Dedicated to the Ideals of
Entered ao Second Class Na.ll Matter on January 21. 1»21. at Poatofflcc of Omaha, Nebraska, trader the Act of March 3, 1879
VOL. X.—NO. 52,
OMAHA, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1935.
Outstanding Federation i SAMUEL LECTURE Meeting Planned for PROGRAM BEGINS February 25
CHAIRMAN FOR 1935 DRIVE
ON FEBRUARY 16
K BACK-IO-ULRD K EDED-
An outstanding annual meeting for the Jewish Community Center and Welfare Federation Noted Traveler and Lecturer to of Is being planned for Monday eveSays Not Enough FalcsflSpeak Here Over ning, February 25. ni&ns IK Agrieoliisre Week-Ead David Goldman, chairman In charge of arrangements, is being Jerusalem (JTA) — Only -"•A week from Saturday night, assisted by Milton Abrahams, February 16, Maurice Samuel will teen per cent of the entire ,T*iv<Mrs. Jeannette Arnstein, Robert deliver the first of a series of three i'ish population in Palestine in *>'•Kooper, William Milder, Mrs. L.lectures on "Present Day Jewish j gaped In agriculture, Dr, .A--vl;i.Neveleff, and Harry Trustin. Ruppln. member of the "f?niso>'-'"* Life and Problems." His appearFinal details for the program ance here is being sponsored of the Jewish Ag:em*> for P a l a The finals of the Round Table will be worked out at a meeting jointly by the Junior Vaad auxiltine, told newspapermen «x * debate tournament will be held of the committee this coming iary, and the Junior Society of the press conference. on Tuesday evening, February week. Beth-El synagogue. It is expected "We must fuiEinenf: flite ?'•*"•*' Philip M. Klutznick, a veter- but have, instead, multiplied.' 12, at 8 p. m. at the Jewish Comthat the B'nai Israel synagogue centage," Dr. Kuppin rieeiR'/Wi an campaigner, has been, chos_ Jjast Year., ' - • munity Center."will be crowded to capacity for "and during the coming yesr S'f'f the lectures. •;«•$,:to head the 1985 Jewish The workers last year fell a The four teams now remaining I Jewish families will be placer! r>r| the land in the Watii Isavs^'I.-J.. Philanthropies drive by the ex- trifle short of the $40,500 goal, in the contest are Fanny Witkin Miss Dora Freshman, president Bernice Perimeter, repre|More than 5,000 young" pion^".'* of the Junior Vaad auxiliary, and ecutive committee of the Jew-but they did establish an all-time and senting Alpha Gamma Chi; Joe ] have finished their training 'n. Miss Ida Tennenbaura, president ish. Commimity Center and record, for the Omaha . Jewish Solomonow and Max Resnick, j agriculture and are walling1 io • >"• of the Junior society, announce communitywhen they obtained Welfare Federation'. representing Phi Beta Epsilon; 'placed on the lend." that the program of lectures will Though, the sixth annual Phi- 2,913 pledges. Included in these Morton Adler and Ben Shrler, be as follows: Saturday, February Leib Jp.ife End Eliezer K'p.Ttlf.r lanthropies campaign -will not for- figures were 746 new contrib- representing Pi Lambda Phi; and 16, at 8 p. m., "Fascism and Comtlso spoke ct the* pvefe COJI^V-utors. Ernest Priesman and Lou Rick- 1,500 Peasants Begin to Adhere munism—their Meaning for a mally get under way for several j ence. to Jewish Laws An army of almost four hun- lin, representing A. Z. A. No. 1. Jew," with Irvin Stalmaster, months, probably In May, Klutzj Mr. Kaplan reporter! an imThese finals will be the climax presiding; Sunday afternoon, Febnick "was appointed now so that dred workers thoroughly canprovement in the financial pif'-i^ WARSAW (JTA).—A peculiar ruary 17, at 3 p. m., "Changing the" campaign machinery could-be vassed the Jewish community, and of a highly successful debate j of the Jewish. Agencr. pffiHiu effectively organized without any they were met with an enthusi- tournament for the Round Table pro-Jewish religious movement Standards of Life, within and ] that the loan recently prfsn'-f.".* of Jewish Youth. Sixteen teams among the peasants of Polesia, without the Jewish Field," with last-minute rush. j the Jewish Apency in Iiondors "!