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and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE

HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF

BETH EL COLLEGE
TEMPLE TO HONOR
MAKES NEW PLAN
RABBI LEON FRAM
•

The World's Window

ENGLAND'S GREATEST JEW

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Reading in vain for the nian whom
they could follow in the light of
moonday.
In Lord Reading there was tarn

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active participant. His counsel in
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always
One desires to do needs evidently
time
o f trial
to them without exception before
his advice
has has
always
been been
on the land,
a great
and
citizen sigh
of Eng-
but
his noble
own people
for
tive
religion
and
philosophy.
'dere-
I
not to be forbidden."
not only without a qualm but with sought and ever-readily given. But
!their baptism. They acquired man- ject, "The Idea of the Soul in
---
the great Jew who might have
• • •
tofore Beth El College courses
educated, there had come to the 1 oriel fiefs and won the most .im- Modern Philosophy."
g
extend
over
30 sessions.
I
As soon as Rabbi Fram took used
Many to men
and
women,
intensely1
All accusations of all anti- a sih of relief. As Lord Chief side of superlative caution and been.
fore under the rule of the Moors a port ant posts in the army. They
colored by the British tradition and
a
„eddy climbed the ladder of the up his duties at Temple Beth El,
ovement against t .h.
e T lmud
are rationalizations after sound and just though they were,
not
only
influenced
by
i
ecclesiastical
hierarchy,
mounted
he
introduced
a
new
curriculum
interested
in
improving
their
,
Semites
e
They against us are irrelevant. Justice of England, his judgments, ' tinged with compromise.
which was
ry
Maimonides and his school but was e p i a c o p a I and archiepiscopal in the Religious School which knowledge of Jewish history and , The
He has rarely, if ever, stood in
due to personal feeling. These thrones, and administered the quickly placed the school system deepening their understanding of the fact. You can prove that to rarely struck the note of greatness , the forefront of the perennial war-
also du
SPLIT A BOTTLE OF
that
these
accusations
are all any
groundwork
legal
his-;
men on whom Judaism had loos- , property of monasteries and of the of Temple Beth El in the fore- Jewish problems, had complained
ourself
from
the circumstance
or new
originality;
nor did of they
form
fare which Jewry has had to wage
either silly or fantastic—world- tory or create many precedents so'
front of the field of Jewish educe-
ened the rightness of its hold found richest bishoprics.
on
a
myriad
of
enemies.
Great
I
conspiracy or ritual murder—that dear to the lawyer. In his Vice- movements and great emergenciee
themselves between two fires—the .
This golden age lasted about 40 tion. It became famous through-
they arc all mythological and un- royalty Reading carried his high have swept Jewry but Reading,
strictness of rabbinism and the years. Then the reaction set in — out the country and inquiries
related either to our failings or office with dignity and success, but man of exceptional gifts, wielder
hatred of the Spanish people. The slowly at first, then more swiftly, about it poured in from every
our virtues. The peoples have without undue distinction of ad-
impetus of those who directed the and finally with rushing force. As part of the United States and
of incalculable influence, wor-
an antecedent ambivalence to- ministration.
force of their hostility against the the number of Christian Spaniards Cenada and from every type of
shipped and idolized by his people,
ward us—a co-existent sense of
Aloof to Jewish Matters
Jews was stronger than the most grew who practiced medicine and congregation.
has declined the leadership of a
attraction and repulsion, of de-
well-meaning royal will. The walls science, philology and literature,
Notwithstanding the onset of a, nation which has scanned the hori-
Adult Education Program
'
sire
and
terror.
