May 19, 1939

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In the Interests of the lavish Fcotic Immigrants In'our town the Beth Hamedrath Hagodol Congregation recently celebrated its birthday and its brief history written for the Entered as Second Class Mali Matter on January 31, 1931, a t OMAHA, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, MAY 19, 1939 occaslon~*began thus: "This is a Pustofflce. of Omaha. Nebraska, under the Act of March 3. 1S79 story of an older generation who braved-ttie uncertainty and tribiilations of earning a livelihood in a new, strange land in order that ihey-might -free themselves from •the iniQuities of intolerance, oppression and persecution. ' • A generation -which struggled •and toiled for many years to find an adequate Jewish life in AmeriConfirmation services will be and Mrs. Robert Pcrelmcn. ca and today are proudly beheld Sunday morning at 9:30 at queathing the'fruits of that moJames I. Kobinsozi, son of Temple Israel and at the Beth El Blr. and Mrs. Sam L. Robinsca. mentous struggle to their children Czech Population Is UnChamberlain Tells House synagogue on Friday evening, •so that they may live a better and Jerold I.-Rosen, son of Mr. moved by Agitation Government" to May 26, and Saturday morning, more' comprehensive Jewish life. and Mrs. David TV. Rosen. May 27. •It Is in a- measure a glgrious chalin Press Co-operate Charles Kosenstock, son of lenge to its youth to carry on in Members of the Confirmation Mr. and Mrs. Fred Rosenstock. the footsteps of their illustrious class at the Temple are: NO FINANCIAL HELP Janet Kosenstock, daughter forbears and to continue to rec- NAZI MOVES RESISTED Mary Jeannette ^rown, of air. and Sirs. Dare KosenJerusalem (WNS-Paleor Agenord the splendid achievement ol daughter of Mr. and Mrs. IsSome See Report as Sop cy) —-'The 21st Congress of the Czech Jewish Technicians rael stock. the. past." H. Brown. R u t h Lorraine TrachtenAfter Palestine Given Jobs by World Zionist organization will Aileen Phyllis Feder, daughThe immigrants who found the barg, daughter ot Sir. and Mrs. be held in Geneva on August 16, Proposal Gestapo ter of Mr. and Sirs. David P. Betti Hamedrath Hagodol CongreJ. Louis Trachtanbarg. •it was decided at a joint meeting Feder. gation were people from the RusThis year's confirmation marks London (JTA) —Prime Minis- of the Zionist -Executive and the London London (JTA) — A cabinet Morton L. Gilinsky, son of sian pogroms in the eighties. the fiftieth class to be confirmed ter N e v i l l e Chamberlain an- Praesidiuni of the General Conn- j -wide Brave, hard-working, faithful, committee in Bohemia-Moravia Mr. and Mrs. Sam E- Gilinsky. Lorraine B, G r e e n s p a n , by an ordained rabbi. Cotsfirrna- nounced in the House of Commons cil. God-Joving people who came here has completed the drafting of an I with a ke^rvue c' June _16 has been set as the | •with nothing but empty stomachs anti-Jewish law, it was reported daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Abra- tions began at the Temple short-i that the. British'government was ly after the congregation's inprepared to offer the fullest fafrom Prague, and the bill will be may be i ( fiaal date ham Greenspan. and glowing hearts full of Torah, discussed by the complete cabinet Renee J o y c e Greenberg, corporation in IS71. It was not cilities in British Guiana for any bought the shekolim on the basis and built a good life. on Friday. daughter of Dr. and Mrs. A. until 1SS9 that a graduate of the settlement decided -upon, by ref- of which delegates to the Con-; noiineou. Th'e gates of the country were Hebrew Union college conducted ugee organizations. The announce- gress are electee The measure is reported to conratio is wide open then and the millions tain 40 paragraphs and provide Greenberg. jj ment came less, tha.n a week lie- one delegate to the The Congress for Arthur Sidney Kulakofsky, a Temple confirmation. of t h e s e immigrants pourpd for the virtual exclusion of Jews o n e delegate io iue VJUiiijresK i u r Beth El through. Most of us are the chil- from public life and the profes- son of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Kulthe statement of policy on | ecountries sold in thei v e r v s o o o of Ehekolim The Beth El service, at which | fore Palestine. the Diespoi dren and grandchildren of that sions. Czech newspapers were akofsky. If trial, colonization recoin- one delegate lor every immigration. Sometime we ought conducting an inspired anti-JewLucille Pcrelman, son of Mr. only girls are confirmed, will be mended -by an Anglo-American s a e k o l i m E o l d i n E , . e t z l s r a e L held Friday evening. May 26, and to get together in all our cities ish campaign to prepare the popcommission ,of, experts proved sue- i Saturday morning. May 27. for a reverential tribute to the ulation for the law. Most Czechs, The following are members of cessful, Chamberlain. said, t i e v.