• «=.•-' astic response. All work was originally entered the tourna- the Polish district adjoining the E p h r a i m Marks, presiding; I "opened P. new Inrern.Rtionfil r e The variouB division heads who volunteered. Soviet border, is puzzling gov- Sunday evening, February 17, at spective." will serve with Chairman Klntz- No radical departures from the ment. ernment officials. The Irvin Stalmaster trophy S p. m., "Palestine, Mirror of the nlck are being selected by. him, He "voiced the belie? tlsaf t>, w-'Under the leadership of a Pol- World," with Ben Kazlowsky, with the approval of the execu- technique' of the campaigns of the will "be awarded to the winning oncl. loan could he raifwl furfb«r past are contemplated by Chair- team at that time. The judges ish, peasant woman, Olga Kri- presiding. tive committee. | to finance HIP work of the • ' « ' • man Klutznick, because of the for the evening's debate are Ir- litchuck, more than 1,500 peasTickets may be obtained from | i'r.h Agency. Experienced. success enjoyed by the Philanthro- vin Stalmaster, Philip Klutznick ants of the district have begun the members of the -two societies | ?»Tr. .Taffe, director oC ihe .?>v'Jewish Philanthropies drives are pies heretofore^ and Ben Kazlowsky. to observe the Jewish Sabbath, or by calling Miss May Tucker, j ish FoundPtion Fund, pSp.ted ;?">*.. not new to Klutinick, he having The public is invited to at- adhere strictly to the Jewish di- at the J. C. C. 'without the work of pion?>?'"a. Fifth Anniversary. been active in the campaigns since etary laws and their preachers PHILIP M. KLETZXICK tend. I ai-f the first combined drive was held The campaign next spring will predict a speedy end to Jewish I aided by Jewish national mark the fifth" anniversary of -kto 1930. In addition to serving tribulations. through the arrival Philip M. Klutznick was * named by t h e . executive * corsiaittee | the development of i n pels. 5mposstMe as a leading worker in each cam- Philanthropies drives as now conof the Messiah. The "new Jew" of the Jewish Conmuiaty Center and Welfare Federation tc be ! would he.ve would never TKpaign, he has acted as chairman stituted ;fn the local Jewish comalso observe other Jewish religthe general chairman cf the 1935 Omaha Jewish Philanthropies j, been cour.try an asylum tor hundreds of the general solicitations divi- munity, wherein one combined ious regulations. Several of their caxspaign, which will be held in the spring. jI thousands of .T&ws. sion as well as other "executive" campaign Is made for funds for members recently visited a War| "Jewish national capital." posts. In the first Philanthropies •thirty local, national and intersaw synagogue to see In. what fMiv Jntfee, "i«s .paved ih«> Special Services this Evening and .f ashipn_, J§Hi*. o.b.serye_tJ|.C-^|)l^ 1 ^ J m L. ,HoIzmaii' will... be campaign, he was chairman of the national Jewish agencies. vhers Do ! for private snUiatire, Tlie F "•Prior; to-then,- the-memiTars •©£ • —Climer Meeting Sunday "to youth' 'division. - • ./ bath. : - - . . . " • ' oae'oFthree^Nebfsskaas wiio will | dation Pond hae be awarded "silver beavers" at the community were harrassed by Marli Celebration. Government officials express . Active in numerous communal -$196,000, |ed ?S,000.P00 in Palestine, bn? complete bewilderment at the the silver anniversary meeting of activities, Klutznick Is & past pres- separate campaigns by each of the ! from now on our principal wort, the Covered Wagon council of agencies. The ^marked ImproveThe third anniversary celebraBusiness, readiness of these peasants to ident of the Omaha lodge of B'nai Iwlll be in agriculture." Brith and the local Zionist district, ment of a single combined drive tion of the Vaad will be observed identify themelves with an un- the Boy Scouts at Columbus, New York (WNS)—The reIs chairman of the executive.com- for all the agencies met with I n - tonight a t services at the. B'nai popular and persecuted minority; Nebr., today. ^ Israel