December 14, 1922

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27th. 1821. at •• Omaha Nebraska, linger the Act of March 8. 1S78.

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2 sh Theatre and Newspaper g*S- *nt Raided by Hungarian " : Students.

Critical, Everyone I Urged to Pay Pledge

apest, Dec. 6,—(J. T. A.)—Conjle damage to Jewish property ausenberg was caused by a raid of a mob of Hungarian students on the printing plant of the "Ujkelet," a $13,750 Must Ba Collected Be- Zionist daily, and on the.local Jewish fore Dec 31, To Avert theater during the perfarmanc* Bankruptcy. These attacks followed disturbances at cafes, from which Jewish .guests PRESIDENT LEVY TELLS OF were forcibly ejected by the roughsWORK OF NATIONAL The Jewish students Tdtchen. was also AFFILIATED INdemolished. 1

OMAHA, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER .14, 1922

The Gift That Came to Modin

SUBSCRIPTION PRICE, A YEAR, ?2.50. Jewish Parents Besiege Mission House Urging Return of Children. Vienna, Dec 6.—(J. C. B.)—Parents

City Talmud Torah

of Jewish children attracted by the Swedish mission house, besiebed the latter's quarters demanding the chil: By ELMA EHRLICH LEVINGER. dren's return. As the demands grew Copyright, 1922, by Elma Ehrlich Levin ger. All Rights Reserved. more insistent, the parents v.^-e re- Classes of Sunday School Presentf inforced by other Jews. Police were Program And Plays In called to quiet the riot, but to the The Morning. It was past midnight, but in two heart. While Hannah lay back upon has showered me withrich blessings." gratification of the crowd, sided with houses in the town of "Modin tapers her couch, weak and white from pain, Cleon could find no answer to allay parents, promising a thorough investi- TALMUD TORAH TO HOLBf burned until late into the dawn hour.' but with radiant eyes, the child who his friends bitternessHe only gation into the circumstances of the AFTERNOON PROGRAM And at the end of the watching in |was to take away at last the shame clasped his hand. Together they sat detention of the children at the misFOR PUBLIC. one house they covered the face of the jof her worse than barrenness rested in silence until the sun was well up sionairy institutions, whose ramificaSTITUTIONS. dead and broke into wailing,, while in the hollow of her arm, its tiny red in. the heavens; the golden light gilded tions throughout Austria is causing Pupils of the City Talmud ToraKi Facing a financial : crisis unthose who had watched in the other face pressed close against her side. the hills about Modin, those hills grave misgivings among Jews. Sunday school and pupils of the Cityj paralleled in its entire history, the house raised their voice in thanksgiv- She smiled with a sort of divine bliss which would some day shelter Judea's Talmud Torah will present Chamiksfi.J Jewish Welfare Federation, .through ing and a young mother in Israel re- as the little creature . stirred and soldiers against the Syrian foe, and programs Sunday morning and after President Morris Levy,. has issued a joked that at last she had gotten a • struck out blindly* reaching for her from. the. houses women' -and .young noon at the Bnai Israel Synagogue,! special appeal ta all members of the maidens came,, bearing pitchers upon man'child from the lord. breast. Eighteenth and Chicago streets. Federation Board and to all FederaMattathias, priest of Modin, came "See, he is already a mighty strag- their heads as they .walked, laughing At 10 o'clock in the morning, pupils! tion subscribers to aid the organiza- Twenty-eight Candidates Initiated out upon the roof of his~ house and gler," she fondly told those who tend- and gossiping, together, to the well. of the Sunday school will present s i tion. ' -.Into Order in. Afternoon looked up at the paling stars. His ed her. "Some day he will be a Never had the world seemed so beauprogram, which will be open to th@| Meeting. tiful to Cleon; the warm sunlight, the Mr. Levy has called upon every face was grey with weariness and mighty soldier for the Lord." public. Mr.' Henry Monsky will b<s| Not Over While Hate the principal speaker on the program,! Board member to assume the respon-~ grief; his eyes bloodshot; while_his Hearing of the grief that had come air of peace and well-being that en- Wat Exists, Dr. Butler