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VOL. XVI-X<>.

OMAHA. NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 7, 193S \

AGE OF PERSECUTION In his Christmas allocution to the College of Ciird'nals the supreme Pontiff of the" Roman Church spoke with an. unwonted bitterness of the persecution of CHRISTIAN SCIEECS . C a t h o l i c s In Nazi Germany. f "Rarely,", said t h e . venerable ATTACKED BY i | PiU9, "has there been a persecuII1AZIS tion BO grave, so terrible, so painful, so sad in,Its deep efBerlin (Haras) — All Aiaerfects." It "is a persecution thaf ' ican religious sects,inust be drivlacks neither the brutality of vioen out of Germany, the Nazi parlence nor the pressure of threats ty News Service declared in &E nor the deceits of cunning and ; L o u i s Epstein Succeeds I. attack against Christian Scienfalsehood." "What is true of the Will Assume Duties Goldstein as tists. Nazis are particularly irpersecution of Catholics in GerHere at End of President ritated by the fact that Mary Jewish Press many is, of course, an hundred Month Baker Eddy, founder of the times truer of the persecution of Louis Epstein was named new j Church, is said to have held that the Jewish people there. And it 1 president of the Board of Com- j the ideas of nation and race are j IL©CS.llv Paul Veret, at present execuis also true of the persecution of missioners of the Vaad H'lhx at : not supported by science, and j "' the Jewish people in Catholic tive director of the Bureau of j <- ! - < j n e perequisile of 'salesmanPoland, which is one of the very Jewish Education of Buffalo, | i the election meeting held Mon-j that the laws of heredity are not' day evening, in the vestry roosis iabsolute. 'ship is a salable product. citadels of the Church of Rome, has been chosen new • executive j C \ ^ and it is a litUe bleak and more director of. the Jewish Commun- j I of the B'nai Israel synagogue. [ The article charged that in W e are conducting the Jewish i i" , CV , = '" ' t than a little disconcerting • that ity Center to succeed Paul Gold-! I Harry Marcus is new vice-presi-j many parts of Germany Christ- p r e s s $*i250 sales "subscription the Vicar of Christ had no word blatt who went to Washington | I dent; Dr. Oscar Belzer, secre-!ian Scientists were attempting to j c c m test feelins; that the Tress is of rebuke for those sons of the this fall. He will assume his dut-j , tary; and I. Goldstein, treasurer, j lead the people into error on j a sjjat-le product, one that in the church who are doing precisely as ies here at the end of the month; ; j Chairmen for the several stand- j questions of race and hygiene j past has added to the Jewish liie no' <_••T, * i n 1 very properly, they would not be Mr. Veret, who is thirty-five j ! committees were also apj of Omaha and CcrincU Bluffs one ing committees were don?) by. Hillel and Jesus were years of age, was educated in i I j that car. be of benefit in the fupointed. They are: Publicity, thoroughly at one .on the moral Philadelphia. He received his ', tare. Stanley F, Levin; Rabbinical, S. iniquity, of. that. degree from Temple University Ravitz; Finance. I. Goldstein; < We feel that yon, the reader, ; f T- r p |- - " and took post-graduate work in i Membership, 3.1. Rosenstefn; ' want us in your homes each Fri- : With the persecuted Catholics Committee on Kosher Obser! day; that you enjey hearing what • In Germany the Jew has a very the Social Service Administration vances and Jewish Relations we hare to say; that we satisfy; much more than superficial sym- of the University of Pennsylvan-i i within'the City, N. Levinson; and your desire to know what is what; pathy. The Church is not perse- ia. For his Jewish training he j i Foreign Institutional Relationtended the Mishkan Israel and wto is who in the field of; cuted by the Nazis for its human ships, I. Goldstein. Paul Veret Jewish affairs locally, nationally, '• faults and failings, which are Yeshivah and the Teacher TrainI -' ' I - > I Goldstein, retiring president, j Bracliah Sfirai, Kahura Ifardi, and internationally. If you don't, ; I ' doubtless many, but for its high ing Institute. and I;Iicbel Gibson to Be that is our fault, and we would \ tendered his report which includDuring his career Mr. Veret and^valid aspiration after Cathappreciate hearing why. j 0 ^^ ed a comment on the progress pi Here January IS cMcity, after that great human has been director of Center and the committee of cooperation beThe Jewish Press is practically i communion in which there is to Club activities of the Philadeltween the Kosher butcher shops folk-singer; j the only leans of adequate com- j be in the words of Paul neither phia Associated Talmud