April 23, 1925

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Snobbery is the pride of those w, £• are not sure of, the ^ position. -— Braley.

VOL. IV—No. 20

' I never make the mistake of arguing '-wffli' p e o p l e ' for ..whose opinion I have no respect.—Gibbon.

„-*• ae aeoond-clan* tnaU natter on January 27th, 1»2l, at Vastofflee at Omaha. Nebraska, oofler the Act ot March 3. 1870.

POLISH GOVERNMENT PUTS BAN ON JEWISH PAPERS American Jewish Congress To Aid Relief Committee Warsaw. (J. T. A.) The sale of several Jewish newspapers in Poland was prohibited by an order of the Polish government. The papers tinder ban are the London Yiddish paper, "Zeit," New York "Jewish Stephen Wise Urges Against Daily News" (Tageblatt), the Jewish daily, "Jud," of Kishineff, and the Confusing Function of Hebrew daily, "Ha'aretz," published Church and State in Jerusalem. ->

OMAHA, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 1925

CHAMPION DEBATING TEAM ISSUES NATIONAL CHALLENGE

SUBSRIPTION PRICE, A YEAR, $2.50

WARSAW JEWS MARCH TO PERETZ'S GRAVE Warsaw. (J. T. A.) Thousands of Warsaw Jews marched to the grave of I. L. Peretz, famous Yiddish writer and poet, on the tenth anniversary of bis death, April 13. Delegations representing various To be Staged Sunday Evening, organizations placed wreaths on the Prominent Speakers to Address , This Gathering grave of the dead poet and. Sholom May 12th Ash, American Yiddish novelist and TWENTY VOICES TO TAKE disciple of Peretz, delivered an ad- PUBLIC IS INVITED TOATTEND THIS PROGRAM PART IN THIS PRODUCTION dress.

Omaha Hebrew Club to Celebrate 33rd Anniversary Sunday

Y.M.AndY.WJLA.to Present Operetta of "Windmills of Holland"

