The Jewish Herald (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 24, Ed. 1, Friday, March 12, 1909 Page: 4 of 8
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THE JEWISH HERAIiD
Published Weekly by the
HERALD PRINTING COMPANY
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GIG F wmii Street
Phone 5333
Subscription 150 per year
All Communications for publication
must roach the office not later than
Wednesday at G p m
Entered as second class matter No-
vember 20 1908 at the postoffice at
Houston Texas under the Act of
March 3 1879
HOW SHALL WE RAISE OUR CHIL-
DREN SO THAT THEY SHALL
REMAIN JEWS
This question is asked by tens of
thousands of Jewish parents in this
country What is to be done that they
shall not drift away with the current
of assimilation and be lost among the
great masses This is asked by those
Jews who seethe neaiing of an assim-
ilation which never had its equal in
Jewish history We dont think that
by questioning ourselves about what
is to be done we will be able to solve
this question Vlo hamidrosch ikor
helo Hamaash said our sages not
by words but by deeds Instead of
teaching our children during their
leisure hours things which they have
no need of to get along in this world
it would be better if they would devote
their time to the study of Judaism and
Jewish history Parents who teach
their children to love their people
and its history parents who tell their
children of the hope of the future
These parents will never be worried
about solving such problems aboat
their children remaining Jews In or-
der to have them a pride and glory
to their nation jthey must be taught
how to be Jews This is the principle
and furthermore this is the princi-
pal which we ourselves must take
care of Not in our public schools
neither with the playmates of our
children are they able to learn how
to be good Jews Judaism must be
taught to them by us in our homes
And thou shall teach them dilligently
to thy children talking to them when
thou siftiest in thy house etc Not
by words olny must we teach our
children but also by deeds by ac-
tions without hyprocrisy for hypo-
crisy has a very bad effect upon the
qhilds character For Instance the
writer of this article was given an ex-
cuse by a socalled uptodate Ameri
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can Jew who lays Tefilim every
morning He said you know I my-
self do not believe in these things but
my boys are going to the Hebrew
school and the teacher tells them that
every Jew as soon as he is thirteen
Tefilin therefore
years old must lay
fore it would not look right if I would
not lay Tefilin in the morning But
my dear uptodate American Jew
this is hyprocrisy Why so he asked
by not doing things right If you real-
ly believe in Judaism if you really
believe in Gods word why not obey
his commandments Why not pray
conscientiously because you believe
in praying to the Creator of the uni-
verse and not for the reason that it
does not look right for your children
Parents who do not believe in Jew-
ish traditions customs and religious
commandments can not and must not
expect their children to do the nega-
tive When the Russian Galitsian
Romanian or German Jewish parents
who have seen their fathers laying
Tefilin and obeying Gods word not
for appearance sake but because it is
right and they also saw their Jewish
mothers light the candle on Friday
evening and taught them to say every
morning Modeh Ani etc not for any
other reason than they really believ-
ed in what they taught their children
and when we see those children who
had such a religious training and who
was raised under such influence by
having simply changed the place and
the atmosphere and also changed their
ideas about Judaism and Jewish re-
ligion What can those parents ex-
pect from their children in this coun-
try if they give them no religious
training at all At the present time
this can very easily be reserved be-
cause there is plenty material here
for it WE Jews have a great re
search in history beautiful traditions
pleasant customs and a literature of
which any nation would feel proua
and with a small part of such a treas
ury it would be very easy to keep up I Greenberg S J
the nationality of a people and by tak-
ing in consideration such a vast
amount of material which is at our
disposal it really is not so hard
us to solve the question for those par-
ents who ask How shal lour child-
ren remain Jews But when parents
want their children to beJews regard-
less of the fact that they know nothing
about Judaism and Jewish history
then it is an impossibility
Teach your children Judaism Guide
them in the right path of Jewish re-
ligion Then and then only will you
be able to raise them as good Jews
which naturally means good men
