In the Interests of iher Jewish People 1
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Dedicated to the Ideals of Jviddism
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Head of Committee for Lapidus Memorial
ATHEISTS LAUNCH CAMPAIGN AGAINST! PASSOVER HOLIDAY
OMAHA: NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, MARCH 25, 1932
Vol. X—No. 8
Country \ CENTURY CHAPTER SixOldHundred-Year WAUCHOPE SIGNS Highland PROGRESS ON Synagogue Is Club Lays Plans for Coining Year A. Z. A. DEBATERS Discovered Intact NEWEST DRASTIC PHILANTHROPIES LAND ORDINANCE WIN TOURNAMENT
Vienna.—(J. T. A.)—An ancient ij Beber is chairman of the subNearly one hundred enthusiastic synagogue built six centuries ago, in which will work out premembers attended a rousing stag the time of the first expulsion of the y plans for the permanent meparty of the Highland Country Club Jews from Austria in 1302, has just to the memory of Harry LapiTuesday evening at the Omaha Battle Matzoth Drive in Russia dus, according to announcement made Local Center to Meet St. Louis been discovered by the Jewish Ex- Bill Opposed by Jews Because of held Athletic Club. Quasi Judicial on April as Hindering Soviet plorer Leopold Moses, in Korneuburg, by Dr. A. Greenberg, general chairA full program was interspersed Prominent Speaker Will Open Powers 10th a small, town bordering on the Danman of the committee representing Work with short talks by John Hopkins, Drive May 8 at Public ube river. all of the local Jewish organizations. Henry Rosenthal, Rabbi Frederick Function Jerusalem.—(J. T. A.)—The drastic The Stalmaster trophy for debatMoscow.—(J. T. A.) — A militant The synagogue was subsequently The other members of the commitConn and Fred White. Favorable reanti-Passover campaign which will tee include David Blacker, secretary; ing was won by the A. Z. A. No. presented to - the municipality by land ordinance which gives vast ad- ports for the past year were given, The machinery for the third ancontinue until the end of April was Mrs. H. Arnstein, Max Barish, Harry 100 in the final debate held last Kaiser Frederick -and has never "since \ ministrative powers to district Com- showing that the physical facilities of nual Jewish Philanthropies campaign missioners in land disputes has been announced here by the Atheists. Pworsky, Abe Herzberg, William L. Thursday evening, March 17, at an returned to Jewish possession. the organization are the best in its has been set in motion, with prelimThe campaign has a dual,goal; first Holzman, Philip Klutznick, J. H. open meeting of the B'nai B'rith It is now owned, by a non-Jewish signed by the High Commissioner of history. inary arrangements for the mammoth to counteract-the matzoth campaign Kulakofsky, Mrs. M. F. Levenson, Lodge. Chemist, who uses it as a storage Palestine. A membership campaign has been of observing Jews, "which is charged Harry Malashock, J. J. Greenberg, The A. Z. A. No. 100 was repre- house. The synagogue building has I Jewish circles here have been criti- inaugurated, with Manning Handler drive disposed of at a meeting of the •with hindering; the Soviet upbuilding Harry Marcus, Goodman Meyerson, sented by William Wolfe and Ralph been the property of the latter's fam- • cal of the draft of the measure which as chairman, assisted by Dave Feder Special Committee on Planning, held enterprises, and second, to recruit Morris Minkin, I, Morgenstern, Henry Nogg, hwo debated the affirmative ily for the last two centuries, j became available last December, and and A! Mayer. First returns promise Wednesday evening at the Jewish Community Center. thousands of. new members for the Monsky, Mrs. L. Neveleff, Sam Ra- side of the question: "Resolved: That Until recently it was|surrounded by i opposed the measure because it con- a new membership record. The campaigrn will open on Sunday fers quasi judicial functions on admilitant atheist brigades. — ,•' vitz, David Rosenstock, Max Selicow, the Jewish Religion L> No Longer an iron rod fence whi^h disappeared j Prospects for the coming season evening, May S, with a Iarg-e public ministrative officials; favors the posThe necessity for an intensification Dr. Philip Sher, Harry A. Wolf, Joe a Vital Force in the Lives of the one nig-ht and was never recovered one night and w s er cove are said to bp bright for a banner function, to which a prominent guest of the anti-religious-work' is also em- L. Wolf, N. S. Yaffe and H. B. Zim- Younger Generation." Hyman Good- With the exception of ihe fence, the j sessor of the land against the owner J speaker will be invited. The entire a n c ! nomadic population against j year. phasized by the "Emes.": The paper man. * binder and Arthur Lipp, represent- entire synagogue Istruction redetailed plan for the organization *f oth an outer t h e settled population. i deplores the statement made by Peter The plans decided upon by this sub- ing the Xi Lambda fraternity de- mains intact. It the drive will be worked out by n<ixt Smidowitch, vice-president of the XJ.