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random thoughts
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>Jian y more years than 37 figured in
u , rnl \. of wear and tear on the nerv-
r . system. One thing about Eddie,
[ e isn’t ashamed to tell the world what
le earns. Really it’s nothing to be
jashful about when one makes $5,000
b week and gets it, not in stage
[noney, but in currency of the coun
try. Then he casually mentions that
Irmr afternoon recently Nathan Jones,
,f Brooklyn, who handles his (Can-
ur’.-O investments, presented Eddie
kvith $140,000 as the return on some
thing or other. Perhaps the next
morning friend Jones wheeled over to
[Manhattan another load of money for
Eddie. Of course it really isn’t so
[hard to retire when one is tired if one
lean retire on a mattress stuffed with
a million dollars or so.
IF DAVID BELASCO AND MOR-
IRIS Gest were religious Jews they
[could never have brought the Passion
[Play to this country. Maybe they are
Lews by race or nationality or just
[by birth. I just don’t know how to
[classify some Jews. They belong and
[yet they don’t. Here we have two
[well known Jews producing the Pas-
Lion Play which has been condemned,
[to my own knowledge, by foremost
[Jewish Rabbis ever since I can re-
[member. I have talked to some who
[have seen the play in Europe and
[they assure me that it has a tendency
[to keep alive the prejudice against
[the Jews. Now Gest and Belasco
knew this, at least they were advised
[of it. Yet either through stubborness
[or ignorance they insisted on going
[ahead with it. They are both leaders
in their art, but after all there is
[something higher than art which
[neither Mr. Gest nor his father-in-law,
l.Mr. Belasco, seem to have discovered.
Wherever this play is advertised to
[appear the Jews should at least pro
test to the local management in an
effort to prevent it.
OF COURSE EINSTEIN IS1
[much of a scientist. Cardinal O’C
[nell, Boston, knows that. And I
[astonished that the University
I l aris didn’t consult the learned Pri
[of the Church before conferring
honorary doctor’s degree on Einst<
[the first, by the way, that has b
jawarded to a German since the v
I am sure that scientists associa
jv-ith the University of Paris have b
[completely fooled by the claims
I .mstein that he is an outstand
scientist. When they want to kr
r 0 * s a scientist and who isn’t, tl
j , ; go to a churchman like Cai
r al O’Connell or is it O’Donnell
, ' the Cardinal will not h
sleep disturbed over this i
| _ r that has been conferred u
Einstein. You probably do not
p , ^ ^ he Cardinal thinks that
Itk' * s concealed in Einste
<r> and that it is a menace
Pnstianity. Yes, Einstein is a v.
rC'r , gerous man and no won
C\ w dlnal trembles at the thou
ev m ight happen if the w<
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WHAT OF INTERMARRIAGES?
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whereby the harmony of His de
sign might be achieved in its per
fection. To trespass against one’s
neighbor or to be arrogant or im
pure of heart were alike contrary
to the working out of this grand
pattern. The punishment for such
non co-operation was punishment
in the form of war and plague and
uneasiness of the spirit. The re
ward for obedience to it was peace,
peace with one’sfellowmen, in one’s
household and in one’s heart. This,
so far as he could read it, was the
essence of the Word which had
bound this people through three
thousand years.”
This summary of Jewish faith is
one of the most profound that has
ever been uttered by an American
Jewish layman, who has arrived at it
not through religious formulas but
through practical experience and
through philosophic introspection.
“The Disinherited,” on this account
alone, ranks with that other great
confession of faith by the eminent
French Jew, Edmond Fleg, called
“Why I Am A Jew.”
Waldman’s book is bound to create
a furore, particularly among those
Jews who are indifferent to Jewish
matters. The following sentences par
ticularly are likely to offend the sen
sibilities of many Christians and some
Jews but they are none the less a
striking characterization of the Jew
ish people:
“He saw that to be a Jew meant
something more than merely to be
a foreigner with certain peculiar
characteristics. He had been willing
to accept the fact of the difference
of race, even in himself, but he
perceived that he had not seen
deeply enough. With the Jews
alone race and religion were in
terwoven and inseparable—it was
essential religiousness, their pecu
liar sense of intimacy with their
Creator, which identified them as a
people.”
