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VOL. VI.—No. 41
OMAHA, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY,-OCTOBER 13, 1927
JUSTIN WOLF ELECTED CENTER CONCERTS Educational Director to Join YOUNG FOLKS TO GIVE The New Jewish Press YIDDISH PLAY Makes Its Bow to PublicPRESIDENT OF CENTRAL TO FEATURE LOCAL Center Staff-Sunday School FIRST HIGH STUDENT BODY MUSICIANS OF NOTE AT SUCCOTH RALLY To Be Established at Once Three Concerts Announced for
In-making its first appearance under the new direction, The Press hopes to be received as a communal project of vital interest to Fred White Will Explain Fes- Omaha Jewry. A Jewish newspaper must be more than a business, Heads Student Association.— Active in Clubs and. tival—Little Theater Group and the,editing of it more than a "job." It must be the voice of its Center Music and Lecreaders, and an expression of their doings and beliefs. Debating. K to Appear. ture Course. Work with Children Not Affiliated with Jewish Beginning with this issue, the business of The Press is For the first timein^the history of Ida Lustgarten to Be Featured For'the first time in Omaha, a YidSchools to Be Undertaken. in Second Program. dish play, produced and acted by under the direction of David Blacker, well r known business, and Central'high school, a'Jewish boy was young men and women, many: of advertising man. The editorship has been taken over by Jeannette elected president of the Studen£"AsThree "all star" concerts by Omaha whom do not speak Yiddish, will be Glick Gerson, who has recently come to Omaha from the staff of tire sociation last' week, when 'Justin JACOB MIRVIS APPOINTED-TO^NEWFOST presented in the Jewish Community Toledo Times, Toledo, Ohio. Mrs. Gerson has also been on the staff musicians will be given in the Jewish Center Wednesday evening, October Community Center this season as a of the Duluth News-Tribune and has written special articles for the 19, during the Succoth rally. The play, part of the Center's lecture and music With the appointment of an educational 'director Sunday,-the "Der Shpanier," by Abraham Raisin, New York Times, the New York Herald-Tribuiiej and the Christian course. Jewish Community Center launched its-plan for-a great'educational will be the first production of the Science Monitor^ The" first concert, on Tuesday, NoYiddish Players of the Center under But the Jdws of Omaha must be partners in this enterprise. vember 29, will be a concert for three the;direction of Elijah Kipmis. The pianos and a string quartet Marie The Press canncft fulfill its mission "without their support. The cast ,will include Gertrude White, Mikova of New York,f ormerly an leader in Jewish education, was appointed educational director and Faye Klein, Hymen Shrier, and Joe Press is entitled o their help. Omaha girl, Irene Trumble and Elassistant director of the Center at the close of a,meeting of the Levy. eanor Lear, both well known concert board of directors. He will take up his.new-work October i6i Fred White will deliver the address pianists and teachers, will be at the Send in ycur subscriptions to The Press now. Those of you The establishment of a Sunday school in the Center will be the outstanding project of the educational program. In announcing the opening of this school, the Center has issued the following official statement: "It has come to the attention of the educational committee of the Jewish Community Center that many Jewish children are not affiliated with either the Talmud Torah or the sabbath «chools. In order to provide for the Jewish education of these children, the officers and directors have voted to establish a Sunday school at the Jewish Community Center within a very short time. The school will be under the direction of the educational committee, and supervised personally by Jacob Mirvis, incoming director of education. Registration may be made by children or their parents in the Center office at once." Mr. Mirvis, born in Kovno, Russia, and educated at the University of 1 .Minnesota and the Training School for Jewish Social Work, in New York City, is well equipped to assume the leadership in the Center's educational He-attentfe'o" Training school on a fellowship. He has been,a leader in Boy Scout work r.nd has done work in Jewish and Viddish dramatics, the Yiddish- Sym-, posium, and the Young People's synagogue in Minneapolis. He was boys' worker in the • South Side Neighborhood House, Minneapolis, and head of the scout camp in Winona, .Wisconsin. He also has done field-work in New York, in connection with the Bronx Y. M. H. A. ind the Ninety-second Street Y. M. H. A. He has been active in the ilenorah society. The work of Mr. Mirvis will be to ulace Jewish content in all activities n the Center. Courses in customs, ceremonies and traditions will be included in the curriculum, as well as current Jewish problems, modern Jewish history, Bible, and Hebrew. Dr.'Philip Sher is chairman of the educational committee.
