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She works and writes and lives
led to Iladassah and Zion, Juda- freed from the shackles that a
more material civilization would
ism and Jerusalem.
have sought to set upon her.
Even as • woman to her loser se's:
"My mother I hale known since I was Jessie Sampter, groping and seek-
barn,
ing a formula of life, finds the
But you I knew ten thousand )ears answer in her little commune
ago."
Even so I my to you, dear land I never where the body labors and where
knew ...
the soul is free, Perhaps In larger
"Neat }ear," I say, "neat 500, Jerusa-
measure than we realize, the hap-
lem!"
Seekint. your sorrow fur my well-con• piness of Civet Brenner reflects
the human qualities of Jessie
Your nnclentness for my eternal youth.
Sampter.
I remember Jessie Sampter's wpm. sime I send? said the Lord.
rue, not met
arrival in Jerusalem in 1919. The oNot
1 am weary to death,
journey, arduous beyond descrip- I am outof breath,
I see no reward.
tion in those days, took its toll of Not mel"
her delicate body and she lay If you are weary, sImp. sleep.
LIFE
in connection with the Hebrew
Schools. Dr. Joseph Datt and E.
M. Edelstein, secretary of the He-
brew Teachers' Union, presided
over the sessions.
Urea "Teachers' Guide"
To put the program into ef-
fect, the conference urged upon
the J. N. F. administration to
publish, under the auspices of its
youth department, a "Teachers'
Guide" as a manual containing
sample curricula and material
adopted and classified for this
purpose. "The Hebrew Educators'
Conference recognizes the realiza-
tion of Zionism and the creation
in Palestine of • healthy Jewish
SHEVUOTH SERMONS
AT SHAAREY ZEDEK
Topics Announced by Rabbi
Hershman for Sunday
and Monday
/ At the Shevuoth services at
Congregation Shaarey Zedek, Dr.
A. M. Hershman will deliver the
following sermons:
On Sunday morning he will
speak on the topic: "A Message
for Parents and Children." On
Monday morning his topic will be
"A New Offering."
FRANKLIN LETTER
.REVEALS HE URGED
U. S. AS ASYLUM
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ts.
hearty for my age and hope to
live to see the end of these
troubles and our country estab-
lished in Freedom, when it will
soon become great and glorious
by being the asylum of all the
oppressed in Europe and the re-
sort of the wealthy who love
liberty from all parts of this
continent, to establish themselves
and families among us.
My love to cousin Grace and
believe me ever
Your affectionate uncle
H. FRANKLIN."
Jonathon Williams, the nephew,
was a Boston merchant who served
in the armies of Washington as a
soldier during the war of the
revolution.
Auditor-General's Duties Ex-
plained on Jewish Hour
By Geo. T. Gundry
Explaining in detail the duties
of the auditor-general's office,
George T. Gundry, Michigan's
auditor-general, delivered an in-
teresting address on Hyman Alt-
man's Jewish Radio Hour over
Station WMBC, last Sunday.
Digressing for a moment before
touching upon his subject, the
Auditor-General paid a tribute to
the Jewish community for their
efforts in behalf of the Allied
Jewish Campaign. "The other
peoples of the world can well take
a lesson from Jews in the true
meaning of brotherly love, charity
and benevolence," he stated. He
also extended his best wishes to
the community for the success of
the drive.
"There is a wide diversification
and many types of administration
within the department," said Mr.
Gundry. "We are an auditing,
tax-collecting and record-keeping
division and I value this oppor-
tunity to explain just what some
of these duties are."
The Auitor-General then pro-
ceeded to point out the functions
of these various divisions and
concluded by saying, "If I, or any
employee of my department can
ever be of any assistance to you
we would consider it a favor to
have you call on us."
Hearing Before Royal Commis-
sloe Completed
LONDON. — (WNS-Palcor
Agency)—The Royal Commission
on Palestine ended its many
months of hearings with a private
session at which evidence was
given by Earl Lytton, Lord Lloyd
and David Lloyd-George, who was
Prime Minister of England when
the Balfour Declaration was b-
ased.
