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July 19, 1935 - Image 5

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The Detroit Jewish Chronicle and the Legal Chronicle, 1935-07-19

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Americo( s wish Perlalleal Ceder

CUPTON ATINUI • CINCINNATI 20, OHIO

TIEDEntorrjonsnaR0741a33

and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE

Jewish Divorce Laws and the Project
For Solving Problems of the "Agunahs"

Systems, Audits,
Tux Service

RACHEL

(CONCLUDED from EDITORIAL PAGE)

ICONOLUDED from EDITORIAL PAGE)

be Resale!. This I promised my
father on his death-bed."
Mrs. Ginsberg was shocked.
"Bezlalel, indeed! It's so Jew-
ish! To burden a child with a
name like that! Never!"
"But I promised my father!" !
"You," she said, "may call him!
Resalel if you want to, but I
shall call him Nlarmaduke. It's
a beautiful name."

Summer Time Is Picnic Time • • •

In ancient times this was not so
And to
raised in blessing of candle
yourself a success-
ing to their families. They were difficult a problem because the
ful outing, pack your basket wills
0
■ ":" willing to free their wives and let Jewish communities were organ- lights! her queenly presence
at the Passover feast! The
GUNSBERG delicatessen, deli.•
1 them marry again but there were ized. The leading rabbis used
ered fresh daily to the stores.
no Sofar and proper witnesses their powers to force an unwilling proud banner of her Jewish
2 I
2 The wives thereupon appealed . husband to give his wife a "Get" name waving!
re he .nee
- lionnheree look fog
3
3 the rabbis to help them in so to by excommunicating him so that
Rachel, it seemed, had de-
II,
Moo label slat the name* of
me no one was allowed to deal or to
4
Detroit nchhin.
Mr. Ginsberg had no desire to
4 way to become divorced.
parted front Jewish life. Oc-
ors
talk
with
him
and
also
whipped
There were different opini
quarrel either with his wife or
5
5 among the rabbis at this ti me him until he consented. Nowadays casionally I heard of a Jewish with
the memory of his father;
Listen to Mme. Jennie Weinberg
the lot of such a woman is un- girl being born, and I ma de
6
6 whether to allow a husband to fortunate.
Mr. Ginsberg offered a compro-
every Sunday, WJBK, 10:30 a. m.
designate divorce by writ ing
inquiries ; "Perhaps this w as mise.
7
CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT
to 12 noon.
7 through the mail. Some of the
Early Proposal Opposed
Rachel born again?"
"We shall give him a, name
8
Fifty years ago, an essembly of
1317 GRISWOLD BLDG. — CAdillac 3338
8 leading rabbis expressed the op In-
No, it was Millicent, or El as this is something like Bezalel and
ion
that
in
such
emergency
ea
rabbis
in
Paris
projected
a
plan
9
yet is not Bezalel. It shall be
9 where the wife would remain SeS
Lee, or Jonquil, or Narcissa
an in this behalf. According to this
satisfactory to my father and to
1016 NAPOLEON ST.
"Agunah" (deserted wife), th at Plan, every Jewish marriage per-
I was in the nostalgic moo
RANDOLPH 2543
you as well."
the husband may designate a c , romance was conditional that in
. . . "What has become of R
Protection Flu, Profit
Mr.
Ginsberg
gave
earnest

se
P.)Int. With Security • Protection Moo Profit
tain Solar and certain witnes , case the courts of the country
chel? . . . and permitted in y thought to the matter. In the
by writing in a proper mann er should grant a divorce to the wife
eyes to search the list of con- course of his meditations it oc-
and send it to them by mail, and the marriage would he automatic-
curred to him that there must
these will be able to write and ally annulled so that no divorce
firmants on the recent Shabu- have been
an original Resalel
sign the "Get." Others said that would be necessary.
oth. Perhaps Rachel is being
from whom his father obtained
this was not in accordance with
The leading rabbis of the world confirmed. Perhaps Rachel is
his name. Who was Bezalel in
5 the wish of the Torah and op-
apposed this project for the fol-
the first place?
to be found on the temple altar
posed this opinion and decisi on lowing la aeons. First, it was
This inquiry brought Mr. Gins-
even in emergency cases.
today, being blessed by the
against the established judicial
'erg to the rabbi, who explained
Try our service and know the real pleasure of
At the writing and the signin g l theory of the Talmud that no cons
rabbi. Perhaps Rachel has real- everything: The original Bezalel,
I
the Solar and witnesses must to
dition in a marriage can be effec-
summer driving. ..All work is done by carefully
ly been born again and is one
was in the Book of Exodus. Ile

