Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1925-05-29

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A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER I^OR THE JEWISH HOME
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Jewish Ideals
Volume VIII—No. 22
cor.UAinus, 0PI16, may 29, 1925
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Mizrachi Convention Closes; Rabbi Berlin Reelected President
Convention Hears Charges of Discrimination Against Ortho¬ dox Emigrants to Palestine
URGES FUNDAMENTAL
CHANGES IN SYSTEM
CLEVELAND. —The Eleventh An¬ nual Convention of the Mizrachi Zionist tnovcmcnt closed here with thc rc-clcction of Rabbi Meir Berlin as president of the organization. i
A new feature in the Mizrachi organ¬ ization was thc election of Rabbi B. L Lcvinthal, well-known Tadmudic author- . ity of Philadelphia, as vice-president, s new office created by the convention. Mr Abraham Kahn of New York was elected treasurer, and Rabbi Morris Magnes secretary. An actions committee of fifty- one members was elected. The Execu¬ tive Committee consists, besides the above mentioned officers, of Rabbi Teiielbaum Dr. J. Bluestone, B. Schnur, Rabbi A. Ensclbath, Samuel Wilner, A. Stradriski, and H. Karp.
A number of important resolutions were adopted by the convention, them' dealing with the recently opened Hebrew University in Jerusalem, storm was caused at the convention by revelations made by Rabbi Natalevitch of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, who re¬ cently arrived from Lithuania. Rabbi Natalevitch made thc charge that the Palestine offices of the Zionist organ¬ ization functioning in various Europe discriminate against orthodox immigrants and do not give visas to chaluzim who belong to the Mizrachi organization.
A resolution urging fundamental changes in the entire system of emigra¬ tion to Palestine was adopted by the convention. The resolution also de¬ mands that those Zionist officials who are guilty of discrimination should be removed.
Another heated discussion took place at the convention on account of a reso¬ lution presented by Rabbi Epstein of Cleveland on behalf of the committee! on Palestine. ' He demanded that' the . Mizrachi delegates to the Zionist Con- llfress to be held,in Vienna in August should be authorized to declare, half of the Mizrachi organization that this organization will separate from the Zionist Organization if the Zionist Ex¬ ecutive will not take strong measures to enforce a resolution adopted twice be¬ fore by Zionist Congresses, that settle¬ ments and institutions in Palestine which do not comply with the Jewish religious observances should not any  support  from the general  Zionist
funds ai;d, particularly, of the Keren Haysod.
The convention, voted again^ the lat¬ ter part of the resolution whidi read in the nature of an ultimatum: but accepted the first part which expresses protest against  the  Zionist  Executive  for  its
failure to realize the resolutions of the
Congresses.
The Ivreeyoh Picnic
Tomorrow (Sunday) at    ] Heimandale Grove
Meet all your friends tomorrow (Sun¬ day) May lilst, at Heimandale Grove at the picnic to be sponsored there by the Ivreeyoh Society. Come out any tinit between 10 a. ni. and 2 p. ni. and staj until t p. m.
Everyone is invited to come out to tht park al ten o'clock as games and enter¬ tainment have been arranged for a ful day's program. There will be plenty of sandwiches Aud other refreshments store for those who want to be spared the botliiir of bringing lunches.
Thc Original Melody Boys orchestra which has won an enviable place for it¬ self among the finer orchestras of the city, will furnish delightful music for the dancing.
If you've not already been approached with regard to tickets which are selling at twenty-five cents, reserve trie abovi date anyhow and you'll be able to sccun your tickets at the gate.
Mrs. J. Wiseberg is chairman of thc arrangements committee for thc picnic.
The task of establishing international peace and the machinery for the perpet- n of such a peace Is an especial chal¬ lenge to organized religion. Not only ISO peace i.s essentially a supreme ethical problem, decidetily within the so- ial program <>{ church and synagogue but also because every great religioi ilainis to have come into the world to 'fFect pcatfc.
Heretofore peace has been an' ideal ab¬ straction, and thc clmrch—by church, of ^e, I mean church and synagogue and
Organized Religion and World Peace
RABBI ABBA HILLEL sIlVER of Cleveland, Ohio
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Celebrate the Annual Roger William Day!
