Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1937-05-21

              CENTRAL CONFERENCE EDITION
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A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER FOR TH|E JEWISH HOME
Volume XVII—No. 178
COLUMBUS, OHIO, MAY zi, 1937
Per Year $3.00; Per Copy loc
Strictly Confidential
By PH1N£AS J. BIRON
. Fascist Flashes
, 'J'hat jcllcr {rom 'WilliamE. Dodct, Umlcil bt.itcs aiiibabba<lor to Ger- niuny, to inciiibcrs of the U. S. Senate, disclo,!]!!;; tliat an Auitricui billionaire lb iilottnig a Fascist dictatorship, 1, the lip-on on Dodd'.? foflliconiing resigiution.. 'He never f;<Jt on wull with thc N,i7i<:...Hi, sncccibur n],i> tie Myron C Taylor, head of the United States Steel CoiporatiDli.. Tlie lust of names sifinud to that pio- lest aKdinst the N,azi bombiiiK ul Gucrniea contained many people who dnrinE the last presidential campaign were accused ot having Fascist sjiii- patliics...Is it true tint Mary I'lck- ford told reporters on her return from Em ope that "I thinlc Hitler has been nurvclous for Gerniany"? ... Guess what American sports writer is to Bet a medal from Germany for his "kooiI will efforts"' in coniicctidn with the Olympic Games... A swastika on a poster outside the Stillniaii gymnasium in New York was rippid off by Eric Seelig, German Jewish refugee boxer, who was stripped ot his titles by the Reicli sports authorities...This may be a bit confusing, but we have been told th.lt there arc actually conditions under whidi a good anti-Na^i call justifiably buy German goods...It a German refugee, whose holdings .ire now in the hands of the Nazis, re¬ fuses their offer to release it in the form of merchandise, he does them a double kindness in that they would be in possession .of both his properly and the merchandise, which, if removed from the country, might at least serve in some sinall way to drain off Ger¬ man economic resources.
Gas-Bae
The real responsibility for the crash of. the Hiiidenburg rssts with the Nazi regime...She was built to use helium, not hydrogen, and tlic Hindcn- hurg's builder. Dr. Eckcner, was as surcd that the United States' ban on the export of helium would not inter¬ fere Willi the sale of Hie gas for the 0;rman airship.. .But when the Nazis began to cut down on alt exports and to restrict foreign exchange deals, they -were unable to pay for Amer¬ ican helium and had to use the highly inflammable hydrogen...Wonder what the Nazi survivors of the Hiiidenburg thought about beine treated by Drs. Segal, Goldstein and Toibcn, all non- Aryjins...A coujile of Jewisii'op ganizations that wanted mail to reach Europe in a hurry had scheduled to send it by the .Hindenburg oil its re¬ turn trip...It was the late Maximilian Harden, German-Jewish journalist and publisher of Die. Zukunft, who wab que of the -few men who' always warned against pinning exaggerated hopes on the value of lighter-lhan- air craft for passenger transportation ...Years ago-he predicted that the huge l^ulk of 'the dirigibles would make thein extremely vulnerable under unfavorable atniosplieric conditions'... There were a number of German Jew¬ ish ' refugees ..among the. weeping throng at the funeral services for the Hindenburg. victims...Amid the sing¬ ing of the Horst WesSel song and . the "heil Ilit.leriiig," the refugees justified their presence on thc ground thut the Hindenburg represented the real Germany,. .Taking no chances on nut having a helium supply for her dirigibles, Russia has appointed I. 'V. Meiidelsoii as director of a'new helium plant.
