Jewish Post, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 November 1940 — Page 1

the Jewish Post A JOURNAL. FOR INDIANA JEWRY

Vol. 9—No. 25

INDIANAPOLIS, 1ND., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1940

Knfere<l hh twond-clans matter at the post ofltce at Indianapolis under the act of March 3, 1879.

Mrs. Maurice Goldman Re-elected President By National Council Wty Jewish Telegraphic Agency NEW YORK—Mrs. Maurice L. Goldman, San Francisco, was reelected president of the National Council of Jewish Women at the Council’s triennial convention at the Hotel Astor. Others elected are Mrs. Joseph M. Welt, Detroit; Mrs. Oscar S. Marx, Mt. Carmel, 111., and Mrs. Benjamin Spitzer, Brooklyn, vicepresidents; Mrs. Jacob Loeb Langsdorf, Philadelphia, treasurer; Mrs. Edgar Menderson, Cincinnati, recording secretary; Miss Aimee Stone, Philadelphia, financial secretary, and Mrs. Alexander Wolf, Washington, honorary vcie-presi-dent. Resolutions supported the President’s policy to keep the United States out of war; favored admission of refugee children from the war zone to the United States over and above the quota for permanent residence; endorse^ legislation for waiving of educational requirements for naturalization of legally admitted aliens 50 years of age and over, who enteredthe United States prior to May 5, 1917, when the Literacy Act was passed; agreed to continue to render service on a nonsectarian basis in the interpretation of the Alien Registration Act to those it affects; opposed legislation which tends to discriminate against the legally admitted alien.

Rabbi Taxay Speaker For Old Home Tuesday Rabbi J. Marshall Taxay of Terre Haute will be the guest speaker at a meeting of the Association of the Joseph and Anna Borinstein Home for the Aged, set for 2 p. m. Tuesday, Nov. 26, at Kirshbaum Center. “America Believes” will be the subject of his talk. Mrs. Aaron Glick will give the invocatiofi, Mrs. Sarah Messing Stern, who is in charge of the program, announced. After the meeting refreshments will be served in the lounge by Mrs. Rudolph Domont in honor of her son’s recent •f^toriage. She will be assisted at the tea table by Mrs. Harry Epstein. Mrs. Jack Dee is in charge of hospitality. Greek General Lauds Jewish Armed Forces By Jywl.h Trlrgraphir Agency SALONICA, Greece—The Governor General of Macedonia has expressed to the Jewish community his satisfaction over the bravery of Jewish soldiers fighting in the front lines. Thoufands of Jews are rushing to recruiting offices, expressing anxiety to serve their country.

BETH EL SERMON SUBJECT Rabbi Elias Charry’s sermon for this Friday night will be “Something to Be Thankful For.” The usual Oneg Shabbat will follow the services.

A membership tea of the J. E. A. Auxiliary will be held at 2:30 p. m. Tuesday, Bee. 3, at the home of Mrs. Jack Fogel, 3665 Watson road.

Cole To Speak Sunday The Rev. Walton E. Cole, na-tionally-known minister of First Unitarian Church of Toledo, Ohio, will address the fifteenth annual Indianapolis Open Forum at 8:15 p. m. Sunday, Nov. 24, at Kirshbaum Community Center. The Rev. Mr. Cole will discuss the topic, “Democracy and Propaganda,” and will relate the subject matter to actual material on the anti-democratic forces in American life.

J. E. A. Auxiliary To Hear Dr. Parrish Dr. Rebecca Parrish, world traveler and author, will give a talk on “Education and Health in Foreign Countries” at a meeting of the Jewish Educational Association Auxiliary Monday, Nov. 25, at Kirshbaum Center. A board meeting at 1 p. m. will precede the open meeting. Mrs. William F. Segal will give the opening prayer and Miss Lillian Steinkeler will render piano selections. Dr. Parrish, who has visited twenty-six countries, has done colonization and welfare work for underprivileged children at the Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem.

Will Pick Nation's Best Jewish Book Review

Maurice Jacobs (left), executive secretary of the Jewish Publication Society of America; Mrs. Maurice Goldman (center), president of the National Council of Jewish Women, and Irving Fineman (right), novelist and member of the faculty of Bennington College, who will serve as judges in the national book review contest on Jewish books which has been launched by A. Z. A., B’nai B’rith youth organization, as a means of stimulating adolescent Jewish youth to increased reading of books of Jewish interest.

Silver Urges British Raise Jewish Army By Jewish Telegraphle Agency NEW YORK—Immediate raising of a large Jewish army in Palestine was urged upon the British Government by Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver, addressing the twentieth anniversary celebration of the Palestine Fundation Fund (Keren Hayesod) at the Hotel Roosevelt.

Adult Jewish Study Courses Open Dec. 3 Adult studies classes at Beth El will be rsumed the first Tuesday night in December under the name of the Beth El Institute under the Jewish Theological Seminary. The following courses will be offered this year: Hebrew for beginners, Second year Hebrew, Jewish history, “What’s in the prayer book” and the history and development of Conservative Judaism. Any adult member of the community may enroll for a small registration fee. As in the past, the Jewish Educational Association and staff lend their complete cooperation and assistance..

