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America Apish Periodical Cater

CLIFTON ATINUS - CINCINNATI 30, 05110

IN MICHIGAN

THE ONLY ANGLO•JEWISH - NEWSPAPER PRINTED

All Jewish News
All Jewish View:
WITHOUT BIAS

.

and

4



Articles Call Communities of
Jews Harmful to the
Existing State

OFFICIAL SPOKESMAN
DISAVOWS JEW-HATRED

THE LEGAL CHRONICLE

DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY,

Vol. XXXIX No. 3

FASCISTS DEMAND
JEWISH GROUPS IN
ITALY LIQUIDATE

IIRONICLE

PETROIT

War Minister Retains
His Jewish Positions

LONDON (WNS) — Leslie
Hore-Belisha, who was appoint-
ed secretary of war in the new
British cabinet which took of-
fice with Prime Minister Nev-
ille Chamberlain, has announc-
ed that his new office will not
interfere with his membership
on the Board of Deputies of
British Jews. He has also ac-
cepted a place on the new ex-
ecutive of the Spanish and
Portuguese Synagogue.

ORDAIN 8 RABBIS;
SEMINARY AWARDS
12 HONOR DEGREES

Two of Its Surviving Found-
ers at the 50th Con-
vocation

SEEK RABBIS TRAINED
IN SOCIAL SCIENCES

JEWISH STORES IN
Appointment to the Presidency of POLAND LIQUIDATE;
Queens
BOYCOTT SPREADS

college

By DR. MAX WINKLER

EDITO'S
NOTE: Dr. flapper's oppointment as heal 4 ,5 Queens Conran. the
R erred
of New Torii* municipal Delmer, la of especial eignifirunre, for
Dr. Klepper Is the first Jew In America to reach stiCh • lowition.
Mat Winkler, profemor of economies at the College of the City or New
loth. contributes In the Seim Art.. Fertiwe Sy tollwate mot The Detroit,
Ills exclusite article ninth point.. ell infornintite por-
Jew1.11
of Ida retort as a cot-
trait of t h e man hlapper and gives an 01111Ine
k country.
ton.' forte In

(Copyright, Mt Seven Arta rupture Syndicate)

826 Retail Stores in 37 Cit-
ies Affected by Anti-

Semitism

JEW DIES OF INJURY
RECEIVED IN BRZESC

Elsberg Headi the U. S.
Neurological Association

ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.-
(WNS)—Discovery of other-
wise unrecognizable brain tu-
mors by tests utilizing the ef-
fect of pressure by the tumors
on the optic nerve centers of
the brain was reported to the
63rd annual meeting of the
American Neurological Associa-
tion by Dr. Charles A. Elsberg,
famous New York brain sur-
geon, in it paper read for him.
At the close of the convention,
which also heard Dr. Bela Mit-
tleman and Dr. Harold G.
Wolf of New York report that
changes in skin temperatures
are related to emotional dis-
turbances, elected Dr. Elsberg
president of the association.
Dr. Albert S. Hyman, director
of the Witkin Foundation for
the Study and Prevention of
Heart Disease at Beth David
Ilospital in Now York, told the
38th annual meeting of the
American Therapeutic Society
of this development of a fat-
like substance from the hearts
of fish, turtles and other cold-
blooded creatures which revive
the hearts of warm-blooded
animals. The same meeting
also learned from Dr. David
Macht of Baltimore that he
had successfully used cobra
venom to relieve intense pain
from cancer and other malig-
nant diseases.

