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"l /.SELF-STTIiED' APOSTLE ' The r5)iford University Press 3endB .me a .small,-dignified elegant-volume. It Is called An. Open Letter to Jews and- Christians by PURIM CQliCERT TO John Cournosr.-The substance of >iii Wii the'book la an1 elaboration' of Mr. BE GIVEN W .John • Cournos', recent article I in MARCH 27 the- Atlantic. " I t s ; - Importance arises-.from:;tbe^ fact- that -the^Gxford University-Press accepted i t : The annual Purim. Concert givto liberal bnt ignorant Christians en at the B'nai Israel synagogue the argTJinent of:iff. Gonrnos-will by Cantor Abraham Schvr&czkin seem sound and weighty. The reand the Hazomir Singiag Society \ *!*»*£*.I*-**. -i '>—<'•' "v" referred to the Foreign Af- has been postponed until March Dr. Samuel Celion Conducts fusal ofrJews to accept it. will S L o o t , StOSCeS, been fairs Committee. Seem to these \vell-ineaning per27. • All-Bay Sessions in New York (WXS)—A suggessons morose end stubborn. Hence The detailed program of this a«. r?*-«*,^-?_ • • • tion that England agree to return yearly event will . be announced \BEGIM CHILDREN'S PAGE lirl Cournos' is.' doing' ^definite cr some of Germany's colonies to in the next issue of the Jewish harm.. Hi3- ignorance'-'plays ' into One hundred ministers repre' IN THIS WEEK'S the hands of the ignorance.of oth• Vienna (WNS)— Thousands of Hitler if he agrees to "soften up Press. senting twenty denominations gaers and. ; a 'situaticrn already .suf- Austrian .Jesrs were, left Jobless on the Jews in both Germany and thered Monday for a full day inficiently confused becomes more and faced with the immediate Austria" and a proposal that stitute on Judaism conducted at President Roosevelt "should pass . wretchedly ineitricable. . problem of obtaining, the necessiTemple Israel by Dr. Samuel S. j Beginning'this week, the JewI word to Hitler that American Cohon, professor of theology at | ish Press -prill feature a Chilarens ! Mr. .Cournos starts- out with a ties of life for themselves and (friendship for his enlarged Gerthe Hebrew Unioa College. The page. The page vrill contain stornotion "that is correct and sound. their families as administrative ! man Empire would depend in a ! measures by the Nazi authorities ministers. Catholic and Protest- j ies, poeias, contests, crossverd It is'•; this.''; that as things' are in forced the dismissal of Jewish, measure on his future civilized ant, white acd negro, heard Dr. [.puzzles, and items of ictcest lo~ ; the world today Jews'and Christreatment of Jews under the Cohon speak at the raorning ses- all young people. tians, possessing'in common-, a employees -from -hundreds of es- swastika flag" are contained in sion on "The Talmud" and ia the i This pagre is an estensio" of tr-p body of ethical principle and tra- tablishments. an editorial in the New T o r i afternoon on "Talmudic Juda- ; Junior Department of t t e1 Jevici: Uncontrolled panic reigned in ! Daily News of March 15th. . dltion must and should - unite in i Community Center, i r ;- ; Ci.r.c. the defenseof freedom of democ- the Leopoldstadt-district of VienSevea Hundred Dollars Set as ism." The sessions were followed by • ster having original- cor r^ L' t ~-: racy, of religious lib'ertr against na, the Jewish quarter, where Goal t y local spirited debate between the audi- I may send them to tt^ ,~rv,<-'r the' proponents • of the new total- Jews' "were, dragged from their Council ence and Dr. Cohon. A number : Communiti* Center. itarian states; East and West. homes by Nazi' storm troopers also requested him for his trans.Berlin and. l^oscow are both, as and forced to open shops and Box collections of the Jewish. lation and interprPtatio^. of ob- i r he sees clearly, the necessary^ en- turn over food r.nd merchandise. National Fund will start • on scurer passages of the New TestScores of prominent Jews were lemies of both Jews and ChristMarch 27. Assisting as district ament. ' •" ians and of all' that Jews . and arrested, among them Dr. Heincahirmen of the drive are MrsAmong the groa? there -were Christians stand for and need to rich Neumann, the noted