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Sabbath Readings of the Law
Fentateuchal portion—Gen. 12:1-17:27
Prophetical portion—Is. 40:27-41:16
October 19, 1934
Cheshvan 10, 5695
Give to Community Fund!
Not a single Detroiter with the most
moderate means should he found outside
the ranks of contributors to the Detroit
Community Fund when the drive opens on
Monday. If the existing relief, recrea-
tional, educational and social agencies
functioning in this city as affiliates of the
Community Fund are to continue to serve
our community, the Community Fund
drive must be given a hearty response.
This applies to all elements, Jews and
non-Jews. Even if not a single Jewish
agency were to be included in the cam-
paign, we would still be obligated to sup-
port the causes for which the drive is be-
ing conducted.
But it so happens that Jewish honor is
also at stake. Six Jewish agencies—the
Jewish Child Placement Bureau, the Jew-
ish Social Service Bureau, the Jewish Cen-
ters Association, the North End Clinic, the
Jewish Children's Home and the Hebrew
Free Loan Association—derive their in-
comes from contributions to the Detroit
Community Fund. This fact alone is a
challenge to our honor as Jewish citizens
to give wholeheartedly to the campaign
and to demonstrate our desire not only to
receive from the general fund supporting
the community's agencies but also to give
to this fund.
There are certain causes which must be
supported by Jews alone. Such causes are
supported by the Allied Jewish Campaign.
But the six institutions named have been
recognized as important agencies serving
definite functions for this community. They
have been included in the community drive
and we are partners in an outstanding ob-
ligation as citizens of Detroit. We must
discharge this obligation honorably, with
our free will and with our liberal contribu-
tions.
Alfred M. Cohen at 75
Alfred M. Cohen's 75th birthday, being
observed in Oct. 19, is not merely the cele-
bration of the Order of B'nai B'rith of
which he is the international head. It is
an occasion that must interest the entire
American Jewish community because this
Jewish leader has taken an active part in
numerous other important Jewish causes
and movements, and has made himself felt
in Jewish life in this country, especially in
the past decade.
As chairman of the board of governors
of Hebrew Union College, as one who de-
votedly strives for the unification of all
Jewish forces in considering vital Jewish
i&sues, as a leader who showed great in-
terest in efforts in behalf of the youth,
Senator Cohen has earned the sincere
gratitude of the American Jewish com-
munity.
We join in congratulating him on his
birthday and in wishing him many happy
returns of this important day.
Jewry Loses Two Friends
Jewry lost two great friends in the
death of King Alexander I of Yugoslavia
and Foreign Minister Louis Barthou of
France.
The former evidenced his friendship on
numerous occasions and the Jewish popu-
lation of Yugoslavia felt that it had a
genuine friend in its king. An admirer
and supporter of the Zionist cause and a
man who was just in his dealings with
Jews, King Alexander's death is deeply
mourned by Yugoslavian Jewry and by
Jews everywhere who knew of this king's
kind acts.
Similarly, Minister Barthou was out-
spoken in his friendly declarations to
Jewry. Not so long ago, in a message he
sent to the world Jewish conference held
in Geneva, Switzerland, Minister Barthou
wrote :
The World Jewish Congress can perform
function more useful, more imperative and
more noble than to reaffirm the human and
legal equality of all faiths and an peoples.
It is painful to be under the necessity of doing
this again after the emancipation which has
been the achievement of the French Revolu-
tion. But events require it, and it it needful
to protect civilization from the setback which
now threatens it. The World Jewe:h Con-
gress will speak to the mind and the heart of
the world. Its voice will be listened to.
no
The death of the two non-Jewish
friends is deservedly mourned by world
Jewry. and messages of condolences from
the American Jewish Congress, the Vaad
Leumi and Agudath Israel of Palestine,
the Yugoslavian and French Jewish com-
munities speak for Jews everywhere in
rcnressing sorrow over the demise of King
Alexander I and Foreign Minister Louis
Barthou.
THE LEGAL CHRONICLE
BY-THE -WAY
American Labor's Nazi Boycott
Once again America's voice spoke in .
protest against the outrages perpetrated
in Nazi-ruled Germany.
