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who were the leaders in these perse-
cutions in Russia Fiery condemna-
tions by M. Ribalow, editor of
“Had.oar,” Hebrew * weekly; Rabbi
Harriett Brickner of Cleveland, Abra-
ham Goldberg and Bernard G. Rich-
ards were precipitated by the pre-
sentation of a resolution by Ezra
Shapiro of Cleveland, chairman of.
the resolutions* committee, condemn-
ing the persecutions, and the plight
of Russian Jews. Mr. Rilialow ob-
jected to the resolution us living too
weak to qerve. its purpose and was
joined, in these sentiments by the
other three speakers. Mr. .Goldberg
urged.the rewriting of (tie resolution
to express the admiration of Jewry
for the heroism of the Zionists and
.lews in Russia who bald fast to their
ideals in spite of oppressions.
Tb<* conyojition u'.'iiirpiously adopt-
ed the resolution and Mr. Ribalow,
Mr.' Goldberg ami Rabbi - llrickner
were • appointed by Morris Rothetj-
berg who presided at tbe session to
revise the t ebullition in Russia, j
in the course (if the dl-j ilfjibn, Dr.
J<•: i jUi ..Kjlve.iiiwiq 'urged ifidt a .ctiitise
be ilirlwleif Hi. ti;e resolution protest
jm; also ^again-t. Hip. persecvtirinH of
otliic people; in Ru -ui.
, ' A pot her Important (ievisjon re/icb
id at Monday, nightV r,e- ,i.in was i■ ■
i ft t in" Cle • A no ru an' didegat lore t;o
the World Zionist* < (logics' to pee
.that (orniedlate,step■ are lakeii ..for
j lie set tb-itulrt ..on the land .in Pales*
.Iriue iwfv,tbe j (prpwr legion quires whq
■. revert' Wl$4Tt»-'RrW-:h (iiri.-bSTii Pa)
Tine, 'I l”e aibtpled re oliplioit C'oilS
for 1be sitting aside Uf SHOO,mid in
Hie itext.’ budget; loXyard tlte-tfrtlfill-
(III lit of pledges pievd/Hlsiv .mifibi'to
tin'- legriilihliMTS and fn settle these
legionnaire-- on '25(10 111pnii11l- of Ipnd
syI .aside fin this" lOirposi, bt the
.11 V..I h not o-nal fund 'The ■ rcsolil-
• p n .p'nrai the -lipirt,'. Jo '’tie . li/peAi
rjjciVes rti th is py.u irtjjijr ffide.jjpnideiijjy
: nit with Die; ;Vid -of I fie Aineficnn
Zionist, t irg.'nnrat 1011 t,. raj « a . I > n u
11.1(0' -. ary Tiic iniif odifite eotOni/atlotl'
■ ■■ • p !<m ,vrnir an ..S;■; ><:.1 lih ' In
resolution rarid'.ttip required P-u'mi by
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By CHAS. JOSEPH
now. Morris always wcepa over his
losses for Art’s sake. But generally
they are crocodile tears. This time
they ure rcul lionest-to-goodness
weeps. It’s all because of the Pas-
sion IMay that Morris dug up some-
where in the Hinterland of the U. S.
A. It was announced us the famous
Freiburg Passion Play. When the
ministerial-looking gentleman, David
Belasco-, who happens also to he the
father.In-iuw.of Morris (Jest, decided
to g<Ain with the Morris on.the pre
dentation of the play, a wave of pro
the present time, groups represent-
ing all peoples of the world, with
the exception of the Jews, have
plans under way to express their
own particular contribution in these
rooms. Have the Jews as a
pie dtmtributed in a suficient de-
peo-
gree to the culture, civilization,
art, literature and religion jut the
world (fit warrant the establishment
of u purely Jewish room in this
Cuthedral of Learning?”