Torahs; Erachah and the orthodox community. Michel Gibson, dramatic artist; | raunlcation between Jewish, or-j slave nor free neither. Greek nor director .of the division of ReThe new president plans oa and Nahum Nardi, composer, will' ganizations and the people they | Jew. This note of spiritual uni- creation in the Federation of continuing 'the program set ia present a joint recital on Tues-j wish to contact. It is a valuable | versality is, of course, also that Jewish School Centers and direcmotion by his predecessor. day, January 1?, at the Jewish; publicity medium for Jevist ; or1' the Jewish faith and tradi- tor of the education and program =•" Of C l i l - i | Community Center as one cf the ! groups. It is an elemen tion: the righteous goy is equal service to schools and communi .mlilus. ; i features of the Center Forum. -i ture and EX . L intellectual - to the High Priest in Israel. Now ity in the. same system. He was Panic Grips Jewry as Premier it is this aspiration after catho- also associated as director of ac' Brachah Zfirah and Nardi ap-J Bet the proof cf & newspaper i; Names Anti-Semitic licity, after ethical", universality tivities with- the Hebrew Literapeared here last j"ear and wonj j s ; n j _ n e reaainc. You are the ' Ministers that the Nazis persecute and de-ture Society Center in Philadelacclaim for their art. Brachah ; judges of our merit. TTe ere ask-; Zfirah, a Yemenite Jewess, inter-; j £ g : you to subscribe in ci:r sales! Eire indeed to stamp out. For phia and co-director of • mainten- Bucharest (WNS) —• Gripped - . , Prets t h e Oriental folk music of! contest ss sn indication th&t we! their, return to barbarism is not ance campaign of the Center; by the same sort of panic that j \ the Jews of Palestine and Ara- • hare played a valuable part in 1 due to their. desire to integrate In Buffalo besides being direc- swept over German Jewry in •V i bia. She studied dramatic art j the past; that vre can be of I"ur-j themselves more closely with tor of the Bureau of Jewish Edu- January. 1933, when Adolf Hit-J in Berlin under Reinhardt and; tber value to you in'the future; ! their cultural traditions and thecation, he has done the publicity ler became chancellor, Rouman-1 sources of their beings It is due work of the local federation and ia's 1,000,000 Jews are • looking j Youth Foniia t o Depict was featured with .the H nd ihat Ociah.3. s.nd Ccunoil 1 • to the intolerably wicked judg- was charged with the organiza- to King Carol tis their chief pro-{_ _ .. . standing. CurxSiii-Playrrs of Jerusalem.. . .. ; .EluKs- iv.;:i conilr ment- -pf- T rtfc»a.--\o£.-.---tli&' .-:lDca,L:--.'-Jewisii -Com- tection against the sweeping anNahuni Kardi is noted ES one : benefit of s.n a • • Events introduced: all races but theirs munity Council. For three suc- ti-Semitic program announced of Palestine's outstanding . com-j of communicaticir are inferior; all faiths but theirs cessive years he has been the di-by the new minority cabinet of : Members'of the Round Table of posers. He has also devoted him- j are -stupid; all aspirations but rector of the national Jewish Ed- Premier Octavian Goga, the per- Jewish Youth Forum on Tuesday, self to collecting the authentic Columni t Avers theirs are ignoble. Speaking. In ucation Exhibit and during the s&nal appointee of the monarch. January 11, will present a Hebraic melodies of the east. the manner of the CathoSc B'nai B'rith convention directed The first overt signs of the panic "March of Time" depicting the Michel Gibson, who is appear- Henry Monsky to . Church one would say that the the exhibit there. in Jewish circles were a sharp j high lights of Jewish current ing here for the first time with Mead sin of the Germans is the sin of As an editor and writer he has break on the Bucharest stock ex- events during the year 1937. the other two artists, is one of pride, the-sin whereby the angels published some sixty texts and change, with all important industhe outstanding of the younger cast will include: Leo In h i s s y n d i c a t e d column,! fell, the sin which many learned program syllabi for club activit- trial shares, dropping from 15 to j S nThe artists of the Yiddish stage. In Morris Arbiterman "Strictly Confidential," which j Catholics have held to be the sin ies in Jewish Community Centers E u r o p e a a d Ameri points as Jews- hastily lioui- j Irving'No-- 'B'oD^Po^l'ev 1 ed with Maurice= a Schwartz he has playin A n g l o - J e w i s h pa- j of sins. And those Jews who and schools and prepared mater- 25 and a p p e a r s dated their assets, and the beginare aware of their great tradi- ials1 designed to train youths to ning of a Jewish exodus to Bul- Abe Raben, Willard