Supporting the favorable report of
the special committee on the boycott, con-
sisting of Joseph P. Ryan, president of the
Central Trades and Labor Council of New
York; John Fitzpatrick, president of the
Chicago Federation of Labor, and Selma
Borchard of the American Federation of
Teachers of Washh.gton, President Wil-
liam Green of the American Labor Feder-
ation made a declaration which should be
emblazoned on every German door-step.
Said President Green:
We cannot be true to labor and to ourselves
if we remain complacent when our brothers
in other lands are being persecuted because
they demand freedom.
We can appreciate our own freedom when
we learn about the suffering of the Jewish
people in Germany.
We protest with all the power we possess
against the treatment which has been ac.
corded our fellow trade unionists in Germany,
and the Jewish people as well.
The fact that the boycott is being defin-
itely felt in Germany is due in great meas-
ure to the efforts and support given the
retaliation movement by the American
Federation of Labor. The one unfortunate
element about the movement to force Ger-
many to stop its persecutions is that the
German people, forced to read a Nazi con-
trolled press, is deprived of the oppor-
tunity to know the reaction of the world.
It is to be regretted that a retaliating
measure like the boycott should be the
necessary weapon under the circumstances,
rather than the preferred campaign of
information and education. But if the
latter peaceful measures are not permitted
in Germany, then the boycott remains the
only available weapon, and it is fortunate
for the cause of anti-Nazism and anti-
Fascism that the American Federation of
Labor is supporting it.
Militant Christianity
Bishop Hans Meisser had powerful pro-
tection recently when he was delivering a
sermon in a Bavarian country town. It is
reported that a crowd of 800 peasants
gathered with stones in their pockets while
he was preaching and let it be known that
if Hitler's Nazis dared to interfere with
the address they would give them a taste
of "militant Christianity."
But Herr Adolf insists that his party will
rule for a thousand years. Will it be with
or without the curbing of human rights
and interference with freedom of wor-
ship? Perhaps Adolf has the answer. But
the demonstration of militant Christianiy
to Bavaria appears to provide evidence of
another sort sufficient to provide uneasy
rest for the head that wears the Nazi
crown.
But while men and women who resent
interference with freedom of expression
in Germany publicly jeered Fuehrer Adolf
and his Nazis, a Detroit pastor saw fit to
extoll Hitler and IIitlerism, to distort cer-
tain facts about the situation there, to ig-
nore other important issues involved and
to endorse the Nazi program. This pastor,
whose addresses are unfortunately being
given undue publicity because they'are e0
misleading, does not consider it important
to reply to requests for a verification of
certain statements he made in public ad-
dresses. Perhaps the nobler Germans in
Germany who are valiantly fighting for
a free church will one day teach this De-
troit preacher a lesson in freedom of ex-
pression and in human rights.
Vladeck on Zionism
According to the Jewish Transcript of
Seattle, Wash., B. C. Vladeck, business
manager of the Jewish Daily Forward,
stated in an address in that city that
"Zionism is neither a movement nor a
philosophy, but merely a reaction—and
not an intelligent one at that!"
This statement is all the more amazing
at this time in view of the fact that Pales-
tine is serving as the major haven of ref-
uge for oppressed-Jewry.
Mr. Vladeck's statement is surprising
also for another reason. Most of the old
anti-Zionists, including the editor of his
own paper, Mr. Abraham Cahan, have be-
come great admirers of the Palestinian
settlers after visiting Palestine and seeing
for themselves how great are the achieve-
ments of our people in the Jewish Home-
land.
Mr. Vladeck's statement is worthy of
comparison also with the views of another
rabid anti-Zionist, Dr. David Philipson of
Cincinnati. In his Rosh Hashonah sermon
Dr. Philipson stated:
Metropolitan
Comment
A Dead Issue Resurrected
By HENRY W. LEVY
A Few Pointed Remarks Regarding the Newly-Revived
Discussion Over the Need of a Jewish
Hospital in Detroit
ov•
49actal
Tidbits and
A RED SHYLOCK
New York has seen a number of
By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
modern adaptations' of Shake-
speare. There was the Basil Syd
Apparently no issue is too old to be revived
the purposes for which it was raised. Besides,
ney tuxedoed Hamlet, a jazzed ver
again. This time it is the question of a Jewish
sion of "Taming of the Shrew" bu
there are other issues involved, and an Old Folks
now from Prague conies the new
hospital to which we had already made reference
Home cannot be built with the sum on hand.
of a radical "Merchant of Venice.'
several weeks ago.