I would answer, “no.” It is true
test arose from the Jewish press. The j that Jews have contributed culturally
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BUSY BEE AND BUZZING FLY **■'
, . \ ■ - By /‘tyrii/ iiolJbetH ■
One of (Jrandftither Krilov’s TtiUlos relatos Ihe stor^of an
ox returning fpom ft- day's plowing, in' 11»*• field, iatrrving ■ a
buzzing fly on. it* forehead. A passing bee is made by the Ijy
to tell of its (fav’s-yielii of fiotu y. “And What have you been
doing the whole day V”'e$um,‘ the Ib'C's .turn to imjuire of the*Fly,
‘\we liavi1 heeip p)o\Vtiig!” f ame Iht unahash.ed reply. •. ;
Thie *ix iitnj the hoe irvthe fably, represent the toiling and till-
Ifitr fo^pea in life which move ahopi their tasks modestly and
surely, vyhitt; the fly represents tlie'element \s liielt comes m for
'thuyostenth]iows part, to supply the buzz, d were. During,
. social upheavals and reVblutiutfK, it i ■ in) r* <tu* fitly the ejevyuth
hoti r i ill 1 i v id i uti ,< if i j ill !< > r jt'. group .vv'Htpa ; "1. .'for h,md.,|u; p Mr .AivWbat'1 • SiU'crnma, tl»- "p.m,
achieved by countlesH prteht'ftirees:before. 1 .heuf,.: K«*. ig". it..t |„ ,t„. p',„SJ,i, i;. i. jif
usually the man who know- how in lipraiieaJt and :eapi)ajme .; • ;\f,. .sh m<'u;.
things! who reaps the .harvest nf wljat had been. ITlIjritrQtb'dy
-.sow n in t he i|ui’et“ wor'k-r'c-ui Of tilt uivWd.or,;
American erpai.ive life’, IiktVereJitivt" life .eyiTy'whtyr;
sarily proceeds .along tiic labof iorfS' sib ijt. pat h, sold not along
the path of ostiuitafion. Just now there seems to be a disposi-
tion on tlpf part tif .certain pnblirfate'iirs to gel the- pcpjde to
name the ten or twenty,,or forty •'greatest.. men iji -America,” as
though the people Were i.n p'-y • • t o•<. '.lie , t'a|M.lai;d bir Ijc
measure in Cut. of'greatjie’ss,- or .as l lieugh w«: could legit imal el.v
ascribe the aVceu'dcncy of-.f.luyAiio^ Vi<• ;di 'peoplo <>11 fy t<< IlipSh
whom pojiular vote1 ghooses tb “star.” Trusliitg. t he iniuitiqn
_oi the niasses in thip respect is-the Twj;es.t'.Wny <i f fastening upon
tJhern a distortion of national greatness and historic^ porspec,-
Sdtne of those rianied b\ popular virti* as flit', “greatest, men’’
will oh Scrutiny turn out. to b*. no more lb.an the;, .pr/yverlhal
buzzing flies who chanced 10 s.i.iur'vd an appeaHtjgAfiote, while,
to bo sure,)others' will. merit-1 Ik- esteefu in which' they are held..
What, however, shotibl never be forgotten; is,that. the real path-
finder in coftneeiioji with American greatness is.the American,
people itself, "the ox Vhieh tills afid. toils',’-’ slowly, suridy, and
without ostentation. Ere yef it has become fashionable! for
leaders in particular branches to star before the whole people,
there has been history made in America on a very grand scale ;
Wastes cultivated, natural resources uncovered, political inde-
pendence secured, arid the principles upon which the-Union
was founded tested by the ordeal of a civil war. None of these
achievements could be laid at'Lhe door of master strokes and
invention and genius. It is thu story of a pioneer people root-
ing itself into a new soil and emerging conscious of an ncroi*--
sense of nativity. It is the record of a people struggling for
mastery, and not the record of spasmodic greatness. In a
word, the achievement of the American people will be found
exactly where the achievement and greatness of other nations
are found—in the plowing of the qx and the honey-yielding of
the bee, and not in the buzzing fly1.
k'nilcrs. of Jewry urged him for the
sake of bid faith (ind bid people pot
t>i iih'm lit thid travesty on the cruet
ftviim. But Morris replied that all
the king'll men , ami all the king’d
horsed, not even l.mii.s Marshall or
Stephen, Wise-induiied could get him
ftf stop fh't! perfiirntanee in the inter-
im t of-Art. So lie wept ahead with it
in.-Hie Hippodrotu1
lint what Jewry couldn’t do the
public lias done very nicely. It has
pm tin Frotbure. . Passion Play on
ice. If i dead. And Morris is weep,
irtg .over it* bier.. -Jie may • ttijee it
OWrugAoririing w|iei;c' tky* yoke lit ihay
TimT'ifi it .kowii' bjie/jt'st tdit 4o .-far .as
N(,,w .V‘Hk- is (c;(ui,ct i'rie(1 'trie finished,
It dbiriT“)tatibitri'Ai‘'':Rv(y(,iy nuieb in.
t,h‘ I" ginning and in the end scarcely
j*t' ;i)l. • . But tie- woixt pen-lashing
L.(i(.t received wi>s from 'a young wr)t-
to civilization but not necesdarily
JEWISH culture. Eitwtvin has done
much for science but not JEWISH
science. Great Jewish musicians'have1,
contributed inustevjiiecos to the world
but not JEWISH music. It hlis been
the music of the country in which
they lived- Josef Israels Was 4 great
Jewish painter but he did pot Create
a JEWISH art. So we can go
.through the whole list and- we find no
’definitely JEWISH contributions of
music, art, literature (excepting re-
ligious), To civilization. We have had
innumerable contributions by Jews.
