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Sabbath 'and Second Day Shevuoth
Reading. of the Law, June 8
Pentateuchal portion—Deut. 15:19-16:17; Num.
28:16-31
Prophetical portion—Hob. 3:1-19
The Book of Ruth is read.
June 7, 1935
Sivan 6, 5695
The Feast of Weeks
and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE
THE ORACLE
of ballots for Ticket No. 1. Mr. Silver's
points are not well taken, and his compar-
By CARL ALPERT
Oracle answers all ganglion.
isons are hardly applicable. Without the of The
general Jreish interest. (verlee
ahould
to The Oratle
support of the general Zionists the Labor In care Ise of addremed
The Detroit Jewish
mod Mundd be accom-
party in Zionism could never have re- Chronicle,
p anied by • self-addressed, stamped
tained the control it now possesses. At envelo pe.
best the strength possessed by the Hista-
druth was attained by virtue of power
Q. What Russian official of
vested in it by the major group in world about 30 years ago was called the
second Ilaman?—P. G. Y.
Zionism.
A. You probably refer to M.
Mr. Silver's expression of appreciation Pobiedonostseff, procurator gen-
to the general Zionists is an admission of eral of the holy synod in Russia.
strong backing his party received from the Ile was a relentless enemy of all
ideas, and was firmly
general Zionists, but while he emphasizes , democratic
convinced that the welfare of
the amending of a pro-labor plank in the Russia depended upon autocracy
Ticket No. 1 platform, through pressure in the civic and orthodoxy in the
by Iladassah, he fails to refer to the gen- church governments. Ile ruled
his country with an iron hand and
eral principle in that platform which is was
particularly oppressive in
thoroughly pro-labor.
measures against the Jews. His
However, while the general Zionists educational policy was to keep
must and will back the labor party's ma- the masses ignorant. His death
in 1907 was hailed as a blow to
jor program, especially on points involving the
reactionary element.
Jewish labor and speculation, it is not
Q. Where • was Franz Werfel
necessarily to be presumed that the Zion-
ist Organization of America, Hadassah, born and educated?—S. R. I.
A. Franz Werfel, the Jewish
Junior Hadassah and the Order Sons of
was born in Prague in
Zion should be expected to give up their writer,
1890 and attended the university
identities and to merge with a thoroughly there. Ile took part in the war.
Socialistic program of the Labor party. Werfel published many volumes
Dr. Chaim Weizmann, Schmarya Levin, of poetry, several plays and fan-
tales. His novel, "Forty
111. M. Ussishkin, Louis Lipsky, Dr. Selig tastic
Days of Musa Dagh," is a best
Brodetsky and many other leaders in gen- seller.
• •
eral Zionism are extremely friendly to
Q. What proportion of the im-
labor Zionism, but they ask for a vote for
Ticket No. 1 and are anxious for the re- migrants to Palestine are mem-
bers of the Agudath Israel?—
tention of power by the centrists in the H.
M. C.
movement in order that a party best able
A. The Agudath Israel, an
to reconcile all elements should dominate ultra-orthodox organization, has
the movement. We disagree with men an agreement with the Jewish
like Rabbi Louis I. Newman who fears Agency whereby it gets seven per
of the immigration certifi-
the return to leadership of Dr. Weizman!, cent
cates obtained by the Agency.
whom he considers a "front" for the His-
• • •
tadruth and we would welcome Dr. Weiz-
Q. Who was Isaac Israeli?--.I.
mann's re-election by the World Zionist G. T.
Congress. But we must emphasize that of A. the One of the greatest doctors
Middle Ages was Isaac
Dr. Weizmann, as a pro-Histadruth lead- Israeli (C.
E. 850.940), who
er, is nevertheless not a supporter of the served as court physician to a
labor ticket and his name is synonymous number of Caliphs of Egypt. lie
with general Zionism.
was an oculist and a dietician. He
a book on diet which in
We reiterate our conviction that Labor wrote
Latin translation became one of
Zionism is assured of its best support and t he indispensable text books of
encouragement at the hands of general Medicine, and so it remained for
Zionists, but that a complete victory for 600 years. • • •
the Labor ticket, by virtue of the bitter-
Is there an exact spot for
ness whichmarks thedivision inZionism the Q. affixing
of the Mezuzah to
a ong party lines, may eventually bring the doorway?—E. N. F.
unfavorable effects upon the Histadruth.