throat dames David' Brodkey, Louis Al- few who J.ad ever seen a Torah \ live by at • all. So far, so good, specialist, who treated King bert, Harry Silverman, William and Dr. Cotioa explained the hisand not a rewjof us, aB Mr. Cour- George VI of England and the Alberts, Jack Kaufman, Joseph tory of the scroll and the details nos-probably'does not know, Duke of Windsor; JKuprinik, Declares Jewish Influence in Rosenberg, J. Richlin, and J. of its background. .have been saying and! preaching Schiffman and Gerngross, the Trade, Industry, Culture Feldman. • •• At luncheon prepared br memthat to Jews ;and to Christians ! owners of the leading departMust Be Lessened A goal of seven hundred dol- bers of the Temple Israel Sister-and to mixed laudlencea, of'Jews ment stores Jin Vienna; Sigmond services to Be lars has been set by the local Bosol, a Jewish banker, and and Christians j for years. Budapest (JTA) — Hungarian council. Boxes yielding fire or hood, Father Thomas . S. BowB': dern, S. J-, of Creigbtoa Univer!.. The dangerous step in- Mr. many Zionist and communal leadJewry was concerned this "week gcgx more dollars will ma^e the ownsity, and. PLeverend Paul ErickCournos* argument' is the next ; ers. Expropriation'of Jewish esstep. And that next step, proceeds j tabllshments was followed by the over Premier Koloman Daranyi's er eligible for the drawing of the son, president of tbe Ministerial International A. S. A. Saibr*1" association both spolte to the asfrom psychological sources of the ; dismissal of their Jewish em- assertion, in a speech at Gyoer, trip to Palestiiie.~ be observed by th° T - <TTI This year the Jewish National semblage. Bel.f-negating, assimilatory, es- ployees. All Jewish, civil .service J.hat the Jewish question In Hunchapters of Ale-ph 2a" K - " ' T I - , Fund Council is honoring the The session ended with a recisentially neo-ghetto kind. It Is gary must be solved by reducing memory of Professor Hermann tation in unison of the well- Mother chapter 1 and f : r P - o r a mark of this mechanism that'it E'n.rr. IMPOKTERS H A I J T BUYES'G Jewish influence in trade, IndusSchapira of. the University o£ known prayer ' of Talraudic ori- chapter ICC, Friday -will not permit the patient t » i n Karch £5, at the E ' r i . l~-z^'. New York (WNS)—ImportHeidelberg who is the fatheof try and cultural life. gin found in the Union. Prayer ' form himself, to know-the minithe Box Fund idea. As one of tlie Book: "May the time not be dis- synagogue. mum that he should know. Hence ers, buyin'g organizations and Stressing the belief that only a. Members of the nrr r r : -^-C-J MrJ .Cournos proposes that this large retailers who handle sev- legal, gradual solution was pos- greatest of ninteerith -century tant, O Lord, -when Tky name mathmaticians he was also an a r - shall be worshipped in all earth, will take orer the enti- r F f ^ - ' •: Jewish-Christian "t. o 11 a boratlon eral million dollars worth of sible,. Dr. Daranyi declared the disappear lor the evening and'v ". , c • ; -r • shouldlbegin with- a; Jewish conr Austrian goods every year problem arose from the fact that dent Zionist and in IS97 propos- vrhen UEbeiiet fhall cession vand that this .concession have decided to stop buying the Jews had attained a dispro- ed the idea of the Jewish Nation- and errdr be no more. We fer- pate in the program ; / - r ; - r . sb'ould. consist i n -Jews uniting; •Austrian goods, it was report- portionate position in certain ec- al Fund to the first Zionist Con- vently pray that tlie day may t h e religions t o c c . ' " = ed in -importing circles here. onomic- fields. He asserted - the gress. | come tvbea all teen s'haH invoke char in iBaWni Harold can- Je^rs conjjreg.atesl in cities, P2.,rThe Idea was not adopted until Thy name, when* corruption and Set-er cbepter 3CS?.'-vi:. 1 - -..-n i t h s "naias ; .. ticulafiy"" t&e"efl:PJtal,~ where" "tTte" 3>3^2?—©esser-aJ-^eaFS-"—s-fter - - -th'C-' evir"kir£n. glVe T.'ay to Parity aacl mair- of' iirs exezl-zi:. celled'-.'