About People
New York's East Side took a special interest in King George's coronation because,one of its own, Louis Stirl¬ ing, .president of -the British Broad¬ casting Company^ was kiiightcd in the coronation honors list...Stirling be¬ came a British subject two years ago ... Washington political circles ore wondering what and who intervened to prevent Robert L. Berger, radio director tor the Democratic National Committee, from being appointed sec¬ retary of the Federal Communications Gommis9ion...The t7,500-a-year job was supposed to be in the bag for him...The refusal of the Department oi Commerce to permit Dlek Merrill to take any passengers on his trans¬ atlantic flight prevented Milton S. Un¬ termyer, Samuel Untermycr's nephew, from making the trip...Young Unter¬ myer was at the airport when Merrill took off, all set for the voyage.. .The l.ouis Levys of Seattle are still ex- ritcl over Mrs. Franklin D. Roose- iilt'i visit tp their city because the I'li'-t Lady spent one- night as the (Coniiniied on page 4)
Rabbi Michael Aaronson to
Deliver J. W. V. Memorial
Address Here May 30
Much interest alid ciithusiasiii has been aroused anions Cohiinlnis Jewry in thc cotiiiiijj of Kalihi Michael Aaronson of Cincinnati, Ohio, who is to deliver the Memorial Day address
Religious Education May
Be Given in Rhode Island
Schools
at the Jewi.sh Cemetery on Sunday, May aOlIi, at ,2:00 p, in. under the. sponRor-ship or Capital Po.st No. 122 of thc Jewish War Veterans.
Rahbi Aarons^on ifi connected with thc Deparimcnt of Extension Activi¬ ties of the Union of American Hebrew Gotigrcgations and travels throushoiit the United States visiting the smaller comtnunttics to conduct religious servr ices and dlsLiiSb many of the Jewish problems of thc day, lie has been a very loyal worker aiid actively inter¬ ested in aH matters that ctJnccrn the Veterans of the World War. During the past 15 years he has addressed liiiiidreds of Veteran Kroup;, which in¬ clude Aniericail Legion Posts, Vet¬ erans pf Foreigii War organizations, the Ladies Auxiliary of the Veteran groups .ind many Jewisii War Veteran I'osts.
Rabbi Aaronson, while a,student at the Hebrew Union College in 1917 although exempt fron^ military service which applied to all divinity students, enlisted, voluntarily, and insisted oh being transferred to active service in France, During thc active fighting in (Continued on page 4)
Broad St. Temple Will Hold
Confirmation Services
Sunday Morning
The entire community is cordially invited, to attend the Tifereth Israel Cong. Confirmation Services, whicli will be held Sunday morning (tomor¬ row), May 2\ in thc synagogue of the East Broad St. Temple. Beauti¬ fully bound copies of the "Megillah," Tifereth Israel Religious School Fuh- licati<vi, will be distributed to the au¬ dience. The publication contains the picture of the Confirmatids and ur- txlcs written by them and by other niembcrs of the school. The services will start promptly .at 10 o'clock.
Thc order of services is as follows:
ORDER OF SERVICES
'Matovii.:..; Rabbt, Cantor, and Choir
Hymutt       - - _ Scliool
l>rocestiinii.-il
"Happy Who" by Maiin—Gotteainan Wordo of M'clcuinc Rabin Kithdn /ulizcr Ilyniii . Conrirtninds
Oiitiiiiiir rra>cr UIuiuil  Miklilis
VcG-Ilavtu ~ 'Mnnuel ir.i!i!iel
Thu Flowers » — Dorothy Gilbert
I'loral Offering Confirm huIh
Violin Seleciiou "LcBenrte"
Played diirniK loral attetinn by Liiliait
Lcvin Ycnhtn, .iccomiianicd by Evelyn Levin
The Kflicacy nf Prayer -i.llert1ia Harmon
Tbt: tJud of Israel Phyllis Kaiiffmiin
'1 he TrnRLdyof AssimiLition   Jleverly Thawl JewiBb tjirln     - Marjorie bolumon
The <"oveiiant -      Confirmanih
Thti .(jtviiiK of thc Law :.Lvan Gilbert
Thc Sabbath. . -      -       Shirky P.ilubtrant
The Spirit o£ Modtisty        ~    Itetty Jacobs
&'H Sho-iim- ..,-..- t^''0"
Directed by Mra. B. W. Abramsun
Heartfelt Joys :  ; Manuel Hasael
The Meaning of Canrirmation
Lillian Schwartx Solo,,,.......: .- -~. Sam Fine
What is a Jew?.. CIosinK Prayer...,
....Shirley Barkan ...Bertha Hamaon
Solo, •'^VMiee Uotson'
Cantor Eugene Gottesman Cahlirmation AddreBs....RabbiNathan Zelizer Presentation of Diplomas and Biblea
President, Mr, I, II. SchlezinRcr
Blessing? Itabbi and Confirmands
BeceHflional   ."Happy Who," Choir
Sholoni -. -..- All Israel
The following afe the memberis o| this year's confirmation class: Bev¬ erly Thawl, 1208 S- Champion Ave.; Dorothy Gilbert, 419 S. Columbia Ave.; Manuel Hassel, 203 S. Ardmore Rd.; Shirley Barkan, 2629 Bexley Park; Ivan Gilbert, 410 S. Columbia Ave.; Shirley Palestrant, 1237 S. Ohio Ave.; Betty Jacobs, 789 Timberman Rd.; Blumie Mahlis, 2fl0 Kelton Ave.; Phyllis Kaufman, 634 Fairwood Ave.; Marjorie Solomon, tf£>3 KimbaU Place; Hcrtha Harmon, 1222 Franklin Ave.; Lillian Schwartz, 578 Bulen Ave.