In the presence of more than five question, "Resolved, That the United hundred people, the Omaha, Y. M.i H. States Should Recognize Soviet RusA. debating team was awarded-the sia." The affirmative side was upunanimous decision against the St. held by St. Louis members, Milton Louis" Y. M. H. A. "debating team. Yawitz and Victor Packman, both This intercity debate was the feature prominent attorneys of St. Louis. By virtue of the victory against St. IMMEDIATE RELIEF Louis Y, the Omaha Y. M. H. A- team is considered the champion debating NEEDED IN UKRAINIA The Omaha Hebrew cluub's thirtyThe Y. M. "andyY.1 W. H. A. wfll team of the Central. West. Besides r third anniversary celebration and New York. (J. T. A.) A commitagain present -anentertainment for the victory over the St. Louis Y, .the class initiation will be held Sunday tee to be placed at the disposal of Omaha Y has defeated other debating the public on May i2, when members evening, April 26, at the Fontenelle the delegation of the Jewish World of the Y will 4ake- part in the operRelief Committee, composed of Dr. Touring Leading Western Cities etta, "Windnulls:^>f Holland." The B'nai B'rith Helps Recent Arrivals Hotel Ballroom. Bringing Message, of Judaism. A feature of the program prepared Leon Motzkin, Rabbi Moses Eisenoperetta is being "entirely directed by " Establish Themselves. will be the public initiation of 150 stadt and Dr. Oscar Kohn, to organMrs. -Raddie • Boasberg. There wiD be Rabbi Michael Aa.ronsohn, of Cinnew members to be installed into the ize and meet with other groups to more than twenty^ boys and girls takf Mexico City (J. T. A.)—For the devise ways and means of meeting the cinnati,. 0., who is now'touring the ing part in this operetta. A careful fust time since the flow of Jewish club by the Degree Team, consisting demands of the delegation, was decid- West, will speak at Temple Israel selection has" "been made by- the di- immigration turned in the direction of N. S. Yaffe, chairman, and Messrs. ed upon at the meeting .of the Exec- Friday evening, May 1.', rector who has selecteil the best voices of "Mexico, immigrants are beginning Maurice Civin and A. Kaplan. utive Committee of the American . Rabbi Aaronsohn is field repreEvery effort is being made by the in the city to-take -part. to arrive from China, Japan and other committee in charge to make the Jewish Congress held at the Hotel sentative - of the Union of American The operetta'is a-'new undertaking eastern ports. These immigrants Hebrew Congregations. During his Biltmore. for the Omaha Y and, because of the have been stranded in the Eastern meeting the largest in the history of the club. success' the members' have made of ports for several years. Dr. Stephen S. Wise, president of Western tour he -will occupy pulpits in all of the large and prominent the Y annual '^howsj this operetta is Jewish immigrants into Mexico City Prominent men will address the the American Jewish Congress, prebeing presented for the public's ap- continue to arrive at the rate of ap- meeting and special musical numbers sided. In his speech, Dr. Wise, touched cities, delivering a message of proval. It wiH be staged at the/Get proximately 300 a month. The B'nai are being prepared. The members of upon the question of providing re- Judaism to the Jews of the United Acquainted "Hall, Twenty-eighth and B'rith has provided about 1,000 lodg- the committee in charge of the celeligious instruction to public school States. Rabbi Michael Aaronsohn -was born bration and meeting: are A. Cohn, N. Fa'rnam • streets.- .«- children in connection with the school ings during the past month for im- S. Yaffe, John Feldman, M. Civin, work, and. stressed the. inadvisability in Baltimore, Md., in 1896. He'was All participants in the operetta will migrants, 450 meals have been served of any step -which might lead directly educated in the public schools of be dressed in -old "Dutch costumes, by this institution for this month and A. Kaplan. or indirectly to -confusing the function Baltimore and graduated from the whicch make the very quaint picture The new arrivals have been helped to The Omaha Hebrew club has more Baltimore City College in 1913. Durof church and state. of the preseniaUbn. Boys and rgirls establish themselves through loans than 800 members nnd is today the ing the years 1913 to 1916, he was •will ' be dressed riri- the old -wooden extended by the B'nai B'rith to the largest organization of its nature in Dr. Motzkin told of the plight of variously employed as a stenographer the United States. shoes. "• ---•-•'- ••"'.