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Sabbath Chanukah (Feast of Dedication)
Reading of the Law
Pentateuchal portion—Gen, 37 :1-40:23 ; Num.
7:1:17
Plophetiral portion—Zech. 2:14.4:7
Chanukah Reading of the Law
Sunday. Num. 7:18; Monday, Num. 7:24-35;
Tuesday, Num. 7:30-41; Wednesday, Num. 7:36-47;
Thursday, Chanukah and Rosh Chodesh Tebet
readings of the Torah, Num. 28:1-15 and 7:42-47;
Friday, Chanukah and Rosh Chodesh Tebet read-
ings of the Torah, Num. 28:1.15 and 7:48.53.
December 20, 1935 '
Kislev 24, 5696
2,100 Chanukahs
Much is being made of the fact that this
is the 2100th anniversary of the Chanukah
festival.
The sage steeped in Jewish law and tra-
dition must smile at the sudden outburst
of enthusiasm over the Jewish power to
survive in spite of all obstacles.
Ile who knows his history may ask:
Why not rejoice even more exuberantly
because we had already observed the Pass-
over for 3,427 years?
Or why not proclaim a five-year holiday
over the approach of the year 5,700 on our
calendar?
Our history is so rich in experience that
a mere 2,100 years is only one of many
cycles of time during which we have been
tried by many fires, and survived all the
destructive forces that came our way.
And yet, there is much to rejoice in.
Even the extremest patriot for whom Jew-
ish history per se, taken in its totality, is
always a subject for pondering and thrill-
ing in, must make comparisons, between
the days of the Maccabees of 2,100 years
ago and the humbled masses of Jewry to-
day. And we must ask ourselves whether
we have weakened for the moment, or
whether the spark still flickers which at
any time may flare up into a rebellion of
Jewish loyalty to tradition, to Law, to that
eternal spirit which has made Israel an
undying people.
We are surrounded on all sides by ene-
mies. Even in most liberal countries the
Bill of Rights is occasionally being torn in
our faces. But we remain calm and com-
posed. We are unafraid. We have the
experience of two millenia since the Mac-
cabees back of us and another set of ex-
periences of three additional millenia
which preceded the Maccabean triumphs.
This long history admonishes us to be pa-
tient and never abandon hope.. Already
the Chanukah lights assume a new glow
in the Palestine in which the Hasmoneans
fought 2,100 years ago. The Jewish back
is being straightened and strengthened.
Out of the tragedy imposed by a thousand
enemies we shall emerge strengthened by
the faith regained and regathered with a
spirit of dignity and pride and determina-
tion that we shall build for ourselves a
new life which will refuse to permit the
trampling under-foot of our sacred human
rights and our holiest traditions.
Two thousand and one hundred years
form a mere portion of a much longer
cycle of events in Jewish history; but they
do serve to remind us of many sacred ex-
periences, of a power that was once our
people's and can once again be ours—nay,
is certain once again to be ours.
Somehow, Chanukah 'is no longer a
minor holiday: it is a major event. We
rejoice in its story and its lessons, and we
gather from it relief in hours of sorrow.
And the Nazis Gloat!
Germans were not informed by the Nazi
press on the close vote which gave Ameri-
can athletes the sanction of the Amateur
Athletic Union to participate in the 1936
Berlin Olympics. Insofar as Germany is
concerned, it is reported, "the Americans'
sport conscience won and the boycott agi-
tators and Olympic saboteurs have been
defeated."
But Germans are not the only ones from
whom the truth is being hidden. AmeH-
can athletes are similarly misled in that
they are not informed of the true state of
affairs and of the new determination of
Nazi propagandists to make of the Olym-
pics a Nazi spectacle. Insofar as our own
athletes are concerned, the American
Olympic Committee's leaders are respon-
sible for failure to protect true sportsman-
ship against Nazi tactics.
