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The Southern Israelite
Highlights and Sidelights
By MARTIN GOLDE
Bringing Judaism
An unusual method for providing for
Jewish Religious Educational work was
inaugurated some years ago by the
Adath Israel Congregation of Louis
ville, Ky. Sponsored by Dr. Joseph
Rauch, Rabbi of the congregation. The
Adath Israel Memorial Foundation for
Synagogue and School Extension in
Kentucky today stands at over $35,-
(KXJ.OO.
Dr. Joseph Rauch
A bequest of $300.00 left to the con
gregation by a Jewish trained nurse
resulted in the establishment of the
Fund. The gift came to the congrega
tion without conditions and the Board
accepted it in the usual way. A few of
the Board members were aware of the
fact that Dr. Rauch was anxious to
establish a Fund to be used for educa
tional purposes along Jewish lines.
There was sufficient visiop at this
meeting of the Board for a motion to
the effect that the gift of $30(H(K) be
placed in a separate fund and so held
until some conclusion could be reached
as to its use.
A special committee of three was
appointed and after many meetings a
resolution was drawn up, presented
to the congregation and accepted on
October 24, 1 ( )22. The resolution pro
vided for establishment of the Adath
Israel Memorial Foundation which was
to “consist of all cash or property, of
whatever kind, that may come unto it
and it shall be kept separate and apart
from all other properties or possessions
of the congregation."
The resolution also provided that a
suitable book to be known as "The
Memorial Volume of Adath Israel Me
morial Foundation" be placed in the
Temple. It further stipulated that no
expenditures should be made from the
principal or interest of this founda
tion until the principal and the accumu
lated interest should have reached the
sum of $50,(XX).(X), after which all ex
penditures to be made from the prin
cipal and interest should be devoted to
the broad advancement of the religious
and educational interest of man.
The Memorial Volume, in which are
inscribed the names of all persons who
bequeath or donate to the fund or in
whose memory donations are made, is
very precious to the members of the
congregation. Before each service it
is removed from the safe and placed
in front of the pulpit upon a beautiful
stand (a gift in memory of the husband
of a member of the congregation).
As a result of Dr. Rauch’s enthusiasm
in regard to the fund gifts have been
coming in slowly but steadily. 1 hrough
his efforts several of the well-to-do
members of the congregation have
pledged themselves to give $100 a year
for ten years.
To Smaller Cities
Those who have contributed $50 or
more to the Adath Israel Memorial
Foundation are as follows:
Mr. and Mrs. Cyrus L. Adler, Miss
Minnie L. Baldauf, Charles Bensinger,
Mr. and Mrs. Milton Bensinger, Mrs.
Dan M. Lorch, Nathan Bensinger, chil
dren of Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Bensin
ger, Mrs. Theodore Bernstein and S. K.
Bernstein.
Mrs. Benjamin Straus, Sam Blitz
and family, Mrs. Meier Victor, Dr.
Philip David Bookstaber, Dr. Florence
Brandeis and friends through the Me
morial Fund Council of Jewish Wom
en, Mrs. Edward Brooks and Joseph
Wolf, George and Harry M. Brown,
I). M. Brucker, Mrs. Louise S. Byck
and children, daughters of Simon David,
Mr. and Mrs. I. Dreyfus, bequest of
Mrs. Mollie Hdelmuth.
Mr. and Mrs. William Fleischaker,
bequest of William Fleischaker, Mr.
and Mrs. Bernie Fleischaker, Memorial
Fund Council of Jewish Women, Mrs.
Jefferson E. Flexner, Mr. and Mrs.
Gus Frankel, Confirmation Class in
memory of Louis Friedman, Mrs. E. I..
Hilpp, Junior Congregation of Adath
Israel.
Mrs. Hattie Grauman Weinbaum,
bequest of Mrs. Doris Grauman, Lillie,
Alma and Jessie Grauman, Mrs. Doris
Grauman, Mrs. Edward Grauman, Mrs.
H. S. Weinbaum, children of Mr. and
Mrs. Phil J. Grauman, Robert A. and
Abe Grabfelder, family of Miss Fannie
Gross, family of Mr. and Mrs. William
Gross, Mrs. Samuel Haas, Percy and
Louis Herman, William S. and Karl
Heidenberg, Mrs. N. Waters, J. S. I ley-
man, Isadore and Carrie Hirsch, Mrs.
Ben H. Hirsch, Mrs. Louis Hirsch.
Walter L. Kohn, children of Mr. and
Mrs. Jacob Kuhn, Sol J. Kuhn and
daughter, bequets of Mrs. Stella B.
Klauber, Henry Klauber, Mrs. Bertie
S. Laub, bequest of Ada Laub, Jacob
and Ada Laub, bequest of Morris Laub,
children of Mr. and Mrs. Sol Lazarus,
Mrs. Frank Lee, individual members of
the Board of Trustees.
Mrs. Jacob Lehman, Mrs. Abe C.
Levi, bequest of Rose Levi, Col. Fred
Levy, children of Mr. and Mrs. Henry
Levy, Sol Levy, Edgar, Percy and Jesse
Lovenhart, bequest of Mrs. Lula Loeb,
Mr. and Mrs. Victor Lorch, Mrs. Al
bert Wolf, Mrs. H. Wolf, Mrs. F.
Mayer and Louis Dinkelspeil, Mr. and
Mrs. I. Lieberman, Mercantile Club and
others.
Children and grandchildren of Mrs.
Henrietta Morris, children and grand
children of E. Morris, J. Garfield
Moses, Adath Israel Religious School,
children of Mrs. Hiram Netoffsky,
children of Hiram Netoffsky, J. E.
