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CAGE FOURTEEN

December 16, 1938

aid THE Li.GAL HRONICLE

5th Annual Dance & Card Party

`Rabbi Morris Adler
to Speak at Jewish
Center on Dec. 27

RABBI THUMIM DESCRIBES STATUS
OF HALF-JEW IN JEWISH LIFE

Austrian Bemoans
His National Fate

The anguish and hurt of an Aus-
trian journalist, now an exile from
his homeland, is evident on every
Rabbi Morris Adler of Congre-
nage of Willi Frischauer's "Twi-
gation Shaarey 'Leda will be the
light in Vienna," translated from
guest speaker at the third lecture
The persecution and expulsion yen though it is acceptable from the German by E. 0. Lorimer and
of the House League membership of Jews, including so-called half- a Gentile. Consequently, he can- published by lloughton Mifflin Co.,
lecture series, under the general and puarter-Jews, from various not join a congregation.
Boston.
theme of "The Jew in a Changing countries, confronts many an
While it is a duty to give char-
This volume is significant for its
World," on Tuesday, Dec. 27, at orthodox Jew with a dilemma.
ity to people in need, even to a agreement with Aurel Kolnai who,
at the
I have been approached by Gentile, it is prohibited to give in "The War Against the West"
JERICHO TEMPLE, 2705 Joy Road
many interested parties seeking to a converted Jew, as also is it (Viking) maintains that the strug-
information as to what attitude prohibited to redeem him from gle of Nazism is an intellectual
All Proceeds for Charity
the Jewish law or Talmud takes captivity. But the law is differ- battle against western civilization.
Mike Falk's Orchestra
toward converted Jews, whether ent if the motive for his conver- It is important also because it is
Dancing from 9:00 on.
Admission 35c
they are allowed to intermarry sion was for oersonal benefit such much more than a comment on
among Jews, associate in Jewish as for a business career or pro- what has happened in Austria—the
circlets and join congregations, fession and there is reason to last chapter alone being devoted to
and whether it is advisable and believe that he regrets it, and the invasion of the country by Hit-
permissible to stretch forth a that if redeemed he may return ler. The hook deals with the back-
helping hand to such relatives to the Jewish religion, then it is grounds which led up to the dis-
who, when they were prosperous, a special "Mitswoh" to save him. integration of the land. It is a
When a converted Jew re- deep sociological study of the con-
deserted the faith of their an-
pents formally; namely, by ap- ditions that followed the war and
cestors.
pearing before a "Beth Din"— preceded Ilitlerism. It is a case
I shall attempt to explain the
three rabbis—and declares him- history that will interest the his-
attitude which the Talmud and
the legal authorities took on self as regretting and willing to torian as well as the sociologist,
return to the Jewish religion, the Jew as well as the Christian.
questions involving converted
he immediately regains the rights Ile deals with the problems of "the
Jews.
of a real Jew; he may partici- class of the workless" who, he pre-
I. The definition of an apos- pate at religious ceremonies and dicts, will think and act differently
Now Selling and Servicing
tate is given by Maimonides, the services, he can be accepted as from the people today.
Rambam, as, "Ile who in time a witness in legal cases and
the Complete Line of
In the course of his discussion
of evil decrees and persecution trusted on oath. Also, if he hap-
turns to the religion of Idolatry, pens to be a "Kohen,," a descend- of the rise of anti-Semitism,
Frischauer
offers an explanation
and joins them, saying, 'What ant of the priestly race, who are
benefit is it to me to belong to entitled to be the first called to for the rise of bigotry:
oAntl ,lesoltIont is as old an the Igen•
the Jewish people who are per- the reading of the weekly por- de ring Jew ohom It created. Again
