Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1925-10-02

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A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER FOR THE JEWISH HOME
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and
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Volume VIII —No. 40
, COI.UMI^US, OHIO, OCTOm-U 2,  1925
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$5,000,000 Is To Be Invested In The Holy Land During The Year
American Jews Are Callcid Upon
to Contribute $3,000,000, An
Increase of $3,000,000 Over
Previous Year's Support.
TO SPEND MONEY ON
DEVELOPMENT OF LAND
NEW YORK.—The Jews of tlie world will be called upon to contribute ifo.OOO, 000 this year to the Keren Hayesod for the agricultural, industrial, public health and educational development of thc Jew¬ ish Homeland in Palestine, Samuel Un¬ termyer, president of the American branch of the fund announced today. Of this sum, American Jewry is < pected to advance $3,O0Op,000 during the year, Mr. Untermyer stated, iti order that the provisions of the new Palestine budget adopted at thc World Zionist Congress in Vienna can be carried and thc economic development of the country can keep pace with the ever- increasing influx of Jewish settlers.
During the four and one-half years of its existence, thc Keren Hayesod has ' invested $8,<M<i,7.'iOi in constructive ac¬ tivities in Palestine, sixty per cent of this sum having been contributed by American Jews, the balance coming from Jews in fifty-two countries throughout the world.
Mr.  Untermyer  emphasized  that  the greatly   increased   Palestine   budg adopted at Vienna and the necessity for increased  agricultural   colonization   and
¦ industrial development in view of the big immigration, placed added respon¬ sibilities and severe obligations upon American Jewry.
I       "Ju.st as the budget calls for expend-
¦ itures one-third greater than last year, so must American Jews give at least one-third more this year, in order that •the budget can be carried out and our work in Palestine maintained and ex¬ tended," he declared. "The annual bud¬ get for the regular colonization pro¬ gram of the Keren Hayesod was fixed at $3,000,000 at the Congress criase' 6f Dne-tWrd over' thc previous budget. This increase, was necessitated by the tremendous growth in Jewish ii migration to Palestine during the- past year, which is now averaging over 3,00C monthly.
"The needs of meeting further emer- {Continued on page 4)
New Officers of T. I. Sister¬ hood to  Be  Installed Monday Evening
At the next meeting of  thc Tifereth Israel Sisterhood, Monday evening, Oct.
e oflicers for the coming year will be installed.    An address will be made
»   well-known   local  'speaker, poi'talit matters are to be taken up and
i   most   urgent  that  every   member be present.    At the close of thc nicct-
re frcshmcnts  WM he  served.
The Problem of the Jewish College Student
by RABBI ISRAEL GOLDSTEIN of Congregation B'nai Jpshurun, New York, President of thc New York Board of Jewislt Ministers
Hillel Foundation Begins Activities at Ohio State University
Over 250 Students Attend Yom
Kippur Services at Hennick's
HaU
Under the direction of Rabbi Lee J. Levinger, director of the U'liai B'rith Hillel Foundation at Ohio State Univer¬ sity, Yom Kippur services were held ' last Sunday night and Monday morning for thc Jewish students on the campus. Tlie services were conducted in Hen¬ nick's HaU.
¦ Dr. Levinger spoke of the work that the Foundation intends to do among the sUtdents here and explained what the Foundation was, using a teaching of Hillel, after whom the organization was named. The evening servi attended by about WO students.
On. the  Day  of  Atonement   services were held  from  10:(K> A.  M. to  12:00 A. M., ami 2:00 P. M. to 4 P. M. memorial  service  was  held   from  -1:00 P. M to 5:00 P M.
this was the first bit of work that the Hillel Foundation has done on ( campus. At present Dr. Levinger attempting to get all of the Jewish students on the campus to register with the I'ouudation so that he will be able to fprin his committees. '
The Foundation intends to begin work with six committees. They are Menorah, Open Forum, Student Congregation, So¬ cial, Social Welfare, and Publications. Plans are also being formed to start an orchestra, a choir, and a debate team, if enough interest is shown.