On the day after the news was broad-
cast of the results of the A. A. U. conven-
tion, Propaganda Minister Joseph Goeb-
bels announced that the Olympics would
form the central part of a New German
film, "the trend and contents of which will
be based on the thought of making vis-
ible the idea of international Olympic
Games within the framework of the new
Germany." It is reported from Berlin that
since many nations will object to seeing
their athletes used as a backgraund for
such a propaganda film, separate versions
are to be made for each of the large nix-
' g tiona.
It is clear that the Nazis are set on
capitalizing on their Olympic victory and
will do exactly what the opponents of the
movements to grant the Olympics to Berlin
insisted would happen. The Nazis are
'Hosting. They won a great victory for
bigotry and Fascism through the aid of
Brundage, Sherrill and the selfish ath-
1"tea for whom participation in sports and
a trip abroad is more important than
sportsmanship.
Lights front
Shadowland
Welcome, Labor Zionists
I)etroit is truly privileged to be able to
act as host to the 30th anniversary con-
vention of the Poale-Zeire Zion beginning
with next Wednesday.
Representing the dominating faction in
Zionism, the labor Zionist bodies command
more than respect: they demand the inter-
est of all Jews because they have climbed
to positions of supremacy is Palestine and
in the ranks of Zionism. Even their staun-
chest opponents must not only reckon with
this movement but must grant it the honor
which is due to the leading faction in Jew-
ish nationalism.
It is immaterial what the causes are
which helped to boost labor Zionism to a
position of dominance. The charges are
that the so-called "allegemeine" Zionists
contributed to the success of the laborites
both by contributing some of their votes
to them in the last elections for the World
Zionist Congress delegates, as well as by
their indifference and lethargy which
caused them to stay away from polls on
an important election day. All the more
reason, then, why the laborites should be
honored for their devotion and their in-
terest, for their loyalty to their cause.
Other Zionist parties this have much to
learn from the laborites, and non-laborites
in Detroit will have particular occasion
to make a study of the methods and prin-
ciples of the Poale-Zeire Zion party which
have helped them to supplant the general
Zionists from virtual leadership of the
movement.
So much with regard to the party dif-
ferences, and the importance of the Poale-
Zeire Zion domination of the movement,
as'the counterpart of the Palestine Hista-
druth. Now, with regard to the conven-
tion proper and the problems that will
face it.
The laborites ha:e made great contri-
butions to Palestine's reconstruction. There
is much, also, to be criticized in the move-
ment, but the negative must not be per-
mitted to detract from the very postive ele-
ments of labor Zionism. The present con-
vention comes here at a time when Jewry
throughout the world is sorely tried; when
our fate is being weighed in the balance
and more than ever before the respon-
sibility of solving our depressing problems
in the midst of a hostile world becomes
our own duty. We have nothing to ex-
pect from our neighbors, many of whom
might have encouraged its were they not
themselves today drawn into a worldwide
whirlpool of strife and depression. It is
the responsibility of all Zionists to help
build an ever-stronger movement which
will speed up the settlement of even larger
numbers of Jews than have come to Pales-
tine in recent years. The Land of Israel
must be built speedily, untiringly, with a
devotion unequalled in human endeavors.
When a Zionist faction gathers to plan fur-
ther efforts for this historic task, it must
receive the encouragement of all other
branches of the movement.
It is in this spirit that we welcome the
delegates who are to gather here for the
convention and wish them God-speed in
their efforts. They are faced with grave
responsibility. We wish for them the
blessing of strength and courage to be
able, together with all other factions in
Jewry, to carry on the great work for
Palestine's upbuilding.
Littauer's Gift to Harvard
December 20, 1935
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" SLAPSIE MAXIE"
Motion picture and other cele-
brities of the Jewish faith are very
much in the news this week here
in Hollywood. First to crash the
headlines — and with a triple an-
nouncement at that—was Maxie
Rosenbloom's news of his engage-
ment to an (astern heiress, his re-
tirement from the boxing ring Jan.