ReprcBentatives of Thirty-two Chap¬ ters of Oldest Jewish College Fra¬ ternity Pay Tribute to Pioneer of Religious Freedom
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PROVIDENCE, R. I. — Representa¬ tives of Zeta Beta Tau, National Jewish c(Vllege fraternity, will gather here Fri¬ day night, May 20th, to pay tribute to Roger William, champion of religious freedom in America. Roger William Day was established four years ago by the fraternity, the late Julius Kahn Chairman of the House Military Com¬ mittee and Honorary President of the! fraternity at the time, having been re¬ sponsible for the setting aside of a day each year, in token of the service Roger William has accomplished for American liberty. For .the first two years the services were held in Washington. Last year they were transferred to Provi¬ dence, where Roger WHIiam carried out liis famous principle of religious liberty and where he lies buried.
Protestants and Catholics will operate with the representatives of the thirty-two chapters of the fraternity ii the Rogar William services, which will be held in Temple Beth-El. Speakers include Dr, Augustus M. Lord of the First Congregational! Church of Provi¬ dence; Rahbi Samuel M. Gup of Temple Beth-]^l; and Alvin T. Sapinsley, for¬ mer National Executive of the fraternity.
Jewish Women Gain
Unique Distinction
National   and   Civic   Recognitions
Reveal Wider Role of
Council Leaders
NEW YORK CITY: The sphere in which the officers of • the National Council of Jewish Women are active is revealed by the numerous rec¬ ognitions that have recently come to them, nationally and locally. Mrs. Caesar Misch of Providence, R , an Honorary Vice President of the National Council of. Jewish Women and one of its former presidents, has just been elected a member qf Providence's School  Board of seven,  under a new
Mrs. Misch has been a every field of Rhode Island's political, and organizational life. She was one of the presidential electors, and has held the presidency, of the Rhode Island Federation - of Women's Clubs. The >m in ber spacious home is a civic institution, and has been made available by Mrs. Misch for public con¬ certs.
Mrs. Max L. Margolis of Philadel- phia,-a-Direabr erf the Nsoional Oranci of Jewish Women, and the former pres¬ ident of its Philadelphia Section, was recently called to direct the new De¬ partment of Social Service Work of the Women's Medical College of Pennsyl- Her extensive associations in the social welfare activities of Phila¬ delphia make her exceptionally qualified for this important work.
Mrs. Siegmund Herzog of Cleveland, National Chairman of the Committee on Civic and Communal Affairs of the National Council of Jewish Women, has been named on the Gpverning Board of thc newly founded Training School for Jewish Social Work in New York City. She has achieved frequent recog¬ nition as one of the leading women ir her community, in civic and organiza¬ tional fields, having served as presiaent of the Cleveland Section for a number of years and as president of its Confer¬ ence of Jewish Women's Organizations Miss Fiorina Lasker <of New York City, Chairman of the Department ol Immigrant Aid of the National Council of Jewish Women, has attained a very influential position in the field of social service. She has been appointed a ber of the Committee on Migrati the 26th New York State Conference Charities and Correction. Miss Cecilia Razovsky of New York City, Secretary of the Depatlment of Immi¬ grant Aid, has been chosen to serve on the Executive Board of the newly or¬ ganized Citizens' Committee on Exploi¬ tation of Aliens.
In St. Louis, Mrs. Irvin Bettman, a Director of the National Council of Jewish Women is one of two appointees from her city on the Missouri State Board for Criminal Justice. Mrs. Elias Michael, a member of the St, Louis Council Section, was elected to thei School Board, polling 10,000 votes in excess of any other candidate.
Among the women of Pennsylvania Mrs. Charles Long of Wilkes-Barre President of the Pennsylvania State Conference of Council Sections, has been appointed on the National Com¬ mittee of Illiteracy.
These recognitions are an index of the increasing part played by the Na¬ tional Council of Jewish Women of America in every field of service.
RABBI   ABBA   HILLEL  SILVER
every other form of organized religion- has been content to speak of it as ai ultimate desideratum, a condition highl> to' be desired but so far removed as to be beyond the pile of practical and diate concern. But necessity and tiiu events of the last two or three genera¬ tions have thrust this abstraction into the realm 'of reale politique and have turned it into,the most pressing and per¬ plexing problem of the day.
