September 29, 1921: Rosh Hashanah Edition

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Men are inexcusable if they do not pursue that which their judgment tells them is the most laudable. — Joseph |!i Addison.

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George Bernard Staw, having arRabbi. Fred Eypins (H. U. C. "21) rived at that pericd in life when was installed as Associate Eabbi of climbing up one flight cf stairs causes Congregation Eudolph Sholein of heavy breathing, set about .o dis- Pittsburg last Friday night. cover solace for his advancing years An unusually interesting note was and found it by writing "Back to lent to the ceremony through the Methuselah," the philosophy of an presence of the young Babbi's uacte, old man, unwilling, to admit grey hair Eabbi Louis Bernstein, also cf Oma- Notable Gathering In CIticago Hears Tales Of Keren Hayesod, Now Being Raised Throughout and reading, glasses. ha, who occupies the pulpit of ConBonce de Leoa^soffle. years before, gregation Mt. Sinai at Baltimore, and Appalling Woe—Work Of Joint Distribution Country, To Be Used in Constructive W o r k s attempted the .saass thing in .Florida, who conducted the installation serv•'• Committee Narrated—Fourteen Million Intensive Development Of Natural but had to give it up, as the Fountain ices. . of Youth was not ^discovered until Eabbi Rypins was bora in Omaha Dollars To Be Raised In America Resources To Be Undertaken— enterprising Chambers of Commerce twenty-seven years ago, sad was edu' To Relieve European Distress Education To Be Furthered put Palm Beach and Miami on the cated in the local schools, graduating map. from Central High School with honors • What are the undertakings and ac- transformed into forests. This will By HENRY MONSKY To G. B. S., the late Mr. DeLeoa in 1912. He left immediately theretivities which are the special functions lead to the conservation of the rainSeveral weeks ago, Julius Rosen- have possibly entertained th« and other advocates of perpetual j after to enter Hebrew Union College of the Keren Hayesod? Briefly stat- fall, the preservation of the soil wald, that magnificent and outstand- thought of abandonment of war reyouth and longevity is recommended in Cincinnati. ed, they comprise the following: - against erosion and sand invasion, and visit to the Harlem Home of the In Pittsburg he will be associated ing character in Jewish pMlanthropy, lief work. the decrease of malariaDaughters, of* Israel at 32 East 119th with Eabbi Samuel Goldenson,' and issued a call to men in every communMany Millions Spent. Agricultural Colonization. Other activities which come under street, where -these gentlemen will will have charge -of the Sunday School ity who have been active in War BeWe were informed that since the Only 10 per cent of the soil of this head are those of general sanitafind much to bring Jpy into their department of the Temple, which is lief Work to attend a conference to beginning of the activities of the Joint Palestine is at present under cultiva- tion, which includes the drainage of lives, in the shape of 60 men and said to be one cf _the largest in the be held in Chicago, Sept. 25. Distribution Committee, a fund of tion—a cultivation which is largely marshes; the conservation of the wawomen of ^ages varying from 80 to country. The purpose of the conference, as more than Forty-seven Million Dol• primitive in its methods and corre- ter resources through "the canalization 112, enjoying to the limit this munRabbi Eypins is also a nephew of stated in the call, was to consider the !lars was. raised from American Jews, spondingly meagre in its yield. Two of rivers and a system of reservoirs, dsno sphere. Nathan Bernstein and Miss Ease advisability of s drive or campaign j and that all of it was wisely and thousand years ago, the now barren cisterns, and wells; roadbuilding, and There may be someone at the Home Bernstein cf t2sis city. for funds to finance the work of the j beneficially expended in the war•, • hillsides, marshes, and dunes were the construction. of workers* houses. b y . " older than. Mrs. Urdang, born in Joint Distribution Committee in the; stricken sections of Europe and Palesrich.,with vegetation- Galilee was a Courland, 112 years ago, but that war-stricken zones, and if determined tine; that .the only section in which net-work of towns and villages. The Public Services. person- is yet; to