Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1924-12-26

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New Board of The U. S. Keren Hayesod Organizles in N. Y.
Dr. Weizmann Coming in January — Louis Lipsky Describes Ac¬ tivities in Palestine
BIG N. Y. CAMPAIGN
IS IN PREPARATION
NEW YORK made at the first meeting of the new Board of Directors of the Keren Haye¬ sod elected by the National Council at its Confcflpncc on December 7tli, that Dr. Chaim Weizmann will again visit the country next January with thc ob¬ ject of furthering the completion of thc American branch of the Jewish '  Agency for Palestine.
The Keren Hayesod Board of Direc¬ tors also adopted a resolution which ex¬ pressed "the sense o.f the Board that provision sliould be made for full op¬ portunity for the observance of tradi¬ tional Judaism in all institutions and colonics established or supported by Keren Hayesod funds." This resolu¬ tion, it was decided, should be sub- mhted to the Prilestinc Zionist Execu¬ tive with the request that a full report on t'he subject be submitted to the Board.
The first meeting of the Board which was presided over by the Chairma Morris Rothenberg, was attended by large number of thc members including many who came from cities outside New York. Among those who ad¬ dressed thc meeting was Louis Lipsky, Chairman of the Zionist Organization, who is one of the representatives of this Organization on the Board. Mr. Lipbky described the major activities of the Keren Hayesod in Palestine which he inspected dwelling particularly on the assistance to immigrants, the work of agricultural colonization and the schools. With regard to the latter he expressed the 'opinion that the bud¬ get of the Hebrew School system in Palestine should be increased in. order to enable it to accommodate thc children of the jiewcomers. Mr. Lipsky praised the men who were directing the various
Optimism -with regard to the, Jewish future in  Palestine.
Emanuel Neumann, the National Sec¬ retary reported on the general situa¬ tion of the Keren Hayesod in the vari¬ ous regions of the country. Among the more prominent Jewish leaders who have joined the Keren Hayesod forces recently, he reportecl, is Felix Fuld of New Jersey. A report of preparations for the campaign in Greater New York was givcrt by M, A.- Zeldin, who has been appointed New York Director, An Administrative Committee was elected by the Board to consist of officers in addition to the Finance Committee. The latter body consists of the following Jacob Siegel, Chairman; Meyer Brown, Boris Grabelsky, Isaac Ipp, Abram Lie¬ bovitz, I. D. Morrison, Israel Matz, Michael Salit, Morris Sendar, William Topkis, Nathan Turell, Louis Lipsky, Rabbi, Max Drob, H. L. Simmons.
The following were elected Honorary Vice-Presidents: Elihu D. Stone of Boston, Rabbi B. L. Lcvinthal of.Phila¬ delphia, Joseph Polsky of New York aild Rabbi Aaron M. Ashinsky of Pitts-
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ANNOUNCEMENT BY
THE EXCELSIOR CLUB
'I'lic Excelsior Club Coinmittoc of iMitcrlainmem wishes to annouiu-e tliat ;ill and final arrangements for thc New Year's format dinner dance at the Hotel Tort Hayes have been made.
Tabic arrangements Ii,ivc been com¬ pleted and the finest of music arranged for.
All club members and guests 3 ccwie as early as  possible
everything.
admission hav( ribers for themselves and jiic will be admitted to this   dance   unless   tii-ket
Gompers Is Eulogized By Rabbi Wise At Funeral Ceremonies
His    Unfaltering    Courage   and Love of Freedom Were Nur¬ tured by His Jewish Past, He Declares
After the Sabbath Pudding
By BENJAMIN GAMZUE
(Spccialli    Wiittcn    for   thc   CJlik,   Jewish   Chronicle)
Bert Wolman Is
Elected President
Of Zion Lodge, No. 62
Dr. Edelman liecomes Vice-President; Walter Katz, Warden and Dr. Morris Goldberg, Outer Guardian
At a well-attended meeting of Zion Lodge, No. 62, 1. O. B. B. held last Monday night at Realtors Hall, Bert Wolman became president of the or¬ ganization; Dr. Samuel D. Edelman, vice-president;'. Walter Katz, warden, and Dr. Morris Goldberg, outer guar¬ dian.
The following were elected delegates to the forthcoming Grand Lodge Con¬ vention: Julius Zeckhauser, Abe Wein¬ feld, ,Dr. Louis Kahn, E. J. Schanfar¬ ber, Jacob Myers, LB. Jashenosky and A. J. Kobacker.
