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Mail in your New Year Greetings Today
VOL. in—No. 41
Mail in vour ]STew Year •.
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Greetings Today
Entered as eeccnd-dass mall matter on January 27th. 192L at postoffleo at Omaha. Nebraska, under the Act of Uarcls & USTO.
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OMAHA, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1924
CEEATE -NATIONAL CENTERS" IN WHITE RUSSIA; '." YIDDISH OFFICIAL LANGUAGE Riga. (J. T. A.) The creation of ^'National Centers" was announced by f the Communistic White Russian Gov•I ernment in places where the national You will want to extend this greeting to all your rela- j minorities formed the-majority of the tives and friends on Rosh Hashona. j population. In many towns and vil- Question Wisdom of lages .of White Russia the official To Settle Jews In The IT IS ONE p F THE MOST JOYOUS WISHES YOU government business will be conduct Various Land, .CAN EXPRESS/.' " ••' •• '-• -.' ; ; / " ' . - , ed in the Yiddish language as a result.of this decree. All government CITE ACCOMPLISHMENTS IN You need iipt send individual New; Year cards to everydocuments in this town will also be body you-know. It is too expensive and bothersome, PALESTINE IN'YEAR.. \! issued in Yiddish. and you can't remember everybody's name and address. New York.—Referring to efforts For Two.Dollars you can wish EVERYBODY a Happy X. decree of the White BusNew Year, all your relatives and friends by inserting siari Government, issued September 9, now under way t o settle Jews in calls for the reorganization of the Crimea and Mexico, the new adminisyoilr New Year Greeting in the annual Rosh Hashona school system. According to this de- tration of the Zionist Organisation of edition of The Jewish Press to be issued on Sepcree, all instruction is to be given in. America, in a statement issued in tember 26tiithe mother tongue of the children, connection with the first meeting. of Nobody, can! chide you for forgetting them on Rosh The number of Jewish schools in j its National Executive committee. Hashona if lyour greeting is published in The Jewish White Russia will therefore be greatly which took place Sunday at the Hotel P r e s s . .'•;•< - . • '• ' .••"••' ' in behalf of the unity of Jews throughout the country.- David Pennsylvania, New York, questions increased. Brown is now touring the country before leaving for Europe and the ' wisdom of settling Jews where Our forms for our New Year Greeting page will Pdfestine. He is at present assisting in three, campaigns, the they will'be subject to the "whittle dose Monday evening, September 22.; Mail in your Jewish Theological Seminary Drive, the' Union of Hebrew Conand vicissitudes of countries over greeting immediately so that it will reach our of*, gregations and the Palestinian Foundation Fund. whose destiny they have no control." fice Monday. The statement points out that for the" "The most important problem facing the Jew in America to- Only Members in Good Standing past three months Jewish imrclgra-/ day is the problem of Jewish education for the children," thunderLarge Membership Campaign Will Be tion into Palestine lias exceeded & Can Vote. ed Mr. Brown in his characteristic dynamic forcefulness. "The Launched. monthly average of 2,000, and dedegree by'which we have neglected this most important factor of The Y. M. and Y. W. H. A. will plores the fact that "all Jewish forces . '•• v Judaism in America is appalling. In the City of New York with its hold its election of officers for the Omaha Lodge No. S54, I. O. B. B., do', not combine for the development one and one-half million Jews, with its hundreds of thousands of ensuing term at the meeting to be is making plans for many activities of Palestine as an'immigration center children, only a few thousand children are learning .the lessons held Monday evening. The election for the ensuing year. At the regular where, under the proper economic of Judaism. meeting, held last Thursday, plans conditions, Jewish life can be stable was postponed from the last meeting "Do you realize what this means to your place in them. What's the good because of weather conditions which Government to Abidd by Pledge Given John Merritt Died At Age of 92; were discussed for several dances to and self-contained.'"