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•g eecond-dsss mail matter on Jannzsx? 27th, 1321, Et U Omaha, Nebraska, under the Act of Uarch & 1879.
0MAH4, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 1825
RAILWAY JUNCTION COMMISSION APPOINTED BY SIR HERBERT SAMUEL Forty Per Cent Payment on Pledges Must, be Collected Jerusalem, (J, T. A.)—A commission to consider the possibility of Before Work Can Begin on Building., removing the junction on the xailvray lines Lud to Tel-Aviv was apNEED OF BUILBIKG I S BEING REALIZED BY pointedfrom by the High Coranissioner.ALL "MEMBERS OF COMMUNITY. The commission has as - members Public -Meeting at- Auditorium ' "April 12th directors of the various'government "THE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER MUST BE BUILT •^departments, mayors and the presiIN 1925," with this slcgan in mind the workers have been can- dents of the Jewish and Arab ALL ORGANIZATIONS IN eassing the entire city for the collection of pledges that are due chambers of commerce in Jaffa and CITY TO TAKE PART for the Community Center building. . Tel-Aviv.
The "workers have been meeting every noon' a t the Loyal Hotel grill room to make their reports and discuss plans for the collection of the forty per cent payments on the.pledges: The ? campaign, "will close on Monday noon when it is expected that B £iai B'nOi Opei the workers .will report "we have'gone over the top;" \ The need of the Community Center building in Omaha is Ihnrsday'ETemng, llarcli 26 known to all .subscribers and because''of this the payment of Arranged For pledges toward immediate erection of the building is necessary. Interesting Program Meeting.
SUBSRXFEION PRICE, A YEAR. $2.50
EXPLOSION CAUSES DESTRUCTION. OP TRANSYLVANIAN SYNAGOGUE Vienna, (J. T. A.)—An explosion in the synagogue in. Saloj Krassua,! Transylvania, caused the destructica > of the building and injury to the sexton and his assistants. The disaster was the result of an explosion in tlie gas pipes. The crashed tofeeground. |F i n a I s w The sexton and assistants VirWn t rt h ihis e «rctT*iTiTe were in the synagogue were Xatallv j injured.
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Under the auspices of all'Jewish organizations in &c city, the entire Omaha Jetrry -will cttlebrate the open-. ing of the'£3rE,t -Hebrew University on j The National Aleph Zadflc Aleph basketball tournament Mt. Scopus, in Palestine, at a public ; debates will ba held Saturday evening and Sunday. program Sunday evening, April 12, st i>«^ CT^=TI. v i *.,?•«». « « ^ i • Eight chapters of this order arc send in j : beys here to repm the City" Auditorr>irs. " P a ™ P b n Thru! An&me Soft? ir e s e n t ^ ^ ^ tournament. Omaha will ba hosts in%h& ^ Evening - t Branded Theatre. ;^ m ( f f e ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ Q nt h e l e f i m s 4 m d a ^ ^ m a a j . ffaests Representatives froin the various The board of directors and trustees paign. Three times before Omaha •who willaxrive to witness this tournament. Durinp the past week, organizations met tHs week and have More than fifteen hundred people; of the Jewish Community Center Jewry attempted a campaign to erect the committee in charge has been putting the final touches to the made plans for the program. Mr. Mas •witnessed the shcrcring1 of the Purim ! Omaha Lodge No. 354, I. O. B. B., building will meet Tuesday evening the much needed building for the schedule of the games aud debates. Fromldn was appointed <±iairxns.n of for the purpose of making final plans boys and girls so that they may have will hold