Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1923-03-02

              Central Ohio's Onh
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A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER. FOR THE JEWISH HOME
Dt(0ote/i.^to Jlmerican
and
Jewish Ideals
Volume V — No. 2
c:or.uMP.us, otho, -.marctt ;.•, 1923
Per Year $3,00; Per Copy 10c
ASQUITH OPPOSES PALESTINE "ADVENTURES"
Self - Confessor   Once    Charged
Jews With Using Chriatian
Blood on Passover
RABBI IS UNFROCKED
UflUW CillirliDbHMiR no     i/)NU()N   (J. T. A.)-Chargcs that
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Palestine were made hy the former British premier. Herbert Asquith, in the course of the Commons, dcb.ite on fhe middle cast. A sum of seventy-eight millions was spent by lingland in Palestine and Mesopotamia during the jears 1!)10 an I 1020, A.s(|uith sa'd Winston C'hnrchill had declared in June, ly-Jl. Pritain, he'said, cannot long con¬ tinue in such "adventures''. Mr. As- fpiith, it might he noted, was the only one to mention Palestine.
SENSATIONAL HEARINGS STAGED BY N. Y. RABBIS
NEW YORK—(J, C, H.),—In one of the most sensational hearings ever staged before a •Jewish rabbinical court, Judah Elfcnbcin, rabbi of the Jacob H Schiff Center, 2181 Valentine avenue, Bronx,'charged with being a convert to the Greek Orthodox Cliurch and later •one of its priests and also with having furnished the arguments that were used by anti-Semites to .send Leopold Hils¬ ner, some 20 years ago, to prison in Austria for life on a rituiil hlood accu¬ sation, was unfrocked after the rabbi broke down and confessed.
'Elfeiiboin's   real   name,   according   to his   accusers   and   his   own   confession,!
National Jewish Hospital of Denver Issues General Call
Invites Thousands of Its Support¬ ers Throughout U. S. A.   , to Take Part    •
Avas   Judah    Elfcnbcin    Tillinger.    But! ^„   - . j^Y AT "
coming to the United States in l!)20,hci»W     nPNVFR   rPI FRRATION found that the name  Tillinger, associ- ' DENVER   CELEBRATION
ated as it was with the trial of Hilsner in Austria and with having become an apostate of the faith, had preceded him and did not smack well' in Jewish •circles. D.ropping the name Tillinger and growing a beard, according to the charges, Elfenbein who had been a stu¬ dent of Jewish theological seminaries in Vienna and Berlin, easily worked his way into the Jewish pulpit, serving as rabbi at Youngstown, O., Easton, Pa., and Brooklyn, and lastly at the 'new Jacob H. Schiff Center in the Bronx.
Casual  Cafe  Gossip
Casual' gossip at a Second avenue cafe led to' the unmasking of the rabbi, one of the patrons of tht cafe droppihg a liint that Elfenbein-Tillinger was now serving as a rabbi. .The report finally reached the Unioii of Orthodox Rabbis who convoked a s))ccial meeting to prove the charges.
The rabbis who composed the "Btth Din" consisted of Rabbis Margolis, J. L. Selzer, J. Kanowitz, H. Siegel, J. Redelheim, S. Pfcffer, J. Oskolski, A. Premedski, ,Meyer. Berlin and S. J. -Yudelson. , , , ,, ' Elfenbein 'wai not present at the be
DEiWER, COLO.—American Jewry is interested in the announcement whicii has just been made by the National Jewish Hospital for Consumptives at Denver, Colo., of plans for a unique convention, which will be held there in June. While conventions usually meali the coming together qf a stnill body of delegates, this hospital, eager to have all tho<;c who are supporting it, sec the institution '<ind take part in its admin¬ istration, has sent out a general call for the convention to fifty thousand men and wisnleii tliroughout the United States who are helping its work, and is urging , them , to participate in the preparations which will he made at the convention" for the celebration of the twenty-fifth ailniversary of the founding of the institution.