Us S. MAY DEMAND
GERMAN EVIDENCE
IN HIRSCH CHARGE

Ambassador Dodd May Be
Empowered to Conduct
Investigation

MEMORANDUM PROVES
A FRAMEUP BY NAZIS

Agent Provocateurs Believed
If the students ed
of the College distinguish educator, who on his Col. Wedgewood Asks Eng-
Responsible for Charges
of the City of New York were appointment to the presidency of
land
to
Intervene
for
Against Hirsch
asked to list the contemporary Queens College, New York 'a new-
Polish Jews
est
institution
of
higher
learning,
men and women whose ideas and
words have had a decisive influ- became the first Jew to head an
WASHINGTON, D. C. (WNS)
BULLETIN
ROME (WNS) — Liquidation
American college, has indirectly
—High government circles here
NEW YORK (WNS) — In the ence on the thinking of large mas- but nonetheless decisively done
or radical reorganization of the
The brief trial of Jubka Leib
ses of people they would doubtless
believe
there Is a great likelihood
presence
of
two
of
its
surviving
more than any other man to shape Chatekelewicx, who killed • Po-
Jewish communities throughout
that the United States will In-
founders, Dr. Solomon Solis-Cohen name dictators, radio commenta- the thinking of two generations of lish sergeant in June, 1936,
Italy because they are harmful to
tors, philosophers, politicians,
struct
its
ambassador in Berlin,
and
Dr.
II.
Pereira
Mendes,
the
Fascism and too sympathetic to Awaits Ratification by Or-
newspaper commentators, screen American youth, for there is the murder leading to riots in
William E. Dodd, to undertake a
England is demanded in an ar-
ganizations; Protest the Jewish Theological Seminary of idols, comic strip artists and scien- hardly a single one of the 1,000,000 Minsk.Mazowiec, resulted in his
thorough inquiry Into the arrest,
America brought to a close its semi-
teachers in the United States who
ticle published in La Stamps,
Polish Atrocities
trial, conviction and execution of
centennial celebration with its 50th tists, but probably not Dr. Pau' ,lias not in some degree been af- being sentenced to death. The
Turin daily owned by Senator
21-year-old Helmuth Hirsch, the
annual convocation at which eight Klepper, dean of the school of Tected by his scholarship and defense attorney pleaded insan-
Giovanni Angellis, president of
ity as the cause of the mur-
education at City College. Yet this
American Jew who was beheaded
A
proposed
constitution
for
the
new
rabbis
were
ordained
and
writings. To the layman Dr. Klap- der, but the court declared that
the Fiat automobile and airplane
in Berlin after his conviction on
per's life story offers little that is Chatekelewicx was influenced
company. More bitter than most Jewish Community Council of De- honorary degrees conferred upon
a charge of having allegedly plan-
12
distinguished
Jewish
and
non-
exciting or dramatic, but wherever by Jewish leaders and the Jew•
of the other anti-Jewish articles troit was adopted by spokesmen for
ned to assassinate a high Nazi
Jewish
scholars.
The
exercises
Detroit's
Jewish
organizations
at
there
are
schools
and
teachers
in
that have recently appeared in
ish press. The case will be ap•
official by dynamite. Officials of
were
also
marked
by
the
conferring
this country his books and treatises pealed to • higher court.
the Fascist press, La Stampa'a at- the conference held Sunday after-
the state department said that
of
one
degree
of
Doctor
of
Hebrew
noon
at
the
Jewish
Community
as
well
as
his
students
contribute
tack charged Italian Jews with
Secretary of State Hull would
letters in behalf of the rabbinical
vitally to the intellectual advance-
using their religious freedom to Center.
WARSAW (WNS) — The na-
undoubtedly empower Ambassa-
college,
18
bachelors'
degrees
and
ment of America.
Seated at long tables in parlia-
create Jewish "racism" through
tion-wide anti -Jewish boycott
dor Dodd to. renew his efforts to
; The essentials of his biography caused the liquidation of 826 Jew-
"subtle means, thereby endeavor- mentary fashion, each delegate was 21 certificates and professional
diplomas
in
behalf
of
the
associa-
obtain • copy of the charges
Elected President of Local are soon told. Born in Rumania ish owned retail establishments in
ing to estrange themselves into provided with a copy of the con-
ted
Teachers'
Institute,
the
Semi-
against Hirsch, who died despite
years
ago,
he
was
seven
when
pc
stitution,
and
the
opportunity
for
a national bloc." This "racism,"
Organization; Plans Edu-
37 towns and cities, it was re-
nary
College
of
Jewish
Studies
the last minute effort of the
he landed in New York City. His ported in the Polish anti-Semitic
La Stampa said, is growing espe- an open and most democratic dis- and the Israel Friedlaender Exten-
cational
Program
American embassy to get him re-
father
was
a
jack-of-all-trades
but
cially among youth groups which cussion of the proposed rules was sion Classes. Speakers were Dr.
press. Commenting on this fig-
prieved. At no time were Ameri-
withal a man who knew the value ure, the papers point out that
are supposed to have only a reli- extended all representatives.
Cyrus
Adler,
president;
Felix
M.
can officials permitted to know
f
learning.
The
younger
Klepper
Lawrence W. Crohn was elected if
gious character, and warned that
Changes were adopted in the con-
Dr. Herman Abramo- president of the Zionist Organiza- ttended the elementary and high "this is only a drop in the ocean
the exact nature of the charges
ultimately they might be convert- stitution, one of them providing for Warburg,
with what is yet to
m
witz
of
the
Shear
Hashomayim
against Hirsch.
ed into groups sympathetic with action in important instances by Synagogue, Montreal, and Prof. tion of Detroit at the annual chools of New York City and then come."
.
ntered
City
College.
lie
was
meeting
held
in
the
social
hall
of
England. In that event, La majority vote rather than the two- Louis Finkelstein, assistant to the
An echo of the Minsk-Mazo-

