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SUPERSTITION There are still innocent people i who think that the lower kinds of anti-Semitism can be success-j fully met by argument and rectification of error and who therefore will not engage in those public actions involving positive and Cincinnati, Ohio — Dr. isaacjican correspondent for Russian i _ . , .. . ,_,.. , affirmative moral power and •Entrants Invited for a Rubinow, International Sec- newspapers : Registration for History and retary of B'nai Brith and well Jewish solidarity which alone can posed "Amateur Night" He practised Beligicrt Classes Next known-statistician and Jewish so- three shift the inner emphasis of the years andmedicine during for mostonly of ] Next Month cial worker, died in New York anti-Semite from a feeling of j the first two decades of the cen- i Sunday Cit, last week, at the age of 61, complete security and immunity! "With the complete co-orcinaOpening a program of wider it has b e e n to one of hesitation and uncerannounced by tion of all local enterprises in < i Jewish education as the ultimate : , tai»ty. For let us not forget: for js c °Pe and activity, the Omaha President Alfred M. Cohen. He
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Let us get on to the two. recent incidents which 'prove so beautifully,, as. with jthe fine.,accuracy- of mathematics...the phbbie character of any and every antiSemitic phenomenon. There is the redoubtable Father Coughlin sonations, instrumental, dramatic, who has been periodically hinting etc., will be assembled and many around that all the greatest and be awarded. Any memi 2 e s most dangerous capitalists in the 1 p rY\""« of e -n.-r.rld were Jews. (Wouldn't it be _ ____ world were Jews. (Wouldn' amateur standing is eligible to swell if that were so and we participate in Jthis contest. could help our brethren in CenPersons desftsing to compete tral and Eastern Europe and re-must fill in an entry blank and
had been ill for 'several months. Dr. Rubinow had been Executive Secretary of B'nai Brith since November 1, 1929. He was a former president of the National Conference of Jewish Social Service, and was ah outstanding Jewish leader. Born in Russia, he came to this country at the age of 18, and was educated at Columbia and New York Universities, . from which he received his M. D. in 1S9S and his Ph. ~D. latex. For many years he served as Amer-
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the full enjoyment of his phobia lodge No. 354 of B'nai B'rith will the anti-Semite must be convinc- hold its first meeting of the fall ed that it can.never harm him. season on Monday, September 21, Rob him of that feeling of entire at the Jewish Community Center. The committee headed by Max security and his phobia will no longer function satisfactorily in j Baer; has arranged a program of unusual interes for the first his physical economy. Two recent incidents prove meeting. William Holzman, presonce .more, if any further proof ident of the Jewish Community were needed, the fact that anti- Center and chairman of the B'nai Semitism is completely divorced B'rith vigilance committee, will from fact and that it is a super- speak on "How We Keep Vigilstition f ising to phobic - propor- ance in Omaha." A mock radio tions. It is, therefore, like all program, ''The Jewish March of superstitions and like all phobias Time." depicting current events a, psychical mechanism that has of special interest to Jewry, will two purposes which sometimes also be presented.O n Monday, October 19, the appear singly and : sometimes blended; a propitiatory purpose local lodge will sponsor a B'nai 'and a self-exculpatory purpose - - B'rith Amateur night. All of the a purpose which says: "May fate amateur talent of the Jewish comspare me!" and a purpose which munity—singing, dancing, impersays: "It is not my fault!" In other words. ani-Semites either B'XAI B'RITH AMATEUR knock wood with their antiXIGHT' Semitism or pass the buck. In troubled times when the feeling Entry Blank of guilt in mankind is intensified (Fill in and forward to 3Iax the latter motive will prevail Baer, chairman of Program over the former. In tranquil committee, 607 Brandeis Theperiods the- propitiatory motive, ater Bldg., on or before Octoless dangerous than the self-exber 1.) culpatory one, will prevail. Why the Jews are.singled out as the objects or contents of these phoSame bic superstitions is a long and intricate story but not at all an obAddress ..........r •• scure one when properly thought out. It has to do with the uniqLueAge ness of the Jewish people as an historic phenomenon; it has, as is scarcely worth repeating, nothPhone No. ing to do with the actions or the character of any individual Jew My act is: or group of Jews anywhere or "at any time. .,