Opper.
D. B. G. Rose, family of Emanuel
M. Rosenfelder, friends on the Board
of Trustees in memory of Dr. Chas. J.
Rosenheim, Mrs. Charles Rosenheim,
Dr. and Mrs. Joseph Rauch, Mrs. Louis
L. Rubel, bequest of Jos. Sabel, Mrs.
Jos. G. Sachs, Mr. and Mrs. Morris D.
Sachs.
Grandchildren of Marks Sales, Mr.
and Mrs. Henry Simon, children of
Mrs. Carrie Snyder, Hospital Circle
Council of Jewish Women, Mrs. Eva
Solomon and children, children of Mrs.
Joseph Solomon, Mrs. Charles Star,
Emil and Pauline Steinfeld and chil
dren, Mrs. Morris Stern and Mrs. Fay
Stern May, Mrs. Beatrice Straus Rad-
som, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel L. Straus,
Miss Barbara Bierman.
Louise Thalheimer, Mrs. Monro Thal-
heimer, Mrs. Fanny Tint, Isaac Trost,
bequest of Sam UUman, James S. Ull-
man, uncles, aunt and cousin of James
S. Ullman, Mrs. Jacob Zellner, chil
dren of Mr. and Mrs. Simon Wein-
sfrock, brothers, sisters and nephews of
Betty Weinstock, family of Jennie
Weinstock, bequest of Jacob Zellner.
The Will to Gossip
Walter Winchell, the father of
Broadway slanguage and the progenitor
of a countless brood of columnists and
pseudo-columnists who try to make a
living by prying into the affairs of
other people, has an invaluable ally in
the economic panic—or depression—the
particular phrase you choose being de
pendent on whether you are a Demo
crat or a Republican. The unemploy
ment situation has affected not only
the people who are out of work but
even those in jobs. Gossip is the rule
of the day. The general dispiritedness
makes people want to say bitter, harsh
tlrngs. They like to hear unfortunate
tales. They revel in catastrophes. And
the very people who kick like steers
when they become the cud on the
popular tongue are the ones who most
enjoy the razzing of their neighbors.
So don’t believe your friend when you
hear him comment with a long face on
the "vulgarity of gossip.” lie eats it
up—at the expense of the next fellow.
This time, however, I’m going to take
a vacation from my job of reporting
the less favorable and the more humor
ous aspects of men’s lives and become
entirely impersonal. This column is
dedicated to the spirit of Jewish humor.
And I shall quote at random from some
of the most stable of Jewish witticisms.
Perhaps in this day of snappy come
back and brisk repartee these Jewish
tales may seem somewhat prudish. But
our fathers liked them—so why not
you?
Sauce for the Gander
There is the story of the Jew who
returned to his small town after an ex
tended visit to the big city. Vienna, to
be exact. Coming to his synagogue
crallies he spoke with rapture of the
^reat cantor he had heard. "What a
marvelous voice lie has,” he commented.
The local cantor, who felt that the re
mark was a dig at him, asked: “Did
you perhaps see Rothschild in the
synagogue while you were there?"
‘Oh yes," the Jew replied. "He was
ca'Ied to the Torah and gave a gift of
several thousand dollars to the syn,
gogue.”
‘What a marvelous synagogue men
her!" commented the cantor.
Cmvs for You
In a certain small town there wa-
Jew who occupied in his own per
the various offices of preacher, teacl
and shochet. Having to go to court
a witness in an action, he found him-,
confronted by a Jew-baiting jud.
when he got on the stand. The ju<!
tried every possible means of humili.
ing him, casting slurs at the Jews, ,i
always concluding every remark-
addressing him as “Mr. Shoeln
When the testimony was finished t
judge asked him: "You have noth
further to say, Mr. Shochet?"
"Just one thing,” replied the Jev.
"1 am a preacher for the grown foil.'
a teacher for the children and a shoe
for the cows."
Curing Alcoholism
The Jewish town drunkard onrt
promised his rabbi that lie would n
take another drop of liquor. Rut im
mediately after that pledge was given
he began to lose weight, his <.-><-
drooped, his health suffered. Finally
h< became so ill that a physician v.is
called in. The latter ordered that tIn
patient resume his drinking. "But 1
promised the rabbi that I wouldn't
touch another drop,” the former drunk
protested.
Refusing to have his orders disobeyed,
the doctor turned to the man's three
sons, who were standing about the bed.
and said: "Two of you will have to hold
hir, hands and feet; the third one will
use force to pour the liquor down his
throat. You must do that every day
until he gets back his appetite tor
drink."
After ? pause the father heaved a
deep sigh and remarked with a martyr -
voice: "As I see it, nothing will help
me. At least do me the favor to see
that only one son holds my hands and
feet and the other two pour drinks
down my throat.”
(Continued on Page 18)
zSf I oice From The Past
MAJOR ALFRED DREYFUS COLONEL ESTERHAZY
who was imprisoned for high treason. who committed the act of high treason.
In Paris the drama of the Affaire Dreyfus is still running strong, having held the ' • •<
*?. r over 35 years. This time a play based on the famous case—written by Jae
Richepin, whose father was among the most prominent anti-Dreyfusards—started
trouble. 1 he descendants of Col. Esterhazy, for whose crime Dreyfus was c.
martialed, are trying to stop the show ami Paris is again discussing the Affaire Dre>
as if the real story had taken place only yesterday. Some political groups go so
as to demand a new Dreyfus trial, notwithstanding the fact that the trial goes on ev<
evening before a packed house in a Paris theatre.