Copyright 1929 by Seven Arts Fea
ture Syndicate.
MELBOURNE JEWS START
ERECTION OF SYNAGOGUE
Melbourne (J. T. A.).—The corner
stone for a new synagogue to be
erected here at a cost of $200,000 was
laid today in the presence of an im
pressive gathering. Dr. Jones, presi
dent of the Hebrew Congregation
which is erecting the synagogue, pre
sided at the exercises.
An appeal for the erection of a me
morial to the Jewish soldiers who
fell in the British army during the
World war was made by Minister of
Education for Victoria, H. Cohen.
SOVIET TO PROMULGATE NEW
LAW PUNISHING ANTI- SEMI-
TISM IN ALL FORMS
Moscow (J. T. A.).—The Commis
sariat of Justice was instructed by
the Council of People’s Commissars
to prepare a bill for the enactment
of a special law increasing the pen
alties to be meted out by the Soviet
courts for anti-Semitism in all of its
forms and manifestations.
Two anti-Semitic students who
were expelled from the University of
Veronezh for anti-Semitic acts were
reinstated.
TEL AVIV CELEBRATES ITS
TWENTIEH ANNIVERSARY
AT EXHIBITION OF PALES
TINE INDUSTRIES
Textile Factory Barkai Receives Gold
Medal
Tel Aviv, (J. T. A.).—The twenti
eth anniversary of the existence of Tel
Aviv, the first all-Jewish city in Pales
tine, was celebrated at the fair
grounds of the Palestine and Near
East Exhibition.
Mayor Dizengoff in his opening ad
dress paid tribute to the memory of
the Jewish victims of the 1921 Arab
riots. He traced the history of the
city since its early beginnings and
declared that the municipality has de
cided to name the street which is the
continuation of the Rothschild Boule
vard as the Keren Kayemath Boule
vard in recognition of the Palestine
Foundation Fund’s assistance granted
to the founders of Tel Aviv by pro
viding them with loans to build houses.
The District Commissioner speaking
in Hebrew congratulated Tel Aviv on
behalf of the government. It is cer
tain that some mistakes were made,
he stated, but the city of Tel Aviv
is a great success and symbolizes the
everlasting faith of the Jewish race.
Among other speakers were Miss Hen
rietta Szold on behalf of the Zionist
Executive, Dr. Joshua Thon on behalf
of the Vaad Leumi, Leib Jaffe on be
half of the Keren Hayesod, Mr. Wil-
kansky on behalf of the Keren Kaye
math and representatives of the colo
nies and the Labor Federation.
A striking feature of the celebration
was a march of all native Tel Aviv-
ians. All those who were born in Tel
Aviv came in groups, each age with its
banner. The oldest of the native born
sons of Tel Aviv delivered an address,
describing Tel Aviv as a center for
the free development of the south.
The Mayor handed him a certificate
describing him as the first native son
of Tel Aviv. The celebration was con
cluded with a blessing by Rabbi Ben-
zion Uziel, chief Rabbi of the Sep
hardic community in Tel Aviv, who
offered a prayer that “God help his
people Israel to revive in the Land of
Israel.” Many who were present shed
tears.
An indication of the growth in the
Palestine industries was seen in the
award at the exhibition of a gold med
al to Barkai, a textile manufacturing
plant established two years ago in the
Chassidic colony, B’nai Brack, near
Tel Aviv. The textile factory employs
fifty workers and finds a market for
its products in Palestine and Syria.
Fifty thousand dollars have been in
vested in the enterprise, $30,000 of
which were raised in the United States
by I. Gerstenkorn, president of the
company.
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