Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1939-12-22

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Vol. 18   No. ,13
COlilTMBUS, OHIO, PKIDAV, DECEMBER 22, 1939
Devoted to AmerlcBn and JowIhTi Idcalfl
Strictly Confidential
Tidbits From Bvorywhcro By PHINEAS J. BIRON
Judges In A. Z. A's. Annual Essay Contest
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Has anybody ever told Herr Hit¬ ler that the wife of his favorite ghost-thinker.   Dr.   Karl   Haus- hofer (the man who has worked out the plans for the world em¬ pire of the Germans to the min- ute'it detail, is a non-Aryan? ... and    that the Reioh'.s Number Two air man, who ranks next to Air Minister Goering,  is of 100 per cent Jewish Wood, bear ing the strictly kosher name of Milch' . . . It's beginning to look as if Adolf hasn't repudiated the Jewish   God   as   thoroughly  as we thought he had . . .Only re¬ cently  Nazi    charge    d'affaires Thomsen   at    Washington    de¬ nounced reports that. Hitler has gone back to the    old    Norse pantheon and explained that the Fuehrer  believes  iti  the  same God as Goethe . . . Our feminine readers    will    appreciate    the plight of their German sisters, who are prohibited by law from buying  more than six  pair of hose a year .. . But Hitler, wish¬ ing to avoid alienating the; la¬ dies—^^vho have been his most ardent    admirers—is    allowing people to buy a pair of stockings for each of. the women on their Christmas lists without deduct¬ ing the   purchase   from    their clothing ration curds. . . WE PASS IT ON London's  SOncino  Press    ex- --jvKt&tnhavo.fhe final ei.gbt vol- umifs of" It's complete   English translation ot   the   Babylonian Talmud  ready for distribution by next April . . .     The   S200 pi^iee of the complete 32-volume work has not been raised since ihe outbreak of war, but if any of you are interested in purchas¬ ing  this  tlr.=it   unabridged  Eng¬ lish translation of tlie Talmud we may toll you that the price m£.y be raised after January 1st. For .$480, incidentally, you can at this time become one ot the chosen few to buy a do luxe edition of the Talmud, of which only thirty-five  numbered  sets are being made ... Now. that he IS an American citizen, Aryan Nobel    Prize ¦ winner   'Thomas Mann no longer aids the under¬ ground anti-Hitler movement in Gei-many    . . He wants to ad¬ here strictly   to   the   rules of American neutrality . . , Ferenc ("Liliom" Mplnar, the Hungar¬ ian Jewish playwright, is spend¬ ing the war in Geneva, we hear, ... He would like to came to our shores,   and   Uncle    Sam would be glad to have him, but he can't figure out a safe way of crossing the   ocean,   having little faith   in   clippers,  and a wholesome respect for explosive imneb . . .Life is just one re-; write   after  the  other   for  the Labor Stage's "Pins, and Need¬ les" . . .Their new show, only a couple of weeks old, has al¬ ready had to be changed to take into account Fritz Kuhn's con- viotiori ..... The Dally Expi'ess will be the name of the Brooklyn paper which   Amster   Spiro ia preparing . . . It'll   he a tabloid. . . . Biggest hit of the American Hebrew's dinner in honor of My¬ ron C. Taylor, this year's win¬ ner of the   magazine's   annual medal  for promotion of  better tinderstanding    between  Chris¬ tians and Jews, was scored by the Vinaver Chorus, the refugee musicians' group  of which  we told   you a couple   of columns 'ago. . .
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More TIan 20,fi0 Throng Garden Ealiy In Protest Against Nazi Persecution
LEFT TO BIGUT: Louts Kriife, cxoeatlvo director of the Jewish Wol- fBTc Board; Mrs. Judith Kpstcln, former natiuuttl president of lladassBh; and Sliolem Ascii, ivorld-famous novelist, who comprise the national board of iudses for the 13tfa annual KngUsh essay contest of Aleph Zadlk Aleph,, IS'nat n'rith's youth organization.
WASHINGTON, D. C.;—Sho¬ lem Asch, world-famous Jewish novelist, whose .most recent book, "The Nazarene", has creat¬ ed an international stir, has agreed to serve as a member of the national board, of judges for the thirteenth annual Eng¬ lish essay contest spdnsoyed by Aleph Zadik Aleph, B'nai B'rlth's youth organization, according to an announcement here by Sam Bober, president ot the Su¬ preme Advisory Council of A. Z, A.