-• the Jews in Eastern and Central Euextent of about 1600 pesos. Most of FRED WHITE. IRVIN STALMASTER. and settlement worker in Baltimore. "The meeting is open to all Omaha The persons taking part have beea this went to the starting of small rope and appealed for support of the He entered the Hebrew Union College Jewry and the history and activities Jewish World Relief Conference and attraction of a large program held in teams in the central west, and is now rehearsing daily and, from all indica- shops, such as tailor shops, and the Committee of Jewish Delegations. and University of Cincinnati in 1916. St. Louis last Sunday evening.'•The ready to meet any "debating team in tions, this operetta -will be one of the butcher shops. Business has been so of the club will be related by the He enlisted in 1917 at the age of 20, judges of the debate,- all- nationally the country. greatest1 performances ever tried by dull during the last few' months, various speakers of the evening," said He#said, with the exception of France, in the First Ohio Infantry National England, Czechoslovakia, the Jews known men, Judge Charles B. Davis Dr. Philip Sher presented the Oma- the Omaha Y.\ ' •'•'• owing to the ushering in of a new Fred White, president of the Omaha were subject to persecution similar to Guards, which later was absorbed in of the Federal Court," John _C. .Lons- ha team with the silver loving cup, The following persbns have been administration, and the enforcement Hebrew club. that carried on against them in the the One. Hundred and Forty-seventh dale, president of the National'Bank whicch was offered ti> the winner of chosen for parts: Leads—Ivy Seigel, of measures of economy by the new days of the Russian Czars. In Po- Regiment, United States Infantry, and of Commerce, and Ex-Senator Xeno- the intercity debate. ?The cup will re- Jack Freiden,- Berfha Greenhouse, Government, resulting in hundreds of FAMOUS JEWISH PLAYERS land,, particularly, the Jews were de- received his military training at Camp phon Wilfley, congratulated the Oraa- main in the Y. M. H.*A..rooms. "We Bess Greenberg; Lillian Chudakoff, government employees being disAT BKANDEIS MONDAY prived of '"their livelihood by economic Sheridan, Alabama. He was promoted hans on the mariner" in which they ar» now attesting to secure debates Irvin Stalmaster, Max'Jacobson, Wil- charged from their jobs, that many of EVENING, APRIL 27th laws, and in Roumania they were dis- to Corporal- and then to Battalion handled their side of the question. with New York, Boston, Cleveland, liam Giventer;* the : chorus—Jeanette the older immigrants have gone into The famous Jewish actors, Mr. and franchised. He also spoke of the Sergeant Major. In the Ar^onne The Omaha team "was represented and many other citij^,"- said William Sherman, Helen Levinson, Bess Hay- the country districts, to do business starvation the Jews are suffering in Forest engagement in 1318 he was by Irvin Stalmaster and Fred White, R. Blumenthal, exefjQ|tivfc director of kin, Martye Weinsfein, Eefhel Green- there. About 80 per cent of the Jew- Mrs. Hyman Jakubovitz, will again /while ..caTjyinj: - an Jnjured -wHo—upheld--the- negative side of the the-Y.-M. and Y.: berg, Rose 'Kaplan, Janet Lissey, Ida ish immigrant population have arrived appear in Omaha at the Brandeis TheUlcrainxa an comrade to safety, losing the sight of atre on Monday evening, April 27, in Greenhouse," Isabel Graetz. Rabbi Eisenstadt, who was formerduring the past nine months. both eyes. . ... '. a special four-act comedy play, "A ly Chief Rabbi of Petrograd, spoke of "The boys and girfe «are doing their Night of Love." The entire New York He spent a few months at the Everthe religious persecution of the Jews parts wonderfully," said Mrs. Ricklie Liberty Theatre cast will appear with in Soviet Russia where they are un- green School for the Blind in BaltiBoasberg,* director "of- the operetta. OPENS A NEW BALLthem. able to maintain their religious schools more and then returned to Cincinnati "We hope to make this a leading ROOM IN THIS CITY Mr. and Mrs. Jakubowitz and their and re-entered the Hebrew Union or give Jewish training. He also spoke event in Omaha." The Chiodone, the new and up-toCollege and the University of Cin- Convention Delegates Will Speak at This C o n c e r t is Open to the of the economic plight of the Jews. date Ballroom which was recently players were in Omaha two years