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people as the central and tower-
ing ideal of our generation which
is capable of serving as the guid-
ing line in the educational pro-
gram of the Hebrew School. The
conference recognizes the Keren
Kayemeth as an educational me-
dium which is capable of kindling
the imagination of the American
Jewish youth and implanting in it
love for Palestine, love for na-
ture, love for productive labor
and a realization for the depart-
ure from the modes of life in the
Diaspora," the resolution de-
clared.
The conference also urged the
publication in Hebrew and Eng-
lish, by the Jewish National Fund,
of a magazine for school youth.
Recommend Sefer Ha'Yeled In-
scriptions for Graduates
The conference, which will
henceforth be known as Hebrew
Educators' Council for the Jew-
ish National Fund, also adopted
a resolution recommending to He-
brew Schools the awarding of Se-
fer lia'Yeled inscriptions as prizes
for graduates who gain distinction
in scholastic attainments.
The following were unanimous-
ly chosen as members of the com-
mittee to direct the work of the
Itebrw Educators' Council: A.
Aaroni, E. Altman, Harry Apple-
man, J. Bin-Nun, Dr. Joseph Datt,
E. M. Edelstein, N. Finkel, Leon
Karni, Miss Julia Kirshenbaum,
Miss Leah Kleiman, M. Moshevits-
ky, J. Resiberg, Simcha Rubin-
stein, Pincus B. Soler and Morris
Weintreb,
SHAVUOTH.
CURIOSITIES
(CONCLUDED from EDITORIAL PAGE)
You'll never guess, so we might
as well tell you: He receives
a bath—water is poured upon
him, or he is taken to the river
and thrown in I I !
THE CHRISTIAN SHEVUOTH
Our non-Jewish friends also
have their Pentecost. They us-
ually call it Whitsunday, and
they observe it on the seventh
Sunday after Easter. This
day commemorates the descent
of the Holy Ghost upon the
Apostles—an event which, ac-
cording to the New Testament,
occurred on the Jewish festi-
val 'Sheyuoth.
In France this holiday used
to be observed in a manner
that reminds us of our Rosh
Hashonah: During services
trumpets were blown, to recall
the sound of the mighty wind
which accompanied the descent
of the Holy Ghost.
JEWISH "CHRISTMAS TREES"
It was once customary to have
trees in the home and syna-
gogue on Shevuoth. It is in-
teresting to know that the Gaon
of Vilna, the greatest Talmud-
ist East European Jewry pro-
duced, was opposed to this cus-
tom and strove to abolish it
He objected to the practice be-
cause the non-Jews were accus-
tomed to set up trees on their
own Pentecost.
OUR HISTORY LESSON
The famous historian Joseph-
us tells us that when Antiochus
Sidetes of Syria marched with
his ally Hyrcanus against the
Parthians, way back in 129
B. C. E., there were two suc-
cessive days when the armies
did not move. This was due
to the fact that the Jewish ruler
Hyrcanus refused to travel on
those two days—the first day
being Sabbath, and the second
Pentecost ... It is related that
when the bloodthirsty Crusad-
ers entered the city of Cologne
on Shevuoth in 1096 an earth-
quake occurred. This they in-
terpreted as a sign that God
approved of their acts, and con-
sequently their determination
to destroy the Jews became
stronger . . . On the second
day of Shevuoth, 1749, the fa-
mous Count Potozki, the Pol-
ish nobleman, who became a con-
vert to Judaism, was burned at
the stake. His mother and
friends tried to persuade him
to give up his Judaism, but he
refused—and so he died a mar-
tyr to the faith he had learned
to love go dearly. Count Poto-
ski was pardond by the king,
but unfortunately the royal
pardon arrived too late to save
him.
more and more Orthodox Jews to
become permanent and good
standing members in any of De-
troit's synagogues."