A. The Mezuzah should be af-
We emphatically urge, therefore that fixed to the right doorpost, about
Zionists cast their ballots for Ticket No. three-quarters of the way up
from the ground, within easy
1 at the June 23 election.
sight and reach. The Mezuzah
A Monarch of Character
— —
From the Series "Jewry Under a British King"
By DR. NAHUM SOKOLOW
Strictly
Confidential
Tidbits from Everywhe re
By PHINEAS J. BIRON
(Corsi-11,M,
1911. „„n Arta Feattno S,nitNate
1935. by a.
A. F. 0)
PALESTINE SNAPSHOTS
EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the third of a series of four articles on British Jewry
Rumors persist that strong et
under the reign of King George V. The author of this article is president of the
forts are being made in New Yell
banking circles to arrange for
World Zionist Organization and has had personal contact with the British ruler.
This series will be concluded next week with an article by Israel Cohen.
huge German loan ... No German
Jewish or American Jewish banker
is directly implicated in this but
Israel offers His Majesty King George V h
cc been regulated by conscience. Distinguished .for it is being said that American Jew.
ish banking interests (are there
fairest tribute—the heart's devotion. This
is the gentleness and considerate attention with any?) have promised not to oppos
not only a sudden rush of emotion, but an eve r-
e
which he treats his peoples, he radiates a right- the move ... Dr. Emil Hirsch, the
lasting, deep and faithful sentiment. The ver Y
eous influence. His influence, because he does Jewish builder of the Berlin sub-
name of Great Britain attracts Israel all over th e
not like to emphasize it, is immense. His genuine way system, now living in Pales.
tine, has managed to get his mar-
world with a force of marvelous potency.
goodness of heart, modesty and simplicity make velous collection of paintings out
This is not political tendency created by th e
him appear to our eyes as one of the best of Naziland... His Tel Aviv home
passing clouds of diplomatical agreements, fo
I- Davidic monarchs of old, the more so that he is now a veritable museum . .
lowed by contrasting reactions. It is an hi s- was, and is, the
King of the Eretz Israel Man- Another outstanding German Jew.
ish resident of Palestine, Dr. Mark '
torical conviction built upon that eternal Roc k date.
Ettinger, the famous psychiatrist.
which is called the Holy Bible. Israel is co
a '
has
built an exact replica of his
"Thus
saith
Cyrus,
King
of
Persia.
The
scious of the fact that all good English tradition
Berlin home in Jerusalem-Rechavi a
Lord God of Heaven bath given me all the king- . . . Every book in his study is in
are associated with the Bible. This is the reaso
doms of the earth; and he bath charged me to the same place as it was in his
why Israel is so happy to see Great Britain a
s
a tower of strength in our times in the worl build him an home at Jerusalem which is in Charlottenburg home . . . hem
Van Paassen, who spent a few
d,
Judah.
Who is there among you of all his peo-
full of vigor and freshness—and the Englis
weeks in Palestine recently, is re.
King is the most revered monarch in the worl h pie? His God be with him, and let him . go up ported to have beaten Dr. Samar
d
The Anglo-Hebrew connection is not an art ' to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and build the ya Levin at a game of chess . .
house of the Lord God of Israel (he is the The genial doctor was so down.
final link. It is rather a long-aged moral rela
hearted over his defeat that he
Cod) which is in Jerusalem" (Ezra i, 2-3).
tionship to s be regarded "sub auspiciis aetern
didn't attend that day the meeting
tatis.”
We have only to put instead of 'Cyrus, King of the Actions Committee
To Israel it was committed to proclaim t o of Persia," George V, King of England, and PALESTINE SAP-SHOTS
The German colonists of Shar-
instead of "an home at Jerusalem," the "Jewish
mankind the one and supreme God, to keep aliv
onia, who were interned by the
His pure worship, to assert the memorable more • National Home in Palestine" to make clear the British in Alexandria during the
perfect analogy between the two monarchs and World War, have been allowed to
law in a corrupt and heathen world. The poetr
return to Palestine upon the inter-
the history and the politics of the Hebrew wer Y their two great historical acts.
cession of the Jewish Agency .
ever imbued with religious, peaceful characte ✓
This is the main source of Israel's love for So these gentle German Junkers,
of their monotheistic State—our Hebrew proph- the King and his advisers.