But the Jews have imbibed culture
of the land in which they live'd and.
expressed themselves culturally in
the fasluoir of (heir eoup’lry. I heard
that J’ttksUmajhfpik songs have
Wen' discovefed liiif‘,#ifa assured.,.by
an authojity that thes music was
really Russian and pot Palestinian.
H'owover that• may be, I can see no
busjs for the estiihlisHment of. a
purely Jewish io^j stu b as suggested
CONDEMNATION OF CHRISTIAN
MISSIONARY EFFORT
TO GOOD - WILL
MENACE
MOVEMENT
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Heller of “Cincinnati called the Sun-
day school* n complete, failure and
declared that the children arc grow-
ing up ignorant of things Jewish.
Rabbi Silverman blamed the failure
of the Sunday schools on the rabbis!
inability to bring success to the pres-
ent system of religious education,
while Rabbi Bnrnctt Brickner of
Cleveland blamed the failure of the
schools oh the antiquated theology at
‘ present 'followed and urged that
methods of instruction and teaching
of Jewish history and religion be
brought up to date.
THk system of the present religious
schools was defended by I>r. F.mnnuel
Gamoran, director uf education of
the- Union of American Hebrew Con-
gregations. ' The discussion on ihu
Reform religious»schools developed
‘aa a result of a report by Rabbi Ja-
cob R. Pollack, assistant director of
-nmagogue and School Extension of
the Unfoh of American Hebrew Con-
gregations ip New York City, who
pointed out that whereas the nvernge
cost of Jewish education per child in
non-Reform schools is $30 per ycur,
Reform Jevys are spending only $6
per child in their Sunday schools.
Rabbi Pollack told the convention
that whereus other Jewish groups
were spending |8,27^,623 annually
on the education of their children,
the Reform Jews were spending ortly
9607,310 or five and eignt-tenths per
sent of this amount. He reported the
number of children in Reform schools
to have grown from 9699 in 1899 to
4M46 todayi
Rabbi Solomon Fineberg of Mount
Vernon, New York, deplored the feet
Reforpt religious schools have
miuie to anpear as a place
one learns fairy talas end urg-
eriting of textbooks and
dlcal material new held to
In each e way that their
pin unimpaired,
the Committee on
Rabbi Edwin N.
Va., told of the
through the intervention of members
of the conference, Bible reading bills
were . defeated in Wisconsin, Michi-
gan, West Virginia, Tennessee and
Ohio. " ’
is exported that heater! discus-
sion will develop *ul Sunday morn-
ing’s session on resolutions which may
affect the future existenep of the
good-will committee of Christians and
Jews, Further discussion on mis-
sionary effort* in this country is ex-
pected on Sunday.
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NATIONAL COUNCIL OF
JEWISH WOMEN BOARD
WILL MEET IN OCTOBER
•■aras™
Mri.Joseph E. Friend Addresses
Meetings in East
New York -City. - At the meeting of
its executive committee in this city,
the National Council of Jewish Worn
cn decided to hold its next sessions of
its board of managers in New York
City on October 21 to 24. The Sixth
Biennial (^invention of the National
Council of. Jewish Juniors will be
held in the same month, on October
27 to 30, in Cleveland.
At the October meeting of the
board, final plans will he considered
for the Twelfth Triennial Convention,
wl ich will he held at Log Angeles
during the week of January 12, 1930,
Following' the recent meeting of
the executive committee; over which
she presided, Mrs.' Joseph E. Friend
of New Orleans, president of the Na-
tional Council of Jewish Women at-
tended the Biennial Council meeting
of the General Federation of Womr
en’s Clubs, on whose executive com-
mittee j she serves, at Hwampscott,
Mass., and then visited several cities
in the Eastern states, to apeak under
the auspices of their council sec-
tions.- She also presided atV>ne of
the sessions of the National Confer-
ence of Jewieh Social Service, which
met in Atlantic City.
