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, FRIDAY, MAECH-18v 1932
Plans Under Way for nsive an P r e l i m i n a r y Arrangements TVlade at Board of Governors Meeting Wednesday Evening
REVISIONISTS DEMAND
Initial plans for a most intensive campaign for funds to meet the budget of the Jewish Philanthropies were formulated at a meeting of the Board of Governors of the Jewish Community Center and Welfare Federation held Wednesday evening at the Community Center and presided over by its president, William L. Hoizman. The drive will begin on Sunday, May 8th. At the. meeting, representatives of1" all local Jewish organizations pledged themselves to undertake the successful handling of this campaign, the third of its kind to be held under the new plan of raising funds" for Jewish activities. President Hoizman was authorized Wednesday to appoint a' special committee -of fifteen to lay concrete plans for the drive and to select a general chairman who will guide the communitywide campaign. . The Jewish Philanthropies embrace all local, national and international
Rothschild Sees Trade Center in Palestine
Revisionists Object Strenuously to Present Anti-Zionist Policy
OF PURIM FALLS ON TUESDAY Celebration of Feast of Lots Starts on Monday Evening
With sundown on Monday, March 21, Jews in every part of the world will commence the celebration of v PHILANTHROPIES DRIVE Purim, the Feast of Lots. The MegilBULLETIN lah is read Monday night, while all A rousing send-off—First meet- Jews observe the festive holiday on ing of Campaign Workers—Wed- Tuesday. nesday evening, JJarch SO, at the Twenty-four centuries ago, HamJewish Community. Center. i, prime minister to Ahasnerns, king of ancient Persia, plotted the Jewish. charities, ""philanthropies, ^or- extermination - of all .Jews resident phanages, and educational activities in the Persian domains. Through m"aWrig>!FfoTinnt appeals •%or": funds for ihe jniiervention of Queen Esther, a •he support of their work. -Jewess, and her cousin, Mordecai, ' Detailed plans and the personnel -whose loyalty to the kingdom was of the various committees will "be. an- known, the evil plot was frustrated. nounced at a later date. Thus, the forces of bigotry and oppression were thwarted, and the day which was to be one of destruction became the occasion of great rejoicing. On' Purim it is customary among the Jewish people for friends and iternational A. Z. A. Sabbath will relatives to exchange gifts (Shalach iserved next Friday evening. Monos), while alms are given to 25, by the two Omaha chap- the needy. 5. Purim restates the belief in the 1 and 100, at the Jewish te rights of minorities to differ. It ity Center. Con. fWezelman of the Mother upholds the belief that the power Ralph Nogg of the Cen- of conviction will ultimately triumph chapt will deliver the main ad- over the forces of prejudice and tury ci ,an Goodbinder of chap- hatred. dresses; The traditional reading of the ;i occupy the pulpit. The ter No. Magillah will be held in all of the services a r , open to the public Similar • religious observances will city's synagogues Monday night, and be sponsored • by A. Z. A. chapters the orthodox synagogues will hold throughout the country, in further- services Tuesday. ance of a five-year old tradition. Conservative Synagogue Supper The order's headquarters, here in At the Conservative Synagogue Omaha, announce that the 156th the festival of Purim will be celechapter was installed yesterday at Al- brated on Monday evening, March lentown, Pa. 21, with special services starting at 6:15 with the reading of the Megillah in the traditional manner. Following these services the women of the auxiliary will serve typical Purim supper at 7 o'clock. The program will include a humorous skit to be presented by Mesdames Sam Goldblatt, Herman Hirschman, William Racusin, David A. Goldstein and Mr. Abner KaiBuenos Aires.—(J. T. Afl)—The manl. Harry Silverman will preCourt of Appeals refused the plea side at the supper. of Jewish parents to compel a CathoRabbi Goldstein will review Maurlic convent to return to their cus- ice Samuel's book, "Jews on Aptody their only child Cecilia Lipetz, proval." All members and their •who was converted to the Catholic families are invited to attend. faith three years ago at the age of Reservations can be made with 15 without their knowledge. Mrs. B. A. Simon and Mrs. Ben The Court of Appeals is the third Glazer. - court which has refused the plea of Temple Entertainment. the parents and based its refusal on A Purim entertainment will be the ground that to compel Cecilia Lipetz to return to her parents would held at Temple- Israel by the chilbe contrary to the Argentine consti- dren of the Sunday school on. Suntution which guarantees liberty of day afternoon, March 27, al 2:30 conscience and freedom of Teligious p. m. A Purim play -will be given under the direction of Miss Bess worship. The case will be taken to the su- Weinstein, open to the public. preme court by the parents, Scholom and Sarah Lipetz, who are being supported in their fight by the B'nai B'rith organization. Miss Lipetz became a convert to Catholicism on'Jan. 1, 1929, through London (J. T. A.).