its regular open meeting the general committee, and Mr. Al- Plays . given by the children of the The order of Aleph Zadik Aleph, started in OmrJaa. has grown , and arrangements for the erection of a place in which to,meet and under Thursday evening, March 26, at thebert Kaplan -will serve as chairman City Talmud Tcrah and the City Sun-, ^during the past vear and now there are thirteen chapters of this day School on Sunday evening, March ; the building:. The. contracts for the Jewish environments. The dream can Jewish Community Center. The of the arrangement committee r throughout the country. The B'nai B'nth lodpcs throughbuilding -will be Jet by the building soon be realized with the help of chairman of the meeting will be Prominent speakers and musical Eiid 15, a t the Brandeisout the country are sponsoring this •£T.n and site committee as soon as forty every subscriber.to pay their pledges Abner Kaiman. A very interesting literary numbers a?s being arranged the very beginning until the climax, "This tcKirnsmert in Onaha will be Mr.rcb 21, 1??*, 7 1O 31 p. rathe shoTc proved to be a very enterper cent, of the pledges are collected. immediately. program has been arranged by Mr. to appear at this celebration by the JPecrnfl TJouTid—B»*r-kntb!*11 Games | the beginning for the youth of Ainertaining performance. and Dphalos, Knnicipal Auditori«m, "The •workers have been, canvassing The complete-report of the results Kaiman. committee in charge. Plans'are now i;tch the developments of this STOda;. JMsrrli «rX ll»2r, fi a . a to ic A Tfie origin of Purim and the Days, A..review of the patriotism of the the city with a great deal of energy of the campaign will be made at the under way to secure a prominent C V said Harry Trustin, member A and have been meeting "with great luncheon Monday noon a t the Loyal American Jew will be given by M.speaker for this celebration. "This of Queen Esther vrere revealed in the, °*" Jths -" *r'"-~ " .P,n=Jtetball Gsatses and SemiPinalpPaskeibsdl committee in chsrge. "We first play, "The Dream o£ Purin," success", said Harry -H. Lapidus, Hotel. The workers will canvass all Monheii. The principal address will celebration is being*, observed by the Debates, Municipal Auditorium, Sunhave cosibined this tournament to one day, March 22, li'«5. S p. in. to 5 p. m. president of the' Jewish Community members" assigned to* them during the be made by a prominent speaker. The Jewish people throe ghoat the entire given in English by the children cf cf ed"acs.tlonal slid physical." Finals—Sasfectbatl Games ETtd Deprogram will be featured by first Center and chairman of this cam. remaining few days of this week. world," said l i a s Troinkin. Many the City Sunday School. "The Paper "be debated br.tes, Mur.idpr.! Acditoriwu. Sunday, The subject that pearances of several prominent vocal- famous European 2a d American Jew- Hat," the second play, u-as grivcr. in paign. The people of Omaha are Kerch 22, 1P25. 7 T>. m, to » p. m. ists and players. Leo'Meyerson of ish leaders v;iH atLasd the celebration Hebrew by the children c£ the Takcud upon by the tea.xr.s is, "Eesolved, Thai realizing the need of the;building by PrPeentation o£ Trophies and M«sdTorah. This plsy portrayed anti-Se- HciiEion in Sons Forai Should Be als—Daiicir.K, Kur.icroal Auditorium, Council Bluffs, 13 years old piano in Palestine on April 1. the enthusiasm which i s being disS-andsr, lu&rch ZZ, 1VZZ, 9 p. in. to mitism of today and hot? a modem Taught in the Public Schools." wizard, will play at this open meeting. played throughout the cjfcyt The time "The opening