Smith, Macy has appeared in more than sev- pers from c o a s t to c o a s t j Baum, Haskell Lazere, Harold Arts Fea. tion, of the oral tradition, will participate in local communal en- garia and Hungary. plays. Zelinsky, Morton Margolin, Aba enty remember that the Chachamlm deavors. Their art That Goga means to carry out Bertha Guss, Hannah tion to the dwell more frequently-on no sin He has been active in commun- his pre-election promise to im- j Resnick, Baum, Florence Steinberg, Beth attracted ^than on that of shaming a fellow- al planning and aided in the plement anti-Semitic ideas even i Kaye, Louise Wintroub, man, of humiliating your broth- compilation of statistical studies at the* risk of provoking serious: Barish and Kalah Franklin. Lois ports after their last appe ms' l t er, of judging him until you have and reports. He initated the oc- disturbances was indicated by here rated them as exceptionally' t l l e B n £ I S'nih.' Events to be depicted are: the gifted. Kr, Mcnsky, prominent lawyer been in his place. So that in our cupational survey of Buffalo Jew- the fact that feis first move was I £ <-"•.- V tradition too, pride, arrogance, ry and was instrumental in ef- the organization of an army of death of Felix Warburg; Ghetto •Tickets for the recital may be and civic and communal leader,; are held to be. unforgivable and fecting a census of Buffalo's Jew- 200,000 members of the Christ- Benches in Poland; How Long, procured from members of the has for many years been one of' ?, t i " \ O 1 0 _ O Germany; Intellectual Boycott; Forum committee or at the Jew- the important figures of the Pis- i humility to be the right grace of ish population'. ian National Militia under the trict Grand Lodge and is at pre-; spiritual greatness. Those who He has had wide experience in command of M. Robu, a violent Partition or No; Nazi Camps Ex- ish Community Center. sent representative of District j t n e i r ; persecute Jews must persecute co-ordinating and planning com- anti-Semite, who has been nam- posed; Children of One God; ' : L ' i" Lt Youth Alij-ah Movement. Grand Lodge No. 6 on the exe-i Catholics, except w h e n they munal activities. ed police prefect of Czernowitz, a cutive committee of the Supreme ; Mrs. Herman Jahr is directing Cyriis Adler Wins themselves are Catholics. Which Mr. Veret is marred and Is city with a heavy Jewish popuLodge. ! Morris Arbitproves up to. the hilt the fact the father of a two year old son. lation. The appointment of Is- the production. •';- o r O- • tor Fhi Epsiiosi P i s At the last convention Mr. Kon-; man is chairman of the Forum that Catholics are not always wi' trate Micescu, the president of committee making arrangements. : s k v > vrith tfcree cthPr O M 1 S I I S ; Catholics and that just as there Service Award ' the Bucharest . . . Chamber . . of . . Law.. , T h e Forum is open to all young are Jews who are of "the opinion Honor Roll Cites CT:C yers during whose administration j p j that the Jews of Germany betrayCleveland (WNS)—The third tr Five Jews; Two not a single Jew was admitted to e o p e ed their Judaism and were in • e r ' L^ sro tr DC annual service award of Phi Epthe legal profession, as minister that respect not guiltles3, So silon Pi fraternity to the Amerir V r= a t r t c - ^ for Anti-Nazism of foreign affairs; the naming I ROUND TABLE DANCE there ought to be Catholics who can Jew who has contributed hold similar views of the persemost to the constructive life of TO BE HELD ON New York (WNS)—Five prom- of M. Hodos a n o t h e r c u t e d Catholics. Are'there? If inent American Jews and two ti-Semite as minister of his people was voted to Dr. Cyrus- (, tb4 « * - * p ( Or there are such they ought to un-Christian foes of Nazism are cited ganda; the replacement of all JANUARY 16 '• Adler, president of the American \ derstand with a peculiar sympa- ori the tenth annual honor roll of police prefects with known antiJewish Committee and the Jewish ', thy and fellow-feeling the plight The Nation. Jews listed are Mor- Semites; and the inclusion of the The Round Table of Jewish Theological Seminary, it was anf.i \of th© Jewish people and send a ris L. Ernst, for his fight against 81-year-old Professor Alexander Youth will present another in its nounced at the fraternity's anCuza, father of Roumanian antiseries ofi dances on Sunday, Jan- nual convention. Presentation of ) few authoritative messages, how- Mayor Hague of Jersey City; Arr " ~ C J.ever privately, to the Polish hier- thur Garfield Hays, for his report Semitism, and his son, George, 16, at the Jewish Community the award will be made in New in the cabinet, were further inCenter. archy . ... / . ''• ". •' • York City in January at