Ohio Jewish chronicle. (Columbus, Ohio), 1935-11-01

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Volume XVII—No. 96,
COLUMBUS OHIO, NOVKiVriJEl^ i, 1935
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Strictly Confidential
TID-BITS FROM EVERYWHERE
RrPUINBASJ. niOON
Hebrew School Director Dis¬ cusses Sunday School Versus Hebrew School
Gentlemen of the I're.'^B
Sonic of the liiggcst shots in Ameri¬ can Jewish life, incliiJing Felix M, Warburg, Stephen S. Wise and men of that .stamp, are due for a ribbing on the clas'^cs  on Sunday.    Tn some instances
A thorough study of attendance rec¬ ords o£ thc Columbus Hebrew Sdhool has revealed that thc majority of chil¬ dren   fail   to   attend   Hebrew    School
Yiddish j,t.-igc-. , . . Z. H. Rubcnstein, city editor of thc Jewish Day, has writ¬ ten the fir^it Jcwibh political satire caHed "Good    Sabbath,   Good   Year",   which Molly Picon will produce. . . . When it appcnrs it will do for the Jewish scene what "Of Thee I Sing" did for Ameri¬ can poh'tics. . . . B. C. Vladeck will not be general manager of the Jewish Daily Forward after January 1, 1&36. . . , A new Jewish publication called Viewpoint, will appear around Chanukah. ... It will be a monthly and will serve as the organ of Young Is,rael. . . . With Its November 1st issue thc American He¬ brew will appear in a new dress. . . . Thc paper's size will be reduced to about that of The Nation but the number of pages will be increased. . . . James Wa¬ terman Wise is one of the editors of The   People's   Press,   a   new   national wceltly tabloid which you will find on your   newsstand   around   Election   Day. ...  It  will   be  dedicated  to  fighting Fascism and to exposing political cor¬ ruption. . . . Ann Silver, ace publicity writer, deserves some  kind of a  prize for her swell promotional job in behalf of Raydcnce Liquid  Powder,  ...  A coiipic of months ago this product was unknown but now, thanks to Ann, it's to be   found   featured   in   all   department stores. . . . Did you know that tlie Book Union is an organization devoted to fos¬ tering  the  publication  of  the  kind  of books   that   Hearst   and   his   fledgling Fascists would like to suppress? . . , Politicnlly Speaking Justices of the United States Supreme Court arc famed for their reticence off thc bench but Justice Cardozo recently made a statement in private which ought to receive wide ciirrency. . , . Told that his secretary, William  Stroock, son of Sol Stroock, chairman of the executive committee   of   the   American-   Jewish Committee, had been asked to move from his home because the lease contained an Aryan  paragraph,  Justice  Cardozo  de¬ clared  that  "in my  opinion  a  contract with a clause of that nature is not valid." . . , Only the fact that young Stroock is Cardoso's secretary prevented the matter from getting  a  legal  test.  .  .  . That rumor about Henry Morgenthau, Jr., re¬ signing   as   Secretary   oi  the  Treasury and replacing Jesse < Straus as ambassador to France, is making the rounds again. . . . One of the new owners of radio station KPCB on the Pacific Coast is Saul Haas, U. S. Customs Collector in Seattle. , . . SettinfT a Contemporary Straight One  of  fhe  Jewish  columnists  com¬ mented on the recent civic reception ten¬ dered to Max Reinhardt at the Waldorf- Astoria in New York. . - . The funny thing is that thc columnist in question was not present and his report that Au¬ gust Hcckscher spoke at that function is imaginitis to a high degree. . . . The same  "scoopstcr"  also  refers to Rein¬ hardt's rewriting the Koad of Promise "script". . , . Doesn't he know that this ^ "script"  is  a  literary   work  by   Franz Werfel   which   thc   Viking   Press   will publish   simultaneously   with   the   stage production   and   that   Rcinhardt   would just as much think of rewriting Werfel's drama as to try to improve on Shake¬ speare's dialogue? . . . And being in a corrective mood we also, generously do¬ nate to our contemporary the inside dope about the recent Jewish Daily Forward— Jewish Day tug of war on Boris Thoma- shefsky's memoirs. . . . Z. H. Ruben- stein signed tip Thomashefsky for The Day  whereupon  Boris  rushed  to  The Forward and made them come across for double the amount on the same feature. . . ,  Rubenstein, who never gives up, signed up the very next day Mrs. Bessie Thomashefsky,   the   first   and   longest- lasting  wife of  Boris,  and before the Forward had a chance to announce its feature The Day was already running