-Ea5; shipments on the Jewish founder's death. A crude tin ' GoSols cf bolt cric-j'tf - —" Eoodagss, whea Superstition shall influence In cultural'life r Tfray- from Austria -will; i>e" ac-r devised by Professor Schap- co longer ensiave the mind, nor Arbitaan of chapter 1 r - ."— •says Mr.; Co'urno3.: No"* .and jthett cepted but no new.-orders will "does not always conform to box, ira, is today preserved in t h e idolatry the eye, when ell inhab- Guss'of chapter ICC, TV" ';- " Hungarian ideals and aspira-" ..he flirts with notion of special, be .placed. Firms -with • offices Jewish National Fund Headquar- itants of the earth shall knoT- services, and Joe H e r ' - - r.T divInenepS" of an-«quivocal :feind.. in Vientfa plan to shift them tions" " T 1 Taking up Premier Daranyi's ters in Jerusalem having been be- that to Thee alone every knee chapter 1 Will chast the v c '"•.- This" is -nibst.dangerous: and -most.- to Prague. queathed to the Keren Kayemeth must bend and every tong-ae give Cantor Sch-sracEEin w r . r - ~ lbs theme, Education Minister Valendangerously'ignorant: To Jews homage. O may all, created in Psalms. tin Ionian, speaking at Szentes, by a woman Zionist. Jesus is not and cannot" be: and Thy image- recognize ' that they Foilc^ring services, £. TZZIC ; should r ,npt^'e-the - greatest. of^thB employees" were .ousted as were declared that while the Jews who are brethren, so that cue in spir- discussion by four ctar.c- speai-.' prophefe. • Christendom • as- s.uch, Jewish "judges and notaries pub- have lived a long time in Hunit and one in fellowship tbey may ers will be conducted. lite". c'.* s "rr i • o as; Christendom, -affirms the in-, lic. The raids on Jewish estab- gary had adapted themselves to be forever united before Thee. : Lazere "frill Epeak on "r.'cs^E-. T-° r'"-^"^"? carnation. v T h e necessary -.collab- lishments did not spare even syn- the Hungarian spirit,' the new Then shall Thy kingdom be esoration between Jews and Chris- agogues, one of which was looted j arrivals had not, J>ut continued Lazier S.rce' v . " ' >'-" I""*" tians ;must and "can take , place of its funds. Virtually every Jew- : to -maintain subversive movetablished on earth and tbe -vrcrd discuss Exod u s . en ?*•„ > r r upon -the Vast ethical ground they ish shop in the Leopoldstadt was l ments. He warned the Jews that Thine ancient seer fulfilled; Abe Resnick vrill talk c— "T'-o .< As their fourth offering of the of have in common. Once you intro- looted and stripped of merchan- Jews securing positions in industhe Lord vrill rei£n forsver and Book of "Estiier:"" rrc! 7T'" ^^^ current season, the Center Play- ever." duce: the theological, symbols of dise after the owners had been try by unfair means must be reSacks will speak on "T v = - I P . L T ' ers will present Oscar Wi'de's psychical- character 1 you create beaten. moved and that the Government classic of the English-speaking Ministers from Omaha, Council to Palestine." Lasere arc f - r e , enmity, strain, nnhappiness 'for A wave of Jewish suicides was would take steps to prevent the stage, "The Importance of Being Bluffs, Lincoln, Fremont, TTacoo, are from the Kother c l ' r t c r r r ; everyone. . . ' . reported as desperato jews I Jews from securing further In- Earnest," on Tuesday and Wed- and Bellevue Tvere present. ResnicS and Sacks are T:rr~ - • T - [ 1 V : Jesns^s not-'"the-Ultimate es- found themselves unable to leave j fluence in industry. Beber chapter. ' ^ nesday, April 12 and 13. . pression • of .Jewish genius:" He the country. In one of Vienna's Premier Daranyi formed a new Similar celebration? ;-e !--"Members of the cast are: i;l may "be the-dlvinest gift of"Jew- cafes a Jew slashed his throat government as a prelude to subthroughoiit the "United ^tr> •= crC c ish eenius to the; world- But the with a butcher's knife after mission of the projected 5200,- Charles Rachman, Leo Sherman, C a n a d a i n e v e r y city ^ ^ ^ " F , h - - c [ r Jesus of -the ••'.-synoptic, gospels, shouting wildly "heil Hitler." 000,000 economic recovery pro- Sam White, Paul Teper, Sasn is an A. Z. A. caapier. 