Ima nx icile hisdreburt in motion pictures.
former
me light-heavyweight
ght-heavyweight
champion
on of the world, has been
signed for an important role in an
RHO-Radio picture.
"I like acting better than fight-
ing, anyway," says Maxie, "I pre-
fer comedy parts, but here I am
cast in the role of a gangster."
Rosenbloom, whose unorthodox, but
effective, style of stilling won him
the title of "Slapsie Maxie", will
undoubtedly earn his studio pay,
judging from the action in various
scenes slated for him.
GROOMED FOR STARDOM
Attractive June Travis is one of
six young actresses officially de.
signated by Warner Bros. Studios
as starlets of 1937. This means that
during the ensuing year she will be
given important leading roles and
groomed for stardom. Miss Travis
is the socially prominent daughter
of Harry Grabiner, vice president
and general manager of the Sh
White Sox baseball team. She e
has Just finished a role as leadin g
lady for James Cagney, the Yid-
O'Brien inlit r1{011„1: and Pat
Also in the news spotlight this
I week is Paul Muni and his newest
film based on a French Scientist's
j life. Both were accorded an im-
pressive tribute by the Academy of
! Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
at a banquet for H. G. Wells and
I Charles Chaplin. Muni was the
;guest of honor,
' LOTS OF MONEY TO SPEND
' Attention: Advertising managers
of English - Jewish newspapers.
Paramount Pictures is launching •
national advertising campaign coy.
ering the expenditure of more than
half a million dollar, in the news-
papers of this country during the
drat quarter of 1936. Newspaper
a dvertising a
euffeeettive.
g ies motion picture
dios have, in the opinion of !lei s! ;
Agnew, vice president in charge of
sales for Paramount Pictures , who
made this news public at the com-
pany's semi-annual sales conven-
tion in the Drake Hotel in Chicago.
Joe Penner and Sylvia Sidney are
starred in two of the eight Para-
mount pictures to be advertised in
this campaign.
MGM PICTURES IN ENGLAND
B en Goetz, pioneer motion execu-
tive, has been chosen by Nicholas
51. Schenck and Louis B. Mayer to
take charge of Metro-Goldwyn-
Mayer productions abroad. The ap-
pointment crystallizes plans for
European production, particularly
in England, announced some time
ago. Goetz is to sail for London in
about two weeks.
One of the best known figures
in the motion picture industry,
Goetz has been executive vice pres-
ident of the Consolidated Film In-
dustries, Inc. for the last 11 years.
Previously he was an official of the
Erbograph Laboratory, which was
merged with Consolidated.
W hile no definite announcement
is forthcoming as to the pictures to
be made by MGM in the foreign
field, officials indicated to us that
there were definite plans for con-
siderable production, not only in
London, but in other European
cities.
A BABY COLONEL
The youngest Kentucky colonel
on record is a Jewish baby and he
lives in Hollywood. This we learned
with the announcement of Governor
Ruby I.afoon of Kentucky that he
has appointed Harry Joe Brown,
Jr. as an aide on his staff. The
official papers have already been
signed, sealed and delivered. The
new colonel, son of the noted Holly-
wood film producer and Sally Eil-
ers, Universal movie star, is 18
months old. Colonel Brown has not
yet been measured for his uniform.
NEWS OF THE STUDIOS
Mack Gordon, Paramount song
writer, has left the Cedars of
Lebanon Hospital where his doctor
ordered him to go for reducing
treatments. The medico hopes to
take off about a third of the 300
pounds Mack possesses. The famous
song composer lived in style at the
hospital. He had a suite on the top,
floor and did a lot of entertaining.
Sylvia Sidney has purchased a
new shiny yellow coupe .
Sha-sh-a, Bernard Newman and
Gail Patrick have been going places
together. Their friends say it's a
mutual admiration society of two.
!