synagogue. Rabbi Ur,I Mil- While this peasant group is More than two hundred Omatai! kosher butchers in the mittee of the Supreme Advisory stantaneous approval. ler will deliver the anniversary hans will go by special train to United." States do an annual Council of the A. Z. A., and is a unique, movements toward JudaThen, the after a survey report . "la Warsaw, in Vienna, in Ber"business of ~?1S6,000,000. it is member of the "executive commit- by the Bureau of Social Research sermon, his- theme being "How ism on the part of the Russian the Columbus meeting. Mr. Holzman has been active lis, and ia other capitals of Eu- revealed in a surrey published tee of the Zionist Organization of of New York, the entire Jewish much Judaism Is possible In Amer- peasant population were fairly Retail Kosher Meat America and the American Jewish community was co-ordinated and ica?" Cantor A. Schwaczkin and common in Czarist Russia. Just in Boy Scout work for 11 years rope the JeTnsh people are sub- by the jected to severe persecutions— Code1 Authority of the NKA in Congress. unified; The Philanthropies, until the B'nal Israel choir will chant before the World War, the Sab-as council member, executive primarily racial, not religions. ] anticipation of the first na- i NEW YORK (JTA}.—-Despite .special selections. batarian movement by peasants board member and court of honIn assuming the chairmanship then a separate organization, was An Interesting after service pro- who In Russia, they are treated lite J tional kosher butchers* con- ] the present apparent prosperity ors committee member. He has insisted on observing Saturof the forthcoming drive, Klntz- made a subsidiary of the Jewish gram will follow. On the program day instead of Sunday as a day been commodore of the Sea everyone - else," -. Scott^ Nearing, | vention on March S and 4.' I in Palestine, the entire Jewi«l«. nlcir stressed two points—the Community Center and Welfare will be I. Goldstein, representing of rest grew to such proportions Scouts for a number of years noted economist, declared TuesThe survey shews that there i work there may -'ace a terriMr need for paying the old pledges Federation, under, whose direction the Vaad, Mrs. M. Burstein, the that the Russian authorities be- and donated the land on. which day evening from the rostrum of are. 9,S SO "kosher butchers in I catastrophe If the Mandatory • in full, and the dire plight of it is today.. the Sea Scout base is built. Ladies Vaad Auxiliary, Sidney came alarmed. the Jewish Coraraticity Center, the Tnited States, RE. increase | Power does not open Transjo;*. the beneficiaries of the camKatleman, the Men's club; Miss •where he gave a Community For.of 2,830 since 1P2E. In that i dan for Jewish, settlement, i£ K paign. Dora Freshman, the Junior Vaad um lecture on "Europe -in 1S3 5." year they did an annual busi- j continues Its policy of restrict bit: Auxiliary; Sidney Epstein, the ""Russia," he said, "is the one ness of $140,000,000. • Help Now. More i Jewish immigration, end it II Young Men's Vaad; Robert Gerecountry in the world today where "The success of the next, camthan half, or'5,2.56 of these ' hampers the export oC Pales'*.ii'*: lick, the Habonim, and Eleanor there is no racial discrimination "tosher shops are In New York i products. paign," he 'declared, "depends to Cohn the Kadimah. Chairman for as regards the Jews "or anyone j state. Only'five states—-Neva- i This warning wag sounded fc'--' & large measure upon the manthe evening will be Henry Magelse. . • . • I da, .Montana, North and South | Vladimir Jahotinsky, world Ziot-ner In which the pledges of the zamin. 'Dakota End -' Idaho—oo not j ist Revisionist leader, addressing last campaign are honored. Every "In terms of church and re-j After the program the Ladles have any kosher butchers. I an enthusiastic audience of 4,000 donor who has not paid his pledge ligion—the church organizations! BERLIN (JTA).