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Central Ohio*s Only Jewish J^'ewspaper Reaehing Every Home Devoted to American and Jewish IdeaU ¦^ A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER FOR THE JEWISH HOME Volume XVII—No, \y.) golumbus; OHIO, N0VKMI3ER 22, 1935 Per Year $3.00; Per Copy 10c Strictly Confidential . tiD-BITS PROM EVERYWHERE by P01NBA8 J. DlBON Fair Play Committee's Pam¬ phlet Summarizes Nazi Violations o( Olympic Code It's True Dr. Fritz Gebhardt, the Nazi econo¬ mist whose murder ¦ by Fraulcin Vera Strctx is the reigning sensation of l>Jcw York, was itulircct victim of Hitlerism ...Frau Cichhardt, who ha.s been estranged from her luisbaiul for six months, is a Jewess.. .Rumors of a rec- oncih'atipii between, the Gebhardts are .said to have infuriated Fraulciji Strctz, wlio is aii Aryan'... Incidentallyi Geb¬ hardt was the number one nian in'this cbiiiitry of the Nazi countcr-boycptt or- ganization.because his chief business was thc coiisumniation of hlockcd luark deals , with inijiorters of German goods...The gehtlcinen who arranged that swell trib¬ ute to Judge ilahoney, A. A. U. presi¬ dent, pulled, one boner that went unno¬ ticed. ...Among tliOse on-the dais, one place rcniaved from the guest of .honor was. Dr.. Frederick, B. Rcibinsc^n, presi¬ dent, of City. College, who is on record as favoring Anicrican 'participation,.iii tlic EctJin ¦ Olyinpics., .Speaking of the Olympics rcihinds us that Judge Aaron ,' Steuer-son of la wye i* Max, wfll be one of tlic Jewish Welfare Board's repiresen- ¦ tatives at the coming A. A. 0. conven- ;tidn.'.. ' ' ¦ '\ Werfel Arrives ;, Franz AVcrfel, the distinguislicd dra- inatist and novelist, who arrived at New York the other,day, was almost deported ¦..-illc was so rushed by newspapermen and photographers that he forgot all. about the immigration officers, and so did not have, a landing; card when the ship docked. - -The immigration authori- : ties finally relented, butgave him a warn- ing Vo , be. more careful next time,.. .Which reminds us that Werfel's play, "The Road,of Promise," which Meyer ' W. WcisgaL will i>resent in a Reinhardt production, will most probably,get anew ¦ name.. .It seems that the Palestine, film ¦ "The Land of Promise" is Confusing a lot .of people, and although it is the film , that, plagiarized the "Promise" frointhe "Road", it is the. play that wiH make : tlic change.. .Franz Werfel is a very , dose frieiid of; Chancetlb'r Kurt Seliiisqlimgg of Austria and is £t "f re'tfti'eht visitor ill his home... We*re Telling You" - .The , People's Press, of which James Vyaterritan Wise is one of the editors, is. tiot so hot...It is trying to become a Jargcrcirculatioh tabloid and atthe saine' tinic maintain an aggressive people's point of view:...So far the combination hasn't worked, put..,cThere's a definite lack,; of .vitality and ,; talent., .^Harry Hershfield, fcartponist,. columnist and-en¬ tertainer, has.^ been signed up, by. Joe Brainiri for a regular Seven Arts featut-e ,.; Stanley Bero, who hasn't been paid by any;.communal organization for many years, is doing more-Jewish communal work than most of-the 'high-priced pro¬ fessionals in the field. ,i!.His latest achieyenicnt. is-the.reconstruction of the Schiff Meniprial Foutitain in N^w .York . by the city.. .Don't be surprised if the JDC will soon ofiicially sponsor the Biro- Bidjan project..:JDC leaders have con- vinccd themselves of the real possibilities 'this Far East territory holds for Russian ahd foreign Jews... Political Stuff Benjamin Gplder, fbriner Republican Congressman from Philadelphia, is con¬ sidered the most likely appointee as con¬ troller of the city of brotherly love-.. Maurice L, Raphael is secretary to Mayor Angelo Rossi of San Francisco... - J. George Fredman, former coinmander- in-chief.'of the Jewish War Veterans, is' npw the boss of New Jersey's beauty shops.. .Governor Hoffman named him chairman of the state's beauty, shop cpm- . mission.. .The" Order bf Black Shirts, founded: by ii' group of young Italian- Americans in Rome (New York) as a* ¦semi-military : Fascist .outfit to make propaganda for 11 Duce, folded up after four days, ..Protests froin the American Legion and financial troubles did the trick..-informed of protests against the use of tlni term "Shylpcks" in his loan- shark investigation in New York, Prose¬ cutor Dewey revealed that he never uses the term hut-his chief assistant, Jacob J. Rosenbaum, docs.. .Friends of the. He¬ brew University fear that Palestine's im¬ position of sanctions aghi'nst Italy may cost the University its chair in Romance languages and literature...That chair was estalittshed tsyo- years ago by the . Italian Government, which has been pay¬ ing the salary of Professor Heinz Pflaum..; Personalia Justice Louis D. Brandeis gives half his salary to the American Economic Committee for Palestine...Although he doesn't attend the Committee's meetings he .'keeps in such close touch with its work that members who are remiss in attendance or achievement are indirectly {Contimied on page 4) NEW YORK (WNS) — American athletes are called ijpon '!to refuse to an¬ swer the siininions of Adolf Hitler" to the Bc.riiii Olympics in. a t'll-page pam¬ phlet entitled , ."Preserve the Olympic Ideals", puhlished here by tlie Coniniittce Lin I'^nir Play in Sports, of which'Gcorge Gordon Ualtle and Dr;'. Henry Smith Leiper arc co-chair men. Citing authentic evidence of consistent and prevailing vio¬ lations of the Olympic regidations and the piynipic, code by Nazl^ Germany, the pamphlet presents a' cpniprclicnsiye and factual statement .'Sallowing how the, Nazi reijinic has taken oyer complete coiitrol of; sports ill Germany in gciieral, and the Olympics in particular, how it has introduced considerations of race, reli¬ gion and politics into, the'selection of the Olympic .team and how it has porgrcs- sively violated every pledge given to the Internatioiial Olympic Comniittce, the American, Olympic Committee ;ind the Amateur Athletic Union, heginning- with Juncf, J!.l-iy and ending with X'oyember fl, 1!J33.V .'