A
point
evidently
new wave of political ideas in In- zon despairingly for guidance and
of the ghettoes did not, of course, and particularly as the occasions At the same time he turned his
111F . 111111 IN THE MEN SOTTLI
I came in German life when the dia, notwithstanding the emerg-
impinge on the royal palaces, and became more frequent when the attention to adult education and
the inspiration of a guide. Re-
I Germans desired powerfully to ence, in his time, of Gandhi and , moved from the centre of the Jew-
daily contact was only with the Christian younger gi neration found organized the first institute of
MAIM aT THE 111111WIRS OF
submit to Jewish intellectual lead- the New India, Reading left Delhi ish arena, he has played his part,
hatcfilled subjects. Like the ghet• the sinecures and benefices that adult Jewish education within the
TIVOLI PILSNFR
! ership, to intermarry with Jews without any startling or lasting j when called upon, in the inner
toes, the towns possessed their I had been previously their pre-, American synagogue — Beth El
and Jewesses, a fact proved by the impress of his personality or pol- circles and behind the scenes of
autonomy, their fueros or statues, serve occupied by the converses, so College of Jewish Studies.
It
great numbers of half and quar- itical ability. Nothing that has conflict. But Jewry has looked to
and the Christian fueros were di- I their hatred became more violent. ' was immediately successful, at-
ter Jews—to submit themselves since happened to change the pol-
vided against the Jewish ones. They The new Christians had not only tracting hundreds of men and
to Jewish influence. Under the tical face of India is traceable to
wanted to enclose the Jewa .
acquired new posts, but had re- women, especially young people,
stress of post-war psychosis they the inspiration of Reading, or to I
Jewries. The King might do with tained their old ones. They con- to the study of Jewish history, lit-
were suddenly seized with an ex- his accomplishment.
his Jews what he would, but the tinued to be army contractors, tax- erature, religion and philosophy.
treme terror of this desire of
towns desired to keep them out of farmers, and bankers. Whereas a
The example of Temple Beth
As a Jew, Reading joins the long
theirs. They rebelled. They have
their territory. It could therefore knight had formerly been able to'. El College of Jewish Studies was
line of illustrious men who have'
rendered Jews taboo. Sexual rela-
come to pass that Jews to whom cudgel the usurer who became too' immediately followed in many
adcrned the story of nations other 1
tions between Aryans and Jews
every state office was open, and importunate, and probably only congregations in the larger cities
than their own. Whether by de-1
are punished by imprisonment at
who determined the policy of the had to pay a fine of four mare- , of the country. The first to es-
sign or unconsciously, Reading has,
hard labor. Not evidently be-
country as semi-dictators, were not vedis, the moneylender was now tablish an institute along the
walked in a path far removed from
cause
Aryans
do
not
desire
Jews.
allowed to use the same bath- himself a grandee and answered lines of Beth El College, and with
RABBI BERNARD ZEIGER
the core and heart of the Jewish
• • •
houses as the Christians or appear with a drawn sword. ' the counsel of Rabbi Fram, was
people. If he has exhibited a cold
tri-
to
the
College
administration
that
as witnesese before Christian tri-
it
alters
COM-
Temple
Emanuel
of
Montreal.
Hatred of the creditors was
It extenuates nothing;
aloofness in the spheres of British
bunals.In
strict contrast to the bined—since science had so long Fifteen other Temples and Cen- in view of their other important nothing; it does not exculpate the authority in which he has moved,
bunal
royal patents, the towns tried to been the domain of the Jews—with tern followed in quick succession. activities, it was impossible to de- Germans or their foul barbarism he has shown it a thousand-fold in
deprive the Jews of the right to a contempt for everything of an
So striking was the influence of vote a whole season of Monday any more than the analogous ex- his relation to the life and prob-
carry on a trade or enter into com- intellectual nature. The masses re- the Detroit institute in arousing nights. They requested an oppor- planation exculpates lynchers in lems of the people into which he
mercial transactions outside the garded the scientists as diabolic enthusiasm for adult education tunny to take more limited but our Southern states. It adds a was born. The storms and stresses
With $5.00 Philco
ghetto and defamed them wherever wizards, and the upper 10,000 re- that the Central Conference of briefer courses. These requests further
All-Wave Aerial
to the untenable- through which the Jewish people
are
being
granted
for
the
first
INCLUDED!
garded them as intriguers and American Rabbis at its convention
ssh o er f the exile of Israel in this have passed during the last half
nert
This chicanery, which was a swindlers. Municipal ordinances of 1934 invited Rabbi Fram to time this season.
