December 11, 1936

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A foolish canfused brash young man has written a book. The At L the Vaad H'lhr Center of Chicago. book is not worth mentioning. held ,j.y night, Rabbi MilBut having -written a book the ton J ^m of Chicago was un- At the present time EabbI young man has published himself Program Arranged for animously elected to fill the place stein occupies the pulpit of the Dr. • Lords Berg Addresses by the aid' of a kind and intelli•Mternoon and Evening at of spiritual leader of the Ortho- Irving Park Jewish Community Large Center gent, but, as far as this matter is Center of Chciago. Synagogue dox congregations of the city. Audience concerned, necessarily uninformTwo weeks ago Rabbi Kopstein On Sunday,. December 13, the Rabbi Kopstein succeeds Rabbi was guest Rabbi of tha Taad and ed Christian publisher. Now what "Psychiatrically c o n s 1 d ered, Harold Berger who left in Sepis •worth remarking upon is the fifth day of Chanukah, members tember" to become field director at that time conducted services at there is no sanity. " according to self which the brash young man of the B'nai Israel Synagogue, of the National Council of Young the-various. Orthodox synagogues j Dr. Louis Berg, who spoke Wed-! succeeds in publishing and the of tbe city. nesday night on the Community | : •• • 18th. and Chicago streets, will Israel. physical mechanicm with which Rabbi Kopstein was ordained Rabbi Kojstein will coxae to Forum at the Jewish Community dedicate tvro memorial tablets rethat self now operates. by the late Chief Ashkenazic Rab- Omaha this week end to be the Center. Dr. Berg, whose topic ' He gives you his * "trauma". cently placed in the synagogue for bi of Jerusalem, the famous Rab- guest of the'Vaad, Sunday night. I was "Who is Really Sane," said j "One day I ran from the street the perpetuation of the -names of bi Kook, and by the great Chofe At that time definite arrange-1 that sanity is a legal • fiction, j P.egistratioiL for the Co'te to my mother, and stood angrily the deceased parents. Chaim of Radin, Poland. He is ments will be made in regard to "Sheer optimism in our social or- j \\ JeTr^sh Studies which opens der. No one knows what a nor- I The dedication ceremony -trill also a graduate of the Lewis In- his installation as Rabbi. before her, blue eyes - burning dar» January 5, at the blond hair tousled." mal mind is. It has never been f start at eight o'clock, at which with anger, Community Center, mar n seen but only assumed. There is | ; Here we could end our analysis, time Cantor Abraham Schwaczkin no proof of a single normal mind |.-..; raaae at the J. C. C. desk, That unemphatic emphasis on and forty members of the Hazoanywhere." Dr. Berg defined a J | • college, founded in If54 *blond hair and blue eyes. that mir Singing Society -will present normal mind as one - free from j : subtle comfort in ni3 unJewisn a Chanukah concert. Fred White, Philip Slier, has been enti-p all abnormal, tendencies. j aspect quite gives the young man local attorney and member of the organized. Dr. Sher for it. "There are t3-fiay mere people j :•' congregation, trill be principal From It, all he hid. and away, two years head of the C" speaker. At -its meetinj last Sunday, De- suffering from insanity than from j -. all he writes and all he thinks cember 6, the Omaha Hebrew club all other physical ailments put to- | hap been directing the or<could at once be developed. SelfEarlier in'the afternoon at tvro I re-elected J. J. Friedman as pres- gether." negation and self-hatred lead to o'clock an important meeting of tion act! in nevr serrins' re Speaking' on the various types j. of the organization. Sam the death-wish for oneself as a all members of the congregation Family Welfare Periodical ident crcrr president. wag re-elected vice-presi- of social maladjustments, Dr. j j ^ member of one's kind. But let us will take place. At six o'clock a Praises Advice to Welfare Bloom The classes will be lim dent. For the forty-fifth consec- Berg said there is more suicide quote a little farther: " 'Mother/ banquet for all members and Board fortj* persons each. The n and more alcoholism tnan ever utive term Sol Rosenberg Sal Slicimicfc I demanded 'why did you make their wives Trill be held to honor lum trill include i l Hebrew, e serve as secretary, and for the (before. "People are seeking reSTsznefi President me a Jew?' 