The ushers for this occasion will be Mr. Tobias Polster, Mr. Harry Win¬ ter and Mr. Reuben Abramson,
PROVIDENCE, R. I, (WNS)—] Introduction of religious education in thc public schools of Rhode Island be¬ came a possibility following thc dc-1 cision of Dr. James F. Rockett, state I director of education^ to. appoint a' commission to formulate a, plan, that i miglit be submitted to the school com-j inittces of the . state's communities. After the question was discussed at an j informal conference of Catholic, Prot,- estant and Jewish leaders, Dr. Rockett said "the citizens of the communities, if sufficiently interested would make I requests for the plan; and the school committees would have to decide if they considered it a good thing for the communities," Sharp disagreement as to the method of providing children with religious education was voiced at tlic conference^ with Rabbi. Israel M Goldman of Temple.Emanuel holding that it would not be right "to intro¬ duce cotirscs on religion in the schools or to dismiss children to go to their own churches or temples on public school time."
Father Thomas M. Cassidy; director j of the Parochial .School and Diocese of Providence, said that the proposed plan provides for two .45-minute peritids weekly for pupils who wish to take religious courses, with elective courses being offered either in public school buildings or 'church schools. Pupils who do not choose a religious course will he given some other elec¬ tive course. Religious teaching in the public school wotild be by trained pub¬ lic school teachers. No child Vvould be allowed to Jake religious instruc¬ tion in or out of the public school without written order from his parent or guardian. The commission to study the matter is expected to be made up ol Rabbi Goldman, Father Cassidy and Rev. Charles H. T^ihple, chairman of the religious education department of the R. I. Council of Churches.
Rabbi Wise Will Address
B'nai B'rith Convention
In Cleveland May 24
The international .scene and the prohlems it presents to the Jewish people will be discussed by nationally known speakers al the S.'jth conven¬ tion of District Lodge No. 3 B'nai B'rith when it meets this week-end at the Hotel Statler (May 22 to M.ly 2C) at Cleveland, Oliio.
He Will Welcome 48th
Convention of C.C.A.R.
Here Next Week
SIMON LAZARUS
rjELKGATES to the forty-eighth convention of the Central Coiifer- (:nce bf Anierican Italibi.s, scheduled for May 25 throuRh May 30, at the Deshler-Wallick Hotel, will he wel¬ comed by Sinion Lazarus, chairman of the local committee in charge of <ar- ningcments, ^t the opening session, Tuesday, May 25, at 8 p. ni. Mr. Lazarus is a memher ofthe executive board of the Union of American He¬ brew Congregations, governing body of the Hebrew Union College, Na¬ tional Federation of Temple Sister¬ hoods and Brotherhoods.
Plan Golf Tournament
AU meetings will be held at the hotel, with the exception of religious services at Temple Israel Friday night, May 28, with Rabhi Martin Zielonka of El Paso, Tex., as speaker.
