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Entered as Second Class Mall Matter on January 21. 1921. at Fostorflco or Omaha, Nebraska, under the Act ot March 3, 1878

VOL. XVI- \ r o. !H

OMAHA, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, JUNE 4, 1937 'U mis <*,£•&£> A V

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CO5EVIENCEMEXT ; The quaintly -named commencetnent season is beginning. From All those who bought shekels numerous institutions of what is As their final offering of the during the recent Shekel" KoU known as the higher learning will season, the Center Players "will Call drive held in Omaha ia conis3ue forth within the next few present the Pulitzer-prize drama, junction with the nationwide .•weeks a multitude of young, men Platfom Adopted in 1SS5 Is campaign are reminded that the and women adorned with scho- Change Necessitated W.h e n "Ice-Bound," on. Monday and Tuesday, June 7 and 8, at the Discarded at Annual I shekel entitles there to rote June lastic degrees and filled, at least Fire Destroys. Napanoch Jewish Community Center start[ 20 for delegates to the twentieth according to the proper belief of. Conferesca Camp ing at 8:30 o'clock. World Zionist Congress. parents and .teachers, with knowI. Xorgenstern, chairman of ledge, energy and hope. And Mrs. William Feiler, chairman Columbus, Ohio.—(I. N. S.) — Due to the virtual destruction Just at this moment that able or- by fire of the Napanoch Country of the dramatic committee of the i Breaking completely with the the local Shekel committee as ganizer and educator, Rabbi Lee Club, Napanoch, N. Y., where the Center, will make her initial ap-! precepts adopted more than 5 0 well as chairman of the electoral J . Eevlnger comes and telts us Bar Mitzyah convention of • the pearance on the Center stage in years ago, the Central Conference board, reports that an unusually Speeking of nrtnes, there's p. | number of Omahsns re- Leon Blum in San Francisco vrho • that-'in thirteen hundred college! Aleph Zadik Aleph, Junior Or- the leading feminine role of Jane of American Rabbis adopted a slarge nded in tlle spread abroad over the land there der B'nai B'rith, was scheduled Crosby. % new platform of principles at its j P ° Purchase of shek\ ' r c f lir-i 1 pC i are one hundred and five thou- to be held from June 25 to July Charles Eachman, who • has ; 48th Enniial meeting- which af- ' e ! s r ii o r F—i rr sand Jewish students, an extra- 2 the convention will now be been- seen in-the two previous I firmed the obligation of Jewry i C o ii 7 \ r ordinarily high, proportion out of held at Cejwin, the camp of the productions of the Center Playi to build Palestine as a homeland J f\ f CT}7 [ T " *•* the total Jewish population of lentral Jewish Institute, N. Y. C , ers, has the leading male part. and declared that Judaism teach- Lt \J f i £ L ILL' t f i~i.'. these :State,s which, though abso- located at Port Jervis, N. Y., from Others in the cast Include: Nate <?s that labor's rights take precelutely high, is relatively a bare June 23 to June 30., Seckerman, S a r a Seckerman, [ dence over those of property. The I' ( , \ \ | and paltry four per cent. r pe r i | new platform, which displaced While the fire caused a change Rosalie Alberts, Martha HimmelT" T » •So we might comfortably say, in date and place of the camp stein, Una Gross, Sol Tuchman, ! | the Pittsburgh platform adopted at first glance, the am ha-sefer convention, noV material change Reva Liipsman, Ernie Ncjgg, and \ ;n 18 85 and which lias since then is an am ha-sefer still and the has been made in the program, ten-year-old Donald Duncan. C ' ci if" F c r l been the basic code of Reform mothers of this people of the which promises to be one of the The sets have been designed by IV 'f rr ^ r if" Judaism in America, was adoptbook are probably still crooning finest yet presented by A: Z. A. Nate Sekerman and have been exed on motion of Rabbi David Enrich Set as Site Bespit: c f r 7 - 1 <• r ; f- » r ' <• 1 1 io their male infants: . Protest of U. S. " l Phillipson of Cincinnati, last sur-v T P - c A number of forums, to be con- ecutd by Mr. Seckerman, and Sol Leaders viving member of the meeting i «• - r 1 r r ij - ' Toireh wet er lernen, " •V\ 1 "> r p Ii ducted by. prominent persons in Tuchman. Mrs. Herman Jahr Is which adopted the new discarded J 'rr' 01 all walks of life and with-a def- directing the