Prove • Frameup
Among his
Congregation Shaarey Zedek on raduated in 1904.
Stamps declared, the 100,000 thirds vote which was originally
'PRAGUE (WNS) — A nine-
the president.
classmates was Or. Frederick B. wise pogrom of June 1, 1936,
Jews of Italy, Tripolis and Ethi- proposed.
The
eight
newly-ordained
rabbis
point
memorandum
which
proves
Realization That Pupils Can
Robinson, now president of City injured
in which
100
Jews were
opia would be more pro-British
The constitution of the new Com- were Arthur T. Buch and Israel
and nearly
serious
damage
done
that Helmuth Hirsch was the vic-
College. After pursuing post- to Jewish
than pro-Italian.
munity Council is to become effect-
property in an out- Master Curriculum in Less tim of a Nazi frameup has been
of New York City; Aaron
graduate work at New York Uni- burst of rioting that followed the
At the same time virtually the ive as noon as one-third of the or- Chodos
Time Prompts Change
A. Decter, Pittsburgh; Jesse J.
prepared here by his friends. His
versity
and
the
University
of
Wis-
entire Fascist press published an ganizations which participated in Finkle, Philadelphia; Meyer S.
of Jan Buiak, a Polish
friends also Insist that Hirsch's
consin, Klepper became a teacher slaying
article declaring that former plans for the formation of the Kripke, Toledo; Sidney Riback,
cavalryman, by Jubka Leib Chats-
last letter to his parents, written
NEW
YORK
—Transformation
in the New York public schools. kelewicz, a 21-year-old feeble
Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin Council has signified in writing to
a few hours before his death and
Brooklyn;
Reuben
A.
Slomon,
Win-
In
1911
his
alma
mater
invited
of
Talmudical
Academy,
only
full-
of England owed his success to the Council secretary their adher- nipeg, and Benjamin H. Tumim,
minded
Jew,
was
heard
here
as
hint to join its faculty, and he was the latter went on trial for mur- course high school in America un- which has been received here. was
the backing of Jewish bankers in ence to it. A provisional organiza- Bronx. Dr. Henry Sloane Coffin,
not written of his own volition.
associated
with
City
College
from
London. Baldwin repaid the tion committee will then' provide president of the Union Theological
der. Although alienist have tes-
that time on. For five years he tified that the accused is men- der Jewish auspices, from a four- This letter says, among other
Jews, the article alleged, by help- for the selection of representatives Seminary, received the degree of
year
secondary
school
to
one
pos-
things, that his fate was due to
directed
the
summer
session.
Later
ing Leon Blum become premier and for the convening of the first Doctor of Sacred Theology. Doc-
incompetent and not respon-
"persons who exploited me In a -
he co-operated with Dr. Stephen tally
of France.
meeting of the Council.
sible for his actions, the authori- sessing a three-year curriculum thoughful, irresponsible manner."
torates
of
Hebrew
Letters
were
Duggan
in
establishing
the
first
Disavows Anti-Semitism
A resolution was adopted pro- conferred upon Dr. Adolph Bueh-
ties insist on trying him. The prompted by "the realization that and that although he mistrusted
extension
division
to
be
opened
in
At the same time, however, viding that "invited organizations
k municipal college. , Over a period leaders of the Pogrom mob were intelligent pupils can master or- those persons he permitted him-
official responsibility for the anti- ratifying the constitution by the ler, principal of Jews College, Lon-
April and acquitted.
dinary high-school studies in less self to be misled. Ills friends
Dr. Israel Efros, University
[ f 10 years he was secretary of tried last least
Semitic utterances in such promi- time of the first meeting of the don;
two score Polish time than the average student," further claim that the fact that
At
of
Buffalo
professorial
lecturer
in
:tension courses for teachers at
nent Fascist newspapers as 11 Council shall be considered as Semitics; Dr. Ismer Elbogen, pres-
Jews
are
reported to have re-
pity
College.
Ten
years
later
he
was announced by Dr. . Bernard Hirsch's body was cremated with-
Popolo d'Italia, II Tevere and Re- charter members of the Council. ident of the Union of Jewish Liter-
rganized City College's school of ceived Palestine visa. from the Revel, president of Yeshiva College, out his family's permission was
gime Fascist*, is disavowed by Thereafter, any organization de- ary Societies in Germany; Judge;
