November 29, 1929

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Tfl • - "By-David A SHOHT STORY A l l A SHORT STORY Entered as second-class mall matter on. January 27, 1921, at That brilliant Jewish ..... OMAHA, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1929 postoffice at Omaha, Nebraska, under tie Act ol Marco 3, lbTU. porothy Parker, spent three years wearing out costly shoe leather pedr Program Planned for dling''the manuscript'of a short storyJEWS DONATE TO After she had been turned down by National A. Z. A. Day half a. dozen editors she finally suc-J RABBINATE IN VAIN . ceeded in convincing the editor t>f i Elaborate plans are being made to Constantinople (J. T. A)—, one semi-high-brow paper to publish | celebrate national A. Z. A. day in A tragic-comic-epilogue to the it, and received the scarcely muniOmaha on Sunday, December 15. recent confiscation of-the prop-, fident sum of $75 for it. The two Omaha chapters, Omaha Arab Group Denies Right of Jews to Worship at erty of the Chief Rabbinate -Chapter No. 1 and Sam Beber Chap. After its publication the editor met was enacted--here. -..'.. Wan ter No. 100, are collaborating in stagMiss Parker and confided to i e r that Addresses -Large: Audience MonThe government had confisday at Meeting iSponsored ing the event. Features of the tenhe -was sorry, very sorry indeed, that Jerusalem. (J. T. A.) Palestinian cated the property because the by Council tative program include a prominent he had printed it. -Half a dozen Jewry wa» aroused by a threatening Rabbinate could jiot pay overout-of-town speaker and the presenpeople, he said, had cancelled their letter received by Chief Eabbi Eook due taxes. At a public auction, GIVES CAUSitS OF WAR tation of the Judas Maccabbee degree -subscriptions as the result of the in connection with the present disthe Jews of the city -bought" by a joint team of the two chapters. publication of this story.-. "War unsettled everything and setturbance. the property- and donated it imPhilip Klutznick, ! executive secreWell, to make a long story short, tled nothing," said 'Mrs. Max Mayer, mediately back to the RabbinThe letter, which was from the Sotary of the A Z. A., is coaching the the O. Henry Prize for the best executive director of - the Jewish Comate. . ciety for the Defense of the Mosque, degree team. ; short story was recently awarded to munity Center of Des Moines, in her Aska, purporting to represent the Now, the government has imMiss Parker. And the best short address Monday night at the Omaha views of all Arabs frcm Palestine, posed a new, heavy tax on the. blurv -was the very- one "with which, Jewish TGommtmity Oenter. Transjordan and SjTria, resolved not same furniture, utensils and she Tiad had so much difficulty! to permit any further organized JewTHs meeting was sponsored by the other articles, because they-