YEARS AGO
By DAVID EMANUEL
''" , in rich, , 1,15. Seven Arta Feature Sind , to
This year the Chanukah candles have extra-
ordinary significance. This year they illumine a
remarkable anniversary. Exactly 21 centuries
have passed since the Jews, through joy and soi-
row, have been celebrating this Feast of Lights.
Two millenia are a long period, but the
Jews have a long memory. In homes, in syna-
gogues and in schools, at organization meetings
and other gatherings, this anniversary will be
noted and feted. In New York, for example. the
Jewish Education Association is turning its an-
nual dinner into a special jubilee celebration. On
such an occasion the old story deserves to be
retold.
Twenty-one hundred years ago, the Seleu-
cids who ruled the regions north of Palestine,
and the Ptolemies who ruled Egypt, were en-
gaged in mortal combat to decide which of
them should possess what was left of Alexander's
short-lived empire. Caught between the two
warring nations, as in the jaws of a vise, was
tiny Palestine. There lived the Jews, clinging
to their old spiritual faith in a world of Hellen-
istic skepticism and paganism. But even among
them the canker had begun its depredations.
Many of the Jews were casting off the faith of
their fathers, having sipped of the heady wine of
the Greeks, which in the end leaves a bitter taste.
But their defection only increased the zeal of
the faithful.
Antiochus' Twisted Mind
In the year 170 B. C. E. (Before the Com-
mon Era), Antiochus IV, ruler of Syria, dream-
ing of world empire, marched hi* armies into
Egypt. The campaign ended in a stalemate, and
a peace that was only a truce was signed. On
the way back he learned that the Jewish Hellen-
ist, Menelaus, who had recently paid him a hand-
some sum for the high-priesthood, had been driven
out of Jerusalem. His wrath, embittered by his
check in Egypt, found a convenient outlet. the
sacked Jerusalem and robbed the Temple.
Two years later he again descended upon
Egypt. • This time he was summarily ordered
home by an emissary of Rome. Antiochus had
to obey and his humiliation was complete. Again
the Jews proved a convenient scapegoat. Giving
credence to a rumor that they had rejoiced at
his defeat, he attacked Jerusalem on a Sabbath,
when the use of weapons, even for self-defense,
was forbidden. Thousands were butchered or
sold into slavery and the city was nearly des-
troyed.
Into Antiochus' twisted mind crept the idea
that the Jews were responsible for his humilia-
tion. They were different, no he suspected and
hated them. Ile determined to destroy their
separatism, to compel them to adopt the Greek
gods and the Greek way of life. In the Temple
he erected a statue of Jupiter and sacrificed a
, swine on the sacred altar. Then followed decrees
' forbidding, on pain of death, circumcision, the
observance of the Sabbath, or even the posses-
sion of the Torah. The Chassidim, as the zealous
loyalists called themselves, fled to the caves in
the hills of Judaea,
Mattathias Proclaims Revolt
The harsh decrees were enforced with great
rigor. Martyrs gladly gave their livs to encour-
age the people to be steadfast. Eleazar, an old
The Maccabean Victories
The Chassidim rallied around him. They
swept into the villages, pulled down the heathen
altars, harassed the king's troops and returned to
their caves.
Strictly
Confidential
Tidbits from Everywhere
By PHINEAS .1. BIRON
(Copyright. )11_311,py S A.
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; A. A. U. AFTERMATH
i A serious tactical error a as cons-
: mitted by the forces opposed to
Amercina Olympic participation
i when they permitted Louis di Bene-
detto of New Orleans to introduce
, the non-participation resolution ...
I Many delegates from the North
I and the East felt it was the height
of chutzpah,for Benedetto to offer
■ resolution condemning racial
prejudice in Germany when the
Southern A.A.U. Association Ins
I been the chief offender in discrim-
! matingi against iN ecgariomasthtttets
For about a year this guerilla warfare con-
tinued. But Mattathias was old and nearing the
not the American representative
end of his days. Calling his sons about him, he
on the International Olympic Cons
mittee
but the Committee's repro-
appointed Judas to be their general, exhorted
' sentative to this country ... The
them to fight on and died.
