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BADASSAH IS TO CELEBRATE 18th BIRTHDAY

OMAHA, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, MARCH 14,1930

_ a Can't Be Made Qood by IMW" "'Bridges

VOL. Vm.—No. 9

Conference of Allied Jewish Campaign Is Held Over Week-End

Holzman to Show Pictures of Trip to Panama

William L. Holzman will "While statutory law is useful, nec- moral goodness have always failed show moving pictures and deessary, and even indjppensable, it and always will fail." liver a talk on hi*/ recent trip cannot change the character of the "The 'good' man is the one who is through the Pananjja Canal zone as the feature o | the March Kosher Luncheon to Be Held in people subjected to it," Dr. Horace C. conscientious in seeking what is right Bridges contended in the fourth of and doing what is right for the sake meeting of the Brotherhood of Center Auditorium the lecture course series sponsored by of the right itself," Dr. Bridges stoutTemple Israel Wednesday evMarch 26th the Community Forum under the aus- ly maintained throughout the lecture. ening, March 19. The eighteenth birthday of Hadas- pices of the Community* Center and "Our own honor and conscience must The Brotherhood Hirnior will sah will be celebrated by the Omaha the Council of Jewish Women, held at guide us along the path of right." begin promptly at 6:30 p. m. Chapter -with a Kosher Luncheon, the J. C. C. auditorium Wednesday The speaker claimed that the purand will be over before 8:30 Wednesday, March 26, in the audi- evening. Dr. Bridges deplored the pose of law is to secure the enjoyp. m., according io Nathan E. torium of the Jewish Community fact that this country has entirely ment of man in his rights, rights Jacobs, president,' The dinner Center. This affair will also serve as "too many laws." which the law cannot create and canis to be served by the Sistera "Bring a Member Luncheon". Ad"Compulsory righteousness is not not take away. The American govhood. This is an open dinner mission to old members •will be $1.00. worthy of moral respect," the speaker ernment, he pointed out, is based on of the Brotherhood and reserThe local chapter of the Council Hew members -will be guests of the declared in building * up his case natural, unalienable rights, rights vations may be aade by teleof Jewish Women will observe Counabove law, making man older than organization. phoning Abe Sdfimmel, HAragainst the bettering qualities of the cil Sabbath this evening and tomorMrs. B. A. Simon, general chair-{law in regard to- man's • character, law and the state laws an incident to ney 0945. The c&t of the dinrow morning, with services at the man.: man, "will be assisted by Mrs. Max "The true'character of a-man is rener is only 85 ce&>» Conservative Synagogue and TemFromkin, program committee; Mes- vealed by what he would- do if he The state's purpose should not be Mr. Holnnan's^sbility with ple Israel. dames Abe Greenspan and Abe Sil- thought he were unseen by gods or to reduce man to -what it desires him the moving picture projector Tonight at 8 p. m. the Sabbath . V - ' ' V /• •••• -.-. •-."