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The Southern Israelite
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National News
Cleveland.—For the first time in Cleve-
,1 history, eight different religious
•, will meet on one platform in a
eram of brief addresses, each one in
irn presenting the ideals and funda-
h ntals of his particular faith.
I he “Fellowships of Faiths” evening
will be held at the Temple on the
I (eights, under the auspices of the Men’s
C lub, for the purpose of bringing about
,i more sympathetic understanding of re
ligious faiths and a finer feeling of
fellowship.
1 lie various faiths and their represent-
.itives will be as follows: Confucianism,
by Francis C. T. Wang; Hinduism, by
shunti Bahadur; Bahaism, by Dr. Myrta
Perkins Sandoze; Catholicism, by Cletus
kubek; Mohammedanism, by Tien Lai
Huang; Protestanism, by Alfred J.
Wright; Druianism, by Dr. Mohammed
K Yahya; Judaism, by Rabbi Abraham
Nowak, of the Temple on the Heights.
* * *
Pittsburgh. — Continuing its steady
policy of expansion and growth, Beth
.Shalom Congregation of Squirrel Hill,
the leading orthodox synagogue in the
city, marked another chapter in its his
tory with the laying of a cornerstone
for its new $350,000 building. The new
edifice will be constructed adjacent to
the old structure which is now known
as the Community House and which
will henceforth be used by the Hebrew
and Religious School of the Congre
gation.
Many of the city’s rabbis as well as
outstanding members of the commu
nity attended the cornerstone laying
exercises. Rabbi Benjamin A. Lichter,
B’nai Israel Congregation, gave the in
vocation, and Attorney Maurice L.
Avner, president of the congregation,
and Rabbi Goodman A. Rose, spiritual
head of Beth Shalom, spoke. Mrs.
Samuel Aronson w’as high bidder to
lay the first stone.
* * *
Chicago. — The Orthodox Rabbinate
of Chicago won a complete victory in
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the war it has been waging against
the local schochtim because of terror
ism in the kosher butcher business
here and because of infractions of the
kosher ritual, l'lie schochtim’s union
acceded to all the demands of the Rab
binate and the ban on eating kosher
poultry by Orthodox Jews declared
more than a week ago in an endeavor
to wipe out racketeering has been of
ficially lifted. Killings will be resumed
and kosher poultry will again be avail
able at Jewish markets.
The announcement made at a joint
meeting of the newly elected officials
of the schochtim’s union and the mem
bers of the Rabbinical Board at the
Hebrew Theological College. The rais
ing of the ban follows the accession of
the schochtim to the Rabbinate’s de
mands which included the ousting of
the old officers and the election of a
new set approved by the rabbis, the
removal of Joe Ktkins as business man
ager and the appointment of a pro
fessional schochet in his place and the
submission of the schochtim to rab
binical control.
The new officers have been elected,
a new business manager appointed and
an examining board of thirty-three,
eleven schochets, eleven rabbis, and
eleven laymen named to handle fu
ture disputes.
* * *
Pasadena.—Dr. Albert Einstein, Dr.
Albert Abraham Michelson, and Dr.
Robert Andrews Millikan, three of the
world’s greatest scientific minds, got to
gether at the California Institute of
Technology recently to examine the uni
verse. Two of these three distinguished
scientific stars arc Jews, but their rela
tions to the Jews are significantly dif
ferent.
While Doctor Einstein is known to the
world both as a Jew and as a scientist,
Doctor Michelson is known only as a
scientist. Einstein has gotten into the
headlines almost as much because of his
Judaism, a virile and nationalist Jewish
ness, as because of his contributions to
man’s knowledge of the universe. Doctor
Michelson has never, so far as is known,
been in any way interested in things
Jewish.
Professor Einstein is a German Jew
who is probably the best-known Jew in
the world. Professor Michelson comes
of Polish-Jewish ancestry and is per
haps hardly known as a Jew at all. Doctor
Einstein is proud of his Jewishness and
takes every opportunity to make it known
as witness his outspoken adherence to
Zionism, his protests against Hitlerism,
and his genuine interest in all Jewish
problems. Doctor Michelson, on the other
hand, has been conspicuously indifferent
to Jewish affairs. He has never ex
pressed himself on any Jewish problems
and has never participated in any Jewish
undertaking.
When these two Jewish scientists meet
to chart or rechart the universe, what
will Einstein, the conscious Jew, say to
Michelson, the indifferent Jew? Scien
tists would give much to hear the con
versation of these two men, but Jews
would perhaps give even more.
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food had been going down? So it does.
And it’s taken quite a slide, hasn’t it?
Down to about 1 5% lower than it was
in September, 1929, according to the
Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Better not erase it then; because A UP
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line than anybody else in the United
States. For, as growers and producers
have reduced their prices, A UP has
reduced the price of food in its stores.
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country for keeping the price of
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