No Burden on Supporters
. ''In issuing this call for its conven¬ tion, the Hospital feels that it is placing no additional burden on its supporters," Mr. Manny Strauss of New York, chair¬ man of Subscribers' Committee declared. "Thousands of persons annually cross .the continent, eii route to California oi
Charges Sot)iet'. Turns
Jews ill Rimk Into Atheists
LONDON (J. .T. A".)—The risiiif?| lohfrimis situ.ition was'carried on bo- gencration of Jews in, Russia is in scri- twoni l.tuicn VVolf, sccrelary of the ous danger of growing into a mati.i o!'^ Joint, h'orcign Committee and political Atheists, and the entire structure ol ropicsenlativc of tiic Jewish Board of Judaism in the Soviet realms is bciilff 1 Deputies, and tlu; assistant ofiitial agent "perilously  threatened",  as  a  result  <•>(}/>'' the Russian government in London
Orthodox rahhis of Eastern Europe laM summer ordained a fast day llironghout Jewry as a protest to the Soviet's    battle   against   Judaism,    the
the persecution of the Jewish faith bc^
ing  waged   hy  the  Soviet  govcrnmrnt|
This is the substance of a sixteen pag^
statement  published  by  the Joint  Pot^
eign Committee of British Jews in rcil ntalctiicnt  recalls. .Following  this,  the
ply  to  one  by  the   Soviet  govenimtnf I Soviet governnient  forwarded  a  state-
cxplauiing   its   attitude   to   the  Jewish  mont to the Jewish Board of Deputies
¦"eligion. ' | in which the claim was made thiit the
Pious Jews,' the Joint Foreign Com-1 Russian religious decree had been help- mittee declares, have been compelled to, ful rather th.in harmful to the Jews.
organize secret classes to instruct theii';' 	
children in the "tenets of their ancestral'
faith."   Many have been sent to prisoti' MOON TEMPLE MAY BE
for   nothing   more   than   imparting   tn, 7,000 YEARS OLD
their children this religious  instruction   ,        ' ,        	
The infractions against religion-^: PHILADELPITIA (J. C. B.')—The liberty are comparable to "the cdfcts o'f" t^Muple of the,Moon uncovered in Ur the Spanish inquisition, the .statcmenf "' ''"^ Chaldccs, the home of Patriarch continues. Reviewing such incidents a?] ;;.'^''™''""i ™!iy he hetwccn (5,000 aud the invasion of the .synagogues bj"'''^""^ >'«"¦''' old and is probably the agents of the Soviet on Yom Kippur f"'''"* known edifige; according to Dr. the "anti-God Campaign" carried oni-^^co'"KC B. Gordon, Director of the with the alleged'connivance of the gov-;?^"''*'«''s>ty of Pennsylvania Museum, ernment, the Committee concludes tbat|;'*l"^ unearthing of the structure was in the face of such occurrences, .'if i.si'/l"e 'o "'e joint efforts of the British "impossible to place atny' credence in the]-^'^"se"m a"'! -^he Museum of the Uni- assurance  of  the  Soviet  Commissariat'^'•^"''y of Pennsylvania.
that "any real liberty of conscience exists.! in Russia today." .,^
¦ The statement also dtes'tlill'mirlesliii-;] ing of the Jevvjslfnigh hblidaya h^' substituting    carnivals    and ' so-call<id
The temple was devoted to the wor¬ ship of the moon, one of the favorite cults of that day and may have been tlic idolatrous hpuse of ' worship in which' Terah, the  father  of  Abraham,
scientific prt>piagandizing." It denies t^ltcndcd. vigorously the contention of the, Sovie* ,- "We have no detwled information that' the mass of Jevvs of Russia rf|>- 'about the discovery as- yet," said Dr. prove the "atheistical" policy -of rfic']"Gordon.' "We knew that this temple Bolshevists, and affirms that the grcaWexisted. There was a long tradition body of Russian Jews are" as "averse t{<J about it in ancient Babylonic writings, their theology as they are to ihei^iT'"^ wall of the oldest part of the economics." "There are some Jc\vish?(Jbuilding-so far discovered was erected renegades as there are some' Chrisiiswiu the fifth millenniiim B. C. E. and was renegades, but their number is cotrtijfebuilt or repaired by rulers of Meso- paratiyely."small, itl is contenjle'd. ' ! - ,|'potamia as.late as the time of Nebuchad- The correspondence dtialing with thff?|iiezzar. in the sixth century B. C. E."