t ify in traditional form that in tive because the later intimate re-
trained Ford mechanics—each being a special-
was the builder of the first tem-
of these little girls in white
compliance with the order of the lations of the husband and wife
p Ie. He was the one who was
ist in his line. All jobs are guaranteed.
husband they have in mind that being a legal art of marriage in frocks who march no beauti-
aught
by
God
"to
devise
curious
th is is for the exclusive purpose
fully down the center aisle of
orks, to work in gold and in
COME IN TODAY. NO OBLIGATION
of the particular husband and his
the temple this day?
ilver and in brass."
wife. Then the rabbi examines
When Mr. Ginsberg heard that
I
scanned
the
list
.
.
.
Rose-
very carefully every word and
he first Bezalel was a worker in
mary, Marina, Annabelle, May-
every single letter as to its law-
ietals, he saw his problem was
fulness. Then he asks certain pre-
me, Lorna Doane, Britigetta
oleed.
scribed questions and preserves the
and, lo! there she was!
"We might say that thin Bet-
Think what it would mean to your. family if you
"Get" until the time for the per-

a Id was an ironmaster," he
Rachel!
should cut off their regular household allowance
formance of the legal act of de-
-,
p
ointed
out to his wife.
for even a month. Then think what it would mean
Rachel Comes!
livery to the hand of the woman.
"Well, what of it?"
if their allowance was cut off altogether.
Rachel! After all the years!
The "Get" Delivery
"It's simple enough, my dear.
Even though you already have their future other-
The delivery of the "Get" must
S ince Bezalel was an ironmaster
Could this be the last of the
We bare a ael.ectIon of guaranteed used care for sale.
7 be by the husband direct to the
wise protected, the thoughtful thing to do is to
e Was the same as Andrew Car-
Rachels? Which was she among
make provision NOW
We Will Accept Any Make of Car In Trade
hand of the divorced wife in a
that your salary will continue
n h egie. We shall call our boy
the little white-dressed girls in
to be paid to your loved ones for a full year after
very sacred and traditional man-
A inirew Carnegie. My father will
12535 - 43 GRATIOT AVE.
you are gone.
'
the aisle? Oh, dear rabbi, a h ave no cause to complain."
ner in the presence of a rabbi and
Two Minutes Drive East of City Airport
two assistants (bes din) and two
special blessing for Rachel!
And that is the true explana-
Month by month they will receive the accustomed
witnesses. The rabbi read the
PINGREE 64®
ti on of Andrew Carnegie Gins-
3.
Open Sundays
I
Income enabling them to carry on the household
Please say to God, oh rabbi:
"Get 'aloud and requires of the
b erg.
in the customary manner—paying current bills,
"0 my Lord, King of the Uni-
witnesses
that
in
their
minds
they

But in heaven the ghost of
meeting rent or other obligations—while through

verse, behold Thy child that is
repent their sins. Then he asks
the year they gradually adjust themselves to the
ezalel Ginsberg has been wait-
\ ANN \
new conditions of life.
certain required questions of the
g impatiently these many years.
not Genevra or Euthanasia, but
husband and the woman, folds the
As every one knows, there Is
is Rachel. Her parents have
Make this "Salary Continuance" policy a helpful
"Get' and hands it to the husband
in heaven a certain courtyard
a
held in honor a good Jewish
part of your insurance program! It can he made
who stands in a position where he
here the Jewish ghosts gather
to cover a longer period than one year if required.
name that has come from old."
may hold this "Get" over the out-
0 nee a week to hear the names C
RABBI JOSEPH THUMIM
spread hands of the wife in a cer-
I have found Rachel!
f their new-born descendants C
tain position. The husband and itself, makes the marriage abso-
Three little word• which sing in the hearts of

ca Iled out by the angels; and
wife are ordered to remove all lute and conditionless thus abro-
All of this reminds me of ' An- ha ppy in a Jew to hear that his
those who owe themselves a
vacation!
rings from their hands in order gating the first condition. Second, drew Carnegie Ginsberg. There " ante has been given to a grand- C
C
that the delivery shall be direct to in case of an annulled marriage the
ch ild to carry on.
was
a
legend
that
the
Carnegies
1512 UNION GUARDIAN BLDG.
the hands of the wife without in- legality of children born in the
and the Ginsbergs were neighbors r, These many years Bezalel
terference by any foreign object. interim might be questioned. Third,
DETROIT. MICH.
in Scotland and that a Ginsberg " insberg has waited to hear his C
Holding the "Get" over the wo- this would profane the renowned
gave Carnegie his start. For that 0 , vim name called. One day, fin-
man's open hands, the husband sacredness of Jewish family life
REPRESENTING
reason the boy was called An- ee ed, he heard the name of An- C
says in Hebrew and then trans- which would now become depen-
dr ew Carnegie Ginsberg shouted,
CHARLEVOIX-the-Beautiful
drew Carnegie Ginsberg.
lates in the spoken language that dent on the decisions of the courts.
bit t did not know it as his own.
There
was
also
a
story
that
MICHIGAN
(Copyright, 1535, N. A C an
by this act she is divorced from
Now
the
recently
adopted
pro-
Iii
r. Carnegie bequeathed to the
C