The churcli today is confronted with a choice of roles.    It
Meet me at the Ivreeyoh picnic to.| morrow    (Sunday)   i Grove.
the economic and industrial adjiistmciits iViadc necessary by the new conditions of life. The church may again forfeit thc loyalt.\ of millions if it remain silent now t)n this inescapable moral issue. Hor Uiinkiiig men and women must Hltiinatcl> turn from an institution whose inspira- iioii is solely ot the past and in the past And whose will Is atrophied; an instltu- Xum to whicli men cannot turn for gitid- ftncf and inspiration in the troubling .iiid liarassiiiK emergencies of their social ex- istaiicc.
my firm conviction that the church ^\\l assume leadership  in thc work'
.tablishing itcrnational peace only when it will transcend the state. In the Middle Ages the. church competed with the state It laid claim to ultimate sovereignty in both temporal and spiritual affairs. The tihurch insisted upon the Identity of spirit¬ ual and civil power, and sought to estab¬ lish itself as the supreme political arbiter It failed, as it was destined t'ofalji It was well that it did fail, for temp.oral power inevitably corrupts s'plrit- hal power, and enfeebles it.
With the Reformation the ascendency bf the state began. In thc struggh cn clmrch and state the state cmi inphant. The accent was placejCupon tiational. autonomy and ultimatri^ upon hatioiial self-consciousness. Thij resultcc tn two things: First, the sunied to be morally self-sufficien^Pub¬ lic morality was not necessarily tninous with private morality ^ &I011C is the source and criterion of n: tional ethics. Secondly, the church ha' ing lost the role of competitor, assumed the role of ally. It became a state agenc> ^nd this condition has continued to our
In many countries the church is either an outright state-church or receives its subvention from the state. Even in, de¬ mocracies where the churcli does not re- teivc financial support from the state il has so completely yielded itself up to tht political philosophy of the state that it is content in most instances to underwrite | the policies and programs of the state tf a state declares war tbe church will
two roles-^the one-.of leader.?hi».,5f ;th!Rl f^VS^'W it or condone it.   If.tlie.state
one of pious irrelevancy. Tfie church must decide, whether it means to vindi¬ cate its historic claim to be the peace¬ maker of the world and aggressively to lead mankind along the hard—and it wil be a hard—road to peace, or whether it will, as heretofore, more cautious than courageous, more shrewd than wise, re¬ fuse to enter the arena of struggle an( content itself with the mechanical repeti¬ tion df its age-old exhortations to,peace and good will. Upon the decision of the church Jis to which of thc two roles It to assume, depends, in a large measure, the future attitude of thinking men and women towards the church.
In jthe past the church alienated the loyalty and devotion of millions of men because of its refusal to partici|^(
Twenty-Seven Boys And Girls Confirmed At Bryden Road Temple
Twenty-seven boys and girls were con¬ firmed last Sunday morning at thc Bry¬ den Road Tetnple. In spite of unfavor¬ able weather conditions thc Temple was filled to capacity.
The services were most beautifully solemnized, each confirmant taking part. Samuel Summer made thc presentation Torah to thc congregation on behalf of himself and his sister Hcr- also a confirmant, in memory ol their grandmother, Mrs. Hermine Schonthal. Rabbi Jacob Tarshish ac¬ cepted the Torah oind offered up a prayer that it continue to be thc beacon light to all Israel in the future as it has been in thc past. The Rabbi urged all parents to reconsecrate themselves so that their children may learn through their example the true meaning of Juda¬ ism and the glorious heritage handed down to us by our forefjithcrs.
A touching tribute to the memory oi Robert Goldberg, a member of the con¬ firmation class, who died recently, was rendered by Marvin Kobacker.
Mr. Joseph Schonthal presented each member of the class with a white bible i'Jiheo«BniM:inatig;(ljccrtificatc.
Minority Rights for Jews Is Urged at Conference
General Situation of Jews In Russia |
Is    Discussed    by
Adamovitsch
All
KEEP DATE OPEN
All friends of the, Jewish Literary Qub of Columbus are urged to keep the| date of Sunday, June 7, open. The One Act Comedy and Dance to be pre¬ sented by the club on this date promises! to be one of the finest entertainments of the season. A real treat is in store | for all those attending this affair at the .Schonthal Home.,
Interesting Reports i
Made at Meeting of       !
Zion Lodge Monday
Four new candidates were initi.itet into Zion Lodge No. (i>, I. O. B. B., last Monday evening amid impressive aiu solemn ceremonies. The meeting was an unusually well attended one and the gen¬ eral atmosphere obtaining in thc lodge room was most edifying. Rejiorts were made by Alfred J. Kobacker, Julius Zeck¬ hauser, I. B. Jashenosky, Leo Yassenoff and E. Ji Schanfarber, on the proceed¬ ings of the recent meeting of District No. 2 at Cleveland.
