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VOL. 1
COLUMBUS, OHIO, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1918.
No. 24
HEBREW UNION COLLEGE HOLDS FORMAL OPENING
Dr.    Kohler    Makes    Address,
Having Fully Recovered From
His Recent Illness
WILL PRESIDE AS USUAL
Student Body Somewhat Smaller on Account of Many Being . in U. S. Service.      •
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ROSENWALD RECOVERS
RUSSIAN JEWS GREET    i BALFOUR DECLARATION
gvristians alike.-A^d the gen- TELEGRAM  OF  RABBI
eral feejmg   is   that  we wpuld rather be ruled
German Persecution of .lews in the Occupied  Districts Re¬ acts Against Them.
HAIL ENGLISH VICTORY
The formal opening of the He¬ brew Union College took place Saturday, October 5, iri the midst of an assemblage of students, members of the various execu¬ tive boards, and friends of the institution. D r. Kaiufmann Kohler, the venerable president of the Hebrew Union College, was present, and delivered the opening address. He was the- ob¬ ject of congratulations on the occasion, as he has fully recover¬ ed from an accident which over¬ took him in the early spring. Al¬ though still somewhat weakened by its' effects, Dr. Kohler will be ible to be present at the sessions of the College and will meet with his classes as usual.
The student body is somewhat
Julius Rosienwald, of Chicago, overseas representative of the Jewish Welfare Boai'd, who has been ill of pneumonia at a camp hospital at Tours, France, has been discharged cured: The case was a severe one, but ;Mr. Ro¬ senwald made a rapid recovery.
German Government Vainly At- temps to Check Tide of Pro- Ally Sentiment.
A prominent Jewish merchant who has recently arrived in Eng¬ land fi'om Russia, being inter¬ viewed with regard to affairs in that country, explained the t)osi- tion  in  Lithuania  as  follows:
HUNGARIAN POLICE RAID SYNAGOGUES
by Bolshevik! than by the German Govern-, ment. We are ver^ hopeful about i Palestine, thanks to England. I vvish I could tell you, about the enthusiasm with which the Dec¬ laration was received. You have heard about Odessa. Well, it was the same everywhere in Russia, also in occupied towns like War¬ saw, Wilna and elsewhere. The joy was great thbugh conceailed. Rumors reach mb that the Ger¬ man Jews also are heart and soul with England in her Zionist policy. It is difTniuIt to make de¬ finite statements now, but the whole world will see later," and England will be blessed always
FRISCH IS DEFENDED
Resolution   Adopted    Deploring
the Attacks Upon New
York Rabbi.
ACTED IN GOOD FAITH
ence should have been so uni'air-
ly assailed;
DAVID PHILIPSON, Chairman
WM.ROSENAlj
E.N. CALISCH
SAMUEL H. GOLDENSON
LEO. M. FRANKLIN
LOUIS GROSSMAN
LOUIS WOLBEY
HENRY COHEN.
ZIONISTS HONOR NAME OF GENERAL ALLENBY
Palestine's Liberator's Name Is
Entered in Golden Book of
National Fund.
"At fii'st the Jewish popula tion was Very badly treated; ihe as long as there will be Jews in Germans   furiously   suppressed the world.'
Represented   Committee   of   30
Rabbis Organized to Epress
(Convictions on Zionism.
Houses of Worship Surrounded
During Divine Services and
Manv Persons Arrested.
WORSHIPERS ARRESTED
both the national and the relig¬ ious movements. The teaching of Hebrew was forbidden,' and every Jewish tendency obstruct- jed. Sveeral times the German ' military command thought they
JEW COURT MARTAILED FOR REFUSING TO RIDE
A meeting of the Committee of Rabbis,  which has under con¬ sideration plans for the forma¬ tion of an organization of Amer¬ ican   JewTS   wliose  platform  ip "Americans In Nationality and Jews in Religion," wjjs held at j'Cincinnati on Monday evening, I September ,'30, and Wednesday ' morning, October %. There were
.MOST UNUSUAL HONOR
EASTERN JEWISH LAND¬ MARKS ARE INTERESTING
The Jewish traveler who visits Newport is almost sure to spend some time in visiting the old Tourp Cemetery, of which so much hiis been written. The interest in this venerable "Beth Haying" is only natural.    It is
Volume Is Pei'manent Record of
Those Who Have Rendered
Definite Service to Cause.
