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.Entered an Second Class Mall Matter on January SI. 1921. at ^Postofflca of Omaha.,Kebtaska.-under the Act of March 3. 1879

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f*v, < < ' : After a breathing spell of faint Hope comes the sudden blow.. The Nazi heel: stamps upon , Austria. And it does BO "with melodramatic swiftness ' and". brutality because Berlin foresaw that: a plebiscite of the Austrian people •would be strongly anti-German and .antiNazi. N o one "who has Known Austria a t a l l "well Is astonished at that fact. And n o w t h e West e r n , Democracies" Issue protests to Berlin. Protests! i t i s today and n o t i n 1 3 1 4 that a n outlaw past twenty-eight years ^in his is running .amok i n Europe—one capacity as chairman of this comw h o ' deliberately a n d consciously mittee, Dr. Sher has attended t h e tramples under'foot all that h a s juvenile court sessions. Tons b een known' as civilization The Philanthropies drive for i n the West. I dare to* predict, with tragedy and terror In m y All officers of the Jewish 1937 had a record amount pledged, according to the report of last heart, that war will come, must Community Center and Wel.L.Li*.mrl. coina and that neither isolationist fare Federation were re-elected year's chairman of the campaign, d,evice3 . o r . sentiments' which" a s at the annual meeting held Harry Trustin. Forum Committee . sentiment I share) nor attempts Monday night in the lodgeroom Ephraim Marks. • chairman of - a t economic self-snfficingness "will in! t h e long r u t keep our country of the Jewish Community Cen- the Forum committee, recounted ter. An overflow crowd at- the work of his group which this out of that ultimate war. , iViiawestem Ocsgrs&atio::; tended the meeting, one of theyear inaugurated a new policy of .•Under these circumstances pro- most; successful in many years. bringing speakers and artists of Kay 7 asd S gressives deplore the Hoscow Officers named to serve again purely Jewish interest. The Fors'l'. /.r.mor.'nr^i'iriil of T«;~. um finished the year within t h e trials coming a t this . moment. The most Ei^nificE-nt reliz-^us d r y f r r a m r f?t t h e a r . n n t ^ amount alloted to it by t h e budV,-RS ir .Moderately intelligent progresgathering in the history of Omains. o:' ill? ,!-v.-is.h Comnuir-. sives, like the editors of the" N a - William. L. Holsman, jsres- get. ha Jewry trill take place the -week . *"C tion do EO; supremely intelligent dent. The problems of t h e Jewish end of May 6, 7, and S, when the progressives, l i k e Mr. Hayim Henry Honsljy, first vice- Old People's Home i n the light I Reform congregations of seven iip v e e r ' s c s u : r a i t i i , vTsicfc. <*• of the! new old age assistance Greenberg- and h i s colleagues on president. Middle western states •prill gath' i ; l ? d i'o cotiiir.nr iliVouj-'V : the Jewish Frontier do so too. I Sam Beber, second vice- were discussed by Harry Silverer here for a district convention. man, chairman of the committee ! am amazed a t . t h e Illusions which p r e s i d e n t . Reform synagogues in the -•_."• for t h e home. they are still capable of harborbM Fred- Ti".t!O'nr.l states cf Iowa. Misouri, Nebras- ! Icy ever ring rnirihi .. ;'p;-T Ilrs. David Greenoerg, third Minutes of last years meeting T ing. That fine and accurate ka, Minnesota, Kansas, South ••ohn T o s o:n th« ? P!"ocrp.m i V'Oil!; ^ f ^'. , r-v.*^. i p Ling ; were also read.by Mr. Silverman. thinker M r . Greenberg above all vice-president. '11 A r r p : Dakota, and Colorado will be repann ii.t-. •orii Paul Veret, n e w executive di^ must know that nothing but evil Harry Silverman, secretary. resented. Delegates will be sent >n c>f Xat h a E i f :•! IL Isw tliorne. the v !)