out of gratitude, have begun a
ets in the Land of Israel spoke from inspiration;
strong anti-Jewish Nazi campaign
The
King's
Associates
the Arabs in the Sharon
they were confident of their expectation of good
In an effort of a quarter of a century to among
Plain . . . A German Jew, whose
and evil. They were intensely national, but
have his people prepared for a tremendous prog- ticket was not for the right day,
they burst the narrow limit of heathen nation-
ress, for victory, peace, and for the great posi- was refused admission by Jewish
alism, and, in dying to themselves, lived to man-
policemen to the fair grounds at
tion, this people, or rather this family of peoples, Tel Aviv ... The German Jewish
kind. This has been and is going to be again—
occupies in the modern world, II. M. the King refugee got so excited that he ad-
the Spirit of Israel in the Land of Israel.
has been associated with others. Many of them dressed the Jewish cop as "flebrai.
A King of Character
have been conspicuous for knowledge, others aches lumpenpack — klein-Asiat
The same importance has Great Britain's for zeal and self-sacrifice. Some of the best isches Juden Gesindel" . . . The
moral mission in the world of today. In an age sons of Israel have had a considerable share in Jewish cop knocked him down and
arrested him • . . In case your
when old and great democracies of many kinds this work of solidarity and loyalty. The services German is a bit weak let us tell
are crumbling; in an age which has revolted of Lord Balfour, of Lord Oxford and Asquith, you that what the salvaged Fas-
against its predecessor and is fully conscious of Mr. Lloyd George, of Lord Reading, of Lord cist victim said in the language of
of its revolt; at this time of dictators who spring Robert Cecil, of Sir Herbert Samuel, of Mr. Hitler means: "Pack of Hebrew
beggars — Near Eastern Jewish
from nothing, came from nowhere and have be- Winston Churchill, of Lord Melchett, of Mr. guttersnipe" ...
come everything—crude, clumsy, advertising, Baldwin, of Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, of Sir John VIA SHORT WAVE
Several Jewish candidates were
menacing, with ill-disguised impatience of a Simon and of many other great men, have con-
mercurial, aggressive nature, with a flood of tributed to the power, the welfare and the glory defeated in the recent municipal
elections in France through the
empty verbiage streaming from their lips to of the Kingdom.
bitter attack of the Francists and
cover their insincerity and lack of conviction;
Croix de Feu . . . These French
Of this common endeavor, of this fair play anti-Semitic organizations plaet-
at this time of anti-Judaism, anti-Christianity,
of a noble rivalry of the talents and thegood- eredvlection districts with posters
and return to the worship of Moloch-Wotan, the
will of every race and religion, H. M. the King reading: "Send the Jews back to
very existence of Great Britain as a bulwark
has been the royal exponent and the State's the German ghetto. Hitler knows
of right, justice, democratic equality, law and .y
how to deal with them" The
•
ems. At sonic stages of the eventful evolu- leader of the anti-Semitic wave in
order is a blessing for the world.
tion, his was the most characteristic and most Paris is Jean Chiappe, former po-
"In the light of the King's countenance is comprehensive attitude, marking the central line lice prefect, who is carrying on a
life" (Prov. xvi, 15). Countenance means in of the State's unity. He has realized unity in systematic anti-Jewish propaganda
. . . Ernst Toiler, German Jewish
Hebrew, character. George V is a King of
variety. He never beat, like Kaiser Wilhelm,
character. By disposition to truthfulness, honor, the tom-tom of monarchial reclame; he never proletarian playwright and novel-
ist, who always attacked marriage
integrity, generosity and resolute energy of pur- uttered, like the dictators of today, emphatic
go -
ing an
t o
pose, without which no man ever was or ever nonsense or pompous promises for the ones and as
'Col t
can be a true king. There is something in King insulting phrases against the others. He has toff, age 18, in London some time
George's nature which responds to natural, in- worked all the time behind the scenes for internal this month. . . . Miss Grantoff is
also a German Jewish refugee ...
herited, atavistic dignity, magnificence, superior- and external peace. His advisers have n en- Few remember that Marshal Pit-
ity, whether of mind, heart, and position, and couraged and influenced by him to value the
u s i's first wife was a Jewess
real majesty. Ile is good, unselfish, calm, hu- interests of Great Britain, the interests of par- which prompted Mrs. Karin Mich-
aelis,
the Danish novelist, to re-
mane, prudent, religious--with the soundest ties, and to discuss them on a basis of perfect
mark that the Polish dictator liked
principles, actuated by a sense of duty in all equality. Therefore, the atmosphere around Jews in retail, not in wholesale ...
