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COLUMBUS, OHIO, FRIDAY, MAY 17, 1918.
No. 8
CONFIRMATION SERVICE
Temple Israel, Friday, May 17, 1918, at 9:30 A. M Shabuoth Service
(Mas-
Prelude,    Meditation sanet). Violin and Organ.
Festival Music (Schlesinger), Choir.
Morning Service, Union Prayer Book, pp. 166-201, 224- 229,
With Glory Clad (Wagner), Choir,
Confirmation Service
Class Motto—"The Lord is my Light and my Salvation, whom shall I fear; the Lord is the Strength of my life, of whom shall I be afraid ?"~Psalms, 27, 1.
Processional, Union Hymnal No, 200—Choir and Sabbath School.
Opening Prayer—Ruth Yas¬ senoff.
Response, Lift Thine Eyes (Mendelssohn)—Choir,
The Significance of Confirma¬ tion—Ethel Pastoi:.
Holy, Holy, Holy (Gounod)— Choir,   .
Flower Offering—^Harriet La¬ kin,
Cavatina (Raff)—Violin and Organ,
Consecration o f Flowers — Rabbi,
Exaltation   of Jacob Bermah.
Replacing    of Maurice Martlin.
Declaration    of Mipna Bornhein.
Declaration   of nette Benningson.
Blessed is the Nation (Stain- er)—Choir.
Our Country—Jack Goodman. The Lord is my Light (Stainer) —Choir.
Class Motto—"The Lord is my Light"—Helen Wolf.
Sermon—Rabbi.
Presentation of Certificates— ' Mr, Joseph Schonthal, President of Congregation.
, Entreat Me not to Leave Thee
(Gounod)—Choir.
Prayer   of   Consecration— Aimee Lee Katz,
Blessing—Rabbi
Yevoerechecho—Choir,
"Here I Am, Send Me"-~David Hassel.
Send Out Thy Light (Gounod) —CHoir.    ,
Closing Prayer—Lewis  Leh¬ man.
Hark the Voice of Children, Union Hymnal, No. 205—Choir and Sabbath School. '   Benediction—Rabbi.
Postlude, Priests March (Men- helssohn)—Organ.
Confirmants
Annette Benningson, 1338 Franklin Ave.
Jacob Berman, lOTl Franklin Ave.
Minna Bornheim, 1147 Frank¬ lin Ave,
MAY DRAFT WOMEN
AS NURSES
New York—The drafting of women to relieve the shortage of nurses now existing is proposed in a letter written to Mr, Bird Si Color, commissioner of charities by Superintendent Louis J. Frank of Beth Israel Hospital.
It is his proposal that women be drafted primarily to replace the nurses who have left for service in the military hospitals abroad. But he further believes that the women who are drafted for service as nurses might be employed in military hospitals as well as the other institutions.
Superintendent Frank's letter has been sent to Congressman Isaac Siegel and he has been ask¬ ed to introduce the legislation suggested. Among other things Superintendent Frank says in his letter:
"The women should be called
B'NAI ISRAEL PATRIOTIC MEETING
Columbus Lodge, B'nai Israel to Hold Patriotic Rally Sun¬ day Evening, May 19th.
the   Torah-
the    Torah-
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David Hassel, 94 Latta Ave,
Aimee 'Lee Katz, 1424 Madi son Ave,
Harriet Lakin, 426 S.'Wilson Ave,
Lewis Lehman, 1225 E. Liv¬ ingston Ave,
Maurice ' Martlin, 109 Miami Ave. '    ¦ •
Ethel Pastor, 175 S.' Eigh¬ teenth St,
Helen Wolf, 1421 Madison Ave.
•   Ruth Yassenoff, 268 S, Nine¬ teenth St.
Temple Cholr
Miss Gertrude Dobson, so- pi-ana,
Mrs. Esther Reynolds Beaver, contralto, '        . . ,    ,
Carl Fahl, tenor.
E. Howard Alexander, bari¬ tone.
Rowland W. Dunham, organ¬ ist and director.
Assisted by Loring Wittich, violinist.