\ committee will be submitted to the fended the negative. bps leading toj Lnder the new ordinance, District j and an inns r wall. Wednesday evening, when a meeting JS, S...&, to the; effect that once syna- general committee for final action. the women's partition|as well as to j Commissioners may summon parties The final debate was the culminaof the Board of Governors and camto a dispute to appear before them V,gogqfes are converted into club houses tion of a series sponsored by the small windows are retained as during and to present written statements paign workers will be held at the a&ti-refigious work becomes less imthe Middle Ages. Senior Council of Clubs of the J. C. Community Center. concerning their claims. After readportant. : . In the municipal tower are preC This was the first successful AH Jewish organizations will join ebrec^ e t that of aan- jj the statements, the District Comthe H Hebrew; tefct ^The "Ernes" recalls with horror debating tournament held at the Cen- served the in putting the campaign over, as the cient Torah Scrolls Written on parchmissioners are empowered to quesj _ , . . . that the chairman of the-Jewish Colter in recent years. It was also raant and manuscripts which have t i o n t h e defendants and plaintiffs, in' Philadelphia. — (J. T. A.) — By beneficiaries of the drive embrace lective, Freidorf, invited the local rabrip the second successful activity spons- raant and dm ai n cChi b J an effort to discover who was in act ' u n a n i n l ous resolution adopted at the every local, national and international bi to attend a meeting where the rabeffort to discover who was in act- session of the Administrative Comored by the Council this year. The been included in Christian texts by J uan al bi preached on Israel's brotherhood. of the land at the time mittee and the National Committee of Council has been successful in the monks who saved. the'se manuscripts | the possession dispute first occurred. Moscow.—(J. T. A.)—The reason past few months in establishing Tom destruction. This it comments, proves the urgent Zionist Organization of America, PHILANTHROPIES Should the District Commissioner the need for continuing the anti-religious for the recent change in the personnel itself in the club work at the Centhe World Zionist Organization and discover that either party was forciDRIVE BULLETIN of the Comzet, governmental depart- ter. Julius Bisnc is president of propaganda. the Jewish Agency were called upon bly dispossessed two months before Board of Governors and camment for settling Jews on the land The plan outlined for the anti-Passenter into negotiations with the j the Council. the dispute occurred, he may regard to paign workers will meet next Wedover campaign calls for scores of and in industry, is explained in the British Government with the view to j Judge Irvin Stalms.ster has stimuthe dispossessed party as the posses- establish a more definite relationship j nesday evening, March 30, at the atheist brigades for which . workers report of the investigating, commit- lated interest and competition among sor. The possessor may then occupy between and students are to be recruited from tee into the work of the Comzet, now the clubs by offering a trophy to the Mandatory Power and Jewish Community Canter. The the disputed territory until he is orpublished, and the basis on which the the towns, to be sent to the colonies. the Jewish people, especially as it af- meeting is vital to the organizathe club winning in the tournament. dered evicted by law. fects immigration and the acquisition tion of the Philanthropies. The atheist brigades are to be armed charges were made. No appeal will be permitted against of land in Palestine, in fulfillment of The men in charge of the work are The trophy will become the possesJudge Sophus " Neble will address with thousands of slogans, anti-relision of the ciub winning it three an open meetiag^of ifhe Omaha He- the decisions of the District Com- the Balfour Declaration, the