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Jew Tho Tlevr3 expressed by tit2C3wlg Lcwlsohn in hla column «iro his cnra and do not necessarily reflect the policies or attituds of our publication. Reproduction in whole or in' part strictly forbidden. • YOUTH AND BOOKS If there is no next generation of instructed JewiBh youths in America the plight of American Jewry twenty years . from now •will be more desperate than its plight today. Ignorance paralyses any man in the modern -world; - it makes him the prey of the first scoundrelly demagogue w h o chooses to roar at him. Ignorance for a Jew is even more desperate;' Jewish ignorance for a Jew degrades him. For he accepts the estiniate of himself and of WB people that his "enemies insinuate or frankly proclaim. An ignorant Jew cannot be' a selfrespecting human being. He cannot defend himself or his. people in a vrorld in which, both need defense. To enslavement of circumstance he adds enslavement of souL
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young Jews, young ; men and young women. They are an attractive generation. They have "good minds. They can be w o n and instructed. Many are reaching out for their Jewishness. But amid the innumerable voices of the world they do not hear that one needful voice. They hear American voices. And so they must and so they should. But they hear other alien voices. And because-their American lives are not ideal and because they see that "this American life i3 not ideal for others than themselves either, they fall a prey to fallacies and foolish doctrines that will destroy, not only them but their fellow-Americans of other strains and faiths.
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New President of B'nai B'ritk to Speak at Banquet A united
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Beth El synagogue announces j C o . that the year will be concluded with the folowing functions: On Friday evening, June S, the commencement exercises of the , high school department "will be jheld at S o'clock. Saturday morning, June 4, tbi Bar Mitzrah of Calvin Breit will take place at 9. The Shacharith service will be held at 9 a. m. Sunday morning,
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Over t w o h u n d r e d women r e g - | Istered for t h e S o u t h w e s t H a d a s sah R e g i o n a l Convention held Wednesday and Thursday in j Council Bluffs. M r s . M a s Mayer j of Des Moines presided over t h e ! • j June 5, with the entrance of the sessions. A f t e r g r e e t i n g s h a d been ex- ' confirmants at 9:45. by ciric a n d c o m m u n a l j Monday morning, June 6, the tendede a d e r s o£ Council Bluffs, t h e Shebuoth service will start at 9 lpresident's report and the reports] with Yizkor a t 10. of the constituent chapter were j heard. " | "Going to 11 An original skit, Going to
will Tuesday night gather to honor Henry Monsky on his eleva; tion to- the international presidency of the B'nai B'rith. The Remarks Praising Choice B.8 President Put dinner to be given at 7 o'clock at the Hotel Paxton will be unin Record der the joint auspices of the loDelegates wil] wil] meet on onManMancal lodge of the B'nai B'rith and Convention" by Mrs. Leo Fitch | cay. May 23; promptly at 8 v. m. The following remarks of the the Jewish^ Community Center Hon. Charles F. McLaughlin, repwas presented at the luncheon ! at the Jewish Corntaunity Center, Wednesday. •**-'-•• and Welfare Federation. resentative; from the Second ConTaking part were: to choose an ejection board 'or Mr. William L. Holzman, pres- gressional district of Nebraska, in Mesdames Harry Cherniss, J. the Am-erican Jewish CC'P.Erress ident of