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CHARGES DRAWN BY LARGE OPPOSITION GROUP Mismanagement, Demoralization . and Disorganization Alleged In Manifesto. OPSKY ACCUSED. W&shington—(J.. T. A.)-^A determined effort to bring about "by parlikraentary_procedure at the forthcoming Zionist. ,convention an overthrrv^al of the present administration will be made by the opposition leaders as a result of decisions adopted Jid action taken a t "the Z. .0. A. .reorganisation conference held here all day Sunday a t the Hotel -Hamilton! AT fund of 525,000 to prosecute the campaignwill be raised'arid a committee of twelve ur more with the power to adopt other members -will he appointed by/Judge Julian W. Hack, chairman of the conference, to put into effect the decisions of the opposition, conference. About '125 individual Zionists were present arid listened to strong charges brought" against the Iipsky ad—ministration of the Zionist Organization of America. The charges, some general and. some of a specific nature, related to the entire period of seven years since the administration came into The indictment of the administration was embodied in a manifesto ad•dressed to- the Zionists of .America, which was passed'as a resolution with only three dissenting votes, 'xne resolution was-presented to the conference by Prof. Felix Frankfurter of Harvard university, who headed-a committee on resolutions consisting of-eleven members appointed'by "Judge Mack, who was •tmanimoiisly 'chosen chairman of the conference. Subscriptions of S7,600 as a nucleus for the $25,000 fund was announced, including.an anonymous contribution of SI'IOOO, §500 by Judge Mack, §500 by Robert Sz'old, §500 by Louis Kirshein of Boston.-and others. By a decision of the conference, a committee of • twenty-five called on Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis to bring to him the greetings of the gatherhrg. Justice•• Brandeis received the committee' at his home at Florence Court at -2:15 Sunday afternoon. No statement was issued, after the reception. The manifesto, which complements the resolution introduced by Mayor Julius L Peyser that it was the "sense of this conference for a char.ge to be made in the administration of the Zionist Organization of America," declares that "with all due allowance for the practical difficulties of statesmanship and the special difficulties inherent in the task, committed to the : administration of the American Zionist Organization, truth compels the registration of the fact that the. prese t administration has brought the Zionist organization of America to a condition of disorganization, both moral and material." The manifesto, (Continued on Page 2)
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A rab Killed Fighting \ Mrs. J.ti.KulakofsJcy FQURTY-SEVEN MOTHER-DAUGHTER Plague of Locustsl Slated for Council Head ToraH CHILDREN WILL BE WEERCEIPRATE0 CONFIRMED IN MAY BY JEWISH GROUPS
Twenty students enrolled' in the new Dundee branch of ;the Talmud Torah' on Mondayy the "opening day of classes. It is. expected that the number will soon double. aiie new-looms -were opened in a public reception Snnday afternoon. Speakers were Henry Monsky, J>r. Philip Sher, Judge Irvin Stahnaster and Judah Wolfson.' S~. Ravitz presided.
H)OCifflONTOBE CHIEF TOPIC AT SECRETARffiS'MEET Cincinnati Conference to Hold Symposium, on Special - Subject^: MORGAN TO SPEAK New. York—The National Association of Jewish Community . Center Secretaries, including on "-•"roster x jrcsentatives of center", settlements, Y. M. H. A.'sand Y. W. H. A.'s from forty-one states and in Cuxx.da, will hold its annual conference at Jt ie Hotel Sinton; in Cincinnati, fror- May 9 to May 13, it was' announced yeniarday by Harold H.-Levin of I Tew York pity, secretary-treasurer of the association, which . is affiliated with the Jewish Welfare BoardFollowing a meeting of the executive committee of the organization at noon on the opening day of the conference, there wfll be an afternoon session presided over by Judge Alfred Cohen of Cincinnati, '•resident of the Independent Order B'nai B'ri+>- -id member of the-National Executive Council of th.: Jewish .Welfare Board, At a Ixmcheo" ^meeting cr, Thursday, May 10, Dr. Arthur Ernest Morgan, j-esident of Ahtioch /coil^ge Yellow adult education.; During the afternoon session that will follow the luncheon,, another symposium on educational courses in the Jewish Center will be held with t> Seman, _ superintendent of the Jewish? People's Institute of Chicago, as the - director and the following other -community center workers taking part: Bernard Fischlowitz, educational director St. Louis Y. M.-Y. W. H. A,; Samuel Gerson, executive director Jewish Community Center;. Omaha; JSaxold H. Levin, assistant., execu^-- director Ninety-second street (New York) Y. M. H. A.; "William Kolodney, educational director of the PittsburghY. M.-Y. W. H. A.j L. G. Nichols, director educational branch Y. M. C. A. of Cincinnati and Hamilton county, and Miss I—:—• H. Young, general secretary -•* the Young "Women's Christian association of Cincinnati.