The feature of thc meeting wa address by Rabbi Morris Silverman of Hartford, Conn., on "Culture and Civil¬ ization." The rabbi's address was one of the most inspiring and instructive ever delivered before the lodge, its conclusion he was given a vote of thanks by the meeting.
Another feature was the harmonica playing of Brother Albert Luchs who delighted his auditors with his beau¬ tiful renditions of classical as well as popular  compositions.
NEW YORK—Representatives of thc city, state and nation, and repre¬ sentatives of many foreign countries paid tribute to the passing labor leader, Samuel Gompers, late President of the American Federation of Labor. The funeral services were held at the Elks Club on West Forty-third Street, where tens of thousands lined the streets as the funeral cortege passed. Fifteen hundred scats in the lodge om were reserved for the honorary pallbearers, comprising Governor Smith, Mayor' Hylan, Acting Secretary of Labor E. J, Henning, Rear Admiral Charles P. Plunkett, Major Gen. Robert Lee Bullard and distinguished men from all fields of the nation's activity.
Rabbi  Wise  opened the  services by reciting the Twenty-third psaln brew and then in English.   He unfolded an impressive eulogy.
"Knowing Gompers as I did, I felt and feel that his idealism, his unfalter¬ ing courage, his love of his fellowmen, were nurtured ,by his, Jewish, past, out; - of ¦'that"'backgroutid*' oi of hi^h moral purpose and unwithstandable spiritual resolve, tc which heritage he gave conscious loy¬ alty. Who knows but that he plight have been a steadfast worshipper withi the walls of the • synagogue, had he found within churdli and synagogue alike loss of social timidities and m< of unquailing courage in dealing with dustrial inequity and sotial oppression!
"Of Lincoln it was said that he v such a man as freedom knows how make.   Wc name Samuel Gompers such a man  as America knew  how to make,  how  to  ro-fashion to  its  lofty uses.    America re-made this immigrant lad even as America has taken multi¬ tudes of immigrant sons and daughters them by virtue of its kindling genius   and  their  eager  hearts  to  the ;ermost devotion of service to Ameri- 11 purposes.
"What romance and wonder in his story! It is in truth an American career, an American epic." Dr. Wise stated. "Gompcrs died a poor man. You, his nearest, will have no inheri- taxes to pay. But he has left you, his very own, and you, his com¬ rades of the cause, rich indeed. His work is done, neither to be done over undone. Great was his pio¬ neering achievement; it is to be honored not as a goal or uUimate achievement, incentive and inspiration. How better summarize the life work of Samuel Gompcrs than by reminding you that too long had men said before his day, "now therefore ye are cursed, for none of you shall be -freed from being bondmen, and hewers of .wood and drawers of water in the house ot my God." Gompers so lived and wrought and fought that you, who now take up the task and burden he laid down, shall yet behold it come to pass that all men shall be blessed and all of them freed from being bondmen, even the hewers of wood and the drawers of water. He had a high and honorable part in freeing men from being bondmen."
When the coflin was lowered to thc asphalt vault at .the Sleepy Hollow cemetery at Tarrytown, the Masonic commitment service was delivered by the Very Rev. Oscar F. R. Treder, Dean of the Cathedral of the Incarna¬ tion, Garden City, and Chaplain of the New York Grand Lodge of Masons, assisted by Archie Ralph Kerr, Past Master of St. Cecile Lodge and Graii(} Junior Deacon, and Winfield C. Terry, Master of S.. Cecile Lodge. - Mr. Kerr and a committee represented Dawson Lodge of Masons in Washingtc which  Mr.  Gompers  had  membership.
I. JAHRZEIT A gray brick oven
In the dim room, And   shadcnvs   whispering
Out of gloom.
And old men moaning
A chant of years. Remembering sorrow
Without tears. '
A single soul breathes
An unheard tone, And one weak candle
Burns alone.