Pales- Jewish charities, philanthropies, orgious leaflets, brochures and news- accused in the report of having con- times. phanages, and educational activities ducted it without any plan or system. brew Club at the-J. C. C. Sunday missioner. tine Mandate and Premier MacDon- making annual appeals for funds for papers. No one was responsible for anything, St. Louis Debate afternoon, March -27, at 4 p. m. on ald's letter to Dr. Weizmann. the support of their work. it says. Things were done without The debating season at the Center 'Unlawful Law -Enforcement." Judge The resolution was adopted followThe Committee on Special Plan-, any sort of control, with the result will close with the debate between Neble has had the "opportunity to ing an address by Rabbi Stephen S. ning for ' the campaign include Wilthat - the plans laid down were not representative tearns of the J. C. C. view local enforcement as he has Wise who expressed the thought that liam L. Holzman, Mrs. H. Arnstein, carried into effect. According to the in Omaha and the Y. M. H. A. of S t been on the .municipal bench for a the time had come for a better underplan given to the Comzet, there Louis on Sunday evening, April 10. good many years. . . - . Madrid.—(J. T. A.>—The spurious i standing of the relationship between Max Barish, Sam Beber, Max Crounse, Harry Dworsky, Dr. A. Greenberg, J. should have been about 12,000 trans- The Omaha team will consist of BUI In addition to this address, an Protocols of the Elders of Zion will Great Britain and the Jewish people. J. Greeaberg, Philip Klutznick, J. H» migrant families in the Crimea by Wolfe and Joe Solomonow. be published here in a Spanish transIaborate program", has been ar"World Jewry is sick and tired of KulakofeScy, M. F. Levenson, Irvin January 1st. Actually only 9,000 The Omaha-St. Louis debate will ranged. The Hazomir Singing So- lation by the "Daily Critireo," the letters and negotiations with under- Levin, Harry Malashock, Harry'Marfamilies migrated and more than 5,- decide the championship in the Mid- ciety will render "several "old-time" paper announced. lings. The time has come when 000' of them • went back to their old western Debating league. Omaha favorites. Dn L Datosky will give This is the first translation of the world Jewry must deal directly with cus, Jack Marer, Goodman Meyerson, Prague—(J. TV Al)-^-Politically the homes, meaning that the. plan was won the debate from St. Louis last some choice Yiddisfcr readings from Protocols to be issued in Spanish ajid the British government" once-and for Morris Minkin, Henry Monsky. Mrs. 380,000 "Jews of Czjecho-Slovakia are only S3 per cent effective. is causing some concern to the Jewish all to ascertain to what extent Great L. Neveleff, Mrs. Philip Sehwarti;4Jr. November held in St. Louis in which Sholem-Aleichemv -W one of the most fortunate gtoups in population which is anxious to pre- Britain truly means to facilitate *he P. Sher, Harry Silvern\an, Irvin StalIn "Bira "Bidjan there should have BearJLazjolowsky "and Ephraim Marks 1 master and H. A. Wolf. ^ ,»s*_ A string -qtt*rt»t* with Leona rd Eastern / E ~ '— %een" I^«0ff Jewisn rtransmigrarits-byvent an increase in anti-Semitic propCzechs January 1st. Actually only 7,730 peo- represented the Omaha Jewish Com- Korney as first violin, • Jose Masters aganda which has been making itself up-building of Palestine as the naJ equaRl»61I ., tional homeland of the Jewish peomunity Center. second violin, Milford Skow viola, evident recently. Slovakian ' citizens.* citizens. Moreover,, the ple migrated, and only about 5,000 ple," Rabbi Wise declared. and Irving Chodacoff cello, will also government - is now considering a have remained there, meaning that The resolution which was presented be on the program. There will also project woHld-,sive- citizenthe plan has been only 43 per cent project whichh by Abraham Tulin, chairman of the r ship opportunities (to'• the ipO0' pR be a performance by a mystery duet ship opportunities (to'• the i p O p effective. resolutions committee, was characterof the Psi Mu. 1,500 ' Jewish' Staaf^nlose " "in"v the . According to other reports, the ized by Jacob De Haas, chairman of President Irvin Levin announces country. A mjeasure has-BeenR "inumber of settlers who "have left Bira the session, as one of the most imthat this meeting is open to the troduced in' Parliament '-which w iJidjan and gone back to their homes portant resolutions adopted in the hismembership and their families and grant-automatic- citizenship ta^thgse, is much larger. tory of the American Zionist organiMoscow (J. T. A.).