The other members of the board Of judges will bfe ^Mrs. Judith Kpsteiri, former-national president of Hadassah,. the women's Zionist organization of America; and Louis ICr.ift, exe¬
cutive" director of the Jewish Welfare Board, the parent Or¬ ganization ot the Jewish com- rhuniity center movement.
"The Jewish Community of Today and 'Tomorrow in North America" is the subject on which the 10,000 members of Aleph Zadik Aleph in 350 chap¬ ters throughout the : ^United States and Canada will write, in competition for regional, dls trict and national honors in the most widely participated-in Jewish essay contest under na¬ tional direction.
Last year's winner was Stan¬ ley. G. Kiriss'h, of Fidelity Chap¬ ter; Lo3 Angeles. "What Jewish Dignity Means to Me" was the subject ot the 1938 contest.
Local Jewry Invited To Mass Meeting Next Thursday
"Can Zionism Survive the War?" will be the subject of the message to be delivered by Rabbi David Polish when he addresses a   mass  meeting  ot  Columbus
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Beth-EI at Ithaca, New York.
The meeting is sponsored by tho local A. Z. A. chapter, (Jun¬ ior Order, B'nai B'rith) with tho cooperation of the local Zion¬ ist Di.strict. Rabbi Harry Kap¬ lan, Director ot tho Hiilel Foundation at Ohio State Uni¬ versity, will be tho evening's chairman and will introduce tho guest speaker. The public is cordially invited Following the meeting there will be danc¬ ing for the young folks in attend¬ ance.
Compiete Plans For Mother-Daughter Luncheon Wednesday
Kabbi Dnvid Pollsli
Je%vry at the Schonthal Center next Thursday, Dec. 28th, at 8 P. M.     ¦ .
Rabbi Polish is a graduate of the Hebrew Union College and was formerly director of the Cincinnati Young Judaea and organizer and president of Tri- State Region of Young Judaea. While Rabbi at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, he helped organize the Cedar Rapids Zionists District and the Iowa Region. Later he became a member of the Admin¬ istrative Committee of the Zion¬ ist Organization of America^ At present Rabbi Polish Is director of Hiilel Foundation at Cornell Univer.'jity and Rabbi of '''e nple
The Mother-Daughter Lunch¬ eon, under the auspices ot the Way.s and Means Committee of the Rose E. Lazarus Sisterhood, with Mrs. A, A. Koven as chair¬ man, reports an unusually large number pf reservations for the affair which is.being held next Wednesday, Dec. 27, 12:30 P: M.; at ttie Temple. Every one at tending is not only assured of a good luncheon, but an after¬ noon of real entertainment as well. A beautiful door prize is also to be given away on that occasion.
Mrs. Allen Gundersheimer, in charge of the program, will pre¬ sent a colorful old-fashioned and modern style sbowJ The Sisterhood members will act as the mannequins.
Toasts by the mothers and daughters of the group and some delightful musical selections by Mrs. Meyer Ginsburg will be heard.
The follpwing Sisterhood mem¬ bers, in charge of - the ticket sales for this affair, will help prepare and strve ' the lutich- eon;—
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B'nai B'rith l^ives $l|il For Relief Of Finnish Population
WASHINfiTpN, B. C.:—Am¬ erican Jewry, having seen mil¬ lions of its helpless co-religlon- ists in Central and Eastern Europe crushed in the wake of the: tide of Nazi aggression which has engulfed the peoples of Austria, Czechoslovakia and Poland, cannot but share in the universal feeling ot outrage against Russia's brutal and un¬ provoked 'invasion of Finland, Henry Motisky,' president of B'nai B'rith, largest national Jewish organization in the Uni¬ ted States, said yesterday in annoiuncing a contribution of $1,000 from B'nai B'rith to the Finnish Relief Fund, Inc-
"The violation ot Finland", Mr. Monsky said, "is another act in the tragedy being written by the Nazi-Fascist-Communist dictator¬ ships, a, tragedy in which the Jews ot Germany were cast as the first victims. As a concrete token of its sympathy with and desire to be of assistance to the suffering Finnish non-combatant victims of aggression, B'nai B'rith, representing a cross sep- tlon of the American .Jewish community,' In contributing .S1,000 to the Finnish Relief Fund, Inc. for the purchase and shipment of food, clothing and medical relief supplies to Fin¬ land."