II.   OUT OF THE OLD BOOKS.
In thi: Talmudic period of Jewish History many legends grew out of .the souls ofthe people ruled by alien kings, stories that centered around the great men of the race, tho scholars and Tati- iiaim whose words are preserved for all time in tlic. books of the Talmud. Folk talcs have grown up about these names, tales that were at first counted verbally from father to son until they attained an air of strange¬ ness, of charm, even of mystery. As with all folk tales, the time came when they were written down, and today vve have them preserved in a number pf, different ways; old men still tell these stories to their grandchildren, books for' cheder children tell them in a simplifiifd form; the Orthodox tell them at the Seder table or read them out of th< old Plagaddahs illustrated with wo^,c cuts. , I
From a purely literary standpoiiit there is much to interest one in 'th^e old stories. Their charm is unendiiiit. The things the old sages talked about, their constant disputes, their solemn in¬ terpretation of different points, ^luir conscleatious preparation for the wbitd to come, all are recorded in detail. ^V^o does not remember thc old Hagadc^hs, now perhaps yellowed with age^^or stained with wine and fallen to pife^s? Who does not remember chanting, Aiicr the four questions have been. asked;|Md the, story^pf the Expd]U5'b?gitri;,^j'-,i.4:.
"There fs a tafeof Rabbi ERazber^aiuI Rabbi Joshua and Rabbi Elazar ben Azariah and Rabbi Akitjah and Rabbi Tarfon who sat all the night at Bnai Vrock telling) of the going out from Egypt until their pupils came to thcni and said 'Rabbins, the time has coinc- for the reading of the morning prayer.' " The actual text in the old books, es¬ pecially in those brought from Europe, seldom consisted of more than a few lines on each page, for it was necessary, to provide almost eVery phrase and sen¬ tence with page after page of commen¬ tary, so that the varied typography made the Hagaddahs appear like small islands of bold type completely siir- roundc4 by a sea of illustration and commentary in very fine type, written sometimes in' the script of Rashi, and sometimes in the Yiddish of the Ash- kenazim. Thus, under a passage like that de- ribing the Passover night of the five Tannaim it was necessary to- explain what strange circumstance could have carried the five sages away from their homes on an occasion- when it prcssly commanded to each Jew to be with his family, and what could have brought them all together at T Vrock, the home of Rabbi Akibah. The e;xplanation,' we are told, is the Nassi Rabbon Gamaliel, found it necessary to go often to Rome with his Sanhedrin, in order to protect Jewish
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and that !, liad set
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for their homes just before the Passover. Finding it impossible to reach their destinations in time, they decided to spend thc Pass¬ over in U'liai Vrock.
But tliesc five sages were inveterate 'lisputants and since they always dis¬ agreed with thc opinions of their Nasi, Rabbon Gamaliel, they began a dispute in regard to the time of day when most holy to repeat the story of the ' Exodus. Rabbon Gamaliel had maintained .that the command of the Torah on this point could be adequately carried out merely by repeating by day- lifiht the three words "Pesach, Matzo and Maror." The five sages, however, held tbat the command of the Torah could be fulfilled only in the night time and Rabbon Gamaliel .finally yielded when his friend Ben Zoma in¬ terpreted the passage, "in order that you may reinember the day our your going out from Egypt all the days of your life," to his satisfaction. "For," said Ben Zoma, "the 'days of your life' means the daytime, but All the days of your life' means the night." And so the Tannaim sat up all night telling of the going out from Egypt. "But," ad(ls> thc Hagaddah, "the wise say 'the days of. your life' means the world, whereas 'All the days of your life' refers to the coming of the Mes-
They are fascinating stories; these about tlie Tannaim who • followed the destruction of the second temple.
their combined efforts that \ve owe large part of the Hagaddah, but the chief compiler of it was Rabbi Eleabar ben- Horkynos,   often   given   the   title "Rabbi  Eleazar  the' Great."    He   had been a tiller of the soil until the age of twenty-two, but one day, after agreement vvith his father, he fled the latter's .\yrath and' went to Jerusalem, where   he   became   a   pupil   of   Rabbi Jochanan ben Zakkai. Years later, Horkynos came to Jeru- 1cm to disinherit his son, since he did >t^ Itno.WiA what had  become  of  him. ri'e'arrTved in tfie "city"'just as Eleazar was  presenting  a  very  important and scholarly pration.    Perceiving the high honor   that   his   son   had   attained gave him in joy his entire fortune. , This Rabbi Eleazar dwelt at one t the city of Leed and the story is told that he was sitting one day on s imphitheater,   deep   i studies, when his friend, Rabbi Joshua, who chanced to pass, sanctified the stone like the Mount of Sinai,    Later, after a disagreement with Rabbon Gamaliel, he parted from his friends and settled at Philippi where he remained until his death.
