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Sabbath Readings of the Law
Pentateuchal portion—Gen. 28:10.32:3
Prophetical portion—Hos. 12:13.14:10; or
11:7-12:12; or 11:7-14:10
December 9, 1932
Kislev 10, 5693
Dr. Einstein Gets a Visa.
When informed about the inquisition to
which Dr. Albert Einstein was subjected
by a consular officer in Berlin, Dr. Nicholas
Murray Butler, president of Columbia Uni-
versity, tersely commented: "As an Amer-
ican citizen I am so disgraced and humil-
iated by the action of the State Department
that I have no further words to express
myself."
This is an excellent summation of the
issue. This country is disgraced by silly
reaction and by the stupid handling of
immigration and passport problems by our
consular agents. Such humiliations are
daily occurrences, and it is now revealed
in all its ugliness by the fact that the
abused person happens to be the great
Albert Einstein.
Few doubted that. Professor Einstein
would be granted a visa to this country, in
spite of demands to the contrary by the
Woman Patriot Corporation of which Mrs.
Randolph Forthingham is president, and
whose charge is that Professor Einstein is
"affiliated with more Communist groups
than Joseph Stalin himself."
Nevertheless, the Department of State
at Washington committed the blundering
wrong of issuing copies of the allegations
by these women patriots to consular officers
abroad, asking them to investigate the
charges. A report from Washington stated
that this stand was interpreted "as a means
of setting up an alibi should there be pro-
tests from other patriotic organizations
when the visa, as anticipated, is granted.
And therein lies the indictment of our
present society. That an alibi should be
necessary for the admission to this coun-
try of Dr. Einstein, the greatest of all scien-
tists, is nothing to boast about. And that
this country should fear the political views
of any visitor to our shores, no matter how
high or humble his station, is doubly self-
condemnatory.
Professor Einstein's reply, in which he
reiterated his pacifist views to which the
women patriots take exception, must serve
to increase the esteem in which he is al-
ready held by the world's greatest minds.
From Potsdam, Dr. Einstein's views were
cabled to this country as follows:
"I belong to no political party. Publicly
I am a scientist, but as a private citizen I
claim the right to feel and believe and
fight for the interests of culture and of jus-
tice.
"I have always considered it my duty
to intervene when justice is at stake, even
though I am bitterly attacked for it.
"I feel honored because I have had a
certain kind of enemies.
"I have always fought war—an attitude
which the majority of sound political opin-
ion in the United States appreciates.
"Proudly I rise to defend the so-called
'war registers' whom I regard as greater
heroes than those who allow themselves
to be sacrificed upon the altar of miscon-
ceived patriotism."
Reactionaries and bigots will naturally
continue to condemn him for such views.
But men and women who have learned to
look with horror upon war and political
and social injustice will not only endorse
Professor Einstein's sentiments, but will
pledge their adherence to them.
Meanwhile our State Department pre-
sents itself to the world in a ludicrously
comical light. The spokesmen for Ameri-
can democracy, by their trembling and
fear over the bogey called Communism, are
playing the roles of clowns rather than
statesmen. Worse than that: by fearing
the sound of a liberal and radical thought,
and by suppressing views which differ
from the sentiments of those in power, they
are dragging this country into the realm
of the reactions and bigotries of the middle
ages. And the guilty ones do not even
know the meaning of shame!
The World Congress Idea Gains.
The movement for the convening of a
World Jewish Congress is gaining in im-
petus and support from the tragic events
now occurring in Poland. It is clear that
something must be done by Jews every-
where to secure relief for our people in
that unfortunate country. On the verge of
being crushed economically, morally and
physically, Polish Jewry's plight cries to
us for help.
American Jewry, regardless of how
seriously it is affected by the present eco-
nomic situation, must take the lead in
solving this problem. If it is not to be
through a World Jewish Congress, then the
opponents of this movement must show the ;
way to another medium through which to
arrive at a solution.
Emil Lengyel, eminent author, whose
"The Cauldron Boils" deals primarily with
the situation in Poland, admonished Amer-
ican Jews of their duties when he stated
in an address before the executive com-
mittee of the American Jewish Congress:
"Under the present circumstances the
Jews in Poland are quite helpless and their
situation quite hopeless. The various fact-
finding commissions of the Pilsudski Gov-
ernment are not very anxious to find any
real solution to the difficulties of the Jews.