—The villages friends. who have been resident in t h e counof Soviet Russia are unexhaustThe Hazomir Singing Society will zations. try for 20~yeaTs, and right to citiGeneva.—(J. T. A.)—The question More than one hundred delegates ed reserves for recruiting new Jewish present a concert of Jewish music zenship to those who have lived in immigrants for settlement in BiraSunday evening, April 3. This is the from various parts of the country at- of the culmination of the British ManCzecho-Slovakia for a continuous date in Iraq, which was discussed at Bidjan and Crimea, Boris Trotski second public concert under the au- tended the sessions. five-year period. ; the last session of the League new director of the Comzet, governspices of the Jewish Community CenThe economic situation of. the of Nations unquestionably merits pubmental department for settling Jews ter. Social entertainment mixed with Jerusalem.—JJ. T. A.)—A new imr on the land and in industry, told the Jews • is not, however, very good, lic interest and in particular that of Lovers of Jewish music will have business is on the program fox a dinparticularly . in the villages and migration' category for' middle class new praesidium of the Comzet. the Jew*. The fate of Palestine is an opportunity to hear an unusual small towns-of the Eastern provin- settlers seeking admission to Palesner stag' being planned by the B'nai very closely interlinked with the fate Mr. Trotski, an agronomist, replac Brith lodge for the meeting on Thurs- program of Jewish folk and tradices, Sloyakia and Carpatho-Russia, tine, was announced by the Palestine of the mandate system in general. tional music, in which the Hazomir ing A. Merezhln who resigned last where approximately 100,900 Jews government. : day evening, April 14, at the J. C. C. . -. ... Iraq, like Palestine, is one of the soWarsaw.—(J. T. A.) — The Polish Society has made notable progress in month' after considerable criticism, reside. At the close of the dinner the busi, The nsw category would admit faris accused by the Jewish, called "A". Mandates,, and is, mores | mersy. marchanta • and"> industrialists, stated that it is a virtual certainty ness of the lodge will be transacted. recent months. The choir has been government The general ... economic press of employing a numerous clau- over, an Arabic country and PaleSconsiderably enlarged and will be repthat 14,000 new Jewish settlers wil a program presented, and then bridge coupled with the acute agrarian sit- provided' thejr can show a capital of sus against the starving Jewish pop-,j tine's closest Eastern neighbor. resented on April S by over forty \. be secured from Bira- Bidjan and will follow. uation is forcing the Jews out of five hundred pounds sterling. ulace. \ Two years ago Great Britain made voices and orchestra under the directhirteen hundred for Crimea. the villages into the city. In addi- ' This new category in no way' afThe papers cite figures to show j known to the League its intention of tion of Cantor A. Schwaczkin. The recruiting of immigrants from tion ;_the Czech and Slovakian co- fects the existing classification which A new program is being prepared that despite the fact that the Jews I concluding its mandate *>ver Iraq in operatives with, their national ele- requires a capital of a thousand the villages represents a departure for this concert in addition to solos constitute 33 1-3 per cent of the popu- j 1932 and suggested that Iraq be iadments are responsible for depriving pounds, before admitting middle class from the policy of last year when im lation of Warsaw, they are getting j mitted to the League as ^1 member at and musical numbers. many Jews of means of livelihood. prospective settlers to enter the coup- migrants weje drawn from the towns less than 5 per cent of their propor- j that time. It can safely be forecast 115,006 immigrants The mp This is causing a constant stream try, the communication "makes clear. tionate share in free meals to the j that > there will be no delay in the fTrotski said of Jewish migration from the vilpoor and a little more than C per cent j admission of Iraq to the League ill' o: ;owns. In • the towns, j ^ -t,,.* _ T J , ^ - , _ . T»lr,nnak] ^P 1 *^ ! &N !#$!#*;^Organization organization of lages to the toWns. of the financial aid to which they are i 193 moreover, the position of the Jews! l r i D U t e JtSemg J r i a n n e u immi^fipifihrMthese regions was Iraq's admission to the League ivfill U ? entitled. is far' from. being enviable.