... ..... testimony -.1. ^1,1^1^ wao
beiiig taken, however, the rabbi made his appearance. Elfenbein was im- tijcdiately identified as the Tillinger of the Hilsner incident by Rabbi Alter Pfeffer, a rabbi hailing froin the same section of Galicia as Tillinger, and who was in Austria at the time of the Hils-
{ConcTuded on page 7.)
RELIGIOUS SCHOOL TO GIVE PLAY AND DANCE WEDNESDAY EVENING
A Purim Play and Dance will be given by the pupils of Tifereth Israel Religious School on Wed¬ nesday evening, March 7th, at 8 P. M. at Memorial Hall.
Wright's Orchestra will render the dance and music and many novel features are in store for all those who attend.
Admission will be one dollar per couple, the proceeds to go to the Religious School Fund. Come and bring your friends.
Remember —> Wednesday , eve¬ ning, March 7th, at Memorial Hall.
HITLER WANTS JEWS
HELD AS HOSTAGES
BERLIN (J. T. A.')-A11 Jews and members of the Allied commissions in Germany should be held as hostages or expelled from Germany immediately after the occupation of the French forces; This was demanded by Adolph .Plitlcr, leader of tHe Bavarian Fascisti at a secret meeting in Munich, it is learned.
SAM DORF, GRAND MASTER BRITH ABRAHAM, DEAD
NEW YORK (J. T. A.)-Samuel Dorf, for the past 33 years Grand Mas¬ ter of the Order Brith Abraham, died suddenly last Sunday at h|s home on Riverside Drive. Mr. Dorf was 65 years old.
Dorf was born in Tarnow, Galicia, and came to the United States at the age of fifteen. He was a member of the Executive Committee of the Amer¬ ican Jewish Congress, an official of the Federation of Jewish Charities and was closely identified with a large number of pther Jewish organizations.
Funeral services were held Wed¬ nesday morning at 10:30. at Temple Emanu-EI. Interment being at Mt. Car¬ mel cemetery, Brooklyn.
be able to time their trips to coincide with the convention, or that others un¬ able to come may be represented by tourist ,friends. It Should be a source of pride to every American Jew to say that he is supporter of the National Jewish Hospital—for this was the first institution to offer free care and treat¬ ment to the tubercular poor. It has enjoyed the support of notable Jews for many years—a fact that is attested by the names of its buildings—the -Guggen¬ heim Infirmary, the Lewisohn Syna¬ gogue, the Hofheiner Children's Pavil¬ ion, the Lewis Beaumont Nurses House, the Joseph E. Schoenbcrg Memorial, the Dudley C. Schoenbcrg Farm, and the Samuel Grabfelder Medical building. This is truly a representative American Jewish institution—linking North, East, South and West in common bond of service." a
First Free Hospital in U. S.
The National Jewish Hospital for Consumptives was the first free hospital in the United States for the care of tuberculous poor. Men, women and chil¬ dren have come to it for treatment from all parts of the country, and since it was opened, with a single small building, it has grown to be an extensive institution with twelve buildings contributing to¬ ward the health and happiness of thou¬ sands of sick patients. The first build¬ ing housed sixty-four patients. To date more than four thousand, persons have been treated at this hospital, and sixty per cent of these have been restored fully to health and .economic independ¬ ence. Of the remainder, fifteen per cent have been improved in health, and those whose cases had advanced beyond the stage of improvement were made com¬ fortable and contented. A new building for the care of children was recently opened.