cinnati, from which institutions he Public Dr. Kohn, one of the leaders of the This Meeting. opened at 1105 South Twenty-fourth ago when they successfully presented POALI-ZION-TO PRESENT Social Democratic party in Germany, was graduated in June, 1923. At the street, is under the management of the play, "The Green Bride." graduation exercises at the UniverCONCERT AND PLAY Tickets can be obtained at the Brantold of the stranded Jews in various Omaha Lodge No. 354, I. O. B: B., Reuben R. Rinder, of San Francisco Mr. David H. Ehrenreich. The BallON SUNDAY EVENING room deis Theatre box office at popular European ports, especially in Ger- sity, the McKibben medal, bestowed will hold its - regular^ monthly! open Calif., nationally known cantor, -will is fully equipped for all enterprices. .v many, where they are without any annually upon that student of the meeting Thursday evening, April - 30, appear in Omaha at a special concert tainments, including Teas, Parties, funds. Dr. Kohn came with an appeal graduating class who during his four at the Jewish Community Center. to be given Friday evening. Mr. The local Poali-Zion are presenting and Weddings. to the workingmen of this country to years at the University has evidenced Harry Silverman will be chairman.of Hinder will sing at Temple Israel. a joint concert and one-act play Sun- "The Chiodone Ballroom is one of JEWISH CHILDREN \ the highest qualities of manhood, was this meeting. A musical program is He-is on his way to New York City, day evening, April- 26, at the Labor assist the stranded refugees. IN LONDON SCHOOLS the most beautiful ballrooms in the and will spend a few days in Omaha. Lyceum. Mr. Nathan Straus, honorary pres- given to Rabbi Aarpnsohh. being arranged for this program.'1 PRAISED IN REPORT "The Divorse," by Sholem Alechem, city. It has all kitchen equipments Immediately upon graduation Rabbi ident of the American Jewish Con. The principal speakers of'the eve- This concert is being sponsored by London. (J. T. A.) The Report of for weddings and parties," said Mr. gress, spoke and urged that a plan be Aaronsohn was engaged by the Union ning will- be Henry Monsky, Harry a group of Omahans who are sharing will be the play to be given, including Ehrenreich. the London Elementary Education devised to bring home to the people of American Hebrew Congregations, Lapidus, Sam Leon, and Sam Beber. all financial expenses. The public is songs by the Y', M. H. A. quartet, Sub-Committee issued recently deThe new building was built by V. of wealth, the needs of the stricken which supports the Hebrew Union These men were delegates to the In- invited to listen to this noted cantor. recitation by Bessie _Levinson, and P. Chiodo, wealthy Italian real estate votes a special paragraph to Jewish also several instrumental musical College, to tour the United States to ternational B'nai B'rith convention There will' be no charge for admisJews in Europe. o^-ner. Mr. Chiodo is owner of nu- children in the London elementary numbers. ..•._. spread the message of Judaism. held in Atlantic City—' —- sion. .. merous apartment houses and other schools. Mr. Rinder is cantor of Temple Em- Those taking part in the play will be property in Omaha. The public is invited to attend -this "Many of the schools attended by Y. M. H. A. BASEBALL COLONEL AMERY GREATLY anuel, an ultra reform congregation the Mesdames Bertha Ratsky, Bertha open meeting. ' Jewish children are in what is usuTEAM WINS FIRST GAME IMPRESSED WITH JEWISH He will also give a lecture recital on Goldsteinj Rose Rasnick, and Messrs. ally called slums," says the report. PROGRESS IN PALESTINE ARABS AND JEWS IN "The Rise and Development of Jewish Jake Rasnick," Joe_Morgenstern, M. F. MURDERS AND SUICIDES "But the Jewish children do ont, with The Y. M. H. A. junior baseball Jerusalem, (J. T. A.)