The London Zionist Organiza¬ tion has caused the name of Gen- ei-al Allenby, liberator of Pal¬ estine, to be entered into the Golden Book of the National Fund. Inscription In this vol¬ ume, which is to be one of the
the oldest Jewish cfemetcry in i permanehi records of the Jew- America, and a number of mem ish National Homeland in Pal¬
estine, and will be on exhibition in a public building in Jerusa¬ lem, is limited to the names of those who have during the past' twenty years rendei-ed definite
  would have to withdraw • from
Heads   Prolesting Wilna, and in those days the suf-
Rabbi   Who Deputation Driven A.way At Point of Bayonet.
fering inflicted on the ' Jewish population was terrible. Food was very scarce, and in a shoi't
Taking advantage of the fact; period about 20,000 Jews died smaller this year, owing to the I that all the Jews of the town 1 of hunger in the Wilna district
fact that a large number of stu¬ dents have entered the service of the Jewish Welfare' Board in the United States Army and Navy. The usual Saturday afternoon
and   women   who   figured   con¬ spicuously in the CJirly history present Rabbi David Philipson, j of the Jews' of this country rest Cincinnati, chairman and Rab-1 there.    Philadelphia has an old ON SABBATH DAYi''^^ Henry Cohen of Galveston,; Jewish" cemetery—that of  the
' Edward N. Calisch of Richmond, iMikve Israel. Congregation.    It j service  in   bringing about  the
,    ¦  ,   and Leo M. Franklin of Detroit, j jg j^ an old and (juaint section jrealization of the Zionist ideal.
Copenhagen—All Holland was Samuel H. Goldenson of Pitts-! of the city, one which has many'    Announcenrient   of   this   fact
' burg, Louis Grossman of Cin-, ^ histoi-ic   associations.    One   of! ^^'^s made at a recent reception
was' """^**'    William   Rosenau    of i the most interesting of these is \ by the London Zionist Organiza-
^ i Baltimore,    Louis   Wolsey    o f, ^he venerable house around the' tipn to Isaac Goldberg, the Rus-
stirred by the trial of a Jewish Second    Lieutenant ' who
'^TlfZ T "^"^j;^"^?"^""- j Cleveland and Ephraim Frisch ,,,„,r on the west' side of Ninth . «ian philanthropist, who donated WH    nrhfS'rT'"-'''''''^                                                     in which- Jo,eph  Bona-! ^^^e «ite on Mt. Olives, where the tu.sed  to obey the  order of a;ior non-attendance were receiv-1 p^^.^^^ sometime King of Spain I "ebre^^^'University will be erect¬ ed from  Rabbis Berkowitz  of | ..„j u..-4.u„. „^ ^u ^ xt.._-, I ed;,to Israel Rosoff, the Russian
Philadelphia, Foster of Newark, N. J., Schanfarber of Chicago,
were assembled at divine wor-' alone.    All available food  was ^ ship, the police of the Hungarian ] taken by the Germans, and the! superior officer, town of Maramoras Sziget sur- i only means of securing indispen- j    The case is one of the strang- rounded   the   synagogues   and ;,sable commodities was by brib-'est'that has ever come up before
rushing, indoors arrested all per- ing the  German   officials,  who i ^i military court, and is especial-j and Schulman of New York. Mr. service was conducted by one of sons whose papers were not in' have shown themselves to be as i iy   remarkable   because  of • the J. Wialter Freiberg and Judge the  students.    Mr.  Alfred  M. \ ord4r.  When the chief rabbi and ^ susceptible   to   bribery   as   the j fact that the military prosecutor Harry M. Hoffheimer of Cirtcin- Cohen, president of the Board representatives   of the  Jewish' Russian officials of the old re- [ whose duty it was to show the nati were present by invitation.  ,.. of Governors, spoke a few words' community went to the Prefec- gime. \ accused gujlty and call for the [    The subject of holding a con-
1 and brother of the great Napol¬ eon, spent a part of the time in i which he lived as an exile in the I ^'^"','"'^*'*^*'^^ Commission, and
] member of the Zionist Palestine
juragement and welcome ture to protest they were driven      "To relieve the food situation.
of e
to   t|^ returning  pupils.     Dr. j off" at the'point of the bayonet,  j the Jews of Lithuania took to Kaufmann Kohler spoke on "IS- "rael's'Godi" IhV God'1)1" History f Israel's Religion, the Religion of History."