form in which Israel is the ob- century have had Reading as an
The champion radio sable fur
matter of everyday experience, was declared that the Jews had studied deliver a special lecture on "The
3-Unit Session.
ject and the playball of all the interested spectator—rarely as an
1936! At this amaying low price,
no less corroding in its effects than medicine in order to murder their Aims. and Methods of Adult Edu-
Beth El College will continue perverse passions of men and
you get Foreign and .1nierican
the pogroms and the terrorism of Christian patients, and that they cation in the Synagogue." More to meet for 30 sessions, but each never determines or creates its
reception, tremendoris lower, sue
relay rich tone and latest 19 lb
the missionaries. If wealth and were pursuing the profession of recently he has given his atte n one of its courses will be divided own destiny. But the explana- Eddie Steep, Inc., Takes
Pink° features. All in a beautiful
doubts due to education caused ma- apothecaries in order to poison the tion to adult education along civi c into three distinct units so people tion has one virtue for us. It
Over
Gus
Newman
Co.,
Console cabinet. Come in -
ny Jews to incline towards assimi- population. The material factors lines. The Temple Forum h as can enroll at the beginning of the is this: no Jew need feel humil-
to see Model 610F.
Ford Agency
lation, their defection was accel- were mixed up with the spiritual been a strikingly successful in- season and complete a unit at the iated by the German persecution ;
erated by the daily hardships. Dur- ones. The Spaniards knew of the stitution attracting citizens of De- end of 10 sessions. They may or no Jew need be wounded by it in
ing this long spiritual process, the Jews' pretence of Christianity and troit from all walks of life and I may not enroll again for the sec- his personal or racial self-esteem.
Formal announcement was made
individual elements of which fre- felt themselves doubly cheated—in all creeds,
and or third units, depending The more they degrade us the this week that the Gus Newman,
quently Intersected, coincided, or their purses and in their faith. The
upon their interest and conven- more they show their desire to ex- Inc., Ford Agency, located at
His Sermons and toriee
neutralized one another, the great apostates were suddenly referred
alt us. We are made taboo—ac- 12191 Dexter Blvd. at Monterey,
Rabbi Leon Fram's sermons pos- ience and other circumstances.
preacher Vincent Ferrer appeared to not as converses, but as mar-
cursed and sacred, accursed be- has been taken over by Eddie
sess a lucidity and at the same Thus, for example, the course in
In every male!, at es err price.
on the scene. Ferrer made his ap- ranee, which means unequivocally:
cause they feel in some deep sense Steep, and the firm will hence-
vas get a"bargain aloe in a
time a colorfulness and a back- comparative religion given by
eal
,to
these
Jews
whose
views
forth
be
identified
as
Eddie
Steep,
wretches,
swine,
men
who
are
that
we
are
sacred
and
will
not
t
Rabbi
Bernard
Zeiger
will
consis
p
l'hilen!Complete display now on
ground of learning.
were unaffected either by wealth or damned.
have it so. They lust after us, Inc.
•
our floors. Come in—see them!
In the face of his many con- of three units. The first unit
by rationalism but who, in a cer-
Mr. Steep is well known among
after our minds and bodies, al-
Enemies Within Fortress
gregational duties, Rabbi Fram will be "The Origin and Evolu-
tain atmosphere, were susceptible
From now on it was no longer still finds times to write stories tion of Religious Ideas." It will most unto death. They dare not Detroiters, being a former state
to the Catholic gospel. Ile was im- the orthodox of the ghetto but the
see us, study with us, love us. flyweight champion. Before as-
for Young Israel, children's maga- be a complete course in religious
bued with the conviction of the converts to Catholicism who con-
They dare not. We must be suming this agency he was vice
zine published by the Union of origins. The second unit will be
necessity for conversion. The emo- stituted the problem of Spanish
president and general manager of
taboo to them . . .