• to be, but rather to give him an opverman, reservations; . Mrs. M. F. m e n . " has been established by the will be observed at the Conservative portunity to be free in his choice. LevenEon, publicity, and a committee "We can really, respect only: the pictures of his ffther travels, Synagogue at the J. C. C. with Mrs. consisting of Mesdames Max Lerner, man who will not murder because he That, he said, "was where Russia and and the Brotherhood expects a J. H. Kulakofsky delivering the SabJulius Stein, O. C. Gadner, J. H. believes it is intrinsically wrong* and Italy were failing, for there the large attendance i t the dinner. bath message. Mrs. Sam Theodore state is above man and man is but an not merely because he fears the police KulakofsTcy, Abner Kaiman, Max will give the opening prayer, while Goldberg, Abe Somberg, Ernest or an afterworld inferno." What he instrumentality for the community's Mrs. Sam Gilinsky will give the ' i . . _ . Meyers, Jack Alberts, Mose ousem, advocates and what he stated all the e n d s . •• • ' ' " • - - . closing prayer. wise sages and leaders' throughout However, he admitted that law can Sam Cohen, and Meyer Friedel. Tomorrow morning at Temple IsMrs. Albert Krasne, treasurer of the ages had advocated was persua- compel man to forego his bad dangrael services will be held at 10 a. m., the newly organized sister chapter sion, conviction in place of coercion, erous habits and can make it possible with Rabbi Frederick Cohn in charge. On Sunday evening, April 20, tb« for "Attempts by law to bring about f o r a good man to practice his goodin Council Bluffs, Iowa, is in charge Mrs. J. H. Kulakofsky will make a Jewish Community Center will be ness, which he couldn't if badness preof Council Bluffs reservations. few introductory remarks, and spethe host to a visiting debate team vailed. "This, however, does not There will be a program during cial music wfll be given by Miss from the Pittsburgh Y. M.—Y. W. make man one whit better," he conthe luncheon, followed by cards for Fanny e Hart. H. A. tended. • those wishing to play. The question for debate is "Re- . There will be a religious symposDr. Bridges attacked prohibition as Mrs. Joseph Rosenberg is president solved that the establishment of a ium, with the following participata violation of natural rights-and an of the Omaha Chapter,. and Mrs. Jewish State in Palestine is neces- ing: Mrs., William L. Holzman, "Reexample.of where we need persuaHerman Marowitz of the Council sary for the preservation of the Jew- ligion in the Home"; Mrs. Philip sion instead of coercion. ./••• Bluffs Chapter. : v '' Romonek, "Religion in the Religious "The most important political prob- ish people." Those wishing to _make reservaSchool"; Mrs. M. Bernstein, "ReliMr. Sam Zacharia and Mr. Ben tions are asked to call Mrs. Abe Member of Trio Which Met lem of today," he finished, "is to limit gion in the Synagogue". The dosthe sphere .of what can be wisely done Kazlowsky whe comprise the Omaha 1 Silverman, WAlnut 5953 Mrs. A. Columbia Uni Last ing prayer will be given by Mrs. by the legislators." . j team will debate the negative side Greenspan, WAlnut 5077, or Mrs. .- •••. Week Sam Gilinsky. The final number on t i e lecture of the question. Excellent coaching Mose Yousem, HArney 5516. Members of the Council Board will course will be a lecture by Rabbi Ab- is being provided them by Judge act as ushers at both services. Justin. Robert Wolf, 19-year-old ba Hfllel Silver on Monday, March 24. Stalmaster. son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry A. Wolf, is attaining the_ forensic success at Harvard" university which" was' pre-