'What has happened?"' ho newly-elected spiritual leader. In a long, highly laudatory ed- twenty-ninth consecutive time, j lease from the difficulties cf the t£IT £Ed advanced; Yiddish she asked astounded.". Was the Habbi Milton Ai Kopstein. itorial appearing in the social ; elements.?}- and ad anced j . good lady, one wonders,, really Commissioners of the congTega- welfare magazine, T i e Family, John Reldnian will be treasurer. changing social order.* is j Itb History; Great. Jewis Per Dr. Berg commented on the ex- j I. M/TVintroul), Louis Morgan, astounded? Maybe. She had "re- ion are: L. Epstein, meeting the work of the Omaha Family sontllties; Jewish Custon. t i c trenie importance of religion in and Sam Altschuler were elected pressed" what was likely to: hapchairman; E. Bloch, Bible chair- "Welfare Association is praised Ceremonials; &nd Jewish. L. e~ pen to her small boy.. Maybe she man; and H. Marcus, M. Potash, and Rabbi David H. 'Wice is quot- Trustees. S. Kenyon, Daniel Sch- j the life of the individual. The j ture. warty, and B. Handler were elect-j suicide rate in Catholic countries had trusted to a reasonably unSigelman, J. Tretiak, and "Wil-ed. The College rrlil be diTii"° is very, small. "Science has given Jewish name and the aforesaid liam, Weiner. The editor, speaking of. family ed to the executive board commit- man reason but robbed him of j tvo tes-vreefc ,-semssters. J. c tee. blond hair and blue eyes. InThe program will be as follows: case work in a period of transiI ma v~i!2 be given v b e t E r i e faith. It has become difficult for stead of bringing up her child in tion1, shows the place of the layPART 1 I has completed two years c r c the common man to re :oncile a Jewish atmosphere and so help- America; Lighting of the Chan- man's committee in facilitating Gov. Lehman to'Speck laws of cause and effect with the ing him initially to absorb the kah candle; • **flloez Zur"; "Ya-this work. To illustrate his conChildren of the Talmud Torati j er Hebrew cz, • Yidisfc; or r•• e Divine. He no longer sees any rea- and the Talmud Tors.ii History of Jetrish 'Historr; one "er en "Ewropss® Jetsry" shock, she trusted sub-consciously en" by Gelbart: "GuteWoch" by tention he discusses the plan of son to live beyond material enjoy- and Religion. Department will to the chance of his "passing"^ So Bugatch; "Mir Shmiden" by the Omaha' organization that sets Snniay ment- Yet," Dr. Berg went on to take part in Ciiacnkah celebrsshe was "astounded." The Nordic aside fifteen minutes at the be»W^ ^ » i i " t t e say, "Great scientists of the Jeans t l o a £ n d j - ^ y t o t a t e p I a c e K { m . name and appearance hadn't elbart; "NIcht Fargest" by A. ginning of each meeting for dischwaczkin; Governor Herbert H. address by Fred worked. Let us quote just a little cussion of the agency's function of New York, vice chairman cf Eddington, and Einstein type arejg a y r December li, a.' the Jevrisfc farther. " 'What is this word Jew White. devout and religious men." | Community Center. and the Board's relation to it. the American Jewish Joint DisPART they call me? I don't want to be "The machine age has enslaved j Henry Konsiy, president of Rabbi Wice is quoted as say"Meishe tribution Committee, will speak man. It promised everything and i Talmud Torah. will preside. Dr.: called Jew. I want to be just Ro• Ganvet Arties," byy ing: on "The Crisis of European Jew- gave nothing. It took awayTnan's Philip Sher, chairman cf tbe CareE Trill be cast ' c tte bert.' My mother gathered me in Vladmir Heifetz; Jewish songs by 'As the policy-forming body of j ry" over Station WEAF and the j economi securltjr and the enher arms and I cried bitterly, as lantor Selz; ,"Seu Sheorim" by Board of Ec ncaticn of ths • TEI- and a carraral spirit an agency, the Board must con- Red Network of the N a child broken for. the first time." Hazomir; "Zemires," by Zilbert; cf his self In activity." mud Torsi, -will \riil be princpial at the Beth El S;T3a stantly be the balance wheel be- Broadcasting Company, Sunday. doo, •which starts Bt 4 Of course the good lady told her 'Onu Bonn Arzo" by Canton A. The cure for this extremely ingS speaker. tween two extremes — the ideal- December 13, at