- Thei f O r J u l i u s R O S e n W a l t l I ^ ^ ^ ''' "The Warsaw relief committee ap- unquestionably have an important Fifty • percent of the prospectiv Jews feel the» crisis doubly, since Berne.—(J. T. A.)—An interpellacrisis rionblv. since I " 1 settlers Fifty • for aercent of -the nroSDective pointed by the government, the pa- bearing upon the conduct of affairs the two Jewish region; they have dual" obligations as Jews tion in the Swiss Parliament calling pers assert, supplies 22,000 free meals in Arab countries and upon conditions New York (J. T. A.).—American "wijl; be drawn from -White Russia, and and as citizens. • • for the prohibition of the existence of daily to Christian poor, while the in neighboring countries of the Near Jewry wfll pay its tribute to the mein The Jewish community is suffer- ory of the late Julius Roseriwald jit: ;the *remalpd«r from Ukraine, he staNationalist Socialist jrrouDS in Swit- j poor receive but 1,000 free j East. ing a dearth of funds for social un- the annual meeting of the National ted. ? ' zerland was refused by the governAlready it has led to the announcemeals. dertakings such as hospitals, social Council of the American Jewish Joipt ment. : ment of France's intention of con» relief, for which the government Distribution Committee which will The explanation was made that the eluding its mandate over Syrial' subventions are very small. .The be held in New York on Sunday, Nazi groups .could be declared illegal France is negotiating with Syrian government "subsidy is less than 10 March 27. only in the event that they wera y' . : ileaders for the safeguarding of hsr per cent of. the \sum which the Jew- \ This' meeting; •will bring together guilty of disturbing peace or espioninterests when the mandate shall have ish community must expend "for*its leaders; in communal and:Jewish leaUage. been concluded. ^rr•-'' f4i) r r Twenty-one needs. -In * Bratislava alone the an- ers..'representing , Conservative, Re- • .--7—• London.—(J. T. A.)—A new comShould Iraq and Syria become innual budget for Jewish needs is ap-. form, and Orthodox religious groups, Jehv^ih icolonnes'of ^Quatro Irmaos who mission to inquire into the extent of i dependent countries, Palestine will reproximately? €,000,000 - Czech kronen ynYL tell of Mr. Rosenwald's work in participated in the Exhibition organthe state lands in Palestine available main the only "A" Mandate territory. whereas the government* approprir behalf of-the-Jews in many lends. ized'!>>•: jt^"e iGdvf*timent: oi'fort Mefor Jewish settlement will be ap- True, juridicially the Palestine Manation , for Jewish .needs throughout The Rosenwald^tribute will be broad-' gro,HhaHi Teceiyfeck- » ^number'; •; oi pointed at an early date in accord-1 " " * ' .J-""'"*"* from the the country is - less than . 1,000,000 cast over a nation-wide network of awards? redwing ifor - their-products. Bratislava.—(J. T. A.)—Hundreds ance with the declaration made b y j d a t e 1S e n t i r e l J r The governnient commissions express kronen.' Generally speaking •'.' the the National Bipadcaisting Company other mandates and requires special of Jewish students from Poland and Premier MacDonald to Dr. Weizmann, Jews are treated like step-rchildren through, station ' WJZ at twelve fcd by aj Bpepjal :award their satisfac administration. There is no question, Roumania who until now have studied February, 1931, it was announced by tion wilh-thfee of these colonists, whe in the governmental appropriations o'clock. at Bratislava and Prague Universi- Sir Robert Hamilton, under-Secretary however, that the Arab nationalists have -each been given an agricultural for education and social welfare and of Palestine will make political capties are compelled to seek matricula- for Colonies. . machine, says a report from Brazf the Jewish representatives will be ital of the imminent independence of tion in other, countries because of the received at the lea head office here. compelled to institute an intensive Syria and Iraq. One should not exHyman Goodbinder intensified anti-Semitic atmosphere. . effort to secure larger subsidies aggerate the importance of this arThe Czecho Slovakian students : The. two Omaha chapters of A. Z. from the government. gument, but it must be conceded that A. will jointly observe the fifth an- have recently displayed an unbridled the prospect of remaining the single hatred of their Jewish colleagues nual international A. Z. A. Sabbath, X A U ^ - l ^ «> T_-__ •_ J Jerusalem.