Frmm Roman Patriot
The Society of the Order of Olacta-
nati la nanad after the Roman proto-
type of the young American oStcera
arho left their tor ate to Sghi the bat
4N of the arpuhllc Thia prototype
Loci Be Qulnctloe Ctoctnoaiua.
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liH'ago'
'vTT. '*P!i.;''-i r!’-'(J iTVUO.,
Tin- cpj)vcmr<*ii:Tji*ptI 'lv^sjituiidri'
!<edging cttiii'rmitHJ rapport..tDr.,
i.liaiiri Weiz'mntiii. fRi-o.lptiojis wpre'
'ndv.picd ..grertiiig Npliuiji Tjukdinvv ..i-n
b'is pie i'iit visit lo iliT'cuiiiitry nijtl
■.f'.'li'iritating Mr, TuOjj- .M^rslifill and
Mr. Fedx M. Wurburg fuii tbeiy ef
fort's ip behalf of (lie-lewisli Agency.
A uhanitiimis vbl.i* vmv gii'en u .reso'-
tiit'ioii ;wbu:l.t. placed flic convention,
oil roctir.il ‘ngaiot-P tbf prdpiisal to re-
form Ibo oil0-Hjiit|.„ Another resolit;
tion * ridor-i'd Ibo off oris of the Avu-
kEili to intro.ilui < tiic study of ile-
bre.w m sehoiils in tllift country. The
eoii v< iiiibH weitt on record crHlorsing
tbo.\\,i>i 1:.of ibo 1 It'ii(1riif)i lvriih and
pWigiiig (phiipiiod i.uptrort id The
'.'li ed* or," Meyer \V, Wectgul, edi-
tor of lIn- "New i’alc.-fine,” and Mrs.
.'•Tlvorpatii;: cbaiiiman of the Uirr/.lt
Atcriiorial Ciirijirritti'e. ryere commend-
ed for tin; Ifurzl Mi'in-oriul Vjiliiiii* *if
.the "-New i.^'lfstlne.” ,.
Tip; ((jrivc'ittpin also renevylTI its
endpi -I'ment ' of the work df the
American Ji-wi h Congress and rcc-
oiiiiiii'iidc*!. to tlie districts that they
pay -ten i;o uts per,.eapila to the con-
gress. An im'portanj resolutiftn wliicb
was adopted without the customary
discussions was one which culled for
the approval of the reports pf ,tlie
iiilmini.striitipn and which wits in ef-
fect a vote of confidence. .
At the Mdnday -aftehioon sekkivn
the rum of $340,Odd was raised (or
the Palestine work. This sum was
rorttriViited at ,the United Palestine
Appeal session It included a check’
for $25,000 from Detroit, presen fed
by the Detroit .chairman, Abraham
Cooper; ehefks for $;l5,000»frdm New
York, $35,000, from . Chicago and
$25,000 from Philadelphia.
The convention wils greeted liy the
(Vnlral Confei’ence of American Rub-
Ids whuse (.'onki'iition in Detroit j'ust
cloreli. This is the fjt'st (tme a
Zionist convention received the great-
ings of Reform ralihis.
The United Palestine A-pp^al famed
up to date the amount of $2,07(5,020,
Ineluding $33(1,017 payments made
on account of.'pledges during June,
it was reported at the session pre-
sided over by Max Shulman, o1 Chi-
cago. The delcgutcs guve n rousing
ovation to Judge William M. Lewis,
ipitional chairman, when it was an-
nounced that he is proceeding on his
first visit to Palestine this week.
An AvukaU luncheon was held,
with-Rabbi James Heller of Cincin-
nati ns chairman. Several hundred
guests attended. A Histndruth Ivrith
meeting was addressed by Nahum
Sokolow. .5
The report of Dr. M. M. Kaylan,
who was ulisent, was rend. The gen-
eral discussion on the administrutiop
report and on the future of the Zion-
ist Organisation of America were in-
augurated by Dr. A. Cornlnik and
Abraham Goldberg. According . to
forecasts-important changes nre ex-
ported to lir made in the personnel
of the administration, (hough it is n
foregone-conclusion that Louis f.ip-
sky will lie re-elected us president
in hiif'iibserice, •
The • aueslHin of whether or* not
Hndassnh, women’s Zionist organiza-
tion, is to be accorded separato rep-
resentation as a group on the Z. O..
A.' administration was raised in the
report of the committee <m affiliated
organizations. TTuj committee was
divided, a majority recommending
representation to# the women motn-
bership, while a minority asked for
the specific mention of Hadassah.
