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The Southern Israelite
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NATIONAL NEWS
w York City—Various methods are
pursued by the Sections of the
nal Council of Jewish Women in
•jeving problems arising from the
■.employment situation. In St. Louis,
Jewish Scholarship Foundation of
Council Section, of which Mrs. Ben
Jacobs is president, has this year
Mributed thirty scholarships to boys
.I girls, who are thus enabled to con
iine their education without hardships
. their families. In Oklahoma City,
the Council Section, of which Mrs.
lien Hirschland is president, enrolled
ictnbers of its Section for cooperation
with the plans of the City’s Committee
r the relief of unemployment. The
‘ittsburgh Section, of which Mrs. Leo
Halt is president, has been urging
amities to give part time employment
u their households to young girls.
The National Council of Jewish
Women is represented on President
Hoover’s Emergency Committee for
Employment, through its national
Chairman of Vocational Guidance and
Employment, Mrs. Francis 1). Poliak.
* * *
Albuquerque, N. M.—The title of
•'Great Relative” has been bestowed
upon Albert Einstein by the Hopi
Indians of Arizona. The news of the
Junior conferred upon the scientist be
came known when he arrived here on
his way from Winslow, Arizona, where
lie had made a brief stop. The title
was evolved by the Indian chieftain
when it was explained to him that Ein-
tcin is most famous for his theory of
relativity.
* * *
New York, N. Y.—There are 5,000
lews in the army, navy and marine
forces of the United States, according
to a report made by Dr. Cyrus Adler
at the annual meeting ox the National
Council of the Jewish Welfare Board,
held here at the Y. M. H. A. building.
He added that about 1,000 men of Jew-
i'h faith were in disabled veterans’
hospitals of the country.
In his message as president Judge
Irving Lehman of the New York Court
"f Appeals said that the Jewish Wel
fare Board is now co-operating with
-’54 constituent organizations. During
the past two years Felix M. Warburg
contributed $150,000 to the work of the
Board, Mortimer L. Schiff $100,000,
Henry Kaufman of Pittsburg $200,000,
and $175,000 was received from the
estate of Conrad Hubert. A deficit of
$55,000 ended the year’s work.
* * *
Albany, N. Y.—A delegation of
Orthodox Jewish leaders, from New
'"rk City and other communities, ap
peared before the Legislative Codes
"imnittee to urge the passage of a
icasure which would legalize Sunday
trading by Jews. It was pointed out
1 the committee that Sabbath-observ-
,n K Jews were being made to suffer
n their business because of the ban on
>undav business. “Those who have
pposed measures of this nature in the
:t> t seem to think that we are trying
undermine and destroy their Sunday.
’>at is not the case,” asserted Rabbi
vrnard Drachman, President of the
wish Sabbath Alliance, who added
ut he wanted a bill enacted in order
help preserve Jewish orthodoxy.
* * *
cinnati, Ohio—B'nai B’rith Wider
' e campaigns for from $1,000 to
'*0 are under way in many Texas
■ and towns as the result of an
ization visit of Isidor Kadis,
nal field director of the Wider
Scope Committee. Mr. Kadis spent all
of February and the first part of March
in Texas. He addressed B’nai B’rith
and Jewish community groups at
B’nai B’rith lodge meetings. Wider
Scope luncheons, meetings of the Coun
cil of Jewish Women, and from the
pulpits of leading rabbis, in Dallas,
Austin, San Antonio, Galveston, Hous
ton, Waco and Ft. Worth.
Mr. Kadis instituted a two-year cam
paign for $10,(KX) in Dallas, with Sol
Dreyfuss as chairman, and Louis Brom
berg as treasurer. A fourth of this
sum was raised during Mr. Kadis’ visit,
after he addressed a large audience in
Rabbi David Lefkowitz’s temple on the
importance of the B’nai B’rith Hillel
Foundations.
* * *
New York, N. Y.—A gloomy picture
of Jewish conditions in Europe was
presented to a meeting of t lie executive
commitftee of the American Jewish
Congress by Dr. Joseph Tenenbaum,
chairman of tlie committee. Economic
discrimination and physical brutality
in Rumania, oppressive legislation in
Poland, social isolation in Germany, in
tellectual anti-Semitism in Soviet Rus
sia, minority oppression in Lithuania
were described by Dr. Tenenbaum, who
declared that “economic anti-Semitism,
now rampant throughout Central
Europe, is a far more destructive wea
pon than mere anti-Jewish agitation,
and has thrown millions of Jews on the
Drink of disaster and mass starvation."
Referring to Soviet Russia, Dr. Tenen
baum said that the government is un
able to prevent anti-Semitic outbreaks
in factories, agricultural settlements
and in the army. He reported that
under King Carol Jewish conditions in
Rumania had improved l>ut that much
still has to be done “to satisfy a modest
conception of justice.”
* * *
Los Angeles, Calif.—Mordecai Mcn-
dal Dolitzky, well-known Yiddish novel
ist and publicist, who helped to found
the Yiddish press in America, died here
at the age of 75. Born at Bialostok,
Russia, Dolitzky became identified with
Hebrew literature at the age of 19,
and contributed to the leading Hebrew
journals for many years. Coming to
the United States in 1892 he found no
place for his Hebrew writings, and he
began to concentrate on Yiddish, writ
ing numerous novels of Jewish life.
* * *
Chicago, III.—A sum totaling $130,000
is left to various Chicago charitable and
educational institutions by the will of
Harry Hart, late partner of Hart,
Schaffner & Marx, clothing manufac
turers. An estate of $5,000,000 was be
queathed to relatives.