.Among the things stressed in these re¬ ports were (1) the absolute need of a home in a better cnviro,nmeiit for the Jewish Orphans' Asylum of Cleve¬ land, (2) the splendid work being car¬ ried on by the Anti-Defamation League, and (3) the future plans of the Hillel Foundation which is_ doing such merito¬ rious work aniong Jewish college stu¬ dents.
From present indications the iicw lionii. for the Cleveland On>hanage will be commenced shortly. Every represent ative Jew in District No. 2 is convinced if the absolute necessity of this project. It is universally agreed that the present buildings arc absolutely unfit and art located in a most degrading and undesir¬ able environment.
The work of the Hillel Foundation hab been highly endorsed by the leaders of the Order throughout the land, The suc¬ cess of the Foundation at both the Uni¬ versities of Illinois and Wisconsin pres¬ ages other successes ajt Ohio State Uni¬ versity and the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.
The lodge is preparing plans for the biggest picnic in its history. Watch the Chronicle for further information.
imperialistic expansion and ploitation,  the church will either en¬ dorse the act or, in pusillanimous world- tiness, remain silent.
In thus becoming a toot of the state the church has lost, to a great extent, its spiritual  auth(>rity and its spiritual  in-
As long as thc church does not rise above the state—not in the sense of en¬ deavoring to master it or to control its political fortunes, but in the sense of freeing itself from an alignment which carries with it the endorsement of its political purposes and programs—so long will peace, thc traditional and avowed j ideal of the church, remain an abstrac¬ tion. During the last war every church (Continued oh page -1)
A. E. PHI STRAWBERRY
FESTIVAL NEXT SATURDAY
EVENING, JUNE 6TH
Next Eaturday evening, June 6th, the .\lplia Epsilon Phi will give a strawberry festival on the> lawn of thc Chaptt House. 2(i7 Twelfth Avemie.
Lovely decorations, costumes, excel¬ lent fiance music and many novel fea¬ tures will mark the program arranged for the evening.
Ukrainian Conference of Soviets, which is being held in Moscow, discussed the question of the National Minorities ccntly.
In an address delivered before,the conference the well-known Soviet leader, Kameneff, declared his opinion that all nationalities under the Soviet regime should be given the right to employ their mother language for thc' expres¬ sion of all their cultural and social re¬ quirements. During the discussion a number of delegates inquired of the president of the Ukrainian Government Tschubar, whether the government was planning^ to ^iStattihlfa'"Jewhrtr 'fepublfc Ukrainia.
Tschubar in his reply t'ated that the government had no such intention, but did consider it advisable that there should be a Jewish territory. He emphasized that the Zionists who are seeking to establish a Jewish homeland Palestine should have no power in such a Jewish territory.
The need to colonize the Jews and thc necessity of offering economic as¬ sistance to the Jewish population was brought out in an address delivered b} Dubnik, Commissar of Land for Ukrai- Dubnik called, upon the Russian peasants and workers to offer their co- iperation in this respect.
Field Marshal Plumer Will Enforce Mandate Provisions, Says Report
New   Palestine   High   Commis- mer Will Continue Great Task Which Samuel Be¬ gan,   London  'Tele¬ graph" Says
OPINIONS VARY ON THE NEW HIGH COMMISSIONER
Jew, Will Be Appointed Governor
ofi Jerusalem,   is   Belief   of
Several Publicists.
LONDON (J. T. A.)-Thc appoint- cnt of Field Marshal Baron Herbert O. Plumcr as High Commissioner of Palestine and commander-in-chief of the British forces there, was approved by His Britanic Majesty, King George, according to an official announcement made known today by the Colonial Office.
LONDON, (J. T. A.)-The appoint¬ ment of Field Marshal Plumer found a wide echo in the British press today.
The "Daily Telegraph" in an eaitorial commenting upon the appointment of ^d Plumer states; "Sir Herbert Sj^m- ^rved Palestine admirably -with "ifts of mind and character which ide his career in politics an un- brokeitf success. His appointment was !t met with some opposition be- i Jew, an opposition which 'ent beyond the bounds of decency and iudgment, but Sir Herbert Samuel, by his work, removed the absurd suspicions.- Sir Herbert ruled the country with per¬ fect impartiality and leaves Palestine completely changed, when one recalls the times of the Turkish misrule.