—An agreej persons at Mecca Temple. The states with the largest lax until the percentage of Jewin full should make a determined ment between the Joint Distribu- Auxiliary will serve. The hostesses quartet of veteran workers are subjected.to very drastic reg- | Mesdames D. Denenberg, in Athe ish children receiving a Talmud ulations and. restrictions. Sub- numbers of . kosher butcher I The address, in. -which J«.bneffort to clean up the balance tion Committee and: the Zionist Include interests of the local TalBrown, L. Mendleson, A. Katz, Torah education is considerably ject to these restrictions, the peo- shops ' are Pennsylvania, 78 0; i tinsfcy explained Kevisionism s-p now. The local, national and "in- Organization of America, to carry S. S. Katleman, A. Schwaczkin, I. mud Torah—Dr.. Philip Sher, raised. j an attempt at a "New Deal IK ternational Jewish agencies which otit jointly V the present year's Morganstern, and N..H. Greenberg. Sam Ravitz, N. S. Yaffe, and Mrs. ple are allowed to go to church." 'New Jersey, 575; Massachus• Zionism." marked hie first pubUr. e t t s , 575;-•Illinois, 550: Ohio, Wolf Toastmaster benefit from the. campaign depend drive for funds under the TJnited He added, ho-wever, that the SoThH Sunday evening the third K. Tatle—were publicly honored StRt*w Harry A. Wolf was toastmaster viet campaign has been success- '340;' California, 250; Connec- | appearance in the X'fiUed upon our payments, and we are in Jewish Appeal, has been reached annual dinner meeting of the Vaad and presented with testimonials flatter an int.erva.1 of.1 nine years, ticut, 240, and chairman of the evening. He ful and that few in Russia today grave -need of the funds with by these two institutions, it was will take place. -A musical program of appreciation for their faithful __? j He left Moncley afternoon on *. was introduced by Mas M. Bar- are religiously inclined. . which to meet our obligations. disclosed • here by Dr. George featuring Cantor A. Schwaczkin service during the past three ish, j nationwide speaking ton.r to ex-> president of the Talmud In his address proper bearing "Also," he continued, "in pre- Landauer, secretary of the Jew- and Al Finkle will be given. I. decades, at the thirtieth anni- Torah. | plain Revision ism . to Americas, stressed the value cf "planned paring for the drive next spring, ish Agency's office for the setT: Morganstern will be toastmaster. versary banquet of the Hebrew j Jewry in all parts of the country. Mr. Wolf gave a general sur! Emphasizing' that the Revisionwe must bear in .mini that a tlement of German Jews in Pal- Reports of all affiliated groups, school Sunday at the J. C C A vey of Talmud Torah activities economy" as practiced in the Soestine who reached Berlin on his I 1st demand for reoopnissfng rale». greater effort than ever before way to Palestine from America. election of officers and installa- capacity attendance heard the during the past thirty years. He viet. He intimated that the rest tion, and the annual message of four unstintingly praised lor also appealed to the audience to of the •world Tronld capitulate to | t5ne as *, Jewish State Is must be exerted by our comDr. Landauer also disclosed the the Russian idea of "socialized, | but a minimum cleinancl munity, since the Jewish needs fact that the allocations commit- the Rabbi will be features of the their unselfish efforts. support the Talmud Torali Book planned, scientific production." f 1 j tinsky gave a two-hour tvll-around everywhere have- not decreased tee of the United Jewish Appeal gvening. Rabbi Saul Silber, of Chicago, of Life. II. Marcus Is chairman of the president The lecturer, Trio just re,2 % i analysis or the present political of the Hebrew Theoin America has fixed the sum of program committee, and Mr. L. Mossky Slakes Presentations turned from another of his many and economic situation there, antl 5 $250,000 for settling German Epstein Is chairman of the nomi- logical college, gave the main adHenry Monsky made the pres- trips to Europe, was high, in his ! I made .it clear tliet the cviestlon, dress, in Yiddish. He pointed out Jews In Palestine. . entation to the four specially praise of the advance being made nation committee. Members wishMoscow (JTA) — Tfee Soviet j ot .Jewish colonization Is actu&Uy " T h e purpose of my visit to ing to make reservations are asked the difference between informa- honored, giving each a gold in Russia.