David J. Cohen, president of
the synagogue, is the general
chairman of the membership cam-
paign. There are five divisions
with the following acting as chair-
In this latest volume of Miss
Sampter's verse as in all her
works, her poetry, like her life,
is replete with ideals of humanity,
peace, devotion. Here is no more
delight in words nor merely the
mind, defiant of the constraint
of human speech, seeking self-
made harmonies. Her lines are of
the simplest, her words describe
of the household, the garden and
the children's lives. In the humbl-
est occupations of the hands and
the feet, in digging and toiling,
cleaning and scrubbing, playing
and dancing, Jessie Sampter sees
the poetry and the joy of life—
Jewish life.
EDUCATORS FORM COUNCIL TO FURTHER
WORK OF J. N. F. IN HEBREW SCHOOLS
(CONCLUDED FROM PAGE I)
(CONCLUDED FROM PAGE ONE)
For the hind Is rough and the Aar Is
- bleep,
And tbere' ■ dust and ashes at the
end.
Diet who will to and allotn dual I
wad?
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TEMPLE MAY 17, 21
MISS JESSIE E. SAMPTER
stretched on her bed, alarmingly
weakened. Yet she was full of
happiness that she had reached
Palestine alive.
I have known pain
To Its deep lose,
I have plumbed pain till I could sink
no morel
I wee ,1st down and crushed and rained
again.
I know the limits set to pain.
I have known Joy that mortals call
supreme
Beyond the power of madness or Of
dream.
Shame dances down my thow,
Her dipping knees near drubbing It,
And with the bear, she waves before
leer hands divinely nendibing It.
Now step and sloop now step and whirl
A Weitzel of wester in a swirl.
No made guides Oils ancient rile
Thal moves Itself melodious
And snake. • metrogrueloue eight
Of labor known we odious:
With tender hands and slender fret
She waves the dirt to Ole retreat.
It is often said that artists and
poets recreate the childhood as-
sociations that have moulded them
and to which they pitifully cling
throughout their life. Not so is
In the intense will to national Jessie Sampter's poetry. The
life, she found healing, strength spring and the source of her in-
spiration are to be found in the
and physical resilience.
ache and the joy, the love and
Once when my life was ebbing low with the dreams of peace of Israel.
pain
I went Into the sunshine on a roof
Up In Jerumlem, and lay all cloy
And let the sunshine melt my pain
Clean
aver .
A4
will
my
heart and fervid
as my
. .
The palm abate, the world Is clear and
still.
She won the heart of Jerusa-
lem. It was not long before she
found a companion with whom
to share her home, a vigorous ac-
tive young woman in charge of
the war relief workshops for girls.
It was Leah Berlin.. Miss Berlin
spent her days in creating and
directing work for young girls
and women whom the war had
ravaged. While Leah directed the
machine shop, Jessie, lying flat
on her back, her hands extended
in the air, helped to create the
first toys the children of Jerusa-
lem had after the war. The little
orphans would stuff old stockings
and sew them up and Jessie, with
fingers only partially under con-
trol, would paint charming little
features that turned stuffed old
stockings into beloved dolls.
Though the world might have
seemed shut out of her room.
Jessie always found some way of
injecting her humanity into the
lives of others.
How the miracle happened I
know not, but next I see Miss
Sampter sharing fully the throb-
bing life of Jerusalem as an ac-
tive member of the community.
A wind Is blowing from the moth;
With desert sand It fills my mouth,
But the wind sings and my mouth
sings
Ammo the mountain iteaht;
Jerusalem, Jermalem,
I have found thee, mydelight!
The past le crying inmy fifth,
The future In my brain.
They draw my spirit's tangled mesh
With the universal pain.
111m have men set creation'. myth
Milleniuna nutty?
The God
I must grapple with
Is making me today.
Neu
(CONCLUDED FROM
III
PAGE. ONE)
FOREST'S
sages in medieval Jewish poetry.
4 to Graduate from College
The following four students will
receive teachers' diplomas from the
Beth El College of Jewish Studies
on May 17: Ruth Broder, Shirley
Blumberg, Joseph Strauss, Phyllis
Schoenfield. The certificates will
be awarded by Morris Garvett,
president of the Temple. Dr.
Willard Mayer, chairman of the
Temple school board, will preside.