COUNCIL SABBATH All Israel Unites to Put Across Drive of $6,000,000 for J, IX C. and y TO BE OBSERVED Jewish Agency BY LOCAL GROUP

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Pitt Debaters Are to Argue Here April 20th

JUSTIN R. WOLF MAKES HARVARD DEBATING TEAM

PURJM CARPAL IS TO BE BELT) ON SUNDAY, MARCH 16

Everything is ready for the huge affair to be held at the Center all i afternoon and evening on Sunday, March 16th. -The auditorium will be open; afc 1^30 pjn.when the sale of all articles at the booths will begin. The Sunday School children are requested to be at their home rooms by 1:30, while those in charge of booths to be there by 1:00 sharp. Construction of the booths has already been begun and new articles j are coming in every day from New' York. It is not unusual to find the office looking like a bee hive with intermediate and senior club mem•bers holding meetings, planning their booths, committees, arranging for goods, and for the programs and even the little tots of the Sunday School questioning as to costumes i and bringing in essays. j Among the booths there will be the! following: , ..-.'• Flower Booth—Miss Loen's Class, Novelty Booth—Jecomter Campfire Justin Robert Wolf Girls, Gypsy Camp — Tonuka Koda, dieted for him after his brilliant recCandy Booth—Post Confirmation, Fish Pond Brownies, Homentashen ord in various speaking contests Booth—Junior Daughters of Zion, Hit while a student at Central High Hainan—Henrietta Szold, Hot Dog school. He is a member of the HarBooth—Karmelites, Punch Booth— vard debate team, though only a Girl Scouts, Peanuts and Candy sophomore. Booth—Alpha Tau. The booths will Last week Justin was a member be gaily decorated and a prize is of the trio which debated with Cooffered for the best decorated booth. lumbia university at New York on There will also be two stage shows, the question of "The Effect of the one at 3:30 and one at 8:30 consist-: Modern Talking Pictures on the Aming of plays, music, dances etc. The erican Youth". An audience deciafternoon performance will be a i sion rendered a tie verdict, despite the special children's performance and a! fact that the debate took place beparade of the Sunday School children fore a Columbia audience. will be held. Incidental music will While at Central High Justin was be supplied throughout the day by an president of the Student Body, the student governing gToup at the orchestra group in costume. Assisting Mr. Shanok are the fol- school, captain and star of the delowing Committees: Food Committee, bate team, winner of the state exMiss Lazarus, Mr. Berman, Miss Gi- temporaneous contest, and particiventer and Miss Stein. Arrange- pated in a host of activities. ments Committee; Mr. Mendelsohn, Miss Barish, Mrs. Jahr, Mr. Miroff, . Mr. Siegel, Mr. Levin, Mr. Himmel- S. Kaiskee Leads stein and Mrs. Wintroub. Z. B. T.'s in Grades Sheffel Katskee;. son of Mr. and Mrs. A. Katskee, 2217 Lothrop St., New York.—Forty-seven leading led the Zeta Beta Tau fraternity at Jews, men. -and women,, rabbis, edu- the University of Nebraska scholastcators, social workers and liberals are ically, according to grades just reamong the 1200 Americans -who Sun-| leased, with an average of almost r day signed an appeal to the American 9Z. As a result his name will be de'.egates to the naval parley in engraved on the chapter's loving cup. London urging real reduction and not Sheffel is the youngest member of only limitation-of armaments. the Lincoln chapter.

Jeiys Join in Appeal

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American Jewry Loses Greatest Supporter; White House in Death of William '.••' HotvatdTaft

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By Bernard Postal In the death of William Howard Taft the Jews of the United States have lost one of the finest friends they ever had in American public life, Taft understood the Jews and was sympathetic to their ideals and aspirations; but unlike most statesmen his tmderstanding and sympathy did not ebb after he left the White House. Friendly as he was to Jewish needs as president, he became even more so when he shed the responsibilities of the presidency. Born and raised in Cincinnati, the center of Jewish activity of -various sorts, including of course the Hebrew Union College and the reform movement nourished there by Isaac M. Wise, Taft, as a young man came into close contact with many of the most outstanding leaders of American Jewry. The Unitarian church he attended stood next to the synagogue in which the dynamic Isaac M. Wise preached. Taft was fond of telling how the elder Taft, was an active Unitarian, who often visited the synagogue of Rabbi Isaac M. Wise and Rabbi Lillienthal. This early symptom of Jewish-Christian goodwill made a deep impression on Taft and to these youthful Jewish associations we may trace his later good-will to the Jewish citizens of the United States. The first Jew to play a role in the career of the future president was

Wise Is Nominated for Hall of Fame Isaac M. Wise, founder of the Hebrew Union College and the American Israelite, and for two generations one of the leading exponents of Reform Judaism in the United States, has been nominated for election to the Hall of Fame on the campus of New York university. Dr. Wise, the thirtieth anniversary of whose death is celebrated this year, is the first Jew to be nominated for a niche in the Hall of Fame.