- He divided- Europe governicent ;has . opened cegotSa-! a question of internal and foreigR tive education and formative edumedal on which was inscribed a into three parts: 'Democratic America," D"r. /Landauer stated, to call Mrs. A. Schwaczkin AT "was to negotiate with the allo- 5534, or Mrs. I. Morganstern, JA cation. "The Talmud Torah," he testimonial to faithful service capitalist", countries as •exempli- tions with Poland t? permit Jews marketing:. "The Ebf:<orptn-e csppcity of •oia that country to cross the The Temple Israel Sisterhood cations committee of the United 4746. Mrs. A. Schwaczkin Is in said, "belongs to the formative rendered. Monsky lauded the exland depends OTS the atnour.t r>T fied _fcy Prance • and England; j ^ i r and settle In the R n s s 5 a f r o n t e orges each of its members to set Jewish Appeal with regard to the charge-of the dinner, assisted by type, not giving the child science cellent work of all four. "fascist t i the settlers are eb3e tt'fascist capitalist" countries . as j j"^J V reeion off BI v i si lhl antonomona BIaside Wednesday evening, Febru- participation in the work of set- Mesdames S. Weisman, J. Hahn, or technique, but sentiment, feelEach of the four made a brief exemplified* by Germany • and jrn_T5,!,^s.T1.. • sell at home and abroad." ing and comprehension of and for ary. 13, which has been desig- tling German Jews in Palestine. D. Epstein, H. Marcus, LJbby Kapresponse, stressing that everyand the socialist state ol Plans-were laid out for clevel-i explained. nated "Sisterhood Evening." Mrs. Secondly, to conclude an agree- lan, D. Crounse, L. Epstein,' L. Judaism and its mission and thing they had ^ clone was not for Italy; Russia. The Revisionist leafier opicg the work of building roads j Sam Josephson, chairman of the ment with regard to a new drive, Turkel, Dave Silverman and A. ideals." the sake of glorj but because of t Witt entertainment committee, has an- and thirdly, to report to the Ad- Katz. He stressed that the Hebrew love for and devotion to the Tal- The figures he quoted shoved in • the Blro-BidJEn territory and i f _ l g tO p."!." w * of i sufficient the first two classifications to be ! fQj the • establishment nounced this to be a social eve- ministrative Committee of Vthe language is "the soul of the Jewmud Torah Meal. Each also All the orthodox synagogues of market econ- h a r g e citv- OE ; the-banks of the] tion to tlie ning for the Sisterhood and its Jewish Agency on the progress Omaha and South Omaha belong ish people" and must ba taught pledged his future services to suffering from "stagnant 1 with placing acuities in thfomy." He stated that "Eussiaa iBIra -River. * * • I friends. Instead of the one large and the results of the settlement to the Vaad. With a membership to the .children, as it leads to the Talmud Torah work. wey of €-"po-! r&lestiae goods. production was advancing steaflw i t h " Biro-BIdjsn officially| affair which has formerly been work in Palestine." scriptures and the whole Hebraic close to 1,000 the yaad has been ily and very rapidly. • jpro cla:nied last month as an P,U- i He pointed out: that "the growth. Bean of Celebration given each year, small groups Dr. Landauer's present visit to carrying on Intensive activity In literature. He also criticized of imports into Palestine is fc. will gather together on this eve- Berlin is in connection with a cultural and religious affairs. N. American Jewry at large for ne- • In his.'response, Dr. Philip Declaring that the . United, i'tonomous Jewish region sneer a |j «aad race while exports tetnRtn Sher, dean of the celebration, States is In