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national and foreign
York.— ITie Nazis started an in-
dia \ fire under the temporary wooden
n in the King»bridge Armory on
. nr 0 p ( ning night of the Jewish pageant,
jl, f Romance of a People,” Samuel Un-
tfrmver. president of the American
IratfU' for Defense of Jewish Rights,
m ged in a radio address in which he
j. dcd the action of Mayor O’Brien in
arrim the Nazi celebration of German
pav <>n October 29, and denied that the
in was in invasion of the right of free
,xech and free assembly. He said it
,0* simply an effort to preserve peace
inJ order ‘ against an alien gang who
ne operating in this country for the pur-
,,f of making trouble.” Mr. Untermyer
lacked Heinz Spanknoebel, Nazi leader
this country, asserted that he had en-
.red the country illegally and that he
,»is seeking to coerce the German-lan-
k. a^e papers into supporting Nazi propa
ganda under threat of reprisals.
Id Aviv.—Tel Aviv, the only all-
Ifwish city in the world, will celebrate
-, 25th anniversary by playing host to
;he annual Levant Fair in the spring of
1934. The cornerstone for the fair build
ing has just been laid. Work is now pro-
reding on the British pavilion, a large
irk and an improved bathing beach.
W ashington—Congressman Samuel
Dickstein, chairman of the House Immi
gration Committee, has called upon Presi
dent Roosevelt to modify the Hoover ex
ecutive order on immigration to make
possible the entry to the United States
under proper safeguards of German and
other refugees suffering religious and po
litical persecution.” Mr. Dickstein pointed
out that Congress never intended the im
migration law to be changed by executive
order, as it was by President Hoover in
1929, as a result of which immigration
was practically cut off.
New ^ ork—An economic system assur
ing justice to all is a vital necessity for
a successful Jewish civilization. Dr. Sam
uel Dinin, research graduate of Columbia
l niversity, writes in his survey, “Juda
ism in a Changing Civilization," just
made public. Pointing out that although
the long exile has deprived Jewish civili
zation of many elements common to all
civilizations and has weakened what re
mains of Jewish civilization, he declares
there is still enough left to create a full
civilization. He urges that the problems
of Jewish education be a matter of great
concern not only to Jews but to all Amer
icans who have the welfare of the United
States at heart.
Vilna, Poland—Thousands of Jews,
imong them scores of rabbis, from all
;irts of Poland and the neighboring
entries, gathered in the village of
Railin to attend the funeral of Rabbi Is-
rarl Meier Cohen, known throughout the
.'rthodox Jewish world as the Chofetz
Chaim, who died in Radin at the age of
I"L Regarded by Orthodox Jews as one
f the 36 saints because of whose piety
the Lord refrained from destroying the
'oriel, the Chofetz Chaim had been an
•bject of veneration for generations. The
'vnagogue, where he had been a rabbi
for a long time, was the goal of pilgrim
ages by Jews from all sections of the
globe seeking his blessing. Modest and
humble to the extreme, he served as rabbi
■'ithout compensation. He was a noted
Ialmudic scholar and authority on Jew-
'h lore. The name Chofetz Chaim came
t" him from a book of the same name
published 60 years ago, in which he chron
icled the various types of slander which a
pious Jew must avoid.
New York—A new Jewish back-to-the-
•and movement in the United States de-
'igned to establish Jewish cooperative
Nrm settlements under the auspices of a
national organization to be headed by
Jgruultural experts, civic leaders and
^Preventative* of national and labor bod-
,e ' will be launched in the middle ol
'ictn cr at a conference in New York ol
re P r < 'entatives of the leading Jewish or-
*-*ni ttions. Announcement of this wa<
by Benjamin Brown, chairman ol
rovisional Commission for the Es-
hment of Jewish Farm Settlement!
United States, a recently created
ization. The Commission aims tc
the support of Jewish leaden
ghout the country. Dr. Chaim Zhit-
. ^ iddish writer, is honorary chair-
• the commission.
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■ —The great $20,000,000 Haifa
which will make Palestine the com-
al mecca of the Near East, opened
r ' tly. High Commissioner Wauchope
; he principal speaker at the opening
Cfr onies.
Chicago—Under the direction of Max
M. Korshak and General John V. Clin-
nin, the world-wide boycott against tier-
man goods will be launched in Chicago
immediately. Mr. Korshak is a member
of the administrative committee of IS of
the American League for the Defrnsc of
Jewish Rights, while General Clinnin is
a member of the League's executive com-
mitte of 100. Chicago is one of the seven
cities designated as district headquarters
for the boycott campaign. The others
are New York, Boston, Philadelphia,
Cleveland, St. Louis and San Francisco.
New York—Broadway and the stage
world turned out en masse to pay last
honors to Martin Herman, brother of A.
H. Woods, theatrical producer, who had
for years been known as the angel of
down and out actors and stage people.
Herman, who was a silk merchant, be
came his brother's general manager in
1905, when Woods went into the produc
ing game independently. For years he
was Wood’s closest advisor but he re
mained in the background. He was also
known as a lightning calculator because
of his ability to supply immediate an
swers to intricate mathematical problems.
Mr. Herman was 61 years old.
London—In behalf of England’s 300,-
000 Jews, the Jewish Board of Deputies
has forwarded a memorandum to the
League of Nations regarding the perse
cution of the Jews in Germany. I he
memorandum was prepared by Leonard
Stein, former political secretary of the
World Zionist Organization. Norman
Bentwich, former attorney-general of
Palestine, and Leonard Montefiore, presi
dent of Anglo-Jewish Association, have
gone to Geneva to attend the meeting
of the League’s Council and to make ef
forts to have the plight of the German-
Jews discussed. At the last meeting of the
Jewish Board of Deputies it was an
nounced that Chancellor Dolfuss, of Aus
tria, had assured the Board that there
was no danger to Jews under his regime.
Many speakers at the meeting expressed
regret that the British government had
not taken up the German-Jewish situation
before the League.
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