American Hebrew Congregations. a series of 10 lectures on "The
tional exaltation of preaching Jewry. The former were for the
the Dalrymple Motor Sales, Ford
He attaches the same importance Religions of the Far East." The
worked on him as an impelling time being forgotten and left in
dealers on Michigan Ave., where
third
unit
will
be
a
series
of
10
to telling stories to children as
. force and intensified beyond all peace. They were harmless and
he achieved the remarkable record
to delivering addresses to adults, lectures on "Judaism and Chris- press, are invited to take one or
measure his readiness to endow the could be crushed at any moment.
of having lifted this company's
more
of
the
units
of
Rabbi
Leon
and his monthly stories in the tianity."
e
Church with a militant garb. H The marranos, however, were ene-
Similar division will be made in Fram's course in current Jewish sales from the 19th position to the
Sunday School, as well as his an-
wait the most powerful preacher mies within the fortress. The gen- nual story at the Yom Kippur, the courses in Bible history, Bible history.
fifth among Detroit's Ford dealers.
Spain has ever had, and is said to eral watchword was "Drive the
Men and women anxious to un- Prior to this engagement, Mr.
service, are eagerly looked fore literature and modern Jewish his-
have addressed 15,000 proselytizing converts from their posts!" But the
Steep served for three years in
ward to by the children. tory.
derstand the relation between the Ford Motor sales department
sermons to the Jews. When he realization of this wish was not so
Parents
whose
children
are
RADIO ATLAS
Rabbi Fram is a member of
Judaism
and
Christianity
are
in-
spoke of hell he sobbed, and when simple as an ordinary pogrom. The the Commission on Jewish Edu- studying Jewish history in the
and for six years as a used car
Limited offer—while
he mentioned Paradise he laughed Marranos had for a long time now
dealer. His fine personality plus
cation of the Union of American religious school as especially in- vited to take Dr. Leo M. Frank-
they last--adults only. lies col.
BABY GRAND $20
outloud. Ile employed no force and been related to the aristocracy, and Hebrew Congregations and chair- cited to take at least one unit lin's course in "The Jewish Inter- his conscientiousness won for him
°red maps of the world, photo-
restrained his disciples, though only they were accorded protection by man of the Commission's Commit- course in Jewish history in order
a host of friends.
Model 81B—a quality
graphs and stories of foreign radio
pretation of the New Testament."
with an effort, from murder. Yet the royal authority.
radio at the lowest pos.
0. N. Bonney, who was sales
stars and stations; full of vale,
tee on Home and Pre-School Elite that they may be able intelli-
Other members of the faculty manager of the Gus Newman Co.,
sible price. Full, rich tone. Gets Bib,
he pushed his way ruthlessly into
able information to short wave
Inside Spanish society there cation. He is a member of the gently to discuss the religious
Calls. Handsome, two-tone Cabinet.
the synagogues. The Jews, always arose a dissonance—for or against board of the Jewish Centers As- school work with their children. and their courses will be an- will continue with Mr. Steep in the
listeners! Get yours tomorrow'
nounced
next
week.
same capacity.
easily intimidated, did not exactly the Marranos. Discord led to open sedation of Detroit and chair- Parents who are concerned about
All the courses will .be fully
know whether the dreadful punish- and bloody conflict. In Seville it man of its committee on educe- bringing up their children with
ASBURY PARK, N. J. (WNS)
went, with which he threatened began in the church and spread tion. He is a member of the a wholesome Jewish conscious- described in the bulletin of Beth
El
College of Jewish Studies. —Because Germany is "an ex -
them were to be their lot only In over the whole city. In Cordoba the board of the Jewish Welfare Fed- ness are invited to take one of
the next world or already in this battle broke out during a proces- oration and has for several years the unit courses in Jewish cus- Anyone wishing to receive a copy ample of a ruthless government
of the Bulletin should telephone bloated with temporal power,"
one. At any rate he induced tens sion. In Segovia a ritual murder been chairman of the Speakers' toms and ceremonies.
or write the office of Beth El Col- United States should withdraw
of thousands of Jews to undergo trial ended with a fight on the bar. Bureau of the Allied Jewish Cam-
Courses by Fram, Franklin
from the 1936 Olympic Games at
baptism, and the Jewish Catholic ricades. In Toledo a conspiracy was
Young people desirous of keep- lege of Jewish Studies, Woodward
paign.
