an-
a situation in which we, as Jews, ted was in alienating confidence the same policy should be adopted nouncements.
may well view with pride. I don't abroad because of his attempt to be toward Coty as was taken on the
The publishers are doing their bit for the Spinoza tercentenary.
know the reaction of my readers, a Mussolini. His ridiculous postur- case of Ford some years ago.
If only Holland had a Congressman Bloom. Ile might have made
but I feel that this recognition of ing and his erratic program made
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the
Spinoza
affair for Amsterdam (what Bloom made for America in
our co-religionists indicates a very him a dangerous influence in the QUOTING DR. WISE
the case of the bicentennial of Washington.
important change in the relation- eyes of the whole world. And even
I am quoting this statement of
We
might
ship between our neighbors and the Germans have finally realized Rabbi Stephen Wise for the careful automobiles. have had Spinoza concerts and even Spinoza signs on
ourselves. I believe that the Ford
consideration of the readers of this
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anti-Jewish campaign marked the
column. I wonder whether I am BROADWAY DEFINED
zenith of prejudice in this country.
wrong in not quite being able to
For
a
Roosevelt's
W
o
r
Mrs.
new
definition
of
Broadway,
take this one from Samuel
Between Ford and the Klan race
reconcile to Dr. Wise's viewpoint, Shipman, well-known playwright.
and religious hatred flared to the
Heads List of Month's
and frankly, if any of my readers
"Broadwayitea
are
not
strange.
They
are very definite in out-
skies and I have always thought
can spare a little time I would like 1 line. As obvious as
Volumes for Children.
a goldfish. With one definite purpose. To get
that to have been one of the most
to get their reaction. Says Dr.
there
at
all
cost
and
to
the
devil
with
the
other
fellow. Broadway
critical periods for our people in
R ise:
this country'. Nuw I believe that "When You Grow Up To
"The time has coins for us to should he renamed Meglamonialand.
the present moment marks the most
"For years I've been shredding my nerves in desperate attempts
behold the truth that we are not to
Vote."
favorable period for our people.
help along would-be actors and playwrights; and when finally My
Children's Book Week, now be- suffer ourselves to be consumed and to
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devoured, overborne and assimilia- constitution gave way, the only voice that came to me from Broad-
ing
observed,
affords
en
excellent
AN EXPLANATION NEEDED
was that of the much maligned Lee Shubert, who sent me four
for wise selection of ; ted. Rather are we to be a con- way
dozen roses, A. H. Wood and Renee Carroll.
Perhaps such a scholar as Prof. opportunity
reading. Some very fine stitutive and creative factor, a
Horace Kellen can explain the sit- children's
transforming
force
in
American
"Apart from these, two Broadwayites who had heard that Woods
are announced by American)
was producing a new play called me up and asked me wouldn't I run
uation. Here we have from day to works
for our boys and girls, life. We must cease to think of
day endless evidences of discrimina- I , publishers
finding shelter in America and be- right down and get them parts. I told them that I would as soon as
co-incidently
with
this
annual
oh-
tion against us. Yet Meier of Ore-
gin to think of our people as en- my temperature came down from 104 to normal.
gon Lehman of New York, Horner ; servance.
"That is Broadway."
Heading the list of this month's richers and not beneficiaries of
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Illinois,
llinois, and Seligman of New luvenile publications is "When You America. As a people we have
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Mexico, are chosen to guide the des- Grow Up to Vote" ($1.50) by F.Iea- been too docile and acquiescent in- SOMETHING IN IT
tinies of their respective citizen-
'teed
of
being
inflexibly
self-insist-
And
did
you
hear
the
one
that
Morris
Rothenberg is telling these
.
Roosevelt Roosevelt (Mrs
ships. A Cardoso receives from ;nor
Je
iv11leibemusit no longer days about the Jew summoned for some thin; or other before the
'Franklin Delano Roosevelt), who
one end of the country to the other
1:t
ready
Russian
commissars?
liberalized
unto
h'iri"ning s with March 4 will be Semitic version of
endorsements for the Supreme the
"How old are you, Tovarisch Cohen?" asked the commissar.
First Lady of our land.
Court of the United States such as
yet, to be Jewish humanists with ■
"Forty," replied the Jew,
This book was published at an Jewish
have rarely been known in recent appropriate
accent,
whether
s'st
a--
"Have you your birth certificate with your rejoined the com-
time by Houghton Mif-
history. A Bettman and • Medalie fl in Co. of Boston,
'• <r missar.
making its ap- cent be imported fro,
are nominated for the United States - pea rance on the eve of the na-
Posen. whither
Bambach or
"Sure, here it is," replied Cohen.
Senate, • Stadtfeld is elected to the tional election. But it is certain Altkustadt. Never was there • less
commissar looks. "Why, according to this, you were born
alidrelliar urteor illustration an
Superior Court of Pennsylvania, to prove of value to young readers i viri
th the fifty The
rears ago."
11 Jews are chosen congressmen,
t the 'Peltin g Pot applied
"Yes, I know," replied Cohen, "but
die letzte zebn yahr heisst
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to America."
and so on. Now all these men have
aria bel each gelebt?"