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OMAHA, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1930
VOL. Vm.—No. 7
JOINT J.C,C^FEDERATIQN MEETING MARCH 5 ORT MEETING Medical Frat TO BEHELD Initiates Nine ON THURSDAY
A dinner at thd Paxton Hotel Sunday climaxed the initiation of nine members into Alpha Chi chapter of the Phi Delta Egsilon medical fraternity A. Golatsky of Los Angeles to of CreightonTUniversity. The alumni, honor guests for the occasion, who Be Here Later in were present included Doctors David Month Gross, Isaac Sternhill, Abe Steinberg, A conference of all available or- Abe Greenberg and VictorSE. Levine.' The newly-initiated fraters are Soganizations of Omaha for the advancement of the American Ort act- lomon Goldman, Bernard H. Bloom ivities has been called for Thursday Simon L. Moskowitz, and Henry Rosevening, March 6, at the Labor Ly- ner, all of Brooklyn, N. Y.; Hyman Alexander, Sol Norman. Keen; and ceum at 8 o'clock. The occasion for the meeting is the Meyer Tell, all of New York- City; approaching visit to Omaha of A. Philip Schulze and Abe.Fellman, of < Golatsky of Los Angeles, one of the Omaha. At the dinner, short talks were] Ort heads. He will be in the city /oometime between March 12 and 16, given by all present, Consul M. H. in. the interests of raising funds here Brodkey being toastmaster. The uriI dergraduate f raters, who were called j for the Ort. Last year, the Ort was successful on first, included Irving J. Weiss, in its campaign here for money, and vice-consul; Irving • Rosensteini chanthose organizations which1 aided then cellor; and Hyman Riklin, secretary. Prior to the dinner. Sunday the have been invited to again participate. The conference was called by formal ceremony and ritual were carBranch No. M73 of the Workmen's ried out. This came at the end of Circle. Among those who have been two weeks of intensive informal iniadvised of Mr/ Golatsky's coming and tiation, held in the fraternity house : the calling of the conference are in- at 3224 Dodge St. / .. cluded the Omaha Hebrew. Club, the B'na| B'rith, the Workmen's Circle, the Conservative Synagogue, the Jewish. National Fund, the Free Loan Society, the Bikur Choliro, the Ladies Labor Lyceum club, and the Young Poale Zion. , The Ort aids the declassed Jews of Russia.- It supplies the destitute with machinery and farm implements, Dr. Mailer Gives Results of • besides, providing workshops and Extensive Survey He factories. \r
SAYS PERCENTAGE OBTAINING JEWISH EDUCATION IS HIGH Conducted
BUILD SANITARIUM Washington. (J.T.A.) Establishment/ of an ew tuberculosisi sanitarium to cost $54,000 at Ashville, N. C , by the Independent Order B'nai B'rith has been recommended in a.report of the special committee of District Grand Lodge No. 5 of the order. The movement for the establishment, of the sanitarium was initiated by the Ashville B'nai B'rith lodge a number. of years ago. According tot he report, the Ashville Jewish community is daily subjected to appeals of tuberculosis victims of the Jewish faith, who come there penniless to seek relief and medical assistance, and who become charges upon the Ashville Jewish charities. The. sanitarium has been projected as a constructive plan to • deal with the increasing difficulties of this problem. According to the plan proposed by the committee's", report, besides the $54,000 cost of the building, an annual budget of about $20,000 per year is provided.
-Baltimore.'-^ <J.T.A.)- The percentage of Jewish children in America who receive some sort of JWtfSK ed-" ucationis much higher than it is usually thought to be, dedarend Dr. Julius B. Mailer of Teachers College, New York City, in ah address before th.'; conference of the Religious Education Association, which was attended by leaders in Jewish, Catholic and Protestant education. On the basis of questionnaires filled out by children in a large number of shools in New York City, Dr. Mailer found that 69.6 'percent of the Jewish boys and 37.2 percent of the girls receive some form of Jewish education. Dr. Mailer made public the results of an extensive survey he conducted on juvenile delinquency among Jewish children of New York City, based on the records of the Children's Courts of Manhattan, Bronx and Brooklyn. Of this total come 21 percent came from Jewish 'homes^' The proportion of Jewish delinquents, however, was found to have decreased from 31 percent in 1909 to 14 percent in 1929. ; ••-•; The proportion of Jewish children, arraigned decreased consistently. .