He said in part:
"It has well been said that Jewish history in mirroring the events   and   movements   of thoj
highest punishment, actually de- ference of rabbis and laymen in fended the accused Jewish of-, October was considered. A num- The following desci'iption of ¦ land work, nnd practically every j ficer,  and  asked^^the  .iudge. to ;ber of letters from prominent the outrage was publisIieTihnh'e'',TamiIy' riow' possesses an 'alfot-1 order the ligteSt"possible punish- Jewish laymen favorable and un- "Pcster Lloyd": ' ment' where it grows potatoes i ment for the accused. favorable to the holding of such
"On Monday, September 16,{and other vegetables. . Commer- The charge was that the ac- a conference were read. After all synagogues were surrounded, cial transact ions have practical-, cuscd refused to go by train to a a full discussion, it was decided by the military police, who pene-' ly ceased, and agricultural' acti- post to which he was ordered by, to postpone for the time being trated into the interior and ar-, vities are spreading in conse-' a superior officer. The accused! the convening of the conference, rested iiU persons whose papei-s,quence. . 'argued that he was an orthodox owing to a number of unlooked^
ages, forms a world's history iniwere not in order The Presid-; "When the news oc the cap-;Jew, and that he had asked the ^or occurrences \\y'hich have minature. Where the lands were, ent of the Jewish community ap-; ture of Jerusalem reached Lithu- i commander to permit him to go \ taken place since steps towards covered with darkness, the Jew's plied to the communal authori-, ania the joy of the Jews was in- to his post a day earlier, Friday, \ issuing a call for such a con- life 'was enveloped in .densest; ties to remove the police. On his, describablo. 'It was worth en-'so as to be there by SaturdayL^<^''*^"'^^ ^^re begun, darkness, whereas the light and' return the .gendarmerie forbade j during what we have suffered to He had consulted the ' Chief' "^^^ following minute was un- liberty prevailing in better lands' him access to the synagogue. The live to hoar this' \\ Jew remark- .Jewish rabbi of'- Holland, who' animously adopted by the mem-
United States.
This cemetery dates back to the year 1742. There are many interesting records to be gath¬ ered from the tombstones in this cemetery. The facts have been sent forth in  historical
Jacobus Kann, president of the Dutch Zionist Federation ,all of whoni, speaking for their or¬ ganizations, expressed their deep gratitude to the British Govern- ment'for its many s^cts of friend-
I ship to the Zionists. 'Mr. Rosoff J T. X- ,.^^^^^^! reported that, notwithstanding and monographs trom^time to fitter opposition of the Bolshe- time. The most prominent per-j^j^j^ ^he Russian Zionists were sonage in Jewish history who is!^^.,i,i„g remarkable progress, buried in the cemetery is Hyim |	
Solomon,    whose    grave,    hov^r-'
HOLIDAY   OBSERVANCE
CAMPAIGN
,The movement fpstered by the i Union of American Hebrew Con-
and epochs ever brightened and | Chief Rabbi, Dr. Danzig, officiat
broadened the lives and minds of' ing in the principal synagogue,
the Jews.   Thus the era of free-1 stopped the service and begged 1 with the  Allies,especially with
dom' and democracy which now I the gendarmerie to go away. All j England,   but  of  course   it   is
ed.    The .lows in the oc cupied, told him that a Jewish soldier:''^^'^ P^'^^^"* = provinces   are   heart   and   soul, ^ust not desecrate the Sabbath
as long as his country is not in
Owing to the unjust and un-
ever,  cannot be  identified.    A
tablet t6 his memory, presented
by   William  Solomon, "of  New
York, in 1917, is placed oil thei
east wall.   • | gregations,  which  has  for  its
. f- \ purpose the observance of Jew-
IN MEMORY OF JEWISH , i^h Holidays has met with sing-
VICTIMS OF TURKS -ujar success this year.   1500 let¬ ters of explanation containing a
The second number,of ",Haa- rez  Vehaabodah,"  the publica-
is dawning is especially hailed by [ was    in   vain   and  the  officer^ ] dangerous for them to express the Jew who finds himself re-1 would take no notice. ' Then tliel their feelings openly.   The Ger¬ man    Government — after   the j British Declaration of Novem-' ber 2, 1917—circulated a child
cognized and respected for his j Chief Rabbi,  with- i-epresenta- merits and achievements by the i tives of the community, went to
enlightened nations and states¬ men as never before. So we see medievalism with its barriers of exclusion disappear under the victories of the Western powers to give way to the universal reign of human ^quality and brotherhood. Nor should we, who oppose political Zionism as contrary to the religious world mission of the Jew shut our eyes to the marvelous feats of the ' British arms in Palestine, which hold out the promise, not of a re¬ birth of the Jewish state or na¬ tion, but of the rejuvenation of the desolate land of our fathers to open up new opportunities for the tens of thousands of our brethren in search of a life of independence. and, prosperity, new avenues of commerce and industry for Jewish enterprise. Nay more the purpose of the Al¬ lies, to render Palestine not the center and homeland of the Jew¬ ish people, but as has been stat¬ ed, an important international and interdenominational center with Jerusalem as a prominent source of intellectual and spirit¬ ual life for the Jew alongside of other creeds; offers a bright put- look for world-conquering Jud¬ aism with its Messianic hope and its universal ideals, thus will be assigned to the Jew every¬ where, a conspicuous share in the reconstruction of human life after this cataclysmic world struggle will have passed."
