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April 3, 1936
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Lights from
Shadowland
Streicher's God
From Nuremberg, the home of the
world's latest bigot, Julius Streicher, comes
the proclamation which again identified
Adolf .Hitler with divine power.
Streicher himself in a campaign speech
insisted that the Rhineland occupation
could never have been carried out by the
parliamentary regime, and in the follow.
ing strong language placed the mantle of
divinity upon Hitler's shoulders:
Passover Eve with the Samaritans
(Copyright, 5136. a. A F. $ )
By AVU CIVANA
An Unending Carnival
fend them. A successful Allied Jewish
And dirges mingle with our melodies!
Campaign will be a contributing factor in
It is a touching sentiment but neverthe-
guaranteeing such security.
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The national committee that was
formed in Cleveland under the chairman-
ship of Dr. Barnett R. Brickner to honor
A. II. Friedland on his 25th anniversary
of service in Jewish education, is estab-
lishing a precedent which will give credit
to men who have heretofore been among
the forgotten ones of Israel.
It is a rare occasion on which a Jewish
educator and his work are given due recog-
nition. Usually their works are glorified
only in the remnant which emerges from
their schools in creditable fashion.
The honor about to be accorded to Mr.
Friedland at a testimonial dinner planned
to be held in Cleveland on April 26 is a
departure from previous practices in edu-
cational circles. It is significant that this
honor should go to a man who is not only
one of the country's leading educators but
who has made a great literary contribu-
tion by producing a series of 70 short
stories for children in Hebrew which have
already sold in more than 70,000 copies
throughout the world. Mr. Friedland be-
longs to a group of educators which in-
cludes men like Bernard Isaacs of Detroit,
to the cause
who are devoting their lives
of Jewish education as to the exclusion of
interests which would otherwise . benefit
them personally. It is interesting to note
that men like Dr. Samson Benderly, Rabbi
Solomon Goldman, Dr. ilyam Greenberg,
Menuchem Ribalow rind Dr. Stephen S.
Wise are serving on the national sponsors
comatittee which is preparing the dinner
corn-
for Kr. Friedland who deserves that join
in
r unities outside of Ohio should
recognising and honoring the work he is
history and especially at the present time,
as a result of the brutalities and indignities
heaped upon our fellow Jews in Eastern
and Central European countries, dirges are
mingling with jests. A similarly touching
poem was once written by Heinrich Heine
who sang to the glory of the Jew who in
spite of the degradations to which he was
subjected throughout the week, neverthe-
less became a prince on the Sabbath day.
As long as we refuse to quit jesting even
in an hour of tragedy the long carnival
must end favorably to the Jew. It may be
unending, but it certainly is not without
hope.
The Late Joshua Rocker
Jewish journalism lost an important
figure in the death of Joshua Rocker, the
founder and editor of the Cleveland Jew-
ish World.
The mere fact that Mr. Rocker had the
vision and the pioneering spirit to start
a daily Jewish newspaper in a commun-
ity outside of New York, Chicago or Phil-
adelphia, is itself a tribute to the man. But
it is not this pioneering spirit alone for
which his memory is to be honored. He
was primarily a scholar and a man imbued
with deep learning and with the noblest
Jewish traditions. He was an idealist and
one who was unselfishly devoted to deserv-
ing Jewish causes. It is not Cleveland alone
but American Jewry who suffers a loss
when such a man is called by death.
Now that "Iffy, the Dopester" has served
Hank Greenberg a meal which included
kneidlach, strudel, lokshen and chrems-
lach. we'll just have to invite him to a
meal including all these delicacies so that
he can, feel as good writing about base-
ball.as Hank does playing the game.
1 , '01.5511ht. Ma s. A. F. s )
EDITOR'S NOTE: It reads like fiction, yet it i. true. This description of a moonlight scene
on Mount Gerizim, Palestine, will amass you—the Bible resuscitated in the 20th
century. A fascinating adventure on Passover eve in the oldest Palestine—yet the
Palestine of today.