All of these old scholars believed the dignity of labor and would not ' their learning to gain them a livelihood. Rabbi Joshua ben Chamino himself was an ordinary worker, a maker of needles, though he was considered one of the greatest of the sages and was even ac¬ cepted at the palace of the Roman em¬ peror. He, was not fayored with a pleasing form and when the daughter of the Emperor remarked one time, "Fine learning, but an ugly body," Rabbi Joshua answered.
"Thc best wines are kept in jars of earthenware or wood ,and not of gold."
In addition  to  knowing  the Torah, Rabbi Joshua  was well versed in as¬ tronomy and understood already the ac- (Cottcluded on page 4)
DELIGHTFUL TEA GIVEN
BY THE IVREEYOH
The Ivreeyoh entertained with a de¬ lightful tea Wednesday evening, Decem¬ ber 17tli, at thc Hebrew Syd\oo\ at which morc than one luindred and fifty guests were served.
Mr. David Peiros was thc speaker of the cvenini; and the entertainment hi charge of Mrs. J. Wiseberg included thc following: Miss Jeanette Wise¬ berg, solo dance; the Misses Saraline and Florence Schiff, novelty dances; -.Master Horowitz, accompanied on thc piano by Prof. Kraeutcr, violin .solo; and   Miss   Gurcvitz,  recitations.
The tea was a splendid success both from thc social and financial standpoints.
Large Attendance Marks Dedication Of T. I. Social Center
Big Community Supper Is Pea-, ture of Housewarming Cele¬ bration at Tifereth  Israel Social House
BEN LEVINSON MAKES STIRRING PLEA FOR NEW EAST BROAD ST. TEMPLE
Rabbi Maze, Leader Of Russian Jewry Dies In Moscow
Was Pioneer,,Worker in Zionist Movement.and Revival of He¬ brew Language in Russia
MOSCOW— (Jewisli Telegraphic Agency) —Rabbi Jacob Maze, Rabbi of the Jewish community of Moscow and
of the outstanding leaders of Rui sian Jewry in the last quarter of century,' died yesterday at midnight a the age of G-j.
Rabbi Maze was born in .1800 in th State of Mogileff. He was graduate from the University of Moscow in 188( having taken a degree in jurisprudence. He began his public activities as a contributor to. the Hebrew Daily paper, Ha'mcilitz". He was the founder of the first Zionist group in Russia and helped form the Chovevqi Sephath Eiver. In 1893 he became Rabbi of thc Jewish community of Moscow, which position he held until his death. Besides his Rabbinical and com¬ munal activities, he was prominent in Russian civic life after the Revolution, In 1917 he was elected as a delegate to the Russian Constituent Assembly under the Kerensky government.
Rabbi Maze, although known for his ardent Zionism and devotion to Jewish ideals, was respected by all parties and even by the Communists. A short time ago Rabbi Maze contracted a severe illness which caused the loss' of his eyesFght. ' Realizing "that" he would die soon he began work on his memoirs, which contain valuable documents throwing light on the history and suf¬ ferings of Russian Jewry during the last fifty years.
Rabbi Maze was a scholar of note, a brilliant writer and a powerful orator. He rendered great service to. the cause of the Jewish name during the Beilis trial in Kieff in 1912, where he was called as an expert.
Dr. Arnold Margolin, chief attorney
for   the   defense   and   later   Supreme
Court Justice of Ukrainia, who is now
New York, learning of the death of
Rabbi Maze, stated:
'I recall as if it were today, the mo- iit when Rabbi Maze appeared before the Kieff court in the Beilis trial. Com- paratiyely slight in stature, he offered a sharp contrast to, the thick-set, unpre¬ possessing Shmakov, and to the power¬ ful figure of Zamislovsky, with his malicious and spiteful smile, who were seated on the benches reserved for the of Beilis. Maze had scarcely begun to speak when the entire audience in the court-room, holding its breath, began to follow with rapt attention, every word of this extraordinary lec¬ ture on thc Jewish religion. Only his thoughtful, expressive eyes betrayed the profound indignation which was stirring within him as he denounced this contemptible charge brought against the Jewish religion. In everything else, in his manner of dress, in his general ap¬ pearance, in his gestures, he preserved an almost classical calm, an academic dispassionateness, and very soon not a trace was left of the ritaal bharge so elaborately built by the prosecution,
"This was truly a fight of the Jewish David against Goliath, and David came out victorious.
"The Jewry of the world will never forget this brilliaiU and vigorous de¬ fense of its honor and dignity by Rabbi Maze at the Beilis tdal. May his ashes rest in peace."