It is to be hoped that the building of a home
At Prague's "Divadlio 34" Thea-
The radio address delivered by Mr. Kurt Peiser,
for the aged will be realized very soon. When
ter, there is a "Merchant of Venice'
whch we are pleased to reproduce on another
that time comes, we are confident that the $40,-
in which Antonio indulges in an in
surance swindle by allowing hi
page of this issue, gives a clear insight of the
000 in question will not be an obstacle in the
ships to be sunk in order to collet
issuessinvolved and of 'the difficulties that must
way of the proposed construction.
the insurance money. Shylock per
be encountered in the approach of the problem
sonifies capitalism and the charac
Luxury Versus Starvation
revived by a group for whom a Jewish hispital is
tern of the play rail at him through
But there is also another side to the picture
out. The decision of the Doge of
evidently the most important and most pressing staring at us horrifyingly and accusingly. At a
Venice against Shylock is inter
question.
time when a group of self-appointed revivers of
preted as the masses triumphan
We would be a very happy lot if this were
the hospital issue choose to speak of the great
over the tyranny of capitalism and
all we had lo worry about. Unfortunately, the
big business.
need for • hospital and of the crime on the
group which is now shouting for a hospital un-
But what concerns us, and is
part of thOse who fail to build it—and we empha-
not reported in the dispatches from
wittingly beclouds real issues in Jewish life by
size that we neither see the need for a hospital
Prague, is whether the anti-Semi-
insisting on giving major emphasis to this ques-
at present nor do we dignify the charge that the
tisM in the play has been deleted
tion. If it were true that . the Jewish hospital
to make room for the Communist
hospital trustees are committing any kind of
issue is a major one for our community today,
program. Or whether it was found
wrong—at a time of such irresponsible propa-
possible to completely change the
we feel confident that we would have such a
ganda in our community something very horrible
play except for that one element.
hospital in • very short time. Jews, after all,
is occurring in Jewish life. We prefer to make
NO "SMALL MIRACLE"
are kind-hearted and liberal. Furthermore, our
no reference at all to the plight of German and
One of the late September en-
people
are
not
devoid
of
a
certain
amount
of
tries in the theatrical sweepstakes
Austrian Jewries, and to the trials and sufferings
group egotism, and we surely would not mint a
was "Small Miracle." Immediately
of Jewish communities in the Orient. We are at
acclaimed as a good number by the
preferred opportunity of building another monu-
this time concerned with the tragedy of the vast
critics, it seemed destined for a
mental structure in the form of a health institu-
Jewish population in Poland. How can we speak
long and successful run. Its au-
tion. 'What a joy it would be if we could take
thor is Norman Krasna, and there.
of building a Jewish hospital—and a modern
In hangs a tale.
visiting guests on a tour of the city and were
health institution must involve a cost of about
In his early twenties, Krasna is
able to point out to the visitor from New York,
a million dollars—at a time when at least a
no longer a small miracle. Ile is
or St. Louis, or from European countries, that
million Jews in Poland are without food and
an established and highly paid
such a structure is the accomplishment of proud
member of the literati. Only a few
shelter, the other two and a half million being
years ago, however, he wrote thea-
Detroit Jewry, whose liberality was overflowing
the more fortunate only in that they have the
trical notes for the tabloid Gra-
in a time when the most important need in the
bread of paupers with which to feed their chil-
phic. A protege of Louis Weitzen-
community was a hospital!
dren and occasionally themselves. A new suicide
kern, he went to the late but not
lamented tabloid when Weitzenkorn
wave is reported spreading in Polish Jewry. In-
A Gloomy Two-Sided Picture
began a short-lived career as its
But another picture stares at us with an
fant mortality is increasing and every fourth
editor. Both men came from the
Jewish child born dies. Mothers are praying
accusing finger. This picture is painted on two
World, also late, but lamented by
sides, depicting conditions at home and abroad—
for death for their children to save them from
many. Weitzenkorn was the rag's
Sunday editor, and Krasna one of and each aide shouts at us reprovingly that we
a life of starvation and humiliation.
its copy boys.