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I have seen the lamb of sacrifice led to
the altar. I have seen the knife of the one
who sacrifices buried in the neck of the sacri-
ficial lamb until the rich red blood flows freely
on the ground.
I have heard the wild, primitive scream of
triumph as the knife is withdrawn from' the
neck of the lamb of sacrifice.
I have seen the last pale reflection of a
sacrifice as ordained in the Bible 19 centuries
after the Temple was laid in ruins.
1 have seen the Paschal sacrifice of the
Samaritans upon the summit of the mountain
of blessings, Mount Gerizim.
I left Jerusalem before sunset. The sun
was sinking fast as I rushed by Ataroth. It was
dark in Ramallah of the Arabs. The stars were
out before I reached Jacob's Well. As I drove
into Nablus, between the cursed hill Ebal and
the blessed Gerizim, the moon was up.
I must hurry to the hilltop if I am to be in
time for the Passover service of the Samari-
tans. The road up the mountain is long and
steep, and the recent rains have revealed a
series of steps which centuries ago enabled the
weary pilgrim to ascend more easily the hill, on
top of which once stood a famous temple.
Gerizim is dotted with tents, for the Samari-
tans have left their homes in the town and have
encamped here for the whole of Passover. A
weird chant greeted me, like the sound of the
readers of the Koran in the Mosqque of Omar.
It grows fuller and louder as I approach a
small enclosure where a sight as dramatic as
it is unusual unfolds itself. •
Eight elderly men are lying prone on the
ground upon their faces. They rise, hold up
their hands towards the heavens and implore
mercy upon themselves and upon their people.
Then they prostrate themselves again.
Their Hebrew Sounds Like Arabic
They are clothed completely in white and
they wear turbans upon their heads. They are
bearded, tall and bear themselves with patriarch-
al dignity. They are a page from a book of
Bible pictures. They are so unreal that you
begin to wonder whther you are not imagining
the scene, whether you have not been touched
by the moon, which is now riding triumphantly
through high heaven.
It is Hebrew they are chanting, but with
an accent so strange that not a word of it can
I make out. It sounds more like Arabic.
strain my ears to catch a familiar word, but not
one word can I recognize. Their chants are
accompanied, Moslem fashion, by a clapping
of hands, now softly, now riotously. Only one
or two of the greybeards holdnooks is their
hands, written in the ancient script which we
find in old monuments. The rest listen and
clap their hands.
But now there is a movement away from
'the enclosure to another part of the hilltop.
The chanting ceases and gives way to the bleat-
ing of lambs. A circle is formed and into the
center of the circle a number of lambs are
brought. A tall, agile Samaritan draws the knife
from his belt and waits. The sheep nibble on
the ground, unaware of the fate that over-
hangs them. A staccato sentence in this queer
Hebrew I have been hearing for the last hour,
flash of the knife, another flash, another, and
each of the sacrificial sheep falls in its blood
upon the ground.
A howl goes up to heaven, awful in its
savagery, frightening in its primitive abandon-
ment. "God is all-powerful!" "A good year to
all of us!" "Ile delivered us from Egypt!" "God
is the all-knowing!" The words that fall from
the lips follow after the wild howl of triumph.
Meanwhile an enormous pit is being dug in
the ground, and at the bottom of the pit branches
of the olive tree. More and more branches are
brought, until it seems as if the pit were half
full with them. But, when the sheep that have
been sacrificed are lowered into the pit, the
wood crackles, snaps and fails back into place.
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Ort: 55 Years of Constructive Relief
By ROSE SCHNEIDERMAN
EDITOR'S NOTE: NI.. Schneiderman. preddent of the Women's Trade Union
Loom,. to N. of ON °Mott/tiding labor leaders in the country. A friend
of Erreklent Roovereitwhen he woo Governor of New York Mato. oho to
made...al one of the leading outdoors of both the President and Hs
vretary of Labor, Frances Perkins
v
The name ORT has been fami-
liar to me for many years. I
vaguely know that it sponsored
constructive relief activities for
European Jews but the magnitude
of its work, the quality of its
training were unknown to me until
I accepted membership on the ad-
visory board of the Women's
American ORT of which Mrs. Al-
bert Einstein is honorary presi-
dent. Theo began a period of edu-
cation. From articles about the
history of ORT, from reports of
ORT's activities in Europe, from
actual photographs showing its
work, I learned about ORT. It
was a revelation to me, as I am
sure it will be to you. Which,
briefly, is the history of this ar-
ticle. I thought others should come
to know ORT as I have .
