November 10, 1921

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T h a t man is' happy, who can face poverty and misfortune with cheerfulness and courage.

" T h a t man Is happy* who values honor and good name above riches.

Entered as second-class mall matter on 'January 27th, 1921, at postofflce at Omaha, Nebraska, tinder the Act of March 3. 1878.

VOL. I.—NO. 48

At Seven—a Rival of Sammy Rzeschewski

OMAHA, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1921

FOUR ADVENTURERS IN ISRAEL

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AT Thirteen—' Called "America's Most Promising Child"

•k Cleveland, Ohio, has a chess prod-, New York. (J. P. A.) The school 44 A NARRATIVE OF THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE FIRST GRADUATES OF igy perhaps more marvelous than board of this city, is making an efi l Sammy Rzeschewski. This new world THE HEBREW UNION COLLEGE TO AMERICAN LIFE wonder is a 7-year-old girl, Celia Nei? f fort through the courts to compel AND AMERICAN JUDAISM. Florence Stern to attend public Committee Arranging \ mark, with Deautifill eyes that remind . ; xm II school. The case is most unusual, of Interest to All Me\ one of Sammy, and with charming, r.nd many prominent men sre now and Public modest manners. trying to adjust the matter to the ty-two years of labor. The National agogue enriched with a century of Four adventurers in Israel set out The chess veterans who are en••JEWISH PRESS" TO ISSUE gaged in the contest for the.Western one July evening in 1883 on a diffi- tradition, where^he began Ms great Farm School has trained hundreds of satisfaction of all concerned, "B'NAI B'RITH NUMBER" championship in Cleveland sat around cult journey along the highways" of work of spreading the message of Jewish farmers, practically and thor- Florence is thirteen and, in the the six, tables at which the little child" Judaism. Theirs was the great re- Judaism. The rabbi's task—he and oughly, without charge, and has words of Professor Leopold Aner, the Omaha's annual B'nai B'rith Day Was conducting as many simultaneous sponsibility of bringing together Re- the three • others, who graduated helped to-establish them on farm, noted instructor of the violin, "the 'will be held this year on'December games; arid' they wondered how it all form Judaism and American' Jewry. .with him believed—is not merely to thus contributing:; much to the solu- most promising child in America." IS. ". " •.". _;,;." And they hardly guessed at the ob- expound the ideals of Israel in the tion of the problem of the Jew that Testimony given by others who have was possible.' The committee, consisting of Sam Celia. played carefully, pondering, stacles that lay ahead.. A chary word of God from the pulpit on Sab- has been engendered by urban life. examined the child declare she is possessed of unusual intelligence, quite Leon* Chairman, Harry Malashock, over every move about a half minute welcome awaited them, for. the com- bath and holydays. It is the larger The Scholars Way. apart from her musical gifts. The Wm, Hqlzman, Dr. A. Greenberg, and running with her, tiny fingers munities to which they were to come task of carrying Judaism to every Rabbi David Philipson's path has child practices five hours on the vioWm. Grodinslcy and Harry Silver- through her blonde bobbed hair while were still, enchained to. age-old tprar Jew everywhere by word of mouth, been the scholar's way. After four lin, and teacher and parents alike deprinted pagu and force of example. man, is exerting every effort to make thinking out her reply. dition. clare that regular attendance at the years -ki Baltimore, he returned to in 1893, he founded Accordingly, this ^celebration an outstanding event Dr. Isaac M. Wise, founder and After two-hours the games.were in local B'nai Brithdom and in the adjudicated by Edward Lasker, West- president of the Hebrew Union Col- the Jewish . Chautauqua Society, Cincinnati in 1SS8 to become Eabbi public school would interfere with her musical training. The school "board. city generally. .'...- 5 ern ..champion, although Celia. claimed lege, conferred the-'degrees'and pre- which- has, for more than a quarter of Congregation Bene Israel, in who->e basement class-rooms he had on the other hand, appears to think Present plans, of the committee in- she was not tired and would play on. sented the diplomas when these- four of a century, by lecture and publithat her musical education must be studied during his^ first years at the cation, carried r Jewish education clude initiation, of. a. large class of. Lasker found that three of the games adventurers set out on their life-long held over until she has completed her Hebrew Union College. He was inthroughout the land.Rabbi Berkowitz candidates, a banquet for members, were wonfor her, two draws and one, pilgrimage. Rabbi Henry Berkowitz, and a public meeting for which, a lost. Celia learned the game only Rabbi Joseph Krauskopf, Rabbi has'been vice-president of the Phila- structor in Bible," Arabic and Assyr- public school work. The case,-is still speaker of international prominence seven months,ago. David Philipson, and the late Rabbi idelphia Playground Association, on the ology, at the. College,. and later was i pending in the courts, as a -writer and lecturer on Jewish Israel Aaron, were the first four men Board of Recreation, vice-president of its professor of Hornilities for seventeen. years. This scholar rabbi— subjects will be secured. to graduate from the Hebrew Union the Universal Peace "Union, and active whose writings <m Jewish topics, in the Social Purity Alliance. He The issue 6f "The Jewish Press" College. Their'names are among the books, magazines and newspaper arof December 15, to be published just most illustrious in modern Jewry. toured the counties of Europe in an ticles are numerous and notable, was before B'nai B'rith Day, will : be Their achievements for Israel, for investigation trip, as a member of one of the founders of the Central Philadelphia's vice commission, .studyinown as "B'nai B'rith Number" and America and for their own communiConference of American Rabbis, sad ing social conditions and their re••will contain many feature articles ties in thirty-eight years of minisduring his presidency effected arof special interest to B'nai B'rith try, are the unmistakable answer to meJles in many lands. rangements with, the Jewish. Publicamembers. those who argue "The Rabbi's callPublication Society Formed. S