. ¦' ' The pamphlet cites -13 tyijicalcxamples of Nazi restrictions on Jewish athlete.'; which have resulted in the exclusion-of Jews froln atiilctic trainiiig and conipeti- tioh and preparation fpr the Olympic tryt outs and presents tlie basic decrees' regi¬ menting con fcssipiial youth groups,' theii" |>rol)ibition from conducting sfwrts activi¬ ties and the cdnipulsidn placed upon Catholics and Protestants to . sacrifice their deepest religious convictions, if they wished to train'for sports competi¬ tion. Maintaining that, the question, of •American par tici[)a tion in the Berlin Olympics is still-open because thc Ameri¬ can Olympic, Committee is under moral compulsion to reopen this question by the terms of its acceptance of^ the German invitation iii September, 1934, when the Committee, accepted the invitation on condition that Germany would observe' the , Olympic; regulations and, keep.. Jts promises to do so given to Avery Bruiir dage,; president of.the Committee,, the pamphlet exposes the violation of those pledges.' . Giving', a .dctaifed arid documented re¬ ply to; the various statements, made by die American Olympic Cpmmittel; in its pamphlet entitled "Fair ?lay for tlje .^nierican Athlete", the pamphlet charges that, the American athletes have never had, to decide a more momentous qiies- tion, accuses the . Ame^'ican Olympic Committee of appealing "to every pas¬ sion and prejudite .which, in their low^ opinion of American athletes, - they might conceivably' possess," exposes the inexplicable change in the attitude of leaders of the American Olympic Com¬ mittee and presents a compendium of the views of the American public with re¬ gard to Uitited States' withdrawal, in¬ cluding \_ the names of numerous leading athletes and' athletic coaches.. The paniplilet >vas sent to the Amateur Ath¬ letic Union with an accbnyianyitig letter requesting-that the record, cited he, pre^ s.enteil to the A. A. U.'s national con¬ vention, and also to the American antl International Olympic Committees; Large Turnout Expected at the Temple Brotherhood Meeting Tuesday. The Br}(lcii Rd! Temple Brotherhood will meet Tuesday evening, Nov', 'Mi, at 8 o'clock, in the vestry of thc Temple. "The March of Tiiiie",. unccnsorcd scv- ciUli cdilioii,' will be screened., AVbcii this film was shown in the theatres of our city recently, Some ot it was "cut". The censfjred part Iiild to do with ciiisodc; in Jewish .life under tbc - Hitler rcgitnc. Following ihc showing, a panel discus^ sion will take ijhicc on'"The Merits of the. Censorship Participaiits": E, J. Schanfarber, Chairman; Dr. J. IL Cot¬ ton, Minister, lli-pad St.. Presbyterian Church;. Dri A, B.-Johiison, President Men's Club. Broad St. Presbyterian Clmi-ch; M. ¦ R-; Clark, Representative MbVie Indiistry; Ben Neustadt, The Ohio Jewish Chroiiiclc;' Allan Tarshish and Rabbi Samuel Mi Giip. .The Men's Club of" the Broad St. Presbyterian Church, one of the promi- iK-nt church groups of our ,ctty. Dr.. H. J. Cotton,-Minister, have accepted an.in¬ vitation to he present. Mr. Nasdii Old¬ ham, tenor, will-sing. Hadassah Donor Dinner Speaker Sunday,. Dec. 15th Removal of JeWs from Ger^ many Is Only Solution De¬ clares Alfred M. Cbheii .Since all efforts to arouse the nations of the world to force Germany to¦ stop its persecutions, of the Jews, have failed, there reniains oiily .one thing, the Jcvvs can do: remove asmany victims of Naz¬ ism from Germany. 3,5 possible, and en¬ able them- to start life anew elsewhere^ This suggested policy ^is expressed by .Mfrcii^ M. Cohen, President of B'nai B'rith, in his President's Page in the December issue of thc B'nai,B'rith Maga¬ zine, which will be published'next week. "The curtain is falling on our core¬ ligionists in Germany," he,writes, "l^ru- .tality indescribable and unremitting is proving too niuch for their endurance, ^iid their ability to resist is becoming feebler with each succecdirig day., 'Having failed hi bur efforts: to arouse iin^e iiatiohtd:,actIoii^^such action'^a would force Germany to sit up and take notice—though mighty men; in maiiy na¬ tions have spoken bravely aild urimis- takably-T-wliat remains, for the Jews to do.? Jiist .tins: They must open their hearts, their homes, and their purses, to relieve the victims, of this untielievable twentieth century atrocity; this blot on modern civilization. The youth, boys and maidens must be brought out of that hell -which is shriveling their bodies and their souls." More Than 2000 Delegates Expected At 21st Annual Hadassah Convention To Be Held At Cleveland Nov. 28 to Dec. 1 Cleveland Gathering to Consider New Paths of Service for Senior Hadassah^—^^Juniors to Discuss Present-Day Challenge to Jewish Youth Amsterdam (wns) — D'efgtmg the action of the Royal Netherlands Ath¬ letic Union, which, has decided against participation in the Berlin Olympic Games, the Holland Olympic Committee announced that Holland would be repre¬ sented at the games. The Union rcpre- .=cnts yOO of-the leiading sports associa¬ tions in Holland. Virtually all athletes ofiOlympic calibre in Holland have an¬ nounced that they would refuse places on the Olympic team if the games are held in Berlin, MEXICO CITY (WNS)—Citing the anti-labor stand of the Nazi regime, th'e Me.xican labor niov^'inent has appealed to President Cardenas to take immediate steps to.prevent Mexican athletes ' from coriipeting in the Berlin Olympic Games. Labor and anti-Fascist groups have sub¬ mitted a petitioii to the President iasking him to oppose authorization of goyerri- ment funds for the Mexican Olympic team. NEW YORK (WNS)—The German- American Culture League, an organiza¬ tion representing 75,000 non-Jewish Ger¬ man-Americans, adopted a resolution op' posing the hokling of the 1936 Olympics in Berlin and calling.on the Olympic,au¬ thorities to postpone ,the games or re¬ move them from Germany. The League's resolution .pledges its support to all movements dedicated to boycotting the Berlin games. Council Board Meeting D)t FEIJX A. LEVY Arc you on Ilada.ssah's Honor Roll? Ifyou have not as yet given yoiir pledge, to the .A.iiniial Donor Dinner, to be held Sunday, Dee. 15th, at the Neil House, why not I join our "Roll of Flonor'' by yiviiia^ it at once? Hyou cannot mal-ic- it ii*"givc or get' pledge, make it a "save luitl sacrifice" pledge. After all,: what can be more worth saving and sacrificing ^orthnn the cause of the Jew in Pales¬ tine—^thc reconstruction of a Homeland for the Jc\\' of Gerii'iaily and Eastern. Europe, thc .saving of hundreds of Gcr- inan children to .whom otherwise life would hold a darkand tragic^ future. You iiced-i^ot be a Hada.ssah member to attend the Donor Dinner. Every Jewish woman should take this oppor¬ tunity, of ¦ showing her loyalty to her people and her desire to be of service in time of need, even if it be at a sacrifice. Besides the satisfaction you wiU de¬ rive by having a share in this yital proj¬ ect, .if yoii' attend the- Donor- Dinner, you, will ciijoy ail .evening that you will long remember.