Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1949-03-11

              Archaeological & Historical Mus- N. High St. at 15th-'l
2i\V^ Serving Columbus .and Centfal Ohio Jewish Community \\7/^
Vol. 27, No. 10
golumbus; omo, Friday, march ii, 1949
Devoted to Arnerican and Jewlih Idealf
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AN URGENT APPEAL TO UNPAID SUBSCRIBERS   TO   NEW ^ CENTER
I. W. Garek,' president of the new Jewish CcntciV this week 'is appealing to nil HUbsrribcrN of the proposed iiew Center building, who up to now still owe on their plcdi to thl» most worth.v" efforl. Plans tor tho nnv building are [•ractlrally completed, and contract ts to be let shortly. Evei-y lndl<yitlon polnix to breaking ground within the next 30 days.     '       •
All those plans depend entirely upon how much of the pnstKluo NubsrrlpUonH, and new onON as well, will bo re¬ mitted within tho noxt'*TRw days. Tho Board of Trustees Is relying upon the good fallh of those who desire this great In¬ stitution in our ruinmunlly. All that is nskod Is that puy- ments of plodgos l>o made now, so (liat actuxil construction uiay begin at once.
If you have not yet pledged a contribution,. Join this communlty-wldo effort today. Snnd your cho<;k to Mr. J. S. Resler,' treasurer, .570 8.  Front St.
Bureau of Jewish Education to Sponsor
Music Festival Celebration on Mar. 24
This Is Jewish Music Festival Month, and Columbus wUI celebrate it for the fourth consecutive year with an outstanding musical program which will include our best local talent.    "
As usual, this program, which will take place "Thursday eve¬ ning. Mar. 24, at Broad St. Tem¬ ple, will be sponsored by the Bureau of Jewish Education— vitally Interested In all phases of Jewish cultural life—which Is making a supreme effort this year to bring to our city the best In Jewish compositions 'and renditions which express the moods and feelings of our people.
It is an event which no one can afford to miss. ¦'   '
U.J.A. Asks Jewish Communities for $50,000,000
i^EW YORK, (JTA)—A call to Jewish communities throughout the United States to raise $50,- 000,000 within the next eight days to rneet the "critically ur¬ gent" neetls of the agencies of the   $250,000,000   United   Jewish
Appeal was l.ssued this week by ry Morgenthau, Jr., general chairi'nan of the U. J. A., in the course of\an extra-ordinary na¬ tional telephone conference in which over 150 communities par¬ ticipated.
Morgenthau    urged   the     ap¬ proximately  15,000 Jewish  lead¬
ers who heard his appeal via the telephone hook-up to bring the maximum amount of cash UxJJie U.J.A Emergency Na- UonaT] Conference which will be' held lln Washington, D. C, Mar. 19 _^d 20. "At the present ra<5ment'the agencies of the U. J. A. are fdced with financial breakdown as a result of the un¬ precedented demands upon thom arising from the tremen¬ dous influx of immigration into Israel,"  Morgenthau  sSid.
Beri Locker, chairman of the Jewish    Agency    executive    in
Jerusalem, and one Of the parfl- cipants in the telephone confer¬ ence, revealed that more than 50,000 new immigrants, are now living in reception centers and that many of them do not have a roof over their.heads. "The Jews cannot merely be brought to the shores of Israel and dumiJed there," he .said. "They must he helped to earn their own liv¬ ing. They must • be helped qiflckly to stand on their own feet so that they may be remov¬ ed forever from the BllUgfet of Jewish   fund-raising."
POT 0* GOLD DANCE TIME TUESDAY
BOOKS FORWARDED TO INSTITUTIONS
Rabbi Nathan ZeUzer received a choice set of books recently from Simon-Schuster publishing house In New York City. These books have been sent, gratis, to Inmates of the Col's State Hos¬ pital, Ohio Penitentiary, ¦ and Col's State School.   -
The list of books: Peace of Mind (Llebman), Gen¬ tleman's Agreement (Hobson), Reading I've Liked (Clifton Fadlman), Thef Other Children, The Corpse in the Corner Sa¬ loon, Sinners Never Die, Trea¬ sury of Great Poems, Fireside Quiz Book, Thirty Stories, 1939, The City Boy, How to Raise a Dog, Caesar and Christ, Men of Science in America, Behind the Silken Curtain, A Marriage Manual, The Bible, Release from Nervoijs Tension, and Vogue's Book of Etiquette.
Sometime during the evening next Tuesday at the Excelsior Club, someone is going to be¬ come the proud owner of a pot of gold. This person will liave Ijeen one of the many who pur¬ chased tickets for the gala "Hot o' Gold" dance being s|»nsorcd liy the-Mothers Group of the Agudath   Achlm    Self-Development   Pre-School.