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The extensive growth of club life and recreational work in the city during the past year Las made it neeessaiy t h a t larger quartet's he secured-to serve as the Jewish com« muuEl center for Omaha, For some time past the Jewish Welfare Federation has been studying this problem, and it is hoped that it has solved it for some time to come. Announcement was made during the past week by Wm. "L. Holzroan* Cfagirman of- the Advisory Board of the YMKA,-which directs the activities of the "club-rooms, of the acquisition for community of practically the entire third floor of the Lyric Bldg. In addition to the present quarters. s large dance hall and three smaller rooms frill be leased beginning December 1. Present plane Call for decoration of .all the rooms by the owners of the bxiilding, and a rctkon Society for a translation of the 'Registration of Jewish Emi- •fumishing of the entire club-room space. Bible. He was" one of the seven! grants Begins ThrowgfeWhen completed the YMHA rooms out Soviets. will consist of two commodious has served,, too, as" president of the! Jewish Historical Society and was a {WIVES _ A N D _ C H I L D R E N O F lodge rooms, with anterooms, a gymnasium snd play room, a library, AMERICANS consulting editor of the Jewish Enfive, class and club rooms of various cyclopaedia. His devotion. to JewTO LEAVE* sizes, a dance hall, a small kitchen ish classics has. not diminished this: Berlin. (3. T. A.) The local office ana s large lobby and rest room. Rabbi's zeal for human welfare. of the newly created Jewish EmigraThe increased quarters will provide The Buffalo Jewish Community recalls with affectionate memory, the tion Committee has received as offer i meeting space and social facilities quarter century . of devoted sen-ice from the Soviet Government to pro- for every communal group in the