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secuted and humiliated? It is tion of the Torah. etc., the con- end &solo In the clourse of centuries the
RABBI MORRIS ADLER
better for sic to join those who verted repentant regains these Jews hate been cotionad to the fleeced
are the world's finest automobiles,
Chrysli pr and Plymouth ■
rs'igTX11" :741 1 1 :"toollib' (Alo:m'isencolt.=ite has
8:45 p. m., in the auditorium of are dominant.' Such a one is an rights, too.
:tme: ,I t t,101;Th i e ntli choton leople 0111
but ,ototh. .1,ack.Mann to sell and service them, all the world
the Jewish Community Center, apostate and is subject to the
It is in-
Significant is the story of
offers no better deal.
various
laws
of
a
converted
Jew."
of
.term'.
to Inquire oloy It Is Hoot in
Woodward at Holbrook. Rabbi Ad-
grandson
the
"Shabuel,"
A wide variety of desirable used can always on hand.
recent
The
theory
of
the
Talmud
is
Moses. It is related in the Tal-
ler, who , has gained prominence as
an effective and informative speak- that a Jew can never depart from mud that he heard a phrase toe en, .noan nith l'herle 'o n " . T 4';
aligner is that the rouses ore the movie
his people; ;t;herefore, if he be-
er, will address the community on
which was in the tradition of his an those which led to etery other soc-
The Jew and His Religion," dis- comes a convert, he is consid- grandfather, "that a man in iety of ultra-extremism. lhe popularity
ered as a Jew who violates all
modoubledly ix due to
cussing the place of the Jewish
need should rather hire himself of aSemitlean
fact that one section of the Jetts
the commandments of the Torah. out to a "strange service" Nor the
torn phan,sh littoic own foollt) 1.1
religion in Jewish life.
xectIon (through no
, eh, amt on other
Thin is one of a aeries of six He still remains, however, a fel- (avoda-zora) than to depend on r fault
a their oon) too poor.
low Jew in brotherhood to the
Ve. 6.3100
14435 Grand River Ave.
monthly lectures by prominent
the generosit • of people. It hap-
There follows a discussion of
Jewish
people.
The
Bible
ex-
Jewish community leaders on the
pened once that he was in need,
presses this clearly concerning so he hired himself to serve as the impoverishing of the Jewish
changes which are taking place
masses, of the jealousies suffered
the descendants of Esau, who
in contemporary Jewish life. The
a priest to idolatry. When he
is regarded as a converted Jew: learned of his misinterpretation by non-Jews when they see a
lectures to follow will deal with
"Thou shalt not abhor an Edom- he repented heartily. Many years Jew holding a job, of the wiping
Jewish community organization,
vocational guidance among Jewish its for he is thy brother" (Deut. later when King David sought a out of the Jewish middle class.
"The impoverished middle-class Jew
youth and the role of the Jew in XXII. 8). And in another pas• fit man as superintendent for
the changing social order. Thelsage we find "Ye are passing by the treasuries, he selected the is no longer either a consumer or
an employer; you lose nothing if
the border of your brethren, the
lectures are open to the genera children of Esau" (Dent. 11.4). repentant "Shabuel," judging, you wipe him out. He is, in fact,
that if his love of money_was so
public, admission being free to
merely a rival in the crazy scram-
Consequently, a converted Jew,
Center members and ten cents to while he considers himself a non- great as to employ himself as ble for bread, and one to whom you
Priest to idolatry, he will surely
non-members. The House League
Jew, yet he must be held by know how to take care of the need show no consideration, whom
sponsoring the lectures, is the rep-
you are entitled by all rules of the
l other Jews as a Jew obligated
res entative body of the Center to respect the Jewish Iowa and treasuries. So, "Shabuel, the son game, and later by the law of the
of Gershon, the son of Moses,
membership.
commandment,. It is prohibited, superintended the treasuries" land itself, to annihilate if you
Adult Group Being Formed
can. You can kill two birds with