The $500 jack-pot presentation wili be made as the highlight of the dance and' Monte Carlo Tuesday evening. Dancing starts at 8:30, to the music of one of the city's favorite orchestras- Joe Welsberg & Co.
Prominent   Rabbi To   Appear   Here
An outstanding clergyman will occupy Agudath Achim's pulpit Monday, Mar. 21, when Rabbi Samuel Rubenstein of the Beth Israel Congregation in Charles¬ ton, S. Carolina speaks het-e.
Rabbl, Rubenstein was born in New York City and attended .several well-known Yeshlvas in Brooklyn. He received his B. A. degree at Yeshiva College and was ordained .at the Elchaanan Theological Seminary of New York.
In Charleston he has organized and established a mdUOTn and progressive Hebrew schbpl. He is 'first vice-president -pf the Zionist District there, the Unit¬ ed Jewish Appeal, and ts a mem- Jjer of ^he Nationai Board of Directors of the Joint Distribu¬ tion Committee.
Rabbl Rubenstein has the singular honor of being chaplain of the Friendship Lodge No. 9. ancient Free Masons, one of the oldest Lodges in America.
A|^dalh Achim invites the community to hear a timely mes sage by a learned man, Monday, Mar. 21, 8:30 p. m.
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T.   I.  MEN'S CIA'B
Tonight's the night for the T. I. Men's Club IHirlm Dance at the Seneca Hotel. Hichard Grundstein, chairman of the dance, has gone "all out", to make this affair the most enter¬ taining and the most enjoyable of the year, Howard Mauger and hla orchestra will furpish the music, beglrinirig at 9 p. ^ m. Bring your friends and dates. Admission at the door, $1. per couple.
AI<FRED   COHEN DIES SUDDENLY
As tho Chronicle went to, press, the stiocltlng news was announced of the passing of Alfred M. Cohoik age 80, lo Cincinnati AVedftesduy. Mr. Cohen, u past president ol the B'nal Bvlth Order, was honored recently during a fontennlal celebration In Cin¬ cinnati,^ ^'
SPECIAL EVENT DUB AT BROAD ST. TEMPLE
Sunday hlght, AprU 10, Co¬ lumhus Jewry will have the op¬ portunity -of hearing and seeing for the first time a twentieth century E.sther, Miss Esther Gershone, from faraway  India.
Miss Gershone IS a student at the Jewish Theological.: Semln- yar. Her subject will be "An In¬ dian Jew Discovers America." An open Invitation is extended to all to hear hetdjat the Broad St. Temple.
Tickets are sllll ottlainahle. Call the Pre- School, EV. 8H9(i, or purcha.se your ducats at Ruben's Gun Store, HS E. Long St. Attendance al the affair is ncit coinpui.sory to l)e eligible for the "pot o' gold."
The prizes, which will go\lo just one indivi¬ dual. Include: Keysloite movlts projector, sports jacket, Elgin wrist watah and sViecial wrist, band, television .set, f^inbeaiA eiectnc coffee-maker,, bicycle, $25 worth, of gas^line,^andy, $25 worth of paint, a live tuVkey from^the Farmers' Pro¬ duce Co., and shoej/, valued at $25.^
PURIM CARNIVALS ARRANGED BY LOCAL TEMPLES
Agudath Achim
Plans have been completed for the glorious observance of the Purim Festival by the Sun- flay School at Agudath Achim Congregation at 3 o'clock to¬ morrow afternoon. A unique as¬ pect of this year's program is individual participalloYi in the celebration by the various classes, along with a special event for all the children and their parents.
The program will be high¬ lighted by -the confirmation class Joining the Sunday Coven¬ ant Club In the reading oi the MeglUah, with portions in He¬ brew and English. And all the children' in the School and thei? brothers, sisters and friends will punctuate the reading with the sounding of grogera in the
Haman interludes. Following this traditional observance, in¬ dividual clas.ses will offer min¬ uet presentations in music, song, poetry and sketch — all In the character of the holiday.
The climax will be a premier showing of a motion picture, "The Story of Esther." The Sis¬ terhood of Agudat^h Achim, which supports the Sunday School of the Congregation, will top the Purlm Festival with the presentation of Haman-ta.shen and other goodies to all the children. Mrs. A. S. Kohn has arranged this special feature for the' Sisterhood.
An open Invitation to this event is extended to the entire community by Abe A. Wolman and Max Schj>ttenstein, presi¬ dent and vics'presldent of Agu¬ dath Achlm, ind Mrs. Sam Val'
cov. president of the Sisterhood, and in which the Religious Com¬ mittee, and Al Schwartz, the su¬ pervisor of the Sunday School, join hands.