* * *
Washington, D. C.—The Jenkins bill
to cut immigration into the United
States by 90 per cent, which had pre
viously been passed with an overwhelm
ing majority in # the House, died in the
Senate, when it* suffered the fate of a
number of other important bills as a
result of the filibuster of Senator
Thomas of Oklahoma, who failed to get
action on a pet oil measure.
* * *
Greenville, S. C.—Almost three score
Jewish grocers and restaurateurs were
brought before a local court to answer
charges of keeping their establishments
open on Sunday. Arrested under old
blue-law acts, half of them were fined
$25.00 and the rest given suspended
sentences.
St. Louis.—No political anti-Semit
ism, as it is known in Europe, exists
in American universities. It only crops
out in privately endowed universities,
and it is directed against Jews who
arouse prejudice not only in Christian,
DR. JUDAH LEIB MAGNES
the Chancellor of the Hebrew University of
Jerusalem, who is coming to America for a
short visit to his native land. Dr. Magnes,
stormy petrel of Jewish life, whose outspoken
demand for an Arah-Jewish understanding in
Palestine at all costs aroused much criticism
in Zionist quarters a year or so ago, is coming
here in the interests of the Hebrew University.
Will he reopen the controversy regarding Arab
Jewish relations while he is here? This is
the question that agitates official Zionist head
quarters. Or will he keep aloof from all poli
tical controversies?
but in the better and more refined
Jewish circles as well, according to
Judge William S. Evans, of New York,
National President of the Zcta Beta
Tau. Judge Evans spoke at the thirty-
second annual convention of this Jew
ish fraternity being held at the Hotel
Jefferson here.
“Anti-Semitism is no obstacle in the
way of the advancement of Jewish stu
dents, and Jews are in a position to
knock its head down wherever it ap
pears,” declared Judge Evans. “Jewish
fraternities have done much to eradi
cate anti-Semitism by showing Chris
tians something of the Jew to admire
and respect.”
Increased social service and a greater
devotion to Jewish student congrega
tions was urged by Alfred Levy. Al
bert Horwitz and William Friedberg
also urged more Jewish cultural ac
tivities by the Zeta Beta Tau.
Reporting on the activities of this
fraternity during the past year, Judge
Evans stated that a Julius Kahn Me
morial Fund has been established at the
University of California as a loan fund
to aid junior and senior students. Con
tributions have also been made to the
Hebrew University in Jerusalem as a
subscription toward the establishment
of a scholarship there in the name of
the fraternity, and a plan to raise schol
arship funds for needy students at the
Hebrew University is being considered.
The Louis Marshall Cup for greatest
interest in Jewish affairs has been
awarded to Alpha Omicron Chapter at
the University of Arizona, and the
Julius Kahn Cup for the best indi
vidual has been given to Frederick W.
Sington, all-American football player
at the University of Alabama.
* + *
Philadelphia—Gold jewelry and coins
of the Byzantine Empire, as well as arti
cles of bronze, glass and terra cotta
from the Roman period have been exca
vated at Beisan with the renewal of
archaeological work here by the Univer
sity of Pennsylvania Museum’s Palestine
expedition, according to a rejiort received
bv Horace H. F. Jayne, director of the
museum. •
In addition to finding these objects, all
of which belong to about the Sixth Cen
tury, A. 1)., the expedition also made a
wholly unexpected discovery of impor
tance when it unearthed a building, be
lieved to be either a chapel or villa of
Byzantine origin, whose rooms still re
tained much of their original mosaic pav
ing The Palestine expedition is directed
this year by Gerald M. Fitz-Gerald who
served for several years as Acting Di
rector of Antiquities in Jerusalem.
“Since beginning its work at Beisan
this season the expedition has concen
trated its efforts chiefly on the excava
tion of a cemetery and we have succeeded
in excavating about thirty tombs there
thus far,” Mr. Fitz-Gerald writes in his
report. “Nearly all of them,” he con
tinues, “have proved to be of Roman or
Byzantine date but one tomb we dis
covered was of a different type, namely
a ledge of rock on which lay five of
the pottery sarcophagi of the ‘slipper’
type with lids representing human heads,
which have been associated with the
Philistine or other Egyptian mercenaries
of about the 12th century B. C.
“The principal finds in the Roman and
Byzantine tombs consist of lamps, glass
vases and small objects of bronze. An
extremely graceful terra cotta figurine
is a noteworthy find and of the same
material is the figure of a cock. Some
gold earrings and a large number of
Canadian beads were among other objects
unearthed.
“A wholly unexpected discovery was
made on the summit of the cemetery
slope when a stone gateway over three
metres wide was uncovered leading into
a room paved with a mosaic floor. On
the threshold the mosaic bears a Greek
inscription, obviously of the Byzantine
period. Beyond the inscription part of a
pattern has been uncovered, including
figures of birds in square panels, ap
parently arranged round an octagonal
figure.”
WHY I AM A JEW
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ways been annoyed by the undignified
assimilationist cravings and strivings
which I have observed in so many of
my friends.
1 hrough the establishment of a Jew
ish Commonwealth in Palestine the
Jewish people will again be in a posi
tion to bring its creative abilities into
full play without hindrance. Through
the Jewish University and similar in
stitutions the Jewish people will not
only help forward its own national
renaissance but will enrich its moral
culture and knowledge, and will once
again, as it was centuries ago, be
guided into better ways of life than
.hose which are inevitably imposed on
it in present conditions.