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Vol. X May 1st, 1931 No. 33

SERVICES

Friday Evening - .5:30 to 6:00 Saturday Morning - 11:00 to 12:00

Sunday Morning, May 3rd, 10:00

RABBI SOLOMON GOLDMAN of Congregation Anshe Emet, Chicago .

will speak on

"TI-IE QUEST OF TI-IE JEW" at the

Concluding Sunday Morning Service

in conjuntion with the HIGH SCHOOL DEPARTMENT GRADUATION EXERCISES

Program 1. Opening Praye ____ -Howard Abraham Steiner 2. Anthem-"Build Thee More Stately Mansions" Holmes

Choir 8. Morning Service

Rabbi Brickner will be assisted by the following members of the Senior Class: Ruetta T. Bialosky Jeanette C. Mazur Harvey Nathan Olenberg Naomi F. Schwartz

Haskell J. Titchell 4. Greetings _______ Nathan Brilliant, Educational Director 5. "A Jewish University in the United States" Bertram S. Kraus 6. Vocal Selections Suzanne Berman 7. Violin Selection-"Hebrew Melody" ____ Achron-ZimbtlJ.iSt

Irwin Phillip Pohl 8. "Preparing for Jewish Citizenship" _ _ ______ -.Frances Doris Barkin 9. Introductory Remarks . Rabbi B. R. Brickner

10. Address Rabbi Solomon Goldman. 11. Presentation of Awards Judge Maurice Bernon

Chairman Religious School Committee 12. M-H Fraternity Induction _ ____ -Henrietta Jacobs, President of the M-H 13. Closing Prayer -Mildred N. Weiss

Members of the temple are expected to attend.

Hebrew Union College Library.

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EUCLID AVENUE TEMPLE BULLETIN Publi.h.d W .... ly from Septemb .. to Jun. at S. E. Cov.

Euclid Avenue and Ealt &lnd St., Clev.land, Ohio.

by the Anshe Chesed Congregotion Telephone, CEdav 08b2-3 Sub,cTiption 50 cenb peT Annum

BARNETT R. BRICKNER, Rabbi

NATHAN BRILLIANT, Editor

Ente,ed a, •• cand-c1011 matt., Ap,il 9th, 192b at the Palt Office, Cleveland, Ohio, unde, the Act of MaTch 3Td 1879.

No Customs Duty on Clothing Sent Abroad

The following letter from the Rou­manian Royal Consulate was received by the Rabbi last week:

"I have the honor to inform you that following the intervention of our Legation in Washington, the Roumanian Ministry of Finance has decided to exempt, for a period of five months beginning May 1st, the custom duties on packages containing old clothing sent by the Jewish Charity organiz.ations or individuals in this coun­try to similar Jewish organizations in Roumania, provided the contents are not made of nor combined with silk and are intended only for charity purposes. The silk articles will be charged according to the Custom Tariff.

"I win be most grateful if you will be kind enough to bring this information to the attention of the organizations or in­dividuals connected with your congrega­tion, who may be interested in sending such articles.

"For further detailed information this Oonsulate is at your disposal."

Nathan Straus said: "If you want to help anyone, the best time to do it is be­fore he is down. Rather than run to his assistance when he is in despair, help him before he falls into the depths. Don't wait until he is in the hospital or in prison. Then he will be too helpless to help him­.self.

"In the matter of assisting our less for­tunate brother "an ounce of prevention is worth a ton of cure." Practical philan­thropy, therefore, will prevent rather than cure ills."

Sisterhood Annual Meeting

An attractive Economy Spring Salad Luncheon will be served by the Sister­hood, Tuesday, May 12th at 12:30 P. M., for their Annual Meeting. Mrs. Henry Sulka is chairman of the luncheon and Mrs. Ed. Goldberg is in charge of the tickets, which may be had at the Office or by calling Mrs. Ed. Goldberg, LOngacre 7470. Mrs. J. O. Stein, president, will preside at the luncheon.