All children registered In the Sunday School are urged to be at the Synagogue at 2:30. An¬ other special Invitation is of course directed to the members of the Congregation.
The following are teachers in the Agudath -Achlm Sunday School: Miss Miriam Schotten¬ stein, Kindergarten; Miss Jan¬ ice Wise and Miss Ruth Lleber¬ man, 1st and 2nd Grade; Miss Rutli Mathless, 3rd Grade; Miss Joan Mathless, 4th Grade; Mrs. Albert (Shirley) Cohen, 5th Grade; Dr. A. S. . Kohn, Bth Grade; Bernard Kahanowlch, 7th Grade; Albert Cohen, Con¬ firmation Class.
SDT ALUMNAE LEAGUE    .
The Alumnae League of 'Slg^ ma Delta Tau has elefte4—ihe following officers:
Miss . Marjorle Loeb, presi¬ dent; Mrs. S. L. Well, vice-presi-. dent; Mrs. Rob't Skuller, sec'y; and Mrs. Ivan -Gilbert, treas. Elections were held during the February meeting.
JJCC MEETING
A constitutional meeting of the Junior Jewlah Community Council will be held Thursday, M&r. 24, 8 p. m., at Schonthal Center. \ '       -        ,
Broad St. Temple
Purlm Is in the air with waves of enthusiasm, spirt, and color penetrating throughout the Tif¬ ereth Israel Ediicational Center and in the Temple proper. Ali students and teachers have been busily preparing elaborate de¬ corations, displays, and enter¬ taining games and 'activities.
Tomorrow, beginning at 2:30 p. m., in the Teinple proper, a Grand March, a parade of mas¬ queraded children in Purim characters, and judging of the most unique, mpst beautiful, most original costumes, will take place, and a King Ahasuer¬ us and a Queen Esther will be cho.sen. "    .
At, 3:30 tbe booths will open for patronage. This yaar, each grade will operate a booth in Its own classroom, each ot which has been beautifully (jecorated by the youngsters: A prize will be awarded to the winning class adjudged for being most beauti¬ ful, neat, .original, and appro¬ priately decorated booth.
Booth aaslgnraents include: Kindergarten, Pin Tail on Mor- decai's Horse; First Grade, Fish Pond; 2nd grtide. Feed Poor Ha¬ man; 3B Grade, Pin Crown on Queen Esther; 3A, Place Aha- sueruH, Ring on Haman's Fin¬ ger; 4B Grade, Balloon Dart Game; 4A    Grade,    Hamantash.
Cake Walk; 5tH Grade, The Pur¬ im Wheel; Otliybrade; Pitch Pen nles inlo theRed Sea; 7th Grade, Sid? Show-r'Sth Grade and Con¬ firmation 'class. Food Conces¬ sion (weljners, candy, hamanlas- henV^potato chips, . etc.); Stir Grade 'Snd High School, Bingo; Movies wili be shown also.
Shushan money will be used Ihroughout the Carnival and can be secured at the Carnival. No inoney wll! be tltinsferrable In the bopths nor In the food concession.
Ali ijarents, children ami friends are urged to attend—rlo Join with the children, teachers, in spending an afternoon of fun ami frolic—to enjoy a whole¬ some, "fi'aelach" atmosphere and environment of the Purim holiday.
This year's Carnival proniises to be one of the biggest, most enjoyable, and well-planned events ever planned by the.T. I. Sunday School. Moreover, beau¬ tiful prizes have beerf secured and purchased for the games, fish Bpnd, masquerade, etc. The teachers and Children have been working   untiringly.
HEP. BLOO.M  SUCCUMBS ON  EVE OF BIRTHDAY
Tho nation Was this week mourning the donth o^ Rop. Sol Bloom, twlco-chalruiun of (he groat (House) eoninilttoe oi^^ foreign affairs. Ho would hove boon TO AVcdncsduy of this . w.eek.
Itiore dotnlls ot this outstand¬ ing political figure and promin¬ ent Jew will appear In next week's' Chronicle.
Brotherhood's sec»fid annua)  Purlm  dance m. Saturday, iiaij, 19, at the
BRYDEN   RD.  TEMPLE'S   SECOND   ANNUAL PURLM DANCE
All Hryden Rd. Temple membeprand^l^elr. guests are lnvlt.ed  to  the
which is to be held at 8:30 p. Temple.
This is one of the outstanding events of the year, and IJiere wiil be fun for everyone, with stunts, prizes, enter¬ tainment ami refreshmentsv^
• Admission is $1. per couple for Brotherhood member's, or $2. for non-members. All proceeds will go towards fur¬ nishing the new Sunday School room.
Allen Gundershelmer, Jr., and Oscar ' Weston are co- chairmen of the dance.
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