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VOL. 1
COLUMBUS, OHIO, FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 1918.
No. 4
MEETING OF PAST PRESIDENTS
AT THE PROGRESS CLUB
Welfare of Zion Lodge, I. O. B. B. Discussied
. NEXT MEETING, MONDAY, APRIL 22
New Interest in Active Aifairs of Local Body Urged.
A special meeting of the Past- presidents of Zion Lodge was held at the Progress Club last Sunday morning for the purpose of discussing the welfare of the Lodge. The nieeting was attend¬ ed by the following Past-presi¬ dents: ¦ '
Rabbi Joseph kornfeld, Otto Nusbaum, Solomon Loeb, A. E. Loeb, Max Goldsmith, J- C. Goodman, J, W. Steinhauser, Harry Rosenfield, E. N. New man, A. J. Schanfarber, Albert Schattenstein, Samuel Hyneman, Paul. Karger and Morris Sch¬ wartz. The meeting was a very enthusiastic one and it was de-
GERMANS COMMENT ON LOYALTY OF OTTO H. KAHN
termined that the Past-presi¬ dents of the Lodjge interest them¬ selves in the Lodge for the pur¬ pose of making up the loss in the organization which has oc¬ cur red by reason of the absence of the regularly elected officers in military service. Brother H. H. Felsman, President, is in military service, as is Brother Jack Lazarus, Vice-president of the Lodge and Brother Leo Yas- senoff. former secretary. The next meeting of Zion Lodge is to be held on Monday evening, April 22nd, at Reiser's Hall, corner Main and Third Streets when further discussion will be carried on.
New York.—Commenting oh Otto H. Kahri's recent speech in New York, in which he ex¬ pressed his disgust with present Germany, the Frankfurter Zeit¬ ung says:
"Otto H. Kahn was, to our regret, born in Germany, but fortunately has been living for many years in the United States. For good reasons he had pre¬ ferred to become ah English subject which he was a short while before the war. This does not prevent him from, since a
Germany and the Germans the holy war which 'we Americans' must, wage for the liberation of the world from the German and Prussian spirit.    .  .
"He who knows this gentle¬ man is looked upon in American circles also knows that his war propoganda is not a matter of conviction with him, but of am¬ bition. He has already received tion. He has already received his reward, in that shortly after America's entranceaiito the war it had been said of him in the London Times that the Allies, especially. Great Britianfi have had no firmer and nobler friend
year   ago,   preaching   againstthan Mr. Kahn
PEACE WITH
HONOR FOR ALL
THE NATIONS
Interesting Address by Rev.' Dr. H. Pe'rrira Mendes
UNION OF AMERICAN
HEBREW CONGREGATIONS
Hebrew Union College Founder's Day Fittingly
Observed.
ANNIVERSARY OF ISAAC MAYER WISE BIRTH
Founder's Day of the Hebrew Union College; commemorating the 99th annversary of the birth of Isaac Mayer Wise, the Found¬ er and first Ptesident of the Col¬ lege, was celebrated at the He¬ brew Union College Chapel, Sat¬ urday afternoon, March 23rd. The servi,ces, which were very impressive, were attended by the Faculty, students and friends of the Hebrew Union College.
Dr. Kaufmann Kohler, Presi- deni-of the Hebrew Union Col¬ lege, made the introductory re¬ marks, emphasizing the abiding memory of Dr. Wise not only in the Hebrew Union College, but throughout all American Jewry. He then introduced the speaker of the afternoon. Rabbi Morris Feuerlicht, of Indianapolis, Ind., who delivered an inspiring and impressive address entitled "Isaac M. Wise, Commander." He dwelt upon Dr. Wise's mag¬ netic personality, his ability as an organizer, his unswerving loyalty to Judaism and Ameri¬ canism.   He said in part'.
"The success of Isaac M. Wise lay in the preeminently horta tive rather than imperative ' mood of his ability to command In that ability as in his person¬ ality, he was imperative, with¬ out being imperious; dominat¬ ing without being domineering; compelling without being repell¬ ing. He was forceful but also gentle; militant but also mild; dynamic but also meek. And the result was that, in the total¬ ity of his greatness, he was to us his followers and to contem¬ porary American Israel Kedai hammetsavveh , shenitstavveh, ¦ the true commander worthy of those he commanded.