To evidence, the patriotism of the Columbus Lodge No, 406, B'nai Israel and its members, a great patriotic meeting has been called for Sunday evening. May 19th at its meeting room in the Odd Fellows Temple, 198>,1. S. High St., at eight o'clock. The speakers of the evening will he the Hon, Juclge S. G, Osborne, Hon, John G, Price, and Rabbis Shohet and Ncdhesf
The committee in charge of the meeting, wishes to impress the mem]bers with the necessity of being present ul this patriotic meeting. In i le call for this meeting the commitlee has said:
"There is a duty of Patriotism we owe to our Country, and we
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can fulfill this duty by our par- upon to make sacrifices which in | ticipation in these meetings. Ey
our presence at th'-se meetingh,
JEWISH LEADERSHIP
By Chaplain D. Tannenbaum, Camp Gordon, Georgia
American Jewry spiritually has been poverty stricken and has to rely upon the philan¬ thropy of outsiders for upkeep. It is true that America itself is but a youngster in the realm of the spirit and is but untangling itself of its swaddling clothes. It is just learning to walk without the help of fatherly England, sisterly France and a host of friendly relatives, "Made in America" has been more prom¬ inent on the label of the piaterial output of America energy than on its spiritual production. But this does not hold so true since America has entered the world conflict. The war has served to make us rely upon our own pow¬ ers of production, both material apd spiritual, more than ever before.    And  now  the   latent
our own resources. And the war, more so possibly than any other single event has contribut¬ ed to this. . As in the case of our American life, we cannot fortell what the results will be. What changes will be brought about by thft throwing of. our Ameri- canJewish youth in the company df and the association with our American non-Jewish compat¬ riots, by their being drawn out of their often narrow surround¬ ings, by the change of atmos¬ phere, by ,their new friendships, by their new life, are fruitful subjects for discussion.
In accordance with this change will our leaders have to change their policies and their methods. Some of our leaders will have to become Americanized a great many more will have to become Judaized. All of them will have to accommodate themselves to their new conditions.
In the past we have had, gen¬ erally speaking ¦ two types of Jewish leaders.    The one was
sonal benefit, besides rendering a patriotic duty to the country. • , "After our girls have taken the course in a training schoel for nurses and have served their two' years,. they will be better fitted to perform their duties as mothers, and I unhesitatingly state that infant mortality will be considerably reduced if the mothers have a practical knowl¬ edge of nursing. They will se¬ cure knowledge of a vocation that will assure,' them a liveli¬ hood in case of necessity,
"Many objections may pre¬ sent themselves to a procedure of this kind ;"the mothers might plead that having given up their sons their daughters should be permitted.-to stay -with them; that they should not be deprived of their companionship's© neces¬ sary in these trying times. But we are cpnfronted with a seri¬ ous situation and apparent un¬ pleasant means must be em¬ ployed to meet it,"
we show, beyond a shadow of a doubt, our .loyalty and the loi'- alty of the organization, for, to stay at home at a time when our boys are giving all of their serv¬ ice to their cotmtry, snd their lives, if need be, leaves no other' inference but that we are indif¬ ferent to the outcome of the wiir or that we are just plain slack¬ ers,"
The committee anticipates a general response at this meeting and has arranged a program of highest interest. The members of this committee are Messrs, L. Polster, S. Felsman, I. N. Schlesinger, M. Stone and S. Miller.   • .•
tries, to the Jew of the Arabian desert, and the Cave dwelling Jew of Africa, Yet, he said, these Jews are united by the bond of Jewry, they live up to Jewish ideals and respect and revere the old Jewish traditions. He talked on the individuality of the Jew as retained for cen¬ turies, of the non-assimilation of the Jew when it would have been so easy to mingle with the rest of the non-Jewish world at any time of the world's history. "But the Jew did not suffer for twenty centuries to be as¬ similated, and the future home in Jerusalem will be a realization of that fact by the world."
