America ,fewisk Perk idled ' Carter CI1PTOH AVENUE - CINCINNATI 20, OHIO 7 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and De Legal Chronicle December 24, 1943 A PIONEER JEWISH JOURNAL chapter and verse. Then there is ment that three gentlemen—a pro- may have doubted our ability or a review of the two-volume Sat- fessor of the Jefferson Medical willingness to undertake the work, urday Mornings ("a book of moral College, the provost of the Uni- and that who withheld their support (Relminted from Liberal Judaism) account to come forward ac Lesser's "Occident", founded 100 years ago, and religious education for the versity of Pennsy yam an us their encourage- give Editor's Note: Isaac role in journalism; Isaam M. Wise fought in its use of young Israelites") by G. principal of Philadelphia's Classy- now and played a vital Ben Levy, which had lately been reel School—are respectively to lee- meld. Public favour is the health. our published in Paris. This is fol- tune before the Mercantile Library ful breeze which is to waft pages for 'Reform Judaism. dwellings, an to lowed by a short translation of Company (of Philadelphia) on little vessel along on its tempestu• aid from The year not a be commends_ al- York, at their lowed of 1943 pass should without an extract from the book describ- Jerusalem, Palestine, and the Civil ous above voyage; the upon which is the and anchor distant subscribers at the Post Office in New York, or to any ing Frankfort's (on the Main) Government of the Hebrews. The American Society for Meli- we rely to keep it from being tory salute to The Occident, other conveyance ordered, for one wrecked upon a rocky shore." appears on the "Three Moseses" orating the Condition of the Jews a In spite of getting off to such founded one hundred years ago dollar and fifty cents per annum Jew Street. A short dissertation Maimon who commented on it, is headlined in the next article. (April, 1843) as the first success- dull, inauspicious beginning, The called The Jew and _ " It was "Defense of Judaism and Mendelsohn who translated The Society is being revived and Occident for twenty-six years ful attempt of American Jewish " • ef and Par- it. A letter from Julius Stern ad- there is also proposed "a revival a journalism. True, it was not the was against ll adversari es attacks of vocates that the Israelites of Ger- of its organ, Israel's Advocate, See PIONEER—Page 10 first Jewish periodical to appear ticularlya the Insidious vo- many emigrate to the United under the humbler title of Jewish Idarch, In in the United States. Is' ony in some Chronicle." The editor deplores the York sr's Aocate" -- ublicaton -------------------------- 1824, S. H. Jackson of Nev--------------- ch began ce, 4 I argues that past record of the Society and had published a monthly to be previous year, was the, house of western state. I Sincere Chanukah Greetings! people not having learn- warns "our Christian friends, the delivered to subscribers in New gun, so to speak, of the American these poor trade, few understanding ag- managers of the American Society Society of for Con- riculture, ed a Nurses Bureau £ dition the Meliorating Jews. This the society commerce was the only for Meliorating the Condition of under the leadership of Joseph S. resource left. Most of them, how- the Jews, that we shall keep a Registry Sincere Chanukah Greetings! C. F. Frey, a converted Jew, was ever, "being without the necessary watchful eye on its movements." very actively engaged in Christian means to be merchants in the A short Juvenile Department Registered Graduates and missionary work amongst Jews proper sense of the word well?. Presents "Gratitude Towards God," Practical Nurses DR. W. G. ZIEVE with far-flung branches through- obliged to become itinerant traders a dull dialogue translated from the Dentist out the villages, towns and cities or pedlars, a business most troub- German. The magazine closes with Also Male and Hourly Nurses of the United States even where, lesome, and, in the present scare- news items, which are continued Prompt Service Day and Night as yet, never a Jew had appeared. ity of money, most unproductive throughout the life of the publi- cation. In them is much source TEmple 1-0777 Farmer St. 1039 Jackson's publication survived and Stern onerous." proposes that a number material for American Jewish his- TErrace 2-9149 but two years and was, by and large, a controversial journal cam- of Israelites purchase a large tory. The selection for this first andest indicated was waypical t MRS. N. B. CHRISTIN, paigning against a particular ene- tract of land where Congress is nu beside-a ke inter Manager my rather than a magazine of disposing of it at $1.25 per acre, the Jewish interest. erect dwellings and start an agri- Leeser ever manifested in what Established 1904 The Occident and American Jew- cultural colony. From this would was going on amongst Jews the 3708 TRUMBULL ish Advocate, edited by Rabbi flow cattle, flour, salted provisions, world over. The news columnns SEASON'S GREETINGS! Isaac Leeser of the Congregation butter and wool and different chronicle the death of Chief Rabbi Mikveh Israel, Philadelphia, one kinds of manufactured goods from Solomon Hirschell (also Herschell) of the then outstanding figures factories springing up in the of England, the conferring of a CARL'S CHOP - in the American rabbinate, was to neighborhood. He can even look degree by Protestant University Holiday Greetings be a month:y devoted to the diffu- forward of the time when these of Giessen upon Rabbi gham Morris Ja- HOUSE sion of knowledge of Jewish liter- Israelites might transform the col- cob Raphall of the Birmin ature and religion. ony into a state of the Union— (England) synagogue, a p- BOB WADE'S In the "Introductory Remarks" " an ornament to Israel, and an tion of the consecration of New honor to makind." The editor finds York's sixth synagogue (in At- STEAKS—:—CHOPS to the first issue, the editor pro- it necessary to disagree with torney Street) for recently arrived GOOD GULF SERVICE and posed to dedicate its pages to Stern, as he doubts the success of emigrants from Germany, a plea "whatever can advance the cause SEA FOOD farming for those who have no for an Israelite hospital at Jeru- GOOD GULF of our religion, and of promoting practical experience, nor does he salem, and a summary of items FREE PARKING the true interests of that people approve of the idea of a Jewish of Jewish European news from Gasoline - Oil - Service which has made this religion its state within our republic. the Leipzig Gazette. 3024 Grand River Ave. profession" promising "to give Thus was launched this under- ['arising for 200 cars-2-i hour In the next article, "The Life of circulation to everything which a Pious Israelite," always the taking with a final appeal: TErrace 2-8600 watchman service can be interesting to the Jewish word Jew is avoided for that more "We have fairly commenced, inhabitants in the western hemis- polite circumlocution Israelite. our frail bark is launched upon CASS AT TEMPLE h phere." He goes on: "We would Next is an article borrowed from the waves; we have ardour and certainly prefer filling our pages Les Archives Israelites, setting bouyancy of disposition; little dif- Phone CLifford 0033 wtih articles especially written for forth the principles of a pious life ficulties do not startle us; we A Joyous Chanukah to All! us; but if these should not be at as laid down by Dr. Creitznach request, therefore, all those who hand in ufficient quantities, or not of Frankfort. Fifteen rules are • s come up to standard of excellence given and it is "continued in our which we desire, we shall not hesi- next" until the whole of 70 have K. SHAPIRO, tate resorting topublications been presented. A short translation which are not generally accessible, from the French of a description BEST WISHES FOR A JOYOUS CHANUKAH! 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