The first Sunday morning services condncled by the Foundation will be held in'Hennick's Hall at 11:00 A. "' Sunday under the direction of Dr. Lev¬ inger. He will preach on the subject "Among the Pioneers." This is the first of a series of talks which will deal with early Jewish settlers of North .\nierica.
All Jewish students are invited to at¬ tend tlie.se services, as well as to take part in the various activities and com¬ mittees of the organization.
The Foundation is located at 00 Eightcnth Avenue, and although not yet finished is open to students. The for¬ mal dedication has been announced for Sunday, November 8.
No Anti-Semitism in
Italy, Declares Dr. Adler
PHILADELPHIA, (J. T. A.)—There is a complete absence of anti-Jewish prejudice in Italy, declared Dr. Cyrus Adler, president of Dropsie College of Philadelphia and the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, to the correspond¬ ent of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency upon his return from a two months' stay in Italy.
No social exclusion is practiced against the Jew in that country. The Jewish l.-iwyer, the Jewish physician and the Jewish merchant all enjoy the same social equality as the non-Jews.
Dr. Adler is, however, seriously cerned over the lack of candidates for the rabbinate in Italy.   The young Jews if   Italy  are  not  attracted  to  it,  with the result that the Jews of that coun¬ try are  facing a dearth of  leadership. This,   Dr.   Adler   declared,   should   re- the serious attention of the Italian Jews.    Dr.  Adler  was  particularly im¬ pressed   with  the  beautiful   synagogues the fine schools in Italy.   "There is room  for Jewish  scientific  research Ituly.   ..There  is   an  enormous  amount material which would yield an abun¬ dance of data of the greatest value to the Jewish  student," Dr.  Adler stated". There is a great deal to do in that direc- id   he  expressed   the   hope that ¦Jewish   situdents   would   ta|ke   Ito   that
Dr. Adler explained that he had not gone abroad for the purpose of in¬ vestigation or research. He did not of. the countries where Jews are.to be found in large numbers and, therefore, did not meet any phase of the problem which the Joint Distribu¬ tion Committee is endeavoring to solve. In a general way, Dr. Adler declared, he is familiar with the Russian coloniza¬ tion- plan, but he has not discussed the matter with any of thc J. D. C. leaders. When told of the opposition to the plan on the ground of the attitude of the Soviet government towards the Jew¬ ish religion. Dr. Adler declared that while he was familiar with that phase of the problem he had faith in the sur¬ vival of the Jewish religion.
Dr. Adler endorsed the efforts of the United  Synagogue of America to erect
synagogue and community center in Jerusalem.
He stated that the faculty of the Dropsie College is now complete and the library has been considerably en¬ larged, making it one of the largest Jewish  scientific libraries in the world.
The problem df the Jewish college student is the problem of absorbing Ihe positive benclits which a college career has to ofier without at thc same time falling victim to its negative infiuenccs, — I mean negative in the effect upon the Jewish attitudes. There is the danger lest in becoming humanized, the college student become dcjudaizcd, lest in growing broad-minded, he grow shallow- spirited, lest in acquiring the arts and cultures of other civilizations, he for¬ sake his own.
The problem of the Jew at college is the problem of retaining thc Jewish im¬ pulse while attaining the humanitarian o,utlook. The menace to the Jew at college lies in the circumstance that usually there.is not an adjustment but an absorption in which the Jewish clement instead 0,16being adjusted, is altogether swallowed up. That is why thc problem of Hih jPew at college is a problem of survival in which the JewLsh Will to Live is the.greatest single factor.