Among the social affairs planned for the conference are a luncheon and golf tournament at.Winding Hollow Coun-. try Club, May 27, and a gridiron din¬ ner at the Deshler-Wallick Hotel, May 29.        '   .
Rabbi' Samuel Gup of this city, is the corresponding secretary of the Central Conference of American Rabbis.
Hebrew School to Elect
The Columbus Hebrew School will hold a geiicral meeting on Tuesday, June 1, at the Hebrew School, at 8 p. m., at which time election of officers and board members will be held. A very interesting , program is being planned. Further details will be an¬ nounced in the forthcoming issue of the Chronicle.
Kabbi Stephen S. Wise
Rahbi Stephen S.-Wise of the Free Synagogue, noted orator and world Jewish leader, will addre<is thc con¬ vention at its Monday night banquet held at the Hotel Statler.
Other noted speakers who will ad¬ dress the 13'nai B'rith convention dur¬ ing its three day session, will be .'Al¬ fred M. Cohen, natiopal president of the B'nai B'rith, Rabbi J Marshall T.ixay, president ot the B'nai B'rith District Grand Lodge No. 2, and Al¬ fred A. Benesch, director of commerce of the Stale of Ohio,
Important activities of B'nai B'rith such as A. Z. A., Bellefaire, and the Hillel Foundation wsri be ducussed ?* length at the opening session of thc convention which will'be held Sunday afternoon.
The convention will open informally with a reception and dance at the Oak- wood Country Club on Saturday eve¬ ning. Thc next day the convention will be called to order by the presi¬ dent, Rabbf J. Marshall Taxay/aiid the work of the convention will begin.
The history of this largest and thost important Jewish organization in the world will be told ^RMiugh reports of members who arc #Svc in the work.
Max £. Meisel, long prominent in national B'nai B'ritli activities, and past president of District No.. 2^ heads the Cleveland convention, committee.
Zion Lodge No. G2 will be repre- .scntcd at the Cleveliind convention by I. W. Garek, Robert L. Mellman, Samuel Gurevitz, Walter Katz,-Harry Schwartz, Jack B. Wolstein and Ben Z. Neiistailt. Others who will attend are E. :.J. Schanfarbcr and Justin L. Sillman, past presidents/of District No. 2
Those .who will represent the local Women's Senior Auxiliary of B'nai B'rith arc Mrs. Iljrry Schwartz, Mrs. I. W. Garck, Mrs. Martin Rosenthal and Mri. S. Schlonsky. The Junior organization will have Kay Davis and Lii Minken as delegates, and Rose Davis a) an alternate.
WE GREET YOU, C. C. A. R.!
The record of your achievements has placed your organization ih the front rank of those groups dedicated to a greater and better civilization.
What you have been lighting for darl¬ ing your long and eventful history has attracted the attention and elicited the respect of all thinking people.
In no community in this land does the Central Conference of American Rabbis have more sincere friends than in Colum¬ bus, Your leaders are known and loved here not only for their personal virtues but more so for their undeviating loyalty to the Prophetic ideals of Judtasm.
THE omo JEWISH CHRONICLE has often commented on the vital part which your body has played in the economy of Jewish life in America.
We salute you on the occasioh of this Conference and trust that the spirit of Ismah and Jerendah and our other great prophets will hover over yoar sessions and influence your deliberations.
In tins spirit we welcome yon into oar midst and pray that your efforts here will redound to the glory of Israel in America.
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"Columbus  and  Confral  Ohio's  only Jewish' Publication"
Public Invited to Attend
The Sessions of Central
Conference Here
Many Perplexing Problems to Be Discussed by Leaders of Re¬ form Judaism
RABBI GUP IS CORRES. SECRETARY OF GROUP
All drrangcnients for the 'forthcfim- mg annual meeting of thc Central Conference of American Rabbis have been complclcd, according to Simon I^zanis, chairman of the local com¬ mittee on arrdngcments. All thc ses¬ sions will be held at the Deshler-Wal¬ lick Hotel from May 25 to May 30. with the exception of the Thursday morning and afternoon meeting and the Frid.iy night and Saturday morn¬ ing services.