* be held this year instead of the one Jewry? . It means that we are con- of building any Jewish institutions if permitted only a small crowd to atCame to Omaha 50 Years to Parliament. usual dance. A special dance commit- A message vras read at the meeting sciously committing, suicide as an you don't care enough about your tend. The election promises to be one Ago. tee •was appointed by the president. from Louis Lipsky, chairman of the honorable, learned and religious peoof the outstanding events of the year. Johannesburg. (J. T. A.) An imA large membership campaign will organization, End a member of the ple. Go to your prisons and find out Under new rules of the organization, pression seems to have got abroad; Funeral services for John Merritt World Zionist Executive from. London, L1--.L immi _• - ^-._- i i c-i-utij Africa jj s pioneer i n e e r resident, resident who who died died at at his his home home be launched by the lodge. "Omaha who your inmates are. Are they men only those members who are paid up .that s where he is now staying in connecand women who had a religious trainin their dues will be able to vote. states the Tuesday morning at the age cf 92, lodge is after 13000 members," said now entirelyM Mr. tion with his official duties. ing in their youth? -Go to your Ju. The Y will plan a large member- South African ird of Dep- (-will be held from the family residence Sam J. Leon, chairman of the mem- lipsky's message states that the venile Court. "Who are the boys and ship campaign immediately following uties in a statexnSrii t d i h e J. T. A . ' a t 1835. • .Georgia Avenue, on Friday bership campaign.' "The'Omaha delegirls brought in .for delinquencies? the election of officers and the ap- Correspondence suggesting this has afternoon at two o'clock. Burial -roll gates have taken an active part in Zionist position • is improving' with Are they boys and girls who have pointment of the committees -to head been received recently-by tlie board, ifce at the Pleasant Hill cemetery. B'nai B'rith work in the district and Arat histility subsiding, the mandait is up to the members to • help put tory power more .feelftfnl and -the been receiving religious training? this campaign. The campaign will be This impression,.tie;statemen^piro- R a b b i Frederic Cohn will officiate, European farces.of the movement rethis csnr.paign. tyver t t e twp.H What are the facts? "Statistics tell for 1,000 new members. ceeds, seems to have been caused -by*- At his bedside at the time of his coveimg from the effects of the war us in cold figures that only 2 per Plans-are being made by the finance i off tte t t news that t h t the th dd ee aa tt hh w ee rr ee ^ publication A special educational program will the p and three s o n S jj j depression. cent of "the inmates of-our institutions also be a feature for the coming term late Union Government on MayJ ; 1st U . K Merritt, Joseph and Jesse Mer- cennhittes for the enlistment of all In a review o£ the work of Amerof. corrjBctjqn have ever, had any reliilast a s t ddeeided_to e c i d e d t o • ^ 2 * * * ' - « • • * • **«« • • " " » - ' . . . . . . . ~ . ~ - .. :._,_•-„':', fthX ica*?: Zionists, etaraag- -.the. ^vesioms-^efai,,. --gious .training."- ". __ tion of Section 4 the statement which, in fitft'absence The regular Saturday evening migrants Regulation Act t Montreal, Can., who is arriving today \ The Jew Without Judaism of Mr, Lfpsky is signed hy Jndge dances will begin Saturday, Septem- immigrants. This particular section i. headquarters. "If you tell me they are not interBernard A, Rosenblatt as acting fber 27, at the Jewish ' Community enabled the Minister of the Interior I A complete program is being outMerritt and Mrs. Merritt, who ested in Jewish religious instruction chairman, gives the record of the *•» jCenter. Only those members who are autocratically to exclude European j j s lined by the intellectual advancement 77, had celebrated their fiftieth I will ask' oi' you-^-lf not ' Jewish suits achieved in the "financial, polk* In good standing will be able to enter and other immigrants. * ! (golden) wedding anniversary on June committee for'an interesting' program 1 1ical training what other kind of religious and moral fields." The sum of : the dance hall. These dances will be The Board of Appeal established They were - married in to be held this winter. The complete" $3,090,000 was reised by the agencies training do they receive? The Jew held twice each month. under the Immigrants Act had to conit was a frontier towii program" wiB.bs announced* m. later affiliated with the movement during1 without Judaism is without any sider only whether the Minister had issues .cf The Jewish Press. 