June 8, 1934

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ln the Interests of the Jewish People

Entered as Second Class Mail l'ostoffice of Omaha, Nebrasl;

JEWISH SOCIAL \ WORKCONCLAVL

Dedicated to the Ideals of Judaism

n January 21, 1921,. at the Act of March 3, 18TO

OMAHA, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY JUNE 8, 1934

$Jew Named Soviet Anti-Semites Swamped INSTRUCTION FREE in Polish Elections ?\ Envoy to Germany FORIMWLEARN

Invention of Jewish Scientist Being Hailed

Vol. X—No. 19

Committee Reports Feature Meeting of Board of Governors

Warsaw (WNS)—Candidates of the London (WNS) — A new type of white bread made without flour has i n n i n n * IJ ll\fjVtfri| Jew ** O S C O W ( J T A ) ~~ Jacob Suritz, a government party scored smashing has been named Soviet victories in practically every town and been developed by Ephraim RabinowAuOAlLo ' ^0 Germany. Suritzambas••"*»•»«•-•••«•* LljADhlhJ . . » . . mmrmm~*m* j ggg^j. has been city of Poland over the nominees of A "learn to swim", week will be held itz, a Jewish scientist in Palestine, ac—: I serving as Soviet ambassador to Tur- the anti-Semitic National Democrats at the Jewish Community Center pool cording to word received by the Sunin the municipal elections. day Dispatch. June 18 to 22, inclusive. Claim a Conflict in Interests Be- key for the past eleven years. The announcement has aroused wide Although the National Democrats The Dispatch says that the new The course willTje open to both tween Leaders and interest here, since his appointment is waged a bitter campaign against the members and non-members, and will type of bread is already in use in Masses provoking general curiosity concern- government because of its opposition be free of charge. -Cl France and will shortly be made in ing the manner in which the Nazi gov- to anti-Jewish excesses, the govern- AH those wishing instruction on England. It is expected that RabinAtlantic City, N. J. (WNS)-Jew- ernment will maintain diplomatic cour- ment party won majorities in each of how to swim correc|ly, whether they owitz's discovery will completely rev- Philanthropies, Work of Family Welfare, Social ish unity is impossible so long as the tesies and immunities when the dip- the 341 municipalities where elections are beginners or advanced swimmers, olutionize the bread industry ol the Service, J. C. C, Old Peoples were held. In Lexnberg, where the are invited to sign iip. world. bulk of Jews support the economic in- lomat chances to be a Jew. Zionists had a joint list of candidates Cards may be obtained at the Jew- Premier Mussolini of Italy is said terests of their own class as against Home Discussed News that Jacob with the government party, they ish Community Center, and must be o have hailed Rabinowitz's discovery those of the Jewish people as.a whole, Berlin (JTA) the National Conference of Jewish So- Suritz, Jewish diplomat, has been ap- elected 16 of their nominees out of filled in by June 14. Classes will be as the greatest contribution to man- The Jewish Philanthropies and the teresting, particularly in the increases cial Work was told in a plain-spoken pointed Soviet ambassador to Ger- 72 councilmen. formed for all ages'and all abilities. kind since the discovery of electricity. •work of the family welfare commit- which they show, both in the number report presented by the New York many, appeared in Saturday's Voal"Both grown-ups > and youngsters tee, the social service committee, the of pledges and the amount raised as committee of the Case Workers Sec- kischer Beobachter, but the newspaper are invited to this free course," deCommunity Center and the Old Peo- compared with 1933. I hope that your tion, Vigorously assailing the Ameri- made no editorial comment. clared Lee Grossman, physical direcples' Home were discussed at the experience may be typical of that of can Jewish committee, the B'nai Brith, Publication of the story is, however, tor. "Parents are especially urged to final meeting of the season for the other communities whose campaigns the American Jewish Congress and the taken to be an indication that the send, their children. .They will be well Board of Governors of the Jewish have not yet been held." Joint Distribution committee and de- German government has ratified the taken care of and will be taught a Community Center, and Welfare Fed- H. Joseph Hyman, Executive Direcclaring that the Zionist movement has appointment. healthful sport which will prove hightor, Jewish Welfare Fund, Indianapoeration held Wednesday evening. : had a negligible influence on Jewish Suritz's predecessor, Chintschuk, ly