production. lj : Sfurlm wet er shraben. New York (YTNS)-—The pre "Icebound" tells the story of program. A minority program "Well, let us leave aside the sec-inite appeal to. youth, are schedsubmitted by Rabbi Samuel ent political situation of Siocir ond line of the lullaby. "Writing uled for the week. Probably one the Jordan family who anxiously Schulman, rabbi-emeritus of. Tem- is so .critical that the forthcomirp. books is in this age — in all but of the most Interesting and con-,await the death of their mother ple Emanu-el, New York, was World Zionist Congress must b°one in a million cases—a nuisance structive forums will be that con- so as to inherit her wealth. The fortune however is left to a stepvoted down after a six-hour de- held in the United States, a n an- impertinence an da superflu- ducted by L. B. Nichols, Adminr it the Actions Committee .-• o ity. .We are drowned in printer's istrative Assistant-to J. Edgar niece, Jane Crosby. A letter adbate,. but Rabbi.. Schulman was..ac- !invoted, ' , as .in „Zurich, • > , • ,the , ^ . . admcnstrrink; we are being pushed out of Hoover, chief 1 of the Federal dressed to Jane reveals that she corded an ovation. Among other il * .,7 ', ,. r.. . t „ ^ 1 pur houses by these far, far too Bureau of Criminal Investigation. is to reform, the young son, Ben, things the new platform asserts tive committee of the Zionist C~Jerusalem (WNS-Palcor Agenmany bundles of bound sheets, Mr. Nichols will conduct a forum and that the wealth is ultimately that Palestine is to be regarded ganization of America declared " the, vast and overwhelming ma- on "The Responsibility of Youth to be his. Agency to stimulate co-ordiaatioa In o t merely as a haven of refuge a resolution adopted at its l f t jority of them written out of no for Crime Prevention.'' How through Jane's influence* between various Zionist units was for Jews", but as a cultural and session. -• •unanswerable inner. necessity nor The committee also demands the young man is reformed and furthered -with the announcement spiritual center of Jewry and Air outstanding attraction of C rr r r i adding any demonstrably new the Crosby family awakened to that an agreement had been. that "Judaism Keeks to establish that the Zionist Congress be hf the convention, annually, Is the fragment to the sum of human before and not. after England t • = its faults makes for a poignant a just society by applying its knowledge. Down with writing holding of finals in the Interna- drama of American family life. signed between the Hechalutz, teachings to the economic order, decided on its future policy n tional Oratorical Contest. The the Hechalutz Hamizrachi and fcooks, then! But learning Toireh Admission to the play is free to industry and commerce, to na- Palestine on the basis of the r<= "T p he - p i— that' is another matter. Are subject this year is "The Up- to Center members. Non-mem- both wings of the General Zion- tional and international affairs. port o£ the Roral Conamissip'" ~rv 1<T ' 1 ( I" the one hundred and five thous- Buildlng of Palestine", and, as bers must pay a fifty cent charge. ist Hechalutz bodies. and voted to make the convent^" c r^i r~ p 1 t It aims at the elimination of manv usual, each district winner is " The agreement provides for a and Jewish, students doing that? of the Z. 3. A. in Buffalo at t ~ g r r r P ( r > " made misery and suffering." given a free trip to the convenunion by the various organlzaFor let us remember that in its end of Juae the occasion fo1 1r [ r 1 The new platform, which was launching a major movement o tions. ^broadcast sense Torah is '.more tion to compete. The district winners, those who The scope of their activities Is formulated during the last two mobilize Jewish and general pi bjtban Chumseh, though to the T to comprise joint representation | years by a commission, tinder the lic opinion in America to empha- -= «• of h e 'Jew it must always be that too, will compete in the finals at more than tradition both oral and Cejwin on June 29, are: District within the Zionist Organization | chairmanship of Professor Samuel size to Great Britain that it miv <. and its institutions, the handling S. Cohon of the Hebrew Union carry cut its obligations to t ~ . ^written, more than is in the con-1, Paul Goodwin, New Haven, Conn.; district 2, Leonard Belove, is direction for life of hachshara (agricultural train- College, affirms