At Country Club
On Thursday 'morning and after¬ noon, May 27, the Conference will meet at the Winding Hollow Coun¬ try Club The Conference has at- cepted the very kind offer of the use of Its quarters for that day
The Friday evening service on M^y
Situation Tense In Brzesc as Government Probes Causes of Pogrom That Ruined 30,000
O.S.U. Jewish Students Are Elected to Phi Beta Kappa
Among thc 20 Columbus students elected to the Ohio State University chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, honorary scholarslup society, this week are: Louis J. Krakof?, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. Krakoff, 138 Wilson Ave,, who maintained a straight *'A" record for three years, and Lillian Marks, daugh¬ ter of Mr, and Mrs. Samuel Marks, 487 Carpenter St.    .
Other Jewish students elected from the coniing June graduating class are': Margaret Farber, Mansfield; Morris Tepletsky, 23 Chittenden Ave.; David Wcisblat; Coshocton; Sanford Kro- nenbcrg, Cleveland Heights; and John M. Weil, Akron.
Graduates last Jiine and September who won Phi Beta Kappa honor's are: David Farber, Cleveland; Abraham C. Keller, Cleveland; Joseph W. Fried- lander, Cleveland; Theodore R. Sar- bin, Cleveland. Jerome Schwartz, Cleveland, » graduate in the recent March class also was elected. The new group will be initiated at the an¬ nual bailiiuet in the Faculty Club, on May 28.
WARSAW (WNS)—While the mayor of'Brzesc, scene of nearly two days of violent anti-Jewish disturb¬ ances, pleaded for a' restoration of peace and harinpny in a proclamation posted throiighout the city, the, min¬ istry of the interior dispatched a sticcial .commission of inquiry to Brzesc to make an. investigation of the outbreak and to lix responsibility for it. The mayor's appeal expressed regret that "certain conscienceless circles took control of the town" and added "I fail to. understand why aiiy- body should want to punish so many innocent people. The events of May 13th broiight shame upon (he good I'lame. of our city."
Although, the funeral of M. Kedzi- .ora, the Polish police oflicial whose fatal stabbing by a Jewish butcher precipitated a pogrom, passed with¬ out a' renewal of violence,.the situation in Brzesc is still' tense and critical with almost all of the city's 30,000 Jews not daring to venture into the streets, Thc barricaded houses ami ruined stores and shops have silenced all commercial activity. Virtually all of the Jews were ruined by the loot¬ ing and. destruction of their shops. The damage is estimated at $500,000. Preliminary estimates indicate that at least 50 Jews were injured, many of them seriously. A. food , shortage is adding to the dilTiculties of the Jewish population. One hundred Poles ac¬ cused of taking part in the outbreak have been arrested and, sonic arc al-
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Wursa^v has been assigned to search
for property istblen from Jewish shops,
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its owners'.
The entire city is isolated from the outside world. Police patrdls guard every road leading to Brzesc. The streets arc strewn with wreckage and litter, incltiding the torn and Imrncd record's of debts owing tp Jewish busi ness men. Many of Brzesc's Jews are planning to leave the city for- sood Those who remain will have to start all over again because their stock was cither looted or destroyed, and their account books carried off and burned. The government's efforts to allay Jew¬ ish fears arc bcing.balked by the cir¬ culation of a secret anti-Jewish mani¬ festo by the National Radical Party which calls upon the country to take revenge on the Jews for thc death of Kedziora. In response to this inflam¬ matory manifesto, hew outbreaks oc¬ curred in many parts of the country, anti-Semites attacking the Jews of Grabow, near Lodz, exploding a bomb •at the entrance to the headquarters of the Warsaw, kehillah and assaulting Jews   in   Terespol.  Kobrjii,  Czerno-; 28 and the Saturday niorning
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Corrcs. Secretary of C. C. A. R.
wcyce. The riots were suppressed with little difTiculty but in Grabow the Jews are barricaded in their houses, fear¬ ing a repetition of the Brzesc pogrom. The Grabow outbreak began when a Jewish shopkeeper stabbed a Polish competitor.