the Prefecture to protest against the   gendarmerie.     They   were
ish stoi'y to the effect that in
immediately repulsed by soldiers 11917 the Kaiser and the Turkish
Government had agreed to give Palestine to the Jews, but that King Geoi-ge's spies discovered this,  and  the  British   Govern
at the point of the bayonet. The Marshal Lieutenant, to whom the Jews ultimately appealed, declared that the intervention of
a state of war.
The president of the military court asked the accused whether he knew that in refusing to obey the order he had broken his mili- ; tary oath. The accused declared I that -he knew, but that when he had taken the oath he did not
warranted attacks made recently I,.        . ^.     .   ,      ^        ..   ,. , „ „    .        „ -D'.iu- T^ u   tion of the Labor Organization
upon our colleague, Rjibbi Eph-! " '
raim Frisch, for sending a tele- ' gram' to* President Wilson in ' which he respectfully urged that . the President reconsider his en- ' dorsement of political Zioriism, we, the members of a committee of which Rabbi Frisch had been i acting ^s secretary since July 2,
Hapool Hazair" in Jaffa con^ I tains a "HaJskarath Neshamoth"' I in memory of a number of Jews I who, before the British occupa- I tion of Palestine, came to an un¬ timely end "in Turkish prisons,
know that he wbi^ld have to do;^^^;,, ^o make known thefol- what his religion torbade him. The court sentenced the ac-
lowing facts.
"That on July 2, 1918, a meet-
the gendarmerie had taken place f ment was- urged to draw up the I ^"^^^^ *° ^^^'^^ ^^^^ i" P^'ison, but' j^g ^^^^ held at Chicago by 30
without his knowledge, and pro¬ mised the severest inquiry against offenders. Case similar to that of Maramaros Sziget have repeatedly occurred recent¬ ly. At Satoralja Ujhely and Vacz several Jews have been ar¬ rested in the'synagogues during diVine service. "It is not right" continues the Pester Lloyd, "that Jews should be subjected to worse treatment than citiizens of other religious dendminations. If other incidents of this deplor¬ able nature occui", military and civil officers of inferior grades might form the conviction that the I'efgious ceremonies of the Jews do not enjoy the same pro¬ tection that the law affords to other religions."
Declaration without delay. Tliat explains why England was the first to recognize Zionism! Need¬ less to say, hardly anybody in Germany   or
tricts believed this absurd state¬ ment."
The Russian merchant gave a most cheering description of the
to the final outcome of the case.
the prisoner has appealed, and. rabbis for the purpose of con- great interest is manifested as | sideling ways and means of giv¬ ing effectual expression to our convictions   on   the  subject  of
the invaded dis: i BULGARIANS MISTREAT: ^^^^1 ^^«"^^"'-.,,    ,
+!,.„ .,1 A „t„4„ I -" "That a committee ot seven,
later enlarged to thirteen, was
in forcible expulsions, through hunger and want, through false accusations and through inhu¬ man treatment at the hands of thpir persecutors." A special tribute is paid to the memory of three Galician Jews who sacri¬ ficed themselves to save a group of Jewish workmen in Petach Tikvah, who were in imminent danger of destruction.
