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Congress MOURN DEATH JewishFormed in Chile OF OR, ADLER, NOTED LEADER Succumbed Sunday After Illness of Two Months Philadelphia (WN3) — Prominent persons in all walks of life joined in mourning the passing of Dr. C y r u s Adler, outstanding loader of American Jewry, who died a t his home here after an Illness of two months. The noted Jewish scholar and humanitarian w « 70 years old. Chief among the mourners was President Roosevelt, who last December invited Dr. Adler to rep-" resent American Jewry at a peace conference of religious leaders at the White House. The president Joined hundreds of educational, religious and civic leaders in pay1 Ing tribute to Dr. Adler. At the time of the invitation to attend the White House peace pafley, Dr. Adler wrote to the president: "It is a noble deed to bring the forces of religion together. I have the confident hope that the leaders will unite the members of their churches a n d synagogues into a unanimous support of your efforts. I gladly take the opportunity to send good wishes to His Holiness the Pope and to Dr. Buttrlck (Rev. Dr. George A. Buttrick, president of the Federal Council of Churches (Continued on page 5.)
B'NAr B'RITH WILL MEET THIS MONDAY
Santiago (JTA) — A Chilean Jewish Congress meeting for the first time voted to affiliate with the World Jewish Congress, denounced Nazi terrorism and the Palestine land act, and launched a 2,000,000-peso campaign f o r overseas relief and Palestine upbuilding. The session was attended by 150 delegates representing 40 Chilean J e w i s h organizations. Also participating were Dr. M. Helman, World Jewish Congress delegate in South America; Dr. Abraham Mibashan, representative of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, and Dr. A. S. Juris, special South American delegate of the Palestine Foundation1 fund. The Congress named a central committee and proposed convocation of a Pan-American Jewish Congress.
RABBI COMES TO FREMONT Rabbi Sol Oster Begins Organization of Congregation With the appointment of Rabbi Soi Oster as spiritual leader of the Fremont Hebrew Society, Jewish religions life In Nebraska received new impetus. Rabbi Oster, a native of Berlin, attended the Rabbinical college at Ponivez, Lithuania, and the "Tree of Life" College in London. He has been In this country over a year. Since coming to Fremont a little over a week ago Rabbi Oster has opened a Sunday school with fifteen pupils attending. The Fremont Hebrew Society serves, besides Fremont, a large number of neighboring communities. Services will be held regularly Friday evening and S a t u r d a y mornings and a daily H e b r e w School will be conducted by the Rabbi. A. Babendure Is president of the Congregation.
Omaha lodge of B'nai B'rlth will hold its second regular meeting this month on Monday, April 15, in the Jewish Community Center lodge room, starting at 8 p. m. A program will be presented, according to Alfred Fiedler, chairman of the program committee, and refreshments will be /served at the conclusion of the meeting. Several members of O m a h a lodge will travel to Sioux City Sunday to take part in the spring meeting o fthe Southwest Regional conference being sponsored by the Sioux City lodge. The degree team of Omaha lodge will be .Jin. charge of initiation ceremony to he given to a new class of memThree Jewish students on the bers at the banquet Sunday eveUniversity of Nebraska campus ning. were honored last week by election to two of the highest scholastic honoraries having chapters on the University of N e braska campus. The three, Steve Frankel, Berlin; Maurice Tatleman, Omaha, and Selma Sveitel, Grand Island, were elected to memberThe Seventh Annual Congrega- ship in Sigma Xi, scientific hontional Seder, conducted by Tem- orary and Phi Beta Kappa, arts ple Israel, will be held Tuesday and sciences honorary. Frankel, house guest of Sigma «yenj(ng, April 23, at 6:30 at the Alpaha-Mu, is an engineering stu5Nl dent and was elected to the scienReservations for the S e d e r tific honorary. He is also a memShould be phoned in early as they ber of Sigma