—Col. Leopold MARK BEGINNING OF HADASSAH HOSPITALS Music." This will be a treat to all Goodman, Max Goldstein, and Albert rare exceptions, show the usual charteam won its first game of the season H. Amery, British Colonial Secretary, Soffer. Mr. :E. Kitnof is, directing WEEK IN POLAND acteristics of the slum child; they Jerusalem. (J. T. A.) Eight thou- as Mr. Rinder has appeared in the the play. w&en they defeated the Case Land- who is visiting Palestine now, motored • . largest cities in the country. - The Warsaw. (J. T. A.) Easter week are well grown, well fed, well clothed scape nine, 13 to 2. The Y team is to Rishon L'Zion today accompanied sand four hundred and «ighty-six- program will be open to the public in Poland's capital began with a num- and intelligent children, and age for Moslems and 1,152 Christians -were playing in mid-season form and bids by Sir Shukburgh, Captain Wallace ber of casualties. Disturbances oc- age, are in intellectual advance of ARABS WILL PROTEST well to "win the. championship of the und Ronald Storrs, Governor of Jeru- patients in the clinics of the Hadassah Jewish Medical Organization in curred in Grzybowski Square when a Christian children of the same social TO LEAGU^-AGAINST JEWISH Junior Omaha League. Heavy hit- salem. UNION OF JEWISH Palestine during the past year. This mob, after attending church, began class. It should be remembered, howMUNICIPALITIES LEAGUE ting coupled with good pitching and Replying; to the greetings of the is more than double the number of YOUTH ASSOCTATIONS Jerusalem." (J. T.. A.) A protest the annual traditional shooting of ever, that Jewish mothers, with rare fielding were the main factors in the colonists of Rishon L'Zion, the Paris. (J. T. A.) A Union of Jew- against the organization of the Union fireworks and guns. The windows in exceptions, do not go out to work. Christians and Moslems treated in the game-last Sunday. Colonial Secretary declared: clinics of the Hadassah during 1923. ish youth associations of France was of Jewish Municipalities in.Palestine, a number of Jewish houses, including But the Jewish, girls are in rations! Next Sunday afternoon the Y team "The British Government wishes to The number of patients admitted to decided upon at a meeting held in initiative of Bernard that of Rabbi Perlmutter, formerly faculties, at s, further distance below will play the American Business Col- place the Jewish national homeland the hospitals in 1924 was, 8,330, as Paris, where representatives of the organized on the : A. Rosenblatt of New York, will be a member of the Polish Parliament, the Jewish boys than are Christian lege team at Elmwood Park, west dia- ond sound foundations. I,am there- compared with 7,880 in 1923. In the various Jewish youth organizations submitted to the League of Nations, were broken. Order was restored girls below Christian boys. The mond, at 1:30. fore glad to. see the progress of the clinics the number of patients was of France were present. sexes appear, intellectually, more difaccording to a decision of the Pal- after the police intervened. agricultural work of the Jews in 94,126 as against 90,392 in 1923. . Prof. Victor Basch of the Sorbonne estine Arab "Executive. During Saturday and Sunday first ferentiated." Palestine, and I admire the developBRITISH SECRETARY There was a decrease of about 50 University submitted a report to the "If the government's permission to aid ambulances were called one hunLEAVES FOR PALESTINE ment of Hebrew as a living language." per cent in the number of clinic"pa- conference in which he outlined the the Jews .to form a league of antono- dred and thirty-eight times to scenes COLONIAL SECRETARY Bagdad. (J. T. A.) Col. Leopold H. tients in the co-operative and small- program of the new organization. The mous municipalities remains, it would where street fights and drunken ARRIVES IN JERUSALEM Amery, British Colonial Secretary, be- DAMASCUS COUNCIL PAYS holders settlements, due to the-fact Union will have for its purpose the enable the Jews to form a govern- brawls occurred. Jerusalem. {J. T. A.) Col. Leopold furtherance of Jewish education anc ment within a' government,' the Exfore leaving for Palestine, in a state- RESPECT TO VICTIMS OF ANTl- that during the year the Kupath On the first seder night a five-year H. Amery, British Colonial Secretary, BALFOUR DEMONSTRATIONS limy or Workmen's Sick Fund,- relieved culture in. France. Among the or- ecutive claimed. ment to the press, declared that Mesoold child, Sara Rebecca Federman, London, (J. T. A.)