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HIGHLIGHTS & SIDELIGHTS IN THE LIMELIGHT
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The God Who Hu rued
A variant of the wooden God story is
to be found in Russia, where they tell
of the Jew and the peasant who were
very friendly neighbors. One day both
their homes burned down and they lost
everything they owned. The Jew didn’t
seem particularly affected, but the Rus
sian went about distraught and wept to
everybody who would listen to his sad
tale.
In desparation he came to his Jewish
friend and asked : “I can’t understand.
Why are you so content? Didn’t we
both lose everything?”
“Well,” said the Jew, “I still have my
God. Hut yours is lying there in the
house with the other charred remains.”
A Modern Solomon
Ever since Solomon saved the child
over whom two mothers were battling
for possession, Jews have been busy
creating new versions to illustrate
Solomonic wisdom. Incidentally, many
of these tales contain excellent juristic
pointers for our contemporary legal
luminaries. Take this story, for ex
ample, of the rascally Polish peasant
and his Jewish neighbor.
The Jew bought a cow from the Pole
and brought it to his stable. To his
consternation he was seized by the
police next day, who said that the
peasant charged the Jew with having
stolen the animal. No protests by the
Jew were of any avail. Finally the case
came to court.
Under oath the Pole insisted that he
had been robbed and the Jew declared
tint he had paid for the cow. When
it seemed that the case was lost the
lawyer for the Jew came over to the
peasant, who was on the stand, and
sa : d:
"Now this Jewish neighbor of yours
will have to spend months behind the
bars. Think of his poor wife and
children. Without his earnings they
will starve. Won’t you show your com
passion by giving a gold piece to help
them along?”
The peasant, yielding to the appeal,
gave the lawyer the money. He step
ped down from the stand. The judge
cleared his throat to pronounce
sentence.
Just then the Jewish lawyer inter
rupted: "The trustworthiness of this
peasant as a witness has been complete
ly smashed by a fact which has just
come to my attention. A few minutes
ago he gave me a gold piece for the
poor family of the defendant. 1 have
just found out that the gold piece is
not a true coin and that we are dealing
with a notorious counterfeiter.”
At once the Pole jumped forward and
shouted: "It’s a d lie! This is
some Jewish trick they’re trying to
pull. This gold piece came from the
money which I got from the Jew when
Ik bought the cow.”
The Basis of Good-Will
There is a very famous story which
some good-will advocate in this coun
try might want to use to further Chris-
tian-Jewish harmony. It concerns an
eminent Catholic bishop who, in dis
cussing Christian-Jewish relations with
an equally prominent rabbi, said:
"You Jews must really hate us. Af
ter all, you have a prayer in your daily
services which gives praise to God be
cause you were not born a goy.”
“True,” said the rabbi, “but we also
have a prayer which gives thanks to
God that we men were not born
women. It is our duty, of course, to
love and to honor them.”
(Copyright 1931 by Seven Arts Feature
Syndicate)
SIME SILVERMAN, editor and pub
lisher oi Variety, in France is a fugitive
from the law. Silverman asserted in his
paper that Pierre Meyer, a French actor,
is a “ham,” and more to that effect,
whereupon Meyer brought suit against
him. The court assessed a fine oi $2,000
and a jail term of one year, but Silver-
man could not be caught.
T
JOSEPH ROSENSTEIN, messenger
boy of the Chicago Daily News, is the
new prodigy that has crossed the Ameri
can musical horizon. He will appear as
violin soloist with the Chicago symphony
orchestra in their forthcoming recitals.
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DAVID ROSENBERG, noted commu
nist leader and diplomat, has been ap-
pointed Soviet Ambassador to Rome.
▼
ISRAEL EFROIKIN, well known
communal worker in Paris, has been
elected President of the Federation of
Jewish Organizations of France.
▼
IVY LEE, famous publicity man, and
associate of John I). Rockefeller, Jr., in
an address delivered over a nation-wide
radio hookup, reviewing the personnel
and structure of the Russian State, em
phasized that “there is only one Jew in
the Soviet cabinet, and that is Maxim
Litvinoff, Commissar for Foreign Af
fairs.”
T
SAM DREYFUSS, son of Harney
Dreyfuss, owner of the Pittsburgh Pi
rates, died recently in Pittsburgh of pneu
monia at the age of 34. Sam was the
vice president and treasurer of the ball
club, with which he had been associated
since his graduation from Princeton Uni
versity.
▼
HARRY F. WOLF, winner of the
national amateur squash tennis champion
ship of 1930, again secured the title this
year when he defeated Rowland B. Haines
in the closing game of the scries.
▼
HOWARD CULLMAN, well-known
Jewish communal worker of New York,
has been designated by Governor Frank
lin I). Roosevelt to head a special board
to study the medical and hospitalization
aspects of workmen’s compensation in the
State.
▼
LOUIS J. BORINSTEIN, national
chairman of the B’nai B’rith Wider
Scope Committee, was recently named
president of the Indianapolis Chamber
of Commerce.
▼
JUSTICE IRVING LEHMAN, of the
State Court of Appeals in New York
C itv, was recently re-elected president of
Congregation Emanu-El there. In his
annual report Justice Lehman declared
that the congregation can find ground for
satisfaction in much of its work during
the past year, but that this “must not
blind us to the fact that our opportunity
requires of us even more than we have
achieved.”
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