sibilities that go with the honor of MR. LEONARD J. GROSSMAN OF crumpled garments'showed the rent to his friend and * neighbor, Cleon folded Modin, above all his own deep Several vocal and musical numbers! Says. CHICAGO WAS PRINCIPAL serving on the Federation Board, and joy welled in his heart. He sprang to which the.Jewish mourner tears when hastened to the house of Mattathias. and a playlet \rill be given by the! SPEAKER ON' PROGRAM. ts use every effort in their power to he first- looks upon his dead. Matta- The priest still crouched upon the his feet and stood with face upturned pupils of the classes of the CONGRESSMAN ISAAC SIEGEL school. aid in the collection of outstanding thias sank wearily to the ground^ and roof, his face hidden. At the sound to the morning sky. ATTACKS KIT KLUX KLAN accounts for 1923. Over 350 people attended the open rested his hot forehead against the of his friend's voice he put out his "O, give thanks unto the Lord for The Sunday school now has an OPENLY. To the 1,200 Federation subscribers B'naf B'rith day program held last stone coping of the roof; his great hand and grasped Cleon's arm so He is good, rollment of over 150 pupils, which are! a special appeal has been sent urging Sunday evening at. the Jewish Com- shoulders shook with his sobs. tightly that he winced with pain; he For His mercy endureth forever!" divided into six classes an the individ-1 them to make immediate payment of munity Center. of hate, j ual classes will present a number oa| chanted Cleon. Belovf, in the house of Mattathias, tried to speak, but; could not. Omaha Lodge of "the B'nai B'rith priest of Modin, Rachel's handmaidens their pledges, and to increase them to Again Mattathias bowed his head which his audience conceived to be the program. • "I sorrow in your . sorrow," said provide for the increased needs of the held its annual B'nai B'rith Day cele- prepared her body for the grave. They Cleon at last. "A: wife; like Rachel upon his knees; he loved his friend, directed against the Ku Klux Klan, The City Talmud Torah pupils willj bration last Sunday. During the af- wept as they bert over the silent form, is a crown to her • husband and her but at that moment he felt that was voiced by Dr. Nicholas Murray present a Chamikah program at 2 winter season. "The situation is ..the most serious ternoon a class of twenfy-eight can- for she had been a kind mistress and taking off leaves his house empty and Cleon's happiness made his own grief Butler, president of Columbia Univer- m., Sunday at the Bnai Israel Syna-I I have ever known it to be," said Mr. didates were initiated isto the order. they had all loved her dearly; they desolate." the harder to bear. . * ,: sity, at the dedication of a tablet in gogue. Several playlets have been ar-| Levy. "We are already $4,300 in debt. The public meeting was held in the wept even more when they considered "Come," he said, when he could con- memory of men of Harlem who died ranged for this program by .several! "The Lord has tlealt heavily with We were forced to borrow this money evening! Mr. Leonard J. Grossman of the grief of Mattathias, her husband, me," answered Mattathias, "for all trol his voice, "come and see the child in the World War, at the Institu- classes of the Talmud Torah." Follow-I from trust funds—and we must re- Chicago was the principal speaker of left a widower in the years of his the light of my life has departed with and then consider whether I should tional Synagogue, 37 West 116th ing the program, the pupils "will be| pay it before the end of the "month. the evening. His subject was "B'nai early manhood, the father of two her." He spoke from his heart and thank the Lord:for the gift He has Street. Dr. Butler asserted that the presented with various gifts. We owe ?l,650 tothe Wise Mem^-ial B'rithdom, Its Significance and Its young children and the tiny, waxen he truly believed at that moment that sent me this day!" war was not over "while hates were The entire public is invited to both! hospital, and $2,700 to the National Promises for the Future." Mr. Gross- infant whose birth had cost the mother the joy of his life was ended; yet in In-the first chamber.of the house present in the world, and strongly the morning and afternoon programs.! Institutions affiliated-with the Fed- man' is one of the leading