Mark IMfersary of Jalfeiff Beclaration

ing is futile.- Nothing can be ac"While the Rabbi -at "Rodeph.. Shocomplished by the ministry for God WRS thus enriching the glory of or man." • " -• his Alma Mater, at Temple Keneseth. Israel in Philadelphia, too, his colStudied in Basement Rooms. league; Rabbi Joseph Krauskopf was PALESTINE OFFICIALS AP- As proof of the discouragement engaged in different, but equally PEAL FOR PEACE. that beset the Rabbi's career, i$ the BAClAL AND RELIGIOUS SUBfact that of sixteen men who en- fruitful endeavors, directed toward JECTS BEYOND CONJerusalem, Nov. 3.—(J. T. A.)—rolled in the Hebrew Union College the identical ''goal. The young Rabbi FERENCE SCOPE. Four Jews and one Arab were killed, in. • 1875»1S76, only the above named of Kenesefli Israel deemed it his Washington. (Jewish. T. Agency.). and 25 Jews and 14 Arabs were four were in the first graduating function to..."bring the, young people wounded, in slots which took place in Simon Wolf l a s authorized our "cor- -Jerusalem on the morning of Noyem-. class. They, met for their studies in to the 'synagogue.- To popularize the respondent to state that the report is ber 2nd, the fourth anniversary" of the basement schoolrooms of Temple temple, he. organized a choral so- which. Rabbi fsraei Aaron gave to 1 ? d e ! p e c i f r e l i e f t o t h e t h o E s a w i s o f city. B'nai Israel for two years, and for ciety, a. crrculisting library and read- C •untrue that the United Hebrew Con- the Balfour Declaration. B H ^ h refugees in m the region around j M Mr. Eolsrman stated todav that four years after that, in Bene Yesh- ing-rooxnsr groups for the study of Congregation Beth Zion, before the Dniester River and in South Eus- he expected all remodelling and degregations nas asked himto;take up J- At about Iff o'clock" a large, group death i s 1912—the courage with sia and Ukraine. Food, clothing and with, the State Department, the de- of Arabs, armed with stones, sticks urun Temple. It was not until 1881 Current- history and literature, a n d jwhich he overcame corating1 to be completed .by Jaauaiy the obstacles that the Personal Interest Society. T« -acthat a residence was purchased to shoes are'to be introduced across the inands. for Jewish rights and 1st, .- . and "weapons,- started a demonstraquaint non-Jews, s.s well as Jews, confronted -.the •-reform; minister, the Bessarabi&n frontier, and ..distributed i at the Disarmament Con- tion near the Jaffa gate of Jerusa- be remodeled into the Hebrew/Union with mentation, foresight with which he l /Jewish aipo5-,.Knd ideals, he pub!' directly^ ter-Tfre-. -3ewist""" refugees' t ference, * Miy Wolf, further declared lem, 'The: police hurriedly"'appeareS lished for- free distribution, a series' b r i l l I : ; Jewish representatives, " ,. * -• t h a t the idea 'df"sucTi aTstep-ias' been on-".thfe~scen^ and accompanied; the Onlhe evening of. July n t h ; 1883, tion, the esteem he left in the hearts ^ ;: p dropped:by this organization p^Bethese.four adventures set out, and of discourses which he w a s then de- of his. fellowmen of everjr faith. The Esugrsticn Gcaimlttee lias livering on ..Sunday afternoons an indemoDstraiors up the; Jaffa road to forni-TFfinrples and/thai there1 sterns you shall hear_how they- fared: wired its acceptance to Moscow: and novation in Philadelphia 'Judaism, wards,the postofficel Here the spirit Four- adventurers" of Israel—these a- reply from the Central Soviet govto be no' intention of carrying the At Mobile, Alabama, RabbiThis -was the seedling from which were the paths they took. Who shall of the-Arabs, became dangerous, and suggesion-any "furthers -'' ] ••••-••. ernment, giving final and definite MARSHALL AXD UCTERMEYER witz first sought to exemplify his the Jewish Publication Society took say that; they left no great monuwhen they--refused to disperse they HEAP RECEPTION COMAt the same time it is reiterated in. ideals of religious devotion and sopermission, is expected here. root and became a mighty brancli- ments along their journeys—or that were fired upon by the police: Sub MITTEE. official • quarters here, as" heretofore-' cial service. There, in addition to Your correspondent had an interAvith fourteen thousand mem- the great school from which their sequently, and throughout the ;day reported, that there is no apparant hisr Rabbinical duties, he organized? view with one of the executives of published learning and inspiration came was many attacks on Jews took place prospect or present intention of takthe humane movement for the pro- \ Pe^» ^ n t * ^J15 the Berlin branch of the Eussian j New Torlc, (J, T. A,) Samuel Vm~ within the old city. In. one of these not repaid "manifold? Through them, ing up any Jewish question, whether tection of children and animals from books, including a translation of-the Jewish Social Committee who in- j termeyer, who will head the Board of a bomb was thrown. One-house was and those for whom they paved the racial or religious, or American rights cruelty. At Kansas City, where he Bible, • to its credit. . formed me authoritatively that the Trustees of the Keren Hayesod, or looted. The funeral of the victims way, the teachings of the Hebrew : •While he gave his thought and enerunder the Palestine Mandate* at the next was called,. he organized the Soviet government was prepared to Palestine Foundation Fund, and Louis took place on Friday afternoonigy to the Jewish Publication Society, Union