And as was the man, so was his work. It was the spirit arid strain of zairus, of encourage¬ ment   and   persuasion,   rather
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than of compulsion, that he in¬ jected into the very heart and life of the institutions he found¬ ed.   The Central Conference of American   Rabbit   directs   and guides the religious policy  of American Israel not by the im¬ perative command of synod or hierarchic authority, but by the combined encouraging and urg¬ ing influence of the Jewish de¬ votion and Jewish loyalty and Jewish capacity of its constitu¬ ent thembers.   No congregatiQU in American Israel has ever yet even dreamed of accepting, its decisions under command or.co¬ ercion, or at the cost of its own religious or liturgical autonomy. The Union of American Hebrew Congregations operates not un¬ der the duress or pressure of external or eveh internal com¬ mand, but solely, by the inherent dynamic  strength  of  its   own voluntary combination, of volun¬ tary units.   To its membership; any congregation professing to be an "American Jewish congre¬ gation"—to use the terminology of its organic law—is welcomed. This Hebrew Union College, fa¬ vored child of the Union, most favored of the master and of his successor, our own revered and beloved Dr. Kohler, sends forth  its  g r ad u a t e s  in  no straight-jacket of an inflexibly fixed and predetermined inter¬ pretation of our ancestral faith. No man leaves these halls with the enforced label ,of reform or orthodox, conservative, liberal, Zionist or anti-Zionist.    To be sure, there is Tendenz, or Rich¬ tung; there is tsav, command, an angle of inclination, and line of direction; but it is a line and angle   not   compulsion   but   of propulsion;  En  tsivvui  bechol mokom ela zeruz.   The .tsivvui of this College, like that of the exegetics and hermeneutics of the Fathers, is the command not of the absolute imperative, but of hortative encouragement."
Mr. Alfred M. Cohen, Presi¬ dent of the Board of .Governors of the Hebrew Union College, then acknowledged the receipt of $4,370.78 donated by the Na- tiona,l Federation of Temple Sisterhoods, for Hebrew Union College Scholarships. He called attention to the fact that this sum is the largest amount re¬ ceived for this purpose from the Sisterhood in the iiistory of the College.
The Founder's Day program was preceded by the regular Sabbath afternoon services in which the college choir partici¬ pated.
God, who so hates war that' He deprived King David of the privilege of building a temple to Him because "He had shed much blood," nevertheless com¬ mands war in three cases:
First—Tb destroy immoral¬ ity. Hence the war ordained against those seven Canaanite nations, whose immorality and consequent menace to human ad¬ vancement are mentioned in a plain but terrible language, by both the Bible and. the ancient Greek authors.
Second—To punish breach of international law. Philistia had made,a solemn treaty with the
Hebrews (Gen. xx 5: 22), and solemnly renewed it (Gen. xxvi: 26). She broke it (Judges xiii) and Samson began the war which, many years afterward, David finished by subjugating her.
This, translated into modern parlance, means that treaties must be respected.
Third-^To correct and punish war on non-combatants. Ama- lek was guilty of this (Deut. xxv 17), and war was declared against him, "from generation to generation."
Translated into modern parl¬ ance, it means that any nation guilty of urging war on non- combatants, or merciless cowar¬ dice, shall be punished merciless¬ ly, unless it become regenerate, or born anew.
The wresting of Palestine fi-om Turkish rule by the British, and the action of the British Government in favoring the erection of Palestine into the Jewish state are two epochal events which present to Jews, or Hebraws, as we are called, Zionists, as some of us are call¬ ed, a crisis in which our voice must be heard that the world shall hear our historic our cent- uried, right to hold that country.
Our right to hold it comes from God Himself, according to the Bible, which is naturally the very origin and the very founda¬ tion of Zionism. True, we want Palestine as our national home; we desire it with a passionate desire. For we have ever felt the lack of a central source of such legitimate aspirations as nationalization can convey.
Not that we sigh for liberty, fraternity and equality, for in¬ deed we already have these rights of men, free and equal, in this and in many countries.
But we do not desire it only for "nationality" sake, from mere sentimental associations due to the fact that on the sacred soil of Palestine the prophets trod, , that its very dust is holy and that every cranny in rock or ruin is elo¬ quent rfor all the human race. These associations are mighty. iSut we want Palestine for prac¬ tical reasons, which will mean the weal and welfare, the peace and good-will, the happiness of mankind, for which the world yearns and prays today.