a much better tech] practically all-Jewish adiKinistraning at the various members' number of technical details relat- Levinson Is head of 4he Vaad; glecting to give the Jewish chili Etationsry." This, he said, to1 homes." The Sisterhood feels this ing to the settlement of German Mrs. L. Neveleff Is president of dren a proper Jewish education; said. In part: "The reward of a .sed j tion, Interest in this territory getiter with the other obstructive to be a novel form of entertain- Jews in different parts of Pales- the Ladies Vaad Auxiliary; Miss and appealed that this evil be good deed is the divine pleasure we now larger ^proportions j p 0 l I c i e g o £ t f e e M a u d a t ( > P y •which you experience when you seriously tmaertoois: to p; ment, at the same time creating tine. our Dora Freshman and Sidney Ep- cared. S " may lead to* a eata*» an even greater sociality among "German Jewish immigrants stein are presidents of the Junior Philip M. Kltitsnick gave the performed the deed. . . . I dedi- ecoEoxaic life, Tre'-would be able a n d n the. Ukraine. Kar,y yonng j teTnmen , r o p h e f o r the mtiTe fuits members. are adapting themselves very Vaad Auxiliary and the Young main address In English. -Term- cate myself to do welfare work, to .fill the .plan .within one or especially members of the | ture. "Many hare already arranged easily to the new environment in Men's Vaad, respectively; Ephraim ing, the* celebration Sunday as. a especially for the; Talmud Torah, two per cent. , . . t!.t:nist- party, Ere maldEgj "Kever since 1917 h&a the to be hostesses and have invited Palestine," Dr. Landauer de- Marks is president of the Men's link between the past and the: because -this is*':tlie,-"'daly thing the fact that west-} preparations to -leave for Eire *| Jewish people been a group to. their home on this clared. "The distribution of Ger- club; Celia Llpsman heads the present, he pointed out the many' which Trill preserve Judaism. If eraHe^fiepiored Europe is going backward to & danger, as . apw, date. There will be a small man immigrants in Palestine as Kadimah, a group of high school thorns. on the path of the past,: our Talmud Torahs-would be de- hand industry and hand agricul- Bidjan in the.nc--r future. The visit -which the Nazi min- \ declared. "If the present era of charge of 50 cents for each guest. between the land and the .town girls, and Paul Green the Habo- an arduous .path which the foar stroyed, In less tSjaa. one hundred tare, resulting in a lowered peering.- paid to Poland I prosperity ends; tea crash, we ister Be a hostess, but If you cannot Is more favorable thaa with any nim, a group of high school boys. honored individuals had-to trav- years ' Judaism and the Jewish standard cf living, aroused great interest among the I shall pay very lisavily not only race* would be a thing of the.past. Invite friends to your home, find other group of immigrants. Of erse in maintaining', effective TalFred S. "White, chairman of the j Jewish population in White Rus-11in economic losses but also P<Jare our life- Community someone who ia entertaining a the twenty thousand who came The Hague—Eight Jews have mud Torah standards. -Although' Tije Talmud "Torahs Forum, introduced : group and participate in the fun into Palestine during the past been honored by Queen Wilhel-. the present -.Talmud Torah pros- savers, . and every ':3evr "who "wants the chairiaah .of the evening,1 Su- sia and In the Ukraine, in view j.IitieaHy, The Mandatory St of .-the- fact that the Soviet press jj be warned about it, of the evening," the "Sisterhood year, eight thousand have set- mina, according to the list of an- pects are brighter, he empha- to lire: and- preserve .Judaism gese Blazer, Blazer introduced interpreted the ...visit . a s .& clear {must be aware of the fact that Evening" announcement says. ' tled in villages and colonies." nual honors. sized, :Jewry mast; sot rest or re• (Continued - on Page S.) 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