that he has done; his life has been austerely him breathes freedom of
If we were to award a Pulitzer
action. prize for Jewish journalism we
moral, honorable, true, self-denying, affable to Therefore England was, and will ever an
be, victor-
would
hand it to A. Puniansky, dy-
all men, without any prejudice against any race , ious.
namic publis her
J ew-
nationality, creed, color, party, but ever con-
ish
Daily
l'ost . . . e 'An at un papttr
Perfect Constitutional Monarch
scious of his royal rank.
although only four months old, is
This is the reason why King George is the setting the fastest pace of any Jew-
The Modern King Cyrus
most perfect constitutional monarch who ever ish publication we know .. And
Ile has given much because much has been lived.
ncidentally, its board of directors
given to him. Ile has asserted his monarchic
reads like a who's who of Briti h s
Israel, thrown to the wolves in some coon-
nobility for those around him. Proud of his
a ristocracy, as witnessed by the
tries, under reaction, coercion, the war spirit Earl of Listowel, the Earl of War-
religion for the sake of his nation, enjoying the
and heathen barbarity, celebrates with particular wick, Sir William Whyte, Lord
happiness of his family life and bearing his sor-
Marley
UP-STAGE
Sir Gervais Rentoul...
devotion this festival in England which is
a
rows with the dignity of silence, every act, every
ray of light in this immensity of the world's
Rabbi Jacob Minkin, formerly
word, every thought of his during his reign has darkness.
f Rochester and New York , has
The current observance of Shevuoth has
its annually recurring interests and fas-
cinations.
We are naturally particularly concerned
at this time with the fact that the festival
of Shevuoth marks the anniversary of the
presentation of the Law to Israel. In view
of the horrible degradations to which hu-
man beings are submitted today through.
out the world by oppressing and sup-
pressing forces, it is well to recall the
historic fact of the first proclamation of
the Decalogue and the existence of Com-
mandments which strive for justice in the
face of calamity.
An interesting legend relating to Shevu-
oth tells of the events which led up to tho
selection of Mt. Sinai as the hill upon
which the Law was to be presented. Ac-
cording to the legend when the mountains
heard that God intended to reveal the
Law upon one of them, they quarreled
and contested for the honor. Each was
anxious to be the spot to be selected for
the revelation of the Law. The honor
was claimed in turn by. Mt. Hermon, Mt.
Carmel and Mt. Tabor. The dispute re-
sulted ina Voice from Heaven declaring:
"Do not quarrel, for Mount Sinai has been
chosen as the spot for the delivery of the
Law. I haye measured all the mountains
and My choice hath fallen on Mount Sinai,
because it is lower than all of you, and
serves to remind the Jews at all
humbler, and the Lord loves humility.
times of the teachings of the
Jewish religion.
Upon all you proud mountains, on account
The Late Jane Addams
• • •
ofyour height, idols have been wor-
One of the noblest women in American
Q. What is the subject of Sar-
shipped, and ye are unworthy to be the
famous painting, "The
holy spot where the Law will be delivered. history has been called by death, and it is gent's
Synagogue"?-8 G L .
Upon Sinai alone the feet of idol worship. proper that every element of the popula-
A. "The Synagogue" is part of
pers have never trodden, and no heathen tion should express sorrow over the sad a series
of murals by John Singer
sanctuaries have been erected there."
Sargent in the Boston Public Li-
loss we have suffered.
brary.
It
shows the synagogue as
Another interesting legend is to the ef-
To Jewry the death of Miss Jane an ugly crouching woman whose
fect that women were also consulted be-
crown is falling from her head,
fore the Law was giveti to the men in Addams comes as a particular shock be- whose scepter is broken, who hugs
Israel. The legend tells us that God said cause she was such an outspoken friend of a bout her the last shreds of her
unto Moses: "Go and speak to the daugh- the underprivileged and the downtrodden, orgeous raiment —a figure of
ters of Israel, make; known to them the and because she was ever ready to raise y uin and agony. About a dozen
ears ago a vandal splashed the
contents of the Torah, and ask them her voice in protest against persecutions, F ainting
with ink, but it was re-
n
whether they will accept it. Men, as a
oved without damage. Sargent
wherever
they
may
have
been
experi-
rule, hearken to the counsel of women,
s also the painter of the frieze
f the Prophets, the most popu-
and if the women accept My command- enced.