British consulate in Warsaw
due to the Nazis' desire to destroy
ducation.
Until
his
appointment
the Italian government, through Hiring to become a member shall Irving Lehman, president of the
acted at the behest of Amsterdam Ave. at 186th St. The the evidence ,of his having been
0 the presidency of Queens Col- which
an official spokesman, who de- make application in accordance Jewish Welfare Board; Lucius ht.
King George VI in response to change will go into effect at the brutally beaten during the months
lege
ha
was
dear;
of
this
school
clared that these articles reflect with the provisions laid down in Littauer, philanthropist; Dr. Is-
appeal conveyed to him by
he spent in prison.
and head of the department of an
only the personal opinions of the the constitution." - - -
the Warsaw rabbinate In its opening of the fall semester.
rael Levi, chief rabbi of France;
The nine - point memorandum
education.
editors of the papers and do not
The academy, which is currently
The conference also adopted a Dr. Duncan B. MacDonald, profes-
coronation greetings.
Influence
Among
,Teachers
His
have government support in any resolution expressing its appreci- sor emeritus of Semitic languages
celebrating the 20th anniversary of points out that: 1.—Hirsch en-
The
Brzesc
pogrom
of
May
13
During the two decades and
its founding, is the preparatory tered Germany on a passport
way. Apparently prompted by the ation of the fine work of Simon at Hartford Theological Seminary;
more that he taught at City Col- claimed its first direct Jewish fa- school for Yeshiva College, the only visaed by German consular au-
recent warning of II Popolo d' Shetzer, chairman of the 'meeting, Dr. Julius Morgenstern, president
lege virtually every teacher in tality when Baruch Silberberg, 43 institution of liberal arts and sci- thorities in Prague who would
Italia, Mussolini's organ, to Ital- and William Boxerman, executive of the Hebrew Union College; Dr.
New York's schools felt his influ - years old, died in a Warsaw hos-
have permitted him to leave
ian Jews to break with Zionism secretary, for his painstaking re-4 Moses Schori, chief rabbi of War-
in the world under full Jew- not
ence, either as his student or pital of injuries received in the ences
Czechoslovakia if they suspected
and halt their opposition to Nazi search in the preliminary work for
ish auspices.
pogrom.
saw;
and
Dr.
Harry
A.
Wolfson.
through
his
books.
The
number
of
him
of planning the death of a
LAWRENCE W..CROHN
racial theories or forfeit Italian the formation of the Council.
Students at the academy In addi- Nazi leader; 2—Illrsch, who fled
Slayer to Be Tried June 15
professor of Jewish literature at
(PLEASE TURN TO PAGE Si
citizenship and residence. the gov-
At the conclusion of the confer. Harvard. Dr. Louis lit Epstein of Wednesday evening. Mr. Crohn
A special government commis- tion to the regular high-school from Germany when the Nazis
ernment spokesman asserted that ence the delegates adopted a reso- Congregation Kehillath Israel, Bos- succeeds Dr. Harry E. August.
sion has been dispatched to Brzesc curriculum carry a full load of came to points could not
the "Jewish problem is non-exist- lution in which was incorporated a ton, was given the degree of Doctor
to investigate the failure of the Hebraic studies, including Talmud, have returned to the Reich if the
Other officers were elected as fol-
ent in Italy". and emphasized that statement --of grievances against
local police to protect the Jewish linguistics and Jewish history.
lows: Abraham Cooper, Dr. David
of Divinity.
Nazi secret police were not Inter-
Mussolini had changed the laws of Poland. This statement follows:
population and its property dur-
H.
Fauman
and
Judge
Charles
At the same time, Dr. Shelley ested in getting him there; 3—His
Rabbinical Assembly Conclave
Delegate. of 180 Jewish organisa-
Libya to accord civil rights to the tionsof
ing the violent pogrom of May R. Saflr, principal of the academy, visa identified him as "a state-
Detroit, with au aggregate
Voicing vigorous opposition to Rubiner, vice presidents; Dr. Ber-
Jews of that colony.
membership of 40,000. amembled In
13. The departure of the com- announced that the class-load per less Jew," hence he could not
complete secularization of Jew- nard Friedlaender, lecretary; Louis
"The articles which have ap- conference at the Jewish Community the
mission coincided with a report teacher would be cut down from have obtained the visa unless