Occupational therapy is an important phase of the work of this hospital, aim-.-
By DR. ALEXANDER LYONS, Rabbi of Eighth AveriJLrempIo, Brooklyn, N. Y.
The recent Golden Anniversary ceIe|t,-esolution of the upbuilding of Pales bration in New York City of the Unioif',l:ine which  under  the guidance of  the
FORD CARS PRINCIPAL ITEM IN PALESTINE IMPORTS
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JERUSALEM (J. T. A.)—Thanks to the revival of Palestine which is due to Jewish agencies, Palestine is becoming an extensive market for Ford automo¬ biles. Statistics just made public show that of the total of American imports to Palestine during the year 1929"which aggregated two and a half million dol¬ lars, the major part of the amount was invested in Ford cars.
Palestine's exports to America dur¬ ing 1022 totaled only tlSO.OOO of which $10,000 was for almonds and |6|),000 for wine.
of American Hebrew Congregations wat a brilliant gathering of many of th(; best representatives of Reform Juda¬ ism in America. While there was fre¬ quently too much .crowding and chatter there was much to be grateful for of more substantial and enduring value. The accomplishment of the' occasion might have been heightened' somewhat if there had been less rabbinical ser- monization and more laical participation. Now and then I felt that as a delegate I might have said something not wholly unworthy  of  a hearing, but preferred
Dr. Alexander Lyons
to allow the time to be used by some layman whose 'much needed interest would be heightened by an opportunity to express and thus feel himself a vital part of an organization ..that is, and should predominately be aii effort of the laity. We rabbis will be helped in our work to the extent that we succeed in securing and holding thei active partici¬ pation of our niembers. This will come with an increased sense on their part of their pr^^tical and integral relation to Jewish religious problems. I think that there would have bebn further gain as there might be in future if rabbis wHo are invited ' to participate would avoid the too. common blunder of con¬ struing prayers into, preachments and of utilizing effete sermons for ¦ what should be scientific discussions.
A further-addition, a gainful one, to the sum total of good to be credited to the great New York convention would have been. the passage of the
chairmanshipi of Henry Morgenthau was defeated. That resolution called for a sympathetic endorsement of and co-operation with the enterprises now afoot in the land of Israel for the re¬ habilitation of the land of our fathers. That resolution was defeated principally on the ground, as I have been informed, that it might have placed the convention under misunderstanding and miscon¬ struction _ with regard to the Zionist movement. To my deep regret I was not present when the resolution was brought up for consideration. My pres¬ ence was required in my own community at that time by reason of the serious sorrow in the home of ¦ one of my people. Had I been present I. should as one of the signatories of the resolu¬ tion have protested vigorously for it notwithstanding the fact that I rtever vvas and am not now as far as I know either A Zionist or a Nationalist. What I would have said would have been somewhat as follows:
The Undelivered Speech
"Mr. Chairinan: As one of the sign¬ ers of the resolution to secure sympathy and practical co-operation for the re¬ habilitation of Palestine I desire to make known the ground of my sup¬ port which I feel the more urgently since for a long time I took scant interest in the enterprise, and even now am under suspicion by some and charged by oth¬ ers with being what thcy regard as ob¬ jectionable. Nationalist or Zionist. To be misunderstood in a matter of so vital importance bothers me not at all since as a Jew I ought to be accustomed to misconstruction. As. long as my conscience is clear and my conviction confirms that I am trying to do what from a higher Jewish standpoint is effective and beneficent I should let the others worry about their misunder¬ standing and misconstruction of my conduct,
"The reason for my substitution 'of active sympathy for uninterested silence ill relation to Jewish activities^ now afoot iri Palestine is to be found in my visit of some weieks to that land during the past summer, After the English protectorate of the country had been established and the stage of practical procedure of intending. Jewish settlers had been reached I felt that the mat¬ ter was lifted out of the realm of the merely theoretical and academic and had become a pressing practical prob¬ lem, whose handling rightly or wrong- (Continued ott page 6.)