Einstein Suffers Severe Heart Attack Berlin. (J. T. A.) Prof. Albert Einstein was taken ill with an attack of heart trouble. He has Tjeen ordered to bed by his physicians with instructions "to ^remain under care -until the middle of May.
Psychology Is Basis of New Morality, Says Rabbi Newman New York—A defense of the newon the stcLIe basis of hum~n happipsychology as-a force- in i l ^ refdrging ness. The teachings of Freud, Adler, of morality, was given by'Rabbi Louis "Watcon and other?" are not responsiL Newman of Temple Emanu-El, San ble for the breakdown of traditional Francisco, in an address at the Free Standards nnd the rise.of .a new PaSynagogue Sunday ganism. But when properly under<r We can- take from the new psy- stood, the new psychology brings chology whatever we wish to find in about a clearer appreciation of the it," Eabbi Newman declared. "The basic* fundamentals of religion and a immoral, will "ofess to find sar.."-n vigorous defense of normal human for their -"-"cicusness; the n c - ' will conduct. discover proof of their vicv~rir.t. The "Normality in* niind emotion -id acfor a rcirtcrprctation tion is the major interest of the new time has of the. findings of the new school of schools of psychological thought. Uppsychological thought in terms of con- on the cornerstone 'of man's love for structive, affirmative influencD upon woman, of woman's-love for man, and their joint lc™ for their child, the human behavior." Rabbi Newman> continued: psychologists are attempting to re"The chief contribution of religion' construct a sound ethical system. "When young people beg^n. to apin its promptings to emphasize and underscore the . emancipating, preciate that the new psychology does stabilizing, inspiring aspects of the j not sanction sslf-indulgence, hysteria, new psychology. The last word con-! luxury of xne senses and r-"*—rial cfirning human conduct was spoken pleasure they will probe deeper into moTal appllcr/.'-n. The neither- at Cinai, Vienna, or New - - . -ieart o2 Yor7-. We are still learning the mes- emotional abandon and madness which sage of trutl confident that it will have followed the vrorid war, exacting I-in.1, not destroy, the rightful" foun- a neavy psychological toll, is neither normal nor product' of abidlng»happidations of human happiness. "The New Psychology, whatever its ness. Freud does not seek to break vorie'd forms, •- not destructive of in- down the "7.iou Shalt Not" •-" the ^ l and- social - morality, "but is J Commandments and "to substitute the bulliihs: individual and sooui -^Itb.1'1 wish' of unsupprfissed desire."
Mrs. Harry Kuialofsky has been nominated for the presidency of the Omaha Council of Jewish Women,
Temple Sisterhood to Combine Observance With Sisterhood Sabbath FEDERATION HAS AFFAIR
it --was announced TVfidnesday by Mrs. L Bosenthal, retiring president, following- 2. meeting of the nominating committee of the Council. •;-- _ : ;.i; •- • • •. Other noroinatidns are: Mrs. Henry Rosenthal,: S-ice president; "JLcs. L. B. Goldmsn^secretary; Mrs. Leo Rosenthal, treasurer; Miss Hazel Degen, corresponding secretary, and Mrs. H. Z. Rosenfeld, auditor."
Center and Temple Announce Names of Confirmants in 1928 Classes PREPARE PROGRAMS
Jerusalem.—An Arab member of the field company organized to combat the locusts in the Jericho area was instantly killed yesterday by one of the' flame grins used in combatting the pest. A Jewish member of the company was seriously injured by one of the guns. He was taken to the hospital, his condition being declared very grave.