a Jewish will to Jewish people under the B cept .law. It and the Pal Palest:" Declaration ing) financial matters, medical establish a just society, speaks of D l a r a t i o n and and redemption; it is Weisung, in Kansas City, Mo.;, district 3, aid, hechaluta labor exchanges a Jewish abhorrence of violence Martin (Buber'3 happy and exact Robert Groban, Huntington, W. and regular meetings for study- and deals' with other subjects in- • These decisions were reach°r translation. It is the pursuit of Va.; district 4, David Fain, Portc jthe way, r,s we see from the or- land, Ore.; district 5, Lee Bak-London Dispatch Reports TMs ing • problems of the chalutz eluding God, Torah, Ethnics, etc. after Dr. Stephen S. Wise, pre dent, had outlined ' t h e presr as Latest Indication from iginal meaning of the Halacha, er, Columbia, S. C ; district 6, motemept.'; A committee repre-! ^ .'The conference also adopted \j Zionist sihiBticn RT-U had / Commission. •,-.,/:.. ^vay, ^""ction, walk and conver-s Abraham, Kaplan, St. Paul, sii-..: ^i-anowaeejneats o-n sjiarriage an- i closed that t.fc.e EiocistF rn, distrreir'TT Coleman" Bernsation -jii tiio PauSiue "senaeT" H I ction on msx ha attached to the'j social justice. ' Its a on important help i~ in* London (JTA}—Details, of "a izatious not unlike tho idea ot Tao of the stein, New Orleans, L.3. immigration department of the i riage came from a report of the •icount entis.1 American quarters. He y. remarkable plan to solve the Pal- c r Chineses sages. We are toM Jewish Agency and will be recogestine problems," involving the nized as the union's representa- committee oa marriage" nft& fam-sharply critical o£ the selecti ~ that .where; .Totah is being learnI c r ily presented 5 > v Dr. Sidney E. cf Zurich as the site for the. Cc end of the British mandate and a ed, there will dwell the 9hechinah in Palestine. Goldstein of New York End wasgress ant! insisted that the prr1"new dominion status for the Holy tive the divine Presenuce. From a - A national headquarters will nnanlmoTisly approved by the e n t - s i U - i - " c r r r " ! V-i J - L 1 no., fre Land stated to be favored fty fclever and learned translation of most of the Royal Commission also be established in all coun- conference, "The marriage laws CongreFs ' - v ' ' v - * r ~- ~" the Tao-te-king of Lao-Tse* I see If it i- - ? c-<- •- - r - -<: t members - - are reported in the tries on a basis of parity between of the United States are -utterly that, according to the Chinese the various organizations. outgrown and inadequate," the here, ce •=- J •'•c—• t r> r1- *-> v Sunday Dispatch. Cage who was probably a contemThe Round Table of the JewThe hechalutz bodies conduct reported declared. It urged every in L " " . o " ' - e r iic p i r <-, The plan, as outlined An the porary of Jeremiah, "The sub-ish'Youth will close its season of the selection and emigration of state to incorporate into its mar- ; o u t t h a t . t , . r < - f t t l f 1 <s t a n t i a l — that which has to do activity with the annual Kovod Dispatch, is. based on -municipal properly trained colonists plan- riage statutes three minimum re- ' Congress be Jwith substance or matter — con-Night banquet on Thursday eve- autonomy for towns and ..cities in ning to settle In Palestine. <• , r- c qulrements: one, that no one' month, p\e- .' ^1 c le le Palestine. The mandate would Hams usefulness; - the unsubstan- ning, June 10, at 6:30, at the shall be permitted to marry Tinj teclinicr ( c, • * «;be ended by agreement with the JUal creates reality of being." Jewish Community Center. I t Cr ' der IS years cf age without the : present 7 "- «•* F-"<—c-t-i^League of Nations. A dominion No, I'm not Just being pedanr o Each year two young persons constitution would be established. consent of the court of jusidic-; be deal*- " ^ v,r,_^ j tic or high-falutin. At least of the Round Table, who have tion; two. that both parties to i future r?ic c "' 1 r c T-~ ,"^ The central Government, un(there is a group of American ed- distinguished themselves in the the contract shall be examined by | nouncecl Sjcators, brilliantly led by presi- activities of the group and in der the constitution, would be rea competent physician and that | sponsible for customs, public sedent Hutcbins of the University their general services to the JewDistrict winners of the Interna- no one should be permitted t o j g o y c a l » c f "Pc''z