7. = : r - r I Kaplan, Sarah Sekerman, Rebecthough .a 'thorough -Jew, not• un- Many Jewish social welfare agen- gram. for the first tins ser-icc. •:, s ca Kirshenbaum, Margaret Fried• aCfjuainted with the-; oral',-tradi- cies have hastily liquidated their lander, and Lala Finernan. Mrs. tioji, -. a Pharisee • himself;- and a" affairs and turned over all reThe Workmen's Circle Drama- held in Sofia, Bulgaria. •„' .wc-v I!E i r Herman Jahr is . directing 'he tic Club has announced the forth- Eponsorship cf t i e Sot" r T c - . - -• teacher' in, synagogues, represents sources : to the Vienna kehillah production. temperamentally.and th"r,011 g-h authorities who a r e . swamped coming' presentation of the oper- This observance mark? "~" "" r e certain recorded teachings a type TTith appeals for aid. Previous plays of the Center etta, "Bar-Kociba" by Abraham light of the relisriocs r r f - " ' , -which is not central to. the develPlayers • have been given praise Goldsaden on Sunday, June 5, every chapter in the o -I-~ ;rr" = j r All Jews who could find a conthe outstanding: event ~\*-T?V- , > . opment of Judaism. What in His by- local reviewers. the second night of Shevouth. . teachings, is * acceptable-to : us is veyance were making attempts to ' The Ora-ha Je-srisb. public still for the month of 1,'arc*: A purim program was to have an- contained.; in th° teachings leave Vienna in the hope that been given yesterday by the chilEach year the Omaha -;---,.=•-c I f c remembers the fine performance Gives §250,000 and'sayings of sages that came they could return later when the observe' A. 2 . A. SaDb;/^ ." c*" Warsaw (WNS) — An Ameri- of "Caldunia" given iast fall. of the City Talmud Torah. T Before Him. .His additions or' rec- present excitement abated. The dren . Rehearsals ere now ia progress o£ the local synagogues. I.r-i -pr- . r can identified by the Jewish, press Included on the program were: tifications," :from . His \point of arrival • of Julius streicher, Ger- the singing of "Hatikvah"; the here as a Jewish millionaire by under the dramatic direction of services vrere held, at ta Zz^-~. , r •viev, - are ' not acceptable to us. many's number" one Jew-baiter, is ( ,name of Hammond from De- Mr. Louis Witkin and the musi- synagog-ue. The ~- strictly- Jewislt sect He expected to intensify.still further *tory o£ Purim, a reading by Jus- the cal direction, of Cantor E. Selts. troit is now in Warsaw to estabServices start prom-."'r; f ". f -• tin Ross; "Purim," a song; "Who founded was merely a sect. I t was the panic raging- among Jews. a home for abandoned Jew- Mr. Hyinaa Ruderman Is in pa. The public is eord - - - - .- , rschismatic.".It was • upon its eleGeneva-(WNS}-1—An appetS to Will Build Galiiee," a song; a lish c T of stage decorations. The ed. Refreshments rrill br ': rI ! : ' ' ments of eccentricity -^—' its dis- the League of Nations, Italy and skit in Hebrer- "On That Night"; ish children. .It is said that he is charge will be announced at a lat- by the Taad Auxiliary. ! tancefrbm our center — that It the-United States to come to the "Parade," a play; "Alenu"; a prepared to spend $250,000 for place er date. was possible to Iqund Christian- aid. of Austrian Jewry was made short summary of Purim given in the project ity. .The pagans were •-. surfeited here by the World Jewish Con- Hebrew by Leornafd Potash; . with Nature. Their acceptance of gress' executive committee. The "The Purim' of Saragossa," by 'tri^re : -nature wa-s "destroying appeal urged'aid for the 200,000 Irwin Witkin; "Shalach Ometh" • them. ' They! needed - to repudiate Jews "exposed completely to -Nazi by Louis Katz; a Poem recited by all that, they had been. Upon that barbarism"- and declared "the Isadore Friedman. The program repudiation, upon, that destruc- voices of Aiistrlan /ewry's breth- was concluded with the singing j The first Mldwect "* tion of.'the old- pagan -Adam, upon ren ask whether' . the -vvilized of "America." Convention cf tlie I'rJr- r" that, putting ;on)of a. new man world,will,fulfill its duties." The cast of "Parade" were Rose i lean Hebreir CoriSTre*:" — through the ^gTace; and' • the vicarKirshenbaum, Meyer Halperin, Judging antl-Seinitisra as mere- a living organism. In every age i be .held i s Omshs. tn-' ' 'i" ious merit of t h e Godmari—upon