Now let us cite a practical illustration of what we mean by our thesis that tho Je\ys desire Palestine less lor any benefit that may accure to our "nation •that for the weal and welfare, the blessing of all nations.'  The world is ,at war.,/^ Civilization, culture, religion, has been prov¬ ed insufiicient to induce the na¬ tions to settle dispute by arbi¬ tration instead.of by force of arms!      All alike have proved useless to induce governments to live up to treaty obligation, to keep the plighted word or to show mercy to hospital ships and non-combatants. They have not prevente.d the damning word schrecklichkeit from being writ ten across the page of human history in this "twentieth cent¬ ury,"   They have not prevented the wholesale wodowhood, the pathetic orphanhood, the cruel suffering, the unparalleled rjiin, due to this catastrophic world war.   We are sickened with war its,  crimes,   costs   and   curses. Palestine for the Hebrews, Pal¬ estine   fulfilling   its   altruistic world-mission as the Bible por¬ trays it means the solution of war, the practical abolition of war.   Is not that a consumma¬ tion devoutly to be wished?   Let us examine how.    The war as conditions exist today will be settled by the victory of one side.   This will mean, it will'be settled by dictation, not by con¬ ference.    This will mean that on the morrow all nations will and must prepare for another
World-conflict, and woe   to the unprepared?   Or it will be s^et- tled by mutual exhaustion, or by compromise.    That Will mej^n preparation for renewal of con¬ flict.    But Zionism or the re¬ storation of .Jewish nationality proclaims iti^' raison d'etre by proclaiming a solution of War and an ultimate solution of war and of any future casus belli, so that the law and order for the nations of the World shall be en¬ sured.   It is to be found in Deu¬ teronomy.   It is the institution of an ultimate court of appeal for  "riiatters  of  controvei-sy." The secret of its efficiency is in its personnel, its organization. The, personnel of the court, un¬ like modern "peace-conventions or conferences," are to be com¬ posed not of diplomatists or of statesmen, militarists and spec¬ ialists in international law, but of representatives of  religion, law and science.   Herein is the secret of its sufficiency and of strength.   The Hebrew text uses the expressions  Kohen,  Levie; Shophet, insufficiently and also clumsily   translated   as   priest, levite and judge.
The Hebrew term "Kohen," means also the "Morch," .one who teaches high morality.
The term "Levie," means the
master of law, international and
, "Shophet" and "Judge" means
the one who can judge because
he "knows"—sciens.
Such a tribunal will command the respect of all thinkers. The moral teachers will include col¬ lege presidents, moral philosoph¬ ers, even certjiin essayists and editors of world reputation be¬ sides members of- leading clergy of all denominations.
The exponents of law- will in¬ clude not only masters of inter¬ national law, but members of the Supreme Court of every na¬ tion, thus to add the dignity of the law as an institution and a knowledge of those departments of law which are so often called in casus belli. >
The exponents of science will mean the inclusion of the best representatives of every nation in those departments of science that enter into casus belli, such as history, ethnology, geography economics, etc.
The election of the members of such a world court would mean selection- by -elimination and the elimination could per¬ haps be best entrusted tb the members of each class" convened for that purpose. Such a court would be absolutely unbiased.
The good of all the nations and not of any one nation would thus be secured..
Zionism pleads for this be¬ cause Zionism rests on the Bible and the Bible prophets. Isaiah and Micah and other inspired men of holy writ picture nations seeking sacred-arbitrament and draw the picture with colors of rare beauty, while it is Moses himself, chief of all the prophets who stipulates for the Union of Religion, Law and Science in the Supreme Tribunal of all the Na tions. ,
(Continued on' page 8.)
IMPRESSIVE PASSOVER SERVICES IN VARIOUS ARMY AND NAVY CAMPS
Furloughs Secured for as Many Boys as Possible
MANY OBSERVANCES LAST FULL WEEK
The Jewish Welfare Board— U. S. Army and Navy, has re¬ ceived reports from many of the camps and canaonments, as to the carrying out of the plans for affording to the Jewish soldiers, the opportunity to observe Pass¬ over. ' Wherever possible, a fur¬ lough was secured, and the boys went  home  to  celebrate  their Passover.  Where, however, this was  impossible,  public  Seders were arranged by the workers of the J. W. B., or the co-opera¬ tion of private families in the nearby towns was secured, to have a soldier or two at their table.   Where men were in, the hospital or, quarantined, the J. W, B. workers saw to it that food was supplied them there, .  The   Services  at  the   Public Seders  were  most  impressive,. The  halls   were  prettily  deco¬ rated, the decorations including the blue and white flag of the Zionists   with   the   emblematic shield of David in the cehter.
Jewish men, who for various reasons were unable to leave camp, were provided with Se¬ ders and Kosher food, Matz- oths were distributed for the en¬ tire Passover week,- As an illus¬ tration of the religious spirit and the reverence for the great holiday, may well be quoted a little report from our represen- Camp Seder services was prob¬ ably that at Camp Upton, The men, who had been promised a 42,hour furlough,' received word the day before the first Seder that no general furlough would be granted. It, therefore, de¬ volved upon the national office to arrange' Seder services for those, who remained in camp. With the assistance of ,Genei:al Johnson, commanding officer of
Jewish soldiers attended the symbolic Seder conducted by Rabble Blechman, each night.