the Jewish Community the United States House of RepMoskovitz, J. Rosen. A. Krasne, i elections. Also Eominations of Center, will act as toastmaster resentatives, appeared in the Conr c C. Krasne, L. Cobea, B. Gershun, i candidates for the congress wiil for the evening. The principal ad- gressional Record of May 12 as a Max Kramer, Nate Nogg. and B. ! b e made at meeting. Telpner. Mrs. Clyde Krasne didress is to be given by Mr. Mon- tribute to Henry Monsky, newlyIt is important that every delerected the play. sky. He will ~ be introduced. by elected president of the B'nai , gate "brings credentials from the . Sam Beber, another Omahan long B'rith: Following the luncheon Rabbi | organization he represents and Each Class to Be Repre- Monroe active in B'nai B'rith* work and Levens of Des Moices j PaJ's a registration fee of one colMr. Speaker. I am pleased to "VVhat is to be done? I a r resented on Program founder of the lodge's junior or- have this opportunity, through, spoke, on "Soil and Soul." Jlrs. J. ; -• "What is the answer? Sunday Bushman of St. Joseph, Missouri) -Every Jew or Jewess. IS years unanimous consent- of the memThere are many answers. But der. prominent Speakers reported on the Jewish National ; ol age or over, can participate in bers pf the House, to call attenthe first and chief answer is this: The History and Religion Pe- Fund. The treasurer's report was \ t t e elections by the payment of Other speakers to appear on tion: to the fact that on yesterday .The Jewish Book in the English r the program are: Roy L. Coch- the International Association of parement of the City Talmud given by Mrs. S. M. Golfisctraidt ' a" registration' - - - - - - fee of ten cents. language. ' . W ran. Governor of Nebraska; Dan B'nai B'rith, meeting in Wash- Torah will present a program on off .Wichita. At t h e elections to be held What kind of a book? "Wednesday afternoon delegates June 25, ' 6 , and 27 the only isNot the learned tome. Nor Butler, Mayor of Omaha; Bishop ington, B. C-, elected as its pres- Sunday. May 22, at 11 o'clock at heard Mrs. M. S. Levine of Des,-— -~ be ~= submitted o^.^,*.^ sue to for rote will magnificent, volumes, .however ex- G. Bromley Oxnam; the most ident, Mr. Henry Monsky, a resThe Kindergarten under the j Moines speak on Organization j be "Do you favor a Union of all cellent in content and spirit, that Reverend James H. Ryan, Catho- ident of the city of Omaha, Ne• ' • direction of Miss Celia Richards (and Membership; Miss Sara Chapiap- .American jevrisa groups engagcost three dollars and upwards lic Bishop of the diocese of Oma- braska. marl the eaual °* Des Moines The people of Omaha >ill re- will present the "Ten Command- ! report on ed in sategisarfiiEg and that must be dragged home ha; Reverend Charles Durden of from a library for a limited per- the First Baptist church; ~ and joice in this selection, and I take ments." Those taking part are I Young Judaea; Miss K -. a 1 a• h- ;rights . - , of -- Jews,' which - " - — s- t^ - " l ---in Mr. Raymond Brown, Lawrence Dun- Franklin of. Omaha on Junior j aer.ske to create xo- the defense iod. Nor badly printed and ama- James E-. Davidson, president of a personal satisfaction Monsky's election to the head of can, Ruth Krantz, Eleanor Hay- | Hadassah; and Mrs. Simon _ Raposuch rights a single, all-incluteurishly bound books that look the Nebraska Power Company. w . like the publications of "Church , The invocation at the banquet the great- B'nai B'rith organiza- kin,' Mav"Ban7"i)elor^lekin, Doris May Ban. Delorts Se- \ Port of St. Louis~on t~he Speakers | sfreaffency organized on• 11 cem__ Racusin, _ ~ - Rita Krantz, bureau . \ oc.i<inc repiesen^sLive