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is taking its first important step * in that direction by the opening The r.r.ncal Eosli Hashonah of its school of history and reedition of the Jewish Press will ligion, announced Jlr. H e n r y • be published neit week. All Monsky, president .e City: items for this issue must be in Talmud Torah. j the Press office byy Jlonfiay, y Until now children not regis- i September 14. ] tered in the Hebrew classes of '• Watch for next week's mam] the Talmud Torah were not ad-! moth psper . . . replete with j mitted to the classes in history: outstanding features, articles ! and religion. However, under thej and stories . . . a comprehenj new program, it is now possible \ sive picture of the local, nafor a child who has not as yet \ tional and international SewisJi (entered the Hebrew classes to at- ; scene. jtend the classes in history and re- • | ligion. ; ! The school will meet every j Sunday morning at the J. C. C.! The course of study will: be the: •same as that- formerly offered at j Dr. I. 31. Ruhinovr. 'the Beth-El Sunday school and at \ Abe Bracde. student in the „. The seventh annual midwest tury he was a statistician and an : t n e y a ad religious school; how-; , v .„. of Chicago, a k se district conference of Workmen's J economic expert. He served in j ever, the school of history and ' ""1 "^ "• will conduct the High Holiday services of th e Ycang People's jday, 6 and and 7, atlionthe^of U. S. Department of j: religion s and will will be benefit greatly in! by j CircleSeptember was held Sunday j theStatistics, latter capacity in the Bureau communal ue L j Knights of "Pythias hall in Lin- Agriculture, from 19 04 to 19 0 7 , \ ^ e service of the' Talmud Torah i ^ ° ^ ° £ > ^ ^ " f i L o° an ^ anL ^ coln, Neb. and was'in the U. S. Department : faculty on its teaching staff; chairman _£f the committee in d Labor Lb f h! Delegates of Workmen's Circle j of C Commerce and for the! Beth-El congregation and : C e
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branches in Omaha, South Oma-j following year. During the next; t n e vaad H'lhr have, at the re-; ^5£ ,.?.a T " xivnins will be ha, De s Moines, Sioux City and three years, he was a member of: q u e s t of the City Talmud Torah, j . ^Jf JL °" acob Kahz, instructLincoln, together with delegates I the Bureau of Labor, and from! a g r e e d to send the children ,o f, or""^ from ladies' auxiliaries, numbered j 1911 to 1916 he was Chief Statis-jjt heir respective schools to the : „ . in the local Talmud Torah. one hundred. Tisey attended the j tician for the " Ocean Accident i s c h o o l . o f tistory and relirfon. > meetings and the banquet, spon- j Guarantee Corporation. The fol-! Registration will be held Sun-i
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1U praying qua A report of the work in all | in New York City, ; 6 to 13. Hamedrosh Hagodol. IPth me branches and auxiliaries for the I Hi3 career as a Jewish, leader: beHurt Sts. "Unmarried peopl past year was read. A program j began in 1919, when he was tween the ages of 15 and £5 will for future work in all branches j named Director of the Medical ; | be eligible to attend tne services, was submitted. ilTnit of the Zionist Organization; i Rabbis Harold Bergrer and DaThe new district committee of America in Palestine, where > k i"via via Goiasiem Goldstein are acting as EGT elected for the next year are Sam j he served for three years. Upon j iEers to the comrrJxiee sponsorLerner, chairman: L. "Witkin, ]his return, he was director o? the! People s syna- \ ^ secretary, and A. Forman, treas- i Jewish 'Welfare Society of Ph.il-1 *^ <f :iTTiaflip T o ; : rogue. urer. jadelphia for five years and Exe-| The reiigioTis sccool of _ jempie ; .,_•_.——.'_ ' .. , ;cntive Director of the Z. O. A. j Israel will opes Snnday, Septeri-• ft frbmg.'lDSS'" uhm'"hls" '"alRnatlonlber 13, at 9:45..in. ths-tasrn'ing. ] it.i jf-ti jwith B'nai Brith. Mrs. Sara .Gilinsfey is ctairman of ;