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Oftiaha, Neb., Feb. 28, 1930. My Dear Friend: ' ' - The Wise Memorial Hospital was organized neariy thirty years ago by the Jews of this city, and has ever since been - under their supervision, and has always given FREE hospital aid to those of our people who have been unable to pay. The hospital is modern in all respects. Our operating room and obstetrical department are as complete as any in •the city. We employ only GRADUATE nurses. We buy the besj; of foods and employ the finest of cooks. Our rooms are light, airy, dean and well furnished. Having all these advantages (and there is no hospital in the city that offers more)—rYour Hospital should be getting the proper support from our Jewish people. ,• Just as soon as possible, we are going to employ some Jewish nurses, and also have a Jewish cook. In other words, we arenot going to leave anything undone in order to create a Jewish atmosphere in the, hospital, sd that more sympathetic attention will be given to our Jewish patients. , - We know you want to support your Hospital, the same as the other religious denominations are supporting theirs. So, we are pleading: that the next time that you or any member of your family or your friends will require hospitalization, that you EMPHATICALLY INSIST on going to the Wise, and we know that your doctor will gladly comply with your request and can have nonobjections to the care and ti you will receive. 1 ^ ^ ' ' We are making this appeal direct to every Jew and Jewess in Omaha that we are able to reach, in order that our Hospital may receive the support which it so richly deserves, and which has been so long denied. If you will only give us your co-operation, there will be nojne]cessity, each year, of facing a deficit of several thousand doDarSi May we count upon you for your support and assistance? ,.-.-:' Sincerely yours, -' WISE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL, By ISIDOR ZIEGLER, President. <•
TEN TALMUDIC SCHOLARS TO ffijMCED
Steinberg, Katelman Victors in Primaries
ZIONISTS WILL MEET ATTHE J.G.CJIONDAY
PLAY WILL BE GIVEN Reports of the year's achievements of the Jewish Welfare Federation and the Jewish Community Center will be given at the joint annual meeting of the two organizations Wednesday evening, March 5, at the Jewish Community Center. Omaha's Jewish communal progress will be set forth in two brief reports by William L. Holzman and Samuel Gerson. Dr. Philip Sher, president of
the Jewish Welfare Federation, will give the annual message for the Federation. "Federation in Action", a short dramatic sketch, has been written especially for this meeting and will be staged by Mrs. Herman Jahr, with the assistance of the following cast: Myron Cohen, David Himmelstein, Harry XJolick, Max Weinstein, Irving Sternhill, Martha Himmelstein, Dorothy Margolin, Sarah Solomonow and Lillian Friedman. There will be incidental music by Sara Rae Fish and Nate- Sekerman. Mrs. Sam Beber will sing a solo, with Regina Franklin as accompanist. Harry Silverman, secretary Returns From Interviews With of the Federation, Sam Beber, Chicago Leaders of Jewsecretary of the Center, and A. ish Youth Goldstein, treasurer of the Center, will give secretary's and Mr. Harry Mendelson, who has
MENDELSON FINDS YOUTH EDUCATORS ARE WELL-VERSED
just returned from Chicago where he t r e a s u r e r ' s reports. H a r r y A. interviewed Jewish ^ducationsd direct- Wolf will speak on t h e work of ors of that city who were working t h e j e w i s h F r e e Loan society. among the youth, finds that leaders in Nomination of officers of the Fedthe education of Jewish youth are eration and officers, trustees and ilipractically all graduates of American! rectors of the Center will be made. colleges, thoroughly grounded in JewTrustees of the Center whose terms ish and Hebrew traditional lore, and e: William L. Holzman, ire •well-trained in the latest methods of ^ f P Harry H. Lapidus and Henry Monmodern pedagogy. sky. Director's whose terms expire Mr. Mendelson is interested in are: By election—J. J. Friedman, I. youth education in Omaha, being F. Goodman, David Greenberg, Absponsor of two clubs. At present he ner Kaiman, Rabbi Abraham Benis planing„ to. arrange , _ , . a, series , , . of lect-, gis, Sam J. Leon; by appointment— ures on Jewish Club leadership, and R a b b i F r e d e r i c k C o h n , L e o R o s e n . has already obtained the consent of t h a , Dp> M L G o r d o n E K a number