As one whose efforts were directed in mi ar Old Testament painting of
ments they will not be able to imitate
odern times, and one which is
their mother Eve, who, when she sinned, great.,measure towards the improvement reproduced
in countless Jewish
excused herself with the words 'the Com- of the conditions of children and women, homes. The painting shows Moses
mandment had not been given to rne, but Jane Addams left an indestructible monu- the lawgiver in the center and a
of the prophets of
to my husband alone.' The women, too, ment. Furthermore, her peace efforts, for procession
which she had been honored with the No- Israel.
will instruct their children in the Law."
• • •
There is nothing in all modern folklore bel Prize, makes her work internationally
Q. Is Konrad Bercovici Jew-
ish?—Y. A.
or political practice to compare with these important.
Her protests against Nazi persecutions, A. Konrad Bercovici, the gifted
great lessons in humbleness, humility,
the encouragement she gave to important writer of romance and adventure,
kindness and cooperation.
is part Rumanian, gypsy and Jew.
These legends indicate in considerable Jewish social service projects, her sympa-
thetic
attitude
to
all
humane
movements
The Oracle
now a•aliahle In hook
measure the extent of ethical power, of
Inn,, as • hand, Jessie!, nsferenne book.
your Order sills our
the domination of Jewish tradition have earned a permanent place for her in Place
dealer
or
ante
the
Oracle, tare of The
Delnsif Jewish Chronicle.
which had its foundation in great measure Jewish as well as American history.
in the festival of Shevuoth. It is a great
frLEAFIETURN TO NEXT PAGE)
privilege to be able not only to observe
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Warning to Indifferent
ISRAELITES
the festival but to relate again the power-
ful elements which surround its historic
It is amazing to learn of the large num-
lessons.
A Marginal Note
ber of Jews who remain indifferent to the
By MARTHA NEUMARK
plight of their persecuted kinsmen abroad.
Clifford Odets, America's Newest Theatrical Genius
By JOSEPH BRAININ
1.3rIght. 1535, I, 8 A F. 8,ndkate.
Solicitors for the Allied' Jewish Campaign
The Next Zionist Elections
opyrIght. 1915. hy a A F. 0,0 , 11 , ate
By BERNARD POSTAL
report that many prospects not only ex- THOSE HISTORIC
revolution during the past few
F II1TOR
Much is at stake at the forthcoming pressed indifference to the status of Ger- SCHECHTERS
'SOW Illrtnrd Ode(
weeks. Thousands of workers in
B
en
i
' Ill ' and •• 1rnerle•'s Toiler's
aron Robert de Rothschild, ”AN' ,' And s
l
elections for delegates to the World Zion- man Jewry, but even went so far as to ob-
Alex, Aaron, Joseph and Mar- various of the 91 institutions sup-
and . forth. . Ilia three Rn, •
in. ' l: 5,Allin
nen. o !I
x In; the no l A For ' , fir" and “Till ' the "Ise y"il l r"'
Isle",712eca.;
ist Organization to be held throughout ject to making contributions to the relief tin Schechter, four well-set-up ported by the New York Federation president of the Paris Jewish Rend 1 dndard
e rninNur) Arn , r14'n.
no el'. vton shout
( ITO, Sib,,
I. it I
S b. A..
Ilse posing Bronx Jew who
carefully
haberdashed
boys
in
of
Philanthropies
went
on
strike
IdnIn
community,
warned
his
co-
r,l(M.
' l
funds.
no Is now
the country on June 23.
nos Inn l:, ';;
Brooklyn enjoy the national spot- for longer or shorter periods to religionists to behave or anti-
This is not only a heartless attitude, but light into which they have been protest against the inadequate sal-
While the labor party practically con-
c,,,,r10t. 19:5. Selen Artx Feature 8,ndi
Semitism will become an im-
■ ate
trols the Zionist situation today by virtue is also an unwise one. There is a lesson in thrust—and show wide grins at the aries they are being paid.