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YOUNG ARTISTS MAKE ROAD SHOW POSTERS A number of young artists have already, started work on, their posters for the A. Z. A. Road ;Show poster contest. A Jewish Community Center membership will be awarded as first prize. Mrs. Meyer Beber has offered to assist anyone with their posters. Anyone may participate, and any number of posters handed in. All yosters must be in the A. Z. A. office, 301 Peters Trust Bldg., by November 1,- and become the property of the A. Z. A. For information as to possible subjects for the posters call the A. Z. A. office, Jackson 3808.
3IMGHAS TORAH RALLY FOB CHILDREN PLANNED A Simchas Torah rally for children will be held in the Jewish Community Center Wednesday afternoon, October 19. This rally will be in addition " to the Succoth rally which will take vlace in the evening. It is open to all children under IS years of age. A movie, a playlet, music and refreshments will be included in the pro•;ram. -
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SIMGHAS TORAH RALLY WEDNESDAY, Oct, 19, at 4 p. m. JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER.
oir "The Significance of Succoth." Sarah Kurtzman will give a recitation,'"Die Lokshen Bret." The Little Theater group under the direction of Mrs. Herman Jahr will present "His Children" by Rufus Learsir with the following cast: Marian Graetz, Hymen Shrier, Annette Riklin, Sam Menken, and George M. Cohen. Harry Lapidus is chairman of the rally. Dancing, songs and orchestra music will also have a place on the program. The Center will suspend its gymnasium activities during the holidays Monday evening 'and all day .Tuesday^ and Wednesday, out the building remain open. \ £., Jean T-eibbwitz, a pupil of *|jj§pe\.nnette Riklin, will give a dance, "Autumn". She panied by Sarah Riklin.
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Nathan Straus Issues Call to National Palestine Conference in Cleveland
representative men and Pointing out that-/the work done in inviting the present day for'the rebuilding of women interested in the great cause Palestine as—the national Jewish to attend the National Conference to homeland may suffer a setback, un- be held in Cleveland on Saturday eveless development-in Palestine is ex- ning, October 29, and Sunday," Octopedited, Nathan Straus, veteran Zion- ber 30. ist and philanthropist, issued a call "This great work deserves your atthis week to, representative men and tention. It is a cause that involves a women in American Jewry to attend reconstruction of Jewish life, the rethe National Conference on Palestine habilitation of Eretz Israel, and the to be held in Cleveland, Ohio, on Oc- vindication • of Jewish honor." tober 29 and 30, under the auspices Mr.- Louis Lipsky, president of the of the United Palestine Appeal. Zionist Organization of America; As an appendix to the formal invi- Maurice Samuel, and other members JACOB MIRVIS. A. Z. A. ROAD SHOW CAST tation extended'to attend the confer- of-the American delegation that atMADE; VARIED PROGRAM ence,. Mr. Straus writes: tended the Fifteenth Zionist Congress "The National Conference on PaU will deliver reports to the conference A-greater turnout than was ever ex- estine to be held in Cleveland will pected was present for the A. Z. A. be asked to give consideration to on the decisions of the Basle congress as they affect the future of t i e upRoad Show tryonts held last j _. _^_ txtports o n . what .has "evenm^^aS "'the* J ewisli rColnmunIty, been done in Palestine with the monland. An appeal^to the-Jewish-public for Center, acc6rding~to Mrs. Herman eys collected the past year, through Jahr, director of the show. Mrs. Jahr, the United Palestine Appeal. It will co-operation in expanding the,-work Mrs.- Sam Beber, Miss Annette Rikof youngjudaea has been-issued by lin' and • Mr. Hymen Shrier acted as be the outstanding American gathering of those interested-in the upbuildFETES MRS. AUERBACH Dr. Israel, Goldstein, . newly..elected dgej§cfj>r the^tryouts. ing of Palestine. Lincoln, Oct. 12.