IfiEVEMOITAWISII a) RON lag April 3, 1936 and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE telt Deritoryi kwisn el RON ICLE and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE Published Weekly by The Jewlah Chronicle Poisliallag Co. Inc. Entered a. Becond-clue matter March 8, 1916, at the Post. GM. at Detroit, Mich, under the At of March 1, 1819. General Offices and Publication Building 525 Woodward Avenue T.I.ebon.: Cadillac 1040 Cable Address: Chronicle Loud. Moe 14 Stratford Place, London, W. 1, England n. 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. less a true one, because throughout our tl al ; tr in ht s the to; sea tut fay f th th RA a to Dr ha is Ra lay bar A at 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. 1536. seven A,10 5', lore syndlcetel 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. a 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, 5696 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 , a 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 (PLEASE TURN TO NEXT PAGE) 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 (ruses: TURN '0 NEXT PAGE) 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) V