Mr. Morris Kahn of Cleve¬ land, an active Zionist, com¬ mended the society on its aims. He praised' the attitude of the men and women who are study¬ ing Judiasm for the atteriipt to attain the standard which the Jew has been trying to realize
Rabbi S. M. Neches reiterated the statement that upon the young people of today fall the responsibilities of the Jews- of the immediate future, and to them the Jewish world looks for leaders. He expressed the hope that the young people who are seeking Jewish learning and culture today would some time have the opportunity of |pro- pounding that learning as teach¬ ers in the Hebrew University on Mount Olive, in Jerusalem,
A report of the, last year's ac¬ tivities of the organization' con¬ cluded the ses.sion.
JEWISH PROSPECTS IN POLAND
J. E. A. RELIGioUS SCHOOL CONFIRMATION  EXERCISES
Confirmation exercises of the Religious School of the Jewish Educational Alliance will be held on Sunday afternoon, May 26th^^,J^ two .'o'clock at the Agudas'^him Synagogue,
PEREZ SOCIETY OF 0. S. U,
IjOLDS LAST MEETING OF YEAR
With Prof. Nahum Slousch, Paris, France, and Dr. J. H. Kaplan
power are being awakened.   It
is too early yet to foretell speci--the man who had, come to us
ftcally what the outcome will be. . But beyond all doubt it will re¬ sult in the intensification of the American spirit,
American Jewry is the young¬ est among the large centers of Jewish population. It is not sur¬ prising in view of its heterogen¬ eous composition that so far it has hardly found itself. It is difficult to speak of an American Jewish life. What usually goes by that term is a multiform Rus¬ sian, '^Austrian, German, etc. Jewish life transplanted in an American environment, is much like a Chinese plant growing in American soil. But the war will haye the same effect upon our Jewish life as it is having upon our American life. Even more sd.than in our American life have we been thrown upon
from across the sea. He was in¬ tensely Jewish. He had grown up in the atmosphere of the Jewish life of Europe, He had a good knowledge of the things Jewish' and above all he had a healthy spirit of Jewish con¬ sciousness. He thought in the terms of Judaism, His one great drawback was that the expres¬ sion of his Judaism was un- American, He was out of his environment. He often made heroic efforts to change the en¬ vironment in which he found himself. Unfortunately or per¬ haps fortunately he was not strong enough to bring about this change. He remind^ one of a Cedar of Lebanon, taken from the hills of Galilee transplanted in a flower-box, trying to grow (Continued on page 6)
The Perez Society, Ohio State University; closed their yeajr on- Sunday afternoon with an open meeting, at which the speakers were Professor Nahum Slousch of the University of SourbonnOj Paris,, Dr, J, H. Kaplan of Cin¬ cinnati,. Rabbi S, M, Neches of this city, and Mr. Morris Kahn of Cleveland,
Election of oflicers was the business of the session. Mr. El¬ mer Klein as vice-chait'man, Mr. Samuel Landau as secretary, and Messrs. M. Halperin and J.^ Schneider as the program com¬ mittee were selected, as the of¬ ficers for the coming year. The policy of the society of.having no permanent chairman did not require the election of a chair¬ man fpr the next year, but the meeting of Sunday afternoon was presided over by Mr, Solo¬ mon Bloomfield,
Dr, Kaplan, the first speaker, chose as his subject "Cosmo- politianism and Vagrancy," as applied ,to the Jewish question of today. His thought was that the old usage of the word "cos¬ mopolitan" had become obsolete today and his interpretation was that it is necessary for a man to have a place of birth, a home¬ land, in order to have a mortal responsibility to the world. The "cosmopolitan" of yesterday is the "vagrant" of today, a travel¬ er, without home or country.
The Jewish young men of to¬ day, said the speaker, are trou¬ bled with a great um-est. They are dissatisfied their their pa¬ rents in that they have not ac¬ climated themselves to thia country, the land of their resi¬
dence. This unrest is due to the fact that the Jew has had no home of his own, but has been a traveler, and hjis attempted to make his home wherever he has lived.
Dr. Kaplan showed how the Jew has • kept* his individuality throughout the years without a country from which to draw in spiration    and    responsibility. Other nations have needed phy¬ sical boundaries to maintain as their homelands, but the Jew has lived all these years with out such a land, governed only by his great ideals of Jewish tra ditions and teachings.