But what is all this compared with the glory
are derelict in our duties, that we have failed in
Aside from the royalties coming
our responsibility, that our hearts have turned to
that would be ours- if we were able to boast of
to Krasna from his play, he is also
a Jewish hospital? Think of the crime that is
stone In considering the plight of millions of our
on the Hollywood payrolls, his lat.
being committed by those who deprive us of a
brethren who are unfortunate only for the reason
est effort being the highly emus-
ng "The Richest Girl in the World"
hospital structure!
that their fathers were not wise enough to settle
which features Miriam Hopkins,
in this blessed country at the time that our
We have numerous problems to solve in this
The youthful author's first play,
fathers burned their bridges behind them when
community. The schools, the Old Folks Home,
incidentally, was a lampooning of
they came to these shores.
Hollywood, "Louder Please," but
the Hebrew Free Loan Association, the North
that was written while he was still
The local picture has already been referred to.
End Clinic must continue to function without
on the outside looking in.
It tells the story of Jewish youth In danger of
the impediments of deficits. At the present time
Krasna, incidentally, was reputed
growing up totally ignorant of Jewish life and
large deficits hang like powerful weights around
to be the original of the wise-crack-
ing, up and coming, office-boy, in
Jewish traditions because our schools are suffer-
these institutions, threatening to drag them to
his boss's successful, "Five-Star
ing from a tremendous deficit. It is a story also
bankruptcy. Naturally, this community will not
Final," the play in which editor
of economic want and social despair because our
permit these important agencies to fail. And
Weitzenkorn got even with the tab-
relief
and
recreational
agencies
are
functioning
we feel confident that the clear-thinking ele-
loid journalism for the gray hairs
it gave him.
under extreme financial handicaps. It is a story
ments will realize that we are fortunate that
Now as far as the Broadway
of want among the old people who are compelled
we are not burdened at this time with an addi-
tally sheets go, editor and copy to live in a home unfit for men and women who
tional deficit which might have crushed our corn.
boy are even. Both have scored
should
have
at
least
the
minimum
of
comfort
munity structure if we had a hospital. We make
once in two Broadway trys, Weitz-
in their old age.
enkorn's first play, "First Mort.
this statement advisedly because there is not a
gage," was a flop, as was Krasna's ' In connection with the question of the Old
single hospital of worth and important which is
first "Louder Please." In their sec- • Folks Home which has been involved in the hos-
self-supporting and which is not compelled to
ond trys, both made good. In an ef-
pital issue, the fact that the existing' hospital
seek large endowments to cover annual deficits.
fort to keep ahead of his erstwhile
fund is held in trust for health purposes and
office boy, Weitzenkorn will soon
And we also wish to entertain the hope and
bow with a third, an untitled play therefore cannot be released by the trustees
the confidence that before we speak of the
that will be produced by Thomas
should be sufficient answer for the propagandists
luxury of possessing a hospital we shall do • little
Mitchell.
who raised the question. Furthermore, the inter-
bit more for the millions of Jews who are being
"HOUSE OF ROTHSCHILD"
est derived from this fund does provide certain
dragged to their graves with humiliation by the
Despite the fact that "The House
sums for hospitalization purposes, and it is an
of Rothschild" has been barred in
economic, social and political oppressions of
European powers.
idle threat to demand that the fund be used for
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Asch's "Salvation"
CAPITAL MEET
45, /U17144' /0,17//6
T
HE ASSASSINATION of King
Alexander of Yugoslavia and
Foreign Minister Louis Barthou of
France is regarded here as an in-
ternational tragedy which will have
serious repercussions in Europe.
While it is pointed out that the
slaying of these two men doomed
the possibility of any immediate
settlement of differences among
more than a half dozen European
countries, the tragic incident is
not expected to result in interna-
tional strife.
Even on this point, there are
those in Washington who are in-
clined to draw • parallel between
the assassination of Alexander and
Barthou and the Sarejevo murder
20 years ago. A real threat, they
say, lies in what ever positive ac-
tion Nazi elements may take on
the heels of what has just hap-
pened.
• • •
tenseness between Italy and Yugo-
slavia. Barthou had a life-long en-
mity toward Germany.
Now, with filrathou out of the
picture, Italy's attention is divided
in several directions, and uncertain-
ty in Yugoslavia, Germany is said
to be watching the whole situation
very carefully. Last summer Ger-
many was prevented by the Italians
and the French from effecting an
anschluss with Austria by the set-
ting up of a Nazi government in
that country.