—Lord Roththe persuasions of a .neighbor and schild has received the sum of £100,without the knowledge of her par- 000 for the sale of part of his bird ents. A year ago she ran away from Collection to the Natural Museum of home, declaring that her parents New York. abuse her and refuse her to jjenait The collection.was gathered over a her to observe the Catholic religion. period of forty-two years, by expediShe was then placed in a!Catholic tions in all parts of the world. convent by the Catholic Youth Lord Rothschild. was compelled by Guardian Society. circumstances to sell his cherished The Court': of Appeal^ while ^re- collection- The money received, howfusing the, parents the !cukodyl -of ever, will aid him in maintaining the their' daughter granted them permis- remainder, which consist's of mamsion to visit her. mals, butterflies and insects.
.INTERMHOMALA.IA. SABBATH HEXT FRIDAY
COURT REFUSES TO FORCE CONVERT TO RETURN JEWESS
Rothschild Gets Huge Amount for Collection
Paris—(J. T. A.)—Palestine will become the trade center for entire Asia, Baron Edmond de Rothschild stated as his belief in an interview with H. Farbstein, member of the Jewish Agency Executive. Commerce and industry are just as important for Palestine as agriculture,7 Baron de Rothschild stated, expressing the belief that Palestine 'must* first" produce all that is required for local "consumption. Baron de Eothschild also stated his satisfaction with the efforts of the Mizrachi to establish a middle class colonization.' ' "
TOOL SWATH M E D TONIGHT
Geneva—(J. T. A.)—The Revision- ist organization has issued a states ment to the foreign press, calling upon Great Britain to give tip her mandate in Palestine, if she is planning to continue her present policy, which Temple Israel and Conservative i3 termed as anti-Zionist. Synagogue to Hold Special "The statement, presented by A. Services Soskin, political representative, of the Revisionists, resident in Geneva Council Sabbath, sponsored by the quotes from a declaration made in the House of Lords by Lord Devonshire various chapters -of the Council of in 1923, who said that if Britain in- Jewish women throughout the countends to dispense with certain por- try, will be observed locally tonight tions of the Mandate^ she will have at 8 p. m. simultaneously at both to retire altogether as the mandatory. Temple Israel and the Conservative " The statement enumerates the Synagogue. At -the Temple the services will grievances against Britain and refers to the stopping of immigration, inade- be opened with the reading of a quate security in Palestine and the prayer by .Mrs; M. L. Conn. Eabbi difficulties in land purchase by Jews Frederick Cohn •will Tead the service, " The declaration further explains and Mrs. Herbert Arnstein, presithat after the warning issued by the dent of the local chapter, will give Revisionist organization in 1930, the the introductory remarks. Mrs. latter body is now compelled to bring Julius Newman •will deliver the adthe charges of the-Jews against the dress, . "The Council Woman as a Mrs. mandatory before the whole world, Conservator of Judaism." notwithstanding that the Revisionist David E. Cohen, will give the closing Party in the past has been foremost prayer. There will be special .music in upholding the confidence in-Great and vocal, solos win be rendered by Miss Fannie Hart and Miss Eina Britain. , . Snyder.. . .. , At the Conservative Synagogue Mrs. E. A. Meyer,-'ficd Mrs. A. D. Mrs. Hi Kaufman, ^aged 61, passed Frank will take part in the observaway Tuesday. Funeral services were ance. Mrs. David A. Goldstein will held Wednesday afternoon, with bur- deliver the address, "The Jewish Women in the American Scene." ial in Golden Hill cemetery. She is survived by two daughters, Rabbi Goldstein will conduct the Mrs. Joseph White and Mrs. Ethel services and will speak on "What Does It Mean to Be a Jew and to Haspel, both of Omaha. Mrs. had been a resident live Jewishly?" of. Omaha for the past 25 years. Albany. — Governor Franklin D. Mexico City.—A newspaper -cam Koosevelt named Samuel L Eosenman, paign against the Jews was opened his counsel as justice of the State Suhere by all the leading newspapers. preme Court.