Brundage-Sherrill crowd are un-
Judas now faced the problem of meeting the
derstood to be determined to raise
Syrians in the open field. Ile could not depend
all the money needed to send a full
American team to Germany, eve.
on guerilla warfare alone to rid the land of
Jr they have to get it from anti-
the king's forces. Appolonius, governor of Sa-
Semitic quarters . Quite a few
maria, came out with an army to destroy him.
delegates voted in favor of parti-
Judas marched up and attacked him and routed
cipation because they fell victims be
a whispering campaign that if the
him. It was an incredible victory. Antiochus
United States withdrew Germany
raved. The Jews flocked to Judas in greater
I would win the Olympic Games ...
numbers than ever.
That clever proposal for an investi-
Another mercenary host assembled against gating commission offered by Aaron
Steuer, is said to have been lath.
Judas and was routed. Antiochus was beside
ered by Harry J. Applestein, presi-
himself. Only trouble in outlying districts of his
dent of the Pittsburgh Y. M. H. A-
Empire prevented him front attending to these
Steuer and Aaron Frank of Port-
unheard-of Jews in person.
land, Oregon, made a good impress
pion on the convention ... Harry
Under Gorgias a host of 40,000 troops, foot
Schaffer, senior vice commander-
and cavalry, marched out and pitched camp at
I in-chief of the Jewish War Vet-
Emmaus. Judas marched his forces to Mizpah,
erans, who attended the convention
where, after prayer and consecration, he set
as an observer, was busy trying to
sign up Steuer and Frank as JWV
forth with 6,000 picked men. By brilliant strat-
members ...
egy he escaped a trap set by the enemy, appeared
FOR YOUR INFORMATION
suddenly before the enemy's camp, and smote it
There are 15 Jews by the name
with panic and confusion. The foe was over-
of Streicher living in New York_
On
the letterhead of the Jewish
whelmed.
congregation in Honesdale, Pa,
Lysias, the king's chief-general, was dumb- I there is a picture of three cats be-
founded. Ile decided that he could no longer ! cause the congregation's three
trustees are all named Katz .
entrust the matter to subordinates and, next year,
Gabriel Heatter, the radio news
in 165 B. C. E., he himself collected a force of
commentator, is • brother-in-law of
66,000 foot and 5,000 horsemen to crush the
Isaac Assofsky, general manager of
Jewish nation out of existence. Judas rallied
IIIAS ... St. Patrick's Cathedral
in New 'lurk recently celebrated
all his forces and in a fierce charge at Beth-zur,
a special high mass to mark the
south of Jerusalem, utterly routed the mercen-
I ninth anniversary cf the death of
aries who fled in panic.
Jules Mastbaum, a Jew ... Mast-
; baum, who was one of Philadel-
The Festival of Light
phia's leading philanthropists, gave
There followed a breathing spell for Judas
thousands of dollars during his
who took advantage of it to clean the Temple
lifetime to institutions caring for
crippled Catholic children ... Leo.
of its heathen pollutions. In Kislev of the year
pold Godowsky and Josef Lhevinne,
165 B. C. E., he entered Jerusalem and went up
the pianists, are amateur astrono-
to the Temple. "They saw the sanctuary deso-
mers of no mean ability . , The
president of the National Associa-
late, and the altar profaned." For about three
titon for the Advancement of Col-
weeks, front the third day of Kislev to the 25th,
ored People is Joel Elias Spingarn,
they worked at the labor of purification. On the
ft Jr,, . . . Winnipeg boasts of a
25th, with sacrifice and song, they rededicated Jewish playwright called Tolstoy-
Harry Hershfield, who holds the
the Temple. For eight days the Festival con-
record for presiding over testi-
tinued. Then Judas ordained that, forever after,
monial dinners to the great and the
the eight days beginning with the 25th day of
near-great, is being given a testi-
Kislev shall be celebrated as the Festival of
monial dinner of his own on Jan.
