Twelve Men with a Cause Form
Nucleus of 350 000-Member Bnai Brith

I 80—THE JEWISH NEWS

Friday, September 19, 1951

The clash between Sephardim
and Ashkenazim was only
ists to dreams of establishing a part of the t r a g e d y. Not
By MAURICE BISGYER
It was natural that Bnai Brith nation -wide organization with only did the Sephardim and
found its milieu in New York the highest altruistic and intel- Ashkenazim differ as to religious
interpretation. ideology, customs.
City. The teeming metropolis. as lectual objectives.
the gateway to the new world, I When Bnai Brith was born in economic status. and general
stimulated 12 starry-eyed ideal- 1843, the American Jewish corn- outlook, but the Ashkenazim .
munity consisted of some 25,000 themselves were divided--:and
men, women and children, large not only by national origin.
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numbers of whom were recent , The trines called for a new ,
immigrants from Germany, Po- type of organization, and it was
i land, Bohemia and Austria. The some of the younger and better
"aristocrats" were the Sephardic educated among the newcomers !
;Jews, who were descended from who did something about it. !
Chief, among these was Henry
the early settlers.
Organized Jewish life-centered Jones, who first began talking
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around the synagogue. Except about a new organization with
lit Linen Supply"
for a few burial societies, Amer- some of his friends who used to
; ican Jewry had no philanthropic gather at ! Sinsheimer's coffee ,
1028 E. Vernor Hwy.
agencies detached from the syn- shop on Essex Street , in New
York.
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' agog ue.
Jones was realistic enough to
see that the rivalries between
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the congregations of the Portu-
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guese, Dutch, English, Polish,
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and German Jews,
each with its own ritual and
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separate and tightly knit com-
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munity, was begetting a spirit of
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cooperation,
Recognizing the difficulty of
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uniting the congregations, Jones
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proposed to found a society
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which, while based on the teach-
ings of Judaism, would be free
in its deliberations from every-
.c
thing dogmatic . and would be
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able to unite all Jews in a com-
mon purpose.
MOORE'S
Such were the ideals that
animated Jones when he gather-
ed around him 11 like-minded
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men and on Oct. 13, 1843, estab-
lished Bnai Brith or, as it was
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then called, the Independent
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Order of Bnai Brith.
At Buena Vista
The vitality of the tiny Order
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during the first quarter-century
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of its existence was amazing.
I In the early 1850's it opened
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I America's Covenant Hall, the
first Jewish Community Center,
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and established the first Jewish .
library in this country.
In 1861, Chicago's Ramesh
Lodge recruited and equipped a
company of JeWish soldiers in
Individual Attention
response to Abraham Lincoln's
Lessons by Appointmemt
, appeal for volunteers, thus be-
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ginning the Order's war service
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I record, which has grown with
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I every war. ; =-
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I In 1865, Bnai Brith sent funds
to Moses Montefiore for the di-
; rect relief of victims of a plague
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many acts for foreign relief.
In 1851 certain cantons in
;Switzerland restricted the rights
of Jews, and the young Bziai
Brith, for the first time, raised
I its voice in protest 4,:s the chain=
i-pion of its peoPle.
Custom Repair -Work Dow
Iron 'and Steel Scrap
barbarities
After horr
in Your Own Home
against the JeWS '6,t . • Romania
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occurred in the late 1860's, Si-
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Free Estimates
mon Wolf proposed to his. good
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friend, President Grant, that
Benjamin F. Peixotto, a former
Grand Saar of Bnai Brith, be
named • U. S. Consul in Bucher-
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the abuses against. Romanian
Jews. Giant agreed, and Peixot-
to was named consul to Bucha-
rest in. 1870. . . _
During Peixotto's Ave years in
Harvey Rosenburger
Romania on an assignment that
Sol P. Stone
carried with it no government,
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compensation but did provide
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aid from Bnai Brith, his of-
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ficial. reports led to intervention
by other American diplomats in!
Europe, who invited the various
governments to which they were
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accredited to cooperate in halt-
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ing Jewish persecutiOns in Rom-
a-nia,
In direct consequence of the
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activities of Peixotto, u r i n g
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Whose five years. in,Rornania the
Lumber Mill Work
Home of Lusterized Dry Cleaning
Jews enjoyed comparative peace
Points — Hardware
and freedom, the great powers
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rOpresented at the Congress of
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Berlin in , 1878 gave Romania the
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status of : all independent king-
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dom upon the express condition
that the civil and political rights
of the Jews should be recognized.
The activities of Bnai Brith
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represent a cycle from the day
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it was born until the present.
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Although, Bnai Brith has grown
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from 12 to 350,000 members, it
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is still being carried forward
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with the same purpose. The
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order fulfills - early objectives,
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