oasis, m houses." Kor book3 written in an jwill be given by Rabbi Frederick tion. His fellow townsmen have gal,. '-Nan English which sounds as though j Conn. Monsignor Flanagan, foun- watched his work and develop- Rita Rosen, and Audrey Forbes. T h e ' p r i n c i p a l - a d d r e s s of t h e j a c c o r d a n c e with American the author "had learned English der of nationally famous Boys- ment as a humanitarian and as.a Mrs. C. S. Ross's first grade c o n v e n t i o n s w a s g i v e n TTednes- j i a e a l s . - ' day before yesterday in order t ° town of whose board, o? directors socially minded citizen, and they class will take part in . "Prepar- , d a y- —=— night b M r s . ~-*~«>-» S a m u e l -Schul; ' - .y -—~valu- i _ _ translate his own lucubrations Mr.; Monsky is a member, will re- will be gratified by the recogni- ing the Sabbath.- Larry Foeel, i ^ g e r ^ o f Newark^New^.Jersey, 0 tion of his. leadership which is Joan" Levey, and Eleanor. • Fred-•i*^ £?oke. on irom a Yiddish original. cite "ffie'beaedi'ctton. "7 r
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expiisjit'-'in.- his—"elevKrieHr-td^'tlre: Jan...sail-nabs-,is-—'SabfcaiUs-JlJ^e-"" i-Scene~a&d_Pal&s£i?..5 - •B .hatrmust~tae -Jewish; boot ia i;ifai3tUeseTatioas ; • English be;like? . . "'"'• ' ~ '-'" Because":'"of" Mr. "Uonsky's in- high post.he will now occupy. Elaine " Green, Sabbath Candles; was presented Yv'ednes. It must be elegant, brief and tense Interest in all communal Through personal friendship Alvin Lee Ross, Kiddish; Mar- day evening iiy the Ckorsl Group cheap. Elegant,, briefi cheap, in activities', the entire Jewish com- over a period of many years aad vin Broikstein "Prayer over of the Council Bluffs Kadassah exquisite English. Its character munity has been invited to at- as a result of long continued Bread;" and Jerome W s s s e r - and ars of Aleph Za> d by Florence 'and Esther Steinonrteen must be such that a Jewish sen- tend, but as the seating facilities contacts as an active fellow mem- man, "Prayer over Fruit." Aleph were aarked by Mot! berg. ior at Harvard will proudly leave of the banquet hall are limited, ber of the Omaha and Nebraska The Second Grade whose teaThursday morning Mrs. A. S. I chapter No. 1 Monday evening at =• e n it lying around for the inspection only the first four hundred reser- bar as well as through close as- cher is Miss Bertha Greenberg Wolf of St. Louis reported on the : t 3 l e Jewish Community Center at of his Gentile comrades. . . . vations to be received will be ac- sociation with him in community will give a Chanukah arostic with various Hsdassah projects. Mrs. | a Program held jointly with the chest work and in civic activities Dorothy Bloom, MiUard Margolin, Julius Stein of Omaha and Mrs. (local B'nai B'rith lodge. Grand There must be; a series of such cepted. books. They must' look gay and Invitations to the affair have in my home cty, I have come to Anita Forbes, Stewart Solig. El H. L. Feidman of Otttimwa, la., j President Stanley Rabinowitz of W charming. They must be in every aljjo been issued to a number of know well his public record and lenKahn/Irle^rKulinr Alfred ! woke w oak e Pon Lo- | D « Koines^ was" the" gVes"t onNatTo r o b NatTo"naTQuota^;nd shop and in every Jewish Center prominent non-Jews who have can attest as can all who know Fox, and Ronny Rimmerrnan tak- j f. i^ l!