• • •
With allies few and far between,
Hitler may see his chance. It is
possible that Berlin may encour-
age the Austrian Nazis to revive
their activities and establish them-
selves as the governing body. Italy
is not in position to make the same
effective showing of force as last
summer.
Possibilities are that what was
not accomplished as few months
ago by the murdir of Dollfuss, may
now be fulfilled as a result of the
additional murders. The whole
complicated situation finds Ger-
many in • relatively favorable
position for aggressive action
through indirect methods.
• • •
A Review by Henry W. Levy
By DAVID SCHWARTZ
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(Copyright, UM.J. T. A.1
SILHOUETTES
New York is talking a good hit
these days about a play by George
Kaufman In which the final stage of
a man's life is shown first, and the
succeeding acts go back to earlier
stages. Well I know one drama—.
and that one of real life—in which
it would be very difficult indeed to
surmise the first acts from the lad.
The man I refer to, I saw in the
last stage of his life at Newark.
You don't see very much generally
It Newark. When you get to New.
ark, if you are going one way, you
are thinking how far it is to the
Pennsylvania station, New York.
In Newark, you can never some-
how think of Newark itself. At
least, I never could. And yet the
location of this drama which I
shall unfold was Newark.
HE WAS FIXING
AUTOMOBILES
On this occasion, I happened to
be visiting a friend in Newark. We
were walking forth from this
friend's home, when we passed a
gas station.
"What is there strange about
that man?' asked my friend.
I looked at a man quite ad-
vanced in years, who was fixing an
automobile.
"Well," I said, "I can't see any-
thing strange. Seems a little out
for such work."
"Look closer, Sherlock Holmes,"
continued my friend.
"Well," said I, "he looks a little
too cultured for that sort of work."
"Fine, Sherlock, but look again."
"Well," I said, "it is, a little the
stranger when one considers that
he looks like a Jew. I suppose he
owns the place and is just enjoy-
ing himself with a little dabbling in
things mechanical."
"Your last guess is all wet," said
my friend. "That old Jew is work-
ing because he's got to work."
"Do you know any Aramaic or
Sanskrit," continued my friend.
"So what?" I asked.
"Well, if you did you could go
up and talk to him in that lan-
guage. Of course, his native tongue
is English, but he can sling a wick-
ed Aramaic.
"No," I said, "my knowledge of
Aramaic is very limited."
"Well," he continued, "try him
with Hebrew."
"Now listen, Dr. Watson," I said,
"enough of this—who and what is
this man?"
"That man," he replied, "is in
my opinion, the greatest martyr
that Zionism In America has pro-
duced. Did you ever hear of Prof.
Margolis and Dr. Matter? Well,
that man is Prof.,Caspar Levies,
who was kicked out with them from
a Jewish theological school because
of their Zionism. Of course, today
Zionism is quite kosher in that
school—but in his time—he paid
for it with his position—and this
great scholar—one of the world's
greatest in his field, in advanced
age, was forced to learn a trade,
and he learned automobile mechan-
ics—and any day you pass here,
you can see him as today, fixing
a car or maybe just washing a car,
for after all, he's too old for much
of physical labor."
When Caspar Levies died recent-
ly, there was hardly enough to
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Alfred Cohen at Seventy-Five
By HENRY W. LEVY
SALVATION. .ray Shalom Aech. Pub-
lished by O. P. Putnam'• Sone, 2 W.
45th Si., New Task (12.50).
Sholom Asch has written a
new novel. He has followed
the widely heralded "Three
Cities" with "Salvation," a
panorama painted on not quite
so broad • canvas. "Salvation"
is distinctly Jewish in concep-
tion and interest. It is a defini-
tion of faith, a thorough pic-
ture of the Judaism of Poland
of a hundred years ago. Though
it is rich in colorful lore,
though its range of characters
is varied and its descriptions
Intense and though its story
is moving and vivid, I doubt
that "Salvation" will achieve
the general acclaim that did
"Three Cities." But that "Sal-
vation" Is as sincere and fine ■
piece of literary art u "Three
Cities" is, I feel, quite evident.
News
(Copyright, 1231, Jewish Telegraphic diem'', Inc.)