—-The "Times" the Hadassah of much work in the ganizations ' which have joined the The ordinance for the municipali- was murdered by an unknown person. and Sir Samuel Hoare, Air Minister, potamie was capable of supporting have arrived from Bagdad. herself, although the country will,' in reports that the representative coun- "workers' settlements. The number^ of Union are the Schemal-Israel, ties league was approved by the govIn Stanislawow, Galicia, Sternhel, \ the next few years, have to face some cil of Damascus considered the matter patients in the Hadassah clinics in 'the LTJnion Universelle la Jeunne Juive, ernment and is now under considera- a Jewish merchant, hanged himself Cario. (J. T. A.) The Earl of Bal^financial difficulties. Mesopotamie, of the anti-Balfour demonstrations co-operative settlements during * the LTJnion Scholaire, Le Cercle Salonis- tion by the British Colonial Office. from the chandelier in the synagogue four left Cairo April 14 on his way and observed a ten minutes'" silence ien and La Jeunesse Israelite Liberal. year was 13,659, as against'27,178 in -s which is now connected with the West after the service. Mordecai Altber, back to England. In the colonies4 there was. an thiough improved communications, as an expression of' respect to the 1923. a butter dealer in Warsaw, also ZIONISTS CLAIM DAMASCUS attracts a stream of people who are victims of the disturbances. After increase of about 50 per cent in-the HOUSE GREETS OPENING hanged himself. AS PART OF GREATER Jewish Woman Leads passing through on their wa yto India the silence, one of the deputies de- number of clinic patients, 17,925 beOF HEBREW UNIVERSITY PALESTINE, RAGLAN SAYS ing treated in 1924, as against 9,986 in St. Louis Board of livered a speech in which he accused and Persia, he stated. . . - •- ~-i Cincinnati, O.—"All the world is London. (J. T. A.) Justification of DAVID A. BROWN WILL Education Elections the government of responsibility for in 1923. ' watching your progress and you have the anti-Balfour riots by the Arab INVESTIGATE JEWISH the riots, although he himself was WHITE RUSSIAN HIGH the good wishes of countless millions mob in Damascuus was expressed by SITUATION IN RUSSIA St. Louis, Mo. (J. T. A.)—Mrs. oposed to Balfour," saying: COURT CONFIRMS SENTENCE Warsaw. (J. T. A.) A proposal to who hope to see the ancient glory of the anti-Zionist Lord Raglan in a letJerusalem. (J. T. A.) David A. Elias Michael, daughter of the late "The administrators cried 'Down name a street in Warsaw after the that beloved land come again," wrote OF RITUAL BUTCHERS ter published in the London Times. Brown, well known American Jewish William Stix, one of St. Louis' Moscow. (J. T. A.) . The prison with Balfour!' I myself say, 'Down famous Yiddish author, I. L. JPetetz, Col. E. M. House, advoser and per"Twenty thousand Jews live in Dasocial worker, v^ho attended the open- leading citizens, will be elected term imposed on the ritual butchers, with Balfour!'" in commemoration of-the tenth an- sonal friend of Woodrow Wilson, to 'Jacob -RappapDrt, Meyer Schwerzan- The delegate of the High Commis- niversary of his death, was made by Maurice F. Lyons, who read it before mascus and the Zionists have openly ing of the Hebrew University in Je- chairman of the Board of Educa_sowsky and Uri Zaitchick, tried in sioner of Syria, who was present, the Bundist faction of the" Warsaw the local branch of the Zionist organ- claimed Damascus as a part of 'Great- rusalem, after an extensive trip to tion of St. Louis, according to a er Palestine' which they hope to an- New Zealand and Australia, left for preliminary vote. Minsk on the charge of conspiring protested against the deputy's utter- City Council. ization at a celebration in honor of against Getzl Droykin, "proletarian" ance, and declared that he could not The .resolution introduced i in the the opening of the Hebrew Univer- nex. British officials were unable to Berlin on his way to Moscow. Mrs. Michael led a ticket of warn Lord Balfour against his visit Mr. Brown, who played a promi- fourteen candidates. The next schochat, was confirmed by the White permit such expressions against Great City Council proposes that Ceglanna sity in Palestine. to Syria. If they had warned him nent role in the collection of relief Russian High Court of Appeal, fol- Britain in French mandated territory. street, where Peretz lived for a numcandidate received 10,000 votes lowing an appeal made by the sen- He threatened to leave the hall unless ber of -years, be renamed Peretz Rabbis Epstein, Feinberg and Leh- against anti-Zionist activities, they funds for Russian Jewry, will make le'tt- than Mrs. Michael who reman spoke before the meeting held would .have been accused of having a thorough investigation of the situatenced. the discussion stopned. • ceived city wide support. in Avondale fomented them." Lord Raelan stated. -tion in Soviet Russia

Rabbi Michael Aaronsohnto Speak at Temple Israel May 1

Jewish Refugees Settle in Mexico

Noted Cantor Will Local B'nai B'rith Lodge Appear in Omaha to Hold Opes Meeting April 30


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