Tau, engineering will be limited to two hundred. honorary. He will graduate in Reservations are ?1 for adults June. " and 60 cents for children under Maurice Tatleman, Sigma AlConfirmation age. The Temple of- pha Mu alumnus, is a medical fice is accepting reservations now. student in Omaha. He was electlira. Mollle Cohn and her com- ed to membership in the arts and mittee vare in charge of arrange- sciences honorary. He will gradifients for the Sfidor. v ' „• uate in 1942. , ' Members of the C o n gregatlon Selma Sveitel, Sigma Delta Tati, who conduct.home Services may procure a Hagadah at the Temple. is a student in teacher's college. She is also a member of the teacher's college honorary. She was elected to membership in Phi Beta Kappa. She will graduate in Jane. Sarah Bonnie Miller, Sigma Delta Tau, was elected to . Students, representing .various membership in Phi Beta Kappa , . national groups will compete in ''Several months ago^ an oratory conteBt Thursday eve-ning, April 18, at Creighton uniDevotional Music versity. •_-;• :;•: ,:.;•; '/,;•• .-V;.. . Haskell Lazere will be the Jew- At the Beth El Friday services, ish representative. Dr. Edwin on April 26, Cantor Aaron R. Ed, Puls, head of the Creighton de- gar will present a devotional propartment of speech, is in charge." gram of songs arranged around The contributions of each group the theme of Freedom and Passover.. -. will be discussed,., . , ,"
STUDENTS HONORED AT NEBRASKA UNIV.
TEMPLE TO HOLD SEDER APRIL 23
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Workers Report Increased Giving hilanthropies YOUTH DIVISI AIDS CAMP N Morris Arbitman "rn^ada Young People's Drive Under the leadership of Morris Arbitman, president of the Bound Table of Jewish Youth, the Youth Division of the Jewish Philanthropies Campaign Is now gathering its strength for full and effective participation in the fundraising efforts for war relief and refugee aid. At the Youth workers rally held Monday evening, Arbitman
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A spirit of optimism prevailed at the first report luncheon of the current Jewish P h i 1 a nthropies Campaign held Tuesday noon at the Jewish Community. Preliminary reportB submitted by the various divisions indicated a definite trend of increased giving. $22,143.30 was r e p o r t e d pledged. : "This campaign Is meeting with success," Morris E. Jacobs, General chairman of the campaign an-
REPORT LUNCHEON The second report luncheon of the Jewish Philanthropies Campaign will be held on Tuesday, April 16, at 12 o'clock, at the Jewish Community Center. Workers are urged to cover all cards by Tuesday. nounced, "and its proof la In the very substantial Increases reported by all divisions. There seems to be a feeling in our community that the complete quota will be raised. And it must be raised. Evdollar means life and sustenance to people whose Very existence is BOW in our hands." The reports brought In by the various divisions showed an increase of some $5,000 over the first report a year ago. ; Work in tne campaign officially began Sunday, although there had been some; preliminary s o 1 Icita;tiori the previous week; The Children's Roll Call and the Business and Professional Women's (Jfoup, t w o new projects, have been meeting with unusual success.
Morris Arbitman addressed all workers and appealed for complete s u p p o r t . "Omaha Jewish youth," he said, "is aware of the plight of millions of young men and woinen who are our co-rellglonlsts. We know of the hopelessness which faces them In their prime of life." "We in America think about careers and future, but our fellow youth overseas thinks of the (Continued on page 10.)
JOPtIN RABBI AT TEMPLE TONIGHT Rabbi Phlneas Smoller of the United Hebrew C o n g r e gation, Joplin, Mo., will occupy the pulpit at Temple Israel,this evening during services. ' Rabbi Smoller's position at Joplln is unique in the fact that he administers to both a Reform and Orthodox Congregation. The two groups unite for everything but their religious service. „ •', He is a graduate of the Hebrew Union College Class of 1931 and was a schoolmate of Rabbi David Wlce.