Mrs.-. Kaufman Dies
CONFERENCE ON BATHE AGAINST BIGOTRY Washington, D. C.—Over 500 outstanding Catholics, Protestants and Jews from every part of the country assembled here - last week for an American "Geneva for religious cooperation," a three day conference on religious prejudices and ways to ally them. : Newton D. Baker, Prof. -Carlton, J. H. Hayes and Roger W. Straus were co-chairmen of tiie meeting which was held under the auspices of the National Conference of Jews and Christians. Among the Jewish leaders taking part in the discussions were Rabbi Abram Simon, of the "Washington Hebre^S* congregation; Dr. Cyrus Adler, of the American Jewish committee; Alfred M. Cohen of B'nai Brith; Rabbi Barnett R. Brickner, of the Cleveland Euclid Avenue Temple, and Rabbi Louis Mann of Chicago. "Prejudice is in the laboratory of pitiless dissection," Rabbi Simon said. "We propose at this conference to drag into the open our prejudices and misrepresentations. In that way only shall we be able to sweep away the errors and lay new foundations for an edifice of fratenal relations among people of opposite sects and faiths." "We are witnessing a period of bi•gTrtry and liberalism which might have been pardoned in the dark ages but which passes understanding at the present day," Dr. Cyrus Adler stated. "Within the past two or three weeks even I have found shocking examples of liberalism on the part of people who are in a position where one might expect that they would be disciples of Washington instead of Hitler. "I am sure it is known to itiy hearers of the Christian faith that there are also misunderstanding's and evidences of bigotry between irrern~bers of one church and another. To all those we must p-at an end. "It behooves us to engage in something more than lip service to the memory of Washington and to give adhesion not only in thought but in very deed to thosf splendid words, 'It is now no more that toleration is spoken of as if it were by the indulgence of one class of people that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural rights'."
Picturing Sylvia Sidney, ^ Jewish Beauty Jewish. Star Rises to Great Brilliance in Cinema Diadem ~ By HILDA EASSELL. •A five-foot bundle* of exquisite simplicity, Sylvia Sidney typifies the modem Jewish beauty—slight -of figjet ure with undulating curves violet-blue eyes, black hair . luminous with intelligence—she epitomizes that which is representative of the modern Jewish girl—beauty with brains. Five or six years ago she was gallavanting with the children in the Theatre . Guild School. Now, hardly out of her teens, she occupies dressing " room No. 1 at Paramount Studios, previously tenanted by such stars as Clara Bow and Gloria Swanson. It was to replace Clara Bow in "City Streets" that gave Sylvia Sidney her first big chance in the cinema. The rest—"Confessions of a Co-ed," <'An American . Tragedy," "Xadies of the Big House"—is movie history. Not for all the psuedo glamor of publicity possibilities will Sylvia Sidney budge one inch from the true history of her early life. I t is her story and she sticks to it. Born in a Bronx flat in New York, she will even point out. to you the very house, if you are interested. Her father, Dr. Sigmund Sidney, a New York dentist, is of Roumanian stock, and her mother, of Russian descent, is considered the youngest looking mother in - Hollywood. -To the parents of Sylvia goes all the credit for intelligent application in educating and the bringing .up -of their talented daughter. A student at the Ethical Culture School,
she tired of it and left it at the age of 12 to study in* the School of the Theatre. By the time she was 15 years old, at a performance of "Prunella," given by the Theatre Guild School, other children's doting parents and fond relatives grudgingly conceded that the honors for the performance must go to Prunella—identified on the program as someone^ named Sylvia Sidney. • Since then she has appeared on the legitimate stage in* such diverse plays as "Crime" (under the Al Woods' banner), "Gods pf Lightning," "Nice Women," and "Bad Girl." She was offered the leading role in William Brady's production of "Street Scene," which she turned down to fulfill a motion picture con'tract with Fox Films. • Her career on the stage, -though brief, was marked by one triumphant achievement after another. Aside from the superlatives showered upon the new ingenue by the local critics, George Jean Nathan has been known to break all precedents by remaining for the third act, and Alexander Woollcott referred to her as "a miniature Cornell." If to young hopefuls and wouldbe Sylvia Sidneys these superficial references . to her career might imply that Sylvia Sidney's path to glory and fame was paved with golden bricks on which she had only to trip gayly along, it is merely because some of us are wont to overlook; the iiardsMps as ; well '.a's • the spiritual and. sometimes even' jphyslcal difficulties an artist' so often suffers. In Sylvaia Sidney's case,