The story of ORT all began in
1880, some 55 years age. .A group
of public minded and forward
looking Jewish leaders with the
permission of Czar Alexander IL
banded together for the purpose
of settling Russian Jews on the
land and teaching them handi-
crafts. It was called Obehtshestwo
Rasproetranenla Trude, meaning
Association for the Promotion of
Trade and Agriculture—and it is
from the first initials of these
three Russian tames that ORT
derives its present name.
l-Libevatiee
Prom.. of Sa
Awnhat time, Cur Alexander,
had ed the land to the Jew.
Russia's huge Jewish Population
about half the Jews of th;
then
In the proms of semi.
world. were
libersCon. For the first time, they
By PHINEAS J. BIRON
ONE-ELEVEN
A NEW STAR IN THE
MAKING
Movie fans of America will
Subscription, in Advance...- ........ -.....$3.00 Per Year
soon see the name of a new star
This deed (the Rhineland occupation) could
emblazoned in lights on theater
succeed only because we have a government
To inure publication. allcorrespond.. and news matter
marquees. That name will be
mut reach this office by Tuesday evening of each week.
that is free of all unnatural ties and that
Shaindel Kalish. This outstanding
When mailing notice.. kindly ue one side of the POW
stands under a free and independent Fuehrer
Jewish personality of the stage
and by the grace of God has given us men
The Detroit Jewish Chronicle invitee eorrsepondes. cm sub-
radio has been signed to a Univer-
j..te of intermit to the Jewish people, but disclaims respond-
who know how to lead our people right.
sal Pictures contract.
NMI for an Ind...meat of the •Iewe expressed by the writer.
Jewish newspapers at times have made fun
Miss Kalish was born in Chi-
of the idea of God's grace attending the heads
Sabbath Hagadol (Great Sabbath) Readings of
cago, III., Jan. 15, 1915, daughter
of states, but I have always said there have
the Torah.
of Abraham and Esther Kalish.
been kaisers and kings on whom the grace
Pentatenchal portion—Lev. 6:1-8:36.
Her father is a concert manager.
of God did rest, even if history records weak
Prophetical portion—Mal. 3:4-24.
She was educated at Lawson
and unlucky princes, too.
Readings of the Torah for First Day of Passover.
Grammar School and Marshall
In the name manner the grace of God at-
Tuesday, April 7
High School in Chicago and at-
tends the man whom God has given to our
Pentateuchal portion—Ex. 12:21.51; Numb.
tended the University of Chicago.
people. The grace of God attends our Fuehrer
28:16-25.
She also studied dancing at a pri-
and our glorious movement because our
Prophetical portion—Josh. 3:5-7; 5:6-27.
vate dancing school and attended
Fuehrer, and we with him, took up and con-
Wednesday, April 8
the Goodman Art Theater for one
ducted a struggle for our people from wholly
year.
Readings of the Law foe Second Day of Passover
clean, pure motives.
Pentateuchal portion—Lev. 22:26.23:44; Num.
Later, training came in paro-
chial and high school amateur
28:16-25
The more IIitler is divined, the sooner theatricals. At the age of 13 she
Prophetical portion—II Kings 23:1 (or 4)-9;
must his downfall come, and in many re- appeared in a school performance
21:25.