^ s ,- At Thursday's je r T l i e luncheon Rabbi David A. Gold- ! and In the social halls of every been associated with Mr. Monsky him-well and intimately that he ing part. highlight 0 the celebrasynagogue and temple and in ev- in the many civic endeavors in is eminently deserving of the readdressed the I :ion was the formal initiation of The Seventh grade under Mr. stein of Omaha ery "Y". They must be ubiqui- which he has taken active inter- cognition accorded him by the in- S. Swartz will sing a medley of convention on " O s r Zionist Heri- a class of four new members: ternational association in which festival songs. Etbelyn . tous in college book shops and est. again Bob Brarason, Theo Cohn, Bob ! £"'' Lashin- tage." Mrs. Schulsinger he has so long taken a prominent sky will present a piano solo. must be the first "objects that spoke, this time on "Hadassah"s , -~ 1 and helpful part. meet the eyes of intelligent JewIn the Fourth Grade's sk'etch, ^ * o r k a a d t b e Political Situation.' A ra io ish boys and girls wherever theyi oeirts ant Mr. Monsky is a civic leader "Abraham aham and and the the Three Three StrangStrang- d ^ skit was was presented presented ThursThurs-I congregate. And the books must t r - c T ir who has a record of unselfish ac" !d a b M 1 era," Dorene Brookstein. Donald ! ^ by Mesdames L. Katelman, cost thirty-five cents a piece in tivity in matters- a'fecting social Vann, Gertrude Shermap, Bet- L. Cohen, Clyde Krasae, I. Stern- I order that there may be-no inwelfare which may well stand as ty Greenberg, Charlotte Katzmaa, hill, and Morris Grossman. Miss 5 superable interval between curian example for citizens in 'all Sara Diamond, and Josephine June Meyerson directed the play, j osity and desire on the one hand parts of this country. Through- Koom will take part. Miss Ger- Musical selections were present- •. and possession and carrying ed by Rae Wolfson. • out his mature life he has taken trude Oruch teaches this class. home in pocket or briefcase at part in movements for the beneA report of Education was giv- ; The entire Fifth Grade will preonce. The Confirmation service will fit of the people of his commun- sent "The Return of the Jews en by Mrs. David A. Goldstein of afternoon. And these must be some of the be held at Temple Israel on Sun- ity, especially for the benefit of from Exile." Lorraine Robinson, Omaha oa Thursday ~ol cv r e those least able to help them- a .member of the class, will re New Officers books, about a hundred pages iii day, June 5, at 9:45. O c s were to t o have been , selves. He has long been in the ' l t d length, bound, in cream and blue cite a poem, "The Fund Box." i'elected at t h e closing sessions in j Members of the class are: and green and vermilion and yelStanley Feltman, son of Mrs. for.efront of the Jewish welfare" Miss Bess Bernstein teaches the movements, local, State, and Nalow boards with a well-designed Sarah Feltman. label. I. 'Whither Israel? AnThe Sixth Grade, which is Willard Friedman, son of Mr. tion, and has also given unsparingly of his time and energy to taught by Miss Esther Klaiman, swer? by great modern Jews. II. and Mrs. J. J. Friedman. ..Evans*}] of the Righteous. A 'Harriett R o s a lie Newman, all civic welfare . developments, will present 'Lag B'Orner. Taking authorship part will be Lloyd Kuklin, Jean Chassidlc Anthology after Martin daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Julius regardless of their and irrespective of the raee, col- Fogel, Rosella Sherman. Evelyn III. Vocation and Em- Newman. : Buber. . . or, or creed of those sponsoring ploymentr~The. Young Jew in Louis E. Plotkin, son of Mr. the enterprise or those to be di- Goldware, and Frances Veitzer. America. IV. Of National Social- and Mrs. Solomon Plotkin. The third grade, of which Miss rectly benefitted by them. ism. By Thomas Mann and HeinAlta Hirsch is teacher: will preLorraine Rosenberg, daughter rich Mann. V. Selected Poems by Year." A .Henry