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HEAD OF MIZRACffl
Philip S. Mandel Elected Head of Club of K Y.
SPEAK HERE MAY 21 <JediIia Bnblick, Famous Crusador of Orthodox Relegion, Is Prominent Jew. MIZRACHI HERE MAY 21-22.
Results of the election of the Omaha club of New York show that Philip S. Mandel, son of Mr. and.Mrs. S.Mandel, 1919 Bart street, Omaha, Neb., •was elected president of the organization on May 6. Other officers that •were elected are the following: Dora Abi-ams, vice president; BessHaspel, corresponding secretary; Morris A. Golden, treasurer, and; Harry Grossman, social director. Mr. Mandel was active in Jewish worlc while he.was here.in Omaha. He was scoutmaster of Troop 61. which consisted entirely of Jewish boys, and he was also a member of the Y. M, H. A. of Omaha.
OMAHA, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, MAY 17,1928
CLUB TO BE HELD ONMAY 26
National Order of Ivre To Hold Meet in June
The seventh "annual ccnclave of the national order of Ivre will be held in Omaha on June 2 and 3. Seventy-five visitors are expected from the chapin Lincoln^ Neb., Sioux City and New Dance Hall, Redecorated ters Des Moines, la. Rooms Features of ReMr. Herbert ;Go!dsten is the chairmodeling Plan. man of the ^enclave. The lyre is a socir' organization consisting of young MONTE CARLO NITE MAY 19 m- from various cities.-
JEWISH STUDENTS IN SfflOGL ACTIVITIES Central High Leads list of Outstanding Jewish Students; Tech Second. WEST OUTSTANDING STAR
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Samuel Z. Faier Elected Consul of Medical Frat Alphi Chi chapter of the Phi Delta Epsilon, Creisrhton university national medical fraternity, announces the election of officers for the year 1928. Those elected Ere ss follows: Samuel Z. i aier, consul; David Gross, vice-consul ;Ben Slutzky, chancellor; M. H. Brodkey, scribe, and H, Melvin Radman, historian. The fraternity will hold its annual banquet Saturday night, May 19. Installation of officers will be held, and a farewell will be given to Dr. Maynard Greenberg, who will leave for Portland, Ore., vrhere he will interne at the St. Vincent's hospital.
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BE fffiLD MAY27 TO 29 Means of Raising Money to Carry on Hadassah Work to Be Discussed, MRS.
LEVENSON "PRESIDES
Leadership in all fields of scholarWhen the doors swing open for the Plans for raising: money for carryship and • activities has been attained formal opening of the Highland ing on the Hadassah work will be the by the Jewish students of the various Country club on May 26, new features most prominent question that will conOmaha • high schools, according to in the form of beautifully redecorated front the 200 delegates and visitors word given out by school officials. rooms and a newly constructed dance who are expected to attend the "lire! Highest honors were achieved by the pavilion will greet the many members annual Junior and Senior Hadassah Jewish' students at Central high who- are planning to attend the inconference of the southwest, which school. • augural opening. Ho expense is being will be held from Mry -27 to 29 at the Outstanding among all students of spared to make this year's affair.the §4,000,000 Spent on Agriculture Jewish Community Center. Purposes—Educational, Immi- Omaha high schools is Joseph West most elaborate ever presented. The delegatcE will also pass resolugration'Over $6,000,000 of Central high, who recently won the Dean. Nordin's nine-piece orchestra tions on the recent Zionist controvhas been engaged to play for the U. S. GIVES 70 PER CENT. oratorical contest of the west and ersy. • • southwest part of the United States. opening night in the enlarged ballDelegates are expected ftctn KanNew Yor:.—Congregation B"nai Joseph was also elected to the Naroom, which was built to accommodate New. York.