of prominent local Jews to j S a m R a v i t M n t o n A b r a h a m S i L o u i s speak on topzcs touching that subject. ( S o m David Feder; H Weinel. Another reason for Mr. Mendel-! , R son s trip to Chicago was his appliReports which are now being' comcation for a fellowship in the Train- piled indicate that the year 1929 has ing School for Jewish Social Work. been the Center's biggest year in He interviewed Miss Frances Harri- activities and attendance, and that son, assistant director, and may take the competitive examinations, to be many new activities have been undertaken since the last annual meetheld in June. ing. The Federation's year also lias "What impressed me the most," j u ' 6 ' a big one, and one in which Mr. Mendelson declared, "was the fact) „]:_£ welfare work has that a considerable number of the j ^ placed a more scientific on educational directors had spent some' time in Palestine, and others were contemplating going there for a short SR. COUNCIL TOURNEY stay. They all seemed to be conThe final matches in the Senior vinced that Palestine could offer them certain Jewish educational and Council debate tournament at the cultural • values and appreciations Jewish Community Center will be which no amount of study even in the j held sometime during the coming best institutions of Jewish learning week. A trophy will be awarded to in the states could equal." i the winner.
At the city primaries in Council Bluffs 'which was held Monday, Feb. 24, two Jewish candidates were victorious. George S. Steinberg and Joseph Philadelphia, (J. T.. A.) — Mrs. B. Katelman won the republican nomThe Zionist organization will meet Jennie Miller Faggeni well-known ination for alderman-at-large. There at the Jewish Community Center philanthropist, will make it possible, were four men in the field for this Monday evening. .The main speaker for ten outstanding Jewish scholars office of which two men were elected. of the evening will be Judah.WolfThis is the first time that Joe son, while M. F. Levenson, president recruited from 'rabbinical. seminaries in' Jerusalem to devote their time Katelman has ever tried for a public of the group, will report on the Midexclusively to the preparation of an office. Both Mr. Steinberg and Mr. west conference of the Jewish Nationedition of the Talmud similar to Katelman polled a large vote. al Fund, held in St. Louis last weekBoth men are well known and ac- end. Letters from the White House and] 1 am glad to •: have . this. expression the Torah Shelameh, it was announcSenator G. W. Norris -were read at of your views. I have not had time ed here by Rabbi M. M. Kasher, tive in numerous organizations and Rabbi Abraham Bengis of the Conthe meeting of the Peace Group of to examine,the socalled Epot changes noted Hebrew scholar, and author /of will appreciate everyone's support servative Synagogue is in charge of th . Torah Shelameh, who is now/ on at the election which will be held the C6uhc.il of Jewish Women at the in one of these reservations. If the' .-^ .• Monday, March 31, in Council Bluffs. the program for the evening. A Blackstone Hotel Tuesday noon. effect that I deem essential is not a visit to this country. . feature of the program will be the These were the answers to letters counteracted by any change that was j As explained by Rabbi Kasher this Washington (J. T. A.)—The follow-ition of burial grounds are repugnant singing of Jewish folk songs by Mr. and telegrams sent by members of made, I expect to vote in. favor of the ne\ • edition of the Talmud will ining is a complete text of the con- to the ideals of civilized nations, that and Mrs. J. Resnick. the United States government regard- Court when it is submitted. clude every commentary down to the current resolution protesting against the Congress of the United States ing the World Court and the Disarm; "I do not want our government to Shulchon Aruch, which means that At the conference, attended by 200, religious persecution in Soviet Russia, oi America extend its sympathy to ament Confernece "by' the peace- de- be entangled with the European t i e edition will represent one thousi Mr. Levenson was. chairman of the introduced into the House of Rep- the persecuted Christians and Jews partment of the Omaha Council. questions and disputes any more than ai 1 years of fetudy of the Talmud by I committee of organizations and nom in Russia and is desirious and willing The annual Bridge Tea tParty of inations. He and Mr. and Mrs. Louis