make that confesto have soca & drive, then to plan intensive relief work has not beem acJordan Valley, today fever-ridden and Another third -of the remainder of sion. In fact, Mrs. Urdang may be i complished is that portion o£ Kussia ways and means thereof. deserted, was; teeming with life and the Keren Hayesod, after deducting a few years older than 112, for the ] known as "White Russia" and the • Omaha represented by Messrs. H. labor. the 20 per cent for land purchase and secretary of the Home" said that the' Ukraine under Soviet control. In A. Wolf, Harry E. Lapidus, A. E. Al] The Keren Hayesod must be the preparation, is to be applied for pubwomen are as shy and coy in telling tae "latter territory, conditions as B pirn and the writer, and it is my L • chief instrument for the redemption lic services, among which those conthe truth aboot their ages as the privilege, upon the request of the described by Dr. Frank Rosenblatt of and resettlement of this soiL It must nected with immigration and educasingle girl who quit "having birthdays 8 Editor of the Jewish Press, to make New York, wao made a persons! tour, S* 1- purchase those tracts which are held tion deserve first rank. The present after 21. Mrs.* Mashe Brafman and this report, which in fact will be but at the risk of Ms' life, were ms& con^.""V-by private, non-Jewish owners, who school system of Palestine, which has Says Germans Are Making Best Mrs. Pesiie Breitaan confessed to a Dr. Prilutzki Claims "Majority-of a brief summary of the events of the tinue to be as might be imagined, Headway-—Monument Craze youthful 105' years, while two other Polish Jews Anxious to Fig&t. j | are willing to selL It will, no doubt, achieved the remarkable feat of rethe most deplorable and distressing cesfereace. . at Highest Peak. l«nce It proves itself competent, secure viving the Hebrew language on the for Rights in PolaacL women are at least that old; according that one could contemplate. ArrangeAt eleven o'clock of the dsy for i the right to develop the large tracts lips of 90 per. cent of the Jewish to' Barnet ScMissel, manager of the -Dr. Noah PriiutsM, of Poland, ^dach t i e conference was called, there ments have been made, the details -ef Eabbi Nathan Krass of the Central Home, but they wm*fc admit it. led by the state, the former Tur- school children, must be strengthened •which sppeax TO page 3 of this igsse* ?lash crown lands, which comprise over and extended. Higher institutions, in- Synagogue, New York, s. {member of "At what age fees a woman begin noted throughout Eastern and Central responded to the roll call, men Tdio, whereby frails being available, palliaEurope as an editor, scholar and from fee • standpoint of leaderships cluding technical schools and the Uni- the Joint Distribution Committee, re- telling her rigte age?**'is a question 1,000,000 dnnams. tive relief csa now be dose on an exThe Jewish National Fund is the versity in Jerusalem, must be added. turned from Europe last Saturday that one asls upon visiting this' re- statesman, arrived last week in New- standing and reputation'not only of s tensive scale 'in this diseage-iaSecMT York. local but of a national . character, ^-particular agency through which the •-. Of course, the parents of Palestine markable Jewish institution. Another He said that all the countries of EuDr. PrilutzM stated that he had f orxaed the finest assembly" that i€ nas and epidemic ridden territory. will contribute towards the education .• Keren Hayesod "will operate for the question, promoted "by the agility and evea been the writer's privilege to atcome to America for two reasons. ' purchase and preparation of land. of their children,.but the task of xe- rope had coma to realize that treaties Bpryness of; these remarkable old Keeeisary. tend. One is to plead for changes in the For this purpose, 20 per cent of the ~viving--SDd* modernizing Hebrew cul- and legislation were useless, without Jewish "womea is answered by'the In the other sections, those in wkfcb ; ^85- S t s t o EepreseBtei. Keren Hayesod will be turned over to ture in Palestine is a Jewish national production and therefore had got care aad - treatment $ne finds-" they present iaimigration law, and Use active relief work has been csrmd «m ether " to .assist in the raising cf teoly an isspira&oE to wittask. I t is too great-aad difficult to the Jewish. National Fund. receiva thsa&»--TEe Jewish-Ledger.:.; dovm to work, the hum of'industry page fands ;Icx jkigrom sufferers. p : oofgrfgaee. ceaspxMB&K -.