The Jews of Poland are too tired, too leth-
argic, too apathetic to do anything. I am
firmly convinced that it is the duty of the
Jews in America, even though I am quite
conscious of the difficulties with which we
are confronted here, to help the Polish
Jews if they are to be at all saved from
disaster."
It is unfortunate that it should require
a tragedy to bring closer home the need
for a World Jewish Congress. It required
the present crisis to unite the American
Jewish Congress, American Jewish Com-
mittee and Federation of Polish Jews in
issuing a joint statement calling the atten-
tion of the Polish government to the anx-
iety of Jewry everywhere over the status
of their Polish fellow-Jews.
The prevailing conditions demand that
our people unite in support of a movement
that will provide the weapon for Jewish
defense which is at present lacking. The
pitiful plight of Eastern and Central Euro-
pean Jewries emphasizes the need for
such an united front.
Are Jews Content in Czecho-Slovakia?
By M. ABRAHAMSON
Copyright, 1932, by the Jewish Telegraphi c Agency, Inc.
When we consider the sad Jew-
to exclude Jews. They do it
ish situation in the most cultural.
quietly, but very thoroughly.
ly advanced countries of Central
There is a lot of fine oratory at
Europe, then in comparison
political meetings about equal
things are not bad in Czecho-
rights, but in the life of the state
Slovakia. It is not correct to gay
only the Czech Is to be allowed
that the Jewish situation in Cze-
to direct, administrate and con-
cho-Slovakia is satisfactory, but
trol affairs.
compared with the terrible situa-
There are tens of thousands of
tion of the Jewish population in
Jews Iviing in the country twice
most of the Central European
or
three times as long as the en-
countries the Jews in Czecho-
tire existence of the Czecho-Slo-
Slovakia are at least physically
vakian
Republic who are not yet
safe. There are no excesses.
citizens. For 14 years they have
There is no anti-Semitic terror-
been
promised
their citizenship.
ism. Jews are not publicly in-
They have been repeatedly assur-
sulted. One does not hear Jews
ed
that
at
long
last
their citizen-
libelled and abused in Parliament
ship papers would be granted. A
and the self-governing institu-
special government commission
tions. But nowadays, when anti-
adopted a decision only today to
Jewish violence is a regular ap-
that effect. A member of the cab-
pearance in many of the adjoin-
Met will solemnly declare to-
countries. that is something to
morrow that the decision will be
be thankful for. When things
acted
upon. Next week Dr. Benes,
have come to such a pass that the
the foreign minister, will an-
Jews of Poland, Rumania and
nounce
that a bill is being pre-
Hungary are living in paradise
pared, and next month President
compared with the Jews in Ger-
Masaryk
himself will make a
many, then conditions in Czechs-
statement on the subject.
Slovakia are indeed magnificent.
But that is only comparatively
speaking. Take Germany as the
extreme on the wrong aide. The
situation in Poland then appear
much brighter and in Czecho-Slo-
vakia brighter still. But Czecho-
Slovakia is by no means a Jewish
paradise. Only when we look
abroad and see how Jews fare
elsewhere, we shut up.
President Masaryk is indeed a
great friend of the Jews, bue be-
cause of him the Czecho-Slovak-
ian Republic is treated very len-
iently in the Jewish press. Things
that are denounced as wrongs in
other countries are slurred over
almost in silence if they occur in
czecbo-Slovakia.
Take, for instance, the fact
that it is becoming increasingly
difficult for a Jew to obtain any
important office in the Czechs-
Slovakian government service.
How much have the Jewish or-
ganizations and the Jewish press
had to say about that? Every-
body in Czecho-Slovakia knows
that no Jew, no matter how im-
portant his work. stands the
ghost of a chance of ever being
appointed a lecturer or professor
at a Czech university. There are
Jewish professors in the univer-
sities and high schools of Prague,
Bruenn, etc. But they all obtain-
ed their appointments when these
cities still formed part of the old
Austrian Empire.
No Jew can obtain such a posi-
tion today, not even in proportion
to the numbers of the Jews in the
total population, according to a
numerus clausus. Czech Nation-
alist Chauvinism has made im-
mense strides of late. The growth
of autonomist aspirations among
the German and Slovakian popu-
lations of the country brings with
it a corresponding increase in
Czech Chauvinism, There is much
more outspoken anti-Semitism
among the Slovakians and Ger-
mans of Czech-Slovakia. They de-
clare openly that they want no
Jews in their universities. The
Czechs don't say so publicly.