Chet Hamad Passover Reading. of the Law.
spects those who are posing as his great at the People's Theater in Chicago,
Thursday, Ex. 13:1-16; Friday, Ex. 22:24-23:19. friends may before long lead to Hitler's and met Charles Kenyon Freeman,
was directing a Little Thea-
In addition, Num. 28:19-25 is read on each day.
downfall. Streicher's stupid idealizing of who
ter Group there. Ile told her she
Hitler, and Dr. Wilhelm Zoellner's recent could join his group when she
Nisan
11,
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April 3, 1936
appeal to Christian churches of the world reached the age of 18. When she
to stand with Germany against Bolshevist was 16, howeier, she boldly tried
for the lead in the famous
Russia in the present international crisis out
Yiddish play, "The Dybbuk," but
must in the long run meet with rebuke and played a hand maiden instead. She
Cynics may laugh at us for celebrating ridicule from everywhere.
was coached by Freeman, and
Dr. Henry Smith Leiper, foreign secre- spent two years with the Chicago
Passover as the Festival of Freedom at a
group. When a contest was held
time when there is a predominance of ser- tary of the Federal Council of Churches for Middle-West Little Theaters
of Christ in America, has already termed she played the leading part for
vitude throughout the world.
Dr. Zoellner's appeal "pathetic," and de- Freeman's group which won the
Perhaps such ridicule is the best proof clared that Hitler's "cure" is more likely cup for the third time and she also
of the validity of Passover. Because the to stimulate than to prevent the coming of won a diction medal.
One year later Shaindel Kalish
world is sinking back into a state of de- Communism. He said:
played the leading feminine role
pendence and subservience, we are justi-
in
"Girls in Uniform" at the
Dr. Zoellner's appeal to the churches of
Blackstone Theater in Chicago ,
fied in meeting at the Seder table to re-
the world is pathetic. Ile asks them to honor
and the play ran for 10 weeks
Germany's Nazis for a supposed check to Bol-
call Israel's ancient triumph over the forces
during an otherwise dull theatrical
shevism, but the cure applied by Hitler is
season in that city. Freeman's in-
of oppression in Egypt and to invoke an-
more likely to stimulate rather than to pre-
terest by this time had become
vent the coming of Communism. Ile has
cient memories for assurances that such
more than professional and
adopted practically the whole hateful tech.
he and Miss Kalish were
deliverance shall come again—for Israel
nique of the Russian dictator: Secret police,
united in marriage. Among the
abolition of all ordinary judicial process, con-
and for mankind.
stage successes of Shaindel Kalish
centration camps, absolute control of all means
we find "Girls in Uniform," "Street
The Jewish people will never yield an
of communication and education, and en-
Scene," "The Dybbuk," "Sixteen,"
forced universal military training. In place
iota of the principles which demand un-
"Bride of Torrosco," "We the
of Communism's principle of clam warfare
People" and "Camel Through the
qualified freedom for all, which condemn
he has set up an abhorrent racialism. Instead
Needle's Eye."
of openly opposing religion, as do the Reds, he
slavery, which sound the rallying call to
Miss Kalish's success on the
has sought to emasculate it, prostituting it to
mankind to shatter the shackles of tyranny.
stage was duplicated on the radio
the purposes of a state which brings back
and she is well known for her ap-
Jews in many lands may be slaves to
brutal barbarism.
pearances in "Grand Hotel,"
The churches of the world do not like Com-
government of oppression •while they ob-
"Eyes of Youth," "First Nighter,"
munism. They hail any movement that offers
"Lights Out" and other outstand-
serve the Festival of Freedom. But they
a permanent cure for its insidious inroads,
ing programs. Universal talent
but
they
do
not
like
Ilitlerism
either.
They
refuse to abandon hope that freedom will
scouts gave her a screen test in
recoil when they hear a churchman like Dr.
Chicago and engaged her as a con-
once more ring for all peoples as well as
Zoellner extol the brutality of ilitlerism as a
tract player. Her husband also
bulwark to the religion of Jesus Christ.
themselves throughout the world.
signed
as a dialogue director.