ish life, Rabbi Jacob Kohn, presi- Robinson, treasurer; Mrs. Albert
4PLEASE TURN TO LAST PAGE)
peared in the newspapers are the
from Brzesc that the authorities 40 to 30 pupils per class, represent.
dent of the Rabbinical Assembly Feldstein, executive secretary.
were persons who wanted
personal opinions of their edi-
Popularization of Joint For- there had fixed June 15 for the ing a reduction of 25 per cent. there
of America, told the 37th annual
hint to get it; 4—When the Ger-
New Executive Board
tors and do not have government
opening of the trial of Isaac
eign
Committee
Turned
convention of the organization of
man
customs
authorities exam-
The
following
were
elected
new
It
was
also
announced
that
the
support in any way," the spokes-
Czerbovski, the Jewish butcher's official name of Talmudical Aca- ined his baggage at the Czech-
Conservative rabbis that the rab- members of the executive board:
Down by 120-74 Vote
man said. "The Italian govern-
son, whose slaying of a Polish demy will become Yeshiva College German border they found no
bis
must
themselves
"be
prepared
A.
C.
Lappin,
Gus
D.
Newman,
ment remains absolutely neutral
policeman precipitated the po- High School starting In the fall.
to take over many of the functions Irving Blumberg, Daniel G. Cul-
dynamite but err his arrest in
in this matter. The recent article
LONDON (WNS) — Proposed grom. Nissan Berg, 50, a Jew-
Suttgart dynamite was allegedly
Rabbi Leon Fram of Temple which the Jewish community now len, Meyer R. Katz, Maurice Lan-
in Popolo d'Italia was not an
democratization
of
the
Joint
For-
ish merchant of Brzesc, died of
found is his belongings, indicat-
official expression of opinion Beth El sailed for Europe on the delegates to lay social workers, or dau, harry Rosman and Lacy 51.
dim
Committee,
which
has
acted
injuries
received
in
the
pogrom.
at
least
must
be
able
to
guide
these
ing it was planted on him; 5—It
against the Jews either by the Queen Mary Wednesday, June 9.
Becker.
for many years in foreign affairs Ile was the second fatality.
workers
in
their
activities
by
show-
would have been insane for any
r
the
govern-
He
has
joined
a
delegation
of
Following
is
a
list
of
the
mom•
o
Itself
newspaper
in
behalf
of
the
Anglo-Jewish
As-
Meanwhile,
Jewish
members
of
one plotting an assassination be
ment. The article in question young
rabbis who have set out ing that we are familiar with the bets who were re-elected for the sedation and the Board of Depu-
y
the Sejm were preparing for a
(PLEASE TURN TO LAST PAGE)
problems
that
confront
them
and
visit
the
countries
of
eastern
to
executive
board:
Maurice
Aron-
few of a book already
ties of British Jews, was turned parliamentary debate on the con-
the techniques that are necessary
three months old and expressed and central Europe and to sur- for their solution." Cautioning that Brion, Maxwell L. Black, Harry Co- down by the Board of Deputies duct of the Brzesc authorities.
vey
the
situation
of
the
Jewish
hen, Mrs. Joseph H. Ehrlich, Clar-
the opinion of the reviewer."
the so-called pastoral work of the ence H. Enggass, Rabbi Leon Fram, at the first meeting since its last The debate was authorized when
MONTS, France (WNS) — A
people in those states.
(PLEASE TURN TO PAGE I)
London Jewish barber and . the
The group consists, in addition rabbi may deteriorate "to that of Fred A. Ginsburg, Bernard Isaacs, election when a report of a spec-
Baron and Baroness Eugene de
to Rabbi Fram, of Rabbi Ferdi- a tea-drinking. cake-eating minis- Abe Kasle, Joseph Kirschmann, ial committee to inquire into the
constitution and functions of the
(PLEASE TURN TO LAST PAGNI
Rothschild of Vienna were among
nand Isserman of St. Louis, Rabbi
Leon Kay, Dr. Sol Q. Kessler, Dr. Joint
Foreign Committee was re-
the select few persons who wit-
Louis Binstock of Chicago and
David Kliger, Mrs. Maurice Lan- jected by a vote of 120 to 74.
Rabbi Julius Mark of Nashville.
nessed the marriage of the Duke
dau, Sol Waltz, Milton Marwil, Dr.
The opposition to the report
of Windsor and Mrs. Wally War- Annual Reports to Be Sub-
They will visit Rumania, Poland,
M. S. Perlis, Arthur S. Purdy, grew out of the fear that its
field. Baron and Baroness Roth-
Austria, Hungary and Czechs-
Philip L. Rosenthal, Isaac Shetzer, recommendation that three mem-
The
executive
mitted by Heads of •
CINCINNATI. —1
They will interview
Harry M. Shulman, Aaron A. Si - bers of the committee might be committee of the Council of Jew- schild were invited because they
Committees