-Uiants who as meak strangers however, remained apathetic to government was. prepared to fathe class: came to these shores and made the anti-Semitic drive. cilitate settlement over the whole this our good place for us. (There Lorraine Abranison, daugh- of the interior "insofar as that The law includes in the definiare so few of them left). ter of air. and Mrs. isadore may be practicable," but excludtion of Jews all persons who were Abramson. The Children ing the coastal belt. baptized after November 1, 191S, Marilyn. Adler, daughter of In,moments'of humility I ask and spouses of Jews. Under the Expressing, the hope that setSir., and Mrs. Leo J. Adler. myself: Suppose I were in my law every Jew must be entered in tlement would start in the auGeraldine Bernstein, daughfather's place, persecuted in my an official Jewish register and all Better Business Bureau tumn, the Prime Minister pointed ter of Mr. and Mrs. Mas TC. out that the financing ,of the ex- Pentecost to Be Marked native .land, an underprivileged Jewish property -will have to be Honors Board man/a declassed inhabitant. What registered, as of March 15, 1939. Bernstein perimental , colonisation must in Syn&gogue on Chairman would* be my courage to strike out Betty Cohn, daughter of Mr. come from private sources. He Segregation May 24, 25 for strange ^places, penniless, and Mrs. Arthur A. Cohn. said, hcjwever, that, the British Jews will be eliminated from As an expression of the organfriendless and speechless in a the civil service and teaching: proHarriet Geifman, daughter and t h e Guiana governments "Shabuoth" or the Jewish Pen- j lowing country "whose language was notfessions. Jewish children will be ization's 'gratitude, the Better of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Geifmsu. would co-operate in the matter of tecost. the .Festival of Weeks, will j White mine? What would be my valor segregated in special schools. A Business Bureau at its second anpersonnel and .organization. , Sally Mae Gross, daughter of be observed on Wednesday and in a new and not very friendly 2 per cent numerus clausus will nual open meeting on "Wednesday Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Gross. Industries Sought Thursday, May Zi and 25. Trasociety and, Trhat, after 50 years, be imposed on Jewish lawyers and night presented Louis Hiller, • The prospect of large-scale -setMiriam Novak, daughter of j ditionally Shabuoth marks the would be my victories. -. • Chairman of the Board of Ditlement. Chamberlain, emphasized, their activities will be limited to Mr. and Sirs. Ben Novak. of the .giving of the must depend largely upon the pos- j-anniversary . At times, looking at the dazz- Jewish clients. The Jewish per- rectors, with a placque. Frieda Riekes, daughter of f to the Jewish people at Mt. Inscribed on the placque were sibility of industrial develop- j ling array of people at some Jew- centage in licensed trades will be Mr. and Mrs'. Carl RieSces. i Sinai. ish, banquet (these lovely ladies reduced io six in the current year the words: Betty Saks, daughter.of Mr. ment. He said, a large measure j The holiday also cam of local autonomy and adequate > s e e d £ s 0 H e "Presented to Louis Hiller in in silken gowns, whose stately, and five next year. Jews will not and Mrs. Phillip Saks. representation in the colony's gov- | " ' ff the three £ white-breasted gentlemen) I give be allowed to own or lease landed appreciation of three years of unMarjorie Silrermzn, tiring service as Chairman of the ter of 3Ir. and Mrs. Harry Sil- ernment would be granted if a , myself to., sentimental medita- property. large new community were estab- i esune as u marked the end of the tions: "These • are the shining Other provisions of the law in- Board of Directors .of the Better verman. grain harvest. The first bread children - of the. sad-eyed immi- clude the following restrictions: Business Bureau of Omahs\, May lished. Pearl Sommer. daughter of • grants who 'came up from the Jews will not be permitted more 17, 1939." govern- I baked from the new crop Mr. and Mrs. Harry L. SomHe asserted that the union railway station with their than a 60 per cent share in. inment would be r jady to give sym- | vheat was offered as a sacrifice, i Mr. Hiller was elected first mer. feather-beds-on their backs. How dustry during the current year, president of the Better Business pathetic consideration to any pro- | Because "Shabuoth"' commem- \ p r ; 7 pc Beverly Zlotky, daughter of beautifully it has all turned out— 40 per cent nest year and 25 the Bureau upon its organization. Af- Mr. and Mrs. Sam Zlotky. posals