MRS.lMXiAM DHJVEHS^nRRING PLEA M M WAR

RECEIVES LETTER

VOL. VIE,—No 46

Demands Resignation of Unorthodox Cantor

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T i—The demanding the resignation of the | famous Viennese opera singer, Her-1 man Yadlowker, who was recently engaged as chief cantor in the Eiga Jacobs, Lecture Chairman, synagogue. Expects a Large His resignation is demanded be- i Attendance cause he asked for an organ ac- J companist which aroused great inTO BEGIN AT EIGHT dignation among the Jews, especially at the celebration of the The lecture of M. Aime Palliere, eleventh anniversary of LatK-a's in- j T T 4 " r ) , r a ^ ; and author, at Yadlowker was accom- I ", - 1Israel "• dependeriCe Sunday night, is create ' ing * much interest and a large attendp a i u e ( i t y a church organist. ance is expected by Nathan E. Jacobs, lecture chairman. The lecture will beg:in promptly »t S o'clock. M. Failiere will be the ish worship at the Wailing Wall, and constitute a new donation and. only speaker of the evening. to prohibit them from "any ceremony hence are liable to taxation.' M. Palliere is one of Europer's most or the installation of objects or the famous rabbis. He is the leader of raising of the voice" as an encroachVienna. (J.TA.) Anti-Semitic uni- Jewish youth on the European continWarsaw. (J.TJL) An unusual Jew- ment on Arab religious rights. versity riots occurring almost simul- ent _ M" p a n i e r e ^-ac i:)on\ the son of ish ceremony, the first of its kind in A delegation representing the Chief Warsaw, was held here, when for the Rabinate of Palestine visited Sir taneously in difierent universities in j & d e v o u t Catholic family in Lyons, E d b t d l indicate i d i t the th ex- j j ^ ^ j i sstudied undoubtedly t u d d ffor the pprieetfirst time a Jewish corpse was form- John Chancellor in regard to the let- Europe ee istence of a special ar.ti-Semitics stu-1h o o d ? b u t i n s t e a c i became a convert ally submitted to the protectorium of ter, and the High Commissioner adProfessor C. H. Kuntz of New l td 2 hl L lb Ij to 2«*™™> *"« ^ vised the delegation, to refer the let- deiJ* ^ ^ l lit\ ™ !d^ T * ^abbi.HSg York, a member of the Icor CommisT the Warsaw university. well informed leaders of European j ; Ccpernic BVIMIn e pulpit is in This was done in order that the ter to the Parliamentary Commission §ion which investigated Bira-Bidjan, Jewish student organisations. gogrue in Paris. of Inquiry which, is holding its sesJewish medical students of the uniwill speak in English at the Jewish Although until now it has been imThe subject of M. Palliere's lecture ' versity might be able to do anatomical sions here now. f Judaism" The Aska claims that work on dead bodies, having been Both of restricted from experimenting on purely a Moslem rel these lectures, according to the cowTeproves the government's temporary Christian corpses. organizes at least once a year anU- m , t t e e f a r e b e i n g nceiveA witb much regulations. • The body turned over to the uniS i t i student t d t excesses eceEses in Germany, Germany/' comment and praise by audiences Semitic The letter also threatens that if the versity was that of jthe late Nachome Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hun- throng-heart the country. disobey, the Arabs win lipschite, a woman, w-ho in her gary and Roumania. Bequests for tickets have come them the right to visit the "Wailyounger days was very wealthy and j f Jewish student leaders have decid- ; . small corrvmunitiee near Wall. " ' had lived in Russia, but died recently . . . . . from many may be purchased at in the Warsaw Jewish hospital in poved to institute a thorough inquiry m either the Jewish Community Center lltlilll t erty, having been a beggar in the order to determine the place where or from any of the following members streets of Warsaw: before her death. the central anti-Semitic student or- of the committee; Nathan E. Jacobs, Exactly at midnight the represenganization has its headquarters. Other tatives• of*.the* Cherva organisations are also inter- j ™t-i Kidisha T * «Society ! in -Mrs-'J-J-Friedman is the chainnan j' eJewish s ted in establishing the source ^ ; S i i e ! l e r Bud" Wo]f; N a t h a n MmM> came to the hospital, clad entirely in J_ of the carnival and. dance, to-be g given •' the student nots m oruer to success- j ^ j ^ U n £ r g r xyster Simon Satn