1. a half century ago. religion, for he isn't interested in the past year. Of this sum $2,000,DAVID A. BROWN excluded the. immigrant and not the The pioneer was born in London. any kind of religion. The Jew can't 0'JO was raised by the Keren Bayesod merits of the case. He came to . Omaha soon after he throw off his. Judaism for another faith to keep it perpetuated through or Palestine Foundation Fund, whleh The South African Jewish Beard of landed in America. He engaged in religion if he wants to. He can't. your, children. And how' can you exis the central fund of thfe movement. The world won't let him. And if he pect- your children to want to .per- 'Hungarian Red Cross Decoration Deputies contended all along that the the cabinet-making trade before open(The other organizations and ageneieil Government had no right to use this ing a restaurant at 10th arid Farnam knows anything ab'out moral precepts petuate the Jewish faith if they know listed are the Jewish National Bestowed for Humanitarian . clause to . exclude European. immi- Sts. Later he operated the Arcade at all he would not think of. throw- little or nothing about it ? That is the American Zion Commonwealth* Services by Jew. grants, as a pledge not to apply it to Hotel. Although he retired from ac- President Heartily Moved by Weling off Judaism because it is the the question we Jews in America the Hadassah Women's Europeans had been given when the tive business many years ago, Mr. come. must answer and answer without any mother of all morality. and Young Judaea, The increase of : New York.—The Cross of the Hun- Act was passed in 1913. On May 1st Merritt always called upon his three more delay. We have quibbled arid membership from 37,328 to 46,51$- JS "During my present travel, I was Lemberg (J. T. A.) President garian Red Cross Decoration was bethe late Government agreed to sus- sons at the Merritt Drug store on an We» amazed at the question of Talmud procrastinated long enough. Wojciechowski during his visit to this also set down. stowed upon Felix M. Warburg, presi- pend the operation of this clause for An even larger program of work Torahs and Sunday school through- have set ourselves apart in distinct 'dent of the American Jewish Joint six months as far as European immi- average of three times a week. The pallbearers at the funeral will city, attended several devine sendees is contemplated for the coming yfcWr, out the country. I find that they groups and have refused to co-op- Distribution Committee, by Dr. Louis grants were concerned. The present Catholic and Ukrainian in the erate with other groups from one mobe Messrs. Isadore Ziegler, Louis • churches have been neglected. While the Ukrainian which began With the first meeting; tive or another, but the time has Alexy, Acting Consul General of Hun- Union Government has . agreed to "It takes Talmud Torahs and Sun- come when we must cast aside our gary, in New York, who made the abide by the pledge given to Parlia- -Rubin, Adolph Schlank, L. Altaian, churches were half empty during the of the National Executive committee. day schools to bring up our Jewish arbitrary -and artificial distinctions presentation in the name of Admiral ment in 1913 and not to use this Dave Newman, and L. Harris, who servicas arranged on the occasion of A special effort is to be made to inYouth." It takes a religious edu- and get together to save Judaism it- Horthy, Regent of Hungary. clause at all against European immi- were personal friends of Mr. Merritt. the President's arrival, the synagog, j crease the membership in ©ntter to them fit to be the where similar services were rendered, i enable American' Zionists to be rejpcation to make The Jewish Telegraphic Agency grants. self. Not just Reform Judaism or We can't Orthodox Judaism or Super Reform learned that the honor conferred upon | resented by at least seventy-five deleWm. R. Blumentkal to leaders of the future. was overcrowded. gates at the international JSiottist spend to much money for religious or Super Orthodox. I don't care for Mr. Felix M. Warburg was the result CONDUCT HOLIDAY SERVICES. Rabbi Goodmann welcomed the Speak at Temple Israel Congress which is to be held in 1&2&. education. The Shevra B'nai Israel Synagogue, President. The cantor and choir sang of his activities as chairman of the Rabbi Frederick Cohn is leaving these terms. I know this, that JuConsiderable new strength Is exdaism is big enough and broad Siberian Repatriation War Fund. This in Council Bluffs, announce that they Friday for Lincoln, Nebr., where he psalms. , Rabbi Goodmann handed pected to come to the movement,. 86Best Investment over to the President the Holy scrolls. fund was founded on April 6th,. 