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2000 Reformat ' RABBI POOL'S KLAN SERMON PRAISED WiHCelebrr 50 Years of Progress Leading American Jews from All Parts of the Land to Attend Meetings. CONVENTION TO BE HELD IN NEW YORK CITY. Refsrm Judaism will celebrate its first half century of progressive development in New York City toward the end of January, when from all parts of America 2,000 distinguished American Jews will come to participate in the Golden Jubilee convention of the Union^ of American Hebrew Congregations, and the National Federation of Temple Sisterhoods. Calling this\the greatest Jewish convention ever, held in New York City and perhaps in the entire country, well known New York Jews, who include Abram I. Elkus, Daniel Guggenheim^ Daniel P , Hays, David Leventritt, Adolph S. Ochs, Adolph Lewishon, Louis Marshall, David M. Eressler, Dr. Lee K. Frankel, Morris . Gest, J. M. Giddmg, Judge* Irving Lehman, Samuel Untermeyer, Henry Morgenthau, Mortimer I. Schiff and Felix M. Warburg, are preparing to entertain delegates, from all parts of the United States and to send back through them to the communities they represent a message that religion is the most vital factor in the life of Anierican Jewry.

New York. (J. C. B,)—Praise for the "comprehensive, constitutional Americanism expressed in the sermon of Rabbi David deSola Pool, of the Spanish and Portugese Snagogue", which contained a glancing reference to the Ku Klux Klan, is expressed in an editorial in The New York American of today, headed "Ku Klux Klan Un-American". Dr. Pool's remarks were in part as follows:. "As Jews, who have throughout all our history served and loved America, we scorn to defend ourselves from the religious bigotry of the Ku Klux Klan, "It is as citizens and not as Jews that we maintain the right of all persons, born or naturalized in the United States, to their right f of citizenship, 'irrespective of race or color." •.

Jewish Women's Welfare Organization Members to Honor Mrs. R. Kulakof sky Informal deception to Be Held Next Thursday at Blackstone Hotel. WAS PRESIDENT OF JEWISH WOMEN'S WELFARE ORGANZATION FOR TEN YEARS Members , of rthe Jewish .Women's Welfare organization and their friends will meet next Thursday afternoon at the Blackstone at an informal reception, at wich Mrs. Kulakof sky, retiring president of the organization will be the guest of honor. Mrs. Kulakofsky, at the end of this month, will Have completed ten .years' of service as president;of what.is now the largest women's organization in the Jewish community. . Formerly known as the Jewish Xadies' Relief Socie'ty^'fne* "Women^~We1fare organization has grown during her in cumbency from a group embracing i less than 300 members to one which now numbers approximately 900 women. With its growth in numbers the spheres of activity and influence

ASSAILS HARDING'S j PLAN OF REGISTRATION j

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W H O IS T H E MOST P O P U L A R J E W I S H ":;',', } . •...-" v ; ' G I R J L ? " . / . •:••;•. V . : V ^ v / At midnight on February 7,~1923, T H E JEWISH ; PRESS will award a purse of $ 100 in gold and -a * round-trip ticket to Chicago to the • most popular ; •.. Jewish girl in Nebraska ami Iowa. ^ , L T, -

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€ Besides this many other; valuable prizes-^will : be distributed. i The selection of the inost popular ^ r l will be decided by votes, ten votes to be awarded for each subscription obtained. Renewals of old subscribers will count the same as new ones.