workers for her life. three short years he was to wed again,. to which the two men now descended that they be removed from eration. To finance our local work for the B'nai B'rith in Chicago, having The new-born child, so small and a woman who tended his house and lay the body of Rachel, which they urged hearts. December we absolutely need no less- been president of Ramah Lode- for white that those who tended it feared bore him two sons, destined to win for passed with averted' faces. In the men's "The war in which these men died than $5,100. You can see that we must several terms. • • ' ' . ' that every breath would be its last, themselves a fair name in Israel, and room beyond slept the two oldest sons is not over," said Dr. Butler. "Fighthave at least §13,750, and that this Miss Cecelia Feiler gave, several vo- was the one soul in all that house- one daughter. And before he died and in its bed the'baby, now. awake must be .collected before Decem- cal selections, accompanied by Harry hold that did not grieve. Even the the face of Rachel, whom he had loved and hungry, stirring fretfully. 1 .The ing is stopped and armies are disbanded, but war is not over. The ber Z\" 'A Funds for Hospitals in Palesti»e. Braivoroff on the piano. Mr.-Nathan two older children, although they had and wooed and wedded in hi c youth, lamp which the nurse had neglected stupendous loss of life, the devastaFunds to be Used for Hospitals in] Herzoff • of-Sioux City, la;, displayed of F.ederatipnhardly sensed the tragedy which left became to him like the face one sees to quench ..still burned at the infant's tion and destruction of trade and Palestine. "I wonder'how many;people -really. his talent to the audience as a|ciplin- them motherless^ had awakened at the dimly in a half-forgotten dream. head. Cleon, at a sign from the un- commerce and industry and agrihappy -fst&er, "bestover sfiunds "df wailing about the funeral "But you *musift.-sot:r^grieye*. over? culture will*not-be over for "years/or The following program will be given! Mr. Levy cohtinttecf. "I don't meanso the first time in the history of- the bed afid had later sobbed themselves much," said Cleon, knowing that he infant. . - • • - - . - . . , perhaps even in the life of the at the Burgess-Nash Auditoriuml far as our relief,. and social service Omaha lodge, the B'nai B'riih ; Ritual to sleep. Only the baby, whose com- was but a clumsy comforter. "Do you "You are right," he agreed, "the youngest person here. Wednesday, December 20, when the! work is concerned; for of this I know iwas read to the public-by Mi. Arthur ing had brought so much sorrow into not remember what i^u said to me child will not live.. And it will be "Civil, political and religious lib- Omaha Chapter of Hadassah will hold I there is no doubVa/t all in the minds of Rosenblum and Mr. Harry Silverman. the home of Mattathias, smiled a lit- the day we looked upon my first-born better so.". erty belong to us of right. They { anyone. I have reference to the value tle as it slept. '."...'. son who never drew breath. You took . They passed out of the house into are not at the beck and call of any the annual linen shower for the hospi-1 tals of Palestine. The program wiUJ of the Federation as a central organIn the house of Cleon, Mattathias' my hand and said, 'Shall we receive the street, sweet. and clean in the organization, .open or .secret,, and start at 3 o'clock. ization that collects funds for all breath of the new day. Cleon's good from the hand of God and not closest neighbor, the rejoicing was until we put-these hates-out of. bur Miss -Mary Maizel presents the! worthy Jewish philanthropic organizaeven greater than that which usually evil?' Bear this heavy evil manfully, mother, bustling with importance, hearts - our ^people will not , have Fairies of Zion in a "Musical Revue,"! tions that operate in Omaha, and welcomes the first-bom son. Cleon for the Lord has also blessed you with came toward them. She had not yet finally understood the great,' burning "Miss 1776 and Miss 1922." The eastl those national organizations that have heard of their neighbor's loss and was was a man nearing middle age, but good and given you three sons." teaching of Abraham Lincoln. Amer- consists of Bettie Steinberg, Annettel a just claim on the suppport of Oma- Asks If Wishes^ of "Palestine People until this dawning his heart had been At this Mattathias laughed so wild- far too excited and elated to note his ica is not a place of words alone. Hurwitz," Sara Janoff, Ids Tenebaum,| ha Jews. Were Considered. heavy because his wife, Hannah, had ly that his friend drew back a little grief-worn countenance. America is a place of acts and Helen Janger, Esther Cohen, "Take the case of the three hospiborn him no manchild.