Only 5 Per Cent Who Attend Slovakia.
leading personalities on the cul-
Mordecai I. Soloff, educational berblatt, Cantor J, H. Sonenklar, qualified non-members of the Des - ish Federations and Welfare had been the hosts of the former
- —
Universities Are Jew-
tural and economic life of those
Rabbi Joshua S. Sperka, Nathan i sties would open the door to co- Funds met here Saturday and monarch when he left England for
director of Congregation Shaarey
The annual election meeting of
1
countries.
ishly Informed
Zedek, has resigned from his post Spevakow,
Miss Weisman,
Jeanette lit Henry
Stein- operation with the World Jewish Sunday and heard important re- Austria after his abdication. The the United Hebrew Schools wilt be
berg, Samuel
Rabbi Fram also will be one of
Congress. The report had recom- ports from officers and committee barber, Charles Toper, has long held on Tuesday, :sine 22, at 8:30
and
will
leave
Detroit
soon
after
been
the
hair-dresser
to
the
Brit-
CINCINNATI, Ohio.—Less than the delegates to the conference the close of the current school Wineman and Rudolph Zwieback. mended that the membership of heads. Detroit was represented
p. in., at the Philadelphia-Byron
Advisory Council
6 per cent of the Jewish university of the World Union for Liberal year. Mr. Soloff expects to de-
the Foreign Committee be redue- by Kurt Peiser and Henry Wine- ish royal family. lie was called School,
students have a good Jewish back- Judaism which will meet in the vote his activities to the writ-
Pest presidents of the organize- ed from, 19 to 9, to be constituted man. Both are members of the to Monts to trim the Duke's hair
At this meeting officers as well
ground when they enter college, Hague, Holland. He will return i
of educational books. See- dons who will form the advisory by two executive officers of the executive committee from Detroit before the ceremony and 'was as members of the board whose
according to the experience qf Dr. on the Normandie which will eral of his textbooks, are now in council are: Dr. Noah E. Aron- eieputies
, Deputies to be nominated by the and Mr. Wineman is secretary of then invited to witness the mar- terms expire will be elected. All
riage.
A. L. Sachar, national director of sail from Havre on July 28 and use by schools throughout the stem. Dr. Harry E. August,' officers of the Deputies;
tw to f the council.
d t the United
members pay ingueso
' two