WARSAW KEHILLAH PRESENTS'CORPSE

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Council of Jewish Women, assisted by the'ifteen other Jewish women's organisations ^J£ this city^ I t was open to Hie public and several hundred- attended. Mrs. Mayer named the causes of Beraarr MacFadden is of Jewish war as psychological, economic, political and sociological. • descent? "Under the first, heading, psychoThat Maurice "Schwartz of Jewish Art Theatre fame has deserted -the logical, fear/of,invasion-and fear of East Side and.is now playing\ with loss of \ power;.. were ' shown to be the Art Theatre on upper Broad- among the causes. Under the second economic^ the desire of acquiring terway! ritory, new - markets r and resources That Div Isidore: Singer, originator shown. The third heeding1, poli-and •managing'.; editor- of. the. Jewish i Mrs. Mayer-laid'to great busiEncyclopedia, who; "S. now celebrating ness interests -which xah "throw us into his seventieth hirthday, has launched a project for a Jewish Hall of Fame a war. "Messages to •senators from in New York whose purpose'it will the people have don^nrachto prevent be to show the -world what the Jew war," Mrs. Mayer--said. ^Friendship arid fellowship rather than enmity 'hag accomplished? That President Masaryk of Czecho- have been promoted, especially in the slovakia, -once, wrote a book, on the case of the trouble between U. S. and JewiBh problem? '.)".•';•: Mexico when Morrow was sent to That Max Lowenthal, the executive Mexico"." " . • • ' • '•;•-.. Under the fourth and hist heading, head of the commission which is inquiring into-crime, and prohibtion: for sociological, the causes, are social OrosThs nhtmtpi- nf TTnrlaKSBh •-frill v rnrahst fhm-n 1 „!*' ,, . _ ' "—,'. , , , President Hoover, was «nce-a bril- sanction of war and 'intensified nacombat them. y the Omaha CMpter of Had^sai . f m i ¥.. ertheimer, Jr. Tickets may also iried away the coffin containing the, bon Sunday, December 1, at the Muni-] liant' student at the University:-.. of tionalism, according to Mr». Mayer. be purchased at Temple Israel the Mrs. Mayer stressed'the fact that corpse. | Minnesota T"^ \ night of the lecture-, Admission iu $1. . Seven times around the protectori-! That one of^ the _, biggest Jewish- ignorance is one. of the greatest danProfessor C. H. Kuntz. Among the. cities on M. ralliere'g tun of the university they carried the j owned banks in New" York City is re- gers. Text books -were also cited as itinerary in this part of the. country ported to be ''shaking'- as the result one of the causes. The speaker stat- Community Center Sunday evening, coffin, at the same time singing in j are Chicago, Louisville, Lincoln, Salt •••'.' doleful tones^ -chapters from of -fte-reeettfrtdebacfe ~m"Wall StreetT «i*fchat the'public- utilities trwere to be D e c e m b e r 1 . . „ _ . .'. ,. : The commission sfidiedi'ffie-possi- p s a j m s Berlin, <J.T.A.) An order of the That ill the Mgrt of the Broadway congratulated upon getting informa>r» the Pacific Coast he •I!J^«T=~T:J?— mass Jewish colonization • ;r v new Berlin Public School Superin- speak section there'ifi a Jewish synagogue tion mto:;the textbooks. Portland, Stockton, Los in Bira-Bidjan, -which the Soviets -wish "When the churches, profess 'Jesus patronized almost exclusively by actendent that Jewish public schools Angeles. Sail Francisco, Oakland, Sacto set aside for an autonomous -JewChrist as a fact "Instead of a salvators'?. - - . •• ' . . . '. ' ..-;. '•remain closed on Sunday has aroused ramento, and Berkeley, T h a t the College of t h e City of tion, there will be peace," stated MrS. ish state under Eussian jurfedicturaT the protest of Jewish organizations. M. Pslliere'E hook, "The Unknown The speaker, -who visited" all the New York is commonly called "the [Mayer. Superintendent Koenig, a member of Sanctuary," which caused much comJewish colonies in Soviet Russia and "An appeal-is made to • people who Cheder on the HilF? the Social-Democratic party, in issu- ment when it WBE first translated into That -the movement for the erec- can think things, through. They spent.over a year in Bira-Bidjen, -wfll The Auxiliary Study Circle held ing the order, specified that the the English language l>y Mrs. Stephen tion of the Oscar S. Straus Memorial should-be -swayed by the saneness of give Ibis conclusions as to the/possi- their first meeting: at the J. C. C. Jewish public schools must remain S. Wise, is partly the story of M. of which Herbert Hoover has accepted peace rather than the hysteria of war. bilities of developing this region."