Following discussion in which Rabbi
Brickner, Rabbi Feldman and Jacob
Fishman participated, the entire mat-
ter was tabled.
Sho Suroly la a Prism
1b order to settle ■ dispute among
her suitors on Italian girl raffled her
self off. egreelog to marry the bolder
of the winning ticket They'll prob-
ably be Joat as Mppy aa tf they’d
gone through the pretense of aa aa
gagement and all that sort of thing.—
Buffalo Courier Kxpraaa.
d 'named Loui * Bmwd.v, d foriakr
P.itt■-bnrgb boy, hut. now I'ri'i'-lnm'i'
■yri'i* 1 IV-j|, New Toft, I- know:. Ldtlis
very will in-deod (mil • I Want Id.coii for other rmtiorWitics,
( i .i "- ■liiui ■ /jit ■ i i 111.».-■ t *■ i-|»if■
ill* Du- "Nation. ' which IVatuiVd ii
unde* tiic title- !.‘‘M'bm*t tfi■ ot had
ttif 1 i-o n PI a .’ hind Mime. Of the
eJiOT.'i,'.-hitH thiu ’'How:
. HroW'dy: ’
"I'o idi' the ikVafro I • a.w -«'i ,'il'rllj
• (ii. ecminahle (j'U '-aehi iweswit
:.(.*• ingredihlf ',distortion nf
«iv |m. I • story. -'I'iie .iiipst (eil.iackj-
(»li -aiid, to no Jl)it uiiist iiiemol-
iild* imunents ••f ib< evening .of-
(- ii c.d in the ini f fide- ions when,
as IKe . urjuin di oemied And ,the
Tnoselig-ljlsj' fa.iiie'sluivly on, an.'
oiitii-y arose i/i file - aisle#. .‘Get
yo'ir iee-eohl Eskfujo pies,’
alioUle.l the e.o . f yaiply Venders.
Mr. Gest'had n/d forgotten to sell
(hi' i aroly cote 1 noli fol* the. greiit
(fytinia’ of the er icifixion. . ilail be
not ■ .',01 Illy tie iijify ed iiis deep
of the > mii'ld’y ;,’f* the play
when in his advel-ti'sejnents -he had
cerpiefted the 111[)|iodro)iie ituili
cnee to. ri'fr.'.iii from uptilausw?”
"if i- i]U,ilo uejitte wRh th'' other’
mis-shitemcnt; JO' Aire..GesUs. an-
niiiineeiiientS' f Tat.'lip Ijas adveftia-
ed'hii. Passion Pkty de. 'Directifrom
I'Voihulg with 'iii'-O (igttiui fast of
i nun. living p'-sAns.’ The, cast,
avitially mail itp of fifteen or
twenty German actors n’tid about
2un ■upefnuirMcaries * (ionic 1 of
w'hbiii' told mo (hatThey wore paid
'. the jnunifii eat sum of $8 a yeok
and inuiiy ol' whom were discharg-
ed at the end of the first fortnight
after l ebcarkinK two weeks -without,,
pay k Thi* Famnncht troupe has
tie* ji in American for nearly a year,
haying given their first American
tiuformaocii ..In St. Josepii, Mo.,
la t A«|Ru*t • , Mr. Gctft, Hie
Christuk and the Judas are receiv-
ing $1090 a. Week each ^itw.attd'i-
U'pn, <50 per cent <>/ the prb(ii»4o
did 40 jifr cent to the
JFrom <®tlifr Pros
When the lion lies down with the lamb, it is always • good thing to see
whether the lamb is within or without the lion. For the past few years
there has been in existence u group of liberal and socially minded Chris-
tian clergymen, belonging to the Federation of Churches of Christ of
America who have attempted in their own way to establish pleasant rela-
tionship between Jew and Gentile. And they have taken into this group
some very prominent Jews who have co-operated with them to the fullest
extent. v •
But. within the past few months, a good deal of dissatisfaction has been1
apparent with this group. It has been buffetted aluyut both by Jews and
Christians, Good Christians have resented the. fact that Bishop Cadman
has given more time to his radio talks to the Jews than to the orthodox .
ChriBtinns, and good Jews have resented the facf that the fouhder of this
good-will group have insisted upon their rights to proselytize among the
youth of Israel.'