SAFETY 1^ NUMBERS
Of course, I refer not to the colleges where, as in the case of the City College of New York, there is safety in numbers,—-but rather to thc njnety-nine other cases where the' Jew plays his usual role of small minority. In those institutions, the Jewish student body, small as it may be, usually'divides itself along two definitely demarcated lines. First, there is thc type of student who is itching" to be mistaken for a Gentile. To tbat end, he tries to "jump out of his skin." His self-respect is so far gone that no insult to the Jew arouses any resentment in him, and no achievement of the Jewish people enthuses him. ¦ Of that type of Jewish student is disgusting to Jew and Gentile alike. On the other hand, there is thc type of Jewisli student who is keenly sensitive, keenly re, and keenly resentful of the social and of the occasional academic dis- ination from which he suffers. • It is this class which provides- the great bulk of the membership in Jewish fraternities afid in other kinds of Jewish college organizations. As one looks back upon the growth and development of these Jewish associations,'one can see how, in their origin, they served usually ,as a refuge for the homeless, — that is, for those who are not made to feel,at home in the other college circles. It was not a positive force but rather the feeling of common disappointment which served as tho common bond. Whereas there tl Jewish consciousness it was usually of a kind which was impressed from without as a result of discri-mination suffered rather than expressed from within. Whereas there was some heat and fervor, it was usually the heat resulting from friction and not from spontaneous combustion. There was no positive motivation. Only in recent years has there been a noticeable change in the direction of a mere positive character in Jewish college circles. Gradually thc bond of common en¬ thusiasm has supplanted • the bond of common disappointment. It is in this direction that much ought to be done in the development of a more positive at¬ titude on the part of the Jewish college student.
Succoth Celebration
At Community House
ic opening -.social of thc Scb(Jiithal Comnuniity Mouse will be a Succoth Dance to be held Sunday night, October ¦1.  from 8;M0 to W-.'W.
Up-to-date music has been secured for the occasion and novel favors will be distributed during thc course of the evening.
"A Welcome Home" — in order that friends new and old may meet,
Schonthal Community House, .55.5 E. Rich Street.
Orthodox Jewry to Meet > at New York Convention
CONTENT AND CONTACT
It is a question of cultivating first —Jewish content, and  second — Jewish
There is a type of intellectuals among the Jewish college youth whose hobby is the pursuit of the exotic. They are on a mad hunt for "atmosphere" as they call it. Spanish atmosphere, Russian f^j.'sosphere, Japanese atmosphere — anybody and anything which bears a foreign name, a weird costume and exotic gestures, receives acclaim. Yet, Jewish atmosphere seems to have no appeal for them. It might be suggested to those intellectual "atinosphere hunters" that they begin their quest by cultivating their own clement, and imbiding the atmosphere of their own traditions. To many of our intelligent youth the Jewish dance, is typified by the "Kazatske", and Jewish song and wit arc represented by the cheap vaude- villian. They ought to be informed tbat there is a Jewish art which is legitimate and unique, that there is a Jewish song, a Jewish drama, a Jewish literature. The treasure house of Jewish culture is open to any who seek admission to it. It is a challenge and responsibility for those who feel a concern for the probleip of the Jewish college student to make available these sources of Jewish life and lore for the sake of enriching the Jewisli contact of our collegians.
Of greater import even than the question of Jewish content is the question of Jewish contact. It must be admitted that the Menorah organizations have done much in providing for the former need, but vei-y little organized effort has been exerted to promote Jewish contacts among college students. - Merely to (Concluded on page 4)
Congregation Agudath Achim
DR. ISAAC WERNE. Rabbi
Friday evening, October 2 — Suc¬ coth Services—r>:»0 P. M.
Saturday morning, October 3—Suc¬ coth  Services-at 8:00 A.  M.—Sermon
n:aoi A. M.
Shemini Atzereth, Friday evening, October !)tli—Services at fi:30 P. M.
Shemini Atzereth, Saturday, ,Oct. 10th—Services at 8:O0 A. M.—Sermon at 9:30..
Simchath Torah, Saturday eveiiing, October 10th—Services at G:.30.
Simchath Torah, Sunday' morning, October 11—Services at 8:00—Sermon atO;;M).