1920, will hold services for the coming High "It is the best investment in the enough to include e'very Jew in this by a number of relief organizations in Holidays at their Synagogue at 618 will participate in the dedication of The President was heartily moved by cording to the statement, by the s the New Temple that was recently country. world. If religion doesn't mean any'I harbor no ill will or prejudice New York, the purpose of which was Mynster street. They extend a cor- erected. Rabbi: Cohn will return to the welcome extended to him by the Potion of the American, branch of tl»e thing to you, then I ask you to conAgency, now under considers*to any Jew. I care not about his to repatriate the great number of war dial invitation to everyone to attend Omaha Saturday morning to conduct Jewish community. The Jewish j Jewish sider the economic value of Jewish .quarter of Lemberg was decorated a s i t i o n &F leading American Jews, inthe services. prisoners who -where abandoned in his services at the Temple. origin or economic or social circumeducation. A Jewish boy or girl that j eluding Louis Marshall, SatnueS In. the absence of Rabbi Cohn, Mr, it is on a holiday. commits a crime or brings sorrow to stance. There is no such term as Siberia after the collapse of the Rustermyer. Judge Lehman and others. sian Imperial Army and were unable LEAVE CLEVELAND CHESS On Friday evening a gala dinner William L, Holzman will conduct the "offensive Jew" in my vocabulary. I his family and his people represents CLUB ON ACCOUNT services at Temple Israel Friday even- was, given by the muTiicapai author- The same group also is reported to, an economic loss that cannot-be com- never met a Jew who was offensive to go back to their homes. Fifteen organizations participated in the creaOF ANTI-SEMITISM ing, and Mr. William R. Blementhal ities to which many Jewish representa- be engaged in the launching of 4 puted in terms of dollars and cents to me. It is true there are Jews who tion of the fund. The largest contriCleveland. (J. T. A.) All the Jewwill address the members of the Tem- tives were invited. During this dinner, large corporation for financing indusalone. A Jewish boy or girl who by reason of environment and lack of trial enterprises in Palestine.' grows to decent and self-reliant man- proper training and association do bution, however, came from the Amer- ish members, as well as some non- ple on "Constructive Philanthropy." President Wojcieehowsld stated in his ican Red Cross and the American Jewish members, withdrew from the toast, that the Polish government hood or womanhood represents an not measure up to the highest standWORLD UNION OF JEWISH DUTCH EABBI PROTESTS economic gain that is beyond any ards of social conduct, but what of j;Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. Cleveland Chess club for the purpose YOUTH- ASSOCIATIONS wishes the welfare of Polish citizens, • TO-GREEK GOVERNMENT •-.thai? Given the same opportunities The sum of $250,000 was contributed of forming a separate organization as monetary calculation. Danzig. (J. T. A.) The forming disregarding all distinctions of naAGAINST COMPULSORY LAW' "And what does your child mean to that we Jews in America for several by the latter for that purpose. Eight a protest against the flagrant anti- of a World Union of Jewish Youth tionality or religion. A banquet was The Hague. (J. T. A.) Chief Rft&fel Semitic attitude manifested by the also arranged in honor of the Presiyou without a religious and moral- generations have enjoyed, any Jew in hundred war prisoners were returned Associations was proclaimed here at onderwyzer has sent &- tetegniltt.. to club's secretary. . dent by the Wojewoda, where the training. Does-he show that respect | the world would equal us from every from Siberia to their native land what was termed ."World Conference theGreek Governm.nt ifi •wftieh 'ht>~ through the efforts of the repatriation ~ The secretary, during a membership of Jewish Youth Associations" which Jewish members of the Polish Sejrn writes: and affection for his parent that has standpoint. • •..•••;• drive, issued cards as follows: "Good for Eastern Gaiicia were present. fund. made the Jewish family life the envy was concluded on September 9. Cash Is True Test . "We have heard with anxiety d? thit,. luck to all who shun Jews. In the of the civilized world? I would "It is all very well to -applaud Twenty-one associations frda nine passing of a compulsory Sunday ©&»<' • future only those speaking the Amer- various countries with a general mem- JEWISH STUDENTS HOUSE rather lose every possession and posi- these sentiments and say 'that's right, ROUMANIAN KING . . .' servance law for Salonika* Te k#eg' ican language will be admitted. No , AT PENN. UNIVERSITY two days of rest in the week !*.'