The churches of the world are not in sym-
Besides her ability and accom-
pathy with Dr. Zoellner or with his associates
plishments
as an actress, Shaindel
in compromise. They do honor and revere
is a talented pianist, plays tennis,
brave men and women in Germany who stand
rides
horsebacks,
swims and is an
out gainat the church policy of their govern-
avid reader, her interest centering
The adoption of a quota of $322,575.00
ment. These are the real barriers to both
in stage history of plays and con-
Communism and Ilitlerism.
for the forthcoming Allied Jewish Cam-
temporary Russian literature.
paign spells more than responsibility; it
We are confident that no matter how ROAMING AROUND
is even more than what we call usually a long it may take to see the downfall of HOLLYWOOD
Binnie Barnes has temporarily
challenge to the Jewish community. This Hitlerism, that the end of such reaction given up her proposed six weeks
will
be
brought
about
by
self-respecting
vacation
in London and will re-
year's campaign, by virtue of the fact that
main in California until after she
for the first time in the history of co-ordi- humanity.
attends the world premiere of her
new picture in Sacramento,
nated fund-raising efforts, includes every
Arthur Kober's latent novel
conceivable element of Jews in Detroit,
"Thunder Over the Bronx," has
On the occasion of the recent observ- been
adapted for radio presenta-
with the exception only of the small group
ance of Purim, the London Jewish Chron-
and if developments continue
of Communists, makes the demand upon icle published a poem by Maurice Meyers tion,
at their present rapid pace, one
Detroit Jews, to prove decisively whether under the title "Carnival" which is a of the major broadcasting systems
put it on the air shortly. Mr .
the co-ordination of Jewish community ef- touching commentary on the position of will
Kober is now in Hollywood work-
the Jews in many countries throughout the ing on a screen play.
forts is truthfully desired.
of her fine performance
So varied is the appeal currently made world today. The London poet mingles Because
Al Jolson's new picture, 7-year
by the Allied Jewish Campaign that it is sentiments of suffering and joy in the fol- in
old Sybil Jason has been signed
difficult to conceive how any Jew who is lowing verse:
to star in a Warner Bros. two
reel novelty.
concerned with the future of his people
Let us make merry carnival and laugh
JACK
BENNY SIGNED
and with the security of his kinsmen can
tike madmen who to mocking skies upraise
Jack Benny is expected to sign
possibly refuse to make a liberal contribu-
Their gibbering mirth which their mind's void
a
contract
in New York calling
betrays.
tion.
for the famous radio comedian's
The glimmering golden goblet let us quaff
Only a short time remains before the
appearance
in
one of the most im-
With wormwood filled, and drain it to the
portant pictures on Paramount
campaign will actually begin and it is
ends,
Studio's schedule for 1936. Benny
And fill again with gall and toast our friends
high time that the planning should be done
is expected to begin work in Hol-
Who revel with us in our roundelays.
not only by the volunteer workers but also
lywood in three months. Arthur
And let us dance and show our crippled feet
by the contributors themselves. Those who
Kober is one of two authors as-
And bleeding backs. The tambour's blatant
signed to do the original story
suffer can't wait - until relief is brought
beat
outline for Benny's next film.
to them, and the oppressed must be given
And clanging cymbals drown our jocund cries.
Isadore Bernstein has written
'Tis carnival! A dull dog 'tin who dies
the assurance of an united world Jewry
an original story for Buck Jones'
On such a jovial feast-day, hungering—
standing back of them and ready to de-
next
Universal picture.
The while we others wanly jest and sing,
Honoring A. H. Friedland
Tidbits from Everywhere
Reproduction in part or whole forbid-
den, without permiesion of the Bevan
Art. rector. /Syndicate, Copyrightsn of
this fnturs,
The Campaign Quota ,
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THE SACRIFICE
By LOUIS PEKARSKY
The Festival of Freedom
'
Strictly
Confidential
were given the right to own land.