Between You and Me

By PAUL A. PETERS

Virgin Islands Opened As Transient Haven By Jowluh Tflocranhlo Arrnoy WASHINGTON—State and Justice Department officials will confer with Interior Department representatives on the question of regulating admission of European refugees into the Virgin Islands, it was learned following a report that Governor Lawrence Cramer had signed a proclamation waiving all passport and visa regulations for entry of refugees into the islands. Governor Cramer’s action effme as a result of a petiton submitted to him by the Islands’ assembly asking opening of the territory as a temporary station for European refugees until they could find a pormanent home in the United States or elsewhere on the American continent. The petiiton was prompted by difficult economic conditions on the islands.

Ten Absent Guests To Go With Members To Thrift Luncheon Hadassah members will take ten invisible guests to the annual Hadassah Thrift Luncheon Wednesday, Dec. 4, at Block’s auditorium. Of the 99 cents adnrissici^price, 9 cents goes toward the cost of the luncheon and DO cents will pay for a hot noonday meal for ten children in Palestine. Thrift Luncheon is the fundraising affair for infant and child welfare activities of Hadassah. American Hadassah has taken over the child welfare responsibilities in Palestine of European countries which have been forced to discontinue their aid, and the quotas this year are higher than ever before. The Indianapolis chapter has agreed to contribute $1,000. Mrs. Sam Wolf is chairman of child welfare and Mrs. David Hollander will head the hospitality committee. The program will be announced later.

WAR NOTE Speculation as to whether a bomb-proof shelter was in the mind of the architect who is planning the new Free Synagogue building in New York City was raised by the following note in a recent issue of the Free Synagogue Bulletin. “The foundation walls are being built of re-inforced concrete and will rest on solid rock over 21 feet below the street level. Because of this great depth and in order to carry the stone facade, these walls will be nearly four feet thick.”

First Jewish Chaplain Is Called To Ranks By JewiMli Telegraphic Agency NEW YORK — Rabbi Aryeh Lev of Brooklyn, executive director of Young Judaea and a first lieutenant in the Reserve Officers’ Corps, has been called to active duty in the office of the chief of

Gen. de Gaulle Says Rights To Be Restored By Jewish Tclcyraphif.Agency NEW YORK—A message of General Charles de Gaulle, cabled from Libreville, pledging restoration of Jewish rights in a resurrected France was read to more than a thousand persons at Carnegie Hall attending a rally in protest against the Vichy’s anti-Jewish laws. The meeting was sponsored by the American Jewish Congress in cooperation with three non-sectarian organizations. General de Gaulle’s message, which was read by Dr. Albert Simard, vice-president of “France Forever,” said: “Be assured that since we have repudiated everything that has falsely been done in the name of France after June 23 the cruel decrees directed against French Jews cans, and will, have no validity in free France. These measures are no less a blow against the honor of France than they are an injustice against her Jewish citizens. When we shall have achieved victory, not only will the wrongs done in France itself he righted, but France will once again resume her traditional place as a protagonist of freedom and justice for all men, irrespective of race or religion, in a new Europe.”

POLITICAL NOTE That dashing pair of publicity men, M. B. Zerwick and Louis Popkin, did a whale of a job directing the campaign in Connecticut which resulted in the election of Robert A. Hurley as Governor and gave President Roosevelt a surprising plurality. ♦ * * *

RABBINICAL NOTE We think it was Maurice Shochatt, our Baltimore friend, who told us the following story: A young rabbi in a small American city, in order to augment his income, acted as a Hebrew instructor for children and as a shochet. . . . One envious acquaintance of the rabbi ribbed him for boine: so versatile. . . . “Tell me,” he inquired one day, “are you a rabbi, teacher or shochet?” ... To which the rabbi retorted: “To the congregation I am a rabbi; to the children I am a melamed, but to an ox I am a shochet.” * * * •

MISH-MASH Nat Belth has left his post as publicity director of the*JDC to direct public relations for the Army and Navy Committee of the (Continued on Page 3)

chaplains in the War Department By direction of President Roosevelt in conjunction with the defense program, Rabbi Lev left his home to undertake his new official duties, according to an official announcement by Gen. George C Marshall, chief of staff. Appointment of Rabbi Lev marks the first j time in twenty years that a member of the Jewish faith has been j called upon to serve his country in such a capacity.

FINAL BOOK REVIEW Rabbi Maurice Goldblatt will give the last of a series of book reviews at 10:30 a. m. Tuesday, Nov. 26, at the Tenth Street Temple. He will review “How Green Was My Valley” by Richard Llewellyn.

Bakers Increase Price of Rye Bread Due to the increased cost of ingredients used in the baking of Rye Bread, local Jewish bakers have announced that the price of the 2-pound Rye will be 20 cents. An example of rising costs cited is the increase of caraway seed needed to give the bread its flavor, from 8 cents to 45 cents a pound.

U. H. C. SERVICES “War or Civilization—Which?” will be the subject of Rabbi A, E. Miller’s sermon at Friday evening services, Nov. 22. at the United Hebrew Congregation Synagogue. A social hour will follow services and refreshments will be served.

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