- Hadassah; is proud to announce that, the, guest of honor and principal speaker.of the evening lyill be Rabbi Felix A. Levy of Chicago. In ad¬ dition' there , will be - presented an , out- 'iiandiiig and unusual musical pl-pgrani.- .Whe'ther you give, save> or sacrifice, be sure to be there! , .. ' ¦ (Signed)— ' HadassAii Donor DiNNEii Comm., MliS.B. W. Abramson, Chairman. Dr. E. A. Helms to Discuss Religious Prejudice Before A, A. Guild Nov. 29 Abraham Gertner; cultural chairman of the Agudath Achim Guild, announces as its next open forum speaker for Fri¬ day evening, Nov. 29th, Dr. E. A. Helms, professor of Political Science at 0. S; U., who will discuss the question, "Is Re¬ ligious'. Prejudice Permitted. Under American Ltiw?" Dr. Plelms is well known to Columbiis Jewry, having lectured before many or¬ ganizations on various - occasions. His former, students, radio listeners and others,„will welcome, this opportunity of¬ fered by thc Agudath Achini Guild. The Open Forum will start promptly at S p. ra... At the last meeting of the Guild the following officers and appointment of committee chairmen were made: Dr. M. Krakoff, Pres.; Miss Ida Byalos, Vice- Prcs.; Harry. S. Goldstein,'.Exec, Secy.;_ Sam Topolosky, Corres. Secy.; Dr. Don A. Shustcrman, Treas. ! The committee chairmen include:. Dr. Don A. Shusterman, Membership; Harry S, Goldstein, Religion; Miss Ida Byalos, Program,; Abraham Gertner, Cultural Affairs; Miss Esther Levinson, Social. Meeting nights-for the Gqild have been definitely set as the firsthand third Wed¬ nesdays of each month. It is. not too late to join. Membership dues are only fifty cents for a half-year. Joint Peace Study of Council and Sisterhood Monday at 2 P. M. Council board members will meet at the Schonthal Center next Tuesday after¬ noon at 1:30 o'clock. The Rose E. Lazarus Sisterhood and the Council of Jewish Women will hold a joint peace study circle on Monday afternoon, Nov. 25th, at 3 o'clock in the vestry of the Bryden Road Temple. Mrs, S. J. Gtiodman and Mrs. Max Harmon will review the subject, *'War Tonior- rowr—Can America Keep Out of It?" General disciission will follow, Mrs. Howard Goodman and Mrsi^ Edna Hofmayer are chairmen of the Sister¬ hood and Council, respectively. Broad Street Temple Second i4nnaal Jubilee Is Set : for Sunday Evening An plans have been completed for the Second Annual Jubilee,- consisting of a Jitney Supper, Bingo Party, and Raffle,; to.be given under the auspices .of the Tifereth Israel Senior .Sisterhood.. This affair \vill he held this Sunday, Novem-. ber 24, at 6 o'clock in the Social Hall of the Temple. The supper is being.prepared by a well knoiyn veteran group of cooking experts from the ¦Sisterhood, under the chair-, nianshjp of Mrs. J. K, Bornstein and Mrs. Ben Levison. The supper will be served in cafeteria style so that anyone may choose only those foods they..care for, with; nothing costing more than five cents. A complete variety of foods.will be. served togctherw'ith all popular drinks. ; , ' After the supper the Sunday night party will be held, featuring' Bingo and a: variety of other games. Attractive and useful prizes will-be awarded to the' winners of the .Bingo games, Mr, Wil¬ liam Wasserstrom is chairman, of the games. At ten o'clock the drawing \\:i\\ be held on the chances sold by the Sisterhood during the past' two months. Three beautiful, prizes,will be.given. The iirst prize, a beautiful diamohd and sapphire ring donated by the Seff Jewelry Com¬ pany, Gl E, State Street; second,prize, an attractive solid walnut cocktail table, donated by the Bornstein Furniture Com-- pany, 205 S, High Street; and the third prize, a ton of Blue Star coal, donated, by Ollain and Jahn, 407 S. Central Ave. Mrs, Sam Fine is- in charge of the sell¬ ing of the chances and the raffle. Mrs. Morris Parrish, finance chairman, is the general chairman of the .Jubilee, The following will assist William Wasserstrom: Edward Schlezinger, Ben Grossman, Ruby Abramson, Dr. Aladar Zipser, Frank Bayer, and Tobias Polster. Mr?. Herman Katz, president of the Tifereth. Israel Sisterhood, wishes; to thank all the chairmen ahd their respec¬ tive committees for tlieir cooperation in this Jubilee. Remember --^ NO A DM I S S ION CHARGE, Spend what you like. When you are helping your Temple you are helping yourself. Do cornel More than I,0(!0 delegates and an equal nuniber of. observers are expected to';it- tend- the tw'eiUy-first aniiual convention of fladassah, the Women's Zionist Or¬ ganization of America, and the t'welftli aiinunl convention of Junior. Hadassah,. to be held jointly at the Cleveland Hotel, Cleveland,,Ohio, from Nov.;2S to Dec. 1, it was announced yesterday at the na¬ tional headquarters of Hadassah. ,lU Fifth Avenue, New York City. Tbe propo.'ial that-tiadassah eiilcr the Youth Aliyali. ,(.imniiKratinn) movement will-be the major consideration. hy. the Senior delegates. The presentation of the plan will be made, by Mrs. Edward. Jacobs, national president, who .spent last summer in . Palestine ' and studied thc youlli immigration problem. ; Among . the guest-speakers scheduled to' address -the-convention are,:Dorothy Thonipsoti, wife of. Sinclair- Lewis, who will talk on the. political and economic cduditibns in. Europe;' ;Dr, Abrain L. Sachar, of Champaign, 111., national d-i- rectorof B'nai IVrith -Hillel Eoniidatiohs, whose subject will be "A Changing World Ciiallanges Jewish .Youth";-'Mrs. ¦Felix M.Warburg, of New York, and Rabbi Abba H. Silver and'Rabbi Barnet Brickucr, of Cleveland; Dr: Nathan Rat- noff' and Dr. Jacob J. Golub, of New York. ;¦¦,/; ¦:'\''". -, One of the "dramatic highlights of the convention will be the launching of a month's celebration in honpr; of Miss Henrietta Szoldr founder of Hadassah and now head of the ^Central Bureau for the Settlement of Refugee Children in Palestine, who becomes 75 years old on Dec. ¦21.:."'"