of the signers of the Non-Im-
Stamp Act Repeal Signer
Benjamin Levy, an American portation Agreement of 1765
Jewish merchant born in New aimed at the repeal of the Brit-
dreds of years, the Jews on Pass- York City about 1720, was one ish Stamp Act.
over feared the outbreaks of po-
groms during Passover by the
repetition of the ritual murder
charge. The philosopher Solomon
Maimon tells how in his youth,
on Passover, the dead body of
Never in the 46 years have we had to take drastic
a non-Jewish child was planted
methods to raise Cash.
in some Jewish house and then
made use of to spread the story
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that the little child was mur-
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People will believe anything
because they know so little of
each other.
Policeman and a Molar Tale by Baruch
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who was among the newspaper-
men present, interrupted the
Congressman "Bill," he said
"Jews when they pray don't get
down on their knees." You might
have expected a Congressman
representing the most thoroughly
Jewish constituency to know sim-
ple facts about the synagogue.
The Sulzer episode reminds me
of the story of the wealthy Jew
who had Maftir.
Maftir, as everyone knows, is
the highest honor bestowed on a
layman at the synagogue service.
When a rich man is accorded
the honor, it is expected that
he will make a quid pro quo
with a donation to the synagogue.
But this rich man was very miser-
ly, so the officials said, No
Money, No Maftir.
Finally the rich man, greedy
for the honor, promised to give
$500 to the synagogue. But once
he had maftir, he thumbed his
nose at the officials when they
asked him for money. He laughed
in their faces. "So I promised,
so what? You don't expect me
to make good such a promise,
do you?"
Members of the congregation
surrounded him, argued with
him, shouted at him, some were
ready to maul him, when a po-
liceman appeared to inquire what
was the trouble. Everybody
started explaining to the police-
man. All he could make out was
that the rich man had promised
to pay $500 for Maftir and then
had not come across, so the po-
liceman turned to the rich man
and said, "Either pay the $500 or
give the Maftir back.
A humorous story, but such ig-
norance has its tragic side. Jose-
phus relates how the Egyptian,
Apion, spread a story that the
Jews every year fattened up a
Greek in their Holy temple
for an annual sacrifice. For hun-
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Jewish Federations
Council Urges Senate
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The board of directors of the
Council of Jewish Federations
and Welfare Funds has urged
the U.S. Senate to strengthen
the pending Public Welfare
Amendments Bill of 1962
(H.R.10606) by revising three of
its provisions.
Irving Kane, president of the
Council, pointed out that while
the CJFWF endorsed the major
objectives and provisions of the
proposed legislation, it recom-
mends that the Senate: liberalize
the Bill's residence requirements
for public assistance; prevent
abuses in payments for depend-
ent children; and cut the dis-
parity in welfare rates between
those for needy children and
those for the aged or disabled.
These revisions were recom-
mended by the Council's public
welfare committee headed by
Bernard P. Kopkind, as a means
of "strengthening the Bill so as
tei-sreflect principles of sound wel-
fare legislation."
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Bernard Baruch in his recently
published autobiography tells an
amusing tale about William Sul-
zer
The old timers will remember
Sulzer. He represented the East
Side in Congress when it was
really the East Side, when on
the same block you could get all
the three P's—pushcarts, pickles
and philosophers. The time when
the East Side was full of color—
at the time of the great immi-
gration.
The fact that Sulzer was not a
Jew didn't hurt him with the
East Side. He was tall, looked
like Andrew Jackson and when
he spoke, used only the best
words in the dictionary. A lot
of the East Siders didn't under-
stand him, but they didn't care
about that. A good speech should
have music as well as ideas, and
ideas these Fact Sider s had
enough. They loved the music. A
speech by Congressman Sulzer
was so soothing, you could fall
asleep.
Sulzer was so popular on the
East Side, Tammany nominated
him for Governor and he was
elected, but elected over his great
popularity, he defied Tammany
and that's when he lost out. Tam-
many Boss Charley Murphy gave
orders for his impeachment and
he was tried and removed from
the governorship.
The story that Baruch relates
is of the time when Sulzer was a
Congressman. He was boasting
among a party of newspapermen
of -his great popularity with the
Jews. "Why," said he, "I in-
tervened with the Czar on behalf
of the Jews and when the Jews
learned this, they got down on
their knees in synagogues and
prayed for me." .
Herbert Bayard Swope, later
editor of the New York World,
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