beneficial." lis, Ind.: "I want to congratulate you "William L. Holzman, president. Inlife in the Diaspora, the report as- also was Jewish. . • upon your success and I am particuWarsaw (WNS) — Concerned over troduced those making reports. Berlin (WNS) — With the avowed serted that "the underlying allegiances the growing violence of the gray- Harry Silverman, chairman of the larly intrigued by the number of aim of superseding Christianity in the of the bulk of Jewish leadership, as Third Eeich the German Faith move- Mexican Unit of B'nai shirted members of the National Rad- Philanthropies campaign, reported pledges secured." at present constituted, are not with newly organized extremist anti- that to date 2S98 pledges had been ob- David Fishman, Executive Director, ment, a new religious movement based Brith Is! Organized icals, the Jewish group as against all opSemitic party, the Polish government tained for a total subscription of $33,- Jewish Charitable and Educational on the worship of the ancient Gerposing forces but are generically to Federation, New Orleans: "You are manic gods, came out into the open in Cincinnati (JTA) |— Formation of is preparing to take vigorous meas- 438.85. their own economic interests. Germany. The new cult is an out- B'nai Brith's first {Mexican branch ures against the anti-Semites who are Of these contributions, 761 were to be congratulated on having raised growth of the amalgamation of six was announced fronj the lodge's na- gaining in strength throughout the new subscribers. The total increase 10 per cent more than last year." This condition, the report contendcountry. Hardly a day has passed in pledges amounted to $7,600 as com- George W. Rabinoff, Executive Disocieties long known for their hostil- tional headquarters jiere. ed, "accounts for the failure of Jewsince the organization of the new par- pared to decreases received in the rector, Council of Jewish Federations ity to Christianity and their adherish leadership to enlist mass particiThe new lodge, lniown as.Espinoza ence to the pagan Teutonic tribal Lodge No. 1176 and "located in Mexico ty without attacks on Jews. Warsaw, amount of $1,500. and Welfare Funds, New York City: pation and support in its efforts to Ben E. Kazlowsky was named pres- detities. deal with Jewish problems, for these City, was installed by Gerson Pappo, Lodz, Lemberg, Posen, Vilna and Cies- A total of 918 prospect cards are "You show an excellent result, especially in comparison with last year. efforts, no matter how sincere and ident of the Omaha Hebrew club for The first move of the German Faith a member of the Manhattan-Washing- zyn have been the scene of bloody yet to be reported. well intentioned, have been colored in the ensuing term at the election of movement was to demand that its fol- ton Lodge in New i York City, who riots in which numerous Jews have The analysis of the drive to date With a gain in practically every divitheir techniques by the economic in- officers held Sunday afternoon at the lowers resign immediately from their now resides in Mexico City. The cere- been injured by armed bands of gray- indicated that there had been a most sion, it would appear that you are shirts. terests of the group which directs Christian churches. Its second step will mony was conducted in Spanish. thorough canvas of the Jewish pop- building very substantially toward a them." Frankly criticizing what it be a demand that it be given a status The group is headed by Dr. Sidney Although the government party won ulation, and the Jewish community wide basis of community support for the Federation." called the "implications of the horiof legal quality -with the Protestant Ulfelder and has a charter member- majorities over the anti-Semitic Na- responded most generously. Fred M. Butzel, Detroit, Mich., zontal stratification in American and Catholic churches. At the head of ship of twenty-eight: persons." tional Democrats in every city except Family "Welfare the movement is Professor Wilhelm Most of the Jewish residents in Mex- Lodz, in the municipal elections, the "The results of your campaign are Jewish life," the report found that all Hauer of Tuebingen university. The ico have settled there from eastern Gazeta Polska, government organ, has . Mrs. H. A. Wolf, chairman of the certainly inspiring." of the existing Jewish organizations vice-chairman is Count Ernest Rev- Europe during the past decade,-fol- warned the Pilsudski regime that the family • welfare committee, spoke Samuel Shaefer, National Supervissuffer "either from a lack of clearly entlow, one of the most radical figures lowing curtailment of immigration by anti-Semitic success in Lodz must not briefly, introducing Rabbi David A. or, National Jewish Hospital, Denver, formulated programs of action or in the Nazi party and long a bitter the United States. A Mexican bureau be permitted to be duplicated else- Goldstein, who delivered the report Colo.: "You certainly did a splendid from inability to attract large numanti-Semite. job bers or from an absence of any apof the B'nai Brith was established where. The paper points out that the of the work of the group. j to have shown such a substantial proach to the Jewish problem in basic A basic tenet of the German Faith in Mexico City-twelve years ago, at nationalist parties are gaining adher- Rabbi Goldstein stressed that the increase in contributions and in the terms." The report also declared that movement is rejection of Christianity which Jewish immigrants were taught ents only because of their anti-Semi- family welfare group goes on the (number of subscribers. I was partieuin any^ program of Jewish action ecoas a religion for Germans because it Spanish and food and -lodging pro- tic plank. Admitting that the govern- premise that "we must give our poor j lary interested in the items of new nomic security must be made a preThe and increased contributions. This all is predominantly Semitic in character. vided newcomers'unable to find work. ment, blundered in tolerating the gray families adequate - support." requisite to cultural activity. The German Faith movement holds The bureau withdrew two years shirts, the Gazeta Polska declares that standard of living for these unfort- indicates not only a very thorough that each nation must have its own re- ago, when the-Jewish community in continued toleration of the National unates, he pointed out, is maintained piece of work, but a return to more Ben Sekelman, executive director of nearly normal conditions, which of ligion, based on radical traditions and Mexico became able to conduct its af- Radicals, who demand extermination on a high level. - .. the Boston Federation of Jewish Charof the Jews, mil lead to civil war. historical antecedents. The radical fairs independently. ities, was elected president of the ConHe also told of the necessity of in- course, is gratifying to all of us." wing of the Evangelical church is very I. M, Eubinow, B'nai Brith Wider ference over Miss Mary Boretz of the Bronislaw Pieracld, minister of the vestigating each case brought to the friendly to the movement and will Home Bureau of-the New York-Heinterior, ..promised a Jewish delegation committee's attention. Not-only does Scope Committee, Cincinnati, 0.: "The probably, join i t if its demands for the Polish Editors Jailed for brew Sheltering and-Guatdian Society. that tie would take prompt measures the coiroBittee -gixe-celitS but it also increase in the total raised by some establishmfint'if ghetto churches-for Anti-Semitic Articles Sekelman was the candidate of those against the rioters. The Socialists arfe plans for the. future -of the taDSny"be- 10 per cent as against 1983, is of non-Aryan Christians and the excision Warsaw—Three -Polish journalists also girding themselves for a war with ing cared for. The co-operation of- eourse satisfactory. Even more so, is •upholding the Jewish 'emphasis in soof the Old Testament from- the Bible have been sentenced to jail and fined the Polish Nazis in order to smash relatives-is .also obtained by the com- the very large number of pledges and7 cial work. are not granted. the evidence of a large number of new mittee. • them before they get too strong. for attacks on Jews. Formation, of organizations of Jewsubscriptions and increases in subish social worker's to protect their ecoSocial Service nomic rights and their jobs was enBen E. Kazlowsky. Dr. Philip Sher, chairman of the scriptions." dorsed by the Conference "in princisocial service, reported on the three- Paul Goldblatt, Executive Director, ple, without necessarily agreeing with J. C. C. Kazlowsky has been active fold work being accomplished by his United Jewish Community, Harristhe theory, tactics or methods which in the work of the club as well as committee: "Construction, preventive burg, Pa.: "I want to congratulate you on the summary of the fifth annual such employee membership associa- in other Jewish communal endeavors. and curative." campaign of the Jewish Welfare Fedtions may develop." The Conference He succeeds Dr. A. A. Steinberg. The committee gives about six eration. From all appearances, it was also recommended that boards of di- Other officers: Jack D. Gavenman, scholarships annually to deserving rectors of social welfare agencies vice-president; John Feldman, treasstudents. Among its major functions a huge success." "recognize the delegated representa- urer; and Sol Rosenberg, secretary. is the annual father and son banquet Harry J. Sapper, Secretary, United Trustees elected are L. Morgan, A. tives of social work staffs in matters and the service and reception for high Jewish Welfare Fund, Oakland, Cal.: affecting the employees' welfare." To Richards, and N. Yaffe. Elected to "We are holding- our campaign in Au* school graduates. By MIRIAM BEARD devise a program of relations between the executive committee are S>m E. gust. Last evening I attempted to inDr. Sher pointed out that due to Reprinted from "Opinion" employee organizations and social Klaver, Irvin Levin and Dr. A. A. the work of the social service com- spire more confidence in our Execuwork administrations the Conference Steinberg. mittee the juvenile delinquency among tive Committee in the light of your named a special committee. Approval The Omaha Hebrew club is plan- A spirit hostile to women is "rising industry and every acre of soil, for would educate children better for local Jewish children is unusually experience of increased giving." was given to retirement allowances, ning a city-wide picnic for this sum- in the world. It has already checked the awful struggles of the future, "heroic sacrifice" on battlefields than low. I. Irving Lipsitch, Executive Direcgroup annuities, accident insurance mer in celebration of its forty-third her advance, in both hemispheres: the waged on land, in the air and under mothers could. Lest women mould tor, Federation of Jewish Welfare OrCenter Committee and group life insurance as further anniversary. Albert Kaplan is in most. privileged women of Asia, the the sea. This is Hitler's avowed pur- public opinion in favor of peace, ganizations, Los Angeles, Cal.: "It is means of insuring the economic secur- charge. Japanese, and the freest women of pose. In the unexpurgated original of their influence is sternly erased from Jack W. Marer, chairman of the extremely interesting to learn that Center committee, reported on the ac- you have been able to raise over 10 ity of social workers. The installation of the new officers Europe, the German's, are its victims. his book, "Mein Kampf," he blames public life; the government of Japan At the closing session of the Na- will take place on Sunday, July 1, in The reaction is spreading; it lifts its pre-War Imperial Germany for a fail- recently stepped in to prevent wom- tivities of the Community Center, per cent more than you were able to tional Council for Jewish Education, the auditorium of the J. C. C. A head in England and America. ure to prepare adequately, to strain en's organizations from passing a which "is teeming with activity from raise in 1933, also that you procured Ben Rosen, education director of the every nerve toward victory, to crush resolution favoring peace; in Ger- morning to night, day in and day new subscriptions and increases English-speaking women could unAssociated Talmud Torahs of Phila- varied program of entertainment will til last year look abroad, rejoicing in every agency that could possibly di- many, Oberpraisdent Wilhelm Kube, out" He pointed out that the numin the aggregate to $7,500 delphia,. reported that "the amounts be presented and refreshments the splendid bands of progressive wo- vert the people's mind3 from military a Nazi leader, rejoiced that no long- ber of people using the Center fa- aamounting cilities is increasing and that move S&mst which there was only an offexpanded for Jewish education have, served. victory. Hitler condemns the Kaiser's men of other lands and races. A great er need a Teutonic man listen to interest is being displayed in Center set of $1,400 in decreases. since 1930, decreased by more than Germany for wasting time in mu- any feeling of international co-operation Bernard Truxton, Executive Direc"democratic virago spitting paci- activities. one-third, and in some communities^by seums and concert halls and in cultuand fellowship gave us confidence in tor, Jewish Welfare League of Canton, fist filth, when men are debating However, he presented two major more than one-half. Jewish education ral pursuits, that might have been ourselves and in our future. Now, profitably O.: "Your reported results of the fifth questions of war." problems to the Board of Governors. has suffered, in some communities, a employed on the drillwithin a twelvemonth, all that is annual Jewish Philanthropies cammore drastic retrenchment than have By forcing women to wear uni- One is regarding the physical main- paign is beyond doubt He proposes to make no such exceptional and changed. We are isolated; we are ground. other phases of Jewish community enforms, listen to lectures on war, and tenance of the building. mistakes; he proclaims (on page 715) encouraging." menaced. deavor." The only saving feature in goal to be the mobilization of undergo gas-mask drill, they are be- The building is in need of repairs What does this reaction mean? Let his the situation, Mr. Eosen said, "is the every German down to "the tiniest ing slowly accustomed to the idea of and redecorating, with the funds for recognition which is growing that, Moscow (JTA) — A memorandum us not yield to the soft illusion that tot," until the whole nation with one an impending conflict. The Japanese that purpose insufficient. Survey of Birobidjan with the transfer of the major share complaining that local authorities in we face merely a return to old-fash- mouth breathes the burning prayer: compel women, in villages as well as Secondly, Marer emphasized the ioned domesticity, to the cozy sentiAs Site for Refugees of the burden of relief to public the Soviet Union are infringing upon "Lord, bless our battle!" towns, to march and wear white necessity for strong measures to agencies, the Jewish communities will the Soviet constitutional guarantees ments and ideals of the Victorian aprons, symbolizing their readiness build up the Community Center membegin to devote more thought to the of freedom of religion was submitted Age. That age is gone forever. Those As. women have, or are supposed to spring to any domestic task in bership so that the membership New York (WNS)—A fact-finding normal needs- and interests of the last week' to Peter Smidovitch, vice- ideals and sentiments were the prod- to have, a natural antipathy to war, aid of soldiers; the Germans also should be larger and more repre- survey of Birobidjan, the autonomous president of the Soviet Union, by a uct of a general peace and prosperity their subjection is regarded as a first try to wipe out individuality of fash- sentative. Jewish district in Russia, by a comgrowing generation." mittee of technological and agricul, William Pinsker of Brockton, Mass., Jewish delegation from Dnieperpet- such as the world never saw before step in the new type of preparedness ion from women's dress and put girls Old Peoples' Home •was named president of the National rovsk headed by Rabbis Lewis Schnei- and may never see again. In this hour by the Fascist in Germany, Italy and into uniforms; they try to regiment Harry Silverman, chairman of the tural experts is planned this summer of universal economic crisis and im- Japan. A classic expression of thi3 and herd women. Gulda Diel, promin- Old Peoples' Home committee, re- by the American Committee for Set* Association of Jewish Center Execu- erson and Aaron Liachoff. tling German Jewish Refugees in Sotives. Allan Bloom, Indianapolis, Wil- The Jewish delegation cited the pending universal war, we cannot hope view was just made by a Nazi pro- ent woman Nazi, tells women to ported on the Old Peoples' Home. liam Cohen, Brooklyn, Miriam Eph- fact that local authorities have closed to reinstate those ideals. We cannot fessor of Berlin university. Profes- shun "a single frill or ornament** that The home houses the year round viet Russia, it was announced by Edraim, New York, and Louis Sobol, synagogues in Odessa, Kieff, Baku all hope to return to homes, in an age sor Alfred Baeumler, to echoing ap- could distract a warrior's eye; she, approximately ten aged men and wo- ward Aronow, a meir/ber of the comwhen society has not yet learned how plause. In his "Mannerbund und among others, tries to urge militar- men. He pointed out that investiga- mittee, at a press luncheon given by Bronx, were chosen vice-president. and Dnieperpetrovsk. Isadore Brierfeld of Yonkers was Synagogue closures in Dnieperpet- to make home for us all. Wissenschaft" -he denounces women ism as a duty upon women. "The tion of applicants is absolutely neces- ICOR, Association for Jewish Colonelected secretary-treasurer. rovsk were termed "startling" by the ... We face return to barbarism. It is as sirens seeking to make pacifists true German woman is a fighter, and sary, but that at no time does the ization in Russia. If the siirvey's reare favorable, the committee exdelegation in view of the fact that ito barbarism that Fascists would re- of Teutonic males and to divert their a fighter out of mother love." investigation take more than a -week. sults pects to seek a large fund to finance there are only three small synagogues duce us. They would wipe away not minds from war to such effete "femisettlement of German refugees at Birin a city containing 10,000 Jews, of only what we have achieved since Vic- nine" interests as "literature, The- Thus the Facists, though pretendLand Omaha Drive whom 1,000 are said still to practice toria's reign, but all we have won in atre, Science and Art." He thinks ing to "free" woman from industrial The popular response of the Jewish obidjan. : Jewry Invited to religion. two thousand years of cultural prog- family life is too softening, both for slavery, in reality but enslave her to community to the Jewish Philanthro- Designed to familiarize the public Albert Fuchs, representative of the ress. They would remove not only the men and boys; he would substitute the war-machine. And this is at last pies campaign has been lauded in with the potentialities of Birobidjan Annual Vaad Picnic Moscow Jewish community, also ap- legal rights given us in modern times, the "Mannerbund," the league of being realized in Germany by Nazi communications received at the execu- and its progress to date, the luncheon pealed to Vice-President Smidovitch, but the respect granted us in mediae- men which unites males young and women themselves. A group of wom- tive offices from other Jewish centers. was featured by an exposition of the All Omaha Jewry is invited to the who it is understood-telegraphed the val times. They would demolish those history of Birobidjan and its present second annual Vaad picnic, to be held local authorities, asking them to hold ideals that were woven in the past by old in intimate association. An enor- en who had worked to put Hitler Excerpts from some of the com- status. Speakers emphasized that the in power, and who are appalled now ments: at Krug Park this Sunday, June ,10- up the liquidation of the synagogues Church and knightly chivalry to shield mous number of Nazis openly prodistrict now has a population of 60,000 Family tickets are being distributed until an inquiry ; could determine us in some measure from the brutal claim love between men and boys by ihe results to themselves, are Dr. Solomon Lowenstein, Executive and 12,000 of these are Jews. Another begging mercy from the Fuhrer. This Director, New York Federation: "I free, exchangeable for free rides at whether the closing "was in accordance might of warriors. And we should as more sacred than the love of men 8,000 Jews are to be settled there this the park. Refreshments will be served with the Soviet law permitting the then be back just where we started, and women, because it prepares for group avoids the appearance of • want to congratulate you on the suc- year. organization that might be taken cessful outcome of your campaign. The a military state. and several prizes will be awarded. closing of synagogues upon the re- in the Old Stone Age. over by the government; but it pub- figures which you report are very inThere will be dancing in the evening. quest of synagogue authorities themHitlerite Fascists The subjection of women is prac- lishes a magazine, "Die Deutsche This is no idle forecast. Every FasThe affair is being sponsored by the selves. in Brazil cist State is dedicated to Militarism. ticed as well as preached by all Fa- Kampferin," and issued an appeal "to Auxiliary, and is the group's farewell To Convention Rio De Janeiro—A Brazilian Facist cist countries. Their integration into the chancellor of the German Heich, This militarism is more appalling than party to Rabbi Miller, who leaves on party, which adopted the complete Monday for a. trip to Europe and Pal- New York—The Peter J. Schweit- any ever seen before, for it must pre- a war-scheme is compelled. Their Adolf Hitler," (Adolf Klein, pubRabbi David A. Goldstein plans to Hitler program, including the Hitestine. Mrs. Mollie Brookstein is in zer Hospital in Tiberias, Palestine, pare for the guerre absolue, the Total children are removed as young as lisher, 2nd ed. 1934). has reopened following a contribu- War, which demands. a Totalitarian possible from the home to the care Hear what Fascist women have leave Omaha on June 25 for New lerite stand towards Jews, was .charge. " • York to attend the convention of the founded here at a convention of 3,000 Those who wish tickets are asked to tion of $1,500 by Hadassahj the State to seize upon and mobilize every of drillmasters; Minister Goebbels Rabbinical Assembly. green-shirtcd Fascists. adult, male or female, every engine of publicly told women ihat the Nazis -women's Zionist organization. call Jackson 0887. (Continued on Page 3.)

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