Those Jews who have protested against this,missionary work, have re-
ceived the reply that they* were interfering with the rights-of religious free-
dom of the Christians We believe that this is a" specious' argument, for *s
we Jews,feel that an attempt tp proselytize our Jewish boys and girls, and
lead them from the faith of‘their, father's i» also an-infringement on our
gu'arantbes of religious freedom. .- '
Whai we resen t mhst, as Louis Marshall - so succinctly put-it, is the innu-
(fn.«k^jji^e^tsgun|pti'oin.'Qn thl* part of the missionary group that the J.cw and
‘ • "'< iieici. jarnl that .wt mu ! have the .Christian religion
:gt\ to Ge.-it an
Fassnachts.”'
'" Mr. Milton
SchayeiS . the well
krlown, Jewish-.columnist, dropiied in
to see me the other day with the
idea of a Jewish Book-bf-the-Month
Club. . This iputter h^s been discussed
from tithe to. time in the Jewish press
and an interesting; statement regnM-
ing it was made recently by Itiyfibj
Louis Grin--, of Brooklyn, N. Y. I'
thpik the idea is a good one. It
should encourage a wider interest in
books by Jewish authors dealing with
subjects df interest tp tiic Jew. It
Would h1k(( sirve the purpose of iti-
tolljgently guiding the Jewish toad-'
ing public in th* direction of Worth-
;whrle books on Jewish subjects. It
would also help Jewish authors who
toddy lire. lading their light under a
bushel. I hojia that ’Mr. .Sduiyer will
continue to agitate the idcu until it
becomas a .reality.
i *<r—
I am in' receipt'of a letter stating:
(■‘‘The I’iDsburgh Conference of
Jewish Women’s Organizations is
eager to gel an expression of your
opinion on a. matter of great im-
portance not only to local but to
international Jewry ns well, Quot-
ing ' Chancellor Bowmun, of the
Cathedral of Learning (Univer-
sity' of l’ittsburgh), ‘the various
rooms of tile. Cathedral of Isvirn;
ing are to represent' tho oultural
contHbutionk of the many peoples
I. O. B B. PRESIDENT
. ISSUES STATEMENT ON
DR. BOGEN’S DEATH
Cincinnati. — (JTA)-— A statement
by Alfred M. Cohen, president of the
Independent Order B’nai Hrith, on
the doath of Dr. Boris l>. Bogen. ex-
ecutive secretary, was made ptiblic
here,
"Dr. Boris D. Bogen, secretary of
the Independent Order B’nai B-ith,
who expired sudden'y. In the r .hist
of a fnmilv reunion at Arcadia, a su-
burb of Los Annies, Cal., last Sat-
urday night, left Cinciraati appar-
ently in his us* *1 health n the ”0ti.
of June, with *’ " intention o at-
tending the ann*. meeting of Dis-
trict Grand I*odge No. 1 at C land,
Cal., and a fe later* ?e Na-
tional Conference of-Social Service at
San Francisco. His attendance at
both bodies «ii the lire of duty.
Thereafter he vra. k ip* J • vaca-
tion with hi- wife, v. ose ealth has
been c< nsei >d in OaF'amir and
I '11(11* lied \\il|i :i I’nivi'i.-i v pin-,
fo- -11r and lie told me that ho had
the lusk of locating positions 'for*
gratfuathk of the Ivu.sinnss dejiartinenl
of the college.' lie told; mo that ht.-
e’kjii'i'ietlc'i'ii .real .difficulty., wijb Die
Jewish .bdjm. uml what surprised him
mg •’-niore Diii'n unything else was the fact
Tbc thiii In Tdjd Itiiuldy win with--Jewish
iinploytis in obtaining positions for
Die Jewish .applicant*, Of course
|hi,*’' is niilN-news, but,coming from
such a source ft reflected in nil, fjivor-
idike light-the attitude of the Jewish
cipproyer toward Iris own people, i
sometimes wonder if these Jews know
what they are doing. They must have
/cry little imagination if they fail to
appreciate that what they are doing
to the children of other Jews may
some /lay happen to their own .chil-
dren. The economic opportunity for
•the Jewish boy uild gifl ik sufficiently
limited by the non-Jew without She
Jew. ciint,riliiit-ing fo' make even ipofe*
limited. .
■" —••'■y ■ ■■
I aril glad to puldiah (his letter
from my olil-time friend. Rabbi
< "a! i.sch: . -
' "Dear M;r. Joseph;
“Of course 1 am a constant read-
er of your ‘colyuia,’ and. always
.with pleasiye and profit. Every
oru'e njiil -awhile I have an urge
in write to you to telle...yaiu this,
ar*d I am using your paragraph in
the ik's.ue of May ,‘)1 r'egilrding
Rabid Feldmans’ experience .as a
.peg ot) which to bang this epiktlc.