..;; ¦¦ ' / -, :¦¦ Ah attractive featui;e wJU be a compre¬ hensive exhibit to depict the medical arid I>ublic health work of Hadassah in Pal¬ estine and its educational activities in this, country, and to portray! Junior Ha- dassah's children's village, agricultural training, school ijnd nurses' training .school in Palestine. The .outstanding item of the exhibition will" be a huge model of; ithc ¦ proposed ...Rothschild- Hadassah-University Hospital, to;' be' built on Mt. .Scopus by Hadassah and the American., Jewish :Physicians' Com- tnlttce. Tire model, made, in Palestine under the'direction of :Erich Mendelsohn,, famous ; German-Jewish architect,'who: has'drawn the preliminary .plans for tlie hospital, will be shipped directly to the convention hall where it will be set in a prominent place and illuminated, . The .arrarlgemcnt of the^ entire exhibit is un¬ der the direction of Mrs," Benjamin Gra¬ ham, of New. York, . , Tlic convention is scheduled to open with an address by Mrs,,Jacobs. • A survey of the major developments in Palestine, which Mrs. Jacobs visited last summer, will constitlite a large part of the presidential address. The annual, report of Junior Haidassah will be pre¬ sented by Miss Celia Slbhm, of. Buffalo, Over SOO Are Expected at Ivreeyoh Annual Dinner Sunday Evening From all indications over 500 Jewish men and women are expected at the Ivreeyoh annual supper to be held Sun¬ day (tdnibrrqw) at G p. m. in the newly equipped arid decorated-banquet hall of the Agudath Achim Synogogiie, Wash¬ ington and Donaldson, , ' Biid Mpser, the "peppy and^enthusias- tic" ypung man of last -year's United Jubilee; fame, and. the present Vice- President of -the Columbus Hebrew School, will act as toastmaster for the evening, Alfred Kobacker, local busi¬ ness man and staunch advocate of J'ew- ish: education in Columbus, will be the guest speaker. Ix)cal rabbis will also extend, greetings on behalf of their re¬ spective, congregations. , ¦ The program chairman, Mrs. Morris Mathless, has obtained the services of two popular radio (WOSU) entertain¬ ers, Osher Kaplan, cellist, who will be accompanied by Harry Rosen, These two entertainers will provide an excellent musical program thruoiit the evening. Mrs. Eva Robins and. Mrs. Ralph Lurie are in charge of arrangements for this affair. Although no tickets are be¬ ing soltl, a large turnout is expected and preparations are being made accordingly. Tlie nominal charge will be 50 cents a plate. ¦> T,he local Jewish community and sur¬ rounding cities are invited to this annual affair and help the Ivreeyoh in its work pn behijlf- of the Columbus Hebrew Schoc 'Jiere approximately 30O chtldren are given a thorough JeiyisH education. J nil or nationar president. The speaker Ihc first aftcrlkion will be Dr. Sachar. The eveniiig will be devoted to reports and discussion.s on all' of the Senior and Junior Hadassah. activities in r'aiesfine. ¦ The morning of the second, day, Nov, ii!!, will he given over to a luniibcr of rouiid-tablc conferences, and tho resulting resolutions will he presented to the ¦coiivetitlnn . for consideration in. the aftcrnooii. A luncheon session will center about,discussions on Senior-Junior . relation.s,-with Mrs. Sundcl Douiger, bt •Vew York, leading. Miss Leah, VVeis-^ bcrj^er, of New York;; Junior chairman ,. of the conmiittee on Senior-Juiiibr r^l^- '. tionsy will present the plan of cooperation.: frpin,'the ijoi.nt of view of the Junior ' body; , Rabbi Armand-rCnheii, of Cleve¬ land, will give the invt^i.tiori .at the luncheon.' -, ¦.:'¦' TJic second day's,sessions will end with; a traditional Friday night dinner, at which the qeremony o.f the lighting ol caudles and the singiiig of Hebrew- songs, will be the features. An. address ,will be made . by! Rabbi BricUner. The Jewish * Singing Society bf Clevelaiid \vill lead . the . communal singiug,/ Mrs.'^Evelyn Hattis Fox, of Chicago; willgiy'C a song travelogue on Palestine. - Thq foKovi'ing morning, Saturday,. Nov. 30, the delegates .win attend; Sabbath services, in. the various synagogues and. tehiples. The afternoon will be begun with a discussion.of the political trends in the .Zionist movement. . Later Mrs. ; David de Sola Pool; of New York, who . is chairman of, the , Henrietta Szold Birthday Committee, will present a,pro;- gram-for a nation-wide birthday, cele-, hration of Hadassah's founder. Mrs, Pdol's .presentation will mark the begin¬ ning of the month's festivities in horidr ; of Mips Szold,;, • ¦ A formal reception will be held on the -light of Nov: 30. The "March'of .Time" \ filnr on life in Palestine will be shown. Addresses will be made by Miss. Thornp- son and Rabbi Silver. From 10:30 to. 11 o'clock that night a.broadcast -will be. made from the , convention hall on. the coast-to-cpast network of the National Broadcasting Company. Mrs, Jacobs and Mrs. Warbui^g arc scheduled as the . radio si>eakers. ¦ ¦ A feature of the Sunday sessions will be the: consideration of plans for the Rothschild - Hadassah - University Hos- pitai, which will'be Hadassah's,crowning contribution to medical development in the Near East. Mrs. Moses P.. Epstein, : of New York, chairman of the building:' fund committee, vvill'detail the most, re¬ cent plans for the medical .center.., Dr.- Nathan Ratnoff, chairman of the Ameri- can Jewish, Physicians' Committee, and Dr. Jacob J, Golub, of" New York, cdn- sultant to the building committee, will speak-on the significance of the new in¬ stitution as a center of medical research and teaching; ...: An iniportant Junior session will be held the same afternooh when ceremonies will be held in connection with the con¬ ferring of gold keysto Junior Hadassah members .who have successfully com¬ pleted a course of study in Jewish litera¬ ture and history, Hebrew, and tradi¬ tional Jewish customs. Mrs. Esther N. Elkin, of.Scranton, Pa., will be the mas-' ter of ceremonies at this session. The convention will close with the election gf officers for both the Senior and Junior organizations. Columbus Delegates to Senior-' Junior Hadassah Convention The Columbus unit of Junior Hadas¬ sah will be well represented at the twelfth annual convention of the national organization to take place in Ocveland, Ohio, from November 2S to December 1, This convention will be held jointly with the twenty-firbt annual inceting of Senior Hadassah. -The Junior delegates elected by the local unit are: Cecelia Krakoff, Leah Metchnick, Sarah Seff, Kate Mellman. Alternates are: Janet Wasserstrom, Tillie Btrliner, Sophie Liss and Ruth Cohen. One of the convention features will Jje ¦ a ceremony during which candidates'will be awarded gold "Fellowship" keys in¬ dicating thc completion* of a course of study ill Jewish history, literature, He¬ brew, and traditional customs. Many interesting reports on Junior Ha¬ dassah's educational work in Palestine aild cultural activities in this country will be given hy the uatioiial chairmen. Xhe presidential address will be made by Miss Celia B; Slohm of Buffalo, national president oi Junior Hadassah.