—Ella Fleishman "There -wa's so much good material national "president* of" thaforga'niza"It is ten years since the Balfour Auerbach, Omaha newspaper woman, and of such variety that it was very tion. • No organization, Dr.-Goldstein Declaration was - promulgated. Durliffijfjt.lt':to: choose," said Mrs. Jahr. ing that period a great work has been was guest of honor and speaker at says, "has a greater claim* on''the inthe opening meeting of the Lincoln Our final acts will include a proterest and-affection" of Jewry -than gram-whlch we hope will satisfy the done in Palestine through the instru- Council of Jewish Women following mentality of the funds established by this nationals Jewish youth .organiza- tastes; of? everyone in the audience. It a luncheon at the Comhusker hotel the Zionist Organization. This investtion. It imparts Jewish knowledge to will Include jazz numbers, classical ment of capital and labor in the mak- Tuesday. Reports of the work of the Council thousands, of * Jewish boys»and - girls numbers, a dramatic play, a minstrel ing of the Jewish National Home imsh'ow/'and^even acrobatic stunts/* ... in behalf of the students in the uniorganized in groups all over thexounposes a continuous obligation espeThe, ^Debutante of 1927," directed cially upon the Jews of America. If versity were given.' The Council has 1 try, "and inspires "them with'loyalty to by A*nnette Riklin, has already been we neglect : what "we have built also sent visitors to the reformatory 4 Jewish ^ideals.-' •'. selected by the Road Show commit- through our contributions,.the result- and helped'paroled prisoners to find Working-.with and for•ypu^jj Ju- tee. Rose Brick will lead. The chorus ant loss of national assets-we have work. daea- is'fgratefulcwork. It-is*a^deep includes Freda Bolker, Hermine accumulated in Palcstin'e may rightly satisfaction to'see Jewish * boys-and Green; Helen Sherman, Dorothy Musbe ascribed to"usy; andi -that which girls growing into manhood? and kin, Evelyn -Green, Linnette Stirling, could have' become, ar.Iiyjng moiiuwomanhood and, receiving 'the .'knowl- and the young misses Jean Leibowitz, fnent/of.,.a,ctivje life, productive of Jewedge and' inspiration of their Jewish Miriam' Blank and Sara May Graetz. hentage«through the Iabors'vof*a;little 1 A;.vtfy clever dance number by ish ideals;-.may, throogh our indiffer- :• Mme. Sarah Adler, noted Jewish actress, wife of the late Jacob P. Adarmy of-Hevoted young men ; and Miriam Martin and Dorothy Cohen, ence, fall info ruin. . "Healthy, and fruitful foundations ler, will make a single appearance at women who are serving asjtSeJlead- and a clog dance by Grace Leven pf a new Jewish life have been laid'in the Strand theater, Monday evening, have"'also been chosen. ' " • ' . ers of the >• hundreds of young.Judaea Palestine. _ _Tremendqus _ difficulties in "A Mother's Feelings." groups all over the country. -Through The^reniaining5 acts of the Road have been encountered, and are being Mme. Adler's fame as an actress is these groups, thousands'-of'our men Show have not been decided as yet, overcome, .thanks to the patience and well known. A member of the widely ; and women of tomorrow ireibrought and,wtll be announced in the next devotion- of;•6nr.'pioneers in both city known Adler family, she has had 25 into a Jewish atmosphere,^ are issue of the Press. •-:• and town,''wh6;Ibbk to us for a con- successful years on the stage. She equipped with a knowledge of Jewish tinuance of our generous support and will play in the Yiddish language. history and current Jewish problems, NEW INSTITUTIONS co-operation. *: ;. -l.-J arc inspired with a love of "its' tradiOPENED BY WOMEN "In order to take effective action JEWISH SPIRIT STRONG tions and, above all, ^with'a'sense'of on the reports to be rendered, we are IN SMALL COMMUNITIES loyalty to its hopes and ideals.--Young N«*rYork, Oct. 13.