—$20,000,000 have been tional Honor society for his outstand- Jeshurun, the second oldest Jewish i sas, Missouri, Colorado, Oklahoma *md, the increasing membership. The same expended and invested in Palestine by The efforts of the Histadruth ing work in scholarship; was awarded congregation in New York, will Nebraska, with the larpest delegation (Workers' Federation in Palestine) to orchestra will also play at the Satur- the World Zionist Organization in the a membership to the Quill and Scroll celebrate the completion of its Com- probably coming1 from the latter state. nine years since the British occupaeliminate unemployment in Palestine day evening dances at the club. The principal speaker of the confraternity for outstanding work in! munity House. by dedication exer1 Mrs. S. Stiefler has been appointed tion, ending September 1927, a reference w4il be Mrs. Frieda >Silbert have at last been crowned" with succises and a banquet to be held Sunjournalism, and was a member of the port'just issued.by the treasurer of Ullian of Detroit, Mich., who -is a cess. Plans" presented by the Hista- cateress for the dub for this year. In order, to tune up the members the Palestine Zionist executive shows. Central debate team for the past two day evening-, May 20, 1928, at its •member of the national board of Hadruth to the Zionist executive were reyears, being captain of the team this newly completed building, 264,274 dassah, and for several years had been peatedly objected. The executive seem- for the grand opening night, the This report was. made public yester- year. "West Eighty-ninth street. Women's division of the club are stag- day by Louis Lapsky, president of the the national president of the Junior ingly resigned itself to the notion that Justin Wolf is the second outstandThe Community House, which ading an. elaborate affair, known as the Zionist Organisation of America, a Hadassah, Mrs. Ullian, Viho trap sn nothing can or should be done. It was Monte Carlo night, which will take constituent body of the World Zionist ing boy of all the Jewish students of joins the rear of the synagogue, is a honor student at. Welipley, is a p-ovei-only after the Histadruth has sucplace at the Omaha Athletic club grill Organization* It is estimated that the Omaha. Justin was accorded the high- magnificent seven-story structure. ful speaker, and hap a magnetic perceeded in inducing the English govest honors attributed to any high erected at a cost of SS50,000, '-eluding on Saturday, May 19, at 8 p. m. ernment, to assume responsibility in Thrills, mysteries, frolicking and United States contributed more than school student by being elected presi- the land, buildings and furnishings, sonality. helpingto liquidate the unemployment, magic intrique are in store for all 70 per cent of the §20,000,000. dent of the. Central Student associa- The architects are. Mr. Henry B. Mrs. M. F« Levenson, president of The §20,000,000 is exclusive of an- tion. His most outstanding work was Herts, Jr., architect, and Mr. Louis B. the region, and general chairman of that the Zionist executive was forced those who attend. other 5,000,000 expended for land purGedalia Bublick to take a hand in the situation. And The ladies will do* all. the serving, chasing during this period. More than ! performed as member r' the debate! Abramson, consultant. The builders t! 3 conference, announces the followthat the revive! of the Jewish life in now, after months of heart-breaking and- have provided wonderful eats, one-fifth per cent of the ?20,000,000| team for the past three years. Justin j are the Lustbader Construction com- ing chairman of committees who are assisting her with the preparations: their land cannot be accomplished dickerings, the program of the His-' prizes galore and lots of entertain- was invested in agricultural settle- was honored with the captaincy of the pany. debate team this year. It provides the follov.