Mr.   A.   Goldberg   Predicts
Big Success for $12,000
Talmud Torah Drive
A Rabbi Dissects Anti-Jewish Prejudice
ANTI.SEMITISM IN THE UNITED STATES
Mr. A. Goldberg, president of the board of directors of the Columbus Talmud Torah, predicts a great success for the big drive now going on in be¬ half of the East Rich Street institution. He feels that every Jew in the city has come to the realization that this scliool is the most important factor in molding the character of our boys and girls iu the direction of more Jewish-
' "At uo time since its inception" he pointed out to a representative of the Ohio Jewish. Chronicle, "has sacred work received more earnest sideration and commciulatioii from all elements in the community than during the past three months. We are plan¬ ning to publish in the Chronicle a ful list of every subscriber to the |12,000 (fund now being raised."
By LEE J. LEVINGER.   Bloch Pub¬ lishing Company
One of the most effective factors in the cohesion of parties, nations and races is outside pressure. Inner dis¬ sension and factional strife disappear at the warning of danger from without. At the Zionist Congress, held in Vienna, this axiom was splendidly demonstrated. Before the convention there were two parties within Zionist ranks, bitterly op¬ posing the tactics of each other. Some declared that Weizmann was t'he only hope for the salvation of Zionism, others declared that Weizmann, because of his waning prestige with the British, unsuited for Jewish leadership, It needed only the baitings and assaults of the Hakenkreuzlcr to unite all the dele¬ gates attendant upon the iixternational Zionist assembly. There was no question of who should lead, or who should be subject.    Jews   were   in  danger — Jews
American Jev/ry has benefited im¬ mensely from anti-Semitism in the United States, if one Is to evaluate mat¬ ters properly. Tbe onslaughts of Henry Ford and the Ku Klux Klan served to unify and harmonize parties within Juda- Uurton Heiidrick and the Protocols of Zion served to remind Jews with dif¬ ferences that these disagreements were picayunish affairs; and that a common rause was the heritage of all Jews. Jews began to feel strong enough to be dis¬ satisfied vvitl) apologetics; Maurice Sam¬ uel even issued a polemi?, against "You Gentiles."
Now that the Ku Klux Klan has abated its activities, and Herman Bern¬ stein has prospered, comparatively, in his suit against Henry Ford, and the
passions of active, anti-Semitic propa¬ ganda have subsided somewhat, Rabbi Lee J. Levinger has made a splendid itudy of thq history and causes of preju¬ dice against the Jew, in a book called "Anti-Semitism in the United States." It is fitting that the only Jewish publish¬ ing house, in America, the Bloch Pub¬ lishing company, should put primatur upon such a valuable Jewish book.
In the introduction to his Book, Mr, Levinger gives a historical resume of modern anti-iSemitism, as a preface to the appreciation of anti-Semitism as it developed in America. Declaring only anti-Judaism- existed America up until thc World War, Rabbi Levinger points out that literary, politi- :al, and economic anti-Semitism in th« United States was a product of the period
iter the World War. He divides dences of thc existence of active ; Semitism into four phases. He singles the attempts to limit the percentage of Jews in American universities
and perhaps the most harmful mark of anti-Jewish feeling.   The explanation
f the American "nunjerous clausus" is
n example of the lucidity of Rabbi Lcv¬ ingcr's style and content: "In Ameri¬ can institutions of higher learning there has been a growing problem of the crease of entering classes, as well as a growing perplexity at the number oi Jewish immigrants who seek an ad¬ vanced education. These young people often lack American manners and back¬ ground, standing out from the great mass of the student body, whether for good or bad is immaterial. What more natural than that some would attempt to sqlve (Concluded on page 4)
NEW YORK. (J. T. A.)—Fifteen hundred orthodox Jewish congregations in all states of thc Union and Canada, with a membership o fno less than 37'!>- 000, were asked to send delegates 27th annual convention of the Union f Orthodox Jewish Congregations of .America, in a call issued by Rabbi Her¬ bert S. Goldstein, presjdent of the Union. The Union of Orthodox Jewish Con¬ gregations, which, was established in 18.08 and now has 200 affiliated congre¬ gations, with a membership of nearly ir,n,f)0O, is tbe second oldest American Jewish religious organization. The con¬ ference which will take place in' New York, and will last thircc days—from October 24 to October ,20—will discuss number of problems affecting the life of Orthodox Jewry both in A-merica and in  Europe and  Palestine.