«boat. .;& aii^n^lisb^il^i^^imrjenta ja ay., ^ i i g h e r In' •<Jermany; -I want to" clear" "op i i e ISO delegates cozrdag from more than I t is for the benefitof all -JGwry : One-third of the Tremainaer of the sdSl Jewry, must /bear; ^e^burdeti, ana" anywhere else. Dr. Krass visited tion question in .tHfi' Bands- of your 35 states : in t i e Union-and represenKeren Hayesod TOH.~IJ© applied for bear it joyfully, people," he stated'to' a,reporter Jfoff tative "of,: the-.--.entire. .country, _ ftem Czecho-Slovakia, Austria,- Germany, ,; essential public works without which Little need be said to make clear England and France. t i e Jewish Tribune. " Y o u Iselieve "Washington to' Maine," and from tlie ?--<* BO colonization, agricultural or in3us- the importance of regulating- and. or- "Many tourists," He said, "gain an that all the Jews in Poland wsnt to Gtslf to Canada, axid to knew that trial, is possible in-Palestme.' Among ganizing the stream of immigration erroneous impression of the European • Eabbi-Frederick Cohn-^-Temple Is- come to America. That is not true these men journeyed to Chicago, at the most important is afforestation. which will .flow into Palestine ' tfee capitals, particularly London, Paris &i alL The Jews want and •will stay their own expense in the interest of this, perhaps the most sacred, of all WILL MEET NEXT WEDNESDAY The naked hillsides, the sand dunes moment the country offers the neces- and Berlin. All are crowded with rael: Sunday Evening—"Judaism in the ia Poland to fight for their rights Jewish - causes. The. atmosphere and the marshes, can and must be ary opportunities. Organization /work visitors, but the marked display of NIGHT. of citizenship, which were guaranteed Balance." seemed to l>e. surcharged with an to tEem under the minority rights' is necessary at the sources as well as wealth and prosperity on every hand Monday Homing—"The Spirit of clauses of the' Versailles Peace earnestness that betokened the seri- Win. L. Holaman, Chairman of the the landing points. Eeceiving stations, is superficial, for the masses still.are ousness of the task these representa- War Relief Committee of Omsfea, to*the Jew." emporary dwellings, medical relief suffering from the effects of the war Rabbi Herman M. Cohen—Cong. Treaty. tives cf Israel had come to perform. nounced to-day that he would csll a Must Grant Equal Eights. and employment, are some of the and there is much poverty. In Ger- Bnai Sholem: . ' The mere mention of a few of the things -which will have to be provided. many I noted, besides an intense feel- Sunday Evening—"A Glimpse Back"Poland will give, must give these many names that could be listed will meeting of the Committee on next rights, must" enforce and. live up to suffice to give the reader some notion Wednesday niglit, October 5, at the Will be Used For Palestine University Our pioneers are not demandinglusu- ing of bitterness towards France,that ward." YMHA rooms. industry was being pushed day and ries, not even comforts. Is It not Monday Morning—"Time Reckon- the Versailles Treaty if she wishes of the character of this conference. The purpose of this meeting will be night imthe effort to recuperate. the duty of all Jewry to provide them to attain power, to fight successfully Among others, there \rere present A committee of prominent physiingto hear the report of the Omaha deleAustria is dead, economically and with the most elementary human Signifor her existence. cians interested in the work of the Louis Marshall, Cyrus Adler, Jacob gates to the war relief conference at Tuesday Morning — "The otherwise. Vienna is thronged with "It is not necessary that you have Billikopf, Dr. Nathan Krass, Colonel' American Jewish Physicians' Com- needs before they assume their sferh ficance of the Trumpet's Blast." tourists. a quota limiting 4he number cf im- Arthur Lehmann, Felix Warbcrg, Dr. Chicago last week, and to consider mittee which is raising a fund of a tasks? Eabbi Morris N. Taxon: "I arrived in Carlsbad just as the Monday-Morning at 18th- and Chi- migrants permitted, to land in Boris Bogen, Adolf-Krans, General what actioa shall be taken. million dollars to establish a Medical Other public services to be furEvery organisation in Omaha is College as part of the Hebrew Uni- nished by the