resentatives by Congressman HamilA telegram was sent to President I can help. I have felt that our sig- leading scholars throughout the to cooperate with other nations of ton Fish of New York: the Jewish Women's Welfare Organi- Katelman of Council Bluffs were Hoover and a cable to Secretary nature to this treaty had greater world. "Resolved by the House of Rep- tho world in efforts to persuade the S'-lmson, urging that the United moral effect among the nations of the I Rabbi Kasher is now in the United zation will be held this Tuesday aft- selected for the administrative comresentatives the Senate concur- Russian Soviet government to put an States adhere to the disarmament world that it had any direct bearing States completing arrangements for ernoon, March 4, at 2 p.m. at the mittee of the Mid-west region of the ring that it is the sense of the end to religious persecutions, and policy set down by the -president in upon American questions, and, while the publication of the Torah Shela- Jewish Community Center. Jewish National Fund. ! Congress of the United States of the Congress-views with satisfaction his Armistice Day address. The mes- I ,do not;want our government to get meh, which, when completed, will be Mrs. J. M. Malashock is chairman the concerted and united purpose This district includes Arkansas, America that while disclaiming any sages also -were opposed to the plan into the League of Nations, yet, un- in twenty-five volumes. The second of the affair and has made arrangeof the people of all religious fsiths Colorado, the southern peninsula of interfere in the right o r d e s i r e t o to build a new battleship. • der these* circumstances, I do not volume now of the press in Jerus- ments to assure a good time to all Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, i n t e r n a i affairs of another coutry, in the United States to protest A letter from Washington thanks •want my country, to stand in the way alem, was made possible through the who will attend. She is being asKansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebras- t h a t p e r s e cution and outrages which against denial of religious liberty in the department and says the Presi- of anything that will have a tendency generosity of Mrs. Faggen, who will sisted by Mrs. H. Newman and Mrs. ka, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Wis- h a v e b e e n i n f l i c ted upon the Christ- Russia, that it is the further sense dent "appreciates your sending him to bring about the "settlement of in- pay approximately $400 a month for F. J. Alberts. consin. • j a n a n g j e w i s n subjects of Soviet of Congress that recognition of the l ternational dispute's by reason rather a number of years. This will enable your views." * Delicious refreshments will be A pledge to raise $129,000 for the Russia who desire peacefully to wor- Union of Socialist Soviet Republics • these scholars to give themselves served at the conclusion of the afterMrs. J, H. Kulakofsky, president of than by war. shi region was given. Prof. Gustave P G o d according to the dictates by the United States of America is noon's program. An admission price the Council, is in receipt of a letter "I believe most heartily in the lim- entirely over to this work. , ., . . , . , of their conscience, is an offense incompatible with the traditions and from Senator G. W. Norris. Senator itation of armaments. I feel that Approximately five years, Rabbi of fifty cents will be charged for the _ , Klausner of St. Louis was elected ^ h u m a n i t y ( a n d t h a t t h e s e i z u r e institutions of the people of the Norris was asked to favor the ent- the building of large navies and the Kasher estimates, will be required to benefit. United States until religious perpresident, and plans we-e made for a n d diversion of Christian churches irarice: of the United States .to the maintainance of' large- standing ar- gather the material. . This finished, A board meeting of the Women's secution in that country shall have ar increased effort to aid the Jewish • and Jewish synagogues to nonmies have a direct tendency to bring th, next step will be to put i t in Welfare Organization will be held ,; World Court. ceased." . •:-. • immediately preceding the party. National. Fund. I jeligious purposes, and the desecraon war." proper 'orm for publication. • Senator Norris says in his letter:
Local Council Receives ing
Resolution Sym|>atlikes With Soviet Religious Ban Victims
Annual Bridge Tea Thursday