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SPEAK HERE Zionist Organisation Will. Bring Jewish Scholar Here for • Mass Meeting, PALESTINIAN EDITOR.
The season of confirmation for JewOmaha Jewry will have as their in conjunction with Mother and guest, lttamar Ben Avi. one of the ish Sunday school students brings anDaughter week, which is being given foremost Hebrew' publicists in the nouncements • of confirmation plans city-wide observance, Temple Israel •world, on Monday, Mar 14. During his made by -Omaha's Jewk. Sunday Sisterhood will observe Sisterhood sabvisit. Mr. Ben Avi will address si mnss schools. Temple Israel will confirm 28 bath at the Temple at 10:30 a. rn. meeting1 "of Jews Rt the .Ipvrish ComElection will take p l i : i at a meet- DOTS and girls on Sunday morning. Saturday, May 12. .The service will he read by Mrs. W. ing to be held late in May. Mrs. May 27,. a t .10 o'clock. The Jewish ' C M t M~"";' ' ^ " s X. Holzman. Eabbi Frederick Cohn Cora "Wolf was chairman of the Community Center "Sunday School will Mr. Ben Avi is coming here under hold its confirmation on Sunday, May will give a short talk. A full chil- nominating committqge. the axispices of the Zionist organiza20. Nineteen' students will be in the dren's choir will sing. • • ' . "Cannot Live by Philanthrophy i tion. He is making a tour of every Center's confirmation class. At the conclusion of the service, a • • Alone," Says Speaker • j large city in the United States. •'• The Temple Sunday school will conMothers' and .Daughters' lunchc.n will A native of Palestine, Mr. "Ben Avi. firm the following children: Morton J. be. served.in the Temple vestry. Mrs. Adler,'Council Bluffs; Gerald Batt, PRESIDENT REFLECTED received his early' edu&.'Uon in the Leo Blank and Miss Laura Goclr will Holy Land and later in the universiHelen Beeson, Rae Bci,.stein, Council be in charge of the community singBluffs; Anna Fellman, Marion Fonaing. Mrs. Harry Z. Rosenfeld will give Chicago.—Need of the synagogue ties of Berlin and Paris, He is at the row, Council Bluffs; Laurence A. as the dominates influence in Jew- present time editor of the Dear Haa talk for the mothers, and Miss Louise Ziegler will spr'* for the New Magistrate Receives Trib- Green, Henry Greenberg. Rosella ish life was the theme of Sunday's yeam," the Hebrew Daily paper of Handler, Loyal . Katskce, Frances session of the Sixteenth annual con- j Jerusalem, and is also the editor of "daughters. Mrs. Joseph Eosenfeld < f utes and Congratulations Kort, -Ida Krasne, Council Bluffs, Har- vention of the United Synagogue of • the Palestine Weekly, fen English Council Bluffs. is in charge of the Upon Taking Office vey R. Leon, Henrietta Leah Meyer, luncheon. Gwendolyn Meyerson, Council Bluffs; Reservations are being taken by OTHER JUDGES PRESENT Jeanette Moskovitz, Bernice PerlMrs.- Sam Robinson. Mrs. Holzman, attended. meter, Marvin L Pizer, Ernest Priesgeneral chairman, urges all who are A complimentary. dinier_ honoring A empaign to raise $500,000 for' £ oirn j impression on the numerous auman, Carolyn N. - Rosenfeld, Council interested to attend. Judge Irvin Stalmaster, brou^' ' toBluffs; Harriet Rosenfeld, Robert Ja- a three year program was launched ! 45 e n c e s which he lias addressed i gether 250 of bis friends at the Blacky i cob Rosenfeld, Council Bluffs; David at the banquet which was tendered: The Jewish Women's Welfare or- stone hotel Monday evening. h S out-of-town delegates at the Stevens M. Saxe,Sonia Saks, Council Bluffs; ganization combined its Mothers' and The other district judges, Rait, Daughters'^ day with the annual Fed- Troup, Day, Crawfotd • - •" Dineen, James Saltzenstein, Bernice Sherman, hotel Monday nightDiscussing modern trends in eration day, Tuesday afternoon at the and Bob Smith, isecreiiry: of the ^-ourt, •Sarah" Tuchman, and Bernice Ycuse'Ji. Students in the Center's confirma- American Jewish life, Judge Harry Jewish •Community Center. were guests at the ,i banquet, which Members of all the Jewish women's celebrated JudTe.Stalmastei'j appoint- tion class are: Stanley Adler, Edna Fisher of Chicago dwelt on the feet organizations of the city were guests, ment to the district* jut^nship made Chiff, Sylvia Falk, Wffliar Flax, Ben J t h a t g 0 m a n y j e v r e t h i n t they are and were represented by a s p r i e r vacant, by the death of the late Judge Zion Gershafter,.