thc memoirs of Bessie Thomashefsky. Melangre You can look for some big doings in Young Judea now that Louis P, Rocker has quietly taken over the national presi¬ dency. . • . Insiders expect him to make it THE Jewish youth organization in this country. . . . A, H, Friedland, head of the Cleveland Jewish school system, is a very sick tnan and all his friends (he has thousands of them) are rooting for him. . . . Rudolph Kayser, one of Dr, Einstein's sons-in-law, will ofiiclally join tbe faculty of tlie Jewish Teachers Seminary—People's University. , . , Dr. Joshua Goldberg is out as executive sec¬ retary   of   the   American  Jewish   Con¬ gress. . . . He's returning to his congre- iConlinued on page 5)
Address By
JOHN HAYNES HOLMES
Minister of Community Church Before Free Synagogue, Carnegie Hall, Sunday, October 27, 1935
the attendance on Sunday is as low as thirty percent of normal. This condition has been found to be caused by competi¬ tion from Sunday. Schools, and is also due to the indifference of parents in per¬ mitting their children to stay out of Hebrew School on Sunday, because they con<;idc^r Sunday a holiday, a day of rest and play.
Jcwisli parents must bear in mind thc fact that the child who shares his He¬ brew classes with his ' regular school work cannot give of his best to his He¬ brew lessons. Sunday is thc only day on which the Jewish child can absorb a maximum amount of Jewish and reli¬ gious instruction. On Sunday the child's mirid is unoccupied and is free for the instruction offered in thc Hebrew School, The parent should therefore see that his child attends his Hebrew classes on Sunday.
This is not an attempt on the part of the Hebrew School to compete with the Sunday Schools, but in all fairness to the children who go to Hebrew School, there is no real reason for this attend¬ ance to be interrupted by having the child attend Sunday School, instead o{ continuing his weekly Hebrew instruc¬ tions on Sunday,
Thc Jewish parent must become more interested in the welfare of his children and the Jewish education they receive. Sunday must be utilized as a day of in¬ struction, as a day of religious and secular Hebrew education. If the child attends Hebrew School during thc week, he should by all means continue these | classes on Sunday. If the child docs not get any Hebrew training through the Hebrew School, he must at least attend Sunday Sdiool, where the teaching of Jewish liter<iturc and culture can be im¬ parted to him.
The indifference of our people io the problem of Jcwishly educating our chil¬ dren has been our greatest misfortune. Wc must awake td our resjionsibiUties as Jews. Our children must be given the opportunity of becoming aware of their. hjbtory and their destiny.
For those children who attend the Agudath Achim Sunday School, but who are also enrolled in the Ilebrew School, the Columbus Hebrew School bus, through arrangements with and coopera¬ tion pf Rabbi Hirschsprung, will stop at thc Syiiagog at 10:45 each Sunday. Other Sunday Schools are requested to extend to The Columbus Hebrew School the same cooperation and courtesy.
(Signed) Harry Schwartz, Executive Director,
"The German Jews are the saddest people I have ever seen, since they are a people absolutely without hope. They are the most tragic people I have e«r known, since they 'arc thc victims of the supreme tragedy of our day. More ter¬ rible than anything that happened during the war is- this cold-blooded savagery of the Nari-s in dooming a half-million of llicir own fellow-citizen 5 to torture and ultimate extinction.
"The essence of thc Jewish horror is not violence, though violence occasion¬ ally appears. What wc have in Germany today is not a pogrom at all, but a pro¬ gram—a program of slow but sure exter¬ mination. Qn thc .surface, it seems as though Jewish life were going on with¬ out much interruption or injury. I vis¬ ited the Jewish restaurants in Berlin, thc Jewish fur district in Leipzig, even the Jewish quarter in Nuremberg, and saw nothing unusual. But underneath- undemealh—among the Jewish friends I
less and hopeless ignominy, these may not. Will not thc spirits of these young people break under such treatment—or never grow at all to ripe maturity? In¬ wardly maimed and poisoned, must Ihcy not just rot and disappear? It is when one sees thc spiritual blight of this Nazi horror that one understands -w.hy Jcwi<^li parents today are resolved to have no children, and arc.almost'frenzied in their desire to get thc children, now in thc arms, out of the country at any cost.