Certainly, the establishment of
ORT was propitious. From every
standpoint, then, it seemed desir-
able to divert as many Russian
Jews as possible from ranks of
shopkeepers, petty tradesmen and
peddlers to the productive status
of workers and farmers. Accord-
ingly, the ORT established a con-
siderable number of Russian Jews
in agricultural colonies in South.
ern Russia and put thousands of
others in trade schools which It
founded in important Jewish cen-
ters. That its agricultural col-
onies were ■ success is evidenced
by the fact that they survived all
the storms of the pogroms under
the Czarist regime as well as the
hurricane of the blood curdling
massacres of the Petlura bands In
1919. That an eque' degree of suc-
cess was achieved by the ORT with
its trade schools also is amply de-
monstrated by the fact that their
graduates proved the equals of
their Gentile neighbors who had
much longer terms of wheeling
and under much more favorable
coaditions.
But, It was not until after the
World War that the full strain-
canes of the ORT was yea Iced,
and then not only by the Rusalan
Jews but by the Jews of the entire
world. It was then, that we first
heard talk of constructive relief.
It was then. that there was born
• realisation that Jews must be
helped in the lands In whkh they
lived — that Immigration was no
longer the prime solution of the
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The wood is net ablaze, the pit is covered, and
the Paschal Lamb will be roasted whole in this
primitive oven in accordance with the Law of
Moses. •
Now there is a lull in the proceedings. The
high priest has retired into his tent. The old
high priest used to tell me of his adventures in
the British Museum, of his interviews with
Haham Dr. Caster, of the sale of ancient Samari-
tan manuscripts.
For this once mighty people has dwindled
into a handful of poor beggars, not Arabs and
not Jews, in a country where everyone must be
either Arab or Jew. This once might people has
become a show people, attractive because they
are like a Genizah fragment, rare, peculiar, a
page out of a lost book. And their days are
numbered.
Commencing Story of the Exodus
One hour before midnight. The Samari-
tans emerge from their tents; that is to say,
the men. The women remain concealed in their
tents. Slowly, in twos and threes, they walk
towards the pit where the lambs are being
roasted. The earthen cover is removed and out
of the pit comes blinding smoke, making the
eyes water and the throat choked. The smoke
races away and is lost. One by one the roasted
lambs are hauled out of the pit and carried far
away to a spot where they are cleaned and
those parts removed and burned in the manner
prescribed in Leviticus. Then the share of the
priests is carved out of every lamb and made
ready for these dignified Cohanim . .
As midnight approaches the tense excitement
which has been felt since the pit was opened
becomes more and more obvious, The last
part of the mystical rites of Passover are about
to be performed. Every Samaritan feels him-
self to be the last link in a long chain which
stretches back to the days when Israel was a
pastoral people and the sheep the main source
of his wealth. So excited and beside them-
selves have they become that they cannot be
questioned or talked to any more. The spec-
tators may watch but in silence.
One quarter of an hour to midnight.
A going and coming to and from the tents.
Here a basketfull of matzos—not crisp and stiff
like the matzos of the rest of the world. Soft,
limp, like the pitta of the Arabs. Enormous,
each one the size of four of ours ... The matzos
are placed in the enclosure and the older men
squat on their haunches on the ground . . .
Then bitter herbs . . And then, in a hushed
silence, come the lambs.
No knives. No forks. Each man thrusts for-
ward his hand, tears off a mouthful of the
sacred meat and eats with a haste that is in-
credible. But not a scrap may be left over
after midnight. It is so written. Another hand-
ful, a piece of matzo, a handful of bitter herbs
. . . Then each sucks his fingers . . . The sheep
are consumed. The Paschal sacrifice has been
duly performed. Midnight.
And now commences the story of the Exo-
dus from Egypt. Hour after hour it continues.
Wierd words, wierd chants, but the magnificent
old story of a slave people carried to freedom
on eagle's wings loses none of its hold in these
surroundings. The mountain itself. The mad-
dening moonlight. The mystery mummers
dressed in white. The mountain of curses shad-
owed on the other side of the town. A language
lost and a people breathing its last.
I walk in a dream down the hill. My chauf-
feur is fast asleep. I wake him from his dreams
and he says, "You cannot see a thing like that
in England." "No," I repeat after him, "You
cannot see a thing `i'se that in England."