- Had she been frightened. "Three sons'." he said, "Have you seen our son ?" she asked policies and deeds. We do not judge Hurwitz, and Pearl Fellman. Music! tals in Denver which we subsidize, London (J. T. A.)—In a debate in barren, both of them might have ac- "three sons," repeating the words as Mattathias, her old voice high and the National Jewish Hospital for Con- the House, of Lords concerning the cepted the lack of children as the will one might a dreadful blasphemy. shrill with joy. "Come in and tell me our fellow citizens and our public will be furnished by Miss Bess Far-i sumptives, the Jewish Consumptives' British Mandate over Palestine, Lord of the Most High; but Hannah had "Have you seen my third son, the whether you have ever looked upon men entirely by what they say. We ber. A playlet in two acts, "Missl want to know what they do. Baum Makes Amends," with the fol-i Relief Society and the Ex-patients' Sydenham asked "what steps the born her husband two daughters, only new-born child for which my Rachel so fair a babe!" "We are engaged, as was Abraham lowing cast: Kate Goldstein, Eisiel Home. For many years now these League of Nations had taken before to see them die in early infancy, and gave her life?" Before Cleon could restrain her she Lincoln fifty-nine years ago this eve- Hurwitz, Bertha Kushner, and Cksr-I institutions have been serving Omaha the ratine-tion to comply with ArtiCleon shook his head, puzzled. What wonder then flung open the door, and lead the una still-born son. Jewery by accepting our tubercular cle 22, which declares that in select"The nurse tells me that it cannot happy father into the house. Cleon's ning, in rededicating ourselves to the trade White. A talk on hospital mother placed in that • when his great" task for which these youths needs by Dr. Victor E. Levine of the! patients. They have cured hundreds ing a mandatory principal considera- Cleon's arms a boy child, sturdy, per- live," went on Mattathias, "and it is of Omaha men, women and children of tion should be given to the wishes of fect in every limb, the strong man well, for if it survives it will surely first-born son had just been bathed died. Only it's a task not to be Creighton Medical School faculty. Th<*| and now lay upon the nurse's knee, performed on the field or battle. It public is invited to attend. this dread disease, and they have pre- the people. wept like a child for very joy: and grow up a weakling, maybe a twisted vented its spread to many more hunis to be performed in our daily lives, The following articles are needed by] Colonial Secretary Duke of Devon- thanked the God of Israel from a full cripple. Surely, as you say, the Lord (Continued on page 2) dreds o£ our people. Omaha owes shire declared that the government is in our business or profession. And the local Hadassah unit for the hospi-J in Palestine: these institutions something for this not responsible for every action of the BNAI ISRAEL BASKET BALL that task is to get these hates, hates talsSheets, PRIZES AT THORPEIAN Annual B'nai B'rith Dance pillow cases, blankts, bed-| service. They are entitled to support League of Nations and that the choice of races, of faiths, of classes, of TEAM LEADS LEAGUE. DANCE. spreads, tablecloths, soap, from Omaha Jews. of a mandatory is "not in the League, Sunday "Evening December 24th The Bnai . Israel basketball team sections, out of our hearts and put short flannel kimonos, napkins, lay, The weekly dance of the Thorpeian "For many: years now the Federa- but in the Supreme Council of the maintained • its lead in the Class B, in their place the true American tion has been subsidizing these three principal allied' powers. Although Athletic club held on Sunday nights The annual B'nai B'rith dance will Church League at the Y. M. C. A. doctrine or liberty, equality and ettes, talcum powder for layettesJ institutions. By