- Sally GreenbeT-,1 from their, groups. 1 Speakers were Arthur Wakeley, Sadie Kohlberg, Bluma Neveleff, Ruth V Mrs. Barry Hosenfeld,-.Temple SisterRomnv Isabel Rosenblatt, Annie Tre"Judge Stalmaster's apprlntment hood^ Mrs. Max. Fromkin, Deborah Sotiak, Sylvia Weiner, labby Dolgoff, -' ability and was a tribute to ciety; Mrs. I. Rosenthal, C-tmcil of Ethel Green, Rosella • Ferfis, Marion 4sciared;ra Avy. Jewish Women fHrs^S. Cahn, Daugb*. Weinberg, Evelyn ZweiVack, Minnie | iJera^oTZionf'SIrs;:M.^GL-Coiteii, Ladies' IJovey ~ina. Leonard Nat Jan.."- '•' ''j-Somewhere we 'have lost the sense p" Rabbi Frederick Cohn raidr The. president of the fraternity is Free -Loan society;: Mrs.- S. Ravits, The Center has a .toys'-erataaatuKM^j o u r ^responsibility and we have "With only one consideration 1 Cohen of Omaha. Other H a class, taught by Miss .Esther Faier, Daughters of Israel Aid society; Mrs. mind, that of his fitness fcr 'Its of- and a girls' class taught by Mr. Jack . " A. Romm, Senior Hadassah, and Mrs. fice, .intellectually and morally, Gov- Marer. The confirmation exercises.-Kill ing school at the University of N ^ William Perlmari, Golden Hill society. erncr McMullen selected this ' fine be coincident -with the las+ cession of our children are not growing up, braska this year are Herbert NevfeMrs. A. Greenberg, ireddent of the young man against all. religlcv preju- the Sunday school. Original essays as Jews. Unless we head the call j loff, Albert Batt, Edward Albert*, Jewish Women's Welfare organization, dice. His act will help stren~then-our •will be read by a number of the stu- of the United Synagogue, the time} and Arthur Eomm. Active members gave the addr-ss of welcome. Harry is near when vre -will not have even j love for the great American ideals of dents, and i.rizes.and diplomas will be philanthropy and the Jews will have | of the fraternity are Devid FellH. Lapidus spoV^ of the Jew.. Comdemocracy. Judge. Stalma=: is a man. Jerome Daimond, Louie awarded. This ceremony will u s : ! : no social view-point." • n-unity Center and W. L. Holzman for • j man full of kind words, backed up Daimond. Elmer Greenberg, Sam the closing of the school for the sumthe Jewish "Welfare Federation. The convention closed on Tuesday j Bender, Carl Sokolof, find David TTVCh kind de?'-. and deccrvlag all the mer. Mrs. David Sherman spcl:2 for the afternoon. During its final session j Wohlner, all of Omaha. honor bestowed upt -dm. mothers and Miss Pearl Monsky for it adopted a series of resolutions j Sigma Delta Tau Sorority at the Judge Stalmaster acknowledged the Ihe daughters. Miss. Ida-Lust^crtan intended to carry out the purpose University of Nebraska was award-i tributes paid him and expressed his and Mrs. Hen—; Monsky played a twofor which the convention was called, ed third place in scholarship »t j eagerness to be found \ rthy of the piano selection.. Margarette Margolin, that' is, "Reunite Synagogue and Pan-Hellenic banquet for all soror* hor he had received. accompanied by Margin-- Hurwitz, Life." These resolutions provided ities held Tuesday night. The award "I hope that nothing will ever transrendered a few musical selections. pire while I am incumbent, to Teflect j The enlargement and refurnishing that the educational committee of I wa? given for the work done the Mrs. Henry Monsky vr..- .."