"It is the finality of the Jewish crisis in Germany that is perhaps its worst feature. If this were only one more mad outbreak of prejudice, it might subside. The Nazis might get tired, and relent. Thc patience and courage of the Jews might stir the compassion even of such enemies. But this persecution is more than a prejudice; it is a settled philos¬ ophy of life, Thc Nazis'* have worked out a theory of race,'of blopd and in¬ heritance, which excludes the Jew as a biological and cultural defilement.   This
visited, in thc Jewish homes iijto which 1 theory i.s being developed inlo a religion.
I was received, I saw the turning of tlic wheels of an utterly ruthless repression which arc grinditig thc Jews to pieces. Instead of killing the Jews, the Nazis arc creating conditions which make it impossible for them to live. The Jews are thus dying by inches instead of all at once.
"Physically the condition is bad enough, but it is worse spiritually. The Jews of Germany are marvelously pa¬ tient and self-controlled in their material deprivations and dangers. They can en¬ dure it, as their ancestors did before them; their children can perhaps escape it, by getting out of thc country! Wlicrc they writhe, these pitiful Jews, is in their souls. They quiver under thc whip¬ lashes oi such deliberate insults, humil¬ iations, and degradations as no people anywhere have suffered since the Dark Ages. To live amid the obscenities of such an ogre as Streicher is like trying to live in thc filth of a latrine. Tlic mature Jews of Germany can stand e\'en this,  perhaps—but the new generation^
which assigns to the Jew the role of Satan and his angels in thc old theology. The Nazis arc dedicating themselves to a crai^y mania of racial nationalism, and the Jew is the blood sacrifice upon the altar of the Germanic gods. Tliis is the reason, ultimately, why Christians are being persecuted along with Jews. But the Jews art buffering the first and the worst—and will continue to suffer until the end has come. There is no hope, since the Nazi mind is fixed—fixed as any crazy mind is fixed. Therefore is there notliing to do but get the -Jews out of Germany.
"Sitch Jews as must remain in Ger¬ many will hide themselves behind the ghetto walls already being reared. There they will survive as their fathers sur¬ vived before them, nobody knows how. And at last will come a day, God grant, of liberation, when violence and terror will be no more, and man be free again. That day this generation may not sec. But it will come! For God is not dead, nor can his law of justice and his will
the Ijoys and girls now growing in help- 1 of love be flouted forever.
Rabbi H. Kaplan, Hillel Direc-1 Rabbi FeUx Levy of Chicago tor, to Address Agudath Will Be Speaker for Ha<
Achim Sisterhood
Central States Region of Natl.
Hadassah to Meet Sunday
at Neil House
The Central States Region of Na¬ tional Hadassah Senior and Junior groups, will meet in the Neil House, November 3, Sunday, 10 a. m. There will be a joint luncheon at 1 p. m. and separate sessions for each group. Offi¬ cers of the Region, Regional chairmen and Presidents of Chapters.are members of this-Exticutive Board. The following seniors will attend—Mrs, Joseph Ehrlich and Mrs. S. KJeiman of Detroit, Mich, Mrs. Samuel Taubman of Akron. Mrs. Harry Weinrauh and Mrs. David Glasser of Cleveland, Mrs. Aaron Cline and Mrs. S. Goniger of Dayton, Mrs. E. Gainoran and Mrs. Harry Frankel of Cincinnati. Mrs. Max Friedman and Mra. A. A. Greene of Canton. Mrs. Maurice Schoenfeld and Mrs. Joseph Preiser of Cliarlcston, W. Va. Repre¬ sentatives are also expected from Lorain, Rabbi Morris Lazaron of Baltimore, Warren, Youngstown and Toledo, Ohio, j Md-, will be thc principal speaker at the
Rabbi Harry Kaplan, new director of the Ohio State Hillel Foundation, will be guest speaker at the duo-celebration of thc Sisterhood of Agudath Achini, to¬ morrow   (Sunday)  evening.