While New York has had its charit conferences and - dinners, Its; conventions of business men coming to v discuss business problems of mutual interest, this is the first time that i t has witnessed the coming together of so greatja body of Jews for religious purposes." The sessions of the convention "will be held a t the Hotel r A s t o r f i s ^ Ja3t22-±o-v26^and^a banquet will be the main feature. Preceding the opening of the convention, New York will have a "Go to Synagogue" week, whereir. all Jews of .the city will be urged to attend speT H E JEWISH PRESS cial services which will supplament religious features of their congregations, and to respond to an appeal for the strengthening of until they now include practically every-phase of social service activity. Judaism. Next Thursday's reception has Founding of U. A. H. C been arranged by the incoming of' The Union of American Hebrew ficers of the organization so that its' Congregations was founded by Isaac members may have an opportunity M. Wise, who is responsible for the to pay well-deserved honor and tribdevelopment of Reform Judaism in ute to Mrs. Kulakofsky, whose ability America. The organization grew out and energy have been BO largely reof a desire of this rabbi to see an sponsible for its continued success. affiliation that would perpetuate and Reservations at $1 per person are develop the institutions of his faith now being received by Mrs. H. Trust: in America. Thirty-four congrega- in, 601 S. Thirty-first avenue. No retions met at the organization con- servations will be accepted after TuesJack C. Copeland, 22, son of Mrs. B. Play Written by Former Omahan. vention and the following year at t i e day, December 26. An entertaining The children of the Temple Israel first convention of the Union of and inspiring program has been ar- Copeland, Clowry Court, has been awarded first prize in a national con- Sunday school gave a religious playlet American Hebrew Congregations 55 ranged for the affair. •:• test conducted among optometrists of entitled "Feast of Festival" Sunday Were represented. It was a t that the.country, it was announced yes- afternoon, Deceber 17, at the Temple, time that the Union entered upon its ASSOCIATED CHARITIES and again on Wednesday evening, Deprogram r of bringing Judaism to BALL WEDNESDAY EVE terday. , cember 20, for the Council of Jewish • The prize carries with it an award every Jew everywhere. Today the Much interest is being manifested Women. Eabbi Julian MUler of St. Union has 275 congregations. in its throughout the city in the benefit Louis, Mo., formerly of Omaha, is the steadily increasing membership. This ball to be given at the Brandeis author of the pageant. represents a total of 50,000 people. Eestaurants' on Wednesday evening, The following is the cast for the - The establishment of the Hebrew December 27. The Associated Charipageant: Union College was one of the first ties, one of-the largest of the nonMrs. S. Nathan Mother functions of this organization. This Jewish social agencies of Omaha, Felice Schrader Girl Leonard Nathan college, located at Cincinnati, is the whose work at this season of the Boy -Katherine Elgutter Splrith of Sabbathprincipal institution in this country Justin Wolf Purim -. —• year is especially heavy, will be the Naomi Cahn Esther for the training of Re? T J rabbis, _Nate Mantel. Jr. Mordecal beneficiary organization. This affair _Cna Gross and, with few exceptions, all of the Purim Dancers is deserving of. the support of the -Herman _.. Rosenblatt Pesach i^ men who occupy reform pulpits Spirits of Spring Harriet Rosenblatt, greatest possible number of people, Naomi Gross, Audrey Snjrannan, Raaona throughou- the country are graduSlosburg, Marjorie Hiller and it is to be hoped that the efforts (Continued on page 2) Sheruouth Frances Simon of the committee will be successful. fiosh Hashononah Elaine BerSovitz

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Annual B'Nai B'Rith Omahan Wins First Prize Temple Israel Sunday Dance This Sunday Eve In National Contest School Pupils Present Play

CITY EMPLOYES BELONGING TO KU KLUX KLAN WILL BE OUSTED AMERICAN LEGION POSTS SEND RESOLUTIONS TO PRESIDENT AND . SENATE-

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New York, (J. C. B.)—All city employes who are found to be members of the Ku Klux TClan will be dismissed from the city's service, Commissioner of Accounts David Hirshfield announced. Mr. Hirshfield declared that reports had reached him that the Klan was making a campaign to enlist city employes, and that he would begin an immediate investigation with a view of "weeding out" all employes in city departments who had sworn altegiance to the Invisible Empire. Mr. Hirshfield's announcement was made in the absence of Mayor Hylan, but no doubt was expressed that he spoke with the authority of the mayor, as the campaign against the Klan in this city is due largely to his initiative. East Side Post 868 of the American Legion adopted resolutions condemn-

ing the Klan as "100 per cent unAmerican." The resolutions are in part as follows: "Whereas this post being composed of Jews, Catholics, and Protestants of at least', fourteen nationalities, true Americans all, who have been tried in the fires of war, do uphold the stand taken by our mayor and honorable board of aldermen, being willing to again bear arms for the protection of our sacred liberties, we therefore, do "Resolve, That we, in word and in deed, pledge ourselves to combat this organization, which • is 100 per cent un-American, in that they have never known the enlightening and beneficent power of American tolerance." Similar resolutions were adopted by Colonel Harry Cutler Post No. 3, Hebrew Veterans of the Wars of the Re-, public ^ ,

The playlet is directed by Miss Esther Newman. Miss Cecelia Feiler has charge of the choir in the pageant. The following children are in the choir: Rita Mantel. Florence Wolf, Gertmae Greenberp. Hermine Green Josephine Monneit, Janet Graetz, Prances Melchor. Iifllian Habler. Rose Fiedler, Pansy Brown, Freida Bolter, Hoee Maroirtch, Helen Bernstein, Josephine Palais, Sophie Handler. Libby Zier, Lee Rosenblatt. Janet Nathan. Rebecca Daytch, ' Sheffel Tvntsky, Morris Blank, Oscar Marovich, "Willie Gastor, and Harola Sase.