"1 have had likewise ii rather
interesting experience, though not
exactly similar to that of Rabbi
Feldman, but. nime-thc-loss I be-
lieve, unique. At the-Ecumenical :
Gouikcil. of the Episcopal Church
(which is. a w'brld-wide orgaaiza-,
tion) and which was held here in
Riehmond some years ago, I had
the very distinguished-hono^ of
being invited th deliver an qijdrcs.s
before the House of Bishops. The
Cqurft.il is ejivided into two bodies,
the lay delegates and ministers and
the House of Bishops. The meet-
ing of the House of Bishops was
held in the capitol building in the
room of the House of Delegates of
tip* Slate of Virginia. ! was waited
upon by the Bishop of Tokyo,
Japan, with the request for. the
address. When I came to' the cap-
ital building to the door of the
chamber, I was met by a commit-
tee of two, and as I entered the
chamber, the house rose and re-
mained standing until I was es-
corted to the platfor.pl. After my
address the house ugain rose as I
left the room. I was told that
never-before, had such an incident
.took place, nor huve I heard of iU
occurring since.
"It may be interesting to add
Dial' { also participated in a fu-
neral service of the Episcopal
Church at .the death of Mrs. Jeffer-
son DaVis, the widow of the presi--
iiJent of the Confederacy. 1 was
invited by the then pastor of St.
Raul’s Episcopal Church, where the
funeral seJvtce was held, to take
part ip the funeral service. I reud
the tiOth Psalm. There was no
other minister beside the pHStor
of tin* church Hnd myself.
"EDWARD N. CALISCH.”
the neighborhood of L.o» Angeles.
"His plans were carried out. He
attended both conventions, manifest-
ing his accustomed zeal and went
f*rom Sun Francisco to Arcadia on
Saturday evening. AH the family
came together joyfully. Without
warning, in the .midst of his loved
ones, he pussed away.
"The funeral will occur at Los
Angeles, where he returned member-
ship in Rabbi Mugnin’s congregation,
althrmigh since his return to Cim4n-
nati as secretary of the B’nai Britb
he wi. affiliated with the Rockdale
Avenue Temple of this city. The
time til the obsequies will be deter-
mined on the arrival of- Dr. Emil
Bogen, a son, yvho left for the West
immediately on learning of his' fath-
er’s death.
“Hundreds of telegrams and mes-
sages of regret have been received at
B’nai Brith headquarters. Dr. Bogen,
in hia B’nai Brith work, a# in all of
three of hit
and eupportera everywhere,” Prefi-
re. > la d at Cohen declared
his i-
so that we can be saved. Says MiitkhaJl;
-"■That we Jews-have nothing to fear from the testing of our'rcligion
is evidenced by the fact that great- Christians.have paid tribute to our
religion and to ils achievemetlts. Let me mention, merfely by way of
'-example, the great work- of Prof. George. Foote Mrfore on'‘.‘Judaism,’
the writings nS Prof. St rack on the Talmud, the monumental work'of
Cation HerCurd on Pharisaism.; ’ The nuuiber . of unbiased., witnesses
>aii .be miiel'initi'ly 'multiplieil. ^ Nor’ is there need - even of this evj-
dirfiee. ' It. (jiiffichs To suy tfj/t ,'toih>y, Judaism prh rhts to vi*>w as
i'jeai'v p ' exalted iind. us practical a map of life as eVi r has a religious
faith, and that those who have, steered- their course affording tovij,
however, small comparatively thuir numbers may be, are as determined,
to' preserve it Us were their teachers of.,yofe fhom wKont it vyax/de- ^
rived.”—-"California Jewish Chronicle. ■
■ '-' *‘V'' 4' ' * .
v" :■ '' • ' . ..