Several of the outstanding features of the conference will be the discussion of the problem of Jewish colonization work in Soviet Russia for the purpose of which a campaign for $15,000,000 has recently been launched by thc Joint Dis¬ tribution Committee, Jewijh education in the United States and the maintenance of higher Talmudical academies in Europe and Palestine, nad the "Jewish¬ ness" of our commanal institutions. V particularly interesting discussion expected to develop in connection with the Jewish colonization plat Soviet Russia. Leaders of the Union, of Orthodox Jewish Congrcgatio^>: that the religious life of the new settlei-s be safeguarded and the Kehillahs must be.allowed to function-^which has until recently been prohibited by the Soviet authorities.
Of the American Jewish questions that will come up before the convention are, the State legislation concerning the sale of kosher meat and the steps, necessary for the enforcement of this law,
the observance of Sabbath as it may be   facilitated   by   a  iive-day   industrial
Sephardic and Askenazic elements American Jewry will join in their efforts to revitalize Orthodox Jewry in America ¦ at the convention. This was emphasized in the forming of the Con¬ vention Committee which includes . rep¬ resentatives -of both types of congre¬ gations. Thc Convention Committee, which is headed by Dr. David de Sola Pool 'of the Spanish Portuguese Syna¬ gogue, New York City, consists of Henry B.iyer, Rabbi Dr. Bernard Drach¬ man, Morris Engclman, Leonard Fried¬ man, Rabbi H. S. Goldstein, S. H. Hof- stadter. Rabbi Dr. Leo Jung, Kassel Lewis, Mortimer M. Menken, Capti N. 'i;aylor Phillips, Louis Simon and Albert Wald.
The first president of the Union Orthodox Hebrew Congregations, when it was formed June 8, 1898, was Rev. Dr. H; Pereira Mendes,
The-officers and Executive Committee of the Union are as follows: Rabbi Herbert S, Goldstein, president; Rev. Dr. H. Pereira Mendes, Rev. Dr. Ber¬ nard Drachman and Julius J,' Dukas, honorary presidents; Rabbi M. S, Mar-
Feast of Tabernacles To Be Celebrated By Jews Throughout World
Holiday Commences Friday Eve¬ ning, the 2nd of October, and Lasts An Entire Week.
LAST DAY IS CALLED SIMHATH TORAH, THE REJOICING OVER THE LAW
Only five days after the great and solemn Dijy of Atonement comes the joyous Festival of Succoth or Taber¬ nacles, The Synagog will observe, the Festival commencing with Friday night, tbe 2nd of October, and lasting a week. During this week every Jew who ob¬ serves the old tradition will ^ take his meals in little tabernacles or booths that have been erected in the yard, in accordance with the com¬ mand : "Ye shall dwell in booths seven days, that your ' generations may know that I made the thildren of Israel to dwell in booths when I brought theip out of the land of Egypt." (Lev. 2;M2). The festival is therefore reminiscent of the Wilderness and of the divine watch- ¦ fulness over Isrdel during the perilous period of its wanderings.
It has also' the significance of a har¬ vest festival, for it was celebrated in ancient times in the season of the in¬ gathering pf the produce of the field, therefore also called "the Feast of Ingathering." At this time tlie Jew bidden to take on the first day of the festival "the fruit of the goodly tree, b'ranches of palm trees, and boughs of thick-leaved trees, and willows of the brook; and ye shall rejoice before the Lord, your God, seven days." (Lev. 23-40) The traditional Jew makes a blessing over these offerings every day during the festival while in many modern synagogs the first night of the festival has been turned into a harvest or thanks¬ giving service when, under a symbolic representation of a booth over the pul¬ pit, the children of the congregation bring offerings- of field and forest to the accompaniment "of a ritual of song and praise.