!»s "(\ 1 can come of evil, that dictator- Harry Halashock, treasurer. rector of the Center, spoke a few by Brotherhoods, Sisterhoods and In: tin eaclker's ,e h elc r.t " 0 ; tnfi ViR ,1 p V ship and enslavement and the serHonorary Officers ' words on his experiences in OmaYouth groups as well as by the ' f ^ ii P elfi. l e v • a . Of y ' ~ I. " h g ! vile state' nnder whatever name Dr. Philip Sher, honorary ha during the past t w o months congregations themselves. Tems p v 5 •;V: •• V t . i '• ' i ' e on. i 0 ohn ' '"Th e i T\ ir "•; r .' arid on t h e work.of the Center. or slogan, from t h e very central president. . ' ' • ' - . ple Israel will act as tost to the t>. E g of K' e r 17 vf -'^" f: e-r-.:' is net ." 3\!r. E.rithr William Holzman presided nature of t h e ethical life, breed Mrs. Morris Levy, honorary visiting groups. • ; Ixair<.ro•rne 'E ;topi Cr- V "as "Tbe recce d ' b ; he ."ifV." over the meeting. nothing b n t destruction and lead v. -•„ oi th< jrne a n d pies is r• er:fori:c.ir.c • v.-pi'• - . . h v V . r u General chairman ol the eon- , to nothing b u t chaos and that t h e . vice-president. • a n d :n.eac r,rr TV O rk F.1.K' lew. vention will be J,Ir. E. P. Adler. j alternatives of history are simply Mrs. Harry Lapidus, honorpublisher of the Daily Times of j . 0: p \" iv; r y •• w; f; arid starkly these: either the de- ary vicerpresident. • Davenport, Io-wa. As chairman i ; V mocracies of t h e "West will go un- During the course of the meet1 CCCl! -. t';w-()]!?r• of the general administrative pivinj Jui,' ! der a n d the year 2000 will rival ing reports were read by t h e Sp i committee he will preside at the rail **?•• f S j/^' ' • chairmen of t h e various standing in" darkness and , barbarism t h e I business sessions. '. I MS!!y yi' 1*0" lev >r; T-ir« r is-1.' s.\ V ^AV^l. A.^. ; year' 1000 or else they will w i n committees. Later i n the evening ill .-: ?:»0!i. Hi! j Mr. Isidor Eiegler is chairman j Jir>w C tl! !"!. i i -" o f their-own might alone aiid any a reception was held in t h e aud! of the local committee arranging Pictured above is .Jack Marer. Omaha attorney, vrLo will :in si alliance w i t h . any servile state itorium for Mr. Paul Veret, n e w ; ; flifi i t'% trv.. f- J! . ,rv. i 1 be General Chairman of the 193S campaign of the Jewish Phil- for the conference. ;3.i?l» hi: w i l l ' b e a hindrance and a source executive director o f tbe Center, The convention Trill open at; viih 5,p ' j's'V ^ f? h o t and Mrs. Veret. _ , - . _ . . -_ , , - . . . anthropies. The drive is scheduled-to begin on April 23 andservices at Teisple- Israel, Friday ! a x o f weakness. : i'r.-«, Son of First Ifebraska Jewish < ^ • The handicaps which faced the night, May 6, when a ^ir.itir.j: \ ) will continue' throueh •Let: iis\sp farther. Let u s espe- welfare department this year ..Settlers Was rabbi -will conduct services. Sat-1 ;fiisn^-'.a5';;..jc-5f3;so" farther.. .A_a_ i s jretS ''lecocafgg- 'bj Dr.,.. Morris liiNuar, I,; 2.7 7," TUT" be t s r o t e i to ; V e i l known'3Tam; n o t a.Coifffiiun- StargolfnV new" chairman.~A case iREHEARMlfEEIES' the Tcuth conferences. Ecnclr.y, : Death came Tuesday afternoon I J j ist. I d o n o t believe that even a load unparalleled aiid a budget £&&&£& l i i L morning and afternoon, vrill be : \ HELD FOR modicum -of t h e world's evils f a r . below requirement added to to Albert Cahn, 77, the oldest | given over to the discussion of j native-born Jewish resident of could - be : remedied by establish- the difficulties caused b y t h e congregational problems E.ES pa- jer cbEi ing a'completely egalitarian or- withdrawal of governmental a s - Xebraska, who since January has pers will be 'read on "Worship in | chsntei been visiting his daughter and % der. T d o not believe that equality sistance. 