THE CEHTER VERSUS THE SYNAGOGUE
• Dr-.: Ho race M. Kallen, .whie is a well known Zionist und professor at the
Ntav School of Stj.cial Research,-delivered an interesting address at the .re-
cent Torfvt'iijiori of the •National Association of Jewish Community Center
Secretaries which was held at Atlantic City. Dr. Kallen pointed out that
thij community centers have lost their former function of serving primarily,
as Americanization Agencies. He said further •’that "4hi» Jewish center has
now arrived at a! stage where -it is'changing its objective’ to' that of .ludftiziv-
Lion. The Center is therefore justified in reaching out to large numbers
in order that it might bring to bear its influence on the largest possible
group with the vifcVlo the preservation of the Jewish group lif^/ The Jew-
ish center has arisen in the contex of Jewish life because of'he failure of
the Synugpguc iidequatvly* to,provide means for its preservation. It there-
fore has become the mission of the Jewish center to provide for. activities
both Jewish and ifon-Jvwish in character, for even .those that are not Jew-
ish jiiiiviiio the means whereby Jewish groups affiliate. The Jewish' Center
mu's; establish' a relationship with "the home anil-the educational program
jjiiust begirt with the children of pre-school age in order to be most effec-
tive” ■ H-
.Of course Dr. KuHon is perfectly- correct when he sl^8 that Jewish Cen-
ters must become agencies for JudaizUtion, for unless they do that there
will be no justification for iheir futbre existence. Ilowevor, he is unfair %
when he 'pronounces a sweepjrig generalization..that the Synagogue has
failed id its. purpose and he is certainly positing too much when he thinks
that the Center may become the Judaizing force par excellence^ Ral-
le.n has art old Rabbi-phobia from which he can not free himself, but as a
philosopher he certainly ought to be able to discard preconceived notions.
The fact of the matter is that as Judaizing agencies the centers have
hitherto not been much of a success, since many of their head workers are
u mi lab' to reconcile their ultra-iprogressive ideas with practical Jewish work.
l«i spite of Dr. KaIRn’s stricture of Synagogue activities,: it is this institu-
tion which is insuring the. Jewish future in Americp and as a matter of eelf-
preSci'Vatidh it Will be necessai'y for our, community centers to act as ad-
juncts to the Synagogue. He who imagines that “swimming pool and
basket ball Judaism” is going to supplant the Synagogue is dreaming
dreams and seeing visions.—The Sentinel.
♦ 4- ♦
RACE—RELIGION—NATIONALITY
A nation is a people united politically under one government, ’ whose
laws and whose Support is voluntarily accepted and assumed. Such a na-
tion may consist of different racial and religious groups, as in the United
States, but united in civic understanding. Tho nationality of the Jewish
applicant born in America is American. He is an, American of Jewish
foith, and alj prospective employers are ignorant or prejudiced, if they can
not or will' not Bee it so. An applicant is in error, however, in assuming
that he belongs “to a Jewish race." There; is no “Jewish racei”
A race is a particular division of mankind differing from pther human
species of color of skin, form of hair and shape of Hkull and other physical
characteristics. We ure taught that the five races of mankind are.'Cau-
casian, Indian, Ethiopian, Malay and Mongolian.
There is no "Jewish” race. Most Jews arc of the Caucasian race.
Dr. A. L. Koerber, professor of anthropology of the University of Cali-
fornia, has very effectually proven that there is no “Jewish race.". He de-
clares that throughout the civilized world the Jew in his body Is essentially
the same with the non-Jew of the same country. They vary in their
physical characteristics according to the lands in which they live—and they
live in all lands^—otien China and Abyssinia. The distinction is not na-
tionality or race-:—but in religion. A Jew in America should say: “I am
an-American, of Jewish faith or Jewish ancestry!”
"Jews nre no longer a tribe or tribes ns antiquity records, any more than
their Christian fellow-citizens, whose ancestors were perhaps of some
heathen tribe if not of the Jewish ancestral troc, just as with those of any
citizen of any other faith. In America the Jew can play his part of pa- 9;
triot without restraint. In Palestine there was .a Jewish kingdom many
thousands of years ago—but after its destruction the Jew became a citizen
of ail nations. . ■ ,
“In ‘‘America the Jew will never seifer his devotion, his allegiance, loy-
alty and love from the United. States. In America the Jew can be not
only a'loyal citizen, but Jew as well and be respected as a Jew if he lives
truly up to Judaism's high demands of honor and morality. . That ia why
America is the Holy Land to the Jew who is American, and why he wants
no other country. ,
No other land, existent in reality or in the Imaginative fancy of misled
enthusiasts, can rivaT or excel the fine ideals, opportunities and possibilities |
that are offered in America to all of us, to Jew and to noh-Jew—-not as a
•v ;;;*'
aa. •••«»« .... wiivn wvgto. aaa «u va are QIIOrtMJ 111 AmOTlCR VO »ll OI UB, VO JCW »nU VO nUTl-tlBW——
Eras™ jet ” p.o"'L”tbr.;:li“.k;"i.:
protec-
tion” we mutt graciously accept—but by virtue of the basic prineiplae of
Justice and democracy.—Modern View.
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