College were spread through- legalize and facilitate the emigration 'Marshall, are heading, the committee Armaments Conference, because that first bureau of charities. V '. Throughout- November , 2nd th the National Farm School at Doyles- out the land. -. Greater even than their of economically non-productive p e r - j o f fading Jews' in this city and it outside the scope of the agenda of OrganizesChaiitauqua Society. Governor, high military officialsand ton, Pa., may be accounted Dr. Kraus-. geographical influence, is that these sons who had relatives abroad who throughout the country to welcome tne Conference, which-is restricted to prominent Arabnotables patrollei Immediately after the young kopf's greatest individual achieve- adventurers, reached ...the hearts of were citizens of a country. The So^ the Zionist Delegation, wiivh is due Far East, Pacific, and Limitation of the streets of the old and new city Rabbi came to Temple Rodeph ment. To this school for the free tui- men, who, in turn, gave and are giv- viets are prepared to establish con- to arrive on the Aquilania on NovemArmaments questions. There is little and were instrumental in aiding th Sholem in Philadelphia, a syn- tion of Jewish" farmers, he gave twen- ing themselves wholeheartedly. likelihood of Jewish interests, as such, tact with' an authoritative Jewish" or- ber 11. -arising in connection therewith. Fur- military to restore and maintain The dgleg&tion • includesganization, In whose hands will be - • ther,—participation in the Conference quiet. Sofcolow, • chairmari of Executive DR. MORGENSTEBN' placed the task of transporting the JEWISH EXCESSES Five Hundred Children is limited to nations already invited, HEADS HEBREW •emigrants in Russia and through Committee of the World ?iionist OrArab Officials Regret Incident. IN BIAL0ST0K at City Talmud Torah and other delegations to Washington, g»R5Kationj Chsim NachTrinn , • UNION COLLEGE neighboring countries. The President of the Executive Bialostok. (J. P. A.) Only the including the Polish, come uninvited • Committee .of the- Palestinian Arab and Sunday School Cincinnati.—-Dr. Julian Morgenstern ttie greatest living' HebiTW national Emigrant Registration Begun timely intervention of the police and have no recognition or status, at | CongTess, together with the Grand saved- the Jews of thig city from the ; Five hundred children are being «of this city was chosen recently to be The local office of the Russian- poet; Proffssor Otto Wai'burs;; exMufti of Jerusalem^ the .President o serious consequences of a,ppgrom. educated in Jewish history, literature, acting president of .the faculty of the Jewish Social Committee has in- President of the World Zionist Orthe. Conference. the Moslem "Court of- Appeals, and Trouble started when a number of ethics and religious matters general- Hebrew Union College by the Board formed the" Executive of. the Jewish ganization; and Dr. Alexander Goldof Governors. He will succeed Dr. Emigration Committee that Soviet of- stein, a noted Russian'Zionist. P o.l i s li Government Admits many. Mohammedan, Catholic and Jewish expressmen entered into a dis- ly at the City Talmud Torah and at Ka-ufmann Kohler, who resigned some ficials have already begun the regis- are sailing- with, the British Protestant notables, have signed a pute-with Poles. The.Poles immedi- the Sunday school, .which is conducted . Responsibility for Pinsk' time ago, - and is to be President tration of Jews who desire to. emi- tion to the Disarmament letter to Sir Herbert Samuel which, ately started a fight and followed it under the auspices of the Deborah Massacre. Emeritus of the.college. A l a r ^ program is'beine: p from cable reports, "reads'asi follows: grate from. Russia, and who have relup by attacking all Jewish; passers-by. Society, the women's auxiliary of the Warsaw. (J. P. A.) The Polish Dr. Morgenstern is 43 years old. in New York and throujrhont ih*= of our. people, atives naturalized in Amexica. • Wives Premier, Ponikowski, in the Seim, has "On behalf . . "we -wisfi .. ..to* . As the'crowil of Poles:grew, it grew Talmud Torah. •and a graduate of the University-of of naturalized American citizens con- conntrj'- for the welcome anri rcreption officially stated that the military an- express our deep resentment over .the bolder and started hurling stones inta . These figures were given in a report thorities had brought in a report re- I regrettable incident which--occurred Jewish homes and stores." At this at the fourth annual meeting of this Cinciniiati.'r -Hfe was ordained a rabbi stitute the first category which will of the Zienist guests. . Thci?- tif-Pt pubat Hebrew Union College in 1902. be" mad*' t>i be permitted to emigrate. Next to lic appearaiicc garding the 34 Jews who were shot yesterday and which caused the death point thcr police appeared and re- organization held Sunday evening at Hotel- Astor on Svinday eri'er,inp, Nothese are children .below the &ge of of innocent persons. «We appeal to stored order, arresting three leaders in Pifisk, and that the investigation the Nineteenth und Burt streets SyALUMNI AID H. U. C. IS whose, parents are United States vember 13, ."•whete they ynV i>p made evident that the murder was the' inhabitants to remain peaceful, of the "crowd.nagogue by Rabbi M. N. Taxon, chairA gift of one thousand dollars to citizens. tained a t din.uet • "by owr for we are convinced that only committed as a result of abuse of