Gus Karger, the political reporter of the Cincinnati Times, owned by Taft's brother. Karger, a keen judge of men, saw in the young judge something of the man that was later, to be the first to serve his country both as president and as chief justice of the Supreme Court. An intimate friendship sprung up between Karger and Taft that endured to the day "of Karger's death. In the years that he was climbing the ladder of political successes from a district attorney to the state supreme court and to the solidtorgenralship of the United States, Taft from time to time met the prominent • Jewish leaders of Ohio, such as Julius Fleischman, Adolph Cohen and the elder Seasongood, but not until he was nominated for the presidency is there any record of real Jewish participation in the events of his career. A number of Jews played no little part in getting him the nomination for which he had been boosted by Roosevelt. William Loeb, secretary to President Roosevelt, worked with might and main to round up delegates favorable to Taft and the ease with which he was nominated bespeak of Loeb's efforts. The omnipresent Gus Karger, too did his bit in handling the pre-convention publicity that "built-up" Taft, so to speak. Victor Rosewater, acting chairman of the National Republican Committee, traveled all over the country in an extensive campaign of political speech-making to get th« country in the mood for a Taft nomination. The one act of his administration that was to endear Taft to the Jews of America was his support of the widespread campaign to repudiate the treaty with Russia as a result of the actions of the Czar's government in refusing to admit American citizens who were Jews into Russia. Although Taft's action in the matter was at times questioned by such eminent Jews as Jacob Schiff and Louis Marshall no one doubted bis sincerity. The Russian treaty had already become an issue when Taft was nominated in 1908. In his speech of acceptance, he referred to the Russian

New York.—The enthusiasm that The conferences included men and has been evoked in every Jewish com- women who for the past fifteen munity in the United States by the years at least, have been the leaders announcement of the Allied Jewish of various Jewish movements in their Campaign for $6,000,000 for 1930 for respective communities, Zionists and the Joint Distribution Committee and non-Zionists, Orthodox and Reform the Jewish agency for Palestine, Jews, Socialists, capitalists, repreneuwas easily "visualized at the national tatives and spokesmen for every conference Saturday night and Sun- affirmative shade of Jewish opinion, day in Washington, L). <!!., of this creating a common platform for uninew, aH-embracive, unified effort by fied Jewish effort that will be of maxAmerican Jewry for the greater good imum usefulness toward the solution and greater glory of all Israel. Over of the overwhelming economic and 600 men and women, many of whom cultural problems of East European come from far-western cities, parti- Jewry and to supply the Jewish cipated. Agency with adequate funds for the upbuilding of the Jewish Homeland in Palestine. Included among the speakers were Felix M. Warburg, chairman of the administrative committee of the Jewish Agency and chairman of the Joint Distribution Committee; Louis Lipsky, president of the Zionist Organization of America; David M. Bressler, Morris Rothenberg, Judge Wm. M. Successful Highland Country Lewis, and Paul Baerwald, the four Club Affair Staged on chairmen of the Allied Jewish CamTuesday paign; Mrs. Robert Szold, president A most highly successful banquet of Hadassah; Judge Horace Stern, Dr. in honor of Abe Herzberg was given Cyrus Adler, James N. Rosenberg, at the Highland Country dub Tues- Dr. Lee K. Frankel, James Marshall. Resolutions day evening with a large gathering Reports of the conference committee «n resolutions and campaign quotas .followed the addresses. Th« resolution, • in part, which was adoptpassport question and termed it ed after it had been presented by "repugnant to the principles of our . •• (Continued on Page 2.) government", and promiBed to give special attention to the matter if elected. In two later addresses he repeated his desire to be of help. That his promises were not mere political words was well evidenced when in 1911 he invited Jacob Schiff, Louis Marshall, Mayer Sulzberger, Adolph Kraus, Philip Stein, Jacob Furth, J. Walter .Freiberg, Bernard Frofessor Golatsky to Speak; Bettman and Simon Wolf to a luncheon at the White House to discuss Rabbi A. Bengis Is the matter of the abrogation of the Chairman Russian treaty. So far as is known A mass meeting for the advancethis was the first time that a presment of the American Ort activities ident of the United States had inwill be held Monday evening at the vited a delegation of Jews to dine E'nai Israel synagogue, Eighteenth at the White House. and Chicago streets, with Professor After the luncheon, President Taft Mr. Abe Herzberg astonished the delegation by reading present. Mr. Herzberg has been pres- A. Golatsky of Los Angeles as prinhis conclusions on the matter of the ident of the club for three consecu- cipal speaker. Rabbi Abraham Bentreaty before he had heard a word tive years during which time an en- gis of the Conservatory synagogue from any member of the delegation. viable record has been established. will be honorary chairman. Last year the Ort prosecuted a He discussed the entire situation, 'Mr. Herzberg was at first contemgiving the pros and cons for abroga- plating resigning the leadership of successful campaign for funds in tion, repeating his professions of in- the Highland Club, but by the una- Omaha, ami this year has enlisted terest in the matter, he declared that nimous demand of the members he the aid of many of the local organProfessor the situation was improving and that was persuaded to remain in the ca- izations for their drive. he felt that there was no need for pacity of the presidency. To show Golatsky, a prominent figure in Ort such drastic action. When Taft fin- their good faith and appreciation for activity, will picture the conditions ished reading he asked that his re- the magnificent work done by Mr. existing •which make the Ort necesmarks should not be made public, but Herzberg, the members at his re- sary. Through the medium of the Ort, Mr. Schiff, obviously annoyed, said, quest raised $5,000 to meet the imit is now possible to bring into Rus"I want it published. I want the mediate deficit facing the organizasia tools and machinery, free of imwhole world to know the president's tion. William Holzman acted as port duty, so that small cooperative attitude." Mr. Marshall then lauched toastmaster for the evening. into an answer to some of the pres- With the raising of this sum the factories can be opened up by the ident's views. A few days later, Mr. club is now on a firm financial basis, declassed Jews for the purpose of manufacturing commodities which the Schiff in a letter took the president with all debts met. Russian peasants and proletariat so to task for breaking his campaign The annual meeting of the Highpledge. While Taft felt that he was land Country club will be held next sadly lack. The Ort works with the Russian (Continued on page 7) week. government in aiding the destitute Jews, trying to create a class thai will fit in with the economic system Fa-Hon Debaters Purim Dance Will of the Soviet.