one o'clock coning- SunSar. Dscej small son that h& ought to be ;chwaczkin; "Hatikvqh." percentage of socia] njalsdjUEtSeven dr2.rns.tie ism that forgets material mech- (Omaha time). proud to be a JevvvvThat, if I may O-E c i «.i. inert t is not essily aeccsplisseg. I25 tea theme cf CbaHEkat, vrill j tare anics' and the utter disregard of Governor Lehman's address -will be allowed to be vulgar, did a fat human values that follows in the be broadcast sa part "of ths pro- "The h o s e is not fulfilling itsi^e presented. Tfcs £r£iHEtiiutic"E lot o£_ good, that, empty formula, -re: A Lm-5 KCEpuropse at preseat" Dr. Bers saii | to wake of materialism.. cesdingrs of = . the Joint Distrifeutloa after the child had been permittct!??I ctt s : ,e sees the home as the : "Social wcr^ers_oitEn_,.di8cnx?7. oraciittee's - National eiTfo reach the,,3ge ^r-ajrticnlateinadequate "comtntiaTIy facilities of Jewish leaders of the mesa here described without Jewen Sens; Macs-been l^c-1. <?rer|-np, A colored orchestra, with all for carrying on'their worK but States and Canada - at the Hotel ish atmosphere, -without Jewish LikeiriSB tlia sctccls hz.vs' fsil- the Chanukah Lights; '. are xmable to do anything about Astor 4n New -Yorfe City. The ed. "Children £.re gives a sniat- Kacca-bees; andl Let ~Z beauty, -without Jewish ceremony, the ' 'down south" nannony and 's Go T c i f r , - r r T^r-h memory, speech, iolk-way, snul or rhrtlmr; wilt play for the free it. It is -up to" the Board to make meeting has been called for tbe terins of learning and no charact- Jerusalem. the community conscious'of these dancing which will be'one of the temple, sabbath candles or.Chanconsideration of problems of er." The staff of the TalauS Torah ukah lights, nr seder celebration; stellar attractions to be found at deficiencies. The Board is tne Jewish Relief and Reconstruction Dr. Berg graciously held a for- is directing s.sd sd coaching tbe I bet, to be- vulgar again,' they he- Showboat party -Wednesday medium lor transmitting com- abroad. um of questions a t which time be young people for the celebration. be the the poor kid a Christmas night at the Blackstone hotel, munity ideals to the case workanswered challenges to his statesongs iri.ll be sung by the ers and for transmitting funds, 1 l gave sponsored by the Sisterhood of ments. Eugene Blazer, chairman Talmud TorahChorus. ; vrfce r r r.with the highest regard for rutree. of the Forum, presided. Hiss don't want to be called a Temple Israel, for the benefit of man worth, from that part of the erf f" the religious school. Belle Ryan, assistant superintenI Jew.' community which does not need, i_i..t«,w-^i=.t,* dent of schools, introduced tee "With a typical Showboat seti* Now our young mas Is twentyto ccrae, there vr; tvo ting, the party promises to bo oneto that part of the community Becausa of bad weather last speaker. f—I Hf nine and he has -written a book. which is in dire need." Sunday the Zion Flag Day was The next speaker on the Porcm " He has written himself down. The of the gala affairs of the season, The Omaha Family "Welfare On December 2, Reverend Jo- \ .•* book ought to be called: "I don't featuring in addition to dancing, Association handles such families postponed to this coming Sunday, will be Sherwood TJddy who will 5 to E sepb P. Ecercher, S. J. S.UHQ\\ZZ- \ ^ c ?; want to be a Jew." On the back cards, drawings and a complete in nped that are not helped by December 13. The Jewish Nation- be here January 20. 0! ge roo cafeteria with a wide assortment al Flag Day campaign in Omaha ed the highest grades in tne dasj ^ fe- of the publisher's dust-jacket is the Jewish or Catholic charities. ses in tne arts coilejre, tee tmi-|.V a •'% a reprbduction of a photograph of of tempting viands and beverages. Rabbi Wice was appointed to the Is being conducted by the Junior MRS. JOSEPH LEWIES, In addition, there will be door Hadassah. Miss Sonia Roitstein, versity college ana t i e college of j *^J" i tbe young man. Oh, ever so Norboard last January and is chairof Creigbtos. Univer- i ^r: AGE 68, DIED TUESDAY ms' die and determined-looking in a prizes, and a variety of amuseof the committee on educa- chairman of the Junior Hadassah Oi: Flag Day Committee and KalaS ments. Mrs. Joseph Levine, 6S, fiiedjsity. Among the Jewisi< stcdent I / foot-balliah, American Legion sort tion. Franklin, president of the Junior v , . i ere Sponsors of the radio Showboat Tuesday, December 8, in Lincoln j showing high averages Ere ;- of way. Even the nose seems to Hadassah. are in charge of the where she has resided • for the ris Dacsky, a senior in the Arts I f35 i be O. K. But we'd have to have a hour, have come to the aid of the local campaign. past ten years. Mrs. Stein had College who attained an average i"'" tea profile photo to be quite sure. I ocal group, lending decorations to The entire Omaha Jewish com- been a' resident cf Omaha fifty-!of So 7-9; "William Grar, E Jen-• M1 ta. '% suspect it's just the tiniest bit out supply local color, and they will Maxwell -House coffee munity is to be. canvassed. All seven years prior to her removal ior in tbe Arts College •whose E.ve- \ ! ^ I of drawing from a strictly Nordic serve to -Lincoln. rage vrss S3 16-17, Gertruce j ' ~ The old time melodrama "East | point of view. Too bad. Julius Bisno, executive secre- are asked to contribute as generMrs. Levine is survived by her Orach, Sophomore is tbe Cnirer-; f And so — and so our young Lynn" which will be presented as tary of A. 2. A., has returned ously as possible. Identified by their blue-whits husbacd; a brother, Joe S. Marks sity College, -wtose sxsr&cs vras | f man started out into the wide nearly as possible as it was on from a-fifty-two'day trip through wide world to find out how riot the riverboats, during the Show- fourteen Eastern states. Mr. Bls-boxes the volunteers will conduct and three daughters, Mrs. Frank S2 S-16; Bernice Borzif, a Fresh-> to be a Jew, . He might just as boat era, under the direction of no's trip was made for the two- a popular appeal for contributions Eesnick of Omaha, Mrs. Morris jm a n j a tee IJniversitr CoIIere, f 4 ted 11 well have started at home and Mrs. Max Block, will be given at fold purpose of finding a camp towards the Palestine Land Fund Shrier of Lincoln, and Mrs. Erail 12-17. whooped it up for Russo-Soviet S o'clock and repeated a t 10. site for the fourteenth national through the sale of miniature re- Singer of Los Angeles; two sons, J others with high E-rerEg-es vrere ma". O e asaimilationism and Jewish disIn the cast are Rosalie Alberts, A. Z. A. to be held somewhere in productions of the Zionist emb- David Levine of Omaha'and Abejsol "Wezelman, appearance in the new melting- the beautiful young heroine, Mil- New England and" to hold a ser- lem. This is the twenty-third ob- Levine of Los Angeles, and five School of Coics.erce wiose aver- Esther age was S4.1S; s.nd Ksrold Zelispot with the other bays and girls Robinson, the hissing villain, ies of conferences "with B'nai servance of Zion Flag Day. grandchildren. sky, a sophomore is the College -who hate themselves and their and Alex Lipsman, the dashing B'rith men acting aa advisors to Tbe City Of Ratislsoa is be!iSV-!Gf Joamalisni whose average w kind and want to disappear and hero, all of whom the audience Is A- Z. A. chapters. , Theodora, Queen of Bulgaria to be the site o£ t i e oldest: ss 5-S. "pass" and having seen the fail expected to applaud or boo as the Conferences were held In Pitts- from 1335 to 1355 came of a famsettlement ia Bavaria. j The Creighton Honor Re •ure of all other and all previous occasion demands. Others In im- burgh, Philadelphia, Pawtucket, ily of Byzantine Jews. wiich includes persons hoiCii assimilatory movements, all other portant Toles are Bess Goldware, Haverhill, Hartford, New York an average cf TO or abcre vr suicidal leaps, hope -and dream Martha Hlmmelsteln, Herbert and Indianapolis. In the course also announced. KE~GS appear!; that here at last i3 a way of get- Kaplan and Rita Mantel. of his trip Bisno visited fifty A. iEfludea Morris Dar.