Anns Meet Wffl J o t Discuss Jewish Question

Murder and Looting Occur in Jerusalem as Result of Arab Uprising.

authority by the officials which then controlled Pinsk. The War-Ministry has already ordered that one hundred thousand roubles which was then exacted as a contribution from the Pinsk community should be refunded , that the families of all sufferers and victims should officially notify the government the amount of damages wbich they believed they are entitled to..

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It will be noted that the government says nothing about punishing those that; according to its own find-, ings, have been proven guilty of murder. . ' • . .."'."..'•:

PRAY FOR SUCCESS OF ARMS CONFERENCE London. (J. C. B.) ' : Special services for the success of the Washington Arms Conference will be held in all Jewish synagogues and temples on the Sabbath preceding the opening of the Conference. Dr.. Hertz, Chief Rabbi of Great Britain, has asked all flabbis and Ministers to, discuss the question of disarmament in special sermons on that occasion.

through peace will we be able to protect and assure our rights. The gov-ROUMANIAN JEWS HOLD ernment will certainly do its duty. We NATIONAL CONGRESS beg all persons to help the adminis-. Vienna. (J. T. A.) Representatration in the performance of this tives of all Jewish communities in task."

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Conference of Kehillas Called to Protest Against Extra Taxation of Jews. Lodz. (J. P. A.) As a result of a decision by the local Kehillah, a conference of representatives of all Kehillas in this province will be called in order to express the indignation.of the Jews at being forced, to. p a y ' a double tax for the. maintenance of public hospitals. This action is being taken as a result of an order recently issued by the ministry forthe; interior in which the Jews are ordered to pay for the admission of "all Jewish patients to public hospitals. This order is in direct contravention of ~ a previous order issued on the! same subj e c t . L o c a l leaders are planning to send a special delegation chosen^by the conference to Premier Ponicovsky. " ——.-

man of the board of education of the! t i e fund that is being raised for the Talmud Torah. T l d T h erection of a Dormitory Building to

hfists, including Samuel Unfermeyer, m Mos • < . * , - , • , ~ Locia Marshall, • Peter J. Schweitzer, instructed local, represents- j • • • • ' -• • *