a fraton the Ponce massacre in Porto ' -Of1 course they will do no such Rico; Judge Julian W. Mack, for dications of what is to come. Admission will be V season nerity dinner. Previous winners Pending an official announcething. No one will do anything his decision in the Electric Bond ticket. Tickets may stU! \s~ ob- of the award were Kenriettr strong, anything effective, any- & Share'case; Marc Blitzstein, for ment of the. government's pro- tained at the Center. Szold and Dr. Stephen S. Wise. gram, Porunca Vremi, Goga's thing that comes from a derep his musical play, "The Cradle source of conviction. . And that Will Rock"; and Peter Blume, for party organ, announced that the fact proves again the utterly un- his anti-Fascist painting, "The cabinet was preparing decrees aimed at expelling Jews from : Tedeemed character of Christen- Eternal City." '^w^1 **. " * dom and the merely seasonal sil- - D r . William E. Dodd, retiring trade and industry; expropriatrc r" liness of those Jews, rabbinical TJ, S. ambassador to Germany, is ing land owned by Jews; the or lay, who flirt with Christian honored for his protest against Aryanization of the professions; re ity in any of its forms. The test sending an American ' representa- prohibiting Jews from establishc *" T """ ' ing themselves as merchants .. in of Christ in men today Is absten- tive to the Nazi party congress, villages; cancelling licenses' of Despite a picture rSore filled ; tion fron^ persecution, from hate, and Cardinal' Mundelein of Chi"German Jewry," Kabbi Pringreed,' war-lust. V/here Is that cago is cited for his condemna- Jews to sell wines,; spirits, tobac- Vvitb shadow than lihgt, Dr. Joe-[ LEisted, "Is writing . the last co, cigarettes and salt; banning chim Prinz, who 4ast Tuesday j abstention to be found? Certain- tion of Nazi persecution of the ly not amon:g any considerable or church in Germany. Also listed is state transactions with Jewish- evening before the Center Forum i chapter of.-.its history, THe youtt politically strong group of Chris- the town council of Southbury, owned or financed firms; exclud- eloquently portrayed the present I are emigrating snd the dsatt tians cr among the" policies of Conn., for resisting the establish- ing Jews from all government of- status of European Jewry, felt I r ate far exceeds the birth rate.'' fices; revising the naturalization that in the terms of history EurChristian states.-- It Is found ment of a Nazi camp. In answer to the question of lists since 1922, so as to de-nat- .opean Jewry had a future. •—• ..jiong Jews, Chinese, Hindoos. what Jews of the world care uralize tens of thousands of Tracing Jewish life in modern to &0 the Nothing will be done within j he Jews;reviving a previously re'times, the famed • Berlin rabbi \ > advised political negotho Churches. Will anything be jected law providing that all bus- shovv-ed how the emancipation of tiation rather than lamentatior TRY-OUTS " done beyond their walls and oriness and industrial establish- the Jews of Europe "WES a logical and mass meetings. ganizations? The persecution of Try-outs for the nest pro- • ments must have 90 per cent consequence of the pli:lc:~riy cf' Co-ic'lucir^ !--'- lect'-"? E ' b ^ Catholics anywhere,/ harsh and duction of the Center Players jj pure-blooded Roumanians among ! F: ! ~s toM t^"t "E~rcr"n". 'c^rz deplorable as it is, bears no com- will be-held on Sunday, J a n - | | their employes; and enacting a tile Fz'encii Revolution. tr-e f>— ^n^ no ^j ' will parison with the cruelty beyond uary 9, at 2:30 p. m. in the i| lav.- forbidding Jews from writr !rT fie-' is to ^=1 re-! -^'-M' i^f'. than tlie drfiri of ' all w o r d s and beyond , all auditorium of the Jewish || ing for newspapers or owning! nitv," he saM ""u< 7c thoughts with which our people Communty Center. Those in- y them. The last project is already! created byTho" friuV; --';' ::\:-nr Vut if r r " : - - ' . c'ty?. JJ persecuted in Germany, in Poare invited to attend. Jj being carried into effect. The I rU ptcy of clc":^"'"', ~ land, in Roumania, in Yemen and terested The play, "Let XJs Be Gay," jjj liberal and democratic newspa- j t t,J reaction to fl-"p -.--'" now in Mexico today and who an outstanding sue- ji p e rs, Lupta, Advertil and Dimin-! democracy, tan * r" - • - " - • r imov.'s where tomorrow? And cess of several Broadway seasons ago, j ! er.ta. ail Jewish-owned, have j g r e at idrs! o <•-<-»•---.-| • • daily sit this season you have only will be presented February 15 IJ beea suppressed, and-' Alexander! doiBcr so'Vt CT .—;-' •'' to turn on the radio to hear the and 1-2. }| Jurtitr, director of Rador Oriente ! {],,,

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