\ Monday with, about fifty women in closed on Sunday, as do the other Palliere's life. It is an index of the Professor Kuntz is a recognized attendance. The group decided to the honorary presidency was launched' "Peace means prosperity to the public schools. personality. by a young - Jewish jiewspapennan many. War-means--profits to the few. authority in agricultural colonization. study Jewish traditions, customs and As the Jewish schools are also j Th.e author of "The Unknown Sanctwho is still in his twenties and whose I "The new war literature tells the ceremonials. closed on Saturday, the school week u a r y " has had a unique experience in MRS. SMERNOFF, DIES truth of war. The. system of .war is . n a m e i s S i d n e y W a l l a c h ? •-.-•. Eabbi Abraham Eengis outlined the ' would be reduced to five days, his religious development. As & youth ! to blame, not the men. Mrs. ^Nettie Smernoff, 33, .wife'of course of study, which will be under AN IDEA—NOT FROM while all other public schools have a he made a study of the foremost reli"We should build- friendships in- Dr. Louis Smernoff, died'Sunday.! The his direction. The women will meet six day attendance. The status of gions and came to appreciate their THE TALMUD stead -of battleships.^ and .President: funeral; was held from, the Smernoff the first and third Monday of every.; I the Jewish schools would therefore intrinsic message. Through coiivicOne of the smart Fifth Avenue de- Hoover, a lover of peace, -without fear home Monday afternoon, Eabbi Abramonth. A brief period will be added i be lowered with the carrying out of ! tion he turned to Judaism as a world partment stores, Stewart's, -which is or favor, is helping'to do this by lead- ham'Bengis. officiating. '• ! each meeting for the study of current j owned by the lieberman brothers—the order. \ faith, and his pilgrimage attained Its Besides her husband she is survived i Jewish events. two former Yeshiva bachurim who ing America for peace," said Mrs. The Jewish organizations claim that constmimation when, he was conseby two children, Bernard and Rosalie, Next Monday Mrs. Max FromHn - know their Talmud as well as their Mayer in closing.', i. - • Superintendent Eoenig's order incrated as a preacher of the ! Mrs. J. J. Friedman. merchandise, has gone in for a: new - The meeting opened -with a group and a brother, five sisters and a moth- -will read a paper on "Customs in the tereferes with religious liberty, He brings to Judaism re-re powers of ; Jewish Home". The discussion will cipal auditorium. The proceeds little gesture which, it is expected, of four songs presented by Miss Eve- er, all in New York. mystical insig-ht and understanding:. lyn Zoesk, soprano, and accompanied be led by Eabbi Bengis. be used for the relief of the sufferers will soon be imitated by other shops. New York. (J.T.A.) Adolph. S. His extraordinary experience has girNew York (J. T. A.)—After a by Miss Jeanette Cass. The current events -will be led by in the recent riots in Palestine. The employes of Stewart's are now Ochs, publisher of the New York I en him an unusual feeling for the five-year tour of the, -worid, ...Peretz Mesdames Sam Wolf and Sam Beber. The carnival will open at 4 o'clock Times, and Otto Kahn, banker and art j universal and humanitarian aspects hired and-rehearsed in almost thea- Mrs. Mayer was honor guest Tuestrical fashion. The young men are day noon at the Conant-botel at the Hirschbein, the noted Jewish writer,. The classes are open to all members in the afternoon and a feature of the patron, were among the seven men, j of Judaism thereby adding to its cosdrilled in