ISCH ODESSA
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BUItlM BALL A SUGES
The thirteenth annual Purium ball
given at Turner Hall under the aus-
pices of the Bikor Cholim Society was
an elaborate affair The hall was
beautifully decorated and the scene
with its crowd of maskers will be long
remembered In addition to the ball
an elaborate supper was served under
the direction of Mrs J Blumenthal
who was chairman of the supper com-
mittee Too much praise can not be
given to the chairman and her helpers
as the supper was one of the finest
ever served at a ball besides every-
thing being strictly Kosher
Mr P Juran representing The
man of the hereafter was dressed in
an elaborate straw costume was
awarded first prize Miss Mary Rob-
erts in a handsome Turkish costume
of silk received the ladies prize The
following are the committees in charge
of the affair who helped to make it
such a grand success
Arrangement Committee S J West
heimer Chairman H Grossman trea
surer H Greenstein secretary B H
Greenberg P Weinberg
Floor Committee Harry Greenberg
chairman Hy Greenfield Chas Kap
ner J L Aronson Mose Stark Chas
Greenberg Otto Tiras J L Mendlo
witz Ben Hurwitz Archie Cohen S 3
Gordon Ike Weinberg and P H Nuss
baum
Entertainment Committee J Smilo
witz Willie Greenberg D Aronstein
M L Scher A Kohn and J Levin
son
Reception Committee J Blumen
thal chairman Rev Dr Willner D
Frosh Jules Hirsch P S Nutsbaum
Joe Tiras Ph Blumenthal J Altmont
Rev Dr Barnstein Max Roberts H J
Dannenbaum Chas Mendelsohn I
Kapner P Battelstein and E Gold-
berg
Supper Committee Mrs J Blumen
thaj Chairman Mesdames B H
Westheimer U S
Frosh B Block C Werner A S
Greenstein M Stark M L Scher M
J Scholm Dave Levy J Rothstein C
Werner W W Moss Ph Blumenthal
C Mendelsohn J Smilowitz and W
Willner
The regular Friday evening services
at Adath Yeshurun begin at 8 oclock
Rabbi Willner will celebrate the sec-
ond anniversary of his arrival in the
eity by a special sermon Sabbath
morning services begin at 8 oclock
Parshath Parah childrens services
at 10 Minchah at 4
For Job Work ring 5333
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ULTMATE VALUE OF THE AMERU
CAN KABBIJUTE
Rabbi Abrahap D Price of the
Bena David Synagogue delivered tno
second sermon of the series of five
which he is to deliver on the Ul-
timate value of the American Rabbi-
nate During this sermon Rabbi
Price made a very vigorous onslaught
on those great American Rabbis who
thought they preside over a Jewish
pulpit preach every thing contradic-
tory to Judaism Into what a woeful
state of ignorance has our Rabbinate
fallen when devoid or rather as the
outlook is an attempt to despise ev-
erything Jewish and to pander con-
stantly to the Christian about us The
Christian world is to wise to ethical
to regard such skyrocket pulpeteering
as sincere for if we eidiniue their ser-
mons we find it to be unJewish unsch
olararly unscientific and especially un-
dignified For how can we expect
the congregation to go in the right
direction when those Shadofes Kodim
are themselves unJewish One need
not go very far to find such pests in
Judaism Turn to pour modern Boston
Rabbi whose knowledge of Hebrew can
be counted on ones fingers Turn to
the Chicago sensationalist who is al-
ways on the lookout to throw the fev-
erish minds of the multitude into a
chaotic condition by his desultory re-
marks which are substantiated by ev-
erything but truth and scientific re-
search and scholarships and one can-
not help but come to the above con-
clusion Judaism must rid itself oL
all such dead branches Judaism
must stand for Jewish principals and
not for Christian Ethics Jews must
be Jews and not desoltry in their re-
ligious convictions Judaism must bo-
as it was intended by a Mendelsohn
by a Wiseby a Morias but Judaism
becomes everything but Judaism when
such pestorious dead branches are at
tached to one tree Until the mod-
ern Jews rise up and protest until
the modern Jew will exterminate these
skyrockeb pulpiteers as we can not
expect to have real true Judaism but
sensationalism Desultory remarks
which betray gross ignorance and
bhame
The Feast of Purlm was obsevved
by the Jews of the city Saturday an
held Friday evening at Bo
Tejnple
El at 8 oclock conducted by Rabbi
Samuel Marks The feast was observ-
ed by the children Saturday night by
a pink domino ball at the Harmony
Uall
Sunday Special ritual servlceswere 4 1
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Goldberg, E. The Jewish Herald (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 24, Ed. 1, Friday, March 12, 1909, newspaper, March 12, 1909; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth84760/m1/4/?rotate=270: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .