Texas Jewish Herald (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 30, No. 48, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 4, 1937 Page: 1 of 6
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Ideals In Judaism
HOUSTON, TEXAS, THURSDAY, MARCH 4, 1937
No. 48
Greater Interest Shown In
United Jewish Campaign
The United Jewish Campaign |
has completed plans for a city- j
wide appeal for funds to be used
for the purpose of meeting the
needs of Jewish people, institu-
tions and organizations the world j
over. The major portion of the !
funds that are being raised will j
be allocated for bringing a meas-
ure of relief and reconstructive
aid to our brethren overseas. In
this country some of the needs j
for which funds will be provided
are hospitals, orphan asylums, *'
health sanitbria, organizations
engaged in protecting the name
of Jews, and for other similar
purposes.
A partial list of some of the
organizations doing work of a
national or district nature, and
for whose needs the U. J. C. is
appealing^ for funds, is as fol-
lows: The American Jewish Con-
gress, The American Jewish
Committee, B’nai B’rith, through
its Wider Scope Committee, and
through its Patron League Funds;
the National Council of Jewish
Federations ' and Welfare Funds,
and Sanitoria, and homes for
children or other needy yet to be
selected. Some of the local needs
for which appropriation will be
made are the Council House
maintained by the National
Council of Jewish Women; the
Public Relations work being done
by a committee specifically or-
ganized for that purpose and
numerous other activities of ed-
ucational, cultural and organiza-
tional nature to be taken up by
the Jewish Community Council.
The overseas work for which
the Jewish Community Council
is raising funds includes that of
the Ort, a trade training organi-
zation that aids young people to
become better equipped for life’s
battles. Other organizations
which are to derive funds are:
The Hebrew University of Pales-
tine, Hebrew and Palestinian ed-
ucational and welfare institutions
such as Talmud Torahs, Yeshi-
vahs, Tarbuth Schools, Yiddish-
ist, Labor Schools, Seminaries,
soup kitchens, and other similar
institutions that have sent their
requests or representatives to
this country in behalf of their ac-
tivities; the Hadassah, the League
for Labor Palestine, the two ma-.
jor organizations for which funds
are being appealed for, the
United Palestine Appeal and the
Joint Distribution Committee.
In an interview with Mr.
Lightman, he stated, “Now what
is the situation abroad that re-
quires our active interest and
participation? To begin with, we
all know that the conditions in
Germany leave much to be de-
sire^. There are still some 400,-
000 Jews in that country for
whom one type of provision or
another must be made. The boy-
cott practiced in Germany against
the Jews in that country has
squeezed over half of the Jewish
population out of the right and
means to work. This means that
over 200,000 Jews, more than
40,000 families in Germany, are
fast becoming destitute.
“The Joint Distribution Com-
mittee has asked that we partic-
ipate in meeting these needs by
assisting in raising a portion of
their budget of $850,000 for their
welfare. Overshadowing these
needs is the needs that exist in
those stricken countries of East-
ern Europe where a total of some
six millions of Jews find their
political, economic and social lot,
indeed a hard and sorry one. Out
of its total request for $4,650,000
for its entire program of activi-
ties abroad, the J. D. C. expects
to use $2,150,000 for Eastern Eu-
rope alone. The conditions in
Germany and in Eastern Europe
is true for three million Jews
Ralph Mack Heads
H. U. C. Board
J. B. LIGHTMAN
Execntive Director Jewish
Community Council
of Poland; is true for another
million in Roumania, and an ad-
ditional million and a half to
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GERM AN-AMERICAN FORUM
FORMED TO UPHOLD REAL
' GERMAN CULTURE
New York (WNS)—Organiza-
tion of the German-American
Forum, a new membership group
which seeks to foster German
culture as it was known before
Germany was Nazified and an
appreciation and understanding
of American spiritual values, is
announced here by a number of
prominent American and German
American liberals. Politics is
barred from the Forum but it
will promote public protest meet-
ings, demonstration and active
campaigns in behalf of any cause,
national or international, which
enjoys its full sympathy. Dr,
Frank Bohn, economist and son-
in-law of Secretary of Commerce
Roper, is president of the Forum.
Ralph W. Mack of Cincinnati
has been elected chairman of the
Board of Governors of the He-
brew Union College, according to
an ajjppuncement from the Cin-
cinnati rabbinical seminary. Mr.
Mack succeeds Alfred M. Cohen,
former Ohio State Senator and
nationally known Jewish leader,
who has retired after more than
$5 years of service on the board,
20 years of which were spent in
the chairmanship.
The outgoing chairman was
honored at a testimonial dinner
given by the board and the fac-
ulty of the college as well as the
executive board of the Union of
American Hebrew Congregations
in Cincinnati last week. Mr.
Mack, on behalf of the faculty
and the board members presented
his predecessor with a gold en-
graved plaque commemorating
the occasion.
The newly elected chairman
has a distinguished record of
service in Jewish and civic
causes. Mr. Mack, though still a
young man, has been a member
of the H. U. C. Board of Gover-
nors for two decades and has
served in executive positions in
many organizations.
A native of .Cincinnati and ed-
ucated in the Cincinnati schools
Mr. Mack has been successively
in the insurance business, In tex-
tiles and is now a life insurance
and estates counselor. He served
as president of Cincinnati's Rock-
dale Avenue Temple, the oldest
Jewish congregation west of the
Alleghanies, during that syna-
gogue’s centenary celebration 13
years ago. A member of that con-
gregation’s board of trustees for
many years, he held many posi-
tions, including the presidency
of Rockdale’s Men’s Club and the
chairmanship of the Sabbath
School Committee. He was a
member of the Board of Cin-
cinnati’s United Jewish Charities,
as well as of Cincinnati’s Jewish
Hospital.
His wife is the former Fannie
Goldstein, daughter of the late
Cantor Morris Goldstein, noted
composer of synagogal music.
Member of a distinguished family
he is the brother of Jacob W.
Mack, first vice president of the
Union of American Hebrew Con-
gregations, and Judge Julian
Mack of the U. S. Circuit Court
in New York City.
Why the Is Persecuted
An OM Question Analysed and Answered
By special arrangement with Liberty The Herald herewith
presents a brilliant article from the pen of David Lloyd Georgs,
war-time premier of Great Britain in whoee regime the Balfour
Declaration was issued and who has always been known aa a
true friend of the Jewish people,—The Editor.
dwelt an
Surely the Jews are the most remarkable race that |
this earth. When they were a poor people of peasants and11
dwelling on a rugged plateau covering ground no
than Wales, they produced the most sublime literature that rear
issued from the pen of men. When they were a despised province in
a great empire, they found a re-
ligion which finally conquered
their conquerors and is today
the accepted faith of the most
powerful nations on earth. The
very fact which they have pass-
ed, demonstrates their inherent
vitality and indomitable spirit.
To quote the words of Walter
Scott, describing the maltreat-
ment of the Jews in England
during the Middle Ages: “There
was no race existing on the
erath, in the air or the waters,
who were the object of such an
unintermitting, general, and re-
lentless persecution as the Jews
of this period. . . . Norman, Sax-
on, Dane and Briton, however
adverse these races were to each
other, contended which should
look with greatest destation up-
on a people whom it was ac-
counted a point of religion to
hate, to revile, to despise, to
plunder and to persecute.”
But the Jews have endured
all these experiences for thirty
centuries, and still they are five
CROLL RESIGNS AS
KUARDIAN OF QUINTS
Toronoto (WNS)—Having cre-
ated a $2,000,000 fortune for the
world's most famous children—
the Dionne Quintuplets—David
A. Croll, minister of welfare in
the Ontario government and
their official guardian as the rep-
resentative of the King, has re-
signed. In a statement in the On-
tario legislature, Mr. Croll an-
nounced that in. bis two years as
guardian of the celebrated
youngsters his management of
their affairs has netted them an
assured annual income of $200,-
000 plus an estate of $543,046 in
government bonds. “The only
fame which comes to the quin
tuplets' manager is something lik"
the reflected glory enjoyed by a
movie star's husband,” he said,
in announcing his resignation.
Review of the Jewish Week
THE AGRO-JOINT BUDGET
Announcement that ten million
roubles ($2,000,000) will be spent
this year for the further develop-
ment of the Agro-Joint colonies
in the Ukraine and Crimea calls
attention once more to what is
indubitably one of the most con-
structive achievements credited
to American Jewish philanthropy.
Since 1924, when the Joint Dis-
tribution Committee set up the
Agro-Joint as its operating
agency in Russia, the Agro-Joint
has settled 250,000 Jews on 3,000,-
000 acres of land and, through its
industrial undertakings, helped
absorb tens of thousands more in
Russian industry. The Agro-Joint
projects have thus been an im-
portant factor in (he economic
rehabilitation of a large part of
Russiain Jewry.
The significant feature of the
1937 Agro-Joint budget is not so
much the constructive purpose
for which the money is to be
spent but rather the fact that the
Soviet Government will contrib-
ute 4,135,000 roubles in addition
to extending credits of 5,400,000
roubles to finance the settlement
of additional Jewish colonists.
The Agro-Joint’s share of the
budget will not come from the
By JOSEPH SALMARK
JDC’s 1937 campaign funds but
from rouble assets in Russia and
from profits of IRS machine
shops at Jankoy. The fact that
the Agro-Joint undertakings con-
tinue to enjoy not only the moral
but the consistent material sup-
port of the government is worthy
of serious consideration not
merely because of what it means
to the Jewish colonists but be-
cause of its implications in con-
nection with the many schemes
proposed for settling Jews in this
or that corner of the globe.
Mass colonization projects,
Jewish or otherwise, require the
helpful aid and financial backing
of the interested governments.
No matter how much money
Jews pour into such schemes the
good will of the government con-
cerned is essential to success.
That, to our mind, is the real
import of the 1937 Agro-Joint
budget.
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NAZIS BEWARE
The Nazis, whose olfactory
senses are so acute that they can
smell a “Jewish plot" in every
movement that doesn't dovetail
with Nazi ideology, must be
greatly alarmed. Nazism has been
regarded as the acme of anti-
Semitism. Jews and Nazis would
seem to have as little in common
as fire and water. Yet even the
Nazis must be wondering wheth-
er their poltical ideas, too, are
not after all another “Jewish
plot”
' First they are shocked to learn
that a Jewish professor in Italy
has “proved” that the Talmud
provided the ideological basis for
Fascism, which was the political
godfather of Nazism. Then they
are annoyed by the disclosure
that the leader of the Hungarian
Nazis is really a Jew, and, what’s
worse, the adopted son of a rab-
bi. And now as a climax comes
the crushing news that the Fueh-
rer of the Yugoslavian Nazis is
not only a Jew but a Jew who
stands high in the favor of his
party, which has defied a Berlin
order to get rid of him.
We are not privy to the small
talk that goss on in high Nazi
circles, but we’d like to bet that
some of the Nazi master minds
are beginning to think that per-
haps it mightn’t be a bad idea
to drop Nazism, which has won
so much ill will for Germany,
and accuse the Jews of foisting
it on the world.
CofjitgjH 19TJ ima Arts FtmSure Sywisrwtt
times as
times more powerful than they
were in the greatest days ef their
national glory. Their escape from
complete annihilation is prob-
ably due to the tact that perse-
cution was never ■imnltsneiue ke
all countries. When greed gad
bigotry combined to maltreat the
Jew in one land, he always feend
refuge in another. We have had
an illustration quite recently of
fleeing from the face of danger
to more tranquil regions. When
Hitler drove the Jews from all
the high places which their
genius had won for them hi Ger-
many—France, Britain. America
and Holland opened their galas
wide to the exiles of Nazism. The
Red Sea has always opened its
waters at the critical hour for
this persecuted people.
They claim to be the rhoaea
people of the Deity. There is
certainly warrant for the claim
in so far as it refers to one Per-
th greatest spiritual message war
th medium for the delivery of
were selected by Providence as
sent from on high. No one can
reed the story of the Jewish race
without understanding why tt
was specially deputed to convey
to mankind this meet exaliad
but at the same time meat chal-
lenging truth.
But the most unaccountable
mystery in the history of the
Jews is the persistence, the
source, and the intensity of their
persecution throughout the ages.
What makes it all the mare in-
explicable is he contrast between
the treatment accorded to the
Jews in Christian countries and
that which they have received
under Moslem rule. The warlike
followers of Mohammed extend-
ed the fullest religious freedom
to the Jews, who regarded both
Christ and Mohammed as false
interpret*! a of the God at Israel
Neither Saracen nor Moor in-
terfered with the religious wor-
ship of the Jewish
in their midst. They
enormously by this stat
attitude. In science and in are
the superiority of the early Mos-
lems is attributable to the Jours.
Christian countries were impov-
erished by the way in which, un-
der the influence of the clergy,
they suppressed and limited Jew-
ish activities. __
What can be the
of the special and secular hal
conceived tor the Jew am
European peoples? The mala
healthy creatures with the fa
of Jew hatred is buzzing in
ears today with the same vie
hum
did in the days of
Religious bigotiy is
for some of the moat brutal
tacks made on the Jew
pean countries. But the ant eg
onism to Israel was not exclus-
ively or mainly religious. The
root of the trouble is to be found
in the determination of the Jews
throughout the centuries not to
lorn heir identity aa a separate
and distinct people in any land
where they dwell. They seem to
insist on preserving their individ-
uality as an Oriental nation. Eng-
lishmen are a mixture of many
races; still they are one people.
Out of an infinitude of races the
United States is producing a type
which is 100 per cent
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