1 Reherasals are now in progress The Synagogue," "An ASecuste ; i i%v son-in-law, Dr." and Mrs. Lester Milton Abrams, chairman of exists either i n order of nature ftF-JOTlTBR for the fourth Center Flayers Program for Synagogues" and \ nor i n t h e order of human civili- the Center committeeJ reported Levy of Los Angeles, iir. Cahn "Practical Problems Facing Cos-i production, "The Importance -of gregations." A formal banquet j zation. B u t if I were a Commun- on the athletic department, and died In a Los Angeles hospital. For fifty-five years he has conthe house and activities commitist, and t h e ideal as such ls_.an inSessions to Take Place •*" in \ Being Ernest", iy Oscar Tv'ilde. A will be field Sunday evening. All ; telligible one, I would be the first tees. "A thorough survey of r e - ducted a shirt factory that stands CMcago Over i drawing room ' comedy of smus- sessions trill take place at the j one to hasten t o dissassociate my- pairs and alternations w a s con-only one block west of the loca! Week-End j ing situations, the play is con- Eiackstone Hotel. self from a n y alliance with or ducted by t h e house committee tion where he was born. His parAbout 150 delegates are ex-• i sidered one of the classics " o f the ents, Mr. and Mrs. Aaron Cahn, and numerous repairs and repact w i t h or moral affiliation A m o n g ' t h e Important matters pected for t b e general sessions., i with t h e Stalinist dictatorship placements have been made." Mr. were the first Jews to arrive in to be discussed a t t h e general jE n £ l i s k stage. Nebraska, coming here in 1856 Abrams also told of the. manifold which n o w exists in the Soviet Herman -Jahr is directing. from Cincinnati. The eldei\Mr. committee meeting of District | Union.' And the desperate- trou- activties of the Center. Grand Lodge, No. 6, E'nai B'rith I Cahn, always prominent in early A proposal for a Bureau of ble is that the Communist Party Omaha affairs, was one of the to be held in Chicago a t t h e COT- [ a is pledged apparently to adher- Jewish Education w a s discussed enant Club on S a t u r d a y night, ] by Henry Monsky, chairman of organizers of Temple Israel. - e n c e . t o Moscow, to• this Moscow, March 26, a n d Snndav, March £7, the educational' committee. I n As^a boy of 8 Mr. Cahn manag-! v m b e r e c e n t d e T e i o p n : e a t s i n to this repetition of t h e reign of this" bureau all phases of thought fi I One h u n d r e d t e n new ^ l e ^ l ^ — s r* «^D Ivan the Terrible to this bloody and ideology will be represented. ed a band of Indian boys who for j . E u r o p e a s t h e y e H e c t a n d r e l a t e : a price "would shoot a t coins w i t h I to t h e work of t h e B'cai B'rith of B'nsi B'rith will fce for"1 ' ' ' f r"1 ~~ •" and horror-inspiring servile state. their bows a n d a r r o w s . initiated into t h e organizaion t C m ^~ TTT^T , Women's Division Anti-Defamation committee. And that is.why, to come to a While i n .New York- where h e £• Special reports of t h e activities •'a stag a n d initiation party -1 r ~ 1 --'" The Women's Division, accordprovincial b u t immensely importhaa gone in 1878 to serve an ap- ! j "held SlonuET, March s i , i r ^ f ""o anti-Semitic snd X ant issue, It-was ouch a desper- ing to Mrs. David Greenberg, prenticeship in the manufactur-' o president, has over six hundred ; Jewish Ccsiunity Center e-uJ* c - > - r " organizations in America will be ate error on t h e part of Borough ing trade h e became a friend of held at this time. members and constitutes t h e R a b ¥ i to inra. , ers vr j President Stanley M. Isaacs to apmost active group a t the Center. the late Julius Rosenwald, w h o )&Cn±X iXiil \ jx Ijiisiness mestlncr "will r &~ I^^'z^^^ The members of the general j point -.'Mr. Simon W . Gerson, a Among i t s activities have been was a fellow apprentice. •cede the ritual of initir — * - v - ~ committee will be guests at the | member of t h e Communist Party the red'ecoration of variou3 CenReturning to Omaha in 1SS4 i -B-hich -will, be conducted by a - ' - 1 ' " ~>= to a position on his staff. Doubt- ter rooms and the re-equipment he established the business • with Eightieth anniversary celebration j Zionist | ual team consisting less Mr. Gerson is a perfectly good of the" Center kitchen. It h a s which he was so long associated. of t h e Hainan Lodge which will! T h e a n n u a l Mizrachi Shrier, D r . I^eoi Feilman, J u l i u s ] Eoo arid efficient man. I t is true also sponsored educational activities For two years, 1894 and IS9a,'he be held Sunday evening, March \ organization will be held at services this Saturday ; Eisno, Alfred A. Fieldler, I,Ii:ton ! Kacl i i hi St that the t Communist Party i s a and particularly the Center Play- was a member of the City Coun- i 27, a t t h e Standard Club. Rarnab i| morning Lodge is o n e of t h e oldest a n d ' ^ a l l local Orthodos synagogues Froiim. B e n Slutskr, £.r.d Ks.r- :' to I legal party in t h e United States ers. cil. • are [ largest lodges in t h e United ! when t h e ideology of t h e organ- vey Leon. and hence . Mr. Isaacs, as h e Besides his membership in States. Dr. A. Greenberg of Oma- j ization will be stressed. In the absence of H. A. "Wolf, : After t h e initiation a. program ; Een: should have foreseen, h a s forced president of t h e Free Loan So- Temple Israel, he belonged to the | of. District At the* monthly • s n a v e H a l k e of e n t e r t a i n m e n t v i l i be present- j p.eh Governor Lehman, a s an unswerv- iety, a summary of that organ-' Field d a b , the Capitol Lodge of i be juest speaker. to be held Saturdav night a t S:."0 ed, consisting of' t h - ; e a m a t e u r ; T ingly loyal American Democrat, ization's -work was given b y J. H. Masons and the Scottish Rite. Included on t h e agenda is t h e • at t h e Congregation B'nai Israel, boxing contests between l o r m e r \ h i r l to! uphold him. Logically the case K Surviving are his daughter, discussion Kulakofsky. _ of t h e Vocational Gui- , Eighteenth a n d Chicago-.streets, golden gloves besers linder t h e j of € is water tight enough. Practically Dr. Philip Sher. discussed the j . ^ ^ j ' i ^ a n c e Bureau recently. approved r Rabbi Morris Solomon, of K a n -m a n a g e m e n t Ena tutelage or Bob'.is t and ethically the whole thing w a s work of the Social Service Com- I J r " 3f Chicago; four grandchildGolden Gloves'•Jor by t h e Xational Executive Com- : sas City, vice-president of t h e Veneer, former foolish and dangerous to an In-mittee which seeks, the prevenand one great-grandchild. wrestling \ T mittee, t h e coming Triennial con- i TVef tern Mizrachi organizatioE champion; a coisedr tolerable degree. tion and cure of anti-social ten- Another daughter, Mrs. I. Whit- J vention "to • tike"WeTir""¥r.a.sh- v?m .be guest of honor,' match between EEEI TTo'k zx.6. , obs; } n j r t on. Slay Mky 7 to' to 12," 12,aanndat h e DisDis Five h u n d r e d invitations have t h e "Masked ?ilarvel;" a n d a of • '"'it i s part of-the' necessary pol- dencies among the young. "Al- mark,- wife-of .the New York m u - | ington. publisher, died several years j t r i ~| t 6 convention to be held on been sent o u t to t h e Mizrachi floor show staged t y -the Vinson i yea: icy and ideal of democracy to though Omaha's Jewish populaI Bet' ! July 3 to 5 in Duluth. tolerate a l l ways of political tion i s five per cent of the total ago. Shkolim buyers to come^and h e a r school of dancing. Hefreshments will be served. ', S ' District.6, thus far. has.shown the r e p o r t "to b e - given l by t h e thinking and,therefore all parties population of the city, i t s rate of In 18 08 the Jewish g a substantial increase in B'nai delegates to the recent Western arising among its citizens. No n a - juvenile delinquency is only oneJevrs came.t at the t E E convention tion, on the other hand, h a s ever sixth ot one