Monsky is to be congrat- sent, "Through the of Mr. and Mrs. Walter RosenChaim Naehman Bialik. VI. A ulated upon the high honor which poem, the "People of the Book" berg. The Beth El synagogue an- j1 l •Jewish Socialist. Selections from upon him. will be given by Carol Lerine. nounces the first ccrnraenceiaent « Rosalie Ann Rubin, daughter has . been bestowed A. D. Gordon. VII. Tales by B'nai P'rith and its membership Community sing'ng will be exercises of the high school' de- | Perez. VIII. Modern Hebrew j of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Rubin. Starrer EaiCrro-s William Louis Stiefler, son of are likewise to be congratulated lead by Cantor A. Schwaczkin. parttnent at the regular services ; Tales. IX. Lore and Legend. A for they have honored themselves The program has been arranged on Friday evening, June Mr. and Mrs. Ben Stiefler. Selection of Haggadic Material by the choice of so distinguished by Geraldine Strauss and Eva S td Seven students who have coin- ; President from both Talmudim. XI. 'The and worthy a president as Henry ~j v,v,^. u i u C oLiauoa aim x.v» i '--•cu si-uueiiLs wao cave comKonecky. Rabbi David A... Goid• Pleted three years of post-conflrRabbi Moshe ben Maimon's Guide ecretaryy Irving ving Nofrg condu Monsky. stein and Rabbi Milton A. Kop- | niatioa study will be -rradnated. tte rural of the Perplexed. Selections. XII. which t;~e they -restein have been in charge of the j They are: Frances Osoff, Betty ^ s s t e i certificates ci rrxn Tales by Sholeia Asch. XIII. A James ! and rpins ' ^ to the ir.itiatpp. "History and Religion" Depart- I Rosen, Esther Shapiro, initial pp. Primer of Modern Hebrew. XIV. jji en t, v Lipsey, Beth Beth. Kniakofsiry, Kniakofsir Miriam AEkins: cls.'sr reZaticcFitir? bePaths to Zion: Travels to and Funeral services were held on Rubnitz and Beverly Mendelsohn, Letters from, Eratz Yisrael in Tuesday at the residence for Mrs. hn, tween. youth acd adult tovarf. c Mrs. David A. Goldstein is tea-j t e a j j common goall and d three centuries. ~XV. Tales by i Goldie Berger, 70, who died Moneiicca;raclEg: cher of the class. Sholem Alechem. XVI. Tales by! day at her home after an illness j wider membershipp In the Youth A •At the connaescersent esercises i organisation, Israel Zangwill. XVII.; Confessio of five months. , PresiI i e delivered Gra the raembers -of the class will j dent of A. 2. tA. an &pJudaica by Heinrlch H e i n e. Surviving are her husband,' XVIII. A Pesach Hagadda. XIX. Lous; two sons, Charles of Butte, ] eaca presest an original address j pes.1 fcr more cstent-ive applicaI| based ased upon, thei studies in the ! lions o' E'r.Bi Erith t.TJl AZA upon, their Martin Buber: Cheruth: An ad- Montana, and Morris of St. Jo- Paris '(WNS)••—- Nearly 1 2 , dress to Youth. XX. Martin Bu- seph, Missouri; and two daugh- 000 of the Go,000 City Commissioner Harjy Trus- ,I Book of Exodus. I ifieals. Jews who ber: Of the Spirit of Judaism. ters, Mrs. Moe Friedman of Oma- fought in t h e armies of France tin was named new president of i Chairman of • t eve XXI. Martin Buber: Israel Em-, ha and Mrs. Murray Klein of Los were killed in action, , former the Omaha chapter, Reserve Of- • Be Barkin called on Pres- ; battled. XXII. Tales by Ludwig.! Angeles.' Minister of Pensions Georges R i - fleers' association, at the annual I'^^'^l i ^ C b'ii^ i.'J. ^--i:.!~i- ~±- i « M ' . ^ (.- t ' Lewisohnl XXIII. Tales by Franz ' and District. President Harold •' Rabbi David A. Goldstein of- Vollet declared at a meeting in election held on May 12 at the Kafka. XXIV, Philo of Alexan- ficiated. Burial was at Pleasant the Salle TVagram commemorat- Rome •Hotel. Mr.'Trrstin, a cap-: Selinsky for their impresFions of dria: The Mission to Caligula. Hilh. ing t h e 23rd anniversary of the tain in the reserve, is a past corn- , J.