"Our Jewish ideals and dreams are due .to our fathers," said Df Kaplan "for if they had not been idealists, we would not be dreamers,"
In speaking of a proposed na¬ tional home in , Palestine, Dr. Kaplan said:
"I am not interested in the material aspects of a homeland in Jerusalem; ,1 am not inter¬ ested in the banks, the buildings, and the farms; but I know the Jewish people, I trust the Jewish people and I know what they will spiritually produce. For the Jew is not a "cosmopolitan" or a "vagrant" but he is the. first true universalist.
Prof, Nahum Sloui^ch in his address developed the thought that although there are many groups of Jewd, they are all uni¬ fied in the spirit of Judaism. In his travels throughout the world, through Africa, Asia, and Europe, he has seen many types of Jews, from the cultured Jew of the liberal  European coun-
RED CROSS PALESTINE COMMISSION
Dr. Solomon Lowenstein Takes ,  Place of Dr. I. Friedlander.. ,
Washington, D. C,—The com¬ mission which the Red Cross was sending to Palestine, ,is now; on its way under the leadership of Dr. John H. Finley, Commis¬ sioner   of- Education   of   New
The new  Polish government obviously tries hard to make the impression that it is free from anti-Semitic prejudices and that It intends to bring about recon- cilation between the Poles and the   Jews.    The  Polish   Prime Minister Kucharzewsky, whose participation in the ele'ctions to the State Duma in 1912 played such a considerable part in un¬ fettering the wildest forces of anti-Semitism  in  Poland,  pro¬ tested when he came to power against   the assertion that   he was an anti-Semite, which asser¬ tion, he claimed, had done him much harm.   Kucharzewsky in¬ vited a delegation of representa¬ tives of the Jewish press and announced to them his intention of entering into direct connec¬ tion with the Jewish population. The Jewish population of Po¬ land is so used to being annoyed and mortified by the Poles that the very fact of the reception by the premier of the Jewish.jour¬ nalists and the few polite words he used on this occasion seemed, to many to indicate a new era in the Polish-Jewish relations. On closer consideration  it ap¬ pears, however, that the Polish politicians now as before, not only do not sincerely think of meeting even the most insigni¬ ficant demands of the  Jewish population, but their so ostenta¬ tiously displayed freedom from prejudices is based'on motives quite different from the desire to bring about an agreement b*- tween the Poles and the Jews.
The Polish politicians could not fail to notice the great inter¬ est shown by the powerful gov¬ ernments of the -United States and of England, and by the pub¬ lic opinion of Europe and Amer¬ ica towards the Jewish question. The great progress the Jewish cause has made in world politics lately is a thing which does not quite' please the Polish rulers.
was originally selected by the commission as the Jewish mem¬ ber, did not accompany the com¬ mission. His place was taken by Dr. Solomon Lowenstein, su¬ perintendent of the Hebrew Or¬ phan Asylum of New York,
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY HONORS   JEW
York,
Prof. Israel Friedlander, who- T^^y apprehend and well they
Washington—Rabbi Abram Simon of Washington, is to de¬ liver the invocation address at the George Washington Univer¬ sity on June 6. The principal address is to be delivered by Joseph G. Auerbach, poet and lawyer, of,New York. It is sig¬ nificant that this - University, originally a Presbyterian insti¬ tution, will, on that important day, confer its greatest honors on Jews. The George Washing¬ ton University has grown in im¬ portance through the war work at Washington.
BOLSHEVIKI   SUSPEND
JEWISH   NEWSPAPERS
All the Yiddish and Hebrew periodicals in Russia were forc¬ ed to stop publication. The Bolsheviki government regards the Jewish press as inimical to its policies and therefore does not trust the press at the present time. Some of the editors of these papers have been placed under arrest. Among these is also the well-known journalist, M. Kreinin, who was chairman of the committee for the convo¬ cation of a Jewish congress.