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hallowed ' penitential at Beth-Ei ; September ;' school and all those who contem)he had been a Contributing Edi-jtirne. _ . . , _. . Cantor Edgar will chant the. ' plated ^entering this term, regm s ^ «£u.. to u, « « - | t o r o f s u r r e y . . He was affiliated Teachers for the school are Ida; g ^ ^ g , „„£ ^ . ; v v*-e-"* a <-^ 0 * I the School of History a n d . . . J = J,.^^,^** .^,-»«« with many distinguished societies i Newman, Rita Mantel, Esther SiJ-j Religion a t the J . C. C. Sunday, voices in the singing of s.: in technical fields. jverinan, Mrs. Leonard Posley, Es-j select r of modern musical set-' forward to Max Baer, chairman September 13, from 10 to 12 He is survived by his wife, two j ther "Vreinstein, Leonard posley, \ ] tings of Selicoth prayers. The trio of the program committee, on or o'clock. Miss Olga Rubinow ; Mrs. Sam Teper, Bess- Weinstein The Vaad school of history and jdaughtres, : consists of Lawrence Finfcel, Hr.r-! before October 1. . and Miss Laura Rubinow, and a ' a n d . B . Newman. ' rit Bernstein and Ida Gitlin. j "The Unknown Soldier Speaks," religion, for children above the son, Raymond. j Lawrence Feblowitz will teach Rabfci David Goldstein will de- \ a dramatized version of John age 0 ^ 1 3 will be opened at" a ! the post-Confirmation class and liver a Selicotn sermon. The pub- ' Haynes Holmes' famous Armistice later date, which will be an-! Ethel Adler will conduct the Henounced soon. j lie is invited to attend. ! day sermon, will be offered at the
build Palestine- on a CarnegieMorgan-Rockefeller-Ford s c a l e instead of clamoring for pittances among a frightfully poor people?) N o w Father Coughlin comes out and says that he is no enemy of the Jews, that he doesn't even expect them to become Christians, but that they regular November 16 meeting. simply must as a minimum, aban- Cantor Aaron Edgar, cantor and don their ethics of revenge, their 'Chior director of the Beth-El synagogue, will offer a progTam of Hebraic peace songs. tooth principle and subscribe to 4 Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam "will
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j rette. Belnian, Una Gross, Marga- j \ ret Finkel, Jack Salen, Robert) £ b B i s h o p ! Berlin (JTA}—Jewish leane £ m ^ m b Bishop O s n s oonnl lyy London (JTA)—The Rimraerman, Sam Minkin ana » • laid plans for retncTiEg" trcirurig iSh refore a Jewish or- Times in an editorial Adolph Laytin. VernoxL C. Bennet have graduated from some this'Beaton.I of Ger—an-Jewisli youth for Psl--'"" g a n i z a t i o n I criticized " the Palestine will again be t i e Templeor ganist. don't accuse him of Old Testa-|i& • mt __ ,__ ..__ _,. ^ x 4 V n j estine colonization wo-R to Po-; , The feature of the January 11 tration for not having declared ment scholarship or Hebraic ! meeting of the local lodge will be martial law in the Holy Land | land is view of increasing cifli- ' studies. He must as a student a B'nai B'rith Town Hall discus- during the recent disorders. | culties facing such work here. It ^ V.ave read his Catholic version of sion on "Anti-Semitism in AmerI is also feared that the lorthcom- ; . It condemns the impending scripture, his Latin Bible. He . i ing Nazi Nurembnrg Cosjrress This will consist of a prin- stoppage of> Jewish immigration ica must still have a copy around t h e 'c i -a l d d r e s s an a anel t would completely prohibit. Jews . Leviticus I P a <l P discus-|into Palestine pointing out that house in which in ; from working on farms. si •' Under present plans, special 1 farms wiu be established around the local lodge of B'nai B'rhh of the spirit of the League of Na5 ! Wilno snd other Polish district? tions mandate. „ . . . , . , London (JTA)—The entire^-Colonial Minister William G. A. t ! ' —*" committee: Max Baer, • where GeriE.aii-JeT'5c"™ sii ->-m-t-, yout Warning against conceding to j division, numbering; ormsby-Gore's letter of-reassnrv'ahavtha l'reacha kamocha does- j F i r s t A r j a y I - Arab demands, the editorial d e - , 1 5 j 0 0 0 troops, was held in r e a d i - j a n c e " t 0 . 3 , ci'-ira "We-'zr-nn be trstnefi prior t departure lor n't, like the Latin Amicus mean; Clares that" governmental concesi p r e s ident of" the Jewish Agency | Palestine. friend (which narrows the prin-1 c e s s f o r d e p : i r t l l r e to Palestine, Ci-n f. r~ ' ^ man, Milton R. Frohm of Omaha sions would only result in furThe Second Infantry brigade, ! for Palestine, that suspension of [ The larms will bs snr ither Arab violence for the reali- comprising -3,000 soldiers and! Jewish immigration into the H o l r i t l l e Council for German Jewry, a J. Verbin of Fremont. zation of further demands. I fully mechanized, was to sail; Land would not .be considered as representative of wnich wm soon ive case in the Hebrew which Administrative changes a r e | within a few days to enable proc-; basis for achieving peace with ; leave