Keren Hayesod include Zionist Congress was opening, and cago St. Synagogue—"The True America, for few Polish Jews propor- Abel Davis and Henry Morgenthau. represented on the central War relief talked -with dozens of men from Rushospitals, and, with the co-operation versity in Palestine, met last week at Significance of Memorial Day" tionately want to leave Poland. They the Hotel Pennsylvania to devise ways of the Mandatory •Power, a system of sia and Poland. I 'was told that the want to stay there and fight for Many of the, delegates had come committee. (in Yiddish). Jewish defense. . BolshevLt form of government'was Tuesday Morning at 19 and Burt their rights. Poland. cannot exist to the conference -with a firm con- Mr. Holsman, in a statement issued and means for the Fall campaign to-day, said, "The urgency of ^ the The American Jewish- Physicians' Revenue-Bearing Enterprises. undergoing a great change, due to a St. Synagogue—"The Shofar's as a republic, if part of her people viciton that a drive or campaign European situation is very evident realization by the rulers that they at this time, and under present conare oppressed. She must be made Committee was organized by Dr. NaMessage." the informal report of our dele» The remaining third of the Keren must use capital. All are looking to than Eatnoff, who conceived the idea to understand that power and prestige ditions, •would probably not meet from Services at the Temple will comgates, and it is highly essential tft»t • Hayesod, exclusive of the funds used America as the savior. with the saccess experienced in of the medical department of the Hemence at 8 o'clock Sunday Evening, will only come with the granting of every organization in Om&hsfoerepfor the purchase and preparation of previous drives, but after hearing brew University. The committee is and at 10 on Monday morning. At equal rights to all General Morale Low. resented at'our meeting next week.* land, is to be devoted to undertakings collecting funds for the presentation the synagogues the evening services "Economic conditions are bad in reports from "the men 'who had ac- The present officers and methbera which may reasonably be expected to "The general morale in Europe is of a Medical College as a gift from will commence at 6:45, and the morn- Poland now. It* is necessary that tive personal charge of the work of of the committee follow: American Jewish physicians to the yield dividends. Chief 'among' these' much lower than that in our own ing services at 8. the people all work together peace- the Joint Distribution Committee in oppressed students of their race in are credit institutions for the devel- country, accounted for by the differfully and harmoniously to better the •war-stricken ilmrope, for the past ?m. Holssman, Chairmen. opment of agriculture, industry and ent attitude of Europeans- toward Henry Monsfcy, Vice Chairman. Southern and Central Europe. LAUD EFFORTS OF SIR ALFRED situation. You see it all comes back few years, there was not a man in Geo. BrancSfeis, Treasnrel\ commerce. Special mortgage banks the conference, I am sure, -who did S. H, Scherfer, Secretary. The .money is being collected to extend long-term" credits to small- life, aggravated by the war. I ob- "MOND FOR UNEMPLOYMENT. to equal rights for all. throughout the country and Commit- holders and -house-builders will have served that many of the countries Members KeprewBating; O*K»Bt«*tl»m. "You ask me when Poland will not feel ashamed that he couM ever Bnai Ami Clnb, Irving 8t«Umaet«t. tees are actively engaged in co-oper- to be established^ The capital of the which have been appealing' to «ie London. (Jewish Press Association.) grant these equal rights ? I am not Brttfc Abram, John Feiaraaft. „ ating in Chicago, Pittsburgh, Phila- Jewish Colonial Trust, and , Anglo: United States for funds have the In connection with the question of un- a prophet." City Talmaa Tomb. Dr. Philip Sftet* monument craze, and are spending employment which is a subject of Cong. Ajma$tti Aehim, Joe r«Tine. ' delphia, and St. Louis. Other cities Palestine Company, for \.the credit Dr. Prilutzki is Editor of "Der Cong, Beth Hamlfi. Sag., B. Mey«l'. are now in the process of organiza- service of general trade and industry, thousands on monuments to their he- general concern, the local press lauds Cong. Bnai IsraeS, B. Bavit*. Moment," the largest Yiddish, newsroes. Even. Austria is erecting monConp. Bnai «TRCO&, K. Martwrlt*. the efforts of Sir Alfred Mond, who non. must be greatly increased.' Cons Bnai fkiholero, N. W. «»Keo, paper in Europe, uments." \ is Minister for Eeconstruction. C o n l lerasl SO. SIDE, rMl. Grecnbcrg. Already more than twenfy five Many Have Secured Pulpits. Cone. Tifirlth Israel. «T. Sh-u*«*. • One of the .first works to be underthousand dollars have been collected Council of Jewish Women, Mm Fn»a taken is the execution of plans alIn cash and a hundred and fifty thouNew York, Sept. 22.