for' settlement, reserving, i crates the confirmation of the | clay u, ^e this splendor of their children, year after. Property owned by ter asking to be relieved of the however, control of general serv- Jewish people in their faith, the j isatior' •this gorgeousness ot ermine coats, Jews may be transferred to office, the next year he was chosices such as security, communica- practice of coafirining Jewish | annus this distinction of substantial bus- 'Aryan" hands only with the con- en a member of the Board of Ditions and revenue. | youth on this -day has become j tourer • iness a n d ' professional - rn^n. sent of the government commis- rectors and named Chairman. .The.statement, made in writing I wide-spread. The. Book of Euth | Roune (There's Mr. Zilch, the doorknob sar. A fund to facilitate Jewish Since no president was chosen to in.Teply to a'question by Laborite | which recites the story of Kuta's I £.. 7 tycoon. His father .was one of the_ emigration will be established 4jn- .succeed" him. h e - has remained _ " r*t ,.*•*•> *", Tom .Willis and- circulated (entry into :ae fold -rt J immigrants.") der the direction of the welfare head of the organization. among members of the House,- ex- I read in th; .Synagogue " pressed the hope" that it would be holiday, But suddenly I fall from senti- ministry. Presentation of the placque of Ce: c ~ ~i p dil • Given Jobs ment'- to cynicism: "But are they Pentecost is also observed ;R was made by P. K. Walsh, a dipossible to find industrial employment for the refugees, care the Christian Church because it A number of Jewish technicians rector of the organization. Three really finer people than their p to preserve the rights is recorded i s the second chapter fathers?" If by some magic I have been accepted by the Gestapo hundred persons, representing all Luncheon to Be Held for being'taken g Abner T b i i l Indians. Idi ' could change this glittering scene. in Prague for jobs in Germany. phases of Omaha business life jjOf the Book • of Acts that " the off aboriginal Center Women's The r It all at once their fine feathers The Jewish engineers and chem- were present at the banquet. I apostles -gathered i n ' Jerusalem the p"et= Will-Aid Settlement ' " Division were reduced to the threadbare sts were offered- the positions It continued: "His Majesty's j fiuring t h e celebration and while awardgarments of penniless immigrants when they applied at the Gestapo 1 p Cr The final meeting of the Wom- government recognize that the t h e r e a _ K oly Spirit appealed in (Mr. Zilch suddenly is wearing for emigration permits. Upon reens. Division of the Jewish Com- success of any scheme of large- their midst. i ree. , the long ;brown coat his father maining the Gestapo that they scale settlement requires "the proIt is- customary for only/.airy I local munity Center will be held this had when he came up from the were Jews, the technicians were Monday, May 22, at 12:30 at the vision of arterial communications. foods to be' eaten on Shabuoth "Union station). If this banquet told: "We know but that makes If the prospects of development j b e c a u s e t l i e Toraa f is compared 10 i a l s o r v r ~t>Z Center, according to announcehall became the shabby third floor no difference." are good and capital is forthcom- jm i l t _ ; d h % ment made by the organization's • r % -. of a tenement, -louse. (A feeble ing adequate for the needs of The Gestapo informed these At the Beth El Synagogue, the i their c\ president, Mrs. J. M. Rice. "" i 1 ; v r 1 ray of sunlight.in a window). Jews about the proposed salaries large-scale settlement and bears a u.i—... . s e r v j c e s v,-i;l • be held. Table Following a 12:30 luncheon, a reasonable proportion of the cost They are at the. moment' having and cities of employment-— HamTuesday, May 23, at 7:"fi; "Wedbrief business meeting will be of providing suitable communicaT h e - - -'•-1 squab on .toast which turns to burg predominating — and gave held. Various standing commit- tion between the interior and the nesday morning at P: Thursday eg a n ^ L ' 1 ! ' soup-meat. »' them three days to consider the Dr. Rudolph Glantr, represen- tees will submit their reports to coast, they (the government) will \ morning: at 9 with Yizkor. £t offer. Those who accepted were '..'