serve him non-kosher
therefore, to se
An invitation is being exten d,' foods or to cause him to violate (Chronicles 1.24).
one stone—your rival and a Jew."
In the opinion of the author
to all young men between the
the Sabbath or Jewish rituals of the "Beth Joseph," Rabbi
Later the author makes a tragic
ages of 21 and 28 to aid in the because by doing so the Jew
admission: "With the resignation
formation of a young men's group violates the command, "Thou Joseph Korn, in the name of the
of
despair we recognize that noth-
The purpose of this organization shalt not put a stumbling block author of "Baal H'Eter" (13th
ing can now be saved; that the
is for the furtherance of social before the blind" (Leviticus XLX century), there was no idolatry
in those times, and even the Gen- utmost of Western indignation at
athletic and entertainment inter
14).
tiles were not considered as serv- the dread reports of horror cannot
eats. All young men between these
II. A converted Jew or Jewess, ing idolatry, and therefore the alter by a hair's breadth the fate
ages, who are interested, should and their converted descendants,
of those who lie defenceless and
communicate by mail, giving may intermarry with Jews, al- converting of a Jew should be impotent in Austria's prisons. Nev-
names and addresses, to Halph though it is not advisable for considered as for personal bene-
fit. This was also the opinion of ertheless, truth must be served."
Green, at 3023 Elmhurst.
the reason that they may not ob- Rabbi Jacob Emden (17th cen- Frischauer then asserts that there
serve the Jewish religion. Never-
is indignation and fear in the
tury).
theless, it is regarded as a Jew-
hearts of those who on the face
of things welcomed Hitler. He
ish marriage in the eyes of the
Jewish law. Furthermore, even in
avows faith in the Austrian peo-
the event that a converted Jew-
ple and maintains that the "heils"
rries
a
non-Jew,
the
chil-
are growing fainter. In a defense
! eat
e
of the Austrians he protesta
drenmarr e classed as Jews, because
according to Jewish law children
"against the wounding assertion
that many of oar fellow-country-
Edgar M. Fenton. son of Mr gain their national and race
The
Jewish
National
Fund
men welcomed this tragic develop-
red Mrs. Ben B. Fenton of 2432 status from the mother. If the Council acknowledges the plant-
ment with enthusiasm." He likens
mother
is
non-Jewish
and
the
Boston Blvd., was recently nam
ing
of
the
following
trees
in
the
Cardinal Innitzer to Cardinal Foul-
father is a full Jew, the children
ed editor-in-chief of "The Shrap-
are considered as non-Jewish and Fred M. Butzel Forest in Pales- haber and defends him on the
nel," weekly paper of the West-
tine.
ground that his action was due to
enr Military Academy at Alton, cannot marry with Jews.
Twelve trees were planted in his having on his shoulders the
III. When a converted Jew
III., according to Capt. W. M.
honor of Fred 111. Butzel by Mr: responsibility for the lives of Aus-
dies
and
he
has
expressed
the
Hinton, faculty advisor. Fenton
and Mrs. S. Rohlik of 11135 trian Catholics.
heads a staff of 28 cadets. He is wish to be buried among Jewe, Shoemaker Ave.
Most pathetic is the conclusion:
the Jewish community is obliged
a senior and will graduate next
Two trees in memory of Julius
"And o r. oho. life and livelihood
June. Ile has been prominent in to take care of his burial in ac- Lotheim by Mr. and Mrs. Lit- are at s ke , oe mond honorably urge
cordance
with
the
Jewish
tradi-
the British people to go to or
school activities as a member of
set there is a hope of presersing peace
man Gould.
pray that wore may get hr
the varsity foot ball and soccer tion and he may be buried in a
Two trees in honor of Helen we h op, and
for or belies.. that not even
squads and the rifle team. Fen- Jewish cemetery; but he must Willa Bloch by the Kvutzah Iv- posodble,
he loftleot trees ran reach to beaten,
be buried four lines away from
ton also has won medals for
then an end MIST come to Noullson
rith.
1%