Tho B'nai B'rith contribution came from its Emergency Relief Fund, which throughout the or¬ ganization's OG-year history has lent aid and .<;ustenance to vic¬ tims of natural and man-made disaster.^, both in war and peace, in every corner ot the world without regard to race, creed or color. In the. past 50 years trie B'nai' B'rith Emer¬ gency Relief Fund" has cpntrlbu- ted Sl,O00;00O for the relief of victims of such disasters as the Chicago Fire of 1871, the yellow fevfer epidemic that ravaged the South in 1870's, the Galveston flood of 1900, the San Francisco, Florida, Santa Barbara, Japan¬ ese and Chilean earthquakes, the Ohio and Mississippi Valley floods, Balkan and World War sufferers. Its most recent con¬ tribution Was $1,000 to the Am¬ erican Red Cross for the relief of Polish  war refugees.
Protest Meeting Brings Nazi Warning
LONDON (,WNS)—"Nazi Ger¬ many will not discontinue her campaign against the Jews until world Jewry has been destroy¬ ed", according to an announce¬ ment broadcast over the Nazi- controlled radio station at Bres- lau in answer to the, protest meeting held at Madison Square Garden in New York City on Wednesday, Dec. 13. (The pro test meeting had strongly con¬ demned Nazi' persecution of Jews in that seetiori of Poland controlled by the Nazis.)
The Breslau radio, asserting that the. anti-Nazi boycott in America, was concentrated, in the hands of the Jews, warned that the Nazi campaign against the Jews throughout the world would be intensified until they are clcbtroyed.
NEW ¦ YORK (WNS)—More than 20,000 per.sons filled Madi¬ son Square Garden to hear Mayor Florello H. LaGuardia, former President Herbert Hoov¬ er, William Green, president ot the American Federation ot Lab¬ or and prominent representa¬ tives of all faiths denounce per¬ secution of Jews and others withjn the Nazi domain.
The meeting, held under the auspices of the American .lew¬ ish Congress and the Jewish Labor Committee, unanimously adopted a 'resolution asking President Roosevelt to convey American condemnation ot the persecution of the Jews in Nazi Poland to the German govern¬ ment and to use every possible means to succor the victims ot the oppression. The resolution adopted by the audience expres¬ sed Christian and Jewish unity in "condemnation of the unparal¬ leled acts , of aggression whicli have resulted in the dismember¬ ment of Poland, the ruthless conquest of Finland, the straf¬ ing ol unfortified cities, the murder of civilians."
Although the American peo¬ ple are neutral in political act¬ ion, it said, they "can not and will not be neutral or silent in thought." The resolution .supported President Roosevelt In his "moral embargo" on Rus¬ sia for the invasion of Finland, and Mr. Hoover in his ofganiza- tion o'{—t'eU«::"'-'-Sy.^4l*»—^Av«sh_ people. Then it urged action on behalf of the oppressed .Tews in Nazi Poland.
8,000 Turned Au'.iy Several hundred persons woi« turned away when the gates of the Garden were closed by Fire Department order at 8:35 p. m., half an hour after the meeting opened. Hundreds clustered outside the police lines, despite the raiii. -An estimated 8,000 per.sons were turned away by about seventy policemen station¬ ed outside the Garden In case of distrubances. There was only one minor disturbance, however, which occurred when a gallery- ite booed during Mr. Green's ad¬ dress at a point where the crowd thought he should have cheered. He was escorted from his seat amid hisses and cat¬ calls.
The meeting opened a nation¬ wide appeal for $500,000 to be used to aid Jewish and other persecuted peoples of Kurope. Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, who pre¬ sided, at the rally, announced that part of the funds collected would be sent to Mr; Hoover to be used for the relief of Finland. Mayor Given Ovation The biggest ovation was re¬ ceived by Mayor LaGuarfia who arrived at the rally several hours late, having flown togeth¬ er with Mr. Hoover from Chi¬ cago to New York early in the evening. The Mayor expressed his "horror" at what is taking place in Europe ^nd said he lioped that what was said at the meeting would create "a sense of shame" in those responsible for the "outrages committed up¬ on innocent people." He refer¬ red to the aggression in Europe as "a throwback to barbarism." Throughout the - country and world today is being crystalized a public opinion that "will be visited upon the culprits for cen¬ turies to come", he said. His¬ tory has yet to .record such "systematized cruelty" In occu¬ pied lands as seen in the past (Continued on Vaee 11
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