accord with the. famous luncheon, of the Peace'Group of the has returned to New York, with his of the Conservative Synagogue auxili- affair wfll be the supper of tradition-I e a c h o u t g t a n d i n g -m t h e i r o v n fieM mopolitan appeal, at the same time it wife. ary. Mrs. Sam Beber is in charge of j foods that will be served of endeavor, who were honored at the retains its historic and traditional "Boxy" methods of- deportment and Council of Jewish Women. registration an4 enrollment. under the direction of Mrs. B. A. Si- annual dinner of the New York State character. courtesy. They are garbed in simM. Palliere has won his mon and Mrs. J. EL Kulakofsky. ilar fashion and are taught to speak Chamber of Commerce November 21, \ ("Continued on Page 2.) in the same smart manner. It is said All manner of products from Palesthat the tests to which the enunciatine will be. the chief attraction' of tion and jrresence of prospective emthe booth over which. Mrs. M. F. Lev- j playes are subjected are as difficult enson presides. These include hand With "the announcement of the com- local Talmud Torah a more potent Rabbi Abraham Bengis of the Con- blocked linens, wood carvings of olive to pass as,'those for any "talkie". mittees, the new.administration of the force in Judaizing Omaha's youthful servative Synagogue will speak at the wood, filigree jewelry and many other EDDIE ON BROADWAY Talmud Torah has commenced an act- Jewry. To do this is not a small regular meeting of the Chesed Shel objects, d'art. The following- day students walked It is difficult to think of any one ive as well as constructive term. Ac-, task. The success or failure of our Emes Society; Monday, Dec 2. In order to enable as many per-j more identified with Broadway than cording, to,the plans pending, the com-' program depends on the strength' of • As .this is a very important meet- sons as possible to enjoy Hadassah J has been showered on Dr. out of Professor Manges's classes Eddie Cantor. Cantor ought to know ing year will see an enlargement both the following of this movement. Magnes Chancellor o, the an' those of his supporters, in proing all members are urged to attend. hospitality, a single admission ticket his Broadway, if any one does. And in the scope and the attendance of the W e r s r t y in Palestine, for test of the stand taken. "Jewish education knows, no faction. admits an entire family. Tickets may \ yet In America the speech was met making a t>lea for forbearance in his —it ;is for every Jew, no matter whatTalmud Torah. PROGRAM PRESENTED ured from.Mrs. Harry Trustin, b e seC convocation speech, at the opening [ with general disapproval. There a.re« Recently Eddie, driving down that his affiliation or belief may be, to give A program featured by a movie, or at the auditorium. of its winter session last week. j however, s. significant number of -thoroughfare, passed one of the trafnot only of his material wealth hot "Children of Fate", a three-act Jewfic lights. For the first time in the history important Zionists who agree with even more freely of his time - and ish comedy, "The Immigrant", and of the institution, a Chancellor was t: j principles, but deplore his speech "Say, you ," a blue-coat shoutmoral encouragement." several Jewish songs, one a parady greeted with hisses by students. M. j at the present time. ed at him, • "don't you know how to The names of the new committees of "Eli, Eli", was presented by the drive ? Is this the first time you've M. Ussishkin, president of the Jew-1 A special committee representing follow: A. E. Mason & Co. Sunday evening ever been on Broadway?" The Center Young Judaeans and the | ish National Fund, went so far as to j thi American Jewish Congress ic a Officers ana Execoti-re Committee: N. S. at the J. C. a confirmation class under the super- interrupt Dr. Magnes in the midst ] prepared statement repudiates the Yaffe, president; M. -Vender, Tice-presiWEHERE LOU GOT aentT-Kobert Kooper. secretary; H.' Wein] activities and proposals of . Dr. vision of Miss Esther Faier were in of his address. er, treasurer; Sam Beber, Irvin