Dedication, or Chanukah. That was exactly 2,100
26 by the Broadway Chese Club.
Max Baer will noon be a father...
years ago.
Frances Grosse], former secretary
It was only the first phase of a long and
of the Intercollegiate Menorah So..
desperate struggle that was concluded by this
ciety, and now lecture manager for
such notables as Molly Piton, Os-
first celebration of Chanukah. But it was this
wald Villard, Marvin Lowenthal
phase that laid the foundation, both material
and Louis Adamic, is now the fray
and spiritual, of all that followed. The joyous
of Lionel Reiss. the artist . .
festival in Jerusalem was a fitting symbol of it.
FINANCIAL REPORT
It was a festival of purification, of rededication
The gentleman who won a $2,004
diamond bracelet fur 50 cents dur-
and of light. It dramatized, as nothing else could
ing the recent Hadassah conven-
have done, the victory of right over might, of the
tion, is considering returning it ...
weak over the strong, of the few over the many,
The bracelet, which was part of
of spirit over brute force. No wonder that in
the jewels donated to Iladassah by
Irma Lindheim before she settled
these days of renewed persecution and renewed
in Palestine, brought in only $400_
worship of brute force, Jews turn to this Festi-
For the benefit of Jewish commu-
val and this anniversary with renewed faith and
nity chests, we report the following
hope.
salaries of some important Jewish
department store magnates . .
The second phase of the great struggle
Simon Lazarus of Columbus, $100,-
may be said to have ended with the death of
440 ... Louis E. hiratein of Bos
Judas five years later. Ile died on the field of
ton, $80,400 . . . Walter N. Roth.
Eleasa, when, with a force of only 800 he faced a
schild of Brooklyn, $57,500 . .
Fred Lazarus, Jr., of Columbus,
Syrian army of 22,000 men. For his fortunes
$100,320 ... Lincoln Filene of Bess
had waned and men, having lost hope of ulti-
ton, $80,320 . . . Simon F. Roth-
mate victory against on mighty an empire, had
schild of Brooklyn $44,000 ... A.
H. Lubin of Chicago may be a
deserted him. All day the battle raged. At night-
house wrecker but he's a swell
fall the few who were left retreated. But Judas
financier too ... He paid $25,0011
51accabeus, the flame of Israel, lay dead on the
for the salvage rights to the build-
field.
ings of the 1935 world's fair at
Under one brother after another the strug-
Chicago and sold the materials for
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gle went on. In the Far East, whither Antiochus
NAZI NOT E
had gone to put down other uprisings, the tyrant
A final checkup of the recent vote
had died an ignominious death. His capital, the
for Supreme Court justice in
City of Antioch in Syria, became a hot-bed of
Queens County, New York, shows
conspiracy, intrigue and treachery. Finally, in
that one voter cast his ballot for
Hitler ... Fritz Kreisler's failure
142 B. C. E., a new emperor, Demitrius II,
to say anything about the Nati
freed the Jews of all taxes and tribute. Simon,
regime is due to the fact that he
the last of the Macrahean brothers, became
owns too much property in Ger-
many . . . Propaganda Minister
"prince and high-priest" of the nation. The
Goebbels is slated to get the axe in
Jews had won their independence. Their faith
the next Nazi purge, which is due
and their nationhood were saved for further life
right after the Olympic Games ...
and achievement. Thus have tyrants come and
The Nazified version of theifamous
gone; thus have the Jews fought and overcome
Christmas carol, "Silent Night,
Holy Night," substitutes the name
them.
( PLEASE TURN To NEXT PAIR
man, respected by the people, was commanded to
At about the same time that proponents
of the movement to send American ath-
eat unclean food, he refused and was put to
letes to Nazi-ruled Germany to participate
death. Hannah and her seven sons were com-
in the Olympic Games, hurled at us the
manded to worship an idol; she refused and ex-
atrocious lie that we were threatening
horted her sons to refuse. They were put to
death one by one. The officers of the king de-
presidents of American universities with
stroyed
schools and houses of worship. They
withdrawal of endowments if they were
to favor the participation in the Olympics,
followed the Chassidim into the hills and on a
an unusually liberal gift was made by a
Sabbath fell upon them and massacred a thou-
sand of them. Nevertheless the people stood firm.