—Establishment Judaea makes the Jewish ^ of three new institutions by sections Whether he is in the midst of Jewfor them. It links them personally of the National Council of Jewish] HADASSAH WANTS MORE ish activities or isolated and far from with it and prepares them also^to,-con- Women has been announced by the COOK BOOK RECIPES his own people, the Jew craves spirtribute constructively, to- the .-Jewish Council. The Juanita Kaufman Nye "More and more kosher recipes," is itual uplift, according to the report future. I .know-of np wo'tkjthat is Council House, Washington, D. C , submitted recently to the department more useful -and necessary to Jewish the May Morris Council House, Los the plea of Mrs. M. F.Xevenson, genof synagogue and school extension- of c eral: chairman of the Hadassah life in America.. ." ". ;.. ;-•.' y Ang«les, and the home of the Detroit, the Union of American Hebrew ConKosher Cook Book Committee. Mrs. "•With; a ' career-'of •' nineteenv Jvears section pi the Council are the newest Levenson already has many good rec- gregations by Rabbi Philip Booksta: behind it, iYoung Judaea-inow$ additions to the list. ber, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. ipes, but needs many more. forward'arid "proposes tp;qmcifcfeji its In San Antonio, New York City; ; Rabbi Bookstaber spent his vacaThe publication "of the Cook Book pace, t6 enlarge; its.field^'to^e^and and Minneapolis, new buildings have its ^usefulness. inrjev.ecy; direction.. I replaced the former edifices that is one of the biggest undertakings tion on a tour of the West, doing appeal• earnestly* to all>Jews-tolv|hom housed' their respective institutions, ever attempted by the local chapter some special work for the Union of the" .Jewish; past is -sacred, and to namely, the Non-Sectarian Kinder- of • the Haddassah. It will be com- American Hebrew Congregations and whom -the Jewish -future; is.-'alflijving garten and Neighborhood Center at posed of tried recipes used by the the National Conference of Temple hope,": to;work with :me; and'smy^ col- San Antonio; the Girls' Home Club best Jewish housekeepers in the city, Brotherhoods. In San Francisco, Los leagues' in Young.Judaea toimaket this at New York City; and the South and advancement of national, as well Angeles, and Seattle, he devoted himself to strengthening the work of the as local, business concerns. pro^ram^TSUccessfuljreality." -:*':j Side ^Neighborhood House at Minnebrotherhoods there. Mrs. B. A. Simon, a charter memapolis. In New York City, the local Rabbi Bookstaber also visited Bilsection was . furthermore responsible ber of the Omaha Chapter of the HaM|NMEI^SH: i3 for the construction of a Synagogue dassah, and prominent in other lings and Helena, Montana, communat Welfare Island, to meet the needs branches of social work in the city, is ities where there are few Jews. He of the Jewish inmates of the island's chairman of the advertising commit- found "the spirit of Judaism strong About twenty-five women will in the hearts and the minds of these r e - institutions. In Portland, Oregon, an tee. o p e n e d j i i n - n e w / a n d beaEutihiL-ropifis i n assist in the composition of the book. Jews." • extensive addition has been made to the spajce and facilities of the Council was \ Neighborhood House. neyj s:fcre£t^ v \Aji;;fQrniis o f -b^a^u||s c u l Inr- Erie, Pennsylvania, and Proviture a r e j n c l u d e d i h . t h e M a n h e i t . s e r v dence, R. I., the local sections have ice. ••- •' -'••-: .-•--• ••'•-• --,-': ' '. ' " •recently established Vacation Homes, TO THE whiclt are utilized during the summer period.
DR. GOLDSTEIN ISSUES
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" GENIUS OF JUDAISM" RABBI COHN'S SUBJECT
Community Center. Sunday, October 16. Alex Lipsman and.'Charles'Schlai"The Genius of Judaism" will be fer are in.-charge.- This is~the,s'4cond thp subject of Rabbi Frederick Cohn's of "a series,^f; Sunday night d nces lecture, Friday night, October 14, at to be given.in,the Community Cinter. Temple Israel.
SIMCHAS TORAH RALLY Wedmfeday, October 19, at 8 ]j. m. JEWIS I COMMUNITY CENTER 1 O CHILDREN
ADMITTED
JUSTIN WOLF.