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Full Text | Central Ohio*s Only Jewish J^'ewspaper Reaehing Every Home Devoted to American and Jewish IdeaU ¦^ A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER FOR THE JEWISH HOME Volume XVII—No, \y.) golumbus; OHIO, N0VKMI3ER 22, 1935 Per Year $3.00; Per Copy 10c Strictly Confidential . tiD-BITS PROM EVERYWHERE by P01NBA8 J. DlBON Fair Play Committee's Pam¬ phlet Summarizes Nazi Violations o( Olympic Code It's True Dr. Fritz Gebhardt, the Nazi econo¬ mist whose murder ¦ by Fraulcin Vera Strctx is the reigning sensation of l>Jcw York, was itulircct victim of Hitlerism ...Frau Cichhardt, who ha.s been estranged from her luisbaiul for six months, is a Jewess.. .Rumors of a rec- oncih'atipii between, the Gebhardts are .said to have infuriated Fraulciji Strctz, wlio is aii Aryan'... Incidentallyi Geb¬ hardt was the number one nian in'this cbiiiitry of the Nazi countcr-boycptt or- ganization.because his chief business was thc coiisumniation of hlockcd luark deals , with inijiorters of German goods...The gehtlcinen who arranged that swell trib¬ ute to Judge ilahoney, A. A. U. presi¬ dent, pulled, one boner that went unno¬ ticed. ...Among tliOse on-the dais, one place rcniaved from the guest of .honor was. Dr.. Frederick, B. Rcibinsc^n, presi¬ dent, of City. College, who is on record as favoring Anicrican 'participation,.iii tlic EctJin ¦ Olyinpics., .Speaking of the Olympics rcihinds us that Judge Aaron ,' Steuer-son of la wye i* Max, wfll be one of tlic Jewish Welfare Board's repiresen- ¦ tatives at the coming A. A. 0. conven- ;tidn.'.. ' ' ¦ '\ Werfel Arrives ;, Franz AVcrfel, the distinguislicd dra- inatist and novelist, who arrived at New York the other,day, was almost deported ¦..-illc was so rushed by newspapermen and photographers that he forgot all. about the immigration officers, and so did not have, a landing; card when the ship docked. - -The immigration authori- : ties finally relented, butgave him a warn- ing Vo , be. more careful next time,.. .Which reminds us that Werfel's play, "The Road,of Promise," which Meyer ' W. WcisgaL will i>resent in a Reinhardt production, will most probably,get anew ¦ name.. .It seems that the Palestine, film ¦ "The Land of Promise" is Confusing a lot .of people, and although it is the film , that, plagiarized the "Promise" frointhe "Road", it is the. play that wiH make : tlic change.. .Franz Werfel is a very , dose frieiid of; Chancetlb'r Kurt Seliiisqlimgg of Austria and is £t "f re'tfti'eht visitor ill his home... We*re Telling You" - .The , People's Press, of which James Vyaterritan Wise is one of the editors, is. tiot so hot...It is trying to become a Jargcrcirculatioh tabloid and atthe saine' tinic maintain an aggressive people's point of view:...So far the combination hasn't worked, put..,cThere's a definite lack,; of .vitality and ,; talent., .^Harry Hershfield, fcartponist,. columnist and-en¬ tertainer, has.^ been signed up, by. Joe Brainiri for a regular Seven Arts featut-e ,.; Stanley Bero, who hasn't been paid by any;.communal organization for many years, is doing more-Jewish communal work than most of-the 'high-priced pro¬ fessionals in the field. ,i!.His latest achieyenicnt. is-the.reconstruction of the Schiff Meniprial Foutitain in N^w .York . by the city.. .Don't be surprised if the JDC will soon ofiicially sponsor the Biro- Bidjan project..:JDC leaders have con- vinccd themselves of the real possibilities 'this Far East territory holds for Russian ahd foreign Jews... Political Stuff Benjamin Gplder, fbriner Republican Congressman from Philadelphia, is con¬ sidered the most likely appointee as con¬ troller of the city of brotherly love-.. Maurice L, Raphael is secretary to Mayor Angelo Rossi of San Francisco... - J. George Fredman, former coinmander- in-chief.'of the Jewish War Veterans, is' npw the boss of New Jersey's beauty shops.. .Governor Hoffman named him chairman of the state's beauty, shop cpm- . mission.. .The" Order bf Black Shirts, founded: by ii' group of young Italian- Americans in Rome (New York) as a* ¦semi-military : Fascist .outfit to make propaganda for 11 Duce, folded up after four days, ..Protests froin the American Legion and financial troubles did the trick..-informed of protests against the use of tlni term "Shylpcks" in his loan- shark investigation in New York, Prose¬ cutor Dewey revealed that he never uses the term hut-his chief assistant, Jacob J. Rosenbaum, docs.. .Friends of the. He¬ brew University fear that Palestine's im¬ position of sanctions aghi'nst Italy may cost the University its chair in Romance languages and literature...That chair was estalittshed tsyo- years ago by the . Italian Government, which has been pay¬ ing the salary of Professor Heinz Pflaum..; Personalia Justice Louis D. Brandeis gives half his salary to the American Economic Committee for Palestine...Although he doesn't attend the Committee's meetings he .'keeps in such close touch with its work that members who are remiss in attendance or achievement are indirectly {Contimied on page 4) NEW YORK (WNS) — American athletes are called ijpon '!to refuse to an¬ swer the siininions of Adolf Hitler" to the Bc.riiii Olympics in. a t'll-page pam¬ phlet entitled , ."Preserve the Olympic Ideals", puhlished here by tlie Coniniittce Lin I'^nir Play in Sports, of which'Gcorge Gordon Ualtle and Dr;'. Henry Smith Leiper arc co-chair men. Citing authentic evidence of consistent and prevailing vio¬ lations of the Olympic regidations and the piynipic, code by Nazl^ Germany, the pamphlet presents a' cpniprclicnsiye and factual statement .'Sallowing how the, Nazi reijinic has taken oyer complete coiitrol of; sports ill Germany in gciieral, and the Olympics in particular, how it has introduced considerations of race, reli¬ gion and politics into, the'selection of the Olympic .team and how it has porgrcs- sively violated every pledge given to the Internatioiial Olympic Comniittce, the American, Olympic Committee ;ind the Amateur Athletic Union, heginning- with Juncf, J!.l-iy and ending with X'oyember fl, 1!J33.V .'