which they won in the
Not since the first plays of American stage,
The so-called "left-wing" Office portant political issue in the
of the fact that the General Zionists have the present European situation which victory
which up
u to now
United States Supreme Court, com-
Eugene O'Neill set the dramatic has invariably been
lent their support to the Histadruth group, should humble rather than make haughty. pletely ignoring the fact that their Workers Union has been doing a Republic of France. In the critics
farcical or
shouting hosannas more sentimental. Odets has
broken
it comes as a surprise to us that the labor- Furthermore, the spread of bigotry should kosher chicken test case has plung- skillful organizing job among the same speech this scion of the
than a decade ago has Broad- with the tradition of weepy, sen-
ites should be so anxious to capture the teach those who wish to divorce them- ed the nation into the greatest con- the Federation employees. The Rothschild dynasty addressed i , way
acclaimed a new playwright i timental
melodramas of the Jew-
himself specifically to the Jew-
fusion
it
has
known
since
the
stock
i
"philanthropists"
of
the
Federa-
5
e
entire election field at the coming plebis- selves from their people's plight that what market crumbled into the dust in
people. His play has no
, with such encomiums as greeted
tion are not particularly more so- ish refugees, implying that ; Clifford Odets, the young
cite. The fact that they already have the has happened in lands of oppression may 1929.
radio type Jewish character in
these "foreign Jews" resident ; dramatist from the Bronx , Jewish it.
cial-minded
than
the
"philanthrop-
Neither is there a Potash
afte r
sympathies of the center party is an indi- also come to countries of freedom if we do
Joseph Heller, the 35-year-old
in France should be particular. , the presentation of his "Awake and Perlmutter. It is, of course,
cation that the labor elements are assured not place ourselves on guard and if we fail East Side boy who pitted his law ists" of non-Jewish welfare bodies. ly careful and not go around 1 and Sing," the first adult-minded idiomatic
because its people, the
So that little sympathy has been
knowledge
against
that
of
Donald
of retaining the power that they now pos- to create some semblance of unity against
y are cs second
of American Jewish life, Berge family,
aeuc:en gse tn e e m r
Richberg and the Solicitor General, meted out to young men and wo- criticizing French institutions. I I play
and "Waiting for Lefty" a d anon r J efa aa m , and
sess. However, by insisting upon com- a common foe.
to emerge with a decision of 9 to 0 men who get as low as $12 a week
a
Ever since the victims of "Till the
from
ite
locale.
I
Die,
one-act
Yet it is sin-
plete control of the situation, the labor
Dr. S. Parkes Cadman, one of the most is also meeting the reporters and in a period when the cost of living German Fascism
which deal with the strike gularly free from the usual trite
party certainly stands in danger of alien- eminent American Christian clergymen photographers with a well-pleased has risen from a third to a half. France we have the flocked to plays
ugly pig- of the New York taxi drivers and methods of such studies. Going
smile.
But
Heller
is
honest
enough
In
Beth
Moses
Hospital,
which
ating the affections of those who are will- engaged in the fight on Nazism, recently to admit that the Schechter boys
the Nazi persecution of radicals, straight to the hearts and minds
a subvention from the Feder- ture of French Jewry assuming respectively. Bruising in their of his character',
ing to defend labor's cause but are not described the plight of Germany's Chris- were only a "front" for the biggest gets
Odets has en-
ation, some 100 girls are being a holier-than-thou attitude to- " i tal i t
y and overwhelming in dowed each and every
prepared to be controlled by the party tian non-Aryans, and related the following influence America's industrialist. locked out because, the story goes, ward them. The differentiation
of
their emotional force, these three them with a hundred and more
could
muster.
For
"Big
Business"
incident:
they
were
seen
at
a
meeting
where
which is not in position to raise the needed
was far more interested in the inequitable working conditions between the French Israelites 'angry and militant plays are so touches of life-like reality and
large sums of money.
and the German and Polish brilliant in stagecraft, fluent in validity without bothering to
Schechter victory than were the were being discussed.
There are numerous instances of the trage-
' dialogue and effective in their tricle or toout d ein scef6ad
false to 0quaint-
e .
Without in any way denying the rights
Schechters themselves. Cravath,
dies that have invaded the lives of Christian
The strike of Federation em- Jews again appeared. It is an ' full-blooded pleading for social ness
de
them.