Jack Copeland. of $100 and national recognition in the field of optometrics. Copeland's treatise on "The Causes of Hyperopia, n a malformation of the eyeball, Vocal selections were given by Miss was adjudged the most scholarly and Cecilia Feiler and Miss Laura Goetz. scientist among some 500 other papers Miss Hanna Sommers played "Kol which were submitted. The contest Nidre" on the piano. Vernon Bennett was conducted by "The Optometric is the organist. Mrs. Carl Furth gave Weekly," a national journal of optom- a report of the Council convention etry, which has a circulation of 15,000. held in Kansas City. Copeland is an active member of Refreshments were served Wednesthe Y. M. H. A. and is now chairman day evening by the Council. of several important committees of the organization. He was born Warsaw, Dec 11. (J. T. A.)—Senin Omaha, is a graduate of Omaha tences of one ear's prison have been Central High School, and earned the j imposed by the District Court of degree «f Doctor of Optoraetry atl Lublin upon four Jews for memberNorthern Illinois College, Chicago, iship in the Bund.

Council of Jewish Women Meet Held at Kansas City; Fire States Represented Reports of Activities Given at Convention. Many Report Growth, OMAHA DELEGATES ELECTED TO OFFICES AT CONVENTION.

Representatives of Palestine Dc relopment Council and Zionist Organization Meet CO-OPERATE IN RAISIN< FUNDS FOR UNDERTAKING New York. (J. C. B.)—A which Zionists believe may lead mately to a reconciliation in ranks of the Zionist Organization America was taken at a confej last night of representatives of organization and of the Pale Development Council at the ofi of Nathan Straus, in the Aeoli building, by .an appointment of joint committee to devise means cooperation between the two in raising funds for the • Rutent electrification and irrigation proj for Palestine. There were present, on behalf the Palestine Development Coune Judge Julian W. Mack, Cha Mrs. Mary Fels, Dr. Stephen S.W11 and Messrs. Sol. Eosenbloom, Lot Rosensohn and Gedalia Bublic; on behalf of the Zionist Organizatia Morris Rothenberg, Chairman of Committee, Judge Jacob Moses Baltimore and Louis Robinson, WE Edlin, William Topkia and Abel. Removal of Differences. Mr. Rothenberg brought for the question, of establishing pe within the, Zionist ranks and that a discussion be entered infc which might lead to the removal differences existing between the-1 groups, with the aim of bringii back into active participation in work of . the Zionist Organiaatio those former leaders of the Organization, who are now of, the Palestine Development cil.' ' Judge Mack and his associat stated that the Palestine Develoi meat Council is a body composed Zionists and non-Zionists alike antj limited in its activities strictly social economic enterprises for upbuilding of Palestine; that wl they themselves are Zionists, the| are meeting with the representat of the Zionist Organization of Ame ica, not in their personal but sole in their representative capacity delegates of the Palestine Develoj ment Council. Questions affecting Zionists alonf or the Zionist Organization as were therefore beyond the range discussion at this conference, limit to ways and means by which operation in the economic unde ings necessary for the develops of Palestine can be attained by Zionist Organization of America the Palestine Development Council. 1