of the Hebrew UniThs tournament will begin Satur-} 12 is. "Qneen Esther" revoked the plans cf The first appearance of Miss Bertha for t h e erection of the building is the versity is the first great, constructive day evening st 7 p. m. a t Technics! ] TEASiS ENTEKED__IN an anti-Seiait Ths third playlet, Greenhouse," 17 year old soprano present but this cannot be done unless Judea," said "Competition,1' pertainsd to the cele- High school. The first rouns of the] enterprise of the . It, TOrKNAMSNTS soloist, pupil of Madame Moellerevery, subscriber has paid his forty To Send Proceeda to Orphan Home in Fromkin. '"formal, opening of this bration of Parim in. this generaiioa, game End debates •vrfU bt> held on that j Harms, -will be made at this meeting; par cent of the pledge." MAECH 21^2, *2 Palestine. university -will "be = attended by theasd the ihAs of the perforroance night. Qv, Scncsy nomlag &t she will be accompanied by Louis EAMS The building i s Omaha is needed great English statfiKaen vrho liad fee the in s, drasnatic and effective n i rounds v,lli than. jfc.has ey.er..been.be- For the-benefit of the.-jG.irls'., Or- Armstrong. _ imaginaHcs -and" iis&^Qffirsgo to tas!k.6 •way the return cf the I a. The finals tr" 1 bf City A-s cause of the large increases in mem- phan School in Palestine, the local The Y. M. H, A. -quartet in new it possible. This celebration will force i in the evening, after vhica,1 ^*™mnj from every country in the -world to bership of organizations that are j af- Junior Hadassah are giving a spring songs and with an entire new actthe world to recognize that something; ' T "" « ^ s / » ^ " « - ~—««"«s homeland in Palsstine. and elso there will be ds-ntlnr sad the jrrcscn-i COUXCSJ r filiated -with the Jewish' Community dance Sunday evening, March 29, at will appear on this program. The new and extraordinary has h a p p e n e d ,t h«e-i.r , , . l M r f . n . V, e v , M _ v - » . * _ .*. tstiozi o f insQ&is t o t s e vinrar.gr j jjp'irae Br>»i YPIO KroloE._J<» how Palestine has been rebuilt by the Center. The present quarters are the Fontenelle Hotel. entire public is invited to "attend. teams. A large orchestra has been and "will make the world realize that a Chaluzera. very small and are always crowded The Omaha Junior Hadassah's qrqsecured to play for this affair. project which most people dismissed "The Talmud Torah was established X)F,S MOWESr-^iw Anchor. T 1 , Capl.; ta to the Girls' Orphan School this with activities. as a 'dream or an imposture is a. real for the purpose of training the Jew- - "We have selected ths official?, for Bobort EJHBon, 1-.: i.ouli' Williams, d The 'dream of the Jewish Com- .year -is ?600, so the money-raised from f ^ JJr L O. :MMotrip t r i p BoMnbawn ^ i , O and concrete fact and is developing ish boys and girls to heeomf? good the baskeib&l! games and debates,*" G . ; Crargt \Ahla, G. munity' Center in Omaha, -which be- this dance will go towards this fund. in a fashion which may mate some citizens of America, but at ths same said Nathan Bernstein, ir.eir/bsr of ilie AVilf—/Hfiypr on-onbrrs, Simon Klein, EWninn, LXFKISC Ksltet, H r t gan in 1905, is soon to be. realized This Palestine institution houses, all older and mightier states blush." 