Agudath Achim to Confirm
Class of 12 Sunday
At2;30P.W.
The Agudath Aqhini Religious School will hold its annual Confirma¬ tion exercises this coniing Sunday, May 23, at 2:30 p.m., at the synagogue, according to an announcement made this week by Rabbi Mordecai Hirsch¬ sprung of the Agudath Achim Congre- gation. The confirmands this year, eight in number, have been practicing under the personal direction of Mr.i Harry S. Goldstein, assisted by other] members of the Religious School fac¬ ulty. The entire Jewish community is invited to attend and witness this most impressive ceremony. The coni- plete prograni and names of confirm¬ ands follow:
PROGRAM Remarks of Welcome^
Mr. M. H, Gertner, Viee-Prea. ProccsHloiial
'Invocatiou Rabbi Mordecai lllrschspruna
Opening Prayer. Tlielma Jane Thall
Interpretattou of the Ten Commaudmenta:' Commaiidmehta I to V....Haro]d Lieberman
CommandiueiitB VI to X Uorotby Jacobs
Violin Solo Mrs. Fred Yenkin, Faculty
Accompanied by Mr, Harry S. CuldBtein, Faculty
What tlie Torah Means to Ua
Dorothy Amdur Floral OITerinK -    - -  Confirmandfi
The McBoage of the FJowers   Jean Wolm,tn
Addresa to the Parents. E\elj;n. Greenberg
Valedictory „..-., —David Greenberg
Solo, "Minikomcho," by Zavel Zilberts
^ Cantor P. Gellman
BcncdIction...^C....Rabbi M. HirBchBprung
Frcaentatic^bf Diplomas, &ifates and Pins
^     ' Mr. Uen Yenkin, chairman of
Religious School Committee.
Closing Prayer....:-..  -....¦...Arthur Block
Recessional
Confirmands
Dorothy L. Amdur...:
Arthur Block	
Dayld Greenberg......^
Evelyn Greenberg.-..,
Dorothy J. Jacobs—.. 	
Harold Lieberman IMS E. GranviUe St.
Thelma Jane ThalL.  .91$ E. Fulton St.
Jean Wolman....,— ._.......„.J250 S. 22nd St.
 S79 Gilbert St.
...eff7 Bedford Place
 890 S. 22nd St.
.-653 Carpenter St. .-.A9SE. fconSt.
To Retain Newark Mayoralty
NEWARK, N. J., (WNS)—A1-' though he ran second in the recent city election, trailing Vincent iJ. Mur¬ phy by nearly 5,000 votes, Mayor Meyer C. Elleiistein retained the mayorality of Newark, the nation's 18th largest city, when two of Ms fellow commissioners decided to re¬ name him. Custom provides that the commissioner receivliig the largest vote becomes mayor.
on May 29 Will be held at the Temple Israel on Bryden Road.
i The Committee Besides Sinion Lazarus, the Itt.aJ committee on arrangements is com¬ prised of the following: Leon J. Goodman, President, Temple Israel; Mrs. Alien Gunttersheimer, President, Rose H. Lazarus Sisterbood; Mr. Sig Weisskerz, President, Tepiple Isriel Brotherhood; Mr. Herbert Byer, Pub¬ licity Chairman, and Rabbi Samuel }A, Gup.
' Thc Program; One of the outstanding thessages of the Conference will be delivered by the President, Dr. Felix A. Levy, on the opening night, Tuesday, May 2iS, 8:00 p. ni. Last year, immediately fpllowing the delivery of his annual message, the Conference voted unani¬ mously that copies be sent to the offi¬ cers of congregations throughout the country. This was a most unusual en¬ dorsement. It expressed the liiglu:&t pproval of thi: character of the mes¬ sage. The rabbis await nothing more eagerly than this second message on the state of the union, so to speak, from the President of the Conference, The Conference operates throughout the year by way of Committee meet¬ ings. Among the important commit¬ tees whose reports will be of general interest are:
International Peace, Rabbi Philip S.
Bernstciiv Rochester, New York; So-
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