Wolf, cadet, debater and leader. *of student activities, received thathonor. Wolfs election to this office is the culmination of a distinguished career as a student in" the Omaha schools. He has been a member of the school debating team for two years. He is a first lieutenant in the cadet^tcgiment, a member of the Purple iJegion and - a member of the speaker^* bureau. He was president of the speakers' bureau last year. ..;_
three pianos. The West Sisters, the outstanding string quartet of the middle West, will also be on this pro* gram. Frances Wyatt Van Gundy, soprano, and Ida Lustgarten and Cecil Barryman in a two-piano recital will be featured in the second program, Tuesday, December 13. Mrs. Van Gtmdy is soloist in the United Pres*, byterian church and is known for her: concert work. Ida Lustgarten re-; ceived distinguished honors in music in Nebraska university last year. Mrs, Karl Robert Werndorff will accompany Mrs. Van Gundy. • \ For the final co ncert, January 10, a mixed quartet of which each member is a prominent soloist will present the program. The quartet will be composed of Frances Wyatt Van Gundy, soprano; Karl Smith, bass; Marjorie Jones, contralto, and Louis Armstrong, tenor. Dorothy Eaton Parks will be the accompanist. The concerts will be given under the auspices of Schmoller and Mueller. Sam Beber is chairman of the entertainment committee. ' '
CAMPAIGN WORKERS H0tD SIAG *ARTT JtMB^nfp^r* LIGHT PROJitfMftIVEN HEBREW CLUB TO GIVE
Workers in the membersTiip ;i3jfive o f the Jewish Community Center mixed fun with their-labors at a- stag party given for them in the Community Center Thursday evening, jrlfrry H. Lapidus, president of the JDenter, and I. F. Goodman were in chatee of the arrangements, and planned- an evening of recreation and laughter. The Center resounded with thg laughter caused by. Dr.. Jolly and his Justice, a series pf antics and stunts supplied, by the^;Knights of * Columbjus. Miriam Martin.,and: Dorothy Cohn presented:an eccentric'dance/^'RaggedyiAnn.'ahd Andyl" "The pro] was followed by a' Dutch lunclv Reports-of the progress of the membership ~ drive ~were made ;by. the head workers of the caxhpaign. jfrave Fedef* is major of the first te»tn, and Abner Kaiman of. the second, v Enthusiastic speeches in sinpport^bf the Center's work were.made
BIG AFFAIR OCTOBER 31 BiU Will Be the Most Brilliant in History. The Omaha Hebrew Club will .give a ball Sunday evening, October 30, in the municipal auditorium. The affair is expected to be one of the largest and most brilliant given in 35 years in which the club has been active. Randall's Royal Fontenelle orches-. tra will provide the dance music, and in addition, a musical program will be presented. Members of the committee for the ball are Mendel ' Blank, Sol Rosenbery, Fred White, B. G. Shapiro, I* Stalmaster, Max Fromkin, Max Lorig, Mark Polonsky, Maurice Civin, Ben Minken, Maurice Shiff, Jake Ricklin, Albert Kaplan, Sam Altshu* lar. John Feldman is chairman of the committee.
NEEDLE GUILD TO ^ IN COMMUNITY CENTER KOSHER COOKING CLASS ENROLLMENT OVERFLOWS
' Omaha Needle'^ild wifehold its annual meeting in thif Jewish* Community Center NovenjSjjer 9 jf&gTlO. This nonsectarian organization- holds one-meeting each yearito distribute garments "collected ior. ihe poor. It is a national organization with) headquarters in'PJiiladelpiiia, and ha§ existed in Omaha for 35 years, '-'f
All welfare agenctcs'rn the^city receive-their quota of garments iq/t disitributibn. The Jewish Welfare Organization and the Wis,e hospital are among those to receiyi help.'^ Pver 10,000 garments were collected last year. .Qualifications for rriembtrship consist .of the contribution of two * new garments each year.
DR. LEVINE ADDRESSES MEDICAL CONFERENCE Dr. Victor E. Levine'of Crelghton University left this week for li*fnneapolis to address a joint convention of the hospital dietetic council and the National Hospital Association. The subject of his address will be "Nutritional Diseases atid the Dietary Treatment of Cardiac Failure." I From Minneapolis Dr. Levine will go to the Mayo clinic at Rochester. "
TWO JEWISH MAJORS CHEST CAMPAIGN Harrv-Wolf and William Hojzman will be-the two Jewish majors fpf the coming-Community Chest drive, according to an announcement -published this week. Mr. Wolf wall represent the H. A. Wolf. compafiVj and Mr. Holzman will represent the" Jewish Welfare organization. There are 10 majors in all. ~*-. r"
The Kosher cooking class of the Jewish Center will meet on Wednesday evening next week instead of at the usual Tuesday hour. The change has been made on account of Succoth. The first cooking class has been quickly filled to capacity and there is now a waiting list for the organization of a second class. Girls in the class come to the Center from work and cook their suppers in the course of their lesson. The instruction is given by teachers supplied by the Omaha Board of Education.
OMAHANS TO ATTEND CHICAGO CONFERENCE William Holzman and Harry Lapidus will go to Chicago to attend the Constructive Relief conference of th£ Joint Distribution committee and the United Jewish campaign October 22 and 23. The conference, which will be attended by invited delegates from all parts of the country, will be held at the Standard club. Henry Monsky is also contemplating attending the conference.
The Jewish Press Announces a Series of Editorials by prominent Omaha Jews, on subjects of interest to local Jewry. This is the first of the new features to be announced by the Press. The series will begin next week. Watch for it.