'JL'enenbmim. time to raise them to be good Jews," coanmittea in charge. The folioraig: Sow with the close'of "the present cain- European orphans who have been left CITI men trill cct as cfficial? in the "basThe Omaha Hebrew dub has said Babbi J. M. Charlop, in ES adU-wln Sttt$B., hil homeless because of the "war and poCent.; POSTPONE DANCE launched its a£lrraal membership camdress before the ending of the per-ketball games: E5. Eardicfc, H groms. The Modern Woodmen of America formance. paign. The campaign is for three Bartearosd, George rsrish, L-eo Kco- x. A A partial list of forty-sevei. prom- hundred new xaembers for the class will postpone its arrntial dance which Credit for the success o£ the per-ecky. Ths judges for the debates arc: ? " inent men and women have pledged to be installed a t the annual anni- •was to have been given Sunday evenformance is due to Mr. H. TToal, in- J. G. Kasters, principal of"Central{ themselves to. be. patrons and patron- versary to be lield the latter part of ing at the Rome Hotel to some time structor of the Talniad Tcrsli, who High; Dwight Porter, piitcipsl of OMAI2A—Manrlce Alp»rln. I>avld 33eber, A joint banquet of the AuQebung esses at the dance. Among those who April. , in May. Because of the importance coached the Hebrew and Jewish Plays, Tech Eigh; District Judge T*. G. Hasclub arid the Jewish Culture League will serve The captains of the teams that •will of the A, Z, A. tournament and the and to Miss 'Martye "VTcinEtein, -who tings, Prof. Nathan Bernstein, Dear, Messrs. ana Mesaames: S. Welnb'^rg, N. :v&—2r,::--iU W t l n e r ; B e n •will be held Sunday evening, March Brodsky. M. E . Chapman. A. Goldstein, canvass the «ity for members are large crowd expected there, the'Mod- directed the pupils of the City Sun- L. J. TePosI of Creigalon L&w 29, at the Labor Lyceum; The com- Max Promkin, Yvjta. L. Holzman, Harrj B. G. Shapiro, M. Polanslby and P.ern Woodmen of America members day School in the English playlet. School, Prof. William Stembcrg< . £ Lapidua, Chas. Levinsou, Henry Monsky, mittee, in charge of this affair are A. iloaer. Arthur Eosenblom, A. Sllvennas, Gerelick. Crexghton hzi? School, E. C. Page. voted to postpone their annual dance. Simon, A. Theodore, Harry Woll Miss Dora Lazerowitz and the Messrs. Louis Verne CbstelEin, Edvard Purlfty. Mrs. M. Tatle; Dr. and Mrs. M. I. Gordon, ctT%r. MO.—Philip Dr. &»a & a Mrs. Ms J. Morgenstern, M. F . Goodman, M. Dr. and Mrs. A. Greenberg; e beg; The first round of ths preliminaViUiniP M N t h B t i Itomm; Messrs.: Nathan Bernstein, rinketstcin, MinMn,' Ben Kligman and D. Hesnick. Iieslie ries "wss played Et Graisd Jlspids. Bnrkenroad, y dradscoK, ra i Bnrkenroad,' Harry i N t h Harry Herbert Goldstein, Nathan E.-Green G l d t The' proceeds of the play,' "Broken Wo. Grodlnsky. Joe Llnsmnn, Irrln Stal Slich-, when the Grand Kap'cs team Hearts," presented jointly recently by master, Fred White; Dr. V. E. LcTine. p^yed ths Gary, IndL, team. Trt the two clubs, will'be given to three Israel Shomer Sold Papers as Sis Hen Wers Initiated; Two AreGary team cefeated the Grcjid Hap-1 organizations, namely, the Colonizaids I'&sketbsll team by a score of Z 9 i Youth to Help His Omahsns. tion in fiussia, the Library of the to IP, and tbe CSrsr-d Espids Parents. Labor Lyceum, and the Jewish'School llore ih&n osic thousaad people atteam defeated its Gs.rj The Nebraska Chapter of the Zeta 4 •that is soon to be -opened b y the tended the funer&l services »f Mr. team. '0maha has a wonderful Jewish Beta Tan Fraternity initiated sis men ; Paole-Zion club. -~ Sir. E. Abramovi*ch, .noted leader Community," said Israel Shomer, the The Et. P a d , Minn., team vnil ar- Dave SimcTit S3 year old soa of Mr^ at the asnual formal banquet held and Krs. B. 