him and allowed to marry again.
ject of the Rabbinical Assembly elder Ginsberg a number of steel RE
Ile then puts the "Get" in her
AStUrteeNCE COMPANY
PORT USSISHKIN
provides that instead of a mar- shares and thus founded the
HEAD OPPICl•••WINNI•EG
C
hands and the rabbi announces to
riage on conditions, there shall be great Ginsberg fortune, and who
HEADS OPPOSITION
all present that it is a ban of the
Protection Plus Profit
a "Get" on condition. That is, at doesn't know how rich the Gins-

SA , lar• With arendlY • Proleellon ris s risen
Sages after the delivery of the
TO DR. WEIZMANN
The pine breezes of Charlevoix-the-
the marriage, the husband shall bergs were before the depression?
--
"Get" to a woman for anyone to
C
arrange the writing of it "Get" And even now they still drive a
Beautiful are calling you! The Inn is
(cONCLUDED ERIN PAGE ONE)
utter any claim of illegality lest
and authorize somebody as a mes- car in the $2,000 class. in grat-
calling you ... to relax taut nerves,
there he any question as to the
senger to deliver the same to the itude for Mr. Carnegie's gift, which has been circulated ex-
legitimacy of afterborn children.
relieve cares, -forget worries! Come
wife on the condition that the wife Mr, Ginsberg named his eldest clusively in Palestine with Pal-
In case the woman is in some
up in June when the air is clear and
shall have been deserted for three son Andrew Carnegie Ginsberg. estine opinion and news for lo-
other town or country, the hus- years. The procedure will be that
crisp. Come up to the Inn—where
So it was said.
cal German Jews. A charge had
band may designate a messenger or at the marriage the husband will
you'll
find rest, excitement, romance,
But neither of these reports been circulated that a group of
"Shliach" and authorize him by designate in a duly legal documen-
German Jews had initiated the
sport, fun ... And that neW appetite
pronouncing his name orally and tary way, the writer and the wit- truthfully explain Andrew Car-
by documents prescribed by law nesses in accordance with the law. negie Ginsberg. The fact of the paper in Syria in order to avert
will surely be tempted and delight-
clashes with Jews in Palestine
to take his place and deliver the He may also designate the woman Ginsberg fortune is that Mr.
fully satisfied by the incomparable
who would object to a German-
"Get" to the wife. Then the rabbi herself to be the writer if she can Ginsberg made it all himself in
dishes prepared by our famous chef.
language newspaper. The denun-
sends the "Get" with the docu- write in Biblical script. This des- the Nobby Skirt Corporation.
ciation by the German-Jewish Set-
ments of authorization to the ignation shall be orally and in writ- Nor were the Ginsbergs and the
WRITE
- • - WIRE - - • PHONE
tlers' Federation is intended to
rabbi of the community where the ing with all the regular require- Carnegies ever neighbors in
discourage the sale of the paper
woman is located and the messen- ments. The husband will also Scotland; the fact is that Mr.
CHARLEVOIX,
in this country.
ger performs the act of delivery in duly designate and duly authorize Ginsberg's forefathers were all
MICH
the manner required by law.
a certain messenger or "Shliach" Litvaks, never Scotchmen.
Ginsburg's Resignation Indicates
Unless the "Get" is duly de- to deliver the "Get" and if it come Andrew Carnegie Ginsberg
Split Among U. S. Revisionists
livered to the women's hand it is to pass that the husband desert his should really have been named
NEW YORK. (WNS)—A seri-
illegal. There is, however, one ex- wife for three years, the (!en1)/- Bezalel Ginsberg. Resale] was
en ra m v. e . h o o
rpers:yreedd grand-
f o r a ous split in the leadership of the
ceptional case where the "Get" may rated Solar and witnesses will go father
Zionist
Revisionist Organization
of bed preyed
be effective even without being de- before a rabbinical board, who will
of America was disclosed on the
livered to the woman's hand, this then perform the writing of the grandson to carry on his good
eve
of
the
election of delegates to
being where the wife has deserted "Get" with all its legal require- name.
PFEIFFER BREWING COMPANY her husband and is living with an- ments and then the designated and
Indeed, an hour before his la- the rump Revisionist World Con-
gress
when
Elias Ginsburg, for-
other man as his wife. In such authorized "Shliach" will deliver mented death he called his son
D•lroll
3700 B•oulett . Plase
mer president of the American
a case the rabbis may allow the the "Get" in the legal way. This to him, saying: "My son, I have
Revisionists