for Poland in gives an additional fine shading a necessary, the Times states, re- j la'^tlon of martial law. . with the project. in the text: we are to entertain garding the toward our fellowmen the same troops are being rushed in re- ; Following is the full text of Mr.; of arms and points to the kindness that we necessarily feel to High Commissioner Sir; Ormsby-Gore's letter: ' for tightening provisions in t h e for ourselves. And JesusioE NazGrenfell Waucaope's re-j «i n " a T e to-acknowledge receipt; criminal code. ; areth, an observant and not un_,. -,. ,, . . ii^w*w L**at reinforcements are n^c- n? t-n"^ i ^ t p - n* c ^ ' c ^ J i c i p r . learned young pharassaic teacher The Times calls for~an mves-i . ! ""• T°^* »«"6» Oi- » c i , t t ^ A i ± *=*•-. quoted this Jewish principle as Public devotional services will tigation of the land reserves ijessary martial Pales-j forced. if _ ^ ; law is to be en-;jtciiao es -;Pn og s at ar esport terms al-: to c e from r tain the He had received it from His be held at the Beth Hamedrosh problem and asks the government ly v 15,000 troops i le^ed to have bsea acceoted fey to exercise close control on the J teachers. So what, as the com- Hagodol ;cemetery (Fisher's immigration of capitalists. \*Tf **Te<i&7 in Palestine inclcdingj t h ^ Palestine "Arab HiS&eV Coinmon saying goes today? This: Farm), Sunday, September 13, "• The latter statement refers to! ^ n t r y , mechamzed c a v a 1 r y.j m i t t a e a s t a s b a s i s f o r terminatthat Father.Coughlin. like every j promptly at, 11 o'clock. tank corps, armored cars and air-: i n K t t e s t r ike and terrorist cancleric of any Christian Church j There will be a brief sermon; the free entry into the country planes. This constitutes the heav-; by anyone possessing $5,000. Im- i e s t knew and knows perfectly well j j n English, a short sermonette ; * : £ £ ? * £ ^oik in *the I mUitary concentration since j i. • ten: s have been with his sane and normal mind ja n d memoViaV prayers. Rabbi Har- ^ 11 ^ ^ a £ " > n^ £>™ | the World War. by the High „ -d to the principle of brotherly r old Berger, Mr.! , . . . . „ „„_».. that the of brotherly.ferger. Cantor MUler and Mr.Vl™ }*!. Z 5 ° _ "J!iir . * j ^ £ i » The Dailv Hera! old B. . The Daily Herald reported that I Commissioner or ;y K:s Majesi, a „ Jewish T_~:™-U prin:.. i_. .-.. _.. .. . i must secure a certificate permitlove among men is the first troopship leaves for Pal-!j.T»s Government Moreover, i ing them to enter. ciple, first enunciated by Jews.; Those who plan to attend are! estine September 11. there's no foundation for the snsborrowed from Jews, illustrated j requested to have the Hebrew] . _ Such 'sensational, interest w&s STestioa referred to in a letter ECinnumerable times among Jews j names" of the deceased in order j / \ . / , , J\m aroused by the Cabinet's decision dressed os August 31 by the Jewitiul practiced by Jewish men and : that they may be rememberd in! to cancel military rsas savers at ish • Agency for Palestine to the women not only among them-j the service. Sussex in order to be in a posihat the Kigc selves but in relation to their! tion to rush more troops to the had authorised Christian neighbors within the j ir>0 j ^ SeligioQ in Holy Land that it overshadowed give assurance relimits o t our common, sinful ria- j Ethiopia in London newspapers the Span- garding certain measures," includture at least as well as it has. A d ( ^ s Ababa—General GraziAn A. Z. -A. "sweetheart" will ish'rebellion and the trans-ocean- ing suspension o*. irmnigrrritior., to meeti
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ani has promised Italian support be selected for the third year atjio flight of Harry Kidman. b e t C ^ ^ — £ r t""" c~~ 0.1. ~ ^Z tians who borrowed it from us for organization of Jewish relithe annual Achar Hataunis. dance I These moves by ths Eritisl among themselves, infinitely betgious communities in Ethiopia, sponsored by the Mother chapter (War Office dramatically clirsaxec ter than that Christian world general gave assurances to of A. "Z. A. 1 a week of lightening cevelopwhich Father Coughlin thinks he this effect in a long audience The contestants are Adele May- jj meats in the PalesrAae sitnstion •+ j 1 „ represents has ever practiced it meeting j ^ to Carlo repre- per, Esthryn M i l d e r , Rhoda- follovrtng the Ca toward us. In other I sentative of the Union of Italian Krasne, Geneviere Stein and Ruth j last •Wednesday. ' Communities. an" "with aaso-a.ii: (Continued on Page 3.) Blocks
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