The Sisterhood, besides c;elebrating their thirteenth birthday anniversary, will dedicate the remodeling of-thc new social hall, which was recently com¬ pleted.
Rabbi Kaplan has selected as his sub¬ ject, "A Liberal Jciv Looks At Orthodox Judaism." Others on the program will be Rabbi M. Hirschsprung, and Cantor P. H. Gellman. Mrs, J. L. Schwartz will accomiKiny Cantor Gellman, when he renders several vocal selections. Mt. J Krakowitz will be the toastmaster for thc evening.
Mrs. S. Goldman, and Mrs, J. Krako¬ witz, co-chairmen, invite the entire com¬ munity to their first affair of the season, as ample seating capacity is available in the remodeled hall.
Plan to attend, and partake of an en¬ joyable chicken dinner and an evening of entertainment, tomorrow, Sunday, No¬ vember 3rd, at the Agudath Achim Con¬ gregation, G :00 p. m.
RABBI MORRIS LAZARON TO
ADDRESS BROTHERHOOD
TUESDAY EVENING
as welt as from Bay City, Grand Rapids and Flint, Michigan. Columbus members are Mrs. H. Lieverman, corresponding secretary, Mrd. A. Danziger, bulletin cliairman, Mrs. R. Stone, local president, Mrs. B, W. Abramson, chairman of local donor dinner committee and Mrs. W. A. Hersch, president of Senior Region,
Miss Pessa Potasky of Cincinnati, is president of Junior Region, and Miss Cecelia IL Krakoff is president of local Junior Unit. Other Junior Regi'^nal Board members from Columbus are Hilda Mendel, recording secretaty, Dor¬ othy Finkelstein, former regional presi¬ dent, and Eva Shiffman, cliairman of Budget and Finance. Thc following citieB will be represented by Jr. Regional Board members at the executive session on Sunday: Louisville, Ky., Charleston, W. Va., Detroit, Mich., Akron, Cleve¬ land, Toledo, Youngstown, Cincinnati, Dayton, and Columbus.     ^	
next Brotherhood meeting, Tuesday, Nov. 5, B p. m. Present at this nieeting will be Dr. M. H. Lichliter, of the First Coni^regational ~ Cliurch, and the Men's Club of his church. Dr. Lichliter will giie a brief talk at this meeting.
The speaker is one of the best known members of the American Rabbinate, a keen thinker and an orator of note. His message will be most timely and of inter¬ est to all. The meeting will be con¬ cluded at 9:30 p. m.
dassah Donor Dinner
Columbus Chapter of Hadassah is very happy to announce that the guest speaker at this year's Donor' Dinner will be Rabbi Felix Levy, of Chicago,
The date of tlie dinner has been changed from Sunday, Dec. 8th, to Sunday, Dec. Mth. This was made possi¬ ble through the kindncbs of the Ezras Noshim Society, which has changed the date of their supper to Sunday, Dec. 8II1.
The Donor Dinner Committee, of which Mrs. B, W. .A.bramson is chair¬ man and Mrs. Allen Tarshish, \'ice- chairman, wants to take this means to thank the society and its president, Mrs. A. Goldberg, for their fine spirit of cooperation with the Hadassah. They make it possible for the Columbus Jewry to hear Rabbi Levy, since he was unable to come at any other time.
Community Fund Chairman Reveals Interesting Facts
There is one question that is asked again and agaui at Community Fund meetings, according to (jcneral Campaign Chairman Paul C. Hodges, and that ques;^on is, "Why, with thc great direct relief load taken care of by thc govern¬ ment, i.s it necessary to ask for more than was received during 1935?"
Thc question can best be answered by referring lo the records in the office of thc executive secretary of tile Fund, Mr. Hodges told a meeting of campaign lead- erb. Before thc beginning of depression in ]fl2D the sympathies of the people of Columbus were aroused when an aver¬ age of about 900 familitis in tlie city and county were on relief rolls and thc fund wa.s generously supported because of that relief appeal.