the glamor of her success cannot blind us to the fact that even if luck did plaj a major role in making her a star, perserverance, hard work and indomitable courage were in the supporting cast, too, to say nothing of beauty and brains playing feature roles. With the overwhelming adulations for her performance in "Prunella" still ringing in her ears, she hiked downtown from the Bronx to Broadway. After treking for months along 'the Great White Way, with only the cheerfulness of youth to encourage her, fate yielded her . a minor role in "The Challenge of Yotith." On the second night of the try-oat, she fainted in the middle of the first act and was ordered to undergo an immediate operation for appendicitis. She refused, rose to her feet, finished the show, and continued- to appear throughout the week when the play closed its 'run. She has rare. courage, indeed. This was not the only occurrence displayed the girl's commendable fortitude and proved her nettle. A similar incident repeated itself s, short while ago when she was appearing in 'That Old Fashioned Girl." Coming1 down the winding stairs from- her dressing room, she slipped and fractured a small bone in her ariMe. But that did not prevent i e r from completing the ran of the play with her foot in a cast. It was only after Paramount had inveigled her .with an attractive part in ."City Streets" that she was per(Continued on Page Two.)
Aid to Russian Jews By Orders on Stores New York (J. T. A.).—American relatives of Jews in the Soviet Republic are urged to send them their help by forwarding orders on the official stores of the Soviet government or by sending them packages of clothing arid other merchandise rather than forwarding American Noted Authority- to Close Forum • Series at Jewish Commun-. dollars, in a report issued by a speiij Center cial committee of the American Jewish Congress, which has been investi"Russia and the World" will be disgating the wholesale arrests which, it is alleged, are being made by the cussed by Maurice Hindus, noted au* Gepeu, in order to obtain ransoms in thority and author on conditions ia the Soviet, at the Jewish. Community foreign currency.' Center next Thursday evening, March 24, climaxing1 the lecture series of the Community Forum. Dr. Sergius Morg-ulis, professor of biochemistry and chairman of the department at the University of Nebraska College of Medicine, will introduce the speaker. Dr. Morgulis is a native Russian, as is Hindus. Dr. E. Holovitchner and other mem* bers of the Eussian colony in Omaha expecting to be present in a *Trotection Certificate" Cost are group for the lecture. Mrs. Herbert Jewish Woman 5,000 Arnstein, member of Mu Sigma, oldMarks est study club in the city and one which made Russia its subject for Berlin—(J. T. A.)—Nazi head- discussion this winter, has arranged <juarters for monetary considerations for Mu Sigma members to attend in Issue certificates . to .Jews granting a body. Gther local clubs and study them assurance that they will not groups have also indicated that they be molested by Hitlerites, it was re- intend to attend. vealed by the "Welt-am-Abend." Hindus is the author of "Red The paper reproduces a facsimile Bread," "Humanity Uprooted," and of such a certificate issued to a other best-sellers on Russia. He reJewish woman in Gert, Unterwester- cently returned from a seven months wald, and signed by the local chair- tour of Russia and will be in a poman of the Nazi party and two sition to give the latest information, persons representing the Nazi dis- on the progress of the five-year plan trict Executive of • Unterwesterwald. and Russia's various experiments. The certificate further carried the Religion, private prcf.arty, the modofficial Nazi stamp, the swastika and ern family and western standards <>f the eagle sign. The text of the cer- sex morality are taboo in the new tificate read: **I request, in the regime, and Hindus will relate how1 event of disturbances, tiiat no dif- the Russians seek to rid themselves ficulties be