A stirring pica for more cooperation and   support   on   the  part  of   members towards   thc   successful   completion   of project   launched   some   time   ago the  construction  of  the  new  East Broad  St. temple, was made last  Sun¬ day night by Attorney B. F. Levinson the community supper given by the Tifereth Israel  Sisterhood to mark the formal dedication of the congt-cgation's* social house.
Mr. Levinson deplored-the fact that the m.-ijority of thc members were sit¬ ting by complacently and shifting the entire burden of thc Temple's problems Upon the shoulders of "a handful of earnest workers. "The beautiful new structure about whicii we have been dreaming, planning, and studying can only be realized," he declared most emphatically, "when our entire mem¬ bership responds to our appeals and shows 'its readiness and willingness to help." Mj. ¦ Levinson was introduced by Mr. I. H. Schlezinger, the toastiiias- of the evening. His address was preceded by an instructive'talk by the rabbi, Dr. B. Werne, with regard to the-significance of Channukah and vari¬ ous problems now confronting the Jews f America. Others who made short talks arc: Mr. Morris Polster, presi¬ dent of the Temple; M. L. Bayer, Mrs. Louis Levin, president of the Temple Sistprhood, and Mrs. Morris Polster.
Over 20O people attended the celebra¬ tion, and participated in its various features —the supper, the dancing, and cards. The radiant joy evident on all sides was adequate proof of the hearty enjoyment of tbe guests not only of the splendid supper but also of the sweet music and the inspirin^^^pecches; ^ ,T;o Mrs^.-'jl. ,E.' Topper;-<-h'Silfriial*^'-(rf/the ' committee' in charge of the supper must be given sincere congratulations on the success which crowned the efforts of the committee. When she viewed the delighted crowd and the joy that per¬ vaded thc entire celebration she felt fully compensated for her untiring efforts. The ladies who so ably as¬ sisted Mrs. Topper in the preparation ^ of the supper are as follows: Mrs. D. Pastor, Mrs. Sol Roth, Mrs. B. F. Levinson, Mrs". Morris Brown, Mrs. Piatigorsky, Mrs. J. L. Feiner, and Mrs. Lowenstein,
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^ N every land, in every home, in every heart, this is the glad time   when   Good   Cheer   and   Brotherly   Love   are   the Keynotes,
The Ohio Jewish Chronicle
Extends the most cordial Greetings of the Season to its readers, its advertisers, and all its well-wishers.
On the threshold of the New Year "it asks for them the best that life can offer.
is hoped that the Tifereth Israel Sisterhood will arrange several other such affairs during thc coming season, for no other activity tends to increase the interest of the members and their families in thc work of the Temple,
(a) A special meeting of the Sister¬ hood Boarcl will be held at the Social House, Monday afternoon, Dec. 29, at 2:30 p. m., atl board members are urged to be present.
(b) Tlie Sisterhood will sponsor a card party at the Social House Tues¬ day evening, t)ec. 30 at 8:00 p. m, Table prizes and a good time  for all
Zanesville Congregation
Dedicates New Home
Rabbi  Jacob  Tarshish  of  Columbus
and   Rabbi   H.   Rosenberg   of
Zanesville Deliver Addresses
Congregation Beth Abraham of Zanesville, one of the oldest in Cen¬ tral Ohio, dedicated its neiy beautiful $40,000 home last Sunday afternoon, December 21, in the presence of over three hundred and fifty people (Jews and non-Jews) who thronged the au¬ ditorium of the temple.
The feature of the ceremonies was the address of Rabbi Jacob Tarshish of the Bryden Road Temple at Colum¬ bus, Ohio, in which he declared that the  future of Judaism  in  America is
ideed most bright. He congratulated the conscientious, public-spirited Israel- of Zonesville on the successful com-' pletion of their beautiful hotise of wor¬ ship and said that it was a fitting monu¬ ment to their idiialism.and their loyalty to the faith of their fathers.
The congregation's spiritual leader, Rabbi Harris Rosenberg, also delivered an eloquent address and pointed out the encouraging manner in which the dreams and hopes of the congregation have been realised.
It is interesting to note that Congre¬ gation Beth Abraham's success is uni¬ que in that its membership roll con¬ tains but thirty-six names. In addition to the Synagog it maintains a daily Hebrew school and a Ladies' Aid So¬ ciety.' The president of the congrega¬ tion is Mr. Louis L. Weber who was born and reared in Zanesville.   He has
planned.   Tickets can be procured served the congregation as president for from officers and members at 50c each, over 20 years.
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