However, of the $615,000 subscribed to the fund in 1038 only about $100,000 was necessary for relief, leaving the other |^4o,000 for other fund activities. By January I, 1932, the number of relief families had increased to 3,G0L Fund subscriptions that year totalled $921,000 so that fund agencies might have 1300, 000 for relief, still leaving $621,000 for other needs which increased as thc de¬ pression advanced- Last year the num¬ ber of families on relief was more than 15,000. The government had talcen over this part of the welfare program and thc fund agencies concentrated on the tremendous needs for which no govern¬ ment funds were available. Funds avail¬ able to the agencies decreased from the 'i;021.0fl0 of 1932 to toeO,000 in 1934 and 1935. Only about $50,000 was used for relief, leaving $530,000 for other pur¬ poses ; the lowest amount in fund his¬ tory for the past twelve >ears.
"Wc have expected the impossible of our fund," thc campaign chairman said, "we ha\e given them less funds than we gave them ten years ago and we expect them to handle problems based on 15,000 dependent fanulies instead of a few hundred^ as in xioniial years before tbe depression.
Costs of hospitalization, costs of dis¬ trict nursing, numbers of children "who must be cared for—every item had in¬ creased. Ii we are to meet our city's needs at all we must increase tbc scope and character of the scr\'ices rendered by the agencies," Mr. Hodges concluded. Reports at catnpaign headquarters show the organiyation work well under "way, and several hundred men and women will be ready to start on their round of sell¬ ing the good neighbor idea to the people of Columbus and Franklin county No¬ vember 12-22.
James Waterman Wise As¬ sails Jewish Groups State*  , ment on Communists
NEW YORK (WNS)—In a vigor^ - ously-wordcd attack on the recent stato- luciit by Dr. Cyrus Adler, president of tho American Jewish Committee, Alfred M, Cohen, president of tlic B'nai Britli, .•uid B. C. Vladeck, chairman of the Jew- • ibli Labor Committee, repudiating Hitler's ' assertion that Jews arc Communists, James Waterman Wise, son of Df. Stephen 5. Wise, president of the American Jcwith Congress, calls the j statement "nothing less than an o£fer of their services to tlie Fascists of America, in return for personal immunity and private safety." Writing in the cur¬ rent issue of the New Masses, Mr. Wise describes the statement as "concocted out of fear for thcuiselves, libels against So¬ viet Russia and lies about thc Jewish people" and charges that back of it lies "a poorly veiled invitation to potential Xazis of America to coordinate and pogromizc Jews who will not accept thc American Liberty League and the Cham¬ ber of Commerce as the architects of America's future Like the handful of * Jewish bankers in Germany, who, despite exile, anguish and annihilation of the masses of Gennan Jewry, have 'noticed nothing untoward since the advent of Hitler*, these ji^cntlemen are seeking to Ijarter their people's security and honor for a mess of Fascist pottage."
Criticizing the authors of the statement for allegedly trj'ing "to confound the Fascist He that all Communists are Jews by the equally preposterous lie that no Communists are Jews," Mr. Wise attacks the statement for its "deliberate falsifica- lioii concerning the status of Russian ' Jewry and thc altitude of the Soviet j^overnment toward its Jewish population and assails the "apologetic mood and the propitiatory attitude into which it' inevitably throws tlie Jew. To frame excuses for the political affiliations of one^s co-racialists is to invite a status of political inferiority for oneself. Jews who deny that some or many Jeivs are Communists, arc j ockcying themselves into the position of citizens on tolera¬ tion, justifying their citizenship by yield¬ ing their fundamental civic right to hold any political viewpoint that seems |ust and wise to them as individuals.**
.Asserting that "repudiations which begin with Communist will surely widen. thcif^range as economic and political' preSim^ on minorities gains in intensityp" Mr, Wise declares' that ^'ultimately these super-patriots will deem worthy Ameri¬ cans only' such Jews as have wormed; their way into Fascist organizations and Viijilante groups." Denying that the authors of the statement represent tlie masses of American Jews and adding Rabbi I.ee j; Levinger has just re- t^ia* "^^y *lo "ot even speak for their turned from a two weeks* trip to New own constituents," Mr. Wise also criti- York and Philadelphia in the interest ] eises the statement for "the inescapable of his vioxk ou the  Hillel  Foundation  deduction  that  wliat   is done  to' Com-
Leving:er  MaJcing  Nation-Widc Survey of Jewish Students
Research Bureau. Rabbi Levinger is engaged in making the first natinn-wide survey of the Jcwi«.h student* of the United States. His census of Jewish students is gathering data from over a thousand colleges and universities throughout the country.