this means we have the terms of the mandate were greatly at the Kel-Pine Dancing academy will be' held Sunday evening, December when it defeated the Presbyterian fraternity, civil, religious and politi- castile soap for layettes, pajamas anfi flannels. kept individual solicitors out of Oma- criticized in England, he was unaware be augmented on next Sunday by the 24, -&t the Hotel Fontenelle. Church team by a score of 19 to 6. cal liberties for every man, woman of any exception ever taken by the addition of what is to be called the •.According to the committee in Rueben Brown, center on the team and child in this land." (Continued on page 2.) BAVARIA GOVERNMENT TAKES| people 'concerned to England as man- Hungry Hearts Prize waltz. The charge of arrangements for this was the star of the game, making STAND AGAINST POGROffl Congressman Isaac Siegel menprizes for the winners will consist of dance, plans are being made to make datory, i • - -• BRITH ABRAHAM TO AGITATION. 12 of the teams total points. George tioned the Ku KIux Klan by name cash, candy and tickets Spt the Sun WAGE WAR ON KLAN Lord Birkenhead asked whether the this the gala event of the season. Bernstein's guarding was also a and asserted that the boys who Berlin, Nov. 17. (J. T. A.) — The] New York, Nov. 23.—(Jewish Cor- British government* was going to be theater, to see the performance of Attempts are being made to secure Bavarian Minister of Interior lias, inl fought for democracy owe it to respondence Bureau)—Justice Aaron influenced by the press campaign urg- Anzia Yerzierska's story Hungry the services of several actresses and feature of the game. The team themselves and to their country that the Bavarian Parliament, taken « | plays the fast Dundee Presbyterian Hearts made into film form. The J. Levy of the municipal court, grand ing, England to leave Mesopotamia actors to perform on the program decided stand against the steadily m-| master of the Independent Order Brith and Palestine. This campaign, he de- story is of particular interest . to that is being arranged for the occa- Church team next Thursday evening. Klansman be driven out of. public creasing ' anti-Jewish agitation tol office as quid??;' as possible. Abraham, said yesterday he would call clared, . was compehdibuT.y summed Jewish people as it deals with the sion. "This country," said Congressman Bavaria, and has threatened the Righti PRESIDENT DISCUSSES into convocation the Grand Lodge of up in the "Bag of Baggage" cry of trials and tribulations of a Jewish The money obtained from this dance family who migrate to this country Siegel, "will not tolerate for a mo- Parties that he would take drastic! IMMIGRATION WITH the Order to consider the activities the Daily Express. The present will go to help support the war ormeasures to prevent a further spreted.;•] of the Ru Klux Klan. HARRY H. SCHLACHT ment the secret, invisible organiza- of this agitation. The stand of ttrtsj Premier and Lord Curzon, Lord Birk- after excessive persecution in Eussia. phans adopted by the local lodge. There has been a special screening "I shall call into convocation the enhead stated, are directly responsiNew Yor:, Nov. 23. (J. C. B.)— tion that calls itself the Ku Klux minister has, to a certain degree,] Grand Lodge of the Independent Or- ble for Great Britain becoming the of the picture for some of the promin- INVENT NEW INTERNATIONAL Harry H. Schlacht, President of the Klan and is afraid of the light of checked the danger which was caus der Brith Abraham as soon as possible mandatory over Palestine. If the de- ent Jewish people of the city and all Downtown Chamber of Commerce, day. The American people will not by the open pogrom ag-itetion whicM JEWISH PLOT. tolerate it for a moment when, they and, through its executive board take cision is -wrong, what is their justifi- are unanimous in their praise of this Vienna, Nov. 17. (J. T. A.)