September 20, 1940

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1PTEMBER 20, 1040

Tel Aviv Bombings Stir , Populace's Anger TALMUD TORAH STILL

VOL. XVII—No. 4 5

Seventieth Year to Be

Jerusalem (WNS) — Hundreds TAKES REGISTRATIONS Marked This of young Jews 'rushed to join Ten years of honielessncss for Palestine's newly organized deRegistrations for the City Tai: Week-End the Beth Bl Congregation will end fense units in response to a call inud Torah will be taken through , «t the Iligb Holy day ecason, from Major-Generel Philip Neaine, the holidays. A High Holy Day At services this evening, Tein. ' when services will be held for general officer in command of service is to be held for the chil- pie Israel will inaugurate t h« British forces In Palestine, as a dren of the school. -4he first time in the new synathree-day observance of its 70tt united Holy Land, sickened and Cogue strut tint", according to ArOn October 21 newcomers to anniversary. angered by t h e indiscriminate the Talmud Torah will be enterthur Colin, president of Beth El. number of committees undei bombing of Tel Aviv by Italian tained. Attendance awards will theA general While the building is still in chairmanship of Milraiders, redoubled its defense ' the process of construction, it is be distributed at that time. ton Abrahams has been arrangagainst invasion. Hearing completion and the audiing the celebration which will inAs Italian forces hammered torium is <beiiig prepared for the clude beside the service, a banaway at Egypt's first line of deservice. Comfortable seating arquet Saturday night and a jubilee fense, Jewish organizations and rangements have been made. at the Highland Country club on newspapers announced their comThe Kosh Hashonah service Sunday. plete cooperation with the plan to will climax ten years of anticipaMorris E. Jacobs, president ol organize separate Arab and Jewtion by the Congregation and five the Congregation, w i l l be in ish combatant units in Palestine, years of intensive work by its charge of the service this evening. Unmarried Jews between the ages members to build its own synaRabbi David II. Wice will deliver. of 21 and 23 were urged to-volgogue. Since the organization of Clothing for Needy to Be unteer. the Congregation over a decade Be Brought on Oct. The Jewish and Arab forces, it • ago services have been held at ANNIVEHHAUY PROGRAM was understood, will be stationed 8, 9, 10 the Jewish Community Center. in Palestine for the duration of However the Roan Hashonah Kriday, September 20U-Snethe war unless a military crisis The Annual Ingathering of th< and Yom Kippur services usually service at Temple Israel. requires their services in nearby Needle Work Guild will l>e held tial Ueception to follow in vestry, , took place in the auditorium of territories. on . October : 8, 9 and 10 at the rooms. . the Central Club. The Immediate reaction to the C e n t r a l Congregational Funds for the Synagogue have Plans for Coming Year bombing of the all-Jewish- city of First Saturday, September 21 — church, 3(Hh and Hartley. At ti been raised by five annual drives. Made at First Tel Aviv last week, which brought Ingathering, the various groups Banquet at liln t'kstorie hotel. To avoid the burden of a large .Biinday, September- 22—Alldeath to 113 Jews and several participating in the Guild display Session debt, no work on the synagogue Arabs, and injuries to at least 120 the collection of garments - before day jubilee fete at the High, was begun until funds for t h e The first meet ing of the Round others, was a deep-rooted deter- distribution to needy families is land Country club. building were available. Table of Jewish Youth was held mination to defend the Holy Laud made. Ground was broken last spring Tuesday at the Jewish Comimin- no matter what the cost. brief sermon on the occasion, In appealing to the members of aand-messages-from and work has been^in progress ity Center. New officers were inNo Military Objective the Sisterhood the Jewish Community to support all summer. Nothing comparable to the wide troduced, find plans insdp for the and Brotherhood will be given by this important project, Mrs. B The building, designed by John ensuing yewr......... spread indignation "which swept , , Mrs. Sam L. Robinson and'Louis and Alan McDonald; has been A new survey committee,- chair- the country after the bombing of A. Bimon, section president, ex- E. Lipp, presidents