Dr. Franklin will render the
opening invocation and greetings,
and Rabbi Frain, the director of
the college, will address the grad-
uates, the faculty and the students
of the college on the significance
of the institution. The brief vale-
dictory will be delivered by one of
the graduates, Joseph Strauss, son
of Rabbi Isadore Strauss of Con-
gregation Beth Isaac.
The commencement exercises will
be followed by a reception and
dance in the social hall of the Tem-
ple, under the auspices of the
Temple Sisterhood and the congre-
gation. The public is invited to the
lecture and the reception.
The commencement exercises will
be preceded by a dinner in honor
Of the graduates, and will be at-
tended by the faculty and the Beth
El College alumni.
Beth El College had one of the
most successful season of its career.
It was attended by 910 students.
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men of each division. Ben M.
Gorelick, Division A; William
Hordes, Division B; Louis Please,
Division C; Morris W. Zack, Di-
vision D; Ruben Lo Patin. Di-
vision E. Each division consists
of seven teams headed by cap-
tains.
The captains in Division A are:
M. Wolk, J. Wasserman, Dr. C.
Gitlin, L. Slavin, L. Wexler, S.
Moranz and J. Rottenberg.
Captains in Division B are:
Sid Gorman, I. Rosin, A. Weis-
brat, I Shulman, A: Weisman, J.
Weisman, J. Stein.
The captains in Division C are:
I. Greer. I. Belinsky, S. H. Sott,
I. Mellin, Dr. J. Rottenberg, Dr.
S. S. Wittenberg and B. Brag-
man.
The following are captains in
Division D: G. Grand, H. Rott, S.
Lefton, J. Soverinsky, J. Wino-
kur, I. Burnstein, A. Katzin.
The captains in Division E are:
M. Solomon, D. Rom, S. Ravitz,
M. Gerber, I. Landau, J. Rabin-
owitz and S. Ginsberg.
The Beth El High School grad-
uates completed 12 grades of work
In the religious school of the Tem-
ple, having enrolled there in the
kindergarten of the school at the
age of 4 and having continued their
studies through the high school
period until the approximate age
of 17.
Rabbis Leo M. Franklin and
Leon From will conduct the serv-
ices on May 21. Morris Garvett,
will award the diplomas. Dr.
Mayer will award the special
scholarship medals.
The valedictorian will be Miss
Marcia Wilk, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Benjamin Wilk. The winners
of the scholarship awards are
Bertha Goldhoff, Ruth Kogan and
Virginia Lichtenstein. The medals
are the gift of the Young People's
Temple Club. honorable mention
will be given to Helen hamburger
and Marcia Wilk. The officers of
the class are Martin Lattin, presi-
dent; Helen Hamburger, vice presi-
dent; Sidney Cohn, treasurer;
Shirley Ann Aronsson, secretary.
A special musical program will
be rendered by George Galvani and
the Temple choir. The service will
be followed by a reception in the
social hall of the temple under the
auspices of the Young People's
Temple Club.
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Jessie Sampler's poetry depicts
and expresses the ways of her
heart. It is lyric poetry, with
meaning and message. In her
lines, as in so much of Hebraic
literature, poetry is the hand-
There's talk of a merger between
The High School Graduates
maiden of worship and Service two of New York's leading Re-
The list of graduates Is as fol-
of God.
form temples, both of which are lows:
having trouble meeting their rab-
Shirley Ann Aronsson, Lucille
They have burned to Thee many tapers
bis' salaries ... One of them was S. Dearman, Shirley Bessman,
In many temple.
I born to Them lite taper of my heart. recently very much in the news.