JEWS IN GREECE
BUYis BONDS
Jewish and Mohammedan sub-
effect upon the Jews of. Russia,
of the British Declaration which, | j^ j^ ^^^^^.^ Macedonia su^
he said, had given new Me tolf^red terribly during the Bui
the nationaL movement '^ndgarian rule of that country, it Jewish gratitude towards Eng¬ land knows no limits,", he added, "In, spite of the much hated Bol- sheviki,Government, England is very popular/and Russian Jews would gladly fight under British Government in Palestine, The Bolsheyiki Government will fall.
According  to  news  received i England will then see for herself from  other  sources,  the  anti-
has been proved by investiga¬ tion. Most of the Jews in Seres were deported and many died from hunger. Mohammedans who wei'e not molested during the stay of a Turkish regiment ¦which garrisoned the town for five    months;    suffered   worse
Semitic movement in Hungary continues to assume increasing proportions. All recommenda¬ tions of the higher authority and conspicuous political personages in favor of the, restoration of civic peace are fruitless, and the anti-semitJc movement has in¬ fected even the political and mili¬ tary authorities^
how affectionately she is regard- treatment after its departure for
ed by us Russian Jews.   In these I   ^"^^
'    When the allies entered the
terrible days, the Jews in Mos¬ cow have done all they could to help the British officials in their awkward position. All they have
towns they wex-e met with en¬ thusiastic demonstrations by the people.  , Jews here have sub-
i appointed before the time when I President Wilson wrote his let- I ter on Zionism.
"That Rabbi Frisch had been acting as secretary of this com¬ mittee.
"That many of us and thou¬ sands of other American Jews practically share the opinions that Rabbi Frisch expressed in his telegram to the President, though that communication was personal and was' not sent by him as secretary of this, commit- tee.'- '¦¦•,¦,
"that we believe that in tele¬ graphing to the President, Rab¬ bi Frisch was animated by the
done will be known later, when scribed to a fund fjir the relief
England will reaptheharvest of her sympathetic treatment of the Jews.  The Germans are hat¬
ed everywhere, by,the Jews and there.
of the people of Seires arid the great rabbi at Saloniki went to Seres to survey the conditions
At a Liberty Loan meeting, held at the Orpheum in Port¬ land, Ore, Ben. Selling offered to match each $100 worth that U'as bought, up to $10,000 with a like purchase. Max H. Houser went Mr. Selling^ne better by setting his subscription at $20,000, which was followed by M. L. Kline with another of $10,000. The total sale amounted to up¬ ward of $90,000. '
Jewish Holiday Calendar were sent by the Department of Syna- gog  and   School   Extension   to
nearly   evei*y University.
Institution   and
ANTI-SEMITES QUIT
Simultaneously with the de¬ feats of the German armies on the Western front, the activities of the German anti-Semites at home began to weaken. The cli¬ max to the weakening of the German anti-Semitic activities came a few days ago, when Gen¬ eral Gebsatel, the recognized leader of the anti-Semitic forces, called a conference of represen¬ tatives of the various anti-Jew¬ ish parties and nationalities and asked them to suspend their ac¬ tivities.
BRITISH INTERMARIAGES
M. Vinaver, the distinguished
tlusso-Jewish lawyer and inteU
purest of motives, byj loyalty tojlectual leader of Russian Jewry,
Chief Rabbi •Hertz has issued a circular to ew».y minister throughout the Imtish Empire, in which he calls attention to "the gi'owing number of inter¬ marriages"—should it not be ex- termai:riages?---"in the Home country, and even more so in the Overseas Dominions," and which JEWISH LEADER OF THE j Dr. Hertz rightly characterizes RUSSIAN CADET PARTY I as "a grave menace to our faith
that cuts at the very root of our
his country and by deep love for his faith and his co-religionists. "That we deplore the fact that a man whose integrity and whose honor have never been questioned and in whom his col¬ leagues have the utmost confid-
has taken over the leaderahip of the Cadet party in its opposition to the prp-German tendency of M. Miliukow. M, Vinaver has carried with him the majority of the Cadet Conference in his pro-Entente policy..
religious existence," He there¬ fore asked all ministers^on the coming day of Kippur, to "make strong and direct pronounce¬ ment from the pulpit on this alarming eyil," which "must mean the disruption of Jewish life and the disappearance of the Jewish people" if allowed to go unchecked;