StalmasHIS ENERGY ter, K. Lackow, H. Marcus, M. ZweibelWhat drew fire was Dr. Magnes's j Magnes. The statement said that the charge of the Center Sunday School It" seems that Lou Tellegen gets raan. RECOGNITION! statement to the effect that "If the j great Jewish hope in Palestine was assembly last Sunday. Membership and Finance Committee: H. his vivid personality from his mother, "Weiner, chairman;_ H. Marcus, J.. Tretiak, only way of establishing the National j placed in jeopardy fay his irresponOn the Center Young Judaeans' who was as great a dancer as her S. Gluymaii,.Juliu» Altimn, M. Wlntroutji Home' is. Epon the bayosetgjof some and unauthorized negotiations, The Center Players Guild has progTfm were Lorraine Pregger, who J. B.^Jtotiineon, JulinB Stein, J. IT. Ki)lason is an actor. Indeed, it is said korskj-, • Irrin' StalmaBter',' A. B.- *jp}rw. empire, our whole enterpriseis not .The American veterans of the received recognition in the sang and played the piano. Lyraan that Anna Pavlova took some lessons Edacatioma Committee: Ilabbi A. BenCohen also entertained with a piano i worthwhile and it is better'" that the | Jewish Legion sent a telegram to columns of the theater's outjris, chairman; Babbi Feldman, J>r. Philip from her. She was a woman of endSher, M. Zweibelman, H. Lackow, -. Irvin • standing magazine, "Billboard." selection, and Anna Bergman recited eternal people that has outlived many Dr. Magnes demanding his resignaenergy. Stiilniaster, H. Marcus. In its last issue, there is a "The Wild Thanksgiving Turkey". a mighty empire should possess its tion and calling him a traitor to the Poblleity Committee: Phil Slutimlck,' On 6ne occasion, it is said, she was chairman; Dave Blacker, Bobert Kooper.j story on the Little Theater Miss Faier's class recited the "Jew- j soul in patience and plan and wait. most sacred ideals. dancing.-.Until five in the morning. Constitution Committee: Sam Beber, Many leaders of American Jewry page telling of the production ish" Creed". .i It is one of the great civilizing Pavlova approached her and asked chairmanv Jack Marer, H. "MarcuB.* ~" ' j ! of "The Eomancers." The Property Committee: M. Zwelbelman, her whether she could have a dance The attendance for Sunday was 196 tasks before the Jewish people to criticized Dr. Magnes's nullification chairman; J. Tretiak, E. "VVeinlwrg. Guild has no knowledge of the with her some time or other. "Cerchildren, and the attendance banner | try to enter the Promised Land not j of the Balfocr Declaration, I>onatlon5 Committee: . Harrv.Pellman,' manner in which this notice Among those attacking his stand was won by Miss Lillian Haykin's! as Joshua, but bringing peace, cultainly,", replied Madame Tellegen. chairman: B. Shaft on, M. Zweibelman. A. reached "Billboard" since its ture, hard work, sacrifice, love, and" are included Jamas G. Heller, Rabbi Nathan S. Yaffe Hlrsch, M-Tenger. j class. "How will eight o'clock this morning own publicity efforts do not ex. ' . . raneral Committee: M. Blank, chalrThe charity banner was won by determination; to do nothing tmjast- Abba Eillel Silver, Jacob Haas, Dr. "do?" w tend New York-ward. It IS the aim vof this. adminiStraman; A. Monsky, A. Hirach, B. Shafton. Miss Ruth Pollack's post-connrmation! ifiable before the conscience of the Joseph Krimsky, Hon. William M. . (Copyright -1929 by Seven Arts tion," Said .Nathan S. Yaffee, the new- J •Entertainment Committee: J. Tretlat, Lewis, and Jacob Fishman. . ^ •world.* _ , "" Feature Syndicate.) class. ly elected president,, "to make the-,

DID YOU KNOW That David Belasco is -writing his memoirs? That there is a xumor on the to, among:, those; who occupy selves with Jewish/biography^ that

INDICATED BY EXCESSES

Prof essor Kuntz to Speak Here Sunday]

Hadassali Carnival to Be Given Sunday

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BERL1 JEWISH S C I CUT TO A 5-

HOLD FIRST MEETING OF AUXILIARY CIRCLE

NEW TEMODTMAH HEAD . Rabbi Berigis to Speak PLANS CONSTRUCTIVE TERM to Chesed Shel Ernes

Program Is Given at Sundav School


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