munists in Gerinany and elseivhere is a matter of indifference to .American Jews" and urges Jews to "take active and posi¬ tive measures^* to counteract it fay "a widening and strengthenii)g of the united front against Fascism 'in every guise and form,"
C. J. VJ. Lecture Series
The Educational Committee bf the C. J. W. is sponsoring a series of four lectures, each to be precxlLd by, a lunch¬ eon, and will be held at the F.Ik's Club on E. Broad St.
The first lecture will be held on Wednesday, Nov. 13th, at 12:30 p. ni. Rev. M. H. Lichliter of the First Con¬ gregational Church will review the book, "Europa".
Tickets for this 'series may be. ob¬ tained by calling Mrs. Millard Komi;]/, FA. 691(1.
Dr. Danziger Ivreeyoh Speaker
Dr. Samuel Danziger will address the Ivreeyoh Society at its regular meeting ou Wednesday, Nov. 6th, at 2 p. tn., at thc Deshler-WalHck Hotel, Dr. Dan¬ ziger will speak ou his experiences in Northern Russia during the World War. Mrs, Robert Suid will give the opmuig prayer.
Jewish War Veterans To
Install Officers Sunday
The Jewish War Veterans Post of Columbns will be formally installed Sunday (toinorraw)^Nov. 3 at 4:00 p. m. at the Deshler Wallick ballroom. State and national officers will offici¬ ate and the degree work will be per formed by a special team from Cleveland.
A cordial invitation is extended to the Columbua Jewish community to attend this important meetlnir-
C. J. W. to Meet Wednesday
C. J. W. will hold its firbt sewing of the year at the Brjden Rd, Temple, Wednesday, Nov. Gtli, at 1:30 p. in.' This sewing circle is open to everyone.
N.  Y. PRIZE   PUPILS   OF   TALMUD   TORAHS AWARDED MAIMONIDES MEDALS
NEW YORK (WNS)—A jiiedal coni- meiiiorating tlie 600th anniversary of tlie birth of Moses Maimonides, medieval Jewish philosopher and sage, was awarded here to the prize pupils of the New York Jewish religious schools by the Jewish Education Associatiot). The presentation, held under the auspices of the Association was attended by over %000 parents and pupils, and 521 medals in gold, silver and bronze were awarded. The principal address was delivered by Bernard Semel, honorary secretary oi the Association. Pointing to Uie chil¬ dren seated before him, he predicted th^t as long as the Jeiyish people produced sudi children, the evil designs of all its enemies would ' fail, Addresses were also delivered by Mrs. Gabriel Ham¬ burger, President of Ivriali, the Women's I Division of the Jewish Education Asso¬ ciation; Judge Jouab J. Goldstein, vkc
president; and Ibrael Konovitz, presi¬ dent of. the Principal's AssociatiDn. The meeting was under the general clmrge of Israel 5. Qiipkin, Education Director. The girls received their med¬ als from David Shapiro, publisher of the New York Day, who donated ^em in mcmpry''"of his wife, Bella. David W.. Unterberg, son of (he late Israel Untcr- berg, formerly president of the Associa¬ tion, handed the medals to tiie faoyi.
The awards included 42 gold, 74 silver and 405 bronze medals. The gold medals represented a perfect attendance record, "A*' in conduct and scholastic progress^ and in addition first choice of the faculty or student body. Tlie silver medals represented a £9 per cent atten(|»< ancc and "A" in conduct add prpgresa. Thc bronze medals were awarded for 9S per cent or over iu attendance and ''A" in conduct aud pn)gresi.
UNITED WE STAND,DIVIDED WE FALL—JOIN IN THE GREAT WORK OF THE B'NAI B'lUTH NOW!