Where men obtained a fur¬ lough, community Seders-were arranged in nearby towns. A; great many Jewish boys iri uni¬ form were entertained in private homes. ,For the thousands of men who werit home to spend their Passover in various parts of the country, the Welfare Board was instrumental in hav- tative, Alexander Alan Stein- bach, of Camp Meade, Admiral, Md..
"Jos. Masinter, of the Quar¬ termaster Corps, a cook in his company (and an enlisted man), had a Pesach Kitchen during the entire period of the Holiday. He bought new dishes, and had no leaven whatever. Many of the- boys from all parts of the camp were welcomed by Masinter in his Passover Kitchen."
The most significant of the ing their furloughs extended for a period, of several days, in,or¬ der to permit of the time con¬ sumed in traveling to and from their homes.
The Board is in receipt of de¬ tailed reports of the ^eder serv¬ ices, both in the camps and at nearby communities from its Field Representatives, both in • the camps and at nearby com¬ munities from its Field Repre¬ sentatives at Camps Merritt, Upton, Hancock, Dix, Lee, Jack¬ son, McClellan, Cody, Gordon, Grant, Sherman, Meade, John¬ ston,' Benjamin Harrison, Wads- worth, Doniphan, and Wheeler. It has also received reports rfrom- Portland, Maine; Newport News, Va.; Newport, R. I.; Fort Hamilton, Brooklyn Navy Yard, Pelham    Bay,    Norfolk,    Va.;
the camp, the Buffalo Auditor- j League Island, Great Lakes, and ium was secured, and over 1,000' Presidio, San Francisco.
CHILLICOTHE TO HAVE LOCAL LODGE
New B'nai B'rith Lodge to be Installed,at Chillicothe, Ohio.
A large number of the members of Zion Lodge of B'nai B'rith of Columbus are expected to attend the installation of the new B'nai B'rith Lodge at Chillicothe on Sunday,, April 2l3t. The initiating team of Zion Lodge will put on the degree work.
The team that goes to Chillicothe is composed of Rabbi Shohet, Bert Wollman, Stanley Schwartz, Paul liiarger and E. J. Schanfarber.
It is expected that the new lodge will start with twenty-five members. The installation proceedings will take place in the Elks Hall at Chillicothe, and following the meeting a reception will be held at the B'nai B'rith Club, corner Second and Paint streets.
The District' Grand Lodge will be represented by Lou*M. Prank of Toledo and E. J. Schanfarber of Columbus.
Pogroms in Turkestan and Ukraine
Confirmation of the Jewish massacres in Turkestan, which have spread to Ukraine, ,have
Edward E. Schon, one of the most active Jewish residents, of that city. Last week he was cho¬ sen by Mayor Walt^ S. Creamer to the Board of Library Trus-
been received by the Provisional 1 tees.     The   appointment   was Zionist Committee from its cor- unanimously confirmed by the
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ZION
Degree Team to Install New
B'NAI B'RITH LODGE
AT CHILLICOTHE, SUNDAY, APRIL 21, 3 P. M.
AH members of Zion Lodge are requested to attend the ceremony
B'nai B'rithdub, Chillicothe, Ohio
Corner Paint and Second Streets >-
Next Meeting, Zion Lodge^ Rieser's Hall Comer Main and Third streets
Monday; April 22nd, 8 p. M.
¦ '' /-' -BE ON HAND promptly'. '¦-. Ei J. SCHANFARBER, Acting Presiderit "       PAUL KARGER, Secretary
respondents in Petrograd and Copenhagen.
In Kokanda, Turkestan, 300 I Jews were murdered and thou¬ sands plundered. Murders ,and robberies occurred in all the small towns of the' province. Among the victims is the Min¬ ister of Finance of the Turke¬ stan Government, Herzfeld, who was also the chairman of the Turkestan Zionist Committee.
In Gluchow, a town in the Ukraine, almost the entire Jew¬ ish population was extermin¬ ated.
The situation is growing more desperate momentarily, and re¬ lief committees are being or¬ ganized.
LYNN, MASS., HONORS
JEW FOR FIRST TIME
The honor of being the first jew ever appointed to hold pub¬ lic office in Lynn went to Dr.
City Council at their meeting last Tuesday.
Serving, with Dr. Schon on that board are the leading edu¬ cators, and prominent citizens of Lynn. The selection of the doctor was not only pleasing news to the Jews but to the Gen¬ tiles as well, with whom he is thought highly.
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