percent," Dr. Sher was officially recognized by the B'rith membership as compared ; Zionist organization to a year a g o . T h e "goal of fifteen ,'held in Kansas City, Missouri. of the RoinEs. in. practice blandly tolerated at- reported. Every Saturday for theFrench government. thousand members by J u l y S vra.s I T h e Mizrachi organization aims • tempts a t its- overthrow dictated set by t h e District Committee on • a t t h e rebuildiag of Palestine in ; from a foreign.center. N o wonder r* f •" membership whose chairman is ; t h e tradition of t h e Torah afed | that Sir. Earl Browder "roars i-K*r*st Justin G. "Turner of Chicago. i the strengthening of Orthodox i softly a s a sucking dove." "Would j J u d a i s m among t h e Jews^of t h e I not Jews be the "first 'ones t o pro-* I diaspora. ' ~ j test if a National-Socialist Party <8w» J<\ recruited • from . German-Americans, even though led by de- . With a carnival in the gymnParticipating in the carnival scendants of the Puritans were asium and dancing in the audiconstituted-and*-declared • .legal? torium, the Round Table of Jew- will be: Ronohs, Bingo g a m e ; In other word?, a good and h u -ish Youth is looking forward t o Junior Hadassah and Junior The Omaha H e b - e w Club will mane man will tolerate among his a ; festive occasion on Sunday, Vaad, tea leaf r e a d i n g s ; A l p h a be hosts a t a ball to be given on friends -and i n h i s home men ofMarch 27, when the third annual Sunday, eveni-ig at S p. in. the : tio Gamma Chi,..penny pitch; A. S. Sunday, April 3. a t t h e Central all faiths, races, origins. Can h e Purim carnival is held at the Club, 2027 Dodge street. E n t e r - Hazomir "Kinging Society .under ; fal A. 7, Council Bluffs, spinning be expected to entertain, however, Jewish Community Center.. tainment for young a n d old the direction of Cantor Abraham j ca; quite the same • feelings toward , The affair under, the chairman- wheel; A . Z. A . 1, H o t D o g be provided. Door prizes are to J Sehwaczkin" ill present its an- ; ed . . . those whose avowed purpose It is ship of Harold Zelinsky will turn stand; E. T- C-, soda p o p s t a n d ; he given. . nual.pnriia Coneen at the Con-i th; ilusie for dancing will be fur- gresatiou' B"aai Israel, Eigli-; Jeto' liquidate him arid his family, over all proceeds to tbe new Tau Gamma Delta, ice cream; to deprive him of that bread club room to b e furnished for nished by the Austin Bt'vins or- tenth R«d Chicago streets. i ' Bas-a-mi, tickets; Alpha p i T a u which he uow. breaks .with .them use of the groups affiliated with chestra. Guest speaker for the occasion ' bs' dart game; . U. T.'s,--candy; P h i the Round Table. ' and to set Ms .house, on fire?, Mr. Slembersof the organisation- v-iil be Kabbi Morris D.. Solcmcrs , tEs Music, for dancing will be fur-.Beta Epsilon, weight guessing; \ Isaacs may well .have, rememberhe prsssnt. General1 chair- of Kansas City vrho vril C:=CESS : tio ; nished by the'-Irring-Rh'odes ored that before, as a Jew and, ;.n :Pi Lambda- Pai, target practice; ; man for t i e affair is Join .Feld- ths ""2trcnr*th£nin~ of ths <JS American, he implicated himself chestra. Admission will bo twen- A. S. A-"100,'ski ball machine; man, j Religion. 1 ' ; and his colleagues and l i s people ty-five cents per person or "by Phi' Sigma and Young Judaea, • " •-••• : " • • \~ liefrfcE-hmentif-YiTii "ba s e r v e Table season tickets. A radio dra«"ing; and R i o Epsilon, jn' thla fearful and not easily, sol- Round T h e Alsnorah'of t h e s r s a g o c a e ; t h e members o f . i h s T a a a A st a ffair tfl . ?? . > . e carnival is open•! novelty whee'll All "booths "and of Fontatebleau it of , iary. T h e concert will be c to a l l y o u n g people, v . i:stands Trill be .in the. gymnasium, 1 Napoeion .1. * tO lii£. pUbi^C^ .

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