There is no agitation among them
At each session of parliament
there is a lot of talk about these
Jews who are still technically
aliens, Staatenlose, who can at
any moment be expelled from
the country, or subjected to all
kinds of discriminations, which
would deprive them of their
means of livelihood and thus
drive them out of the country
in the hope of finding a crust of
bread elsewhere.
These tens of thousands of
Jewish Staatenlose in Czecho-
Slovakia are really in a desper-
ate plight, especially now when
the country is experiencing a se-
vere economic crisis. Till very
recently we were constantly be-
ing promised that any moment
now and these unfortunates would
be given their citizenship papers.
And suddenly now the tune is
changed. and we are told that
these "aliens" are depriving
Czecho-Slovkaian citizens of their
,employment and their bread. This
is not in an anti-Semitic paper,
but in the newspaper belonging
to Dr. Bene's own party, the offi-
cial organ of the foreign minister
himself.
its an New s
dbd
(lir Film Folk 1By -the-Way Ti
By DA ID SC HWARTZ
By HELEN ZIGMOND
(Copyright, 193E. Jewir It Telegraphic Agencr. Inc.)
HOLLYWOOD. — Sari Maritza
has been chosen one of the 1932
Wampas Baby Stars . . . which
means that the press agents think
she's a good bet for pictures
(you're telling me?) and they'll
publicize her gratis for a whole
year.
•
• •
Smart boy, Sam Goldwyn
. When they were screening
"Cynara," the English dra-
mak" Goldwyn ordered English
shillings to be used in ■ slot
machine scene. Oh, of course,
every detail must be correct ...
but also the strange money was
not too great • strain on pos-
sible light-fingered extras.
• • •
Camera angles may not bother
you, but that's one geometric
problem which all actors study
. every star likes to put his best
face forward . . . Miriam Jordan
ducks her head so that a square
chin doesn't appear too promin-
ent ... Sally Eilers tries to smile
whenever possible . . . Joan Blon-
dell looks equally well from right,
left, or full face, but she, too,
shows her teeth and lights up her
eyes before the eagle-eyed lens.
• • •
Gregory Ratoff, who became
•an instantaneou s success in the
movies, embarked on a theatri-
cal career despite the bitter op-
position of his parents. Being
the son of a wealthy manufac-
turer, he was expected to sue.
teed his father as the heed of
the factory ... and to that end
he was given a thorough busi-
ness education at
• the Imperial
School of Commerce in Petro-
grad (now Leningrad).
IS THERE A SANTA CLAUS?
Now that the season is approaching when you are supposed to'
do that shopping early, that story of Rapaport's—of Jewish employ-
ment agency fame—is apropos.
It seems, according to this tale, that two youngsters were
standing in Gimbel Brothers' department store, looking at the figure
dressed as Santa Claus.
The two youngsters were of differing faiths. One was Jewish
and the other non-Jewish.
The little Jewish boy began the conversation with the state-
ment: "Oh, Santa Claus is a fake. There is no Santa Claus."
Whereupon the non-Jewish boy grew irate and retorted: "Yes,
there is a Santa Claus. He brought me a lot of gifts last Christmas,
and daddy says he is going to bring me a lot of presents this Christ-
mas."
"Oh, there is no Santa Claus," returned the Jewish boy, "I
tell you there is no Santa Claus . . .
Whereupon Santa Claus himself leaned over and whispered to
the Jewish lad: "Was darfsdu ihm sagen?" (Why do you have to
tell him?)
•
•
•
HE KNEW
Rappaport, by the way, tells a quaint story about a Jewish cus-
tomer at one of the art galleries.
This Jewish customer had waxed prosperous in the great boom
days and had in its aftermath developed the arty complex. So he
hied himself to an art gallery to look at some pictures.
Strangely enough, the first picture that he looked at pleased
his eye. What the picture was is clear by its title—The Crucifixion.
"I want that picture," said the Jewish cloak and suit dealer. The
dealer bit his lips. "Don't you think you had better look at some
of the others before making up your mind?"
"No, No," continued the cloak manufacturer, "I want what
I want. I want that picture."
"That', okay," retorted the dealer. We'll be glad to sell it to
you, but you must know that it is a rule of these galleries that once
a picture is purchased, it cannot be returned. Do you know what
that picture, The Crucifixion, portrays?"
"Sure," returned the Jewish manufacturer. "That's Hondini. Hell
get out of it."