the Bnai Brith Hillel Foundations. will be back in Detroit the first country
(PLEASE TURN TO PAGE 1)
be nominated by the council of
Hebrew Schools are invited to this
This startling fact was reported week in August.
the Anglo-Jewish Association:
annual meeting.
by him at the second national con-
five to be elected by the
Report on the educational
One of Helmuth Hirsch's and
ference of Hillel directors, held at
Deputies from its own member-
ss well as reports pertain-
ship
other
than officers, including
Last Letters to His Parents
Martinsville, Ind.
ing to the financial status of the
Directors of nine of Bnai Brith'a
three non-members who may be
schools will be submitted by the
11 Hillel Foundations were pres-
following: Harry Cohen, president;
Feature. Syndicate sad; ways remember that I am with her co-opted for their experience in
ent. Alfred hf. Cohen, president of Berlin, Plotzensee, Mar. 20, 1937, The Seven Arts
through all her enjoyments, You dealing with Jewish affairs. The
Bernard Isaacs, supenntendent;
it Je Chroni rle pr emed
*h Detr ooloh
The
the
Brun Brith, presided at the two-
im authoe lard temsietie e or
Maurice H. Zackheim, chairman of
Hadasaah
Heads
the
List;
American
Zionists
to
Celebrate
Haus Ill, Abteilung 7, Zelle 292
all
must
remember
that
whenever
reconstituted
committee
was
to
letter legit lea by Helmuth
day discussion of undergraduate
elected its own chairman
educational committee; More Is
Hirsch,
the young American Jew who you shall taste a joy I shall always have
y
of
Palestine
Movement
at
Hi
40th
Anni
Jewish problems and Hillel tech- Dear, dear Parents and Kate.
and vice-chairman or two jo i n
aim beheaded 'by the Noels, to his
Lachover, executive secretary;
rents Awl!) after the Peorg's be with you. You must carry on. chairmen. At present the joint
Convention in New York
niques.
Isaac Rosenthal, chairman of house
To write this letter is the hard-
un sentenced him to death. is Remember that at no moment of
Dr. Sachar found that by far the est task I have ever had. Doubt-
bitter was obtained through the emir. my life have I ever surrendered the chairmen are the presidents of
consmittee; Philip Slomovitz, chair-
of
largest group of Jewish students less uncle Eugene has already in-
the Deputies and the Anglo-Jewish
tegy er Dr. Kurt limerbild, one
ion
will
be:
Hadassah
33;
Gen-
man of publicity committee; Louis
anti-
NEW
YORK
(WNS)—The
Uni-
of
the
d
leaders
w
joy
of
it.
the di atingalO
are indifferent to Judaism upon
Association.
the
8th
of
March
eral
Zionists
24,
Labor
21,
Mit-
is
Ons
eouritl.
Robinson, chairman of finance
Nast movemen t
Staten will be represented by
you: on eop
Death is the last and the only
entering college. A smaller group formed
I was
the Ple's Court, sen-
rachi 11. State Party I. In 1935 committee; Rudolph Zuleb at Ir.
90
delegates
at
the
20th
World
,
in
truth.
Only
when
one
has
tasted
he said, is interested but abysmal- tenced to death.
there
were
169,500
shekel
payers
chairman of scholarship committee;
Zionist Congress opening in Zur-
its intensity. And I have lived in- death in all earnestness does one
ly ignorant of Jewish knowledge,
Please do not despair. There may
ich on Aug. 3, it was revealed by in the United States. giving this Louis Stoll, chairman of real estate
while those with • rich Jewish still be hope that my sentence may tensely through every moment of appreciate the meaning of life. In
country a Congress delegation of committee; Same•' Schaflander,
United
States
Central
Shekel
my
case
it
is
undoubtedly
too
late.
the
background, indicating that they be commuted. And then. again, it. As my life has been, so will
t-
p arties as follows: chairman of membership c
Board in reporting that over 260,- 57, divided by
come from homes of such a nature, every one has to die some time. be my death, and for this reason It is even small consolation to be
calm and to show proof that, as I
000 shekels have been sold in Labor 26, enersl Zionists 20,1 tee• Maurice Lemdau, chairman of
"are less than 5 per cent".
Think again how beautiful my life there is nothing to regret.
Mizrachi
11.
budget
committee.
have believed, I would be able to
this country, breaking all prev-
Other Hillel directors who were has been until now. Tlink of all
The present officers of the schools
lion June 26 to 29
C
Certainly I have left many die bravely. There are many who
The Michigan Council of Bnai ious records. Each 3,000 shekel
present reported that the percent- the journeys I have mine through
The 40th anniversary of the are: Harry Cohen, president;
spin this all out In pretty Brith lodges will hold its quar- payers represent one delegate.
can
things
unfinished.
Most
of
the
even
smaller
on
their
cam-
age was
Holland, Slovakia and the Car- things I have tried to accomplish verses over a cup of coffee. Here,
founding of the Zionist Organiza- Judge Harry B. Keidan, first vice
Election
.of
delegates
to
the
Con-
puses. Still other reports indicated, pathian mountains. Think of all