—TheYeshiva Of Israel AM Society, mi. ». sand dollars has been pledged. It is ready approved for hydro-electric {the Eabbi Isaac Elchanan TheologicBaTitz. systems. The plans call for the utiliexpected that New York will contriSociety. Mrs. L«uie g « al Seminary), 801-5 East Broadway, Deborah Hafiassafe Society, Mrs. Ben HanStef. tmte half a million dollars before the zation of a portion of the Jordan in held graduation exercises today at the vicinity of Lake Tiberias. About »nd .of this year. e Oheb Zedek congregation, 18 W. Jewi'sli "wonjen's Welfare, Mrti. B 100,000 horse-power could thus be ob116th street, New York city, where •r£8u Welfare tained immediately, and transmitted Jewish Workers Allteac* < £• » ™ M » I Sermon by Dr. Frederick Ctohn to - Jaffa, Jerusalem; and other cities nine of its students were ordained. Woodmen ©it America, J* M«tIncluded in Annual Publication for industrial, as, well as lighting and Sepresentstives of different nation- M OmSS" HebnnFr Chlh. N, S. Taffi». Eabbi Frederick Cohn has a sermon heating purposes. Thus Palestine; al organizations and prominent rabbis Omaha Jnnk I'Pd<5 rre Inlon, S. Vai*, . -.. n the Holiday Sermon Pamphlet for which, has no mineral fuel resources, from every section of "the country Poalae Sion, 7.1. MlnKln. S. Omaba tralm«fl lorah, Mrs. A. i e year 5682 (1921-22) which has would secure from its water resources were present. lust been published by the Tract Com- the power it needs to drive the wheels The graduation was a great demonH«rry Bo.nission of the Central Conference of of industry. . stration for orthodox Jewry in this Mrs. K M«aIsrael Sunerican Eabbis and of the Union of ;cotaitry. The Sabbath preceding the American Hebrew Congregations. ^raduatioii, services wiere held in the •orthodox synagogues of Greater New The Pamphlet is published annually, 150,000 DOLLARS FOR BROOKLYN JEWISH for York and the country, in which the Zionist OrgaaiEKfion, I*. Kneeter. t s purpose being to supply congrega CHARITIES work of the Yeshiva and its place in ;ions in the smaller communities, that Jewish life, hx America was explained. H. H. Anertmols. New York, (J.. P. A.)—A banquet ire without rabbis, with suitable reOn Sunday the Alumni Association I>r. Frpaetick Cohtu 'igious discourses to be read in the arranged at the Hotel Pennsylvania T. II. of the 'Yeshiva met. and, discussed .Harry for the purpose of aiding the lynagog on important festivals. p Mon-is Milder. problems affecting Judaism in AmerThe Pamphlet contains thirteen ser Brooklyn Federation of Jewish Charll ica. Most of the graduates have alrnons of which Dr. Cohn's, entitled ities was attended by 300 guests and l33rafi3|gramtl^ MorrSe ready been elected to prominent pul- Harry A. VA •The New Year and the New Life" ii netted in donations and pledges pitr to be read on Rosh Hashonah. Harrj B. 150,000 dollar? .. -•Washington. (J. T. A.) Wherever possible, Jewish soldiers in the American army will receive furloughs for the coming Jewish holidays in October, according to an announcement of i&e War Department published last week. The announcement of Secretary Weeks follows: "The Secretary of War desires, in order to permit soldiers cf the Jewish faith to participate in the celebration of high holy days* (Bosh Hashonah), beginning at sundown down October 2 and continuing until sundown October 4, 1921,'and of the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur), beginning at sundown October 12 and continuing until sundown October 13, 1921, that members of that faith be granted furloughs for such time as necessary to permit them to be at their home, when practicable, or at places where these celebrations are held, from September SO to October 6 and from October 15 to October 24, 1921, provided no interference with the public service is occasioned there-

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