of Chicago, who militantly and, ish Community at large, are each curity* financial relations, and immigration and land problems. tional A. Z. A. Essay Contests ra&xty who suffers from an active j * as It were, at the eleventh hour, awarded a Kovod. Key. Communities would be organ- were announced today. venereal disease; and three, that! are urging that the things conThe Kovod Society-Is a na- ized so that Jewish and Arab Aleph Zadik Aleph, Junior Or-; a n interval of at least five pected with substance and useful- tional honorary organization towns would be given complete der. B'nai B'rith?, sponsors each 16iapse between" the tine of the j bess have come .near to destroy- among the Jewish Centers of the municipal independence, Jews be- year two contests — one' ia Eng- j application for a marriage license j ing education in America; that Pitts1- — ••• country. Last year the Round ing controlled by Jews and Arabs j i[ the time the license to marry (we are, despite our thousand dein Hebrew. Winners s n o n e g i[ s n a a gree-granting institutions, an un- Table of the local Center was The report urged the Cf Poll " <-- r Ti | i s i s s u e d. by Arabs as that far as possible. —, which will he presentation £ t t e fiby aa laDr. would mean the larger This | ojudged Israel Goldstein, of courses preparing-'- feet Eg. -t v ' educated people; that forthwith asked to join this organization. An excellent program has been like Ramleh, Lydda and Jaffa, in President of the Jewish National f0T marriage in high schools, col- was thiec.-1'—e fundamental courses In the- basic (humanities must be established arranged. Reservations, at 50c which the Moslems predominate, Fund; Alfred Segal, Associate j leges, settlements, community and required of all. students in per plate, may be made by calling would have Arab self-government, Editor of the B'nai B'rith raaga- centers, s3rcss0gi-.es and churches. (order that both' wisdom and char- the Jewish Community Center, with full protection accorded to jz { n 6 a n d a p r o m i s e a t newspaperrabbis asked the establish- unless Pr z- 7 f t 1 - • r-r a c t e r — reality of being and of JA 1366. Eveyn Dansky is gen- minorities. The same principle , man of Cincinnati; aud Miss 1 m e n t Of consultation centers r dally e""-£ c eral chairman of this affair. Enner b e i n g — b e not wholly lost. would apply to the areas m which F a n n i e Goldstein, head librarian in the synagogues. On sucfi a The s tte—f. the Jewish element predominates. I Qf t h e W e g t Bn& Branch, Boston staff there should he a physician, fWe must all return to Torah. Tao nless tl ~ p'^ Smaller Jewish and Arab towns s o c i a l the Way. And: I am told in this Public Library will be a n I takes and villages would have the right nounced a t the-Bar-Mitzvah Con- a psychologist,'a lawyer, a connection that a group of such and a minister. ' j t^Me e1" to safeguard their own interests. vention, t o be held J u n e - . 2 3 to worker courses will be inaugurated at The Social Justice Commission- I j E T 1 " t h o f , e r Columbia College this fall. These J u n e 3 0 , ' a t Camp Cejwin, P o r t er's report, presented by Rabbi the courses will avoid* all contact The Alfred H. Lloyd Post- ICalak Franklin'to Jervis, N . Y. . • • . • B a r n e t t ' R . Brlckcer of Cleveland; With economics — that "dismal" Doctoral Fellowship has been The subject of t h e English chairman, recorded . t h e • Confer- tend to opseudo-science which threatens to awarded to Dr. Morris Lazerocontest was •• the statement of the | aai^io-as!y opposed to | - p ^ a j n s j overwhelm us .all; they will avoid witz, former Omahan, who is now • Head Jr.' Hadassah historian Lecky, "Hebraic Mortar : e n c e i aj ia gnn lief aporopri '" earmar n te all reference to the social pseudcJunior Hadasah held its an- Cemented the Foundations for anything other than relief. equal er cciences that are so loud and lur- teaching philosophy at the Uni-nual c-i election of officers last American Democrarcy.' I "This Conference . disapproves id in the world. They will pon- versity of Michigan', Ann Arbor. tllis Thursday evening, at the Jewish The award which has cash value The district winners ' " is I cutting worfe relief a'ppropriader the way and the inner reality of two thousand dollars will take Community Center. Miss ICalah division are: District 1, Elliot I •;„„. B n tii there is the assurance of