*a\ tion I hold in the world than lose the that's what we ought to do.' The true bership of 40,000 have joined this RECEIVES BLESSING FROM • more Jewish jabber in this club room." Philadelphia. <J. T. A.) Because economic grounds impoesible lot1 Me^respect and love of my children. You test of your desire to perpetuate your World Union which was reported at KLAUSENBERG RABBI o f the • increasing "number of Jewish people, - The enforcemeat .of DttniAjr1, can't command respect and love from faith and save your children for Juthe conference. Klausenberg. (J. T. A,) A public OZE, JEWISH HEALTH your children. You can't force it out raism is not nice words about it. The scene of unusual interest took place students at the University of Penn- closing, therefore, will *s<mip4l SOCIETY, TO SEND DELEof them, and if you could U» wouldn't true test is MOW MUCH ARE YOU 'recently in connection with -the Rousylvania, the United Synagogues of numbers' of the Jews to vi&lat* "-&aSt GATION TO AMEEICA CHIEF RABBI OF: MOSCOW 1 be worth anything. But the proper manian National Holiday which was Berlin. {J. T. A.) A delegation of . IS SERIOUSLY ILL America, will provide a student house j lay of rest. We trust religious training, the proper Jewish WILLING TO DIG DOWN FOR IN celebrated here. the Oze, the Jewish Health Society. Riga. <J. T. A.) The Chief 'Rabbi for them. A building has been rented feeling of justice of thd'Gwek &m». YOUR POCKET AND PAY. It / \ religious . training will give your The King and Queen of Roumania, will shortly proceed to, America for of Moscow, Dr. Maseh, Is in decim- near the University and is being re- ernment will respond to..our. child the moral and spiritual back- takes .money to do all these things. who attended this celebration and re- the purpose of creating an American ing health and his condition is held as modeled for ase at. the opening of and that facilities will be ta thfe ground from which will spring volun- Not promises to give money. CASH! ceived the representatives of all'de- branch of the society. The Oze has -J very grave, according to reports which school this month. Jewish population to o'b^rvfe'1 That builds Talmud Torahs and hires tarily and naturally the human unnominations, granted the request of been .^active in Russia and in other reached here from Moscow. .-- Aside from the rooms to be used Sabtoath. ' ' ; : M • •';. ; " "•" derstanding^of moral values that is teachers and gives your children re- the "National Union of Transilvanian Eastern European countries irt exby guests, the buildingwill contain a Dr. Msaeh recently suffered several the foundation of .pure human affec- ligious training. I know you.will tell Jews" to receive public blessing- from tending- sanitary assistance toi the hemmorhages and the attending phys- library and several meeting rooms for NAKUM SOKOLOW SS me that you have paid for this drive the Chief Rabbi of Klausenberg. After IMPROVING IN f tion. organisations already existing. Variand that drive, but let me tell you the ceremony the King thanked the Jewish populations in the war-strick-; icians have expressed the fe&r that ous social. features will be offered Berlin. (J. T. A.) Nahtam Soktflow*, All Jews Must Co-operate en countries. - . '.. -.|. ' : {another hetamorhftge . would: cause "What- good is it to you-to boast this, you'll pay more and more and Rabbi and expressed the hope of a - The delegation will also endeavor death. , : -throughout the- year under the direc- who was taken ill ~>tere in a l&e&i sanof your beautiful and costly syn- more -and you'll be glad to pay. For, happy co-ooperation with~"£he -Jews in [ toraise;fciids"for the society in Aroer- j•. •. The sick'/Rabbi practically lost his tion of the United Synagogues of itarium, is improving, according to. reports of the physicians. , .• Rouir-— -agogues if your children will not take I ' i c i u J v - V ".• • "• •.:.< ".'• ' • / : • . . ; ' ' ' • ' ' . v v ' . ' : ' ' : ' • • M - ' - . . . » s i g h t a s h o r t t i m e ~ & 7 ~ - . ';•..; .".•, , . > • . , ' • (Continued on page 2} SOVIET GOVERNMENT REFUSES RETURN OF. REFUGEES London. (J. T. A.) Several hundred I Russian Jewish refugees, who have \ given up their hope of ever being! able to proceed to America or any j other country, have, decided to return to their home-towns but they are prevented from doing so owing to the attitude of the Soviet authorities. Dynamic American Jewish Leader Visits. Omaha and Ad- Several hundred immigrants now stranded in" Warsaw, Constantinople dresses Gathering at Temple Israel—Tells Truth and Riga applied to the representatives of the Soviet Government for of Real Jewish Peril in America With visas to. return home for. which they . Thundering Forcefulness. have been waiting for months. Many of these refugees have exhausted their SAYS TRUE TEST OF JUDAISM IS HOW MUCH means and are now starving. Despite all endeavors and intervenARE YOU WILLING TO PAY FOR IT. tions, the Soviet Government refuses to issue visas to such immigrants who From the pulpit of Temple Israel, David A. Brown of Detroit, have, never participated in any politMich-, one of America's foremost Jews, spoke Wednesday evening ical movement.
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Y.M.andY.W.iiiLtoHo!d Election of Officers Monday
:e Plans Acifities for Year
Emigration -to Siiith Funeral of Pioneer Africa; Presfiit Conitiess
Felts M. Warburg Honored : by Hungary for War Activity