-ing facilities: Sire. A. Eomm, reception committee; ment of an unusual order. J ments. without the revival of the Jewish re- tadruth was at last accepted. He is one of the two commissioned The two upper floors are devoted to Mrs, B. A. Simon, luncheon committee; According to final*. arrangements ligion and that true Tiatiorclism can Mrs. ;Cora Wolf is chairman of the j The educational item for the period j officers of the cadet regiment, holding classrooms for the religious school, in- Mrs. M. Frorakin, prog-ram c mmittee; work for the amout of §145,800 was : not be perfect with the revival of the affair, and is assisted. by the follow- beginning April, 1918, exceeds by i land and the language only, but it to start by April 30i Building opera- ing: Mrs. Sam Appleman, Mrs. Abe more than $100,000 the agricultural^ the office of first lieutenant and adju-1 cluding a school "library and the su- Mrs. H. Silverman, registration commust be accompanied also with the tions amounting- to §84,1^" are to i crsberg, Mrs. Morris Milder, Mrs. item. The educational expenditure in-j tant. Justin's name was connected i perintendent's office. The fifth floor mittee; Mrs. K. Trustin, ticket selling revival-of all that is dear and holy s.art in twenty-four agricultural cen- Harry Kulakofsky, Mrs. Manuel Han- eludes the cost; of maintaining the net- with practically every activity of Cen- consists of an auditorium seating- 450 committee; Mrs. J. J. Friedman, sewt) the Jewish people since it became ters. Water supply is to t~ furnished dler, r llrs. Harry. Rachman,' Mrs. wozk of Zionist schools, as well as | tral. In scholarship, Justin was in up- persons, and equiped -with a spacious ing exhibition committee; Mrs. J. _a_ natioxu. The, address .'will _ be deliv- [ to six -places-at a cost of §43,500. Louis Hiller, -Mrs. Harry. Rosenf eld, special, grants ^t?s^jthe_-^ebrew univer- I per seventh in junior and senior years. stage and dressing: rooms. The. third Rosenberg, publicity committee. : : Among the prominent outside memered'at the' Beth"Hamedrosh syna- ThVi"' iafkg"wIflZfiiriushWork •Mrs. Sam HerzbergV MrsV~ Sajh Eobin- sity and library, and the Haifa Tech- . . The "other, outstanding members of and fourth floors consist of a.banquet Central" high who went off with the] hall seating abotit 450 persons and bers who are expected to attend the for 500 workers who were heretofore gogue, Ninetoenth and Burt streets, son, .Mrs. Lillian Lew, Mrs. Ben nical institute. majority of the school honors are the L'tchen and service ro~..as. On the sec- conference will include Mm, S. Wilunemployed. The Zionist executive has Friedman, Mrs. Abe Greenherg, Mrs. on Monday, May 21. The cost of immigration for the pe- following: Paul Grossman, managing ond floor are located the rabbi's office lens, president of the Denver chapter - Mr. Bublick was bom in 1875 in moreover agreed to devote §17,000 to Dave Feder, Mrs. Ben Danbaum and riod was about $2,400,000, exceeding editor of the school weekly, member £-id study, the library and conference of Hadassah, and founder of the Denaid 300 woikers who are physically Grodno, and received a thorough eduMrs. Clarence Bergman. by about $400,000 the expenditure on of the O-Book staff, and member of room, to be used also as the board of ver National Home for Jewish Chilcation in Cheder and Lomze and Mir incapable of hard labor. A special The public is invited to attend. labor and more than double the trade the National Honor society; Morris] r trustees' room, the administrative of- dren; Mrs. OUCKT Leonard, prominent Yeshivoth. In 1904 he carne to the: medical commission of the labor or- Everyone is welcome, '•'.•• Blacker, managing editor of the school j and industry expenditurefice, a women's social room and sew- in B'nai E'r.ith work, and Rabbi and ganization will determine on each case. United States and joined the staff | T annual, sport editor and copy reader ii-U room provided with adjoining Mrs. Cohn of Kansas City. ami will -recommend suitable occupa-j of the Jewish Daily Nev, s. as chief! of the school weekly; -Grace Dansky, 1 "tchen facilities, and a men's club editorial writer, becoming its editor- tions. In addition there is the govern-! member of the National Honor so-i room together 'with a billiard room. in-chief in 1915. Mr. Bublick is i.he ment work at Kalkeliah, which sup-j cietr and copy reader of the weekly Among the speakers vrho will parplies work to 400. The buflding of the! author of ssveral interesting volumes, paper. ticipate, in addition to Dr. Israel Goldone of which "Min Hamezar," has at- Haiffa port, the erection of Keren j Boselme Pizer, advertising manager] stein, rabbi of the congregratiork, and Haysod and Zionist