Gersdorff,
Swaine
and
Wood,
that must justly be granted to labor in
non-Aryans. Recently a Berlin Reichs cham-
ployees has raised in many minds open secret that the German- ;causes that they have catapault-
one
of
Wall
Street's
most
expensive
Dramatised
His
Experiences
ber of lawyers forced the dissolution of a
a question as to exactly how the
Palestine, we feel that the balance of
law outfits, buttressed Heller with Federation spends its money and Jewish intellectuals in exile in ed Odets from obscurity to the
That such a play should come
prominent German law firm. The partners in
power must he retained by the center
all the legal talent and financial as what extent it sponsors services France are given the cold status of a new and vigorous from the pen of Odets is no
this firm were father and son, but the diesolu-
voice in the theater whom the
support he needed.
party, which in this country is represented
accident for he merely capital-
which are unnecessary to the det- shoulder by the French Israel- hard-boiled critics are haili
lion was ordered on the ground that the father
ng as ized on his own life by dramatiz-
by the Zionist Organization of America
As a result of the Supreme Court riment of workers engaged in es- itish salons. It is uncontro- the most promising and exciting
was non-Aryan (that ia, he had a Jewish
decision, which sweeps the funda- sential welfare work.
ing the incidents and experiences
grandmother) whiles his son was an Aryan
and Hadassah. These two organizations,
dramaturgist in the American po
vertible
truth
that
the
non-
arrt
onrxayewdhearlel ha eboulitvehdimsinicne the
mental principles of the New Deal
What is happening in the Feder-
theater.
(since the Aryan rule applies only to the tart
together with the Order of the Sons of
into the discard, the Schechters ation is symbolic of what is tak- Jewish attitude toward the
three generations). Since partnerships be-
Although
as
the
dramatist
of
Zion, are represented on the Zionist bal-
won't have to go to jail for three ing place among many other white- Jewish refugees in France is
was eight years old. Odets came
tween Aryan. and non-Aryans are expressly
months or pay a $1,300 fine. Those collar groups. They are forgetting much warmer than that of the social protest Odets is at his best to the Group Theater, producers
lot under the heading of Ticket No. 1. We
forbidden by a new German law, this Chris-
in "Waiting for Lefty," which, of "Awake and
who feel furious that it should their snobbery toward organiza-
tian family was broken up because of the
Sing," from A
. urge the thousands of Detroiters who
Israelites. It cannot be over- like "Till the Day I Die" utilized
have been the four Schechters tion and
■ their fear of being put
artificial racial rule.
varied career in the theater and
have the right to cast their ballots on
who caused the downfall of the in • class with union labor. The looked that the German.Jewish the stage as an effective vehicle a rich experience in life. Born
for frankly revolutionary propa-
.June 23 to votevfot Ticket No. 1. A vic-
NRA might keep in mind, however, time is probably not far off when intellectual refugees have ganda,
in Philadelphia 28 yearn ago.
In the face of such experiences it should the
it is in "Awake and
fact that Felix Frankfurter, ; the employees in Jewish organiza- found a more homely atmos-
Sing"
tory for this ticket is the best assurance no longer be necessary to warn Jews one
that hie real promise is disclosed. wherehgreewwenutp toin scthh oe ol.Broinixis.
of America', ace legal brains,; tions, who are usually the brains
of continued gathering of required monies against attempting an escape from their urged with might and main that in outfits where the publicity goes phere in England than in The distinguishing characteristic
formal education ended with the
and of the retention of power by a party natural selves. It is high' time that we the administration should postpone to self-righteous notables, will be France. French Jewish lead- of this play, which electrified second
year in high school be-
and playgoers, is its /Tri-
best suited to win the endorsements of all learned that defense of the rights of those and, if possible, avoid a court de- taking ■ hand in the administra- era are not contributing to the critics
cts and honest treatment of Jew- cause he had to go to work.
cision on the constitutionality of tion of these bodies.
extent
they
should
to
the
refu-
After
groups in Jewry and in Christendom.
leaving Morris High
ish American life Whil e
who are now being oppressed may prepare the NRA.
gee problem in their country I treats the Jews with sympathy
School, he worked as a radi,
Elsewhere in this issue appears a letter us for the best protection against the in- FEDERATION WORKERS
Pray for the welfare of the goy-
announcer, advertising writer and
from Harold Silver, director of the Jewish roads of bigotry and discrimination upon PROTEST
I ernment, since but for the fear but they are willing and eager I and understanding, "Awake and
The New York Jewish commun. thereof men would mallow each to make • financial deal in or- Sing" marks a complete depart- author of sound effects and rag
Social Service Bureau, disagreeing with American life.
ure from the usual stereotyped lines for radio comedians. Selling
ity has been witness to a miniature I other alive. (Aboth III, 2.)
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