.5
Was Spinoza a Zionist?
Professor A. Wolf's "The Correspond-
• • •
ence of Spinoza" reproduces a letter writ-
A PRETTY GOYA
ten by Henry Oldenburg to Baruch Spin-
oza, from London, on Dec. 8, 1665, con-
And speaking of art gallery stories, there is the one of Dr. J.
What a day Al Jolson spent on
taining a paragraph relative to Jewish as-
Thanksgiving! His plans to join Max Weiss.
his
wife
at
an
out-of-town
resort
This also concerns a cloak and suit manufacturer who decided
piratons for the redemption of their an-
were upset by a message that re- to embellish his parlors with a great painting.
cient homeland. The movement inaugur-
takes were necessary on his pic-
So he, too, hied himself to the art galleries on Fifth Avenue
ture. Resignedly he appeared and promenaded from one to another picture.
ated by the False Messiah, Sabbatai Zevi
early in the morning on the lot.
(1626-1676), was then at the height of its
Finally he came upon the picture ore young woman, with the
He waited around until he was
influence. It aroused Oldenburg's interest
informed that they wouldn't get inscription underneath of the painter—Goya.
"I'll take that," he told the dealer.
to his scenes that day. ionic
and he accordingly wrote to Spinoza, in this
again. What to do? All his friends
The dealer was somewhat taken back. The pictures by the
letter from London:
had their own plans. By after- more commonly known artists, he had thought, would appeal to the
noon he was talking to himself manufacturer. Why had he selected this picture by Goya?
"Here there is a rumor in everybobdy's
mouth that the Jews, who have been dis-
There are parts of the Czech°. for company. Back to the studio.
He did not want to ask, but finally the manufacturer, as he was
Slovakian Republic where there At the gate stood a former actor leaving, beaming with satisfaction over his purchase, let the secret
persed for more than two thousand years,
is a great deal of unemployment acquaintance who is now an extra. out himself when he remarked.
"Al," he said, "this is Thanks-
are to return to their country. Few in this
and business is at a standfitill.
"That's just the picture I want. Yes, I always wanted a
pretty
So Dr. Benes' paper has found giving day, and I have only 18 Goya in my home."
place believe it, but many wish it. You
cents
to my name. I don't know
the way out. Get rid of these
• • •
will tell your friend what you hear and
40,000 or 80,000 "aliens" and what the wife and I will eat to-
think about this matter. For my part I
things will become much easier. day."
A JOURNALISTIC GENIUS
Al thought 16 cents should buy
cannot put any confidence in this news so
But the Jewish situation in the something, so they went shopping.
We are always being treated with the achievements of a Pulitzer,
countries adjoining Czecho-Slo- An hour later, on a studio sound a Hearst or a Scripps in building up some great newspaper. Yet
long as it is not reported by trustworthy
vakia is such that the Jewish po- stage, 60 people were feast'ng on how few have ever heard of Louis Weinberg, notwithstanding the
men from the city of Constantinople, which
litical representatives in Czechs- turkey and all the fixin'e Laid fact that, in his way, this young Jewish newspaperman has achieved
is concerned in this most of all. I should
Slovakia feel that in comparison Jolson, happiest of them all, greater than any of these pillars of the Fourth Estate. Weinberg
like to know what the Jews in Amsterdam
played the singing waiter, putting is the editor of the Warm Springs, Georgia, Mirror,
our lot is not no bad, and they on a show that would havd netted
have heard about the matter, and how they
You have, of course, heard of Warm Springs lately. It is that
do not demand no much as they him several thousand dollars
at a little resort which President-Elect Roosevelt favors with his visits.
would in normal times. It might professional appearance.
are affected by such an important an-
Warm Springs is a town of about five hundred population, yet
have
unpleasant
reactions
is
they
nouncement, which if it were true would
spoke more boldly. But because
the Mirror, which Weinberg publishes, has a circulation of over a
To protect his eyes, Lowell
seem to bring a crisis on the whole world."
they do not constantly complain
Sherman wears dark glasses con- thousand. Besides all the residents of the town, the subscription
it does not mean that there is
lists include subscribers in 30 states, who at one time or another
It is extremenly unfortunate that Spin-
stantly . . . even when eating
nothing to complain about.
have come to Warm Springs for infantile paralysis treatment.
lunch.
oza's reply to this letter was lost. But we
Things are not so bad in Czecho-
•
Seven years ago, Weinberg, a cub reporter on the Brooklyn
are more than compensated for this loss
Slovakia when we compare them
For years Henry Bergman has Eagle, was stricken with infantile paralysis. Like Roosevelt, he
with what is going on in some of
by the explanation offered by Professor
journeyed
to Warm Springs for treatment and there launched the
the other countries round about, been the active proprietor of a Mirror.