executive build- j When the two Council Bluffs high tracted much public attention. . The first of the Senior Gub schools present their senior class of the Register; Adelle Wilinsky, tea-1 Mr. Charles W. Endel, president of ings in Jerusalem, and a number of Mr. Bublick was one of the. original Henrietta Sr-oW ehib won first Council debates on, "Resolved, That plays this week, Jewish students tare editor of the O-Book and edi-j the congregEtior., will be Dr. Cyrus place in thp dramatic contest held other undertakings contracted is. -ill. founders of the Misrachi organization u Conservative Judaism Should Be En r torial writer of the Register; Tobie Adler, Dr. Stephen S, Wise, Mr, Sol in America, to which he has always create a demand for - i- --' "-.at will will take important roles. Weclnesdaj' evening in the H eouraged In Preference To Orthodox Goldstein, advertising m.'tnr ~2r of the M. Stroock, Commissioner Louie L, warrant a new influx of Chalutzim Max Kramer -will have .the leadbeen devotedly attached. Mr. Bublick Community Center, Thp content • [ ing part in "Merchants of Glory", and Reform Judaism" will be held O-Book and member of the Register; j Harris, Mr. Samuel Blumberg and sponsored by the Junior Club council. : has traveled extensively through .tin into Palestine. senior class play of the Abraham Monday evening, May 21, in the Sam Fregger, member of the school j Mrs. Louis Schlechter, president of It is interesting to note that of the different European countries, visiting The plsj* with which, the HenLondon, Basel, and Karlsbad on sev- 7,500 xmemployed'workers, only about Lincoln high school, which will be lodge room of the Jewish Commun- debate team in 1927; Frank Lipp, the sisterhood. The musical part of rietta • Szold girls ^or. was "At member of the school debate team, the religious service -will be conducted eral occasions in connections with 500 left the ^country. The rest were presented Friday afternoon and eve- ity Center. and Arthur Lerner, first lieutenant in by Rev. Jacob Schwartz, cantor of the the Movies," The club mow rtands ning; May 18, at the Broadway Frank Ackerman and Irving Perldetermined* to stay, in•" Palestine in Zionist World congresses. the cadet regiment. These people congregation, together with the B'nai second •with 14 points. Thp ftivl In 1920 Mr. Bublick paid Ms.first, spite of most trying hardships. In the Theatre in Council .Bluffs. Sal mutter of the Psi Mu club will meet Scouts with 11 points arc in third make up the outstandir- students of Jeshurrai choir. visit to Ereta Israel, and wrote a se- face of hunger they displayed pluck Michnick will play a character role Sylvia Bernstein and Mary Claire place. ries of articles on the political, eco- and discipline that called forth; ad- and Harold Saks will also be in the Shames of the Junior Hadassah. The Central high schooL The Hertz* club won second place Psi Mu club will present the arguMost of the honors at Tech high play. David Bishoff and Ruth Eofner nomic and cultural aspects of Erotz miration on the part: of all. intelligent cast of "Merchants of Glory." •with "Casey - Never Tells." The Helen Whitebook, senior at the ments on the affirmative side and were also monopolized by the Jewish are the other Jewish students who Israel and Judaism. In 1925 he again observers. About 45,000 were evenZionali Girls were third -with "Hangthe Junior Hadassah •.."ill defend students. Benny Freshmen is perhaps I have leads in the Senior play. Selma went to Palestine to attend the open- tually absorbed in various industries Thomas Jefferson- high school, will ing Out 'the Wash," orthodoxy and reform Judaism. the outstanding Jewish student at! have an. important part in •"OatLevin has been appointed associate and the employment problem of the ing of the Hebrew University of Competition -for" the all round Jerusalem, as representative of Am- remaining 2,000 lias now, thanks to ward; Bound", which will be presentThe second debate on the same Tech. He is a member of the school cater of the Quadrant. David Lazarus erican Koron Hayesod. • the foresight and persistency of the ed Friday at the Thomas Jefferson subject will be held