The Jewish Commissariat

Election of officers also t c " jlace adjoin the Hebrew Union College has tives of the Jewish Social Committee! at this-meeting, N. S. Yaffe being i been .made by..the Alumni Association lin; Judge Jacob S. Str&hl, and hunreflected president; treasurer, Jacob of the College^ This donation. repre- to begin the registration of prospec- dreds of other' leading Jews. tive Jewish emigrants throughout Greater "Eoumania held a conference Shukert; secretary, A. Davidson; and' sects the '-first pledge made, t o ; the Russia. at Bucharest lasting three days and directors; Herman Cohn, M. Braude", j Hebrew- Union College for the erecPOLES IN VILNA DEMONSTRATE. devoted largely to the question of L. Dorinson, M. Rabinovitch arid"Mrs. tion of a building that will provide HIAS TO OPEN • Daifjsig. (J. P. A.) Vilna JCWB bud L. Neveleff. a. home for rabinical. students at the Jewish refugees. BRANCH'IN MOSCOW & period of anxiety when the Poles college. I t is estimated that S250,A. Fildermann declared that the inRiga. (J. P. A.) Mr. Kowalsky, ] 000 will be required for the erection one of the directors, of the Hias for of that city Recently dpmotrstsrated ternment of the Jewish destitutes in ;heir protest sgaanet the unfavorable | of the new dormitory; The campaign Europe, ..reached this city today on j decision Roumania had been carried out by the SOVIETS COMBAT CHEDER of the League of Nations, is AND YESHIVAH now in'the hands of the National his way to Moscow where he will ne- j according to information received Roumanian general staff and that Jewish intervention would be of no, Riga. (J- T. A.) The Soviet Com- Federation. of Temple Sisterhoods, and gotiate with the Soviet authorities j here from thg$ city. Fearing a disavail. On the other hand, Chief; missariat of Education has issued a Mrs. Abram Simon of. Washington, regarding the establishment of a j turbanee, mojrt of tr-;e Jewish shops Rabbi Nemierower proposed that the circular to local soviVets instructing D. C , is chairman of the committee. branch, in that city. He anticipates j were closed on the o»y of the demonRoumanian Jewish communities ap- i.them to register all Jewish Chedorim no difficulty wife the Eussian Gov- stration, J i other countries to -in- ] i Y Yeshivoth which are to remain THERE WILL BE KO peall to Jews in err.ment, and hopes that & little later ] POGROMS IN. LITHUANIA. it will be possible to open branches BRITISH ANTItervene against the. inhuman treat- under the strict control of local comPREMIER ASSURES JEWS in other Russian centers where the ment accorded Jewish refugees by the' missars. The order forbids instrucSEMITES ACTIVE' Danzig. {J. P. A.) The LithuanRoumanian high officials.; tion in the Chedorim other than on passage of Jewish emigrants will London. (,T. P. A.) The local soian premier had occasion "to visit the Rubenstein, representing the Amer-' religious subjects. The teachers in it desirable. small town of. Kashidar, where he ciety of Britons, an antl-Semitfc orican Joint Distribution Committee, as- the schools are henceforth not to be - FOOD DRAFT BLANKS. ganization, is reported to have sured the conference of the moral and exempt from conscription in military visited the local synagogue and adfinancial assistance of American Jew- or labor battalions. It is further or- dressed the Jewish.community. In the j The Jewish Welfare Federation has deled at its last meeting to protest, to ry,'wh'le:Silbert, representing "Hias," dained that the Yeshivoth are not to course of his remarks, the premier! received a supply of food draft blanks the government against the libers! suggested that the difficulties of the accept students below the age of 18. assured the Jews that in Lithuania for Russia from the American Relief manner in which Jews are given ^ refugees might be ameliorated if lo- The schools are not to receive build- they would never know the meaning Administration. Full information rel- appointment^, Thsy will also cal Jews supplied them with employ- ings, and pupils are not accorded the of oppression nor be ever subjected | ative to filling out these blanks can at what they claim is the p ment. { ordinary food ration= Jewish control ©X the English press. I be secured at the Federation office. to pogroms


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