'A. Simoa, -who died and international figure of labor, will new head of Bradley, Merriam & rive early Priaar Sunday evening, Karch 8, at the Linspeak * in Omaha Monday evening, Smith, mail order hcrose. "Prom -what! BULGASIANS PKOTEST^ being chdpewned by Dr. r.nd Krs..] early Sstsrdaj- morninfi a t the Wiss coln Hotel. Covers -were laid for March 23, at the Swedish Auditorum. I have learned during the short time j AGAINST IMMIGRATION Leoa J. TiberDr. Tiber is sponsor i Keroorid Hospital. Fuasra 1 ^^^H^K twenty guests. RESTRICTION IN PALESTINE Mr. Abramovitch recently returned that I have been in Omaha, I see'~that j of the A. £. A. chapter at Si. Paul- \ "^ere held Sunday saoming *£ Ths rsen initiated T^rs David Slier Soustchoiik. (J. T. A.) Zionists' from Hussia, where he was a leader the members of the community a r e | "1 am very pleased to szo this orrlcr j frotr. ttie Koffroaii-Ci-osby and Jack Nevrzcan cf Om&ha, sad C&tl - meetings have been held in many of of the "Bund/J the Russian Socialists very active. I am pleased to see the j Gugerieira, of Thetraepolis, "Wyp.; sponsor roch a tcxrrnarnrnt for ibe j home. Earial took place at Fisdber**. Jewish men and -women in the com-j the -cities o£ Bulgaria to demand free Democratic.Party. . both Pann. Rsbbs Frencriclt Cdhn ofaid Dr. Tibsr. *'It sai Herman Krupp, of Fremcci; Mcnsel natality ialways_ willing to do things."; immigration into Palestine and th ficiated. Pslllsarers were f rcia a physical Isernan, cf Nebraska City, and Barabolition of .all existing restrictions POALI-ZION CLUB. TO GIVE "I intend- taking my part in the! Lester Meyers. Koy Smitb, ac2.tion.al standpoint." ney Olansky, of Dubtrcixie, I s . on Jewish immigrants coming to set- CQNCERT AND PLAYLET activities of the community," said Mr. i H&rer, Jarvis Fwidcn, Large loving cups srill be presanica Mr. Ben Kavite, Omsha boy, and tle in the country. * ; "__ Shotfter. While in1 Baltimore, lie was i to the v.inrd=g: teams, asd iadivsdaal j and J&iJg Whitebook. head cf the chapter, g-src the adcres? At the meeting in Sofia"recently very active in Zionist and Young Jui A concert and playlet will be prenedals -will be presented to the play- j Mr. Simon had beea iiiakilkg Ms ef and ths reply en behalf the Bulgarian.Zionist leaders, Messrs. sented by the local Poali-Zion club dean work. He was the publisher of I | Isoxi^e s t Aubona, Kebr., for tb* paet of the ne-w isen&crs was girsv* hy ers. Leon Cohen and Bernard Arditti, crit- Sunday evening, April 12, at the La the Young Judean magazine of BalThe f ollo-wuig is the schedslp cl j two years, where be •was pngaged in David Sher. J- Earrj' Diancni, of icised the Palestine policy of -Great bor Lyceum. The playlet to be given timore. On moving to Chicago, some ' j Jnasnewt. X5* je mrvlvei by him XiiriColsi, -prcis toastimister. I^pTssrsptn events: Britain and tbe -weak and passive at-, be "The1 Divorce," by Sholem "few years ago, he' again took an acFirst IioundBas'ketbail Games and { WMOTT, £mestinc» parent^ Mr. = talks "?rere g5vsn by Nortes Idebertatude of the Zionist" Executive in Mr. L. Kipnitz, of Chicago tive part in Jewish t circles. * Debates. Tech iiigh School, Br.'avdux, \ ^ r s > g^ 'j^ SJJHQSJ aBij one SI3H, cf St, Paul,-KLTH.; I.T.