Mrs. Harry Rosewater and Mrs. William Cohen are co-chairmen for the Annual Meeting program, which will be in the form of an animated committee report playlet. Mrs. Rosewater has written the playlet and has included much local color.

Mrs. S. S. Rosenberg is coaching the play and Mrs. Charles Brown is in charge of stage properties.

Mrs. Myron Rice is chairman of the Nominating Committee and election of of­"ficers for the -fo'llowilrg- year- will- ""'t~e place at a business meeting preceding the play.

The afternoon program will begin promptly at 2:15 p. m., and those mem­bers who cannot come to the luncheon are invited to the afternoon meeting.

Uniongrams for Mother's Day Sunday, May 10th is Mother's Day.

Send her a Uniongram. By so doing you not only remember mother, but you are at the same time aiding the Scholarship Fund which enables a student to proceed with his studies at the Hebrew Union College.

Single uniongrams at 25 cents, books at $1.00, may be obtained at the temple office.

Alumni Annual Meeting May 17th

The Alumni Association will hold ita Annual Meeting Sunday, May 17th at 3:00 P. M. A report of the year's activities will be read, and the new Board and new om- I

cers will be elected.

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STORIES FROM THE HASIDIM (From «A.n Anthology of Haaidic Lore" In Preparation)

I. A famous Rabbi was known throughout

the region for his elaborate Seder cere­mony. One day, following Passover, a stranger came to him and said: "There is a certain Isaac ben Jacob whose Seder has been even finer than yours." His curios­ity piqued, the Rabbi summoned the Isaac b_en Jacobs of the community, but each was found to have performed the Services in the customary fashion. Finally the Rabbi learned that in the town there was a cer­tain Isaac beri Jacob, a humble water-car­rier, addicted to drunkenness. He was called into the Rabbi's presence.

"What kind of a Seder did you have this year?" inquired the Rabbi.

The water-carrier burst into tears. On further questioning, the Rabbi discovered that the water-carrier had received an un­usually large number of gifts of Passover wine from his patrons. He imbibed freely of them before the Seder, became intoxi­cated, fell asleep and did not awaken until four o'clock the next morning when he saw the townsfolk entering the synagogue. In great distress of spirit, and sincerely re­pentant, the water~carrier placed four cups of wine on the Seder table, and cried out:

"0 Lord, Thou art the greatest God in the Heavens, and I am the greatest drunk­ard on the earth!"

One moment of the genuine contrition, say the Hasidim, is worth the most osten­tatious and elaborate ceremonies. . (Told to Rabbi Newman, the compiler,

by Rabbi 1. Tabak, descendant of a famous Hasidic "dynasty.")

II. "The wife of Rabbi Wolf of Zharas ac­

cused her maidservant of having stolen a costly vessel. The girl denied the deed. The woman, being wroth, prepared herself to go out and appeal to the rabbinical court. Rabbi Wolf, seeing her prepara­tions, put on his Sabbath garment also. His wife said that it was not fitting for him to go, too, and that she knew well enough how to bear herself in the court's presence.

"'Truly,' replied the Zaddik, 'you do. But the poor orphan, your maid, as whose counsel I am going, does not. And who but I will see that justice is done her?'"

(Lewisohn's "Cities and Men," p. 205.)

III. "Rabbi Simcha Bunan was wont to say:

'When on the Sabbath day my room is full

of people, I find it bard to interpret the law. For each man needs his own law and needs to be perfected therein and what I interpret for all I withdraw from each.'''

(Ibid. pp. 205-6.) IV.

One day a Hasid came to the Rabbi-he was rich, but a miser. The Rabbi took him by the hand and led him to the window. "Look out there," he said. And the rich man looked into the street. "What do you see?" asked the Rabbi. "People," answers the rich man. Again the Rabbi takes him by the hand, and this time leads him to the mirror. "What dOJou see now?" he says. "Now I see myselI," answers the rich man. Then the Rabbi says: "Behold-in the win­dow there is glass and in the mirror there is glass. But the glass of the mirror is covered with a little silver, and no sooner is the silver added than you cease to see others but see only yourself."