-ilrr^n discredit upon those who have been of the Hill hotel, purchased Tuesday the United Synagogue devise means > last semester of last year, and the of the program committee. Mrs. F. J. kind enough t - place trust and con- by Sam Josephson, Kansas City and •whereby the Synagogue and their first semester of the present year, Alberts and Mrs., J. Malashock were fidence in me," he said. "My hope is Excelsicr Springs hotel man, was an- schools be brought into closer conin charge of the tea Inat followed the that there nev— be an accudr- "_nger, nounced "Wednesday by Mr. Joseph- tact; to acquaint the youth of the j ending February 1P28. Four awards •were given to the four sororities program. Synagogue with and encourage themj leading in scholarship. Last year •with any justification, printed at me son. during my term. My aim •will be to The plan is to add 56 new rooms to to participate in the social welfare j the Sigma Delta Taus were awarded communities, first place. The same group ranked maintain the high standard of the the hotel, install a large dining room institutions of their that the currieulae of the Jewish first in 1926. but did not receive an bench in this district." in the basement, and completely reschools be extended to provide for i sward due to the fact that tliey W. L. Holzman was toastmaster. furnish the establishment. Mr. Josephson is the third pur- advanced school study; that regional I had not been on the campus long An eighty-six page book, the chaser of the hotel within the last educational conventions he held at! enough. The chapter was founded report of the Jewish Welfare Federayear. It was sold at a sheriff's sa1. .• frequent intervals; that a national j in Mar, 1P25. engaged;! tion and -the Jewish Community Cenfor 8141,275.90, which represents ih-- educational director be The president of the Sigma, DeltR that a National committee on Boy j ter, is off the press this week-and by valuation of the real estate and perTau Sorority is Miss Kate GoldMr. B. Blend, who for year<; oper- sonal property, and is above, a first Scouts be appointed to co-operate! early next week will be in the offices stein. Alumni members of Omaha with the National 'officers' of -the i of every Jewish1 federation and every at-* the Sanitary Bakery at Seventh i -ortgage of ?4D3,847.50. are Mrs. Irvin Stahnaster, Mrs. Jack Community Center iij the United and Broadway, in Council Bluffs, has It is expected that the work of re- Boy Scouts of America for the pur-| Mirviss, Mrs. .lack Ctesert, and Mise States and Canada besides receiving reopened the West Dodge bakery that modeling \rill begin at once. Mr. Jo- pose of carrying on Je-wisti religious j Ida Lustgrarten. Active, members has been closed for several months. wide distribution-here. sephson expects to spend ?l00,000 -.a activities for the benefit of Jevrish {of the sorority are Lillian Lipaey, Mr. Blend believes that the Jewish improvements. When finished, the lads-who belong to the Boy Scouts,: " This is the most elaborate report Frances Simon, Betty Steinberg, residents of Dundee will be Interested hotel will have 256 rooms vrith bath. which has ever treen -made her;; conMr. S. Herbert Golden of N. T.j and Ida Tenenotrom, all of Omaha. taining the two reports, ~ Ties of all i knowing that they can purchase Mr.' Josephson is very active in -was reelected president of the The pledges of the sorority are officers and workers, annual messages any kind of Jewish pastries and bread Jewish affairs in Kansas City. United Synagogue of America for Grace Bosenthal, Sylvia Wohlner, OJ. the two presidents: and of the chair- in their- own neighborhood and can and Jeanette Levingon, ail of Otnahft. the ensuing year. man of the Federation's executive at fjjy time n - n e the bafaery and COUNCIL B L U F F S BOY A W A R D E D SCHOLARSHIP committee, financial.statements, sep-i have bakery goods delivered to their ." — . «*. -v^-m arate report of the Jewizh Free Loan1 homes at no extra cost. . Harold Saks, senior at Abraham society, and the names aZ contributors and all donor, active and senior n e n Lincoln high school at Council Bluffs, bers. ; _ < Iowa, spent a busy day last Friday 'ine book has been in- prepcratica but was awarded a 4-year scholarMiss Faye Klein, a member of the ors whose talent hap been discovered