O NE
of America's outstanding
Jews today celebrates his 75th
brithday. While B'nai B'rith ,
with welch organization his
name has been synonomous
for the past 10 years, cherishes
his nr,tal day as something pecu-
liarly its own, all Jewry joins in
paying homage to Alfred M.
Cohen.
the little boy he placed so much
confidence in 63 years ago.
Senator Cohen's greatest Jew-
ish interest, though, is quite nat-
urally B'nai B'rith, of which he
has for the past 10 years been
international president. As head
of this largest of all fraternal
lodges, Alfred Cohen has been
one of th e lea ders of Israel. It
The reason for Jewry's love of was he
who headed the B'nai
Senator Cohen is best expressed, B'rith deputation in the Joint
perhaps, by his intimate and close Consultative
Council
the
of
associate, I. M. Rubinow, execu-
American Jewish Committee, the
tive Secretary of the B'nai B'rith.
In ■ tribute to his "boss," Mr. American Jewish Congress and
B'nai B'rith that was called to
Rubinow, some of his eon.
consider and act for American
spicuous characteristics, speaks of Jewry on the problem besetting
"his inexhaustable industry
d
capacity for work. His devotion Jews as a result of the Hitler re-
gime in Germany.
to Jewry and B'nai B'rith (I
think I have put them in the right
Worked for Unity
order—his service to B'nai B'rith
It was Senator Cohen, as .1
arises out of his devotion to Juda- matter of fact, who more than
ism and Jewry, not the reverse." anyone else Is responsible for the
Truly it is his love of Jewry measure of unity among Jewish
and Judaism that causes Jewr y i leaders achieved by the Joint
to so love Senator Cohen. His, Council. It was he who called
has not been the devotion of a I
decade or so, the climax of a l o
rrI p9 1133o. nthW
e ain
shee
intgt
inogn'thi
Btirp
thadr ae.y1
career devoted in its younger day the first , meeting
of s the
three
The novel traces the life of
• Polish Jew. It Introduces
Countries directly affected by the
him in a child-bed and it does
murder of Alexander and Barthou
are:
not leave him until burial. His I to other fields.
The president ' the way for the ultimate adoption
1. Yugoslavia and the Central
life is his salvation. Asch names of the International Order of
European states, Austria, Hungary
I of the Joint Council-of -June 23
m
B'annai anIld'ritbhoy,hasforbetehne devoted, :of
his
principal
character
Jechiel,
aid Czechoslovakia.
that year. As • result of hi'
2. France.
"the living God." It is sym-
efforts in the establishment of the
3. Italy.
Barthou's death brought to an bolic, for Jechiel achieves fame years to things Jewish, and we j allisnce.
B'rith leader
may be erring on the cons pe arvstatifve5 was
The murder of these two men end the life of one of Germany's
honored by being chosen as
as the people's rabbi; not the
side when we do not include the 1 its chairman.
first 10 years
bitterest enemies. Death interrupt- rabbi's rabbi.
Great Britain.
of Alfred Cohen's . Senator Cohen's views on the
The key European powers— ed his last task—that of making de-
life in the scope of Jewish ac- ; Joint Council were first es-
Jechiel is not the scholar that tivity.
Great Britain, France and Italy— fensive alliances between France
premed before ■ meeting of the
this
older
brother
is;
he
never
are determ i ned to maintain peace. an dother nations by which he was
His Greatest Interest
I am as opposed to political Zionism as I
of B'nai
quite masters the dialectics of
For this reason, it is believed here
Certainly from the birth of .
have ever been, but I am thoroughly in sym-
an encircling ring of steel
drawing-
He
that another war resulting more or
the Talmud. But he rises to a consciousness, whatever that age : executive committee
pathy with the thousands who seek and are
declared: "What in my opin-
less direct!yy from the assassination tighter and tighter around Het- place of rabbinical pre-emin- may be, Alfred Cohen was con- then
B'rith in January of 1933.
finding • new home in Palestine.
ion is needed in American Jewry
of Aliment er and Barthou will be leer country.
ence because he brings religion scious of his Jewithnem. }tit fa. ,
Palestine has become a lend of refuge and
avoided. From Austria, however,
He believed that the peace of
ther,
Morton
S. Cohen, an Eng. •
we needs must aid such of our domomessed
e
.
of
representatives
all multi
comes the only real danger to that Europe and the rest of the world down to the level of the people.