(From S. Ansky's "The Dybbuk," p. 65.)

V. One day there came to Meshibach a

troupe of German acrobats who gave their performance in the streets of the town. They stretched a rope across the river and one of them walked along the rope to the opposite bank. From all sides the people came running to behold this ungodly mar­vel, and in the midst of the crowd of on­lookers stood the holy Balshem himself. His disciples were greatly astonished, and asked him the meaning of his presence there. And the holy Balshem answered them thus: I went to see how a man might cross the chasm between two heights as this man did, and as I watched him I re­flected that if mankind would submit their souls to such discipline as that to which he submitted his body, what deep abysses might they not cross upon the tenuous cord of life!

(From S. Ansky's "The Dybbuk," p. 98.)

VI. A thief once tried to break into a house,

the owner of which, crying out, frightened the thief away. The same thief soon aft­erward broke into the house of ~ very strong man, who, on seeing him enter, kept quite still. When the thief had come near enough, the man caught him and put him in prison, thus depriving him of all oppor­tunity to do further harm.

(A Parable of Baal Shem Tov on Asceticism.)

(From the Rodeph Sholom Chronicle, N. Y.)

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Children's Theatre Under the auspices of the Department

of Parent Education, Division of Informal Adult Education, Cleveland College, there will be presented "Little Women," Louisa M. Alcott's classic, by the Children's Theatre of New York at Severance Hall. There will be three performances, Wednes­day, May 6th at 4 P. M. and 8 P. M.; Thursday, May 7th at 4 P. M.

The High School Graduates Following are the names of those who

will be graduated from our High School Department this Sunday morning, May 3rd, following the successful completion of the three year course:

Robert B. Alexander Jean Amster Frances Doris Barkin Suzanne Berman Ruetta T. Bialosky Gerold Breuer Sylvia S. Fellenbaurn Ethel Berneice Finkelstein Stanley H. Fish Ernestine Friedl J. Sanford Gelfand Ruth Rose Kolisch Evelyn Mae Koslen Bertram S. Kraus Morton Levin Irwin 1. Liss Jeanette C. Mazur Harvey Nathan Olenberg Irwin Phillip Pohl Naomi F. Schwartz A. Richard Siegel Yetlynne R. Simons Howard Abraham Steiner Haskell J. Titchell Ruth Weil Harriet M. Weinstein Mildred N. W.eiss

Judaizing the Home

From the paper, "Judaizing the Horne," by Mrs. Abraham Levinson, read before the Religious Committee of the Conference of Jewish Women's Organizations at the meeting on March 30th, in The Temple Isaiah Israel-from a reprint in the Re­form Advocate:

"To summarize concrete ways of Juda­izing the horne:

"l-Put into your library books on Jew­ish subjects.

"Have a Jewish-English periodical in your home to keep you in touch with Jew­ish current events.

"Make your slogan for bar mitzvahs and confirmations, for birthdays and grad­uations 'LESS TIES AND MORE BOOKS, LESS UNDERWEAR OF SILK AND MORE VOLUMES OF LEATHER.'

"2-Bring some type of Jewish art into your horne, through pictures, panels, plaques, illustrated albums.

"3--Do not discard all Jewish cere­monial objects as museum curiosities, as some may be important. Many are fraught with -great 'si~iftcanc~ 'i'n Jewisb life.

"4-Bring back to your boy and girl the joy of our holidays, the sacredness of our holy days, the poetry and romance of our customs and ceremonies so that they will not speak of Passoever as the Jewish Eas­ter and Chanukah as the Jewish Christ­mas.

"S-Have a Jewish hour in the horne every week during which the spiritual val­ues and applicability of the rich treasure of Jewish tradition and learning, Jewish poetry and romance as well as its phil- ~ osophy to our every day American life can be illustrated.