JEWISH ACTOR AND
WIFE REPORTED KILLED
VIENNA (J. T. A.)—The American Yiddish actor, Jacob Kalich and his wife, Afollic Picon, also an actress, Were killed in an automobile .iccident, ac¬ cording to a letter' received here from Bucharest.
Kalich has been in Europe two years in company of his wife. He com¬ menced his career as an actor in the company of Joseph Kessler in Chicago. Later he started a theater of his own in Boston. His performances in Europe met with marked success. Kalich' had also done considerable writing for the Yiddish press.
New Committees Appointed for B'nai B'ritli Lodge for 1923
Zion Lodge No. 62 Also Holds
Initiation of New Candidates
Monday Eve.
JACOB KROHNGOLD, EX- DIRECTOR TO VISIT HERE
The best evidence of the,capacity of the local new B'nai B'rith administration to accomplish the important work it has set out .to do is afforded by the fine pirit of enthusiasm and zeal which characterized the proceedings of last Monday night's initiation meeting held at the \V6odman Hall.
A large number of inembers were present at this meeting over which Pres¬ ident Julius N. Zeckhauser presided. Mr. Zeckhauser, in opening the program of the evening, laid stress on the value of co.-operation which, if he were to re¬ ceive from every commfttce and member of the order, would result in a greater and stronger B'nai B'rith lodge, for Co¬ lumbus. He then announced the fol¬ lowing committees who are to serve on the I. O. B. B. program for 1923: Entertainment Committee—
Leo Yassenoff, chairman; Roy Frosch, Arthur Cohen, Henry Hirsch, ¦ Hyman Lieberman, Joe Kresge, Dr. Roth, Bert Levy/ ¦ ¦
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'Jeffrej^''';ljazarus, chairman; '"Arthur '<;fl^ett^- f.fe^Grcensteinj; ^ ^5^" 'v'l^aiplan,
wir*;, AI Harmon,'Louis J)anziger, Ber nard Tracht, Max Kridel, M. J. "Topo¬ losky, Arthur Loeb. Anti-Defamation Committee—
Fred Lazarus,  Jr.,  chairman;'Rabbi Jacob  Tarshish  Joseph  Schonthal,  Sol Levy, Samuel Summers, Max' Rieser. Legal Aid Committee- Harry Kohn, chairman; Ben Levison, E. J. Sehanfarber. Delinquent Committee—
M. Supran, chairman; Dave Levinson, I. Schlesinger, L. M. Levinson. Social Committee'—
I.   B.   Jashenosky,   chairman;   Jack Meyers, J. C. Goodman, Sam Weinfeld, Max Harmon. Propaganda  Committee—
Bert Wolman, chairman; Samuel Blasburg, Martin Rosenthal, Harry Friedenberg, Max Polster, Clarence Isaacs, Dave Leviso'n, Harry Office, H. Josephson, Walter Katz. Publicity Committee—
Leo Yassenoff, chairman;  Ben Neu¬ stadt,  Jerome Kohn,  A.  B, Weinfeld, Henry Segal. , Sick Cbmiilittee—
Frank  Hoffman,   chairman;   M.   Su¬ pran,  Harry Bornstein, F.  Finkelstein, I.  B.   Jashenosky,   Theodore   Lehman, Rabbi Tarshish, Rabbi Werne. Pasjt President Steering Committee—