—A new said yesterday that President Harddach appropriate steps as will ensure cation for expending hundreds of mil- unusual picture. In presenting the anti-Semitic daily has started its ap- ing invited him to luncheon at the realize its insidiousness. No one who for some time has been prevalent Jttj Bavaria. these results sought by all fair mind- lions of pounds. Having expended so picture, the management of the .Sun White House, Thurslay to discuss is directly or indirectly connected pearance. The first issue contains much money and accepting before the are doing it in the interest of the ed, and tolerant Americans. with such an organization has any the first chapter of a new revelation immigration problems. Sen. Calder "If this board authorizes it, I shall world the responsibility for preserv- Jewish community, as it makes its regarding a great international Jew- and Col. Theodore Roosevelt, Assist- place in this land. appeal to the deputy grand masters of ing Peace in Palestine and Mesopo- greatest appeal to our people. "The boys who came back, and ish plot which the paper declares has ant Secretary of War, were also to the various states of the union and, tamia, he would criticize evacuation who are tonight honoring the memoattend the luncheon. been prepared by the Elders' of Zion. through them, to all the district grand now. The strategic importance of ries of those who have fallen, owe it Information is wanted r e l a t e PALESTINE ELECTIONS The paper says that the following m&sers and to such other organiza- Palestine, he said, .was her relation to themselves and to this country to the whereabouts of member*, SAY RUSSIANS WILL BACK POSTPONED. tions as might manifest the Ameri- to Egypt. Egypt is a vital link be- Jerusalem, Nov. 24. (J. T. A.)— chapters will contain discoveries of a that the driving of these men out of of a family named BESBORODARAB CLAIM startling nature. tween the empire communications. V can spirit of co-operation." KIN, who are supposed to be in public office is done as quickly as Lausanne, Nov. 27. {J. T. A.)—The At a meeting of the District GoverBesides that, Palestine is strategically Omaha. The Jewish Welfare y in this way Soviet Delegation to the Near East possible because Former Omahan President of B'nai necessary for the protection of Egypt. nors of Palestine, the Government' NO JEWISH PROFESSORS AT Federation J"^ received » most can we make certain that the stabili Peace Conference will help the Arab B'rith Lodge. LITHUANIAN UNIVERSITY Lord Salisbury answered that the gov- announced its decision not to proceed 1 pithml appeal from a family ity of our form of government is Delegation from Palestine in presswith the elections of the Legislative EldoTado, Ark.—Arthur Marowitz, ernment would render no decision Kowno.—(J. C. B. Service)—The named BANTTN. now living in Council for the present, the Jeru- Education Department of the Min1- ing their claim against' the British assured to all who live here. If former resident of Omaha, Neb., was without very careful consideration. Slutsk. asking that IIIR Beesalem correspondent of the Daily istry for Jewish Affairs reports that Zionist policy, newspaper men here there is one lesson we can elected president of Eldorado, Ark., borodkin family be placed into broadcast from shore to shore, it is Mail understands. This correspondent were told by members of the Arab Lodge No. 957, L O. B. B. Mr. Marthere have been no applications for communication with the Bant ins. London, Nov. ~2. (J. C. B.)—The reports also that the propaganda the three professorships in the Jew- Delegation. The Deputation of the lesson of respect for law and kowitz, who came- to this city from Any information relative to Omaha some time ago, was elected Danish atom investigator, Professor among the Arabs aginst the elections ish subjects at the Lithuanian Uni- Palestine Arabs consists of four respect for duly constituted authorthis family shouli! bo comNiels Bohr, now lecturing at the ity." hs become more widespread than versity. For this reason there will members headed by Moussa Kasim president of the lodge at its first municated to the Jewish Welmeeting.. Of a population of eighty .University. of Manchester is a ever, and that the 1Arab leaders are probably b e no Faculties in Jewish, Pasha, Chairman of the Arab Execfare Federation immediately* Jewish citizens, dV%r sixty have al- candidate for the noble prize for hopeful of affecting a complete boy- literature, Jewish iHstory and the.utive Committee and Shibly Jamel, Nearly -every Jewish family In cott of the election? Omaha reads "The Jewish Press". physics. •»«.W inineil tho. B'nai B'rith Semitic Languages during this term. I Secretary

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