LC.C. AwardNight ToBeHeldonMay 1 The Annual Center A w a r d Night will be held on May 1 under the auspices of the Jewish Community Center "Athletic committee. Harry Trustin will be toastmaster at the banquet. As in past years the Irvin C. Levin trophy will be awarded the outstanding Center athlete. Coaches from - Creighton, Omaha and Nebraska universities will be guests
The Jewish National Workers' Alliance, Poale Zion, will hold a literary and social meeting at the J e w i s h Community Center on Sunday, April 14, at 7:30 p. m. Principal speaker of the evening will be Rabbi Isaiah Rackovsky of the United Orthodox Congregations. Supper will be served promptly at 7:30. An excellent musical program is planned. A special meeting will be held Wednesday at 7:30 at the Jewish Community Center to elect a delegate to the national convention which Is to be held in Detroit beginning May 30.
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POLISH RABBI SJ.D.C. Prevented "Unthinkable Tragedy" During Siege New York (WN8) — The re. lief work conducted by the Anier* lean Jewish Joint Distribution Committee during the height of the siege of Warsaw and in the ensuing months was described here by Rabbi I. Bchneeroohn, the famed Lubovitcher rabbi, who arrived recently from Poland. Rabbi Schneersohn was in Warsaw throughout t h e hostilities and did not leave until the end of December. "Through various channels, I have already reported to American Jewry on the terrible devastation and hopelessness of the Jewish' position in Poland and other (Continued on page 10.)
UNIVERSITY IVERSARY teenth >arii1ilVereary of the fouhdltig* of the'^Hebrew' Unlferslty- In JeriiBaiom was obsferved; this' tyreek at a 'meeting in the -auditprlVm of the Society for - the • Advancement of Judaism. Iteid under, th© auspices of *:tlie American Alumni of5 the".-?tfelj'r(Bw University, Ihe me'etihg iyas -the 'first ofT a.series of Hebrew'Uniyerslty Day^ro-' grama being a r r a nged for the month" ojt April by- national • And local organizations t h r 0 ughbut the coiihtry.' .' > Speakers were Dr. Alexander Dushkin, executive director of ;.the J.ewi&hJEduc'atiph: Committee; jind former:. Hebrew U. faculty member; Snlmann Schocken, chairman of the Hebrew-U. executive coun» cil; Pri Israel S. Wechsler,of_tho Columbia medical faculty and the Hebrew U. board of governora; Samuel FJnkel,. d 1 r e ctor of ,tho American Friends of the .Hebrew U., and others. . .' The Hebrew University, which was founded April 1, 1924, with a student body of 64, a faculty of 30 and only chemistfy, microbiology and Jewish studies departments, now has a s t u d e n t body of 1,100 drawn f r o m all parts of the world; a facultjr of 140 members, including renowned scholars exiled from Europe, and a curriculum comparing favorably with that of leading universities.
A number of local organizations will meet on Tuesday, April 16, at the Jewish Community Center to greet Mendel Elkin of New York, American representative of London (JTA)-— Mrs.: Marie the Yiddish Scientific Institute of Schmolka, former h e a d of ; the Wilno. * Mr. Elkin is one of the coun- HIAS-ICA Emigration Association try's outstanding Yiddish orators. in Prague and of the Prague RefHe will discuss the Important role ugee Relief Committee, died here being. played by the Wilno Insti- after an illness of several months. Mrs. Schmolka was one of th® tute in Jewish cultural life. Sponsoring organizations are: first Jews arrested after occupaWorkmen's Circle, Branches' 173, tion of Prague by the Germans A 258 and 690; Pioneer Women's year ago. She was released," after,., organization; National Worker's being held more than two months* Alliance, Poale Zion, and the Wil- upon intervention with the Gestliam Nathanson Reading Circle, apo of the Czech Social Welfare Minister who acted at the Instance Refreshments will be served. of many International o r g anizaJ a c o b Eaeklel Hyaepaa, a tions. Mme Schmolka c a m e to Richmond Jew, was la 1389 ap- London for conferences just bepointed aide-de-camp to the com' fore the outbreak of the war and was unable to return to Prague. mander-ia-ehlef b£ the G. A, .lit
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