Wolf who, in "Annotations" to his "Cor-
but no one would say they are Hollywood restaurant in which
• • •
really good.
respondence of Spinoza," has the follow-
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A
TREFA
STORY
ing to say on the Messianic movement in
Jewry in the days of Spinoza, and on Spin-
Speaking of stories, as we were a few paragraphs back, there
is a good one which we take pleasure in plagiarizing from F. P. A.'s
oza's attitude on Jewish nationalism:
column.
by
Charles
"In a letter to Boyle (dated' March 6,
It was on a Yom Kippur's day. Said one faster to another:
"I think I'll go out and have some oysters."
H. Joseph
1666) Oldenburg reports: 'The last letters
"What!" said the other faster, "You're going to eat oysters on
from Holland mention that now Christians
Yom Kippur?"
as well as Jews write from Constantinople DEFENSE OF COTT
rumors are false may be shown in All these activities have been
"Sure," replied the second, "Hasn't Yom Kippur an R in it?"
the confirmation of the reports concerning
handled for the last 12 years by
I have had occasion to refer to M. Coty'a own business.
• • •
the nation of the Israelites, and the great charges made against Francois "The head of the present or- all these gentlemen, and to the
the perfume manufacturer, ganization in France, Raymond entire satisfaction of M. Coty, MOTHERS AND MOTHERS
hopes the Jews entertain of recovering Coty,
and enjoyed his fullest confidence.
alleging that his French papers
their land very shortly.' ("The Works of are anti-Semitic. This allegation Greilsamer, is a Jew and this Mr. It may also interest you to know
Over to witness a rehearsal the other day of Chrysalis, written
Greilsamer has been, for many that the writer of this letter is
Robert Boyle," ed. 1772, vol. ,VI, page has been referred to generally in years,
by Rose Porter Albert, who at one time was publicity expert of
M. Coty's general manager Jewish and within the past 12 Hadassah. We listened
the Jewish press, and, according
to an interesting bit of chit-chat about
219). Like Serrarius, many people in the to
reports, some druggists in and leading advisor. I further months has become resident-coun- John Wesley's play, "The Last Mile."
seventeenth century were living in expec- Toronto, Canada, refused to han- add that Mr. Greilsamer is a de- sel and assistant secretary of
Wesley, you recall, is a nephew of Maurice Schwartz, and built
Jew who is a lay head of the Coty, Inc.
tation of great things, and Jews were not dle Coty products. However, it vout
the play, "The Last Mile," around some death house notes written
never my intention to willfully Israelite Consistory of France and
"It is hoped that what has been by a man about to be electrocuted in Texas.
exempt from this epidemic. Their long is
may
it
further
be
assured
to
you
injure an individual or a firm and,
written is sufficient to show you
The mother of this condemned man, who incidentally shared in
sufferings had made them especially prone in justice to M. Coty, I am ap- that this gentleman who is ex- that the charges against M. Coty
wealthy would not asso- are not true but are based solely the profits of Wesley's play, came to New York to witness the pre-
to dreams of relief. Sabbatai Zevi began pending a letter received from tremely
L. G. Bernstein, Esq., Resident- ciate himself with anyone who is on mis-statements sponsored by miere of "The Last Mile."
his short career as Messiah at Salonica in Counsel of Coty. I ask that my anti-Semitic.
The play, as you remember, is very gruesome—one of the hard-
M. Coty's numerous enemies and
1658, stayed several days in Cairo, where readers give this letter their open. "The head of the Coty organi- if you are acquainted with politi- ened dramatic critics later was to declare, indeed, that it was is
he gained great influence over a wealthy minded consideration and to ac- zation in Germany for many years, cal conditions of France and other gruesome that it was intolerable.
cept Mr. Bernstein's statements Mr. Regensburger, is also a Jew. European countries, you can well
Wesley figured that the effect would be even more depressing
fellow-Jew, visited Gaza, which was to be at
When the Coty organization start- understand how false charges may on the mother of the condemned man, so that
their face value:
when he escorted her
the new Holy City, and Smyrna, his birth- "Dear Mr. Joseph:
ed in business in the United be leveled against prominent into the playhouse he armed himself with spirits
of ammonia and
States in 1910, M. Coty's greatest statesmen or other men well other restoratives. But the mother, like
place, and in 16G6 also Constantinople,
a Stoic, sat through the
"We have received information friend was Benjamin E. Levy, a known in public life.
play externally calm.
where he was imprisoned and forced to to the effect that you believe that Jew, who remained at the head
"Sincerely yours,
At its conclusion, Wesley, anxious about her reaction, asked
become a Moslem. The movement aroused M. Francois Coty is anti-Semitic of the organization until the end
how it was.