Lincoln Klaver, a n d Melvin ly one of '.ne pestiferous hatreds the Rabbis Save tried to adjust i of -Iv-.s.y \ a r c S V7izi\ " * »>that mecaanlsin and - doctrine was - ;.; , PBEUD , Swartz. i Teciple Israel acting: s.. Christianity . foundedJ- It is "so -Vienna (WNS)—III. from a Included in the cast of "On afflicting this generation, Dr. to their 'environ- ! K-GrrsE'EutE'r1 r^t this t ~~* still.Mt Is :' eomformablr to the recurrence of a chronic gland- That Night" were Lowell Herz- Samuel Cohon,' who spoke Mon- themselves I TT-JJI be ccngregaticcs j - -needs'.of- the nations an_d no- Jew ular ailment, - professor Sig- berg, Gordon- Bernstein, David day evening at the Center For- ment.'. The" purpose of Judaism, ac- i Kansas, Slip.nssota. Ii vtilVNtreat- Jt^ without -reverence. mund. Freud, 82-year-old fath- Chazan, Joseph Chasen, Peter Git- t a , called apon the Jews to reto Dr. Cohen, is the pur- ! Dakota, a.nd Xebrastr. I But-it .is not Ms way. " ' '•'•' er of psychoanalysis and the lln: and Bzalel Baumer. affirm their faith. The noted cording ification and perfection of hu- : ccr Zissler has bees c" ~ ~ . We 'never repudiated :" nature. greatest "Jewish medical figure Hebrew Union College professor manity. "Judaism seeks to invest •• eral ctairrcan cf the c- ' We sought to sanctify, nature.',We produced;, by Austria, has not speaking on "The Faith of the human personality "with ciasongh"t- t o ' collaborate with. God been told that Austria has beModern Jew" accused the world the by cairelatins- it "with r toward, a' more and more redeem- come a'part of Germany. Beof "not having outgrown religion, nity sonrcs." ed "universe; That is the meaning cause • of his' age and physical but of not having grown v.p to ". Worship, the rabbi said, - *s of. the ;Iia"tV.By Observing the condition his doctors and famit." ; Talks by Rabbi David Wice necessary es a continuous -=" Law 'the ' peopled Israel, self "Inte- ily have kept hici in ignorance "Our Judaism is considered a EJnder of tbe relation of mar ~o have been scheduled by several grates itself: again' land again of the fate of Austria. local organizations. On Tuesday, misfortune because so rcacy do God. from* age to age and: redeems itMarch 8, he spoke at tbe Abra- not have the inner resources to "Religion," i e • went oa. ' .self --'.and--helps -to.-- redeem the Washington (WNS)—-A reso- ham Lincoln High school in immunize us to anti-seraiilsm," not just for the individual ^ut world j-andv the ,'nationk That is ourfuactibn. It-is nonsense-when lution demanding the severance Council Bluffs. He also address- the speaker ass?rted. "T5*e first for the community «sd EiUBt tc '• Mr."•' Courhos :say3 that our. fail- of •diplomatic relations ;between ed, a meeting of the Parent-Tea- article of faith of the rcodsrn ure..- to accept ;Jesus is our great the^United States and Germany chers-Association of the Saratoga Jews is faith in himself, faith ia religious spirit mast eater ®- ~ "transgression" and it is* - very until" she "relinquishes coercive, school and is scheduled to speak all the things the Jewish people into 123 business ?el£.ii©n." dangerou3 nonsense. The Inquis- forced .control of Austria, and to the Lothrop school Parent- have always had faith is." "We are trustees cf a j:r "t ' Likening- Judaism to a tree faith. We need to c:ssoveition,- held no more than tb'at; further abates persecution of Teacher's "Association. Goffa: of Rumania holds BO. more minorities because of race or • Rabbi Wide "srill address the that "must be pruned, to remove VS.lu^5.!a than that; 'Mr.; Courno3-; quotes creed" waa introduced Into the North Ginaha Woman's Club on .dead, timber and to stimulate : Dr. Cohen 'ws.s istrodiiced . ; *„ (Continued • on page 8.) - House of Hepresentatives by Rep- April 5 and on April 10. lie will healthful growth, Br, CoSoa j Dr. Is=sc Etsmhill. of Csu"; * resentative Donald. V. O'TooI-bf | speak to the members of the said, "The Torah Is sot only of Brooklyn., The resolution has ] Gamma Kho at-the Y. ,W. C. A. yesterday.- It is a- growing tiling, j Forum lecture.
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