of the respecdesignated one of the finest look- inaned by Harold Zelinsky, was Tel Aviv has been evidenced in pressed the hope that the im- tive organizations. .. .;, ' ing structures in the city. Occupy- appointed. This committee is to Palestine in many years. The fact portant objectives of the Needle Following tho'service a receping an entire city black at 49th formulate new plans and pro- that no military objective is with- Work Guild of America will find in miles of the nil-Jewish city favorable response In. the commu- tion will be held in the vestry and Farnam, its simple lines"re- grams for the Round Table. nity. Through the efforts of tho rooms of the .Congregation. Memflect dignity and beauty. * Initial plans for the Round added to the anger, ," Tho vital port city of Haifa has Needle Guild garments are col- bers of the hospitality 'committed Contractors for the building Table call for a panel discussion (Continued on Page 5.) '.„• lected and distributed free to of the Sisterhood and past presihave been A. H. Brodkey and and dance during the month of dents of the Sisterhood will ofneedy families. October. Harry Cooper. J< The next meeting of the Round Our contribution to tho wel- ficiate at the reception. I' : Table will bo held Tuesday, Ocfare of the community/' Mrs. Si- A banquet will be held Saturtober 1, at the Jewish Community mon stated, "can best be meas- day night at the Blackstone hoCenter. A pageant, depicting 70 years ured In actual services rendered. tel. Paul Veret, executive director of Temnle growth, will be :.tto Last year, about 900 new garof the Center, addressed the feature of the banquet ments were distributed through principal Round Table, pointing out the orMr. Abrahams is. in charge of the efforts of our section. These banquet arrangements ganization's purpose. Irving Nogg and Mrs. included household linens, underpresided. Ben Shapiro has been chairman wear for both men and women Any Jewish organization desirof the committee arranging for ing , to affiliate with the Round It has been announced that and children, shirts, dresses, and the pageant presentation. <.,.-•<•: •; .' New York' (WNS)—-A resolu- Table is asked to call the Jewish twenty-five per cent of the money other important needs which were " Isidor Ziesler, William Holz(Continued on Pago 3.) tion pledging complete coopera- Community Center. collected to insure the success of man, and Morris E. Jacobs will tion with the president's national tho recent convention of District speak. Milton Abrahams will be defense program .was. adopted by Grand Lodgo No. 6 is being retoastmaster. more than 10 6 delegates attendturned. Sunday, an all-day jubilee at ing the two-day convention of the Due to the management of the Highland Country club will Assembly of Hebrew Orthodox funds, it was not necessary to exconclude t h e anniversary proRabbis at the Hotel'Sharon.' pend the entire amount collected gram. This affair is under tho and those who had contributed The rabbis v o t e d to petition direction of Louis Somberg and are receiving thi3 portion of their President Roosevelt .for advice as • Two Omaha' Jewish boys, Ted tho entire community hag been At a meeting of the Omaha invited to how the rabbis can best serve and Joe Turner, will be members gift back. to attend. A buffet dinHarry Malashock was general Choir and Dramatic Club held the nation at this time. It was of the Omaha polo team which ner will be served and music for chairman of the convention. I. B. Monday September 16, at the suggested that Jewish congregadancing Is to be furnished by ll meet the Paulltna, Iowa, team Zimman was treasurer and David homo of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Nerentions support 'the ' national' de- this Sunday at 3 o'clock at the Goldman was chairman of tho borg, plans were mado to present Gary and his orchestra. fense program by releasing their Ak-Sar-Ben field , finance committee. a four-act Yiddish melodrama, rabbia from some of their duties . .Ted Turner, has been liv"Yankele Balogolle" by Moishe so-tlrey.may serveTis*chaplarmi"in ing on the west who coast for the past Richter. military training camps. several years, became a polo enTho play will bo given at the Another point in the resolution thusiast,while in Hollywood and Jewish Community Center on Sunurged Jewish families "to open plays with the Riviera and Long' day, October 20, under the directheir hearts and homes to refugee ridge polo clubs. His brother, tion of Ben Martin, assisted by children fleeing t h e terrors of long prominent in local athletic Paul Ncrenberg. Admission will war." London (JTA)—Scotland Yard circles, took up. the game only six New York (WNS)—The Nou- be forty cents, proceeds to go to and post office detectives are tryweeks ago. Sectarian Anti-Nazi Leagup an- cnarity. ing to trace tho senders of Nazi " Thorkelson Explains Other members of the Omaha nounced that its suggestion for A. Schneider Is chairman of tho propaganda, which is still being . team tvHl be Frank Martinand Joe Conscription Act Smith. the condemnation by the U. S. group. Tickets may be obtained distributed here by former mem*' Army of Camp Siegfried at Yap- from Mrs. Paul Norenberg, AT ber3 of the suppressed- British Washington (JTA)—The most hank, Long Island, owned by the 0825. Union of Fascists, who send anonnovel "explanation", of the con- Bar Italian Jews German-American Bund, has been ymous notes to cabinet members, scription law comes from Rep. taken under consideration by the Bank Robbery in Tel Aviv public men and. writers, the Daily; Jacob Thorkelson, Montana "lame . From AH Resorts adjutant general's Office of the Express reports. duck." War department. In almost every case the sendTel Aviv (JTA) — A * daring In a three-page insert in the The adjutant general, in ackers havo used a rubber stamp • R o m e (JTA) — 'Restrictive Congressional Record, Thorkelson measures taken by the Italian nowledging the league's sugges- day-light robbery was carried out with movable type, .the paper said* suggests that the United States is war ministry forbidding foreign- tion, stated that It had been on the Ben Yehuda Street branch Their favorite phrases are "Heil conscripting an'army "to battle a ers in Italy' from sojourning at made "a matter of record.for such of tho Anglo-Palestine bank by Hitler" and "You dirty Jews," unified Europe and Islam in. the mountain nad seaside resorts, in reference as the needs of the serv- several gangsters who drove up Some notes havo been' posted at in a taxlcab and t o o k 5,000 South End-on-the-Sea and others Sudan, Egypt, Arabia and Pales- war or-fortified-zones have been ice may warrant." tine in an attempt to - establish extended to include native Jews. In its communication, the league, pounds. A' similar robbery oc- in southeast London. > in Jerusalem a. month ago, contemplated Kingdom of David The order,..coming at the close stated: "la view of the necessity cured According to the_ newspaper when 7J)00 pounds wa3 taken People, •With Jerusalem as a capital." of the .summer season, directly af- for increased training facilities, front the a pro-Nazi organisation Japhet bank. fected about T2,500 Jews. Although if the selective service act should ailed tho Christian Peaco More* Memorial Service a 'number of exceptional were become law, it .would bo fitting ment will shortly bo established r Register Sunday made, tho great majority-were ac- and proper, that a-former army in' England, at Berlin's instig'a* The Beth Hamedrosli Hagodel corded 24 hours within-which.to camp, now in the possession of a tion, "to further tlio attempt to Registration for the History causo confusion among British Cemetery Improvement organisa- return to the "seat of their' nor- recognized'un-Amerlcaa organisation will hold Its annual memor- mal residence," T h e y included tion, should revert to the U. S. and Religion department of t h e public opinion ami to d© the -ff&rk, ial service oa Sunday, September many persons residing In summer Army, to be used for training re- ity' Talmud Torah will be held that British" Fascist? cannot tiqt cruits." -. aow that they; are fa'prlson.'* his Sunday, September 22, 23, at 2:30 at' the cemetery, ,-. '. homes.'.

PLEDGE SUPP DEFENSE

Detroit (JTA) — In a p r e s s statement endorsing Wendell L. Willkie, republican presidential candidate, H e n r y Ford condemned racial and religious prejudice in the United States. Tlie automobile magnate said: "I was strongly attracted toward Mr. Willkie by what he said in his acceptance speech about his disapproval of all forms of intolerance, for I believe in helping oppressed peoples. I believe all people were put on this earth for a definite purpose. "Class divisions and racial or religious prejudices have been too much encouraged In this court try."

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