.' Return sen b tative Yiddish Scientific the organization. A social after- be prepared to provide such com- jabout 10. allowed to live in hotels -where Mr. Zilch, who is always . the Jews are ordinarily not admitted instituteofofthe noon -will follow. Bridge, bingo, munications to meet the needs of Vilna, will speak this spokesman for Jewry since he is and were given other privileges. evening at 8:30 at the Labor and mahjonng are on the after- the community. In brief. His so bis in doorknobs, protests in •' Anti-Jewish excesses continue Lyceum, Twenty-second a n d noon's program. Majesty's government would be j U.Ji behalf of all the company: "Mr. to be reported from Slovakia. Clark streets, on "A Scientific Reservations for the affair prepared to facilitate the settleSegal, what do you mean by. this Jews are constantly attacked in Analysis of the Causes of Anti- must be made byy nocn today. c -r ? . y ment of refugees in the whole of joke? -What have you done to us? cafes, cinemas and on the streets Semitism/' fi* interior ot British Guiana inA . ',. Luncheon is thirty-five cents and the Outrage! You have reduced us to of Bratislava. More than 60 Jews The lecture is being sponsored reservations may be made by call- sofar as that may prove practicthe beginning of everything. You have been arrested on the streets jointly by the Jewish National ing the office of the Jewish Com- able, the coastal areas being ex- j \ have set up back to where our eluded because that area is si- i1 I h i i's I - I Si ••'*:>' Sf imprisoned without any rea-Workers Alliance, Poali Zion, the munity Center. fathers began. These are our par- and ready occupied and must be rebeing tgiven. In Goellmitz, Pioneer Women, the Workmen's board meeting will be held served for the needs of the exist- ; " ents' garment. And this soup- sons synagogue1 was razed by a fire Circle Branches, and the Auxil- at A11:30 meat. You have left us aa poor a preceding the luncheon. ing inhabitants." j The anual "Chain of Tradition"' I 1 ounp. . set by Hlinka Guards. Jews are iaries of the Workmen's Circles. as pur parents were." i KiGE " being, brutally beaten and are • Mr. Glantz is famous- as a Intergovernmental R e f u g e e service will be observed tin's eveCONTRIBUTE TO FUND Committee "No, no, Mr. Zilch. You're even starving in Slovak prisons. Sevnsng at Temple Israel when, the j circles welcomed the and has long been a stupoorer-than they."' FOR REFUGEE RELIEF statement as eral Jews have died in concentra- speaker encouraging, point- confirmation classes of the past, j dent of his subject. Mr. Zilch riot only has lost his tion camps. They were believed ing out. however, that it means present, and future will partiei- \ The Chevra Tfillin of the Con-there will be no direct or indirect pate. tall-coat and. has come to soup- to have been beaten to death. meat; he has even less than his gregation B'nai Jacob Anshe financial support in the prelimiThe opening remarks of the fatter. He hasn't the- inner light Sholom has contributed $50 to nary stages. service will be mace by Rabbi Anti-A'azi Campaign his father carried. It made bright the Jewish Philanthropies for the Financial circles here are cowDavid J3.' "vi'ice. Greetings of t h e ! Prague ,(Havas) — A widethe darkness of his father's tenecare of European refugees. considering the financing needs of Confirmation Class cf lSl4-.willi (Continued on page 8.) ment- house fait. Mr. Zilch long The money has been forwarded the projected settlement, with the be conveyed by Mrs. Goodman i ago .had lost the illumination that to the United Jewish Appeal. (Continued on. page S.) Pill: Mrs. Ernest Xogg v:iU repre- j is: called God. i 1S24 sent the Confirmation Class cf I "You have nothing at all left, jani Mr. Zilch. A pauper, Mr. Zilch." j Lucille Perelman will speak i meeti-1- c "Stop this nonsense, Segal! j for this year's confirmation class Rabbi S. Bolotnikov of Sioux This joke_has gone far enough." land Miriam Sehimmel will repreCity will be guest speaker at the I am. compassionate.. Mr. Zilch, I sent the Class cf ISiC. inters as I well know, has a date at the All officers were re-elected at Chesed Shel Ernes dinner to be At the sa A gut" service roulette wheels after the banquet the Sixty-Eighth annual meeting given on Sunday evening at the awarfis will b= made to the child-] rent L -r thatTevening. (Mrs. Zilch, too, is of. Temple Israel held last Friday Jewish Community. Center. ren of the Tlelig-ious Schoo", scd'j review " so good "at the faro tables). By evening following the regular Mr.. I. Morgenstern will be the affjeers cf the congregation ! "Tide the same magic I restore the van- Temple Service. chairman of the evening. The • Omaha friends of Irvin StalThe function of the committee j will be installed. master had the pleasure of learnished scene of the banquet hall society is at the present time Officers of the Temple are: will be, according to the mayor, ] raeml' ' " and the ladies wear their evening David Goldman, president; Mor- raising funds to purchase new ing of his appointment by Mayor "the examination of the situatioa j ervat. gowns again' and. the gentlemen ris E. Jacobs, vice-president; Ben equipment for the Jewish Fu- Fletcher Bowron of Los Angeles to'find the'facts