Tbe last-day.of the Festival is called" Sinihath Torah,—the Rejoicing Over the Law. It marks the conclusion of the reading of the Pentateuch, which, in separate portions on every Sabbath, is read in its entirety evrey year. To the Jew the Torah or the Law is eternal. It has no beginning and no end, There- sooner are last verses of the 'ast book of the Pentateuch read in the synagog than immediately thereafter the ies of th6 first book are also read, making the process without be¬ ginning or end from year to year and from century to century. At this time there is great rejoicing in the orthodox synagog. There are many processions around the pulpit, participated in by tbe entire congregation, and preceded by the Scroll of the Law, and accom¬ panied by the chanting of hymns and hosannas.
Thus closes the cycle of holy days ex¬ tending over a period of two weeks, be¬ ginning with a day of fate, the solemn Rosh 'Hasbanah or New Year, and end- 1 a day of rejoicing, the Re¬ joicing Over the Law.
PUPPET   SHOW   TO   BE   STAGED
AT  COUNCIL  MEETING
NEXT TUESDAY
The Mesdames, A. R, Weiler, I. A. Glick, Jerome Kohn, Lawrence Loewen¬ stein, Warry Freidenberg, John Wilson, Nathan Gumble, Alfred Kobacker, Ed¬ win Kraus, E, J. Schanfarber, I. .\. Rosenthal, and Russell Joseph will ap¬ pear as puppets-in The Council Puppet Show to be staged at the first meeting of the season of the Columbus Section Council of Jewish Women which will take place  Tuesday afternoon, October
Rabbi  Philip  Klein,  and  Rabbi Leo Jung, Rabbinic vice-presidents; M. ''"'• »' '^o o'clock in the vestry rooms Boas Lande, first vice-president; Mendel "^ "»= Bryden. Road Temple, Gottcsman,   second   vice-president;    C.I    ^'l•s, I. A, Rosenthal, chairman of thc Joshua   Epstein,   third   vice-president; | ProS^am  committee,  promises  that  this Jacob  Hecht,  treasurer;   Mortimer   M. Menken,   recording   secretary;   Morris Engclman,   financial   secretary;   Albert Wald, corresponding secretary.
Executive Committee — Henry Bayer, Samuel Bayer, Isidore' Brody, Abraham Cohen, Joseph H. Cohen, Rabbi I. M. Davidson, Rabbi N, H. Ebin, Samuel Feuerstein, Harry Fischel, Wm. Fisch- Dr. Samuel Friedman, Rabbi &'. B. Friedman, Harry Fromberg, L. S. Fur¬ man, A, L. Goldstein, Abraham iGold- stein, Israel S, Goraorov, Rabbi Isadore Goodman, Louis Gutman, Max Hersko- vits, S, H, Hofstadter, S, A. Israel, Rabbi M. A, Kaplan, Joseph Lamport, Nathan Lamport, Kassel Lewis, Rabbi Albert Mandelbaum, Dr, Henry S, Morais, Captain N, Taylor Phillips, Dr, David de Sola Pool, Rabbi P. Rosen¬ berg, Rjabbi Joseph Schwartz, iRaibbi A, I. Schuchatowitz, Louis Simon, Manes Strauss. Albert Wald liam Weiss.
program as well as all others which have been planned for the year will be most delightful.    •-,
All members are urged to make this opening meeting a banner one by being resent and welcoming the new members.
RESERVATIONS   BEING   MADE
FOR WOMEN'S FEDERATION
LECTURE  COURSE
Tickets  for the  lecture course  spon¬ sored   by  the   Columbus   Federation  of Women's Clubs may now be exchanged •eservcd seats at McClelland's Book
Mrs. Opha Moore is in charge of thc sale of season tickets and Mrs. J, Dildine and,Mrs. Ceorge Brand are taking care of reservations.
The first lecture will be held at Me¬ morial Hall on the evening of October l!lth at which time the Honorable Theo. E. Burton will speak on "The World Court," and movements for peace.