Jew to Harvard University.
On Dec. 10, Dr. James B..Conant, presi-
Into every village came the king's soldiers,
dent of Harvard University, announced
erected an altar, and forced the people to sacri-
fice to Zeus. To the town of Modin, in the
the acceptance of a gift of $2,000,000 from
foot-
Lucius B. Littauer, former Congressman,
hills of Judea, also came a troop of soldiers.
a manufacturer of gloves, who played on
There dwelt Mattathias, an old priest, and his
the Harvard football team in 1875, and
five sons. An altar was set up, the people as-
graduated from Harvard in 1878. This
sembled, and the officer called upon the priest
to officiate. He sternly refused.
gift of which $500,000 has already been
A Hellenist
remitted and the entire sum is to be paid
Jew stepped foiward to perform the sacrifice.
by 1937, is intended for the establishment
Then Mattathias struck. He killed the traitor and
of a Graduate School of Public Adminis-
in the affray which followed, the king's soldiers
tration. It is one of a series of large gifts
fled, leaving their officer among their dead.
made by Mr. Littauer for medical research
Thereupon Mattathias proclaimed revolt.
and educational activities, for hospitals
"Whosoever is zealous of the law and maintaineth
the
and mental hygiene dirties.
covenant, let him follow me!" was the stir-
ring call he issued. Then he fled into the moun-
Mr. Littauer's gift, which was first of-
tains.
fered to Harvard long before the agitation
The time for resistance had come. From
over the Olympic Games, hurls the lie at
all sides men came flocking to him, and he de-
Mr. Brundage whose charges, at the con-
creed that it was permissible to defend oneself
]Copyright ills. it A P a )
on the Sabbath.
vention of the A. A. U., are among the
most unfair statements ever made about
American Jewry.
Lights On Chanukah
Fortunately, American traditians pro-
vide us with sufficient assurance that the
institutions to which Jews are liberally
Some Quaint Customs of the
By DR. BERN ARD HELLER
subscribing large endowments will honor
H o lid ay
Director, Hillel Foundation of University of Michigan
By "MENTOR"
American principles and will not abuse the
guarantees of justice and liberty which
Some months ago an American the statement made by Hitler re- By Rabbi Abraham H. laraciitut
The word "assimilation" has be- I richness of Israel's culture and
come very obnoxious to devout and civilization and the role which his-
are embodied in the Constitution of the news agency released to its sub. 1 garding Bolshevism and the Jews. Do you know the origin
of
cut-
United States. In the case of Harvard, scribing newspapers a story center- Which Brings Up Two Question. toms associated with the cele- , faithful Jews. This is due to the 1 tory or Providence has laid out for
th
This brings up two important
the liberality of Dr. Conant is too well ing around a statement handed to ;questions:
bration of Chanukah? In this fact that it has been given a mean-
(1) should American
There Is, however, another mean-
the correspondent of this agency by I news agencies unconsciously assiet
factual outline, Rabbi Israel- ing which does not belong to it It
known to need elaboration.
There is an unfortunate contrast in Mr. a Nazi official which alleged that in furthering Nazi propaganda by it•n tells us many things we has been made to connote the &Hi.' ing attached to the word "Amin).
reason for the Nazi campaign sending over their wires libels
never knew about the observ-
tude and pokey of indifference to ilation" and it is the tendency to
Littauer's gift with the contributions the
against the Jews was that the against the Jews and; (2) should
ances of the Feast of Lights.
the distinctive features of Judaism, absorb and to appropriate into
which are made by Jews to Jewish insti- majority of German criminals are :not
a sharp difference be drawn
• desire to escape the stigma and ; one's own makeup elements which
tutions of learning. Two years ago the Jews.