caused Frau Lyubow pf these institutions, and what they Bade,- a Finnish citizen, and her offer in their stead. son, aged 4. Furthermore I request Single admission tickets may b* you to assist her because during her obtained at the Community Center efstay here, she supported the local fice or from Mrs. J. H. IMalSofakt; group which, is in financial difficul- chairman of the education committed ties." • of the Council of Jewish Womeit, Frau Bade paid 5,000 marks to •which, with the Center, sponsors thft the Nazi fund in order to secure her Community Forum. Herman Auer"certificate of safety," the "Welf- bach is chairman of the Forum. aEi-Abend" states. The paper says "that she approached the local Nazi group and offered them 3,000 marks to secure protection after she had been molested on several occasions during the summer when she came to Mrs. Fannie Fish Jacobson, 24, ©I Gert for the sake of her health. The local chairman took up the 2940 Woolworth Ave., accomplished matter with his district Executive, violinist, died Sunday of complicaand after imposing an additions! fee tions that followed a rare throat disof 2,000 marks, issued the certifi- ease, She seemed on the road to recovery but succumbed after an unexcate. pected relapse. Upon her rettsm to Berlin, Frau Funeral <services were held Monday Bade revealed the story. "Only poor Jews need fear the Nazis, the weal- afternoon at the Chesed Shel Ernes, thy have no reason to fear danger with burial in Golden Hill cemetery. She is survived by her husbandt from the Nazis," is the concluding comment of the ';Welt-arn-Abend." Paul; her father, Sam Fish; a sister, Goldie, all of Omaha, and a brother, Harry Fish of Los Angeles. Prior to her marriage, Mrs. Jacobson had played three > seasons of vaudeville, being acclaimed for her violin playing.
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Warsaw.—(J. T. A.)—A change in tne present status of the students in Polish universities was foreshadowed by the Minister of Education, J. Jedrzejewicz, in the course of the Sejm budget debate. The Minister denied, however, that the government, was preparing' to abolish, the autonomy of the universities. He pointed out, however, that the students themselves are •undermining the autonomy,. asserting that the expulsion of students by their own colleagues, and the marching through, the streets, of students armed with sticks, destroys academic liberty. Subsequent resolutions for reform is therefore essential. The interest of political circles is concentrated in the possibility that tht Minister will announce a measure making it feasible for the police to intervene in the event of disorders within the University grounds. Anti-Semitic adventures resulted in the easy submission of the influence of political parties, the Minister of Education stated. The recent antiSemitic events, he averred, prove that, the .professors are not in a position to maintain order and that autonomy and liberty, in view of these facts., sound utterly ridiculous, the Minister asserted,
Aid in Many Jewish men are participating in the Ak-Sar-Ben campaign for s membership roster of five thousand Om&hans. The campaign organization, headed by J. N. Shsnnahan, consists «f twelve teams,
EJEWS Cincinnati—(J. T. A.)—Facing tinction through intermarriage, milatipn and imminent collapse of their Jewish institutions, a group of Jewish residents of Sao Paulo, Brazil, hsve petitioned B'nai Brith headQ'aarters for a charter to found * lodge, it was revealed here. If thw charter is granted, it will be B'nai Brith's first lodge in Brazil, its second in South America, and the extension of the Order to £7 countries throughout the world. Jewish immigration to Brazil which began 40 years ago, has recently come to an end, it is pointed out in the petition. The country is overwhelmingly Catholic, and during the past three or four decades many Jews have been converted to that faith. Present-day Jewish youth is indifferent to Judaism, for the Jewish institutions receive little support, and there is only one small school. The group of Sao Paulo Jewish leaders who have petitioned B'nai Brith for a charter attribute the present Jewish situation in'their city to the fact that the Jewish Community there has lost its contact with Europe, and spiritually 1ms no connection with Jewish thought except for a very formal adherence of a few •members of the older generation to the traditional Jewish ritual. The different elements in the Jewish community ersi not unified, %