£tr, ^TUHE ting rid of their Jewishnes3 o Chairman of, the ticket com- Z. A. chapters including those in Gray, Daniel • Jliller, Eerni getting rid of themselves, o mittee, Mrs. M< L. Cohn, will make Toronto and Windsor, Canada. Bordr, and G irtnifie O~S., plunging deep and disappearing the award of two tickets to the "While in K^wport, Rhode Isin the vast womb of the Russian next Drama League production, land, Mr. Bisno visited the oldest people. Tf * "First Lady," to the individual Jewish synagogue and Burial Dr. C. W. Poynter and Dr. MorWell, if that's the -way they selling the highest number of Ground in the United States. The '-«. -5-,— c; p. -r ris' Margolin will feel about it, all right. If they Showboat tickets. Jewish Community of Newport ers on the secon don't want to face the iron musl Others of the. committee -who dates from 1658 and has become r? nrc of Jewish fate and tragic glory o are working hard to make this a place of interest to botb Jews ture on vocational guidance spon- j VThUe is co~ mittee •:is Inzer sored by the Hound Table or Jets-- J Jewish functioning in the world the outstanding party of Sister- and non-Jews. tencb.es to it<! putting the last iah Youti at tbe Jewish Communthey needn't. All that falls off is hood history are: Mesdames Julwork on tbe Ju.nl or Council's anThe Torah of the Synagogue, ity Center, Thursday evening, Deoti'al. ius Newman and Julius Abraham- according to Bisno, is written on cember 17, at S:15. But they might spare us thei son, cards and refreshments; leather rather than sheepskin and lis JJa-crx IS Bre ut ct C i-lis specious and silly rationalizations Jack Cohen, Clarence BeTgrnan was brought from Spain by the This" session ill be' devoted to to Ettesd the tltzir, Saturday ereT ining Dece ber IS, Our young man with, the lace an" and Sam "Wirthheimer, entertain-, early settlers. Bisno was also the analysis and discussion of the P t en j Hotel. expression and attitude of a foot ment; Max Holzman, decorations; shown by the Rabbi the subter- possibilities for young peopl?, j Featuring a cabaret strl?, **?-*' ball hero might have spared' u Ben Silver, arrangements, M.- L. ranean passage Tecently discover- particularly -youn; ; Jews o£ Osiaits allied his spiritually hideous and shame- Cohen, Louis. Kulakofsky, David ed. It is not knoTra whether this ha, in Medicine ^ance Trill be eonSucieS la th" j . ful defamation of our rebirth an" Goldman, program; Ben. Shapiro, passage was constructed because sciences. i bsst cf the currently pop-alcf resettlement in Palestine; hi Joseph Weinbsrg, David Wice, of a lingering fear'', or as "a mem- Dr. Poynter, tlean of ths School j "E^isg" tesipo. ' might have spared us the filth publicity. orial to the time that ..once ths of .Medicine of the University of i ••••..'•• j a a a for ths ca-aee, s,3.£ is beiEsr and the slanders and the lies and Jews-of Newport were-Slarranos. Nebraska -will .'peali: of the general field of medicine -while Dr. j assisted t-y the 1-Iissss Betty Sethe misinterpretations. He might Margolin, prominent Omaha phyhrhave spared us that . . .However, iiOS Steinbers;, sicianr "sriil dTrell en tha partlc- ] we have borne it all before and ularly Je-srish angle. ] we are still here. There is nothTo celebrate its tenth annivering new — nothing. In the days These meetings are open to all I . The Beth El Auxiliary will spon. of the Inquisition-in Spain there sary on the campus of the Univer- sor an Institute of Jewish His- the'young people of Omaha and' • DI •to ^.«3.r.^rf wa3 a gabbi Joshua of Lorea. He sity of Nebraska, alumni and tory, February IS.-20, and 21, to their parents. Through this ccr-ll it the ctser became a Catholic and a priest members of the Sigma Omicron ba conducted by Dr. A . L . Saeaar, isa of lectures ths Roand TsWs i i^° SpcaJi oa Vocatia>nal Gz I He was called Jerome de Santa chapter.of. Sigma Alpha l u fra- head of tha Hill el Foundation at ! to present a. frank diss-^II Fe. He wrote a book to prove to ternity irili liold'a Founder's Day the University of Illinois.. Dr. Saeof ths jsrofessioss and-voca-!(-c *n tils' I?QUI!3 Tslj'i the Jews that they -were "perfi- banquet at tea Blaclistoas Hotel, liar is well-known here and istions open to young Jev»"isli peoCf I idona",. just like our young foot- Sunday, December 13. considered one of the outstanding ple,, conslderius. opjortanities aad j vocational guidance. Sigma Alpha' ilu Has.been one ball hero. Jerome is said to have • • oratora in the country. His books limitations. been responsible for the conver- of tha outstanding fraternities at on Jewish History are widely Ultimately beoansa c-f 'tis is- j comisijttes 112 ciarc-3 ths £sr-1 tsl. Lincoln. Hsay Omaliaas are -aluterest: arottsed thrcrs th .3 -aset-ilss. mni of the fraternity. ' (Continued on page 7)

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