ZIONIST ADDRESSES
JEWISH PRISONERS
During his stay in the city, Mr. Morris Kahn of Cleveland, Secretary of the Palestine Res¬ toration Committee addressed the Jewish prisoners at the Pen¬ itentiary.
may that the Jewish question, if once put on the order of the day of the peace conference — and owing to the position taken by' the Socialist, International and Mr.' Balfour, this is bound to happen—will also be considered in connection with the position of the Jews in the new Poland to be created. The probable re¬ sults' of a similar international discussion and consideration of the Jewish question can be fore¬ seen. The world has not the slightest reason for establishing a new state on a basis, which would surrender 'the national minorities and particularly the Jews to the arbitrary grace of the Poles, If the Polish-Jewish question is touched upon,at the peace negotiation's the powers will demand in accordance with the program of international democracy guarantees for the equality of civil and national rights for the Jews, Taught as they are by the instance of Roumania, they will see to it that these guarantees should be actual and serious dnes. This it is that calls forth the anxiety of the Poles. The idea seems tc them to be unbearable, that in' their future relations with the Jews they will be obliged to keep to certain principles which it will not be in thfeir power ar¬ bitrarily to overthrow. Hence, their spasmodic endeavors to represent tjie Jewish question in Poland as an interior Polish question in which the outer world has no reason to interfere. In their artfulness they are, however, so naive as to think that by a few polite words of conciliation they will succeed in imposing this point of view on the Polish Jews too. That the Polish politicians have learned nothing and have forgotten nothing, as the Jewish question
is concerned is shown by the very statements Kucharzewsky , made to the Jtswish journalists. ,   The   Police   prime   minister could not even rise as high as to declare in a binding form that equal civil rights will be given to the Jews.   He just told them that if the Jews keep good, "neu¬ tral relations" with the Poles, one might not doubt the possi¬ bility   of   their   emancipation. Thus good i'elations are made the   condition   of   the   Jewish emjmcipation.   As for the exist¬ ence of these relations two part¬ ies are wanted; it appears, that if even the Jews behave theni- - selves "properly" they cannot be quite certain that they will not be deprived of equal rights legal¬ ly or in practice.
He must really accord a pqor measure of mental power to the Jews, who are able to think, that one can impress them by hints Kucharzewsky made. He em¬ phasized that an international solution of the Jewish question would give offense to the -feel- ings of the Poles, but his very utterances are an .additional proof that the international consideration of the Jewish' question is a necessity.
Oh national rights there was no mentioning in Kucharzew- sky's statement. This corres¬ ponds fully to the spirit of the Polish politician, as we know it from various utterances. The Polish statesmen are prepared to keep at their refusal to grant the simplest national rights to the Jews, To them even the German Verordnung, which treats -the -Jews-as,.-a. mere- re»« ligious. community, seems to have too wide limits.
The    Period    of    Transition Committee, of the Polish State Council appointed a special sub¬ committee with the purpose of reviving the "Verordnung" and of adapting it to the Polish inter¬ ests.     This   sub-committee   on which the Jewish democracy had no representatives has finished its   work.     According   to   the the Jewish community admin¬ istration must have a purely re¬ ligious character.    The school and the charitable institutions will be in charge of the Jewish community in the-way of excep¬ tion for singled out cases, but as a rule they will be absorbed by the general institutions.   Thus, the scope of work of the Jewish communities will be limited to mere religious administration. If this plan becomes the law of the country, the competence of the Jewish community in Poland will  be considerably narrower than that of the Jewish com¬ munities in Austria, where the Jewish   democracy   stubbornly struggles against the laws on the "IsraelUische Kultus Gemeinde" This scheme of the Poles is in complete   agreement 'with   the new regulation on the school ad¬ ministration, according to which' the Jews are deprived of the •right to schools with thes lan¬ guage of their own.   '        ^
In this way, the Poles try to deprive a population of 2,000,- 000, with a distinctly expressed national physiognomy and with economic and cultural problems of their own of the right to con¬ stitute themselves nationally, to create organs of self-govern¬ ment, whieh would be able to cope with all the complicated tasks history imposed upon the Jewish people.
With such a narrowed and na¬ tionally egoistic program, the Polish politicians who want to secure the independence of Po¬ land intend to sit around the table at the peace conference.    '
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