"Lord Plumer, who, like Lord .Al- lenby, has had an entirely military career is capable of being loved artd ' trusted and will maintain perfect dis¬ cipline as atl administrator and leadei; of armies. He will continue ihe great task which Sir Herbert Samuel has al¬ ready begun," the paper states.
SAMUEL LUPER YOUNGEST
GRADUATE AT SOUTH
HIGH
MOSCOW (J. T. A.)—The situation of the Jews in Russia was the subject of an address by Adamovitsch, White Russian representative, who spoke be¬ fore the third Conference of the Na¬ tional Minorities in Soviet Russia, which is taking place in Moscow this week.
Adamovitseh described the poverty and helplessness prevailing among the Jewish masses and brought out thc need of rendering the Jews material assist¬ ance. "The Jewish masses," he said "survive through the help which the> receive from their American relatives or through occasional uncertain earn¬ ings. In order to relieve the distressing condition of the Russian Jews .Adamo¬ vitsch urged that the colonization work be conducted on a larger scale and that cooperatives of Jewish Workers and peasants be organized for mutual help with thc assistance of the government
MOSCOW (J. T. Zionists with larger sums of money have done less in Falestine than the Soviet Government has done in Russia through Jewish colonization was the claim made by Yankel Levin, who spoke before the third Conference of the Na¬ tional Minorities in Soviet Russia today. Levin spoke in Yiddish.
JERUSALEM (J. T., A.)—The news of the appointment of Field Miirshal Tfa'rbn~ttefljert"Cr Q.'"PIuiiTe"f' aT'TH^'""^ Commissioner of Palestine came as a complete surprise to both Arab and Jewish public opinion in the country.
Among all ihe names of candidates mentioned as possible successors to Sir Herbert Samuel, the name of Lord Plumer was withheld until the very last moment.
Opinions arc divided as to the new High Commissioner.
Well-informed political circles state that the resignation of Lord Allenby, conqueror of Jerusalem and High Com¬ missioner of Egypt, which was an¬ nounced the same day as the appoint¬ ment of Field Marshal Plumer as High Commissioner of Palestine was made known, are closely connected. It is be¬ ing emphasized that the strategical im¬ portance of Palestine, in view of the present situation in the Near East, came into the foreground and the cause of the resignation of Lord Allenby, who has had a purely military career, and the appointment of Field Marshal' Plumer, -who is a military leader, was a strategic as well as a political -necessity for the "guard on the Suez."
Views are also divided with regard to the results of the new appointment oa the provisions of the Palestine Mandate to establish a Jewish national home in Palestine. • Many declare that a new era , will enter in the history of Jewish Pal¬ estine with the appointment .of Field Marshal Plumer. While Sir Herbert Samuel was always a friend of the Zionist ideal he, because he was a Jew, very often displayed an attitude of leni¬ ency toward the Arab agitators which would not have been tolerated by a British High Commissioner who was A.)—That . the' not a Jew.    In his desire to be com-
Saniuel Luper, fifteen, son of Mr. aiK Mrs. Louis Luper, 12117 E. Livingston, has thc distinction of being one of the six youngest high school graduates in the city, being the youngest in his class at South High.
Samuel completed his three years' work in one and one-half years and was a member of the Debating Club, French Club, Hi-Y Team and took part in all school activities.
ATTENTION, TEMPLE SCHOOL CHILDREN
All pupils of the Bryden Road Temple Religious School are asked to meet Sunday morning at 9:30 o'clock at the Temple. Automobiles will be there to take them to Spring Lakes where a delightful picnie has been planned for their peasure.
Closing exercises during which prizes will be awarded will take place on the grounds. Bring your lunch and be prompt.
pletely impartial. Sir Herbert Samuel very often leaned toward the Arab side. An incident is,quoted with regard to the apportionment of land for coloiiiza- purposes. While the mandate clearly states that state lands should be made, available for a compact Jewish settlement on the land, no considerable measures of land \yere distributed to Jewish settlers during Sir Herbert Sam¬ uel's administratioti, at a time when some land was alloted to Arabs.
The opinion is expressed that Lord Plumer, with his vast experience as a leader of armies and administrator will
position to enforce the provi¬ sions of the Palestine Mandate to the satisfaction of the Mandatory power and the Jewish people. With no fear of being suspected as a one-sided ad-
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Meet me at the Ivreeyoh^ picnic to¬ morrow    (Suodsy)   )	
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