ran annork, and dont this end 11.1,
marksmanship, scholastic work the other graves because it is
Two trees in honor of Rachel come aithout millions of trestern
HOLIDAY GREETINGS
and for excellence in military prohibited to lay a sinner near Max by the Kvutzah Ivrith.
being written' to Conti... It. Them Is
0011 1
a righteous Jew.
such a ',doles.. as Nernords.
drill.
One tree in honor of Mr. and
The question as to whether his
'if, bon el er,nutny fear. Nor
ultionntely inetltable, If In the
relatives are allowed or obliged Mrs. Hyman Altman by the Sis- proles
dreod derision Britain and Germany
ters
of
Zion
Mizrachi.
stand
opposed In nor, then I and every
to
observe
the
ritual
of
seven
Westfield
Austrhtn Idiom 11rItioh hospitality has
1--
For
information
regarding
the
days mourning for the dead, and
Marionettes
sat ed from the at est remits, or
tta,ttr cif
to say "Kaddish" the first year, planting of trees in the Butzel who one life and liberty to England.
Hilarious
is disputed by the authorities. Forest, please call Mrs. Philip will gladly choose to polish British
Santee
soldier's boots In an English coonren-
CfnmonitS
The quotation that Rabbi Ger- Slomovitz, Un. 1-6872, 17417 tration camp rather than light olth
Mire
Complete
Germany against the eltiliration of the
The Ladies' Auxiliary of the g in ,
Light of the Dias-, Stoepel.
The
West.•
p,
ra,"
(960-1040), who is con-
Jewish Children's Home met at the
•-
The frightful tragedy expressed
Chltr
Home on Wednesday, Dec. 7. sidered the greatest authority •
in these lines mirrors the hope-
RABBI
MOSES
FISCHER
Service
Rabbi Max J. Wohlgelernter was after the Talmud, mourned 14
lessness which marked the last
the guest speaker on the topic, days after his converted son is WILL ADDRESS YOUNG days of Austria. It remains to be
"The Light of Chanukah in Rela-1 interpreted by some that he ISRAEL ON WEDNESDAY seen whether proud people will
5170 VERMONT
tion
Events."
The Modern
linen shower
scheduled to mourned when his son converted,
forever submit to slavery and de-
and by others when he died. It is
Young Israel announces that gradation.
TYler 6-3434
take place in January has been decided that if the converted Jew Rabbi Moses Fischer will address
postponed, am] a bridge party will dies a natural death, it is per- the next meeting of Young Is-
11.24185
124 DAVIIPOtT
take its place some time in Feb- mitted to say Kaddish for him, rael to be held on Wednesday WRESTLING AT ARENA
but if he is murdered or dies an night at 8:30 p. m., in the Young
ruary.
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MONDAY EVENING
from the following: Mr. and Mrs. duty.
Rabbi Fischer's address will deal
There are also laws which dis- with a discussion of Chanukah
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George M. Roberts, in memory of
Frankie Aalaber and Leo \Val-
Leah Marks and Bertram Warner; criminate against a converted and its significance at the pres- lick, challenger and title holder,
Mr. and Mrs. Morry Fenton, in Jew; viz, where a Minyan or 10 ent time. The public is invited respectively, in the light-heavy
memory of Bertram Warner and Jews is required at a religious to join with Young Israel at this division, will battle it out for
Anna Silborblatt; Mrs. Sidney ceremony or service, a converted meeting. A musical program will the title M.W.W.A. light-heavy
Frank, in memory of Bertram Jew cannot be counted. He is complete the program of the eve- belt next Monday in the Arena
Warner; Mr. and Mrs. Louis Dav- also not allowed to be called to ning.
Gardens. Ten days ago they were
idson, in memory of Joyce H. the Torah when it Is read on
At the last meeting of the scheduled for a similar battle but
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in memory of Anna Silberblatt is not allowed for a synagogue elected to act as delegates to weight and lost his chance but
to accept from him any donation, the recently formed Mid-Western persistent efforts were rewarded
and Sarah Pikin.
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