I between what is actual and genuine
I.
the implications which Judaism in- originally were not present is it.
Recently the United Press re- news and what is manufactured
rumor was current that if it were not for
valves.
An assimilationist is an in- Food is absorbed by the human or-
The
"dreidel,"
the
ceremon-
the outbreak of Hitlerism the Hebrew Uni- leased an interview with Hitler news, either for purposes of prope- ial top of Chanukah, has been dividual who advocates a submer- ganism and there It is digested and
given to its President, Hugh Bail- 1 ganda on the part of the Nazis or
sion
of
the Jew in the mass of the good and necessary chemical
versity in Jerusalem might have been corn- lie, in which the German Chancellor to obtain "scoops" for the news explained by some in the fol-
humanity and a deliberate surren. elements are assimilated into the
pelled to close its doors for lack of funds. gave as the reason for the perse- ; agencies.
lowing manner: The cruel An-
der of his inherited tenets, tradi- blood and brawn of the body, while
The outburst of anti-Semitism and the cution of the Jews the statement
In regard to the first point, the tiochus of Syria had decreed
tions and customs to that of • ail. ' the undesirable and unnecessary
necessity for bringing many refugee pro- that the Jews are the leaders of question arises as to whether news that no one should study the ing majority. This he does because j refuse is discarded.
The flowers of
Bolshevism in Germany.
he is either unconscious of their the garden assimilate the sunshine
fessors from Germany to Palestine, aroused
More recently, the United Press agencies and newspapers have a
Torah. Jews, however, were
meaning, or if conscious, and inhale elements in the air,
a spirit of liberality on the part of many sent out a story giving • table of social responsibility in their func- desirous of studying the sac- spiritual
he is lacking the quality of heroism while they exude others which may
wealthy Jews, with the result that the figures compiled by a Nazi official tion of gathering news. Let us red law, and so they would fre- of the martyr or protestant, is un- be good for man, but are not for
Hebrew University was provided with which purported to prove how the argue that if Herr Goebbels says quently gather together in willing to pay the price which such I them. Such assimilation the Jew
Jews over-predominate in the pro- that the Jews are responsible for
d ivergence of life and manner in- has always believed in and p en,-
much-needed support.
fessions in the Third Reich.
the prevalence of foot and mouth
groups and study their holy
volves when it is practiced by an treed in the course of his long wan-
Perhaps the liberality of Mr. Littauer
Here are three separate Nazi diseases in Germany and should
writings. But, in order that unpopular minority. Now, if assim- derings through the diverse and
will serve to stimulate others to be liberal apologia, all of which can easily be therefore be persecuted, that this the Syrian officer, who might ilation implies all this, the hostile various cultures. The Jews
never
proven
libels.
They
were
read
by
not only to the secular but also to the millions of Arriericans, some of fall, into the category of news.
reaction of the sincere and faithful built a Chinese wall around them-
Should the news agencies release enter their midst, should not of Israel, to him, who subscribes to selves, nor dd they hermetically
Jewish institutions of learning. It is un- whom doubtless believed them. Only this
statement over their wires
fortunate that our own agencies should in a single case, BO far as I am without giving • thought to the suspect them of studying their the above view and attitude, is surround and seal their heritage
justified for many reasons. In the with wax paper.
be treated like stepchildren and instead aware, was • counteractive state- consequences of it? The statement precious Torah, they carried first
place, his attitude of capitula-
with them "dreidlach." When
Hew Jews Assimilate
ment released. I refer to the inter- is a palpable libel. Millions of peo-
of being accorded honors in giving should view
tion,
and surrender Is either the re-
If one subjects the Jewish cus-
with Dr. Adler, sent out by ple will read It The majority of they noticed an officer ap-
sult of moral cowardice or inez. toms
merely be the recipient of alms.
the United Press, which answered
and
manners of any age to
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