$5,000 RAISED AT BANQUET HELD IN HERZBERG'S HONOR

MASS MEETING FOR ORT CALLED FOR THIS MONDAY

Be Held Saturday

On Saturday evening, March 15, 1930, the Jewish Community Center Purim dance will be held. According to Mr. Shanok this may be the last dance of the season and a good sized crowd is expected to make merry at. Hainan's discomfiture. The feature dance of the evening will be a prize waltz. The judges will award a gift to the lady and to the gentlemen winning the decision as the best dancers.

Defeat A. Z. A. No. 1

The Fa-Hoii sorority team, consist- "Center Rush" Is to ing' of the Misses Marion Brookstein Be Giverfon April 9 ana Rose Stein, was judged -winner in a debate with Elmer Shamberg and Sam Fregger of the A. Z. A. "Center Rush" is the unique name Chapter 1 team on the question: for the Center gymnastic festival "Resolved that modern Jewish youth which will be held on Wednesday, is straying from Judaism. This was April 9th at 8:15 p.m. under the one of the semi-final debates spon- auspices of the Athletic Committee, sored by the Senior Council, and the Many surprise features are bein£ judges were Mr. M. F. Levinson, Ir- planned among them drills and exhivin Levine, and J. J. Friedman. bitions by the gum classes, specialty This same winning team was dances, movies, athletic contests, etc. awarded, the cup last year when it It will be a great nite at the Cen•won the final debate in the tourna- ter and the proceeds realized will be ment sponsored by the Senior Coun- utilized for the purchase and repairs cil j of gym equipment.


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