man, of Western man. Franklin was re-elected presi- Pfarl, Roxhury, Mass.; District 2, { t n a t s t a | e S K a local communities . Now what I should like to Dr. Lazerowitz to England. Yudell Luke, Kansas City, Mo.; He plans to work in the field dent for. the coming term. adequate- provision for ; Jmow, what I should like Rabbi ^ Other officers chosen were District 3, Saul Dizenfeld, Aliqn- the needy," the report declared, j Le^lnger- to tell us is how many of Symbolic Logic with Professor of the 105,000 Jewish students G-. E. Moore of Cambridge Uni- Miss Mildred Whitman, member- ippa, Pa.; District 4, Samuel sre learning Toireh in that deep versity, Professor C. I. Lewis of ship vice president; Miss Rose Saul, Los Angeles, Calif.; DisI lAfi., end ultimate and universal sense Harvard, and Dr. A. Tarski and Soffer, cultural vice president; trict 5, Mas Kirstein, Charlesand how many of the children of Dr. J. Lukasiewicz of tho Univer- Miss, Sarah Taub, financial vice 1 ton, S. C , District 6, Norman ; I Jews „ president; Miss Moliye Welner, [Mautner,' Milwaukee,. Wis.; Disthe am *ha-sefer are swimming sity of Warsaw. Before sailing for Europe dur-. corresponding- secretary; Miss trict 7, Aaron Shankitian, Memwith the shallow and turbid Moscow (WXS>—Four Jevrfeb I estfns, i ling: $V ptream? I am afraid, from both ing the latter part of July, Dr. Ann Goodbinder, recording secre- phis, Tenn. . The -winner of the inter&tional scieatists and aviators are-among i vears e~ observation and inquiry, that his Lazerowitz plans to spend several tary; Miss X/ucille Batt. membercontest -vrill receive a sold medal the daring- Russian explorers who | F c r t h . answer : in. American universities days in Omaha with his parents, ship treasurer; Miss Mary and colleges are practising imitar Mr. and Mrs. M. Lazerowitz. finkle, financial treasurer; Miss and a $50 prize, offered by H. L. !have"thriii«d the world by setting I 31, I P ' tion, assimilation on a low piano. Fannie Katelman, reporter; and j Alexander, promineat attorney o l ] ^ ^ tfee1-first psrHiSii'Sijt w£a.t!*e!r 'Again: no, I am not riding a hob• 16 efe o" the Misses Anna Hahn, Gertrude Atlanta,' Ga. Promises to Push Lsaa . scieatl' e station st the by. I am providing a brilliant illLewis, and Anne Berman, as Contestants ln the Hebrew con-. and ustration which life'itself affords board members. • c r e r t^• test were permitted ".to choose ! ^ o r t f l me of a truth of the first order Tel Aviv-—Mayor Israel RofcThe installation ot the newly- their own subjects. Tlie 'niaser of j over tae Pols. o: importance. All that President ach disclosed at a Chamber of elected officers, will take place atjthis contest receives a .goM mc3&I | Pilotsand F. I. . Hutchins and those who: agree Commerce meeting that High the annual banquet to be held at i and a 525 prize, a-waraeii by Leon j gpiris I7ith him plead for has been from Commissioner Sir Arthur Gren- the Jewish Community Center, jj Rose, a : civic • leader of Caraden, | members of thacer'nl CTQVT ths Immemorial antiquity the herit- fell /Wauchope has promised to Thursday,'June h d J 17 .Mrs. M IIrvingiN. i i .17. j..winners in this dlTiisIoa are i age of the Jew. "All that is;de- accelerate the: granting of a 1,- Forbes and Miss Ann Kuznit are District 1, Aba Weinsieic, Ksrt- landed at the Pole, while Federov, youthful snagnetologist | vate ford, Conn.; District 2,-Chester and veteran cf irec •winters in .otrpylng education in America is 000,000 pound (about §5,000,- in charge of arrangements. 000) loan by the Prudential In•abhorrent to u s historically Kaplan,-Kansas City,. K&HR.; Bis- j the. Arctic Circle, Will be ore of j h psychologically. , By being, our- surance Co. for public works, ex- "Despite their exile the Por.tu-1 trict 3, Martin Zioa, . Jlssding, the four who will remsin at the j A total selves, by following our- Tvay we tension of the Ruttenborg Elec- gueseJevvs who settled in gaffes', j Pa.; District 4. Barton Staiaberg:, j Polar station to Esraul& be cooperating with .the tric Works beyond the Yarkon North" Africa, helped reconquer j Seattle, Wash.; District C, Allan for regular highest and noblest " forces In River and seashore improve- the city for the Portuguese! Fos. Cl.ieaso, 111.; BIslr;.'l 7, (Continued on page 8.) ments. (150S). iColenan BercstelH, New Orlezi.2, the Ncrth Pcic,

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