Berlin, annual conference of the
zealots, who were later to become discovered, the purpose of which
ing in touch with the rapid march and Gladstone, Madison 4181.
His Civic Aetioitiea
of events in Jewish life, which are The tuition fee is $1 per unit New Jersey Methodist Episcopal
archbishops, came mostly from his was to murder all Marranos. The
coincident
with
the
news
of
world
of
10
sessions,
or
$2
for
three
Church declared in an unani-
The Rabbi is popular in the
circle of friends and were hie alcalde summoned the converts to
pupils.
arms, and the battle which corn- Christian community. During the events as they appear in the daily units. mous resolution.
menced cost many hundreds of 10 years of his ministry at Tem-
Pretended Conversion ►
a
For the overwhelming majority lives. Nearly every town possessed ple Beth El he has preached in
of 'Jesse the Catholic religion had its secret league against the Mar- nearly every important Christian
no attraction, but they were at- ranos, and nearly every town saw church in Detroit and vicinity
and has been invited by some of
tracted by the externalities of life fighting.
Frequently the victory was to the larger churches to give coun-
and the possibilities of activity that
would be open to them. They saw the Marranos, who were led by sel in religious education. Ile
in Christianity a convention to grandees; but when they were de- has been equally active in civic
which, as to all other social forms, tested, they, together with their affairs. When the depression
they were willing to submit. In- wives and children, were put to struck Detroit, Mayor Frank Mur-
wardly they remained Jews, and death and their houses set on fire. phy appointed him a member of
at their baptism tears were often The Inquisition was being prepared the Mayor's Unemployment Com-
mingled with the water of the in the minds of the people for 30 mission and made him chairman
sacraments. They entered into a years before the appearance of of the committee on labor con-
marriage of convenience, and their Torquemada. It is true that, by ditions. In this capacity he made
survey of labor relations in the
love for the daughter of Zion re- the time the eve of the Inquisition a
mained their own secret which in- had arrived, almost half the Jews industrial arear of Detroit and
wardly consumed them. For they in Spain had been baptized. But served on the small fact-finding
could not show as openly as under these Catholics, writes one convers. Commission of the Briggs strik.
a
Rabbi Fram was active in the
the rule of the Moslems that their ant with their history, "were, in
conversion was only a pretence preponderant majority, more close- movement against the alien regis-
dangerous
one.
ly
connected
with
Jewry
than
is
tration
law. He has appeared fre-
Their love was a
And after baptism they tried to generally assumed. They submitted quently before the City Council
obey the Mosaic laws with greater to force and were Christians only of Detroit and the State Legisla-
strictness than before their first in appearance, but they lived as ture at Lansing to advocate lib-
appearance in church. They did not Jews and observed the laws and eral legislation or to condemn
preposed reactionary legislation.
keep every holy day, but they Kept prescriptions of Jewish ritual."
He is a member of the Boy Scout
all the important ones. They were
Executive Committee of Detroit.
guests at the tables of the Span- RABBIS ANNOUNCE
Rabbi Fram has traveled ex-
SERMON
SUBJECTS
lards, but at home they ate in ac-
tensively. He visited Russia and
cordance with Jewish ritual. And
Mexico
when these countries were
From
PAGE
11
they had at least one son circum- cow -Leese
still in turmoil. This summer he
cised. These apostates had no pre-
made
his
second visit to Pales-
Dilemma"
sentiment that their sin of pre- fects will be "Israel's
tine, and a feature of his dinner
tended conversion would be visited and "Shall We Lose Faith?"
Sunday
address will be the descrip-
The 33rd season of
as an apocalyptic curse, if not on
themselves, yet assuredly on their services will begin in the Temple tion of the contrast between Pal.
on Sunday morning, Oct. 13. Dr. estine of 10 years ago and the
descendants.