several months, and is attractively ship to the .University of Iowa for Center Players' Guild, lias been chosen and developed by Mrs. Herman Jahr, Two additional gifts for the special planned, with many illustrations of for one of the princ. parts in the director of the Center Players Guiid. his wonderful efforts. fund of the Jewish Free Loan- society Center and Federation activities. Brandeis Players' production of the Mrs. Jahr has conducted the Guild, Young Saks'left last Thursday for -rare announced Wednesday by Dr. Iowa City to represent the South- musical comedy, "No, No, Nanette," organised rnly this year, as a. school Philip Sher. " western Iowa District in. the. State to be presented at the Brandeis the- of the theater, teaching its Tnemt><s*8 One hundred dollars has been given a.a. i.ne essentials of dramatics, includater the week of May IS. by ',Mr. and Mrs, Arthur Kubin in Extemporaneous speaking contest, This will Le Miss Klein's first ap- ing the nse of voice tnd movement, and also to participate in the State memory of their mother, Mrs. Mollie Mr. M. Katz, who just arrivedfrom Euhin. A gift of §5Q has '•' -en made debating tournament. First on the pearance on the profczcional stage, the Importance of the pause, transiRussia, will deliver a lecture at the by Mrs. S ah Farber in memory of program was a debate in the morn- and is the result of her outstanding tion of mood, and makeup. The atmosphere of the Guild's productions Labor Lyceum, Twenty-second and her husband, Abrarn Farber. ing, followed by the choosing of a work with the Center ttc^rzrs' Guild. has been very near that of th" tuttt* Having been cast for "Nora" in the Clark, on Tuesday, May 8, at iS:15 topic for the Extemporaneous content fessional company, as a repult of M t i Guild's recent production of Ibsen's p. m. • Mrv Katz has been in Russia which was held early in the afterJahr's ovm experience in profession*! for the last foar years. Besides being noon, and then another debate, this "The Doll's xx-use," Miss Klein inter- work. a well-known Jewish journalist^ he is time the final one ,to determine the preted this diiiicult role admirably. Miss Klein has also been promised secretary of the Gazar committee for state champions. But despite the This was her first part of any consea r---* in the Brandeis Players' quence. More recently, she has been Jewish colonization in Russia. • Mr.. Paul Fitch, 68 years old, died fact of everything crowding so close lf He has 'travelled tJirougu all the at his home Wednesday c-r~r'ng, after together, young Sales won first honors seen as the "Scrubwoman's Soul," in ing production of The Bachelor." colonies. All those interested in the 3 lingering illness which "kept him aa- in both, the Extemporaneous contest "Three Pills in a Bottle," which the Two other member* of the Guild Guild performed dyring1 the reception new colonization plan at Beiro-Bidjon irivalid for several years, and the debate. have. played with Mr. Boyd ' at the Jewish Community Center last -.ritn intentions of building a Jewish ' Mr. Fitch is survived by his "widow, He is. the son of Mr. and Mrs. unit should be there. .There will be and three children,- Mrs. H.- Bendarin Philip Saks of Council Bluffs and T ;ek, and again in the Oniih^ PaMic company this year, Mise Batt t.ein and Mrs. Sidney Wintroub. The*'s no collections made. This lecture is of Sioux City, Bernice Fitch «f Omaha grandson of Mr. and Mrs. M. Kula- library on Saturday morning. were in "The Famous Mrs. * Mies Klein is' one of the Y>-"~r -actarransred bv the Icor of Omaha. , and Leo Fitch of Council Bluffs, kofsky of Omaha.
UNITED SYNAGOGUE COHVHrnOB SETS • NEW GOALS 'FOUWORK
JUDGE STALMASTER HONORED AT
iEWISI FEATEE1TIES
• • m mm HONORS
HELL HOTEL BOUGHT BY KANSAS CITY MAN
ANNUAL MPORT BOOK IS OFF THE PRESS
Mr. Blend Purchases West Dodge Bakery
Two Gifts Made to Special Loan Fund
Jewish Journalist to Address Labor Group
Paul Fitch Dies After Long Illness
Faye Klein to Have One of Principal Roles at Brandeis