. ¦' ' The pamphlet cites -13 tyijicalcxamples of Nazi restrictions on Jewish athlete.'; which have resulted in the exclusion-of Jews froln atiilctic trainiiig and conipeti- tioh and preparation fpr the Olympic tryt outs and presents tlie basic decrees' regi¬ menting con fcssipiial youth groups,' theii" |>rol)ibition from conducting sfwrts activi¬ ties and the cdnipulsidn placed upon Catholics and Protestants to . sacrifice their deepest religious convictions, if they wished to train'for sports competi¬ tion. Maintaining that, the question, of •American par tici[)a tion in the Berlin Olympics is still-open because thc Ameri¬ can Olympic, Committee is under moral compulsion to reopen this question by the terms of its acceptance of^ the German invitation iii September, 1934, when the Committee, accepted the invitation on condition that Germany would observe' the , Olympic; regulations and, keep.. Jts promises to do so given to Avery Bruiir dage,; president of.the Committee,, the pamphlet exposes the violation of those pledges.' . Giving', a .dctaifed arid documented re¬ ply to; the various statements, made by die American Olympic Cpmmittel; in its pamphlet entitled "Fair ?lay for tlje .^nierican Athlete", the pamphlet charges that, the American athletes have never had, to decide a more momentous qiies- tion, accuses the . Ame^'ican Olympic Committee of appealing "to every pas¬ sion and prejudite .which, in their low^ opinion of American athletes, - they might conceivably' possess," exposes the inexplicable change in the attitude of leaders of the American Olympic Com¬ mittee and presents a compendium of the views of the American public with re¬ gard to Uitited States' withdrawal, in¬ cluding \_ the names of numerous leading athletes and' athletic coaches.. The paniplilet >vas sent to the Amateur Ath¬ letic Union with an accbnyianyitig letter requesting-that the record, cited he, pre^ s.enteil to the A. A. U.'s national con¬ vention, and also to the American antl International Olympic Committees; Large Turnout Expected at the Temple Brotherhood Meeting Tuesday. The Br}(lcii Rd! Temple Brotherhood will meet Tuesday evening, Nov', 'Mi, at 8 o'clock, in the vestry of thc Temple. "The March of Tiiiie",. unccnsorcd scv- ciUli cdilioii,' will be screened., AVbcii this film was shown in the theatres of our city recently, Some ot it was "cut". The censfjred part Iiild to do with ciiisodc; in Jewish .life under tbc - Hitler rcgitnc. Following ihc showing, a panel discus^ sion will take ijhicc on'"The Merits of the. Censorship Participaiits": E, J. Schanfarber, Chairman; Dr. J. IL Cot¬ ton, Minister, lli-pad St.. Presbyterian Church;. Dri A, B.-Johiison, President Men's Club. Broad St. Presbyterian Clmi-ch; M. ¦ R-; Clark, Representative MbVie Indiistry; Ben Neustadt, The Ohio Jewish Chroiiiclc;' Allan Tarshish and Rabbi Samuel Mi Giip. .The Men's Club of" the Broad St. Presbyterian Church, one of the promi- iK-nt church groups of our ,ctty. Dr.. H. J. Cotton,-Minister, have accepted an.in¬ vitation to he present. Mr. Nasdii Old¬ ham, tenor, will-sing. Hadassah Donor Dinner Speaker Sunday,. Dec. 15th Removal of JeWs from Ger^ many Is Only Solution De¬ clares Alfred M. Cbheii .Since all efforts to arouse the nations of the world to force Germany to¦ stop its persecutions, of the Jews, have failed, there reniains oiily .one thing, the Jcvvs can do: remove asmany victims of Naz¬ ism from Germany. 3,5 possible, and en¬ able them- to start life anew elsewhere^ This suggested policy ^is expressed by .Mfrcii^ M. Cohen, President of B'nai B'rith, in his President's Page in the December issue of thc B'nai,B'rith Maga¬ zine, which will be published'next week. "The curtain is falling on our core¬ ligionists in Germany," he,writes, "l^ru- .tality indescribable and unremitting is proving too niuch for their endurance, ^iid their ability to resist is becoming feebler with each succecdirig day., 'Having failed hi bur efforts: to arouse iin^e iiatiohtd:,actIoii^^such action'^a would force Germany to sit up and take notice—though mighty men; in maiiy na¬ tions have spoken bravely aild urimis- takably-T-wliat remains, for the Jews to do.? Jiist .tins: They must open their hearts, their homes, and their purses, to relieve the victims, of this untielievable twentieth century atrocity; this blot on modern civilization. The youth, boys and maidens must be brought out of that hell -which is shriveling their bodies and their souls." More Than 2000 Delegates Expected At 21st Annual Hadassah Convention To Be Held At Cleveland Nov. 28 to Dec. 1 Cleveland Gathering to Consider New Paths of Service for Senior Hadassah^—^^Juniors to Discuss Present-Day Challenge to Jewish Youth Amsterdam (wns) — D'efgtmg the action of the Royal Netherlands Ath¬ letic Union, which, has decided against participation in the Berlin Olympic Games, the Holland Olympic Committee announced that Holland would be repre¬ sented at the games. The Union rcpre- .=cnts yOO of-the leiading sports associa¬ tions in Holland. Virtually all athletes ofiOlympic calibre in Holland have an¬ nounced that they would refuse places on the Olympic team if the games are held in Berlin, MEXICO CITY (WNS)—Citing the anti-labor stand of the Nazi regime, th'e Me.xican labor niov^'inent has appealed to President Cardenas to take immediate steps to.prevent Mexican athletes ' from coriipeting in the Berlin Olympic Games. Labor and anti-Fascist groups have sub¬ mitted a petitioii to the President iasking him to oppose authorization of goyerri- ment funds for the Mexican Olympic team. NEW YORK (WNS)—The German- American Culture League, an organiza¬ tion representing 75,000 non-Jewish Ger¬ man-Americans, adopted a resolution op' posing the hokling of the 1936 Olympics in Berlin and calling.on the Olympic,au¬ thorities to postpone ,the games or re¬ move them from Germany. The League's resolution .pledges its support to all movements dedicated to boycotting the Berlin games. Council Board Meeting D)t FEIJX A. LEVY Arc you on Ilada.ssah's Honor Roll? Ifyou have not as yet given yoiir pledge, to the .A.iiniial Donor Dinner, to be held Sunday, Dee. 15th, at the Neil House, why not I join our "Roll of Flonor'' by yiviiia^ it at once? Hyou cannot mal-ic- it ii*"givc or get' pledge, make it a "save luitl sacrifice" pledge. After all,: what can be more worth saving and sacrificing ^orthnn the cause of the Jew in Pales¬ tine—^thc reconstruction of a Homeland for the Jc\\' of Gerii'iaily and Eastern. Europe, thc .saving of hundreds of Gcr- inan children to .whom otherwise life would hold a darkand tragic^ future. You iiced-i^ot be a Hada.ssah member to attend the Donor Dinner. Every Jewish woman should take this oppor¬ tunity, of ¦ showing her loyalty to her people and her desire to be of service in time of need, even if it be at a sacrifice. Besides the satisfaction you wiU de¬ rive by having a share in this yital proj¬ ect, .if yoii' attend the- Donor- Dinner, you, will ciijoy ail .evening that you will long remember.- Hadassah; is proud to announce that, the, guest of honor and principal speaker.of the evening lyill be Rabbi Felix A. Levy of Chicago. In ad¬ dition' there , will be - presented an , out- 'iiandiiig and unusual musical pl-pgrani.- .Whe'ther you give, save> or sacrifice, be sure to be there! , .. ' ¦ (Signed)— ' HadassAii Donor DiNNEii Comm., MliS.B. W. Abramson, Chairman. Dr. E. A. Helms to Discuss Religious Prejudice Before A, A. Guild Nov. 29 Abraham Gertner; cultural chairman of the Agudath Achim Guild, announces as its next open forum speaker for Fri¬ day evening, Nov. 29th, Dr. E. A. Helms, professor of Political Science at 0. S; U., who will discuss the question, "Is Re¬ ligious'. Prejudice Permitted. Under American Ltiw?" Dr. Plelms is well known to Columbiis Jewry, having lectured before many or¬ ganizations on various - occasions. His former, students, radio listeners and others,„will welcome, this opportunity of¬ fered by thc Agudath Achini Guild. The Open Forum will start promptly at S p. ra... At the last meeting of the Guild the following officers and appointment of committee chairmen were made: Dr. M. Krakoff, Pres.; Miss Ida Byalos, Vice- Prcs.; Harry. S. Goldstein,'.Exec, Secy.;_ Sam Topolosky, Corres. Secy.; Dr. Don A. Shustcrman, Treas. ! The committee chairmen include:. Dr. Don A. Shusterman, Membership; Harry S, Goldstein, Religion; Miss Ida Byalos, Program,; Abraham Gertner, Cultural Affairs; Miss Esther Levinson, Social. Meeting nights-for the Gqild have been definitely set as the firsthand third Wed¬ nesdays of each month. It is. not too late to join. Membership dues are only fifty cents for a half-year. Joint Peace Study of Council and Sisterhood Monday at 2 P. M. Council board members will meet at the Schonthal Center next Tuesday after¬ noon at 1:30 o'clock. The Rose E. Lazarus Sisterhood and the Council of Jewish Women will hold a joint peace study circle on Monday afternoon, Nov. 25th, at 3 o'clock in the vestry of the Bryden Road Temple. Mrs, S. J. Gtiodman and Mrs. Max Harmon will review the subject, *'War Tonior- rowr—Can America Keep Out of It?" General disciission will follow, Mrs. Howard Goodman and Mrsi^ Edna Hofmayer are chairmen of the Sister¬ hood and Council, respectively. Broad Street Temple Second i4nnaal Jubilee Is Set : for Sunday Evening An plans have been completed for the Second Annual Jubilee,- consisting of a Jitney Supper, Bingo Party, and Raffle,; to.be given under the auspices .of the Tifereth Israel Senior .Sisterhood.. This affair \vill he held this Sunday, Novem-. ber 24, at 6 o'clock in the Social Hall of the Temple. The supper is being.prepared by a well knoiyn veteran group of cooking experts from the ¦Sisterhood, under the chair-, nianshjp of Mrs. J. K, Bornstein and Mrs. Ben Levison. The supper will be served in cafeteria style so that anyone may choose only those foods they..care for, with; nothing costing more than five cents. A complete variety of foods.will be. served togctherw'ith all popular drinks. ; , ' After the supper the Sunday night party will be held, featuring' Bingo and a: variety of other games. Attractive and useful prizes will-be awarded to the' winners of the .Bingo games, Mr, Wil¬ liam Wasserstrom is chairman, of the games. At ten o'clock the drawing \\:i\\ be held on the chances sold by the Sisterhood during the past' two months. Three beautiful, prizes,will be.given. The iirst prize, a beautiful diamohd and sapphire ring donated by the Seff Jewelry Com¬ pany, Gl E, State Street; second,prize, an attractive solid walnut cocktail table, donated by the Bornstein Furniture Com-- pany, 205 S, High Street; and the third prize, a ton of Blue Star coal, donated, by Ollain and Jahn, 407 S. Central Ave. Mrs, Sam Fine is- in charge of the sell¬ ing of the chances and the raffle. Mrs. Morris Parrish, finance chairman, is the general chairman of the .Jubilee, The following will assist William Wasserstrom: Edward Schlezinger, Ben Grossman, Ruby Abramson, Dr. Aladar Zipser, Frank Bayer, and Tobias Polster. Mr?. Herman Katz, president of the Tifereth. Israel Sisterhood, wishes; to thank all the chairmen ahd their respec¬ tive committees for tlieir cooperation in this Jubilee. Remember --^ NO A DM I S S ION CHARGE, Spend what you like. When you are helping your Temple you are helping yourself. Do cornel More than I,0(!0 delegates and an equal nuniber of. observers are expected to';it- tend- the tw'eiUy-first aniiual convention of fladassah, the Women's Zionist Or¬ ganization of America, and the t'welftli aiinunl convention of Junior. Hadassah,. to be held jointly at the Cleveland Hotel, Cleveland,,Ohio, from Nov.;2S to Dec. 1, it was announced yesterday at the na¬ tional headquarters of Hadassah. ,lU Fifth Avenue, New York City. Tbe propo.'ial that-tiadassah eiilcr the Youth Aliyali. ,(.imniiKratinn) movement will-be the major consideration. hy. the Senior delegates. The presentation of the plan will be made, by Mrs. Edward. Jacobs, national president, who .spent last summer in . Palestine ' and studied thc youlli immigration problem. ; Among . the guest-speakers scheduled to' address -the-convention are,:Dorothy Thonipsoti, wife of. Sinclair- Lewis, who will talk on the. political and economic cduditibns in. Europe;' ;Dr, Abrain L. Sachar, of Champaign, 111., national d-i- rectorof B'nai IVrith -Hillel Eoniidatiohs, whose subject will be "A Changing World Ciiallanges Jewish .Youth";-'Mrs. ¦Felix M.Warburg, of New York, and Rabbi Abba H. Silver and'Rabbi Barnet Brickucr, of Cleveland; Dr: Nathan Rat- noff' and Dr. Jacob J. Golub, of New York. ;¦¦,/; ¦:'\''". -, One of the "dramatic highlights of the convention will be the launching of a month's celebration in honpr; of Miss Henrietta Szoldr founder of Hadassah and now head of the ^Central Bureau for the Settlement of Refugee Children in Palestine, who becomes 75 years old on Dec. ¦21.:."'"