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By MARC H. TANENBAUM
(Mizrachi News Bureau)
(THE WORLD AS I SEE IT.
A By Albert Einstein. 112 pp.
New York Philosophical Li-
brary. $2.75.)
To leaf through the mind of
Albert Einstein, who has been
called "one of the few genuine
immortals of our time," is an ex-
hilirating experience. In this
slim volume, which is an abridged
collection of Einstein's views on
everything from the meaning of
life, religion, science, pacifism,
Freud, facism and G. B. Shaw, to
Arab-Jewish relations and Zion-
ism, one is not so much struck
with awe of this man's genius as
by his deep warmth, captivating
wit, and genuine humanity.
To Jewish readers, Einstein's
Jewish Weltanschauung will
prove particularly interesting. He
is an ardent Zionist, who frankly
eschews political nationalism for
for the Jewish State although he
has high regard for Herzl, the
founder of political Zionism.
His notional Zionism veers close-
ly toward Ahad-Haamism, as he
says, in his own words:
"The object which the leaders
of Zionism have in view is not
a politieal but a social and cul-
tural one, . The community in
Palestine must approach the so-
cial ideal of our forefathera as it
is laid down in the Bible, and at
the same time become a seat of
modern intellectual life, a spirit-
ual center for the Jews of the
whole world." •
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EINSTEIN ,EXPRESSES pro-
found reverence for the Bible
and the Jewish people, although
he holds Rabbinic Judaism as re-
flected in the Talmud a mere
compendium of historical facts of
no great value to the inherent
spirituality of Judaism. As an
antidote to anti-Semitism, Ein-
stein urges his people to "live
after our fashion . . . and not
ape dwelling and drinking cus-
toms which are foreign to our
nature . . , emancipate ourselves
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socially and supply our social
needs, in the main, ourselves."
The reader will be struck by
what appears aa certain incon-
sistencies in this giant thinker's
love for his people and love for
his faith and his own conception
of Judaism. But what is import-
ant is that the reader will be
stirred and thoroughly stimu-
lated.
Ladies Aid Unit Plans Card Party
Ms. Louis Kepes reported that
she is making progress in arrang-
ing for the annual donor dinner,
set for Jan. 19, 1950.
Mrs. Abe Miller and Mrs. Helen
Liebson reported that checks have
been mailed to the needy for the
High Holy Days.
(WHY JESUS DIED. By Pierre
van Paassen, 283 pp. New York
Philosophical Library. $3.00.)
Within the last three quarters
of a century, more than 7,000
volumes have been published on
the life of the founder of Chris-
tianity, his death and the religion
he left behind.
Modern scholars still argue
whether Jesus was an historical
personality, and if he was, who
was responsible for his death.
In this latest volume on Jesus,
Pierre van Paassen, author, Bible
scholar and Unitarian minister,
treats both these problems. He
contends Jesus was an historical
person, a Rabbi close to the
Pharasaic tradition who smarted
under the Romans' heavy rule in
Palestine.
Because Jesus came from Gal-
ilee which was then a center of
revolt against imperial Rome,
and because he headed a group
of Galileens this disciples) en
route to Jerusalem, he was—van
Paassen maintains—held suspect
of insurrectionist intentions by
Procurator Pontius Pilate who
later ordered the Nazarene's
crucifixion.
In establishing this view as
actual fact, van Paassen aims to
eradicate the myth which has,
been responsible for age-long
virulent anti-Semitism, the myth
that the Jews crucified Christian- i
ity's founder.
This book, written in an im-
pressive, muscular prose and
bulging with erudition, should
be made compulsory reading for
every Christian adult who still
harbors the fantasy that Jews
were "Christ-killers."
THOUSANDS
•
MRS. HENRY WEINBERG is
chairman of the philanthropic
committee of the Music Study
Club which has prepared a
schedule of musical programs
for shut-ins. Programs will be
presented at the Children's
Hospital, Crippled Children's
Home at Farmington, Veterans'
Hospital, Jewish Home for Aged
and I,eague for Blind. Aiding
Mrs. Weinberg are Mesdames
Sadie Cooper Braver, Julius
Green, Philip notion, Bernard
Lachs, Milton Wolf, S. S. Wit-
tenberg, Leo Orecklin, Ira
Kaufman, Louis Hack, Ger-
trude Levy Blum, Max Rich
and Max Freeman.
Pioneer Group
to Open Season
FDR Jr. .to Open B. B. Drive
With Radio Address Oct. 13
Nordau Centennial
to Feature Lipsky
OMAHA — (WNS) — The Uni-
versity of Omaha will become
the first American institution of
higher learning to train teach-
ers for Jewish schools, according
to an announcement by Dr. Milo
Bail, university president.
The program, to be conducted
jointly by the university's de-
partment of education and the
Omaha bureau of Jewish educa-
tion, will give courses in Hebrew
language and literature, history
of Jewish civilization, Jewish
school pedagogy and method-
oldgy of religious education.
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The Hebrew Ladies Aid So-
ciety has completed plans for its
"Charity Card Party" to be held
at 8 p.m. Wednesday, at Temple
Beth Jericho. Mrs. Joe Brown
is the chairman and Mrs. Paul
Freeman is in charge of tickets.
Plans are being made for a
New Years party to be held at the
Mayfair Hall.
Membership and fund-raising
activities will highlight the first
public affair of the Pioneer
Women's CoUncil at 8:30 p.m.,
Wednesday, Oct. 12 at the May-
fair Room.
Sam Rabinbwitz, executive di-
rector of the Detroit Israel Hista-
drut campaign, recently, returned
from Israel, will giv: his impres-
sions of the new state.
An elaborate musical program
has also been prepared. Florence
Weintraub and Mrs. Al Weisberg
will sing, accompanied by Janette
Varmen and Mr. Jacob Wilk, re-
spectively.
Reports will be given by Mir-
iam Feldman, council member-
As part of the first nationwide' today has rave than 330,000 ship chairman, and Fanny White,
membership drive of Bnai Brith, members in MO lodges and council Moazot Hapoalot chair-
Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., con- chapters in the U. S. and Canada. man.
A candlelighting ceremony will
gressman from New York, will
mark the 24th anniversary of the
address the guests at 150 house
PWO. For information, call TO.
parties, given by . the Greater De-
9-7180.
troit B. 13:Council, at 10:30 p.m.,
Oct. 13, over WJBK.
The Jewish Chronicle news
In cooperation with the Detroit deadline is noon on Mondays.
Council President Dr. Law-
rence I. Yaffa and. Council mem- Zionist District, Nordau Chapter
bership chairman Maxwell M. is sponsoring the Max Nordau
Lowe, chairman of the campaign, centennial celebration to honor
stated that the 18 lodges in De- the memory of Max Nordau,
troi thope to gain 2000 additional:great Zionist leader, who en-
members within the next 50 days, visioned the establishment of
Israel and whose great genius led
The yadio program will also
include a 15-minute transcription to the foundation for the Jewish
State.
of I dramatic playlet entitled
On Monday evening, Oct. 24, at
"The Need."
the Center, Louis Lipsky, chair-
The opening of the Detroit man of the American Zionist
campaign coincides with the 106th Council, will deliver the principal
anniversary celebration of Bnai address in commemoration of the
Brith. The organization, founded birth of Max Nordeau.
by 12 men in New York in 1843,
There will be no admission
charge and the public is invited.
Train Jewish
Teachers in
U. of Omaha
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