As I drive past Ramallah of the Arabs there
are no more stars in the sky, as I rush through
Ataroth the Jewish farmer in leaving his house
to milk the cows and as I reach Jerusalem the
sun rises, bathing in light the most magical city
in the world.
Passover's Ideal Is
Religious Freedom
Although the ORT-JDC deal
was begun quite a few months ago,
Zionists will say that it was a
strategic move to get more money
from • community chest for the
JDC . . . This because the ORT
money from the community chest
will go automatically to the JDC
. One of the outstanding Zion-
ists explains privately that the
parity issue between the UPA and
the JDC is no issue at all .. .
Every Jewish community must re-
tain its freedom to decide where it
wants its money to go and if the
JDC has more influence in some
community chests it is only logical
that it should try to get as much
as it can, is the way this Zionist
puts it ... Incidentally many peo-
ple are very curious to know who
will be Meer's Rotheaberg's suc-
cessor as prexy of the Zionist Or-
ganization . . . It is generally
known that M. R. pledged himself
at the last Atlantic City conven-
tion not to be a candidate in 1936
. The New York Zionist Club,
headed by M. Maldwin Fertig,
will issue in the near future a bul-
letin which will carry a number of
articles that will expose the de-
termination of the present Amer-
ican Zionist administration in an
unprecedentedly strong manner ...
The 'strongest candidate for the
Zionist presidency is Rabbi Abbe
Dille! Silver of Cleveland, who
might be persuaded to take a sab-
batical year, we understand, to de-
vote himself to the rebuilding of
the Zionist home ....
PERSONALIA
There are some United States
Senators who, when invited to ad-
dress Jewish gatherings or ban-
quets, charge staggering sums for
expenses . . . Sometimes they ac-
tually have heavy expenses be-
cause they are accompanied by
members of their family and a
retinue of publicity men and brain-
trusters . One of these days
we might publish a list of such
"amateur" speakers.
Lena Goldsmith, who is given
credit for having collaborated with
Edwin Piscator In the dramatic
version of Dreiser's "American
Tragedy," now being presented by
the Group Theater in New York,
was none other than the late wife
of Alfons Goldsmith, who is now
on the faculty of the University in
Exile.
Maurice David, author of "Who
Was Columbus?", tells us that in
Japan the swastika is used as the
emblem ^f houses of prostitution.
... David won a literary prize of
quite a substantial sum from the
Spanish Academy of Literature
for his book on Columbus, but
hasn't got the fare to go to Spain
to collect.
David Lipsky, son of Louis Lips-
ky, the Zionist, is now in the mo-
tion picture game . . . He has
established headquarters in the
Title Guarantee Building of St.
Louis and is waiting for orders
to flow in for the feature film, "The
Land of Promise," which he is
handling.
FAMILY ALBUM
Mrs. Estelle M. Sternberger, ex-
ecutive director of World l'eace-
ways, is receiving maze! tons on
the birth of her second grandson,
Donald Keith Holzman.
Dorman Israel, who has been ap-
pointed chief engineer of the Em-
erson Radio and Television Cor-
poration of New York City, is a
brother of Rabbi Edward Israel
of Baltimore ... And speaking of
relatives Rabbi Morris Lazaron of
Baltimore and Rabbi Abba Hillel
Silver of Cleveland are brothers-
in-law, having married the Hork-
hemmer girls of West Virginia.
JERSEY POLITICS
The appointment of Max Mani-
schewitz of matzoh fame as one of
New Jersey's official delegates to
the convention of the American
Academy of Political and Social
Sciences was the Idea of J. George
Fredman of Jersey City ... Fred-
man, ex-commander-in-chief of the
Jewish War Veterans, is regarded
by many as Governor Hoffman 's
chief brain-truster on Jewish af-
fairs.