in the lodge debate team and is managing editor •vra.s a member of the state champion championship' will be awarded on honors night to the club which will auditorium. room Tuesday, May 22, when the of the Tech Quadrant, which is thej quartet. Mr. Bublick was elected preddeif of Histadruth, at last been solved. ^ Tvirs the most points . in the Junior school bookpublished by the senior Fa Hons and Tanku-Goda clubs will the Mizrachi Organization in li>2&- . Council activities.. The Hertzl club class. Life is a very curious thing. One uphold the. negatrre and affirmative T h e Jew is a patriot everywhere, Junior baseball practice every TuesThe public is invited to attend the cannot ask one person to meet an- haK manrtaljned the-lead since it won Niomi Cohn stands out for her speech. A meeting of the Mizrachi or- day and Thursday -on Central high a Jew everywhere, and an anti- sides of the subject respectively. The ganization will be held on May 21 and school grounds from 6 to 7. Every semite everywhere—three in one, and finals will be held some time in as a member of the debate team and other "without going through a sum first jtlave in the Ptodent rally. They now have 16 points. junior boy will be given a chance. one in three. —ZangwilL June. is also -one of the leads in the senior of moral arithmetic 22. Omaha Jewry will have the opportunity -..to i e a r Mr. Gedalia Bublick, president of the Mizrachi organization of America and editor of the Jewish Daily .News,' express his philosophy
ONDOLLARS IN PALESTINE BYHONISI ORGANIZATION
BWUJESHDRDN-TO
AT COST OF $85Q,0W
Council Bluffs Students Take Important Roles
SENIOR CLUB COUNCIL TO OPEN DEBATES
Henrietta Szold Girls Win Dramatic Contest
AN INQUIRY INTO; THE JEWISH ATTITUDES OF THE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES SENATOR R U B AND THE PICTURE ON Tffi WAI1; HOOVER A D HIS JEWISH SECRETARY; LOW0EN AND AARON SAPIRO; GOVSMHAND MRS. MOSKOWITZ By David Schwartz. "Mr. Chairman, I rise to offer in nomination as the standard bearer of this party of the plain people, a man •who cannot be bought or ' bribed—a servant of the people whose record is •unsullied, untarnished, unbesmirched, unparalleled and a few other 'nns."' We shall hear sentences of ibis type in great profusion as y?& tune in this summer to the big quadriennial bouts to be staged in Kansas City and Houston,-when the nominees for the juiciest plum within the gift of the American electorate are to be decided, upon. No Jewish iiaines will be presented despite aliss Hurst's and other fictional auguriss of Jewish presidents. Indeed, it may be said that if these predictions of a Jewish president ever eventuate,
it "will not be the result of Jewish support.: •. Two Catholics are now being seriously considered for the nomination, but the Catholic in America possesses a cohesiveness -which the Jews entirely lacks. Kecent writers or "gangs? in America avier that even*. the. Jewish street loafers of the big cities have not; that aptnesi for the gang, ^hich the Irish and other newer ingredients of the American melting pat possess. From the days of the Bible of old, we have been . described • as aji "am Kashnay oref," a stiff-necked people, and stiff-necked folk do not constitute very good building blocks for the gang or group .machine* With, no candidates of our oivn, we
may do the next best thing, and inquire as to the Jewish attitudes and relationships of the candidates, "Whose names -will be presented. All of them, it should be said, at the outset, are entitled to quote that classic phrase, which has become ridiculous from overuse. "Some of my best friends are Jews." Even Senator Keed, and I am making this statement in no facetious Tein, nor am I voicing any special plea for the Missouri senator. P^rankly, I jnay add, that he will not Teceive -my vote. 1 regard him as a splendid senator, but not of the temperament that befits a president. I have watched Eeed from close range. I think I "know thoroughly his feeling as to the Jew. On his wall, in the senate office building at Washington, hangs the portrait of Sam Lazarus, a Jewish railroad man and financier of SUssourL Eeed and Lazarus u-ere the dearest of "friends. Even now, years after the death of Lazarus, his portrait still graces the most private sanctum of the Missouri senator. Moreover, I believe, if the entire