-IS Soir?IiOndoiu A resolution demanding of Hl.,"is directing-the play. ' Shotner is •& large, boyish, redLester. Great Britain free Jewish immigraThe profits of the affair • Srill gcieadedj brown-eyed chap. He reC0KU1SSIQN TO SEES. Olacslqr. tion into Palestine andlhe immediate towards organizing V Junior club ceived his commercial, training- as SOUTH ASIEEICAN HOME OFFICE -putting into force of Article 6 of the the Paoli-Zion. other prominent Omsb'ans received FOK STBANDED REFUGEES AFFAIES ESTABLISKE& -Palestine Mandate was passed by actheirs, selling- newspapers en' the JEWISH REPKESESTATIVES Berlin. (?. T. A.) A comiaissioa GOTSBXMSKT clamation. The resolution is being WARSAW THANKS J. D. C. streets. By doing this he was able ABSENT TTHEN POLISH representing t>c Intern at'icnaa! Laboz transmifted. to the "Zionist Executive to attend "grade and high schools in AND AMERICAN PEOPLE GOYIRKMESTT CELEBRATES Office cf the Lca^-ae oi" Kations viii Moscow, ( lesdsfe Tekgra|»hie In London.' " AT OPENING OF. PAVILION Baltimore. .With his profits from'the SUCCESSFUL LOAN IK U . S . sail ox; Siarch IS Crorr. Lis.boa to ). A Wpeda! ©Sice for Warsaw. (J. T« A.) Thanks to th papers he sold he helped support his ing this business to Omaha to join "Warsaw, ( J e w i s h TdegrapMc Brazil. Chile, Argentine ssci &Es&ss, is tofee.esfcafclisfaedby t|»ft the Bradley, Merriam • £ Smith or' CLASSICAL HEBREW RECOGAmerican people and the American parents and two sisters. Aseccr}. Kepresentaiivss cf the Cuba for the p ^*pose of investigating; tiozud sectifia oC the Wsdk, i NIZED BY LONDON UNIVER- Jewish Joint.; Distribution Committee He moved west a s far as Chicago ganization* Jemsh popolatdoa of Pclsad VPSTQ ab- the possibilities m these c^sntnes for Committee of the Soviet "The first thing I am goisg to do sent last night at th© banqsei giv&a \settling the .*-mcnion, Itassiaa end „ .'- SIXY FOB B;'(A. DEGREE were expressed by the president o shortly after graduating from high e according- to a Jerusalem, (J.. 4T. A.)—Classical the city of Warsaw at the opening school, and entered Northwestern uni- is to open a retail department store hj the Gorernxaent v. in ceiebratsoas of f Jewish refugees, now stranded in vsx~ ' Hebrew, which has been accepted by. exercises of the xjynocologieal pavil versity, • At the same tarns he -con- on the firsts floor of the building, the the success of the Polish olish loan in the ions Europf'ss -'lies. The oS'm irill be filled by » ,the London tJnivei'sity'!as a, subject ion in the Jewish hospital here. tinued to work. Xcstead of ""hustling" same as all-large mail order houses Urdt^i States. Dr. BerihoId'Latzir, fornteily tor f a t SewWk affairs* T h e of 1 toward the degreg-of Bachelor of Arts, . The pavilion was erected witf-j funds papers, he entered the'employ of a are doingj" said Mr. Shomer. 2n dipiotaatic corps, ihe B i m t o x will be to * s f « s t r cf Jewish Affaire in iY& as, an alternate of iother ancient donated by iheAisericir- Jewish Join mail- order house In Chicago. He Mr. Shomer is now occupying the ar,d Jata G»v£xnnK!&t, i& a lassabex <&£ ifcis ticaal, coltpafi s s d legal nebt» «jf on, the initiative of'the Distribution Gonnnlttee, liked Hie business, and em cotspleti- former office of the late E. IL Her'Ehe Jewish <fepsli6is, ccsomission lepreseniisg: O& United Jevrish to Government. • Beside the city precid«nt,- the tiofi- of 'his collsge course1 starts^ a riaas, 76, the original laeraber of , repeated thfi lE'riiaiaon «& ac- Jewish BnsigTatwn C&ffifflritos cf Be?« s fossilises whem ,th* Mw$$k .stedies include the Bible, Jew- president, government officials sn small mall order house. This gmms the firm vfoa "was living' triien Mr. eosnt of their opposition t» the seati- $bn, D r . Is .a wojeaty, ssiA to # ish.'" XiistotF,. .geography of, Palestine, delegate of various Jewish isstitu in- seven years until he does "a 13*13- Sfeesn.gr paxrhased the" controls ing- in- Jevrkh econarsic policy of tfje i charts . pf §35SMK© a sear. H terest in the
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