«V.«<=UI.-C Florence aas; Eleanor Frefikin, the pro gran., Ben Kazlowsky, '. XXV. Chaim Bloch; Hersch OsBattle of Carrency, in which mander of the Orhaha Post of the j daughters ' of r. and Mrs. Dav- past presiac-t of Mother chapfer. j tropoler. XXV.I. Hermann Cohen: numbers of Jews died. The American. Legion. • j id Fredldn. will.be featured ia described the vast differences of • CAMP COUNSELLORS large Our Neighbor. Four Illustrations meeting was under t h e auspices Robert Schimmel, a major in j the dance recital'to given by AEA fourteen ^*ears ago and now. Any person wishing' to apply' of the r Jewish Es-Servicemen's^ the reserve, was-named; a mem-I the Agnes Britton. •e of the Ethics of Judaism. cccooi ci Phil Ki-atzniek, dslegste tc the School cf for the »position of counsellor a t Union pf France. ' ber of the council for three years, i Dancing on Saturday, Slav 21, ci B'nai B"riih convention ITS TfashAnd so on and so on, literally the 1938 Jewish Community CenPreceeding t h e meeting t h e the Soko! auditorium, 13th andingrton D. C. ctli'-pred hi-; -e?Drt ad infinitum. • ter Home Camp may do BO by see- Jewish and gave in detail the story r-i veterans ' kindled a flame Martha .streets. ' . No one is more tragically ing Miss Allen a t - t h e Center. ; at the Arc -de Triomphe; RJvollet Florence, who won first prize the election ci Kerrv Xossk-r 55 rware of the crisis in Jewish life said unspeakable calumnies had st the recent B'nai B'rith sras- president. than I am, nor more vibrant to Appeals for Open Doors (been spread cbout ^cti-e conduct of teur sight, .will .be. featured in a the needs 01 our brethren -i - " . -f . • 1 «^^.u ^t-jcau . . u u u f e w conauct 01 comedy set. " Europe nor more pa.-siona'tely r r a h a (JTA) — T h e Juedische : t h e Jews in ±he war. H". pointed • Sarah Forbes, daughter of Mr. . - , organ i,.bu.u of'.the ui.iuo uciuuui mo.uuu [and Mrs. M. Forbes, former Oinafull of faith in the ultimate pos- Rundschau, German j| uui out tIUHI. h a t o-.uuu 32,000 or of IDO.OOO Algeria were under arms j bans now resident of San. Antonsibility of the redemption' of the Zionists, Publish Bihl^r—fn*— zionist appealed l d tt o the h peoples"i l JJews iin A Jewish people in Galuth and of t h e world: "Open your doorsl ' a n d that 6,500 were killed in a c - io, Tesas, was last Friday electDo not abandon us to a life the I tion. Among the 95,000-Jews of —•'"'• ~ " " ' from Galuth. But that possibile f l c a d e t s p o a s o r or a s a n A E t o n "Recent Judaic? " 1 ity depends absolutely-—J say; Very basis of which is disappear-J France a t t h e time of t h e war io .high school. She * is also presi- jrraphy of" books c» e t ing. Receive us as a people of culthere were 20,000 in the army absolutely and not relatively or dent of the Wednesday School est and significance, among other things—^onthe com- ture, genuinely willing to work." i and 4,000-killed, he stated:---Club and- a*member ol tlio Eng- compiled''by Farn. ••••' '•*—— -.. -y I There were also 12,00 0 foreign lish Honor Society. plete intellectual re-Judaization Hoston IH^ra^i2.r! Nathaniel Isaacs was in 182SJ Jews, mostly Russians, v.'lso "vol- ""Miss Forbes; is also an "honorof the generation in America that "The book Is- t&s appointed 'principal chief' of .Na- unteered for the French armies ary officer of the Student Coun- ment to a bibliogrc (Continued -on page 8.) tal to deal with the natives.' [and of. these.1,200 were killed. ciL ' . .
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