and editor of Our
legal husband to appoint and desig- is based on the aforementioned de- one more thing to ask of you.
Voice, the English-language Re-I
nate some certain person to ac- cision that the Saar and witnesses When a son is born to you, give
visionist organ, resigned as chair-
cept a "Get" instead of and in be- may be designated by writing in him my name."
"Father," he answered, "it is man of the central committee of
half of the legal wife. This is emergency cases.
the organization. Mr. Ginsburg ,
little
enough
that
you
ask.
My
based on the judicial theory of the
This project, even if it were pro• i son shall be Bezalel."
one of the veterans of the Re-
Talmud that when a thing is abso-
perly arranged and worked out in
Now when the child was born, visionist movement in this coun-
lutely favorable to a person every-
accordance with all legal require- Mr. Ginsberg was quick to re- try, explained his resignation as
one is authorized to accept it for
ments is still unacceptable for the mind his wife: "Our child shall being due to "tactical and per-
that person even without his knowl-
following reasons. It is an estab-
sonal reasons" but promised a
edge. Here the "Get" is regarded
lished law that after a man d•sic-
more detailed statement later. He
as an absolute favor for the wo-
nates and authorizes one to write designations despite the fact that also said that he had no inten-
man since it saves her from a ter-
and deliver a "Get," this authoriza- we make him swear not to do so tion of attending the Revisionist
rible • transgression. Such a di- tion is cancelled if he lives with hi, and if he violates his oath it is
World Congress.
vorce, however, is of a different
wife and the particular "Get" may indeed a transgression but the le-
character and requires a special not tie performed anywhere. (Rani- gality of the "Get" becomes ques-
ALGIERS (WNS) — Abdul
procedure.
ham and Shulchan Aruch, Also tionable. He can do this in any Mahmed, one of the Arabs ac-
All of the acts or performances Eser 149.7).
place before two witnesses.
cased of inciting the sanguinary •
of a "Get" must be conducted and
Finally, the mixture of mar- anti-Semitic outbreak in Constan•
Any man who refuses to diem , e
advised by a rabbi who is espe-
his wife can and surely will re- riage with divorce will profane the tine last July has been sentenced
cially authorized for this in his
call and cancel his appointings and union of family life in marriage. to four years in prison.
"Smicha" or diploma, which re-
quires years of studying many
volumes dealing with legal and
judicial complications because one
small misdoing or misapplication
even in the pronounciation of the
IF YOU ARE PLANNING to take ad-
names or in the addition of no
(0 ■ A1'l.UDED from EDIT.] %I. PAGE)
and the end of Ararat. In Europe, Noah was
vantage of the Charter provision that permits you
much as an ink spot may invali-
denounced by the rabbis as a menace to the
date
the
"Get"
and
if
she
has
re-
to pay your city taxes in two equal parts, you must
cornerstone of the Jewish city in the Episcopal
Jews. In America the Jews assailed and ridi-
married she must be divorced from
be sure to pay the first half of your 1935 taxes by
Church of Buffalo: The ceremonies incidental
the second man.
culed him. For a time he was the center of
July 31. Act now!
to this event were spectacular. Thousands of
The "Aguas Problem"
an international storm of Jewish criticism, but
A modern factory has been erected in the
Now we come to the "Agunah"
IF YOU PREFER TO PAY the entire
people were gathered in front of the church—
the
failure of the ambitious Ararat scheme, which
problem. According to the Torah
rear of 1745 Pingree Ave. and a special
city officials, army officers, Masons, clergymen.
amount at one time, you have until August 15th to
stamped
Noah
as
the
first
territorialint,
did
not
the right to divorce is given ex-
Knights Templar, and stewaids carrying wine,
do so. Do not delay. Help keep down next year's
MASHGIACH is constantly on the premises
clusively to the husband. "If the
discourage him. Thereafter he turned his atten•
oil and corn. At the head of the procession was
budget. Your City Officials deserve and urge your
wife finds no favor in his eyes,
Lion and his energy to what we now know as
to insure the absolute Kashruth of our prod-
co-operation-
Noah, robed in the crimson silk attire of • judge
because he has found some scan-
Zionism. In speeches and articles he called on
dalous things in her, he may write
SAVE INTEREST CHARGES! Help your
of Israel.
ucts. The manufacturing will be under the