Moreovcr, when Herbert Hoover piro, Laster, Baruch and others, who story of the confirmation of the appointment of Mr. Brandeis to the Su- was in charge of the food administra- were alleged to be striving for the preme court were unfolded, the part tion during the world war, his private ruination of the tiller of the soil. Regarding- Senator-Walsh, another played by Eeed vrould be shown to be secretary was a young Jew, Levds aspirant for presidential honors, it will distinctly creditable to Mm, undoubt- Strauss. suffice to point out that Walsh was Hoover, too, is a close friend of edly so from a Jewish angle. Keed, it may be recalled, was at that tinje Frederick William Wile, the Jewish one of those most active in the senate chairman of the senate judiciary sub- newspaper correspondent of Washing- in behalf of the confirmation of the committee, before whom those who ton, He is also an intimate friend of appointment of Mr. Brandeis to the fought the Brandeis appointment, Emile Berliner, the Jewish inventor, Supreme Court. and the preface to Wile's biography ; "We come now to the governor of made their last stand. - As regards Herbert Hoover, any of Berliner is written by Herbert New York, whose Jewish associations and intimacies have doubtless exceedidea that he may harbor prejudice is Hoover. manifestly absurd. Eacial bias is someAs regards Mr. Lowden as the for- ed that of any of the others, whose thing: utterly alien to his spirit So mer governor of the state of Illinois, "yamelkes" have been cast into the much indeed, is this true, that he has with its large. Jewish population, proverbial ring. To say this, is not to gone as far as to eliminate even the Lowden naturally came into close con- argue for Smith's -election. In the first white and black distinctions in the tact with many Jews. But perhaps, in i place, coming- from New York, with census enumeration, for which he Te- a Jewish way, the name of Lowden its large Jewish population, it is only cently has been castigated by the fire- was most conspicuous, by reason of natural chat he should have been eating statesman from South Carolina, his sympathy and support given to thrown into closer contact -with Jews. the honorable Cole Blease. j Aaron Sapiro in his -work for co-op- Secondly, it of course, makes no difIt will be ference to any intelligent voter, Mr. Hoover's intimacies with Jews erative farm marketingrecalled by erstwile readers of a de- whether the candidate has more or commenced as far back as his student days at LeJand Stanford university. ceased .Dearborn Journal, that before less Jewish*associations. That does not There Hoover and a Jewish student, Mr. Ford saw the error of Ms ways, affect his fitness to occupy the White whom his biographer calls Zion, to the aforesaid journal of opinion was House. in considering A3 Smith's Jewish conceal his present identity, were dose in the habitof bracketing Mr. Lowden with the names of such Jews ^is Sa- associations, the name of a Jewess, campus ehums-
Mrs. Henry Moskowitz, -comes first to the mind. Mrs. Moskowitj: has bppri described &E the "Colonel House" of Governor Smith, and her .influence on •Smith's career has probably exceeded that of any other sing-le individual. In a small office, within severs I blocks of the Grand Central station, sits Mrs, Moskowitz, the wife of the head of the Madison Street Settlement house, and directs the efforts to pave the road for Al from Albany to Washington. To her office, come and -go, ail seeking to know Smith's attitude on this and that—-all those who peek to come in contact with the New York governor. And every Friday night, Mrs, Moskowitz- takes* the train to Albany for • her week-end conference with the governor. Hardly a message has come from the governor in recent years, over which Smith has not first conferred with Mrs-. JJ|oskowit2. She has beer, the "ghost writer" of many of his magazine articles, she {Continued on Page 4}
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