The Jewish Herald (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 25, Ed. 1, Friday, March 19, 1909 Page: 4 of 8
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THE JEWISH HERALD
Published Weekly by tlie
HERALD PRINTING COMPANY
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G16 Foanin Street
Phone 5333
Subscription 150 per year
All communications for publication
ftmst reach the office hot later than
Wednesday at 6 p m
Entered as second class matter No-
vember 20 1908 at the postoffice at
Houston Texas under the Act of
March 3 1879
SHALL I OR SHALL I NOT
WRITE
Shall I write about Chasidie
Rabbis who held a conference not
long ago in Russia who appealed
to the antisimitic Russian govern-
ment for aid and protection of
the Yorch Dea against their
own flesh and blood against their
own oppressed brethren without
taking into consideration what
the result might be As we know
that same government which is
against the granting of equal
rights to their Jewish subjects
will gladly interfere with their in-
ner religious affairs with very
sad results if only given the
chance which we fear was done
by these Chasidie Rabbis Or
shall I write about our socalled
Maskilim of the same country
who made it their special busi-
ness to protect against the Yor
eh Dea and were agitating
against Judaism and its tradition-
al customs and were the direct
cause of this Rabbinical appeal
Shall I write about our socall
ed representatives who assembled
at Berlin and formed a universal
Jewish alliance on paper
Or shall I write about Alianc < le
Israelite of Paris which is work-
ing against the interests of the
Jewish Colonial Trust at Jaffa
Palestine and which supports an
Arabic bank in competition with
the Colonial Trust of the same
eityOr shall I wriie of bur Ortho-
dox representatives who liave lost
i he controlling influence over
their congregations in this coun
i vy who are not respected as they
ought to be and who when they
raise their voices to speak about
things which concern the Jewish
religion they are ordered by the
4J a ft feW
iftireka Laundry We tilend your fctofcheSi Old plitthe 08
officers of the congregation to
keep silence or take the chance of
losing their position and be ex-
posed to privation and inconven-
ience
Or shall I write about our re-
form representatives who know
the Talmud onlyby translation in
German or some other language
but very seldom in the original
and who are still getting good
salaries and who are highly re-
spected by their government for
specled by their congregation for
the mere fact that they were giv-
en or rather took the opportunity
of learning the English or some
other modern language
Shall I write about our old
learned Rabbis who sacrificed
their lives at the altar of Judaism
and are still continuing the same
today and for which they are get-
ting very little recognition
Or shall I write about the Galo
chim Rabbis who are blemishing
the Jewish religion who seek
cheap notoriety through the Eng-
lish press so that they may be
able to get more honor As a
matter of fact their congregcants
are very much inclined to have
the world talk of their Rabbis
and what able speakers they are
It does not matter what they say
even if it is contrary to tli3 pr n
ciples of Judaism they do not
care because all the Judaism they
possess is a beautiful Temple a
Galoch Rabbi and and that
is all
Shall I write abou our fratern-
al organizations whose members
are preaching benovelence broth-
erly love and harmony while in
iheir meeting rooms and are prac-
ticing just the opposite
Or shall I write about our char-
itable Jews who never give any
charity neither do they belong
to any charitable or religious or-
ganizations and when called up-
on for aid will always ask to be
excused for not giving as charity
begins at home with them Shall
I write about our orders which
are spending thousands of dollars
gates they send the less business
they transact
Shall I write about those char-
ity workers who will never make
a step ithout being paid for it
Or shall I write about those cliu
ity workers who have two pock-
ets one of their own and the other
for the charity money
Shall I write about communal
workers who demand more glory
than they deserve
Or shall I write about commun-
al agitators who always criticise
every body but never do nything
right themselves Shall I write
about French Rabbis who declar-
ed France for their Zion and Paris
as their Jerusalem and who after-
ward had the Dreyfus afiVv at
their Jerusalem
Or shall I write about those
who declared America as their
Zion and Washington for Jerusa-
lem and who are excluded from
the hotels at the summer resorts
for the only reason that they are
Jews and were at their Zion
Shall I write about those anti
Zionists who are antis for the
simple reason that they feared
they would be termed inconsist
ant were they to acknoAvledge the
right and justice of Zionism
Or shall I write about socalled
Zionists who do all the talking
but of practical work very little
or none
Shall I write about Poles of the
Mosaic faith or about Germans of
the Mosaic confession
Or shall I write about Ameri-
cans of the Jewish faith or about
the Mali Yofis Jews who de-
nounce the existence of the Jew-
ish race
Shalll Shall I Shall I
write ISCH ODESSA
CONVERSION IN RUSSIA
USELESS
The Russian Senate which
is
the supreme tribunal of the Mus-
covite Empire has just determin-
ed a question of very widespread
and exceptional interest It has
decided that the conversion oi
Jews to the orthodox faith that
for J heir conventions which were is to say to the national Church
really necessary and a part of the
Propaganda when the orders
were young but which is an ab-
solute waste of money now that
they are established
Or shall I write about those lorl
gers who are trying their utmost to
send more delegates than they are
entitled to conventions without
considering that the more dele
of Russia does not emancipate
them from the legal disabilities
to which they are subject It
thereby emphasizes the fact that
the special legislation against the
Hebrew race is not as so many
people seem to believe based on
religious fanaticism but on racial
and economic ground American
Hebrew
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THE CLOSED OFDAY
Written Especially for the Jewish
Herald by J J Prince
Far beyond the horizon the sun
has gone to rest
The last rays of departing day
still linger in the west
As darkening mists were gather 1
ing it faded far from sights
A golden glow burst thru the1
clouds and sank down into
night
Methinks I see that wearied form
with slow and measured tread
Go tottering down the great
White Path that leads unto
the death
Life is but a fleeing phantom pur-
sued an endless way
Oh death where is thy victory
tis Dawn at Close of Day
A HINT TO THE LADIES AID
The following piece of poetry
was composed by a young man of
Beaumont Upon witnessing
the extreme generosity of a prom-
inent member of the Jewish La-
dies Aid of that City
A robust strolling Sclmorer foxy
Jew
Was he fond of Kosher cooking
just a few
And his friend the Laides Aid
Was his greatest stock in trade
Did he work them Do you blame
him wouldnt you
They entertained him grandly a
laguest
Fed him from their larders of the
best
Shoes and clothes were made to lit
This smooth migrating Yit
But for work this MotzerIIozzer
didnt quest
Over his sad condition they shed
tears
Poor fellow just to think one
of his years
So lonely hopeless sad it is truly
very bad
That he should be so deeply in
arrears
So they purchased him a ticket
of
out town
g
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And thought their act one wprthy wv
of renown J e
But the next place tlntJTha made
He looked the Ladies Aid
For he had a good thing now ajul
held it down
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Goldberg, E. The Jewish Herald (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 25, Ed. 1, Friday, March 19, 1909, newspaper, March 19, 1909; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth84761/m1/4/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 11, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .