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A Happy .Prosperous New Year .
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London (JTA). — Because "the most beautiful girl in Germany" is partly Jewish and hence a "nonAryan," the German ambassador to -London, Herr von Hoesch, has declined an invitation to join in the judging at Hastings to select "Miss Europe" from among the most beautiful girls of eighteen countries. World Jewry—imbued with the faith "Miss Germany" is Miss Emtfia and hope which have inspired Israel Kant, a grand-niece of the philos- through the ages — will observe the opher. She is partly Jewish. . Jewish New Year, Rosh Haslionah "Because 'Miss Germany'his not 5695, starting Sunday evening, Sepa pure Aryan, I could not be pres- Itember 9. ent in an official capacity a t HasJudaism devotes one day to tings," yon Hoesch declared. the observance of this holyday; others two days. Rosh Hashonah means literally, in Hebrew, "the head (or beginning) of the year." In earliest times the Hebrew New Year began in autiimn with the opening of the agricultural year in Palestine—a system adopted by all Semitic peoples. Since ancient times the beginning of the economic year has been celebrated in some special way. Samuel Untermyer Answers to On this day there was to be a holy Charges Made by convocation of the people, trumpets were to be blown and special sacriNazis.fices offered at the altar of the TemNew York (WNS).—Answering Hit- ple. Though the Bible refers to this lerite - charges, repeated often since day as "the day of the blowing of the recent World Jewish Conference trumpets," yet in Palestinian days it at Geneva, that world Jewry is re- was regarded by the Jewish people as sponsible for the anti-Nazi boycott the New Year of the agricultural from which the German economic sys- cycle. With their exile from the boly land tem is suffering, Samuel Untermyer, president of the Non-Sectarian Anti- and their dispersion, New Year's Day Nazi League to Champion Human assumed a new meaning and a higher Rights, has issued a statement in value in Jewish life. In rabbinic tradiwhich he makes it clear that the boy- tion the holiday is regarded as the commemoration of the beginning of cott is not a purely Jewish activity. "In view of the persistent, long- the creation of the world . . . it is continued misrepresentations of Herr the day upon which all the creatures Hitler for the last eighteen months," of the world pass in review for judgMr. Untermyer declared, "it becomes ment before the Creator, even as sheep necessary to emphasize the fact that pass before the shepherd. this is in no sense a Jewish boycott This idea of New Year as a Day of except to the extent that the Jews are Judgment gave rise to a beautiful and participating in it with organized" la- | elaborate ritual throughout the midbor and Christian churches. The i die ages. It fashioned the holiday into American Jewish Congress, which a solemn occasion upon which every held the center of the stage at Gen- Jew is to reawaken within himself his eva for a few days, is only one of 100 loyalty to the teachings of Judaism. or more organizations that are par- Emphasis was laid upon the New Year ticipating in this boyc<||£. There is to as a day for self-examination and rebe an international &nventioji at flection-«poi» past -deeds—a day upon Brussels in October that will demon- •which man should search the inner restrate the non-sectarian character of cesses of his heart and sincerely rethis movement solve to turn from the misdeeds of the "The Jews of the world number past year. 16,000,000 souls, which is less than one-half of one per cent of the world's LOCAL SERVICES population. In America they number Rosh Hashonah will be celebrated 5,000,000. No such trifling' fraction locally with appropriate services. The could alone have accomplished any schedule of services is as follows: such result. This is a spontaneous and ever-growing uprising of civilization, Temple inclusive of all creeds and races. Rosh Hashonah services will begin ; "Our organization, which started at Temple Israel Sunday evening at 8 the movement here and abroad, is dis- p. m. Rabbi David H. Wice will detinctly non-sectarian, although I hap- liver the sermon on "The Things We pen to be its president. Among its di- Live For." The only definite and concrete rectors in this country are and have Monday morning the services will achievement in behalf of the German been from the beginning such distin- commence at 10 o'clock. Rabbi Wice's Jews during the past year was the guished national non-Jewish figures sermon topic will be " 'O God! Throw organization of various committees set as CoL Theodore Roosevelt, James W. Us a Handful of Stars.' " \ up to provide for the thousands of Beck, Georga Gordon Battle, former Ambassador James W. Gerard, Mayor refugees. Conservative In October the League of Nations, F. H. LaGuardia and others." The schedule of services for the Mr. Untennyer further pointed out Conservative Synagogue at the J. C. recognizing that the lefugee problem was one that could be solved only by that the anti-Nazi boycott movement C.t international collaboration, nominated has the backing of Catholics and Sunday evening, services start at 8 James G. McDonald as High Commis- Protestants because of Nazi endeav- p.m. Rabbi David A. Goldstein will sioner for German Refugees, with the ors to replace Christianity by pagan- speak on "What Is Today's Most Impower to negotiate and direct the nec- ism; of organized labor because of the portant Commandment"" essary collaboration and especially to extermination of German trade uniMonday morning services will beprovide, so far as possible, work for ons and confiscation of their proper- gin at 9 o'clock. Rabbi Goldstein's try; of Masons, whose lodges have the refugees in all countries able to barred; and of women, because Bermon topic will be "Blessings for offer it. A' governing body of repre- been of the setback the emancipation of the New Year." Monday evening's sentatives of the leading powers and German womanhood has suffered services will start at sundown. an advisory board of private Jewish through Nazism. Tuesday morning Rabbi Goldstein's and non-Jewish relief agencies were topic will be "Fearless Living." named to co-operate with the High The services will be conducted by Commissioner. When he assumed his Cantor E. Sellz. The choir will be position the refugees numbered 60,000. directed by Harry Braviroff. By May, 1934, he was able to report that slow but steady progress Vaad wras being made in finding new homes Rosh Hashonah services will be apBerlin, (WNS).—Many Jews are for the refugees, 20,000 of whom had propriately observed by all orthodox by then found permanent homes. Ten included among those arrested in the thousand of these settled in Palestine. Nazi- government's current drive synagogues affiliated with the Vaad Some 2,500 were admitted to the Unit- against those who dared vote "no" Ha'Ihx, starting at 6: SO p.m. Sunday ed States, which modified its strict in the recent plebiscite to endorse evening. visa regulations. The High Commis- Adolf Hitler's Reichsfuehrerschaft. Services Monday and Tuesday mornsioner worked to co-ordinate fund- The arrests followed immediately ings will begin at 7 a.m. Monday everaising- activities of the various com- upon an attack on a Jewish club in ning they will start at 6:30 p.m. mittees in Europe and 'especially to Propaganda Minister Goebbel's per- Monday morning Rabbi Cri Miller speak at the Beth Hamedrosh negotiate with governments regarding sonal, organ Der Angriff, where retechnical <raestions such as travel and tribution for opposition to Hitler was Hagofiol synagogue, I9th and Burt, his subject being "The New Year — identification passports, working per threatened. German Jewry, however, sees a What Ought Our New Year's Resolumits and the enabling of refugees to be trained for.absorption in the life hopeful sign in the fact that after tion Be?" of the countries where they were and Julius Streicher's Der Steurmer, Tuesday morning Rabbi MHler will to find new places where others could which had been suppressed for twn deliver the sermon at the B'nai Isweeks, came out with another bitter rael synagogue, 18th and Chicago, on begin life anew. Apart from the activities of the attack on Jews the publisher was the topic of "Formula for RedempHigh. Commissioner, private commit- summoned for a long conference with tion.'" Cantor A. Schwaczkin and his tees came into being to find new Hitler. Another evidence of a change choir will officiate at the liolyday serhomes for physicians, professors, chil- for the better is seen in the impris- vices at the B'nai Israel. The synagogues affiliated with the dren and technical experts. In the onment of a Rhinelander found United States the University in Exile guilty of slandering a Jewish at- Vaad are the B'nai Israel, the Beth Hamedrosh Hagodol, B'nai Jacob, was organized. The University of Is- torney. Adass Yeshuren, and Congregation of tanbul engaged 38 refugee Jewish Berlin—Nuremberg, most bitterly Israel of South Omaha. scholars. The Hebrew University placed twenty. At this writing anti-Semitic city in Germany ordered Others there are still 50,000 refugees without the owners of all Jewish stores there permanent homes. Herculean effort? to inscribe their names at the stores' The Shaare Zion synagogue at 154S are being made to raise the fund? entrances in letters 'no smaller than No. 20 street will hold services both needed to maintain these edles, ana ten cent metres in order that Ger- morning and evening during th« holythe High Commissioner is concentrat- mans buying there should not be able days. ing on a campaign to snc&ilize the to say that they did not know that The B'nai Sholom synagogue will Christian world in support ef xefugee they were : customers in Jewish meet at Sommer Hall, 28th and stores.". • •''•' • assistance. nam.
I am happy, at this festival season of BoshMashotwhtto renew % good wishes to iqy fellow citizens of Jewish faith throughout thclancL I t is a suitable opportunity to pause and, by dedicating ourscbes anew to tlic responsibilities of the present day, to continue the U)orku)hich, in common u?ith all ilmertcans, we have undertaken touxitd realizm j the promise of the lie before us." years
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Appropriate Services to Be Held for High Holydays
Two Omahans, H. A. Wolf and Dave Jewish Agency Announces DefGoldman, are "oh the conference cominite Steps of Co-6peramittee. The other members'include: tioiu Arthur Brinn,-Minneapolis, Minn.; Ellis Levitt, Des Moines, la.; Robert Zurich( J. T. A. ^Definite steps Mayer, and Edwin . B." Meisner, St. to increase the participation of nonLouis,-Mo; ;-Bernard Marx and Edwin Zionist elements in the Jewish Agen! Baer, St.. Paul,_Minn.;~ Louis -Eriich cy: for, Palestine in the work of upand Jacob Lorie, Kansas City, ,Mo. building Palestine will be taken as a Dr. J. M. Morris and Dr. Lewis I. Tesult. of'an. unofficial conference of Miller," Denver; Colo. " _"."., ~ '_.' non-Zionist members, it. was officially Mrs. "J. H. Kulakofsky of Omaha is announced..v a member of the. program", committee, • The Jewish Agency for Palestine is Others on this committee: are^L S- composed half of representatives of Joseph and Rabbi A. G. Minda, Min- the World Zionist Organization and neapolis, Minn.; Robert Lappen, Des half of non-Zionist leaders forming a Moines, la.; Dr. Llewellyn Sale, St. body representative of all Jewry to Louis, Mo.; Milton Firestone, St. Paul. deal with the League of Nations and Minn.; Miss Cornelia Harsfeld, Kansas Great Britain, the mandatory power City, Mo.; Richard -Weil, St. Louis, for Palestine, on questions affecting Mo.; Prof. A. D. Kaplan-, Denver Colo.' the latter country. A.mong the major communities to According to plans agreed on at the b"e included, in the Regional confer- conference, members of the non-Zionence will be Omaha, St Louis, Des ist'section will seek to organize nonMoines, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Kansas Zionist assistance for" Palestine work City and Denver. " Others who will in'the various countries along- lines be invited'.to" participate include Lin- best adapted to their respective lands. coln. Nebraska; Sioux City and CounAmong those taking part in the cil Bluffs, la.; St. Joseph, Mo.; Du- conference were Dr. Cyrus Adler. of luth, Minn.; Davenport, Moline and Philadelphia; Dr. Maurice B. Hexter, Rock Island; Tulsa and Oklahoma - Samuel" C.~ Lamport," "Dr.'" Maurice City. Okla.; Wichita and Topeka, Karpf, Edward Warburg, son of FeThe conferenc3 emphasizes the need 'x. and -Zionist leaders including Dr. for an exchange of opinion and ex- Chaim Weizmann, head of the comperiences on problems of community, mission for refugee settlement in Palorganizations and the f u n c t i o n a l estine; M. M. XTssishkin, head of the needs and developments in the com- Jewish National Fund, and Professor • .^untties; wlthltt this-'Tegion^-Fulii!^ Selig:, Brodetsky »and^;3erl; Lockeri "extiona);fields Of: Jewish social service members'' of" the Jewish*'Agency : : ; ; i ' .. ;; as ;well' as general fields' will bte dis- ecutive body. • Dr. Hexter, repotting on-the-finaiQcussed, with outstanding lay leaders . leading the discussions.; Among the cial situation, emphasized that the , topics to be discussed will be family Jewish Agency and the Keren Haye•welfare, child, care; and the care of sod (the Palestine Foundation Fund) the ased,; problems ^in" Jewish' educa- had decreased - taeir.. - jhdebtedness tion: and Jewish Community C e n t e r during the past year by 75,000 pounds pr.Osrain. : ; . •". : V.. (approximately $375,000.). He also der clared that^the Jewish Agency; budget , The: conference is under the aus- for Palestine would be fully covered. Paris (WNS). — When two young pices of the National Conference of Americans, said to be New-York col. J e w i s h Community Centers and Weltare Federations. ' jlege students, hung a German swasSam Beber is on the executive com_ , . ; tika flag out of their hotel window mittee of the National Conference. ReEven those most bitterly opposed to j h e r e t h e y s o o n discovered that Frenchthe use of the economic boycott as a men are unsympathetic to the Hitler cently, Henry Monsky and William L. political weapon now recognize that regime. Holzman were named' on a national Mobilization committee to effect JewJerusalem (JTA). — The Palestine the anti-German boycott has been treAs soon as the flag appeared an ish communal unity throughout the government has decided that the mendously effective. angry mob began to gather before country, another of the many activ- Holy Land is not a field for the inA year ago the boycott was just the hotel, and refused to disperse unities of the national conference. troduction of an income tax, Mr. getting under way. At the end of 5694 til police caused the swastika to be On the local committee, Dave Gold- Shelley, president of the Jerusalem it had demonstrated its; power. Ger- withdrawn. man is chairman, assisted by Frank Chamber of Commerce, declared at many's economic structure is tottering. ; A moratorium on all foreign Ackerman, Max Barish, Sam Beber, a meeting of the organization. Morris. Jacobs,^ J. J. Greenberg,- Ben "In fulfillment of- the high com- debts has been procalimed. Strict govKazlowsky, Jack Marer, Al Mayer, missioner's promise that every op- ernment control of foreign trade is in •William Milder and Harry Silverman. portunity would be given to discuss effect. Efforts are being made to stimWarsaw (W. N. S.)—The Mizrachi the question of an income tax ulate exports. The German standard convention to be held at Lemberg of living is falling steadily. Wages are thoroughly, an income tax expert of the British treasury was called declining. Onempolyment is increas- will probably recommend a cessation to Palestine, in order to study local ing. Gold reserves are virtually • de- of opposition to the Zionist Execupleted. All of these developments came tive, the Jewish press here reports. conditions," Mr. Shelley said. startling rapidity at the end of The attitude of Mizrachi toward 'We have been given to understand with the first year of the boycott. Revisionism and Palestine Labor also that, it has been decided that PalesIn twelve months the boycott re- is to come under discussion, the oldtine is not a field for such financial Barcelona (WNS)—With the grant- taxation as the inherent anti-Tax duced Germany's exports by 2,000,- er elements recommending a favoring cf official recognition to the re- faculties, which 000,000 marks. Her trade balance for able stand toward Revisionism. normally resist the first six months of 1934 showed a ". cently organized Jewish community of taxation of any sort, would be: parBarcelona world Jewry was given forticularly vicious in their resistence deficit of more than 200,000,000 marks mal notice that a hew Jewish settler as compared with' a surplus of over ment has been established. Barcelona's to the introduction of a new problem 150,000,000 marks for the same period of how to evade taxation in this speJewry comprises some 2,000 refugees from XJenhany who have settled here cial direction. We congratulate the j The boycott movement during 5694 "Fallacy of This Modern Age," by ' ; since the. beginning of the Nazi re- government foy the discretion and became really world-wide" and nonLudwig Letcisohn. gime. -They -have received a hearty tact with which this matter has been sectarian with the co-operation of "Intimate Truths About the Jews? dealt with," Mr. Shelley said. •welcome ^rom ;the government ,and Catholics, the American Federation of by Maurice Samuel. . business and industrial circles are satLabor and other liberal forces. '. "New Approach to an Eternal ; .; v; •\^.':. ;vH'.- '.-':'. ^ .' "• • ; V lafied. While the Nazis at first persisted Question,' by George E. Sohol".Not.a single Jewish refugee from. in ignoring the boycott they have now sky. Germany has been refused permission come to Tecognize it as a major fac» "The Five. Biggest Jewish Head* to remain in Barcelona.by the Catator in Germany's economic crisis. Nazi lines,"" by Bernard Postal. lonian government. As a result of this organizations abroad have launched, a "Jewry's Hall of Fame," by Meyer hospitality the Jewish community is F. Steingluss. Paris, (JTA).—The French ad- counter-boycott in the .hope of. frightgrbwing rapidly and Barcelona has ening those fostering the boycott, but "The Scattered Nation? by Zebuministration* in Algiers was openly become a major refugee center, surIon Baird Vance. charged here with direct responsi- all signs indicate that-the anti-Gerpassed only by Paris and Palestine. man boycott will be continued with un- "Rooted in the Soil*' by Stanley bility for thepogroms " in CoristanThe Jews of Barcelona already have relenting vigor*.''...-.... ,/,.'.. Bero. - - • a rabbi, a schochet and a Hebrew tme at a public protest meeting un"Christian Friends in Time of der the auspices of the French New York (J. T. A.)— As a tribute teacher. ; Need? by Robert Stone. League to' Combat Anti-Semitism. to Henrietta^ Szold,"dean of American "Stain on the Life of Manldnd? President Bernhard Lecache of the women "-Zionists and founder of Ha.Amsterdam (WNS)—After having by Maxim Gorky. - - ;_"'found temporary asylum in Holland league, who presided, demanded to dassah, and Mrs. Edward Jacobs, former national president of the orfor nearly a year, a score of German know whether it was -true that: 1.. The Constantine garrison was ganization, the national board of HaJewish families sailed for Brazil, where they will make their permanent locked up in the barracks during the dassah vrUl purchase two dunams of home. As they embarked they display- pogrom after a Zouave regiment land, approximately ten city lots, in Goldstein-Chapman's ed signs expressing their gratitude to had expressed the desire to inter- their names in the Kfar Ussishkin, Carmaris the Dutch government for its hospita- vene and protect the Jewish popula- the hew colony to be established in Natelson's Palestine in honor of Mendel Menation. ity. / Herzbergs 2. The civil authorities of Con- cheni Ussishkin. NebraslM Clothing Co. . stantine refused to ask for troops Miss Szold, now residing in JeruAIJGENtlNE JEWS TO JOIN Hayden's to halt the pogrom. salem is at present chairman of the WORLD'ZIONISTS. Brandeis Bureau forSettlement of Refugee 3. Anti-Semitic propaganda was Buenos Aires—A resolution to join Omaha World-Herald Children itf Palestine. She "was at one - the World Union of General Zionists not forbidden. Hinky-Dinky was adopted at the first contention "Why -were none of 'the. officials time a member of the Palestine ZionOmaha Bee-News ist Executive, the only woman to have of thV Argentine Federation- of Gen- responsible fox-the pogrom dismissed eral Zionists, held here last month. '„ from their posts?" Lecache asked. held that office. K a n s .
Vol. X—No. 32—Section A
NEW YEARNS EDITION — OMAHA;NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1934
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