—(J. T. A.)—Students mandated territory in the Near East by participating in the services at which on several occasions crystaldoes definitely create a political atfrom America and other countries ized into attacks. • Charkov.—(J. T. A.)—The number London (J. T. A,).—The Britisft the J. C. C. tonight. . mosphere for Palestine which is not desiring to matriculate at the Hebrew of Jewish workers in the co-called Hyman Goodbinder, president of University, will be admitted to Pales- force in Palestine consists of 3,50( heavy industries in the Ukraine is inviting. tine outside the quota, it was an- persons, according to a statemeni the Missouri Valley Alepha Associa- Blood Libel Released 10,00 Jews are employed. made in Parliament by Sir Philip Sas tion and vice president of the mother Mexico City.—(J. T. A.) — Attacks nounced here. . Bratislava. — The Velkaberezna In the three largest industries in soon, Under-Secretary of Air. chapter, will conduct the services. the Jews which have been ap-l _Upon . . , ,. . . The action of the Palestine governo Court quashed the case against two Charkov, tractors, electrical mechanOf this number, 1,340 belong .to thi Rabbi David Goldstein will deliver pearmg m leading newspapers for thei ment is in response to the request of Jews, Steinberger and lieberman, unpast fortnight have practically ceased j ths Hebrew University Administra- army; 610 to the air force, and' 951 the main sermon on "Some Essential der arrest for months on charges of ization and locomotive- construction, to the Transjordan frontier force. showing a steady increase. Elements in Judaism." owing to a truce arranged by repre- tion. having attempted to draw the blood sentatives of the Jewish Chamber of Bonds for a period of three years Ralph Nogg, presif'snt of the Sam of two Christian children in Novisam"The Casting of Lots," a Purim -Commerce and industry and of the which the Hebrew University was Brandeis Quarter Beber chapter, and Erwin Wazelman, era, a small town in Carpatho-Russia, Against Immigration Bars play will feature the annual Purim Mexican Federation of Labor. formerly required tOjgive.will.be re- Enlarged president of the Mother Chapter, for ritual purposes. London.—The removal of the bars entertainment of the Temple Israel The press has. been agitating duced to* a minimum rate of 4 pounds Jerusalem.—The Workmen's quar- will both give short talks on the The case has been pending for some to Jewish immigration into Palestine Sunday School at the Temple Sunday against the Jews on the ground that for one year: '."• ter at Hedera, named after Justice work of A. Z. A. The public is in- time and efforts to secure the xelease and the artificial barriers against afternoon at 2:30 p. m. The play will Jews are replacing Mexicans in cerLouis D. Brandeis, will be enlarged as vited. of the defendants were made on num- land purchase by Jews, was demanded be under the direction of Misss Best : tain fields of work,, and thatt wages Kovnb.—*For 'the first time since a result of the allocation of 450 du w g e s in in Similar observances are being held erous occasions when the evidence by John Buchan, chairman of the Weinstein. Jewish the war, Lithuanian Jewry has issued nams of Wadi Hawareth land for this tonight by A.. Z. A. chapters given by the two children was termed Parliamentary pro-Palestine CommitThere will also be a Purim pro* others. shops were lower than in an argent appeal for aid. purpose. gram. The public is invited. throughout the country. to be pure fiction . tee in behalf of his colleagues. \
ORGANIZATION
DIRECT NEGOTIATIONS WITH GREAT BRITAIN
REASONS GIVEN FOR RECENT CHANGES IN COMZET PERSONNEL
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Protocols of Elders of Zion in Spain
CZECHOSLOVAKIA JEWS ENJOYING fOUTICAL RIGHTS
Says Unexhausted^ Reserve for Bidjan, Crimea Immigrants
NEW CATEGORY FOR
INDEPENDENCE OF SYRIA AND IRAQ TO AFFECTPALESTINE
Hazomir Concert of Jewish Music at Center April 3
B'nai Brith Novel Program April 14
"NUMERUS CLAUSUS" VERSUS JEWISH POOR
To Lead Services at A. Z. A. Sabbath
Refuse to Bar Nazi Groups in Switzerland
in Win ^Awards
Inquire Into Lands for Jewish Settlers
Students Coirmelled to Matriculate Elsewhere
Attacks on Jews in Mexico Are Halted
Students tof Palestine Outside of Quota British Military Force in Palestine Is 3,500
Number of Jews in Industries Growing
Purim Entertainment at Temple on Sunday