Seder Night
Passover Eve on the Banks
The ideal of religious free-
dom will be strengthened in
the hearts of all Jews on Mon-
day evening, April 6, when they
begin their annual observance
of Passover, first festival of
emancipation in the history of
civilization. Comm cmorating
the Exodus of the Israelites
from the bondage of Egypt,
Passover will be observed for
a week among Reform Jews
and for eight days among the
Orthodox Jews.
Passover begins pith the tra-
ditional Seder service which in
Reform homes is held on the
first nights and in Orthodox
homes on the first and second
nights. The father conducts
the service and reads the story
of Israel's successful struggle
to escape the tyranny of Egypt
from a 'Teeml prayerbook
called the "Haggadah." The
company joins in the responsive
reading and in singing the folk-
aonea which accompany the
service.
The Seder service is rich
with ancient customs. Four
cups of wine are symbolic of
God's four promises of redemp-
tion made to Israel as recorded
in Exodus VI; to bring •the
people out of bondage, to de-
liver them from servitude, to
redeem them from all depen-
dence in Egypt, and to select
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of the Rhine
By HEINRICH HEINE
IIEISE, Om tragic German Jewlah poetoim at one ems rewonncell
Judahim only to repent later, when in colic In Purls, nvote a story, •71a15,1
Abnaharn of Itacharoch on the Ithine." In It he tievretiou a pao,otee
the holt.. of Rabbi Abraham on the honks of the Rhine. Today the
Rhinerealm la in the spotlialit of world new.,and the fate of German
Jewry la to a large patent, dependent on the mitt...me of the Stureptsm
political IGO. palate. We prreent Iletnrleh IlIelne•a rwwnrr story of the
'thine a. a historical yet timely document.
As soon as night falls the lady and hurried after strange joys and
of the house kindles the lights, 'honor are moved to their very
lays the cloth, places three of the soul when the old well-known Pes-
flat unleavened cakes in the cen- inch tunes reach their ears.
ter and covers them with a serv-
In a large room of his house
iette. On this she puts six little sat Rabbi Abraham and com-
dishes, each containing symbolical
menced the celebration of the
foods, namely, an egg, lettuce,
Passover eve, in company with
horseradish, a lamb bone and a his relatives and pupils and other
brown mixture of raisins, cinna-
guests. Everything in the room
mon and nuts. At the table the
, was brighter than usual. The
house-father seats himself with all table was covered with
a silk-
his relations and friends and reads embroidered cloth, with golden
to them out of a book of adven- fringe trailing to the ground.
ture called the Haggadah. Its
Pleasantly glittered the little
contents are a strange medley of plates
rt'l with
symbolic
the sayings of the Fathers, Egyp-
so the high
tian wonders, curious stories, din-
;up with wine, goblets upon which
,prayers
es is !sacred subjects alone were
gray-
songs. In the midst of this cele- ;
en. The men sat in black man-
bration a big supper is intro- ,
ties and flat hats with white miffs.
duced, and even during the read-
The women, strangely dressed in
ing, at stated periods, some of glittering stuffs of Lombardy,
the symbolic dishes are tasted
wore
on head and neck their or-
and then a piece of the unleaven-
nsments of gold and pearls, and
ed bread is eaten and four glasses (
the silver Sabbath lamp shed its
of red wine drunk. Lively-sad,
festive light upon the reverent.
serio-jocose and mystic as a fable
yet joyous, faces of young and
is the character of the evening
old. On a raised seat, leaning
feast; the conventional tune In against a cushion of purple vel-
which the Haggadah is read by vet, reclined the Haggadah, and
the house-father and occasionally
icthoth
ir joined in o aces.
re-
repeated by the company, who etpo
hendga
edy
the appointed places.
constitute a sort of choir, sounds The rabbi, too,
was attired in a
se weirdly fervent, so like a moth- gala
dress of stately black, his
er's lullaby and then again so
noble, yet somewhat revere. fea-
briskly enlivening, that even such
tures looked milder than usual,
Jews as have long fallen sway
the lips smiled out of his brown
from the faith of their fathers
(PLEAD TORN TO NETT PA01)
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