Donald
Canvasser, Irene R. Cohen,
They have sought Thee at many altars,
they have carried lights to And
Sidney L. Cohn, Zelda R. Copley,
Thee:
George Dery, Clara Mildred Edel-
I and Thee In the white are of my her by the cold hand of infantile
Harvey I. Solomon, Harriet Stone,
heart.
paralysis. Yet the soul within her stein, Sam B. Fried, Bertha Gold- Roseann Tenzer, Esther B. Tigay,
hoff, Mark Goldstick, Roslyn
remained
unwarped
and
has
Thus by putting into poetry her found its expression in her poetry Goldstick, Phyllis Jane Green- Jane Betty Unterberger, Evelyn
concepts of life and her knowl-
blatt, Helen R. Hamburger, Victor, Maurice Warfel!, Lillian B.
edge of God, she completes her and her way of life. Though in Elva Hartman, Rose Isovitz, Belle
self-discovery, her fulfillment as humility and longing she closes: R. Jakont, Anna Kilberg, Ruth I. Wetsman, Marcia Helene Wilk,
FINALE
a Jewess. Whether designed for
Kogan, Jean Landau, Martin Lat. Jack Winkler.
peel. Oat In ,stain of speech
children, for youth or for adult Poor
Strive for the silences they cannot reacht tin, Irving S. Lebowitz, Shirley Z.
minds, her poems cling to the
Levenson, Virginia Lichtenstein,
Intimates of Mrs. Wally Simp-
spiritual and religious. It is said
Those who know and those who Louis Lichtig, Jewell D. Prentis, son say that she and the Duke of
that Jessie Sampter as a child read Jessie Sampter. hear a little Gilberts J. Rothstein, Rosalie Windsor speak German when they
was a promising violinist, but the of that silence and share in her Rubenstein, Edwin Salicoff, Phyllis don't want the servants to under-
B. Sandelman, Henry A. Schiffer, stand them.
instrument was wrenched from peace.
Contiibutions to the United
Hebrew Schools
The United Hebrew Schools re-
ceived donations from Mrs. D.
W. Simons and Mr. and Mrs. Na-
than Simons, in memory of Abbe
L. Keidan.
Eddie Cantor, a king of the radio
lanes, will be starred in "His
Arabian Nights", a musical film.
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But it was not Jerusalem, it
was Zion she was seeking. Soon
she left the capital city for the
real life, the life of Palestine
reborn, the Palestine of fields and
sand dunes.
A wind Is blowing from the mot,
My traits are ripe and I stud) leant,
Almond, olive, grape and orange
Across the rolling dunes.
0 Sharon. my Sharon,
I am Mang thee with tunes!
Jessie Sampter made her home
in Rehoboth, the colony that lay
like an island of green in the
Judaean desert plain. She be-
came a militant citizen of Reho-
both, not a visitor, nor yet a resi-
dent, but • servant of her towns-
men. She brought to them the con-
centrated essence of her ideals,
the realization of nobler human
relationships. Thus she sought out
the Yemenites, the apparently dis-
inherited children in the land of
Israel. Because they ask little of
life and get less, Jessie Sampter
cannot forget that they are as of
her very flesh and blood.
Nether Rachel. I taw TAU
MORE TO BUY— AND IT SAVES ME
MORE THAN THAT ON GAS AND OIL"
Sons
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Clothed In lateen and
Ton went to beg roe ene4 of bread
In • long, long line of hags
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fort“
Mother In Mu I love re.
With • love that knowsmet.
no
And the gnawing of your hun gry beast
Tears and eats at my breast .. •
now Is the storied future
That term to the storied past,
Shell I keep your baggaid mother-face
From questioning me et teat
As her answer, her act of faith,
she adopts a little child and
achieves in her life the unity with
her people that her heart longs
for. Jessie Sampter wanted every
aspect of her living to express in
outward beauty and in inner
nobility the Jewish ideal she holds
dear. Her way of life must cor-
respond with her end in life. Her
beautiful, modest home in Reho-
both, where her little girl was
reared and where she played in
the midst of flowers and grass
and trees, was but one more con-
tribution of Jessie Sampter's to
her surroundings. Clinging to the
simplicity that Palestine demands,
she still was able to make her
home a thing of beauty and a
model and standard to follow.
In recent years Jessie Sampter
has moved onward into the reali-
ties of Palestinian life. She left
her home in Rehoboth because it
was the home of an individual. to
settle in Civet Brenner, the home
of the group. There she lives and
toils.
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I tweak the Imset,
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