terly meeting in conjunction with
21. tion for the re-establishment of president; Simon Shetzer, second
however, that after four years of the happy vacations with you at I have only begun. But what of however, is the reality, and It is the fifth anniversary celebration gress will be held on/June
that is the test.
election boards - comprising the Jewish National Home in Pal- vice president; Maurice 'Landau,
Hillel Foundation influence, these the seashore and in the mountains. it? Perhaps, in the end, it would reality
of South Haven Lodge, on Sun- Local
I
have
never
wanted
to
be
de-
one
representative
of
each
of
the estine which occurred in Basle treasurer; Louis Robinson, secre-
have
been
nothing
very
great.
I
same students graduate from their Also of the friendship I have en-
day, June 13, at Fidelman'a Re- five parties on the ticket must in 1897 at the first World Zionist tary.
universities with not only a good joyed, "friendship to take to the have much for which to ask for- ceived by life's illusions. Should
Members whose terms expire in
shall sort, South Haven. Mich.
I
I,
however,
receive
mercy,
be
set
up
and
their
personnel
re- Congress will be celebrated in
giveness
from
you:
that
I
have
de-
factual Jewish background but also grave." And, finally, the experience
Athletic events, a bridge party
the United States at the 40th an- 1937 are: Louie Dann, Joseph H.
one of the greatest drink-
with an active desire to take their of one clean and beautiful love. ceived you and simply departed become
for the ladies, a banquet and ported to the Central Shekel nual convention of the Zionist Ehrlich, Rabat Moses Fischer,
ers
at
the
table
of
this
grateful
Board
before
June
14.
places as leaders in their own Jew- Then, again, that unforgettable without explanation to you. You
illusion which, though dance will be among the day's
The largest number of shekels, Organization of America which Rabbi Leon Fram, Aaron Klein,
ish communities.
half year with you at Branik, amid must believe me that my heart Is
will want attractions. The afternoon meet- 100,000 was sold by Iladamah, will be held in New York City Maurice Landau. Prot. Samuel M.
The following problems, which the comfort of your love and kind- weighed down by the recollection I know it to be such, I
ing
of
the
Michigan
Council
will
from Saturday evening, June 26, Levin, Sol R. Levin, Robert It
of it. Please forgive me. Only in to enjoy with every breath.
, Bnal Brith Hillel Foundations are
have Dr. Bernard Heller of the which has its own ticket in the
Once again, then, do not despair. University of Michigan Hillel elective this year for the first to Tuesday evening, June 29, it Marwil, A. M. Pregerson, Philip
these black moments have I come
attempting to solve on 11 large flees.
campuses from coast to coast, were How much more beautiful
leas to appreciate how boundlessly I You must carry on for the sake Foundation as guest speaker. time. The General Zionist were was announced by Dr. Stephen L. Rosenthal, Simon Shetzer, Harry
led by most
M. Shulman and David S. Zemon.
discussed by the directors: "Radi- all this than the life ta
love you all, and how, through of Kate and her children and her
next with 71,000, followed by S. Wise, president.
Members whose terms expire Ia
activities of Jewish students, people, who are constantly plagued every sinew, I am rooted in you cluluren children. I embrace an The banquet, which will be held the Laborites with 60,006, Miz-
The convention was originally
at
6:30,
in
Fidelman'a
Resort
din-
car
,
kiss you gratefully.
antagonism between rich and poor with cares and worries and grow and your life.
scheduled to take place in Buffalo 1938 are: fir. A. E. Bernstein,
ing room, will feature Richard rachl with 35,000 and the State but
Julius
Braun, Harry Cohen. Rabbi
Yours,
Jewish students as well as between gray in spirit from the beginning
recent
political
developments
Dear parents, you must not do-
Gutstadt. national director of the Party with leas than one thousand.
HELMUTH.
the forth- S. M. Fins, Morris Fishman. Louts
those from the north and those to the en& Do not listen to aunt spair. You must continue to live,
League. as the If the proportion of shekel pay- in London regarding
Rabbi A. M. Hersinass,
Granet,
from the south; anti-Semitism on Freda and Martha and such others if only for the sake of Kate. She P. S; Write rme as soon as you Anti-Defamation
coming
report
of
the
Royal
Cora-
ers holds in the elections the party
1PLIIASSITIN 10 LAST 1.50t)
possibly can—quickly and in guest speaker. Dancing will fol- line-up of the American delega-
the campus; good will activities; Do not listen to their cries of pity must enjoy three times what I
(PLICAsa TURN TO ?AGE I)
banquet
at
9
o'clock.
the
low
detail.
Interesting the indifferent Jewish and regret. Th value of life does
length, but on have missed, and she should al-
not depend Th eft

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