"6-Revive the singing of Jewish melo­dies, the chanting of Jewish prayers, es­pecially at the celebration of Jewish fes­tivals in the horne.

"7-Interest yourself in yo~r child's Jewish education, his Hebrew school, his Sabbath school. Make them as important to yourself and to him as his music, his dancing, his elocution, his movies.

"Then will your horne, like the Jewish home of old, be a citadel of Judaism. Then, to go hand in hand with the ideal syna­gogue and the model religious school, we will have the potent l.ewilh home, the horne / fully .Judaized."

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Rabbi Concludes Broadcast The fifth season of Rabbi Brickner's

weekly broadcasting over Station WHK was concluded last Sunday, and will be re­sumed again in the Fall.

The Rabbi has received thousands of letters from his huge radio congregation which extends over a radius of several hundred miles from Cleveland, and in­cludes people of the highest· and lowest stations in life.

Renunciation of War By Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler

In His Annual Report as Director of In­tercourse of the Carnegie Endowment

for International Peace. The cynic tells us that the renunciation

of war is mere words. So are the Ten Commandments; so is the Constitution of the United States; so is any treaty which by the usual processes of negotiation and ratification has become the supreme law of the land. All these are mere words, nothing but words, from the cynic's view­PQ~t~ . Men .. pf. clearer vision and wiser judgment, however, see in these words the written and spoken record of acts of thought and of will, of determination and of purpose. "With words we govern men," wrote Disraeli long ago.

All that is needed to make anyone of these mere words effective is that those who have uttered them or subscribed to them shall keep the faith. If faithless­ness be assumed to be the certain accom­paniment of anyone of these mere words, why should it not be assumed to be the accompaniment of them all? If govern­ments are not to be expected to keep their word when they renounce war, why should they be expected to keep their word when they make treaties of amity and commerce or when they agree together to limit naval armaments?

With an assumed faithlessness on the part of governments, all hope of civiliza­tion fails. It is on the good faith of gov­ernments and on the ability and willing­ness of public opinion to compel govern­ments to keep tneir plighted word that the peace of the world and the hope of the world depend.

The Jewish Poor "The Kingdom of God-the Rabbis held

-is inconsistent with a state of social misery. They were not satisfied with feed­ing the poor. Their great ideal was not to allow a man to be poor, not to allow him to come down into the depths of pov­erty. They say, 'Try to prevent it by teaching him a trade. Try all methods be­fore you permit him to become an object of charity, which must degrade him, ten­der as your dealings with him may be.' "

-So Schechter, 1893.

We Gratefully Acknowledge the Following Contributions

Altar

Mrs. Fanny Federman-In memory of Parents, Jacob and Helene Mahrer;

Mrs. Nathan Haman-In memory of Sis­ter, Miss Myra Berman;

Mrs. Henry Moore.

Library Mrs. J. N. Rosen, Mrs. F. I. Livingston,

the Misses Esther, Sara and Essie Cohen -In memory of Mr. Ed. Fishel;

The Misses Esther and Essie Cohen-In memory of Mrs. D. Gold;

Mrs. F. I. Livingston and Miss Essie Cohen -In memory of Mr. Wyman;

Class IB-In memory of Joseph Jacobs; Ruth Steuer, Rosalie Sinek, Pauline Fed­

erman, Eunice Koller, Suzanne Frankel and Elizabeth Weitz-In memory of Betsy Green.

Prayer Book

Mr. Alex H. Goldberger-In memory of Mother, Serene Goldberger.

Scholarship

Mrs. David Hyman, Mrs. Harry Kline, Mrs. Theo. Swanson, Mrs. Joseph Regenstein -In memory of MT. David Hyman.

In Memoriam We record in deep sorrow the passing

away of

Ser~De Goldberger Yetta 'Havre

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The Men's Club ANNUAL MEETING , and SMOKER

Tuesday, May 