"Coty, Inc.,
and that this is a matter of grave I o f 1931 when he resigned.
general interest throughout Christendom. importanc
"L.
G.
Bernstein,
e to you. This letter is
"Oh, it was *fright. But you have my son going to the chair
the United States, we point
in a shabby suit. That's not right. I got ■
"Resident-Counsel.
because many Christians had come.to think written for the purpose of ac- out "In that
new suit for him for that.
30 per cent of the girls
And there was a carnation in his lapel,
the elec
electric
. didn' t
of the return of the Jews to Palestine as quainting you with the facts as in our factory are Jewish; 70 per
burn the flower."
BRANDEIS AND CARDOZO
exist so that you may deter-
I cent of the clerical staff are Jew-
the sign of the imminent end of all things. they
CRITICIZED
mine for yourself whether or not
Wesley
left
musing—there
are
mothers
and
mothers.
lish, and 85 per cent of our gales
"Spinoza's reply to this letter of Olden- the charges agaii(st
Coty are force are Jewish. We have three
A reader sends me the follow-
•
•
burg's is unfortunately lost. But we know true.
branch offices throughout the ing:
"I recently picked up the United ALEPH IS BAZE
"M.
Coty
is
a
leading
figure
in
country.
The
head
of
each
office,
that Spinoza did not regard the restoration
as well as in other Euro- • district manager, holds the most States Daily, edited by Mr. David
of the Jews either as impossible or as un- France
It happened the other day at the Jewish Telegraphic Agency,
pean countries. He has, at all lucrative position in our organiza- Lawrence, and, looking through
desirable. In his 'Tractatus Theologico- times, in his private life as a citi- tion. And I call your attention it, I found the proceedings of the and we are telling it to show how smart we are.
Supreme
Court
for
Monday,
Oct.
to
the
fact
that
all three of these
Politicus' (published in 1670, that is long zen of France, and in his public
A distinguished member of the Yiddish news department of the
life, as a statesman, taken up the men are of the Jewish faith. These 10. To my surprise and disap- Agency is a young poet with the cognomen of Aleph Katz. (Katz,
after the tragi-comedy of Sabbatai Zevi's cause
of the common people of his men have been with the organiza- pointment I found that both of by the way, is known for his translation in Yiddish of Stevenson's
failure) Spinoza wrote: 'I would go so far country. In so doing, he has at- tion for many years, are still with our Jewish justices were In at- "Treasure Island.")
at the sessions of the
as to believe that, if the foundations of the tacked many people who are out- it, and enjoy the fullest confi- tendance
But to go back to our story. Katz's first name is Aleph. Well,
Supreme Court on that day, which
standing
figures. Amongst dence of the management.
religion have not enfeebled their minds, the people national
happened
to be Yom Kippur. I it happened that this columnist, pounding the keys of his machine
he has attacked are the
"Our patent attorneys, Mock &
from one of the offices, called over to Katz:
they may, if the occasion presents itself former Premiers Briand and Tar- Blum, who are Jewish, have han- was not surprised to see that Jus-
"Aleph!"
who, I might point out, are dled all of our trade-mark mat- tice Brandeis had attended, as we
amid the changes to which human affairs dieu,
But Aleph didn't answer.
not Jewish. He has also attacked, ters, under personal power of at- all know he is not identified with
are so liable, even raise up their empire certainly, a prominent banking torney from M. Coty, for many religious activities, but I was
"Aleph, we shouted again, "du bist Bane (beth)?" Now, isn't
that clever?
shocked
to
read
that
Justice
Car-
anew, and that God may yet elect them a house which 'happened' to be of years. Our bankers in this country, doso was not absent from the ses-
• • •
the Jewish faith, but his attack Lehman Brothers, of New York
second time.'"