By their Jewish brothers they Franklin will deliver an address Palestine of today. He will be
were called "vassals of Christian- under the title "The President introduced at the dinner by Dr.
Leo M. Franklin, who recently
ity" and in Spanish society they Consults the Clergy."
Services for the first day of celebrated the 35th anniversary
were known as converses — con-
verts. Their new world received Succoth at Temple Beth El will of his rabbinate at Temple Beth
held on Saturday, Oct. 12, at El. Other participants in the pro-
them with emotion and enthusiasm. be
in. Dr. Franklin will preach gram will be announced next
They were regarded as living 10 a.
trophies of the millitant Church. the sermon. On the Feast of Con- week.
elusions
which takes place on Sat-
It was considered an honor and ■
work of devotion to have stood as urday, Oct. 19, the sermon will
3 DEBATES LISTED
a godparent at the baptism of a be preached by Rabbi Fram.
ON TEMPLE FORUM
Rabbi Sperk ■ 's Sermons
Jew. The converse.. became the
Rabbi Joshua Sperka of Con-
rage. Every bishop, every grandee,
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hidalgo
gregation
B'nai
David
will
de-,
every lady, and every
wanted to have his own converses. liver the following sermons on
—
A party without an apostate lacked Yom Kippur: On Sunday evening. ica today, "Government
and the
the brilliance of novelty. Just asillwing
o
Kol Metre, his subject Constitution."
be
"We
The
Accused,"
on
'
Two
speakers
who
addressed
will
the Mother of God was presented fo
with altars and flags, she was also Yom Kippur morning, Rabbi Sper- the Forum in its opening series
offered the soul of Jews who had', ka will base his sermon on the are returning. They are John
been saved. Many a moral lapse Biblical reading and will be en- T. Flynn and Mortimer J. Adler.
titled "'Seared Souls." This year, in response to hun-
was annulled by such a gift.
The B'nai David Sunday School dreds of requests, the Temple
An age of great assimilation be-
will
open on Sunday morning, Oct. Forum has arranged for reserved
gan. Marriages between converses
seatings so that people shall not
and Christians were regarded with 27. Registration will take place !
during
the week between Yom have to come too long ahead of
great favor in the eyes of those
in high places. For the Church Kippur and Succoth: Tuesday, • time in order to be sure of get-
seat. A reserved season
these unions had a twofold sacra- Wednesday and Thursday, Oct. tiny a
mental character; in addition to 8, 9 and 10, from 4 to 6 p. m. ticket for the 14 lecturee, debates
There
will
be
a
kindergarten
class,'
and
symposia
will be priced at
the usual one, they offered the pi.
Unreserved season tickets
mu prospect of receiving Christ- elementary grades and a high' . $5.
are
$4.
Single
admissions
ate
ian children from former Jews. school class.
75 cents for all of the lectures,
Rabbi Fisheye's Sermons
Spanish sotiety, the not always
The sermons of Rabbi Moses except the Johnson lecture on
wealthy grandees of Aragon and
Castile, went in for the most fer- Fischer at the B'nai Moshe will be Oct 29, when the admission will
vest fusion with the converta, for as follows: be $1.10.
Rabbi Leon Fram will conduct
Kol Nidre, "'At Eve Time There
whom before long no eyrie was too
lofty. After four decades nearly will be Light;" Yom Kippur the discussion from the floor
*very aristocrat had Jewish kins- morning, The Lesson of Maskir." which will follow every lecture
I and debate.
men.
All inquiries should be ad-
Four of the 10 Viking Press'
Hatred for letelleet
With the speed of the wind the books which have sold over 100,000' dressed to the Temple Forum,
apostates, freed from all fetters espies in the last 10 years are by, Woodward and Gladstone, Made
try them.
and in full possession of civil Jews, namely, "Power" by Lion son 9542.
riebta, begin to fill all positions. Feuchtwanger, "The Case of Ser-
The autobiography of Sigmund
Th. favorable atmosphere gave geant Griacha" by Amid Zweig,
He wings. Above all they oecu- "Marie Antoinette" by Stefan Freud, one of the highlights of the

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