Kansas City, Mo.—The mid-west interstate Conference of the Council of Jewish Women consisting: of delegates from Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa, Missouri and Oklahoma, was in Kansas City, Mo., from Tuesday evening to v Thursday afternoon. Mrs. M. S. Miller and Mrs. Carl Furth were the Omaha delegates at the convention. The following officers were elected: President, Mrs. Stern of Kansas City; vice president, Mrs. Ripps of Joplin, Mo.; corresponding secretary, Mrs. diary Cohen of Kansas City, Mo.; finsnnal secretaryt Mrs. Cari- Forth of Omaha; treasurer, Mrs. Lowenstein. Mrs."Mose Miller of,Omaha, was elected as one of the-vice presidents at large. Kansas City, with a membership ob about 600, and St. Louis, vdth a membership of about 1,000, have the largest membership of any city of the midwest. Remarkable social work is being done by the cities, of large membership, but the smaller cities such as Joplin, with a membership of only nineteen, as it has only twenty-one Jewish women, are also doing a good social work. In Omaha, the work of the Council is bettering day by day. The immigrants who arrive in Omaha are being socially cared for and there are classes that teach them to read and write the English language. A report of the Conference was Entertainers - from Local Theaters given by Mrs. Carl Furth at the Council Chanucka program, given Wedon Feature Program. nesday evening at Temple Israel. The annual B'nai B'rith dance will Every Jewish girl in Omaha is be held Sunday evening at the Fonteeligible J;o enter "The Jewish Press nelle Hotel. Plans have been made Contest." to make this dance the most sucessful affair of the year. Entertainers from the Orpheum; Gayety, World and Empress theaters have been secured to perform on the program being arranged,' which Half Million Trained Men First Protective Force Sii will be given during the intermission Biblical Days. of the dances. (From Omaha Bee.) i groins as during the days of "We are going to make this dance London, Dec 19.—For the first and Petlura. Evidence of the Po the gala event of the year", said time since the days recorded in the supplying money and munitions Harry Trustin,': chairman of the Bible, the Jews have a large army,' overthrow the Russian Soviets dance committee. "We know that capable of protecting the lives and another reason for the formation. « all the merry-seekers will say the interests of their nationals in Russia. • the secret army, inasmuch as same." . The army began in secret a year \ these bands, using arms from The money obtained from this ago and in many respects parallels the Polish borders, continued dance will got to help maintain the Michael Collins' army before free J massacres which Petlura's bands war-orphans adopted by the Omaha state days. The Jewish defense army ! gan. lodge. has grown until it approximates 500,- i When not engaged in big action 000 strong. It is well equipped with ; with enemies, detachments of AMERICANS IN JERUSALEM RE- rifles and machine guns. Branches' Jewish army are systematically GRET RUBINOWS DEPARTURE. of it exist in every city of the Uk- claiming villages and parts of citlel Jerusalem, Dec 1L—(J. T. A.)— rainian republic, having Jewish popu- j where their people were massacre! | and deprived of thei- belong Regret over the departure of Dr. L lation. These astonishing facts were es-' Throughout the journey from M. Rubinow of New York," foro three years the director of the American tablished by correspondents on a trip kov to Odessa hundreds of st Zionist Medical Unit, was voiced at from Odessa to Moscow, A large , were heard of this continu JUS the farewell dinner tendered him by number exists in Ukraine. In Kieve; and some of the results seen. representatives of the government and the secret was not so carefully kept Spalla Has "ronri.. leading members of the Jewish com- and in smaller cities the activities of In a town called Spalla, for ii* the secret Jewish army are openly j munity. The.American counsul deseen. Every man from 18 to 50 is! stance, the Jewish volunteer army, plored the fact that the American l l d , giving i i i l f 500000'^ell armed armed, engaged in guerilla v u j it a total of 500,000 colony was losing a prominent mem- enrolled, gg i to , ber. bayonets, but the2 younger members , f a r e with a band of several bandits, which ended with the number at least 100,000. entering the town. Several thousilhi FRANKFURT JEWISH COMMUNHalted Massacres. residents, who escaped a series ITY BONDS RECOGNIZED. The organization if the Jewish ar- j r e s Berlin, Dec 11.—(J. T. A.)—The 5 my was caused by the continuation ^ ^ streaming back from c S per cent bonds, issued by the Jewish of massacres in southern Russia, of Russia and Roumaniii. ever Community of Frankfurt-on-the-Main which surpassed anything Spall*'has a larger population, 1 ^ known during the year's time, and in 1921, have been admitted on the it had before the war. which did not end with, the soviet Frankfurt bourse. The bonds were isIn -cities with a ma|0rity of Jo%||| sued for the purchase of ground for dictatorship. Ukrainian: Jews today n are living in the same fear of P » - """T (Continued on page " a new Jewish cemetery.

Besides the trip to Chicago and $100, to be awarded to the most popular girl, the following prizes will be awarded: j

Tom Kippur Louise Ziegler Spirits of Autumn — Chatlin, Frances Melchor J"ivelyn ' Betty Furth Succoth _ Joseph West Channcka

New York. {J. C. B.)—Harry H. Schlacht, President of the Downtown Chamber of Commerce, in addressing a gathering of heads of local immigration organizations, assailed the registration of immigrants recommendation of President Harding. Mr. Schlacht said: "The proposed registration plan will introduce in America the police system of Europe with the Prussian method which we went into the war to exterminate. It is a complete reversal of American policy of granting freedom to the immgrant after his arrival. To place members of other races under probation and thus under suspicion will offend the European nations and will affect the flow of immigration in our direction."

"Brandeis-Mack" aid Zionists Unite Ruttenberg Proji

JEWS IN SOUTHERN RUSSIA ORGANIZE LARGE ARI


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