Jewry to "do something for themselves," almost
a hill of divorcement, etc." (Deu.
city while you help yourself. Keep your property
Inside the church a band played the grand the very language used by Pinaker in his fam-
supervision and Hashgacha of RABBIS FINE,
24.1) and he had the right to de-
free from tax encumbrances. An enlarged staff at
march from "Judas Maccalieus,' , while on the ous "Auto-Emancipation" a generation later. In
liver it to her hands or lap by
th e City Treasurer's office permits you to make your
KLEINPLATZ, SCHECHTER and ZAGER.
force. In the 10th Century, how-
communion table lay the cornerstone with the
1824, 73 years before Herzl convened the first
ever. rabbi Gershon called the
Payments speedily and in comfort, but pay by mail,
following inscription: "Hear, 0 Israel, the Lord Zionist Congress, Noah wrote "we will return
"light of the Diaspora," with the
if Possible.
our God, the Lord is One Ararat, • City of
o Zion as we went forth." With uncanny
consent of the leading rabbis of
Sincerely yours,
Refuge for the Jews founded by Mordecai Man-
his age, gave forth ■ ban which
prescience, he predicted the present agricultural
Only the finest meats will be used in the manufac-
was later made • law that no man
uel Noah in the month of Tishri, September.
development of Palestine by the chalutzim of
turing of our sausage products. Make it a point to
could divorce his wife without her
1825, in the 50th year of American Independ-
Eastern
Europe,
saying
that
"from
the
Danube,
consent. Nor could he marry an-
use "Palestine Products" and eliminate worry over
ence." Nearby on a stone stand were silver cups the Dneister, the Ukraine, Wallachia and Mol-
other wife except under Certain
the Kashruth problem.
filled with oil, corn and wine. After the Rev-
exceptionally prescribed cases. The
davia
the
best
agriculturists
would
revive
the
CITY TREASURER
rabbis could under certain circum-
erend Edison Searle had read the morning sere-
former fertility of Palestine."' He even fore-
stances give • man permission to
ice, Noah stepped to the pulpit and read what
Kew something like the Balfour Declaration,
marry another wife but this per-
is probably the most amazing proclamation ever
prophesying that "England must pressen. Egypt $
mission must be signed by 100 dif-
'issued by an individual Jew. Proclaiming him- as affording the only secure route to her pos-
ferent rabbis of three different
* YOU Have Until
countries.
self "governor and judge of Lrael," he invited
sessions in India through the Red Sea; then
August ifth if
Formed- 1y the husband used to
all the Jews of the world to come to Ararat
Palestine, thus placed between the Russian pos-
wander about to collect the 100
where
they
can
enjoy
that
pace,
comfort
and
You Pay Entire
sessions and Egypt, reverts to legitimate pro-
necessary signatures. Lately, this
happiness
which
have
been
denied
them
througls
has been accomplished by mail.
prietors, and for the safety of the surrounding
Tax at That Time
The local rabbi would send copies
the intolerance and mis-government of former
nations, a powerful, wealthy, independent and
of the statement to the other rab-
ages" and where they may "familiarize them-
enterprising people are placed there by and
bis and they would send back their
selves with the science of government and the
with
the consent of the Christian powers, and
signatures by mail.
lights of learning and civilisation as may qualify
As to the unfortunate woman,
with their aid and agency, the land of Israel
however, who is deserted by her
them for that great and final restoration to
passes once mere into the possession of the Se
husband or whose husband refuses
their ancient heritage, which the times so
descendants of Abraham." With Ilerzlian vi.
to give her a divorce, there is no
powerfully indicate." In the name of God, he
inn he also foretold opposition to Zionism. "But
legal way for her to be freed. If
said, "I revive, renew and reestablish the govern-
will they go when the day of redemption comes?" I
she marries another man, she is
ment
of
the
Jewish
nation
under
the
auspices
regarded as • harlot and all chil-
e asked. And he answered it, with a prophetic
dren born of the new onion are
n ate on the present German situation, by re-
and protection of the Constitution and the laws
"Mameerim" and as such they may
of the United States of Amerce."
rn arking: "All will go who feel the oppressor's
not marry Jews. They are also
This bombastic utterance was the beginning y oke."
subject to other discriminations.

CHARLES K. HARRIS

Gunsherg Provision Co.

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