and. to >afee such ] PSST are in their tails- and the soup D. Silver, treasurer; and Eugene neral Home so that the sanitary to the committee of three which st.eps as to them seem advisable Cente r meat is squab on toast again. standards demanded by the state is credited with averting a strike and. necessary in order to serve N. Blazer, secretary. T,"o that threatened the California the best interests of all con"Thank you, Mr. Segal. That Morton Hiller • and Manning may be met. sons 1 ! was an awful joke you played on Handler were elected to the Reservations for the dinner cleaning and dyeing industry. cerned." us. It was positively frightening Board of Trustees. Members cf may be made by calling Mrs. Wil- Mr. Stalmaster, since leaving Central H'&h school senior, hES aac 7 Under the prevailing standards been awarded the Resents' sch- by tbto be as poor as our fathers were. the Board re-elected are: Milton liam Milder, WA 3055, or hte Omaha last fall, has been perThe squab tastes even more deli- Abrahams, Sol L. Degen, Abe Jewish Community Center JA manent arbitrator between the four three-piece suits are being olarship to the Universltv of ve- cay. cious after that.: You're such a Goldstein, Sam J. Leon, David 1366. Waterfront Employers Assoeia- | fcleaned in^ the Los^Angeles^ area j braska." acccrfitcg -.n sT-i- r w°: cr -.vag,. Mr. Segal."' one dollar. Wages of the 1 ment published recently. tion of the Pacific Coast and the Rosenstock, Dr. J. A. Weinberg, "But even now, ladies and gen- Harry Wilinsky, and Mrs. B. L. I n t e r n ational Longshoremen's workers have been reduced from j tlemen, you are poorer than your Wolf. and Warehousemen's Union. It ?35 to $20 per week and t h e Mrs. I. M. Gershater. 2 4IT fathers were. Grotesque bankwas a controversy between these hours 0° work have been ney Street. Omaha.: He s The installation of officers will rupts in silks." . hours. two groups that was responsible creased from 40 to jor in the Central ROTC 1 take place this evening at the Kings in Sack Cloth for the San Francisco general ' Appointment of the committee tive in Journalism, and z , "Chain of Tradition" service I was made after aa appeal had of the National ,Horor :• . Yes, before the last of them strike of 1934. goes,there should be testimonials soiinded by both employees He delivered one of the •• Serving with Mr. Stalmaster on abeen c in all the cities for the immiA c t n o - w l e d g m ent of the the arbitration committee are for- d employers. I dent baccalaureate spergrants of the eighties—tributes to a j the joint reception 5635.54 contribution to the Unit- mer Superior Court Jcdse Lester j Sir. Staimaster, the survivors, memorials to the ed Jewish Appeal has been re- W. Roth and Rev. Ernest Calde- prominent Omaha attorney and I Oasis, high-school flead." ' .. ' • •" "• . ' ceived by the Omaha Committee cott of the First Presbyterian business man, moved to the coast ] xernple Isrsel •recently. . ' . They .were like that king who last fall in the interests of his j Paul Crcucse Ei-.d Air to Aid Hefugees in Europe, -srhich church of Los Angeles. shono - in sack cloth. He had The B'nai B'rith election of of- has'. a3 members the Omaha The Los Angeles cleaning and health. He fcafl served as a mem- ;I'STZ. bolt L,i='-Jte-".rts scorned to wear for his corona- ficers, which was to have been Workmen's L o a n association. dyeing industry has been in a ber of the Espretce Court of Ns- j UE:t ar.d also m e tion the resplendant garments held last'Monday evening, has Branch 126 of the Independent chaotic state since a number of braska and hs.d been active in iROTC t i l S IS- £1 Z-~> OTIS.I JrlO"*7 O^1 S O C ] "* and the jewels which had been been postponed until the next Workmen's Loan, the Icor. and operators were indicted by a local and national Jewish com- \named as alternates 101gathered by.: exploitation, and by i the Independent Ladies club. grand jury in connection with at- tsunal affairs. all unrighteousness. He wore sack meeting on June 5. Before bis departure to make j tempts to maintain price levels. The donation has also been Archie Cohen, president of the cloth, for his, coronation and it shone with his Godliness and peo- District Grand lodge, will be the credited to the Omaha Federa- The result has been cut-threat his home en the coast, Jesdicg i competition and the resultant [ Omaha business men tendered ple, said, the sack cloth was as guest at the stag and field day tion for Jewish Service. to be given by the local lodge at The acknowledgment -was lowering of -wages and increasing | testiaoaial bssqnet in Ms lice: the Highland Country club. signed by Arthur Lamport. of hours of labor. '' s.t the Faitca hotel. (Continued on page 8.)

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