A.   B.  Weinfeld,  chairman;  all  past Presidents. Boy Camp Committee—
E.  J.   Sehanfarber,   chairman;  J.  C. Goodman,    Jerome    Kobacker,    Larry {Concluded on page 3.)
$12,000,000 GO TO AID THE JEWS IN RUSSIA IS REPORT
Issues   Statement   Summarising
Work During Past Eighteen
Months
RUSSIAN TOTAL REACHED THE AMOUNT OF .$17,000,000
NEW YORK—At the last executive nieeting of the joint distribution com¬ mittee a complete report was .submitted of the committee's activity in Russia since its agreement with the American relief administration. This report gives full details of the widely ramified, work and will be published shortly. For the present, however, before the complete report is published, Messrs. Felix M. Warburg, James N. Rosenberg and Lewis L. Straus.s have issued the fol¬ lowing st<itement:
Since August, 1021, th(S relief for Russia as a result of the joint distribu¬ tion committee activities has reached the amount of .1;17,000,000. Of this amount approximately $10,000,000 represents the value of the food parcels of the Ameri¬ can relief administration, which had un¬ dertaken this work, as a consequence of the plan proposed by the joint distribu¬ tion committee to the- American relief administration in October, 1921, result¬ ing in a contract between the two or¬ ganizations setting up the food .parcel business. The remaining sum, over ,$7,000,000 in cash, came from tho funds ¦ of the Comtnittee.
Divided in Halves
The funds expended in Russia by the committee were divided almost in halves: One-half went for general non- sectarian relief in conjunction with the American relief administration, and Jews received therefrom approximately SO per cent; the other half was spent in districts reaching , Jewry almost en-, tirely.
The' other $3,500,000 has already been partly, used and is being spent in pro¬ viding emergency relief, such as food, clothing, fuel, subventions to institutions as well as various other methods of re¬ constructive relief.
The precise amount of relief received by Jews but of the ncin-sectarian funds
the su'mm'er of.'1022'when'ihe'non^-^se'c-.' tarian feeding of children and' adults reached its ,maximum it was estimated that about 36 per cent of the persons fed were Jews. This, however, does not mean that Jews have received only 36 per cent of the relief brought in by the joint distribution committee alone; for simultaneously with, the $1,500,000 ap¬ propriation of the joint distribution for child feeding in Ukrainia the American relief administration contributed about' {Concluded on page 7.";
COUNCIL-OF JEWISH
WOMEN TO MEET TUESDAY AFTERNOON
Tuesday afternoon, March 6th, at two o'clock, the Council of' Jewish Women will hold their regular monthly meeting in the vestry rooms of the Bryden Road Temple.
Mrs. Max Harmon, who is in charge of the afternoon's pro¬ gram, was instrumental in secur¬ ing Mrs. Celia .Kahn Rosenthal tp sing a group of vocal selections, and Professor C.'G. Olney to read from "He Who Wa? Slapped," the famous play and stage suc¬ cess, written by L. N. Andraeff.
Many Matters of importance will be taken up at this meeting, therefore making it urgent for every member to be present.
WANTED: A GENTILE LAWYER
By DR. ALEXANDER LYONS, Rabbi Eighth Avenue Temple, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Never in my career have I come upon a more egregious stupidity 'than is to be found in the asininity of an advertisement of the well- known firm of S. S. Kresge Company of Detroit, Mich:, that has ap¬ peared in papers in Cleveland and Detroit. Thait corporatioii of five and ten cent stores whose business reaches over America and enjoys the patronage of Jew, Christian ahd Gentile, needed the service of an attorney and announced that the applicant "must be a Gentile." The fiv? and ten cent knowledge of the representative of that big corpora¬ tion who wrote the "ad" may not have known that, according to Web¬ ster, a Gentile is "one neither a Jew nor a Christian,'' but he ought to be reminded that Christians and Jews patronize Kresge stpres. If a Jewish or Christian attorney is not desired by them, if they prefer to be served by one that according to dictionary definition is a heathen, it is their business, but I at least as a Jew will refiise my further patronage to a firm that thus flountingly insults both Christian and Jew. There are, no doubt, attorneys who are seriously objectionable who are called Christian, or Jewish, but by' implication to advertise a sweeping condemnation of Jew and Christian as the Kresge Company has,done through its real estate department, is something that no Jew, Christian or American should consent to. Hereafter the Woolworth five and ten cent stores shall be the best for me.
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