..;; ¦¦ ' / -, :¦¦ Ah attractive featui;e wJU be a compre¬ hensive exhibit to depict the medical arid I>ublic health work of Hadassah in Pal¬ estine and its educational activities in this, country, and to portray! Junior Ha- dassah's children's village, agricultural training, school ijnd nurses' training .school in Palestine. The .outstanding item of the exhibition will" be a huge model of; ithc ¦ proposed ...Rothschild- Hadassah-University Hospital, to;' be' built on Mt. .Scopus by Hadassah and the American., Jewish :Physicians' Com- tnlttce. Tire model, made, in Palestine under the'direction of :Erich Mendelsohn,, famous ; German-Jewish architect,'who: has'drawn the preliminary .plans for tlie hospital, will be shipped directly to the convention hall where it will be set in a prominent place and illuminated, . The .arrarlgemcnt of the^ entire exhibit is un¬ der the direction of Mrs," Benjamin Gra¬ ham, of New. York, . , Tlic convention is scheduled to open with an address by Mrs,,Jacobs. • A survey of the major developments in Palestine, which Mrs. Jacobs visited last summer, will constitlite a large part of the presidential address. The annual, report of Junior Haidassah will be pre¬ sented by Miss Celia Slbhm, of. Buffalo, Over SOO Are Expected at Ivreeyoh Annual Dinner Sunday Evening From all indications over 500 Jewish men and women are expected at the Ivreeyoh annual supper to be held Sun¬ day (tdnibrrqw) at G p. m. in the newly equipped arid decorated-banquet hall of the Agudath Achim Synogogiie, Wash¬ ington and Donaldson, , ' Biid Mpser, the "peppy and^enthusias- tic" ypung man of last -year's United Jubilee; fame, and. the present Vice- President of -the Columbus Hebrew School, will act as toastmaster for the evening, Alfred Kobacker, local busi¬ ness man and staunch advocate of J'ew- ish: education in Columbus, will be the guest speaker. Ix)cal rabbis will also extend, greetings on behalf of their re¬ spective, congregations. , ¦ The program chairman, Mrs. Morris Mathless, has obtained the services of two popular radio (WOSU) entertain¬ ers, Osher Kaplan, cellist, who will be accompanied by Harry Rosen, These two entertainers will provide an excellent musical program thruoiit the evening. Mrs. Eva Robins and. Mrs. Ralph Lurie are in charge of arrangements for this affair. Although no tickets are be¬ ing soltl, a large turnout is expected and preparations are being made accordingly. Tlie nominal charge will be 50 cents a plate. ¦> T,he local Jewish community and sur¬ rounding cities are invited to this annual affair and help the Ivreeyoh in its work pn behijlf- of the Columbus Hebrew Schoc 'Jiere approximately 30O chtldren are given a thorough JeiyisH education. J nil or nationar president. The speaker Ihc first aftcrlkion will be Dr. Sachar. The eveniiig will be devoted to reports and discussion.s on all' of the Senior and Junior Hadassah. activities in r'aiesfine. ¦ The morning of the second, day, Nov, ii!!, will he given over to a luniibcr of rouiid-tablc conferences, and tho resulting resolutions will he presented to the ¦coiivetitlnn . for consideration in. the aftcrnooii. A luncheon session will center about,discussions on Senior-Junior . relation.s,-with Mrs. Sundcl Douiger, bt •Vew York, leading. Miss Leah, VVeis-^ bcrj^er, of New York;; Junior chairman ,. of the conmiittee on Senior-Juiiibr r^l^- '. tionsy will present the plan of cooperation.: frpin,'the ijoi.nt of view of the Junior ' body; , Rabbi Armand-rCnheii, of Cleve¬ land, will give the invt^i.tiori .at the luncheon.' -, ¦.:'¦' TJic second day's,sessions will end with; a traditional Friday night dinner, at which the qeremony o.f the lighting ol caudles and the singiiig of Hebrew- songs, will be the features. An. address ,will be made . by! Rabbi BricUner. The Jewish * Singing Society bf Clevelaiid \vill lead . the . communal singiug,/ Mrs.'^Evelyn Hattis Fox, of Chicago; willgiy'C a song travelogue on Palestine. - Thq foKovi'ing morning, Saturday,. Nov. 30, the delegates .win attend; Sabbath services, in. the various synagogues and. tehiples. The afternoon will be begun with a discussion.of the political trends in the .Zionist movement. . Later Mrs. ; David de Sola Pool; of New York, who . is chairman of, the , Henrietta Szold Birthday Committee, will present a,pro;- gram-for a nation-wide birthday, cele-, hration of Hadassah's founder. Mrs, Pdol's .presentation will mark the begin¬ ning of the month's festivities in horidr ; of Mips Szold,;, • ¦ A formal reception will be held on the -light of Nov: 30. The "March'of .Time" \ filnr on life in Palestine will be shown. Addresses will be made by Miss. Thornp- son and Rabbi Silver. From 10:30 to. 11 o'clock that night a.broadcast -will be. made from the , convention hall on. the coast-to-cpast network of the National Broadcasting Company. Mrs, Jacobs and Mrs. Warbui^g arc scheduled as the . radio si>eakers. ¦ ¦ A feature of the Sunday sessions will be the: consideration of plans for the Rothschild - Hadassah - University Hos- pitai, which will'be Hadassah's,crowning contribution to medical development in the Near East. Mrs. Moses P.. Epstein, : of New York, chairman of the building:' fund committee, vvill'detail the most, re¬ cent plans for the medical .center.., Dr.- Nathan Ratnoff, chairman of the Ameri- can Jewish, Physicians' Committee, and Dr. Jacob J, Golub, of" New York, cdn- sultant to the building committee, will speak-on the significance of the new in¬ stitution as a center of medical research and teaching; ...: An iniportant Junior session will be held the same afternooh when ceremonies will be held in connection with the con¬ ferring of gold keysto Junior Hadassah members .who have successfully com¬ pleted a course of study in Jewish litera¬ ture and history, Hebrew, and tradi¬ tional Jewish customs. Mrs. Esther N. Elkin, of.Scranton, Pa., will be the mas-' ter of ceremonies at this session. The convention will close with the election gf officers for both the Senior and Junior organizations. Columbus Delegates to Senior-' Junior Hadassah Convention The Columbus unit of Junior Hadas¬ sah will be well represented at the twelfth annual convention of the national organization to take place in Ocveland, Ohio, from November 2S to December 1, This convention will be held jointly with the twenty-firbt annual inceting of Senior Hadassah. -The Junior delegates elected by the local unit are: Cecelia Krakoff, Leah Metchnick, Sarah Seff, Kate Mellman. Alternates are: Janet Wasserstrom, Tillie Btrliner, Sophie Liss and Ruth Cohen. One of the convention features will Jje ¦ a ceremony during which candidates'will be awarded gold "Fellowship" keys in¬ dicating thc completion* of a course of study ill Jewish history, literature, He¬ brew, and traditional customs. Many interesting reports on Junior Ha¬ dassah's educational work in Palestine aild cultural activities in this country will be given hy the uatioiial chairmen. Xhe presidential address will be made by Miss Celia B; Slohm of Buffalo, national president oi Junior Hadassah. |
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