on this house was not made be- City, are Jewish, as are our French sions on that day. I am wonder- LISTENING TO THE CHIMES
This immediately stamps Spinoza as a cause it is Jewish but because it bankers, Sauphor-Morhange Fre- ing what reaction our Jewish boys
girls in our Sunday schools
nationalist Jew, and in our own time he was allied with certain financial res. Our certified accountants, and
Speaking of one thing or another, Eddie Cantor tells the one
which M. Coty believed S. D. Leidesdorf & Company, a would have if they knew these two about the two men listening on the outside of • religious edifice to the
unodubtedly would have been called a enterprises
to be inimical to the best interests very well-known Jewish house, men, whom we Jewish leaders like musical chimes issuing from within or atop.
to portray as being the ideal type
Zionist. He would have been in a class of France.
have always handled and still han- of Jews, served publicly on the
"Aren't those chimes beautiful," asked No. 1 of No. 2.
with Albert Einstein who recently was
"What you say?" asked No. 2, as he cupped his ear.
"Some years ago, M. Coty ob- dle all of our accounting work. holiest day in the Jewish cal en-
"I
said, aren't these bells beautiful?" spoke up more loudly No. 1
asked whether he believed in God and re- tained • controlling interest in
ar "
two
newspapers
in
Paris
which
That
is
an
inter
gay?"
he
common-
..%%
•
plied: "Yes—in Spinoza's God." But that
hat did you y?" shouted No. 2 again.
is
publishing. He lowered BE THERE NO ALTAR ication as well as an interesting
"Oh, darn it," shouted No. 1
at once causes us to spring the question the still
prices of these papers and in-
yet again, and as loudly as he could,
incident. It is quite true as the .a,:asisn
icl, aren't these bells beautiful?"
whether this would affect the attitude of stantly incurred the enmity of ev- A Palestiaian Poem by Judah writer indicates that Justice Bran-
"Excuse me," shouted back No. 2, "but I can't hear you on ac-
deis
is not identified with Jewish count of these terrible bells."
Spinoza's greatest admirers. Most rabid anti- ery other newspaper owner in Carpi, Translated From the
France. For Feversl years law-
religions activities. yet sometimes
•
•
•
Zionists among the old guard in the Reform suits were pending in the French Hebrew by Abraham M. Klein. I wonder how Orthodox Jews can
rabbinate always spoke in glowing terms Courts against the newspaper Re there no altar, then upon high places reconcile themselves to such Jew- ALL THE ADVANTAGES
I
oder
up
my
humble
sacrifice;
syndicates, which lawsuits were And be the eity Arleta with • thousand ish leadership, even in Zionism.
of Spinoza. On the other hand, the more finally
won by M. Coty. All news-
It's queer how outraged some of
farm
Speaking of the matrimonial joke, have you ever heard the Yiddish
conservatist among nationalists were prone papers boycotted M. Coty'a jour-
I sound the loud alarm of or sigh.
our brethren become when some one about Jake, who first saw his friend Sam's wife some six months
to blame Spinoza for bitterness towards nals. They also found Ware and Be there no temple. I will ,elghtle shatter Jew violates a ceremonial, yet are after Sam'. marriage? He was invited to Sam's house.
of this macholemoltsbed satisfied to follow Jews who do
"Jake," asked Sam, "how do you like my wife?"
Jews and Judaism. Yet Spinoza was in- means to boycott M. Coty. Ru- The remnant
sralln
Jake waited until
n of even believe in Judaism.
mors of all kinds have been spread,
Sam's wife was some feet away, and then be
there e Iola tenter. I will patter o
clined to favor the cause of the latter. An some intentional and other not Re Vpon
ionism has several such leaders. started whispering into Sam'. ear:
these atones the swift blood of
ray than .
Whether Justice Brandeis believes
"You know, Sam, I hope you won't be offended, but why you
anomalous situation is thus built, in the intentional, concerning the activi-
married her, I cannot understand. She
Nor prkot, raw prophet--testirdly I shall I n Judaism or not, so far as the and—"
is cross-eyed, and she limps
modern sense, of course, around the ques- ties °f M. Cott'.
Ir•T heeds ea 1 .7”, perform. pariah W orld is concerned, he is rated as
"However, the be way of gaging
Art thou the one whom men de
tion: Was Spinoza a Zionist?"
"Stop whispering in my ear. You can talk
pointing out to you that these
tall klesemb?
loud. She's deaf
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said Sam.
too."