Heilman by birth, was one of the ' is • board of
of deputies,
made up -
German brethren as seek refuge there even
peace. It is feared that the Nazi depended upon holding Germany in A man who has suffered, who
arliest members of the B'n•i tefl
as we aid those who seek refuge here and
matters of national and interns-
elements, which were subdued since leash. The gains made at Ver- has worked, his Idea of the
elsewhere that such refuge can be found.
Clonal character so that duplica-
last summer, but still strong, may sailles were not to be lost if he
Rabbi Philipson has not become con- undertake a well-timed blow in could help it. Barthou took the greatest godtj is the amount in Cincinnati, grew up in that . tion of effort may be avoided."
citadel of Reform Judaism, under
Obviously, the senator had in
vu-ted to the ideology of Zionism, but he view of the complicated state of position that Hitler's Germany, of ease and happiness he can the
personal tutelage of the
affairs, and attempt once more to struggling tb throw off the bonds of bring to his people.
recognizes the great possibilities offered set themselves up as the govern-
founder of the Reform move- American equivalent of the Brit-
the Versailles treaty, was to be held A MAN SET APART
ment, Isaac M. Wise.
in that neglected country for the settle- ment.
. ish Board of Deputies. In this.
in check at all coats. With this in
Senator Cohen was one of the he mind the establishment of an
. • •5
was not quite successful but
In the Poland that Sholom
ment of persecuted Jews, as well as of France finds herself on shaky mind, he went up and down Europe,
welding the chain to bind • tra- Asch writes about in "Salva- youngstem Rabbi Wise had in the Joint Consultation Council is
those Jews who are attracted to the land ground at the prevent time. Bar- ditional foe.
mind when he first protected th• the lint step in the direction of
tion," the rabbi is • man set idea of the Hebrew Union Col-
• • •
by a spiritual urge. But Mr. Vladeck has thou, who since last February took
unity in American Jewry. From
the foreign
recovered , World Jewry has loot • chain- apart. He is free from all legs. At the age of 12, he was it may eventually come an eu-
learned nothing in a quarter of a century
ry over
France's prestige and power among pion. In international circles, Bar- earthly demands. Marriage as- one of five boys chosen for ■ thorned', and recognised Ameri-
view he enter- nations which had been on the thel; was most outspoken in his sures him of what worldly Jewish school that the rabbi
and adheres to the
ca Jewish body, something that
was
developing .a • nucleus for his neither the American Jew
tained in his early days, in spite of the far wane. He was responsible for the pleas for the rights of Jews. The geode he needs. If the dowry libe
Jewish Cont-
I
Franco-British entente and for the assassination of both Barthou and
rite mhoot.
i mittee nor the American Jewish
greater progress made in the Jewish home- improved relations with Italy. Ile Alexander makes the position of doesn't support him, his wile
Alfred Cohen never became
Congress
can
rightfully claim to-
land by Jewish labor than he could boast had intended to visit Mussoliniin Jews in Germany, Austria and • does. There is no love, no emo- rabbi; he studied law. But years a day.
leader
his own labor group in this country. Rome to settle major Franco-Ital- number of other countries extreme- tional feeling except that for later he was elected president of in this aM no lv i em Bern ith
of
t andasAalfre
.
ian differences soon after King ly uncertain. Muth depends on
the board of govern or, of
the Cohen, of course. shares a major
Therein lies the answer—that insofar Alexander left France. Alexander what steps, if any, the Nad ele- God. Jed:let's mother dies. His , Hebrew Union
College. It was Part of the acclaim the Lod re
just
one
o
father,
whom
he
had
fetehed
tame
to
Frznee
to
discuss
the
posi-
f
the
as Zionism is concerned, Mr. Vladeck has
many noliBoi. merits for this work.
ments take to add more fuel to
of Yugoslavia is the new tie- the already raging fire of interna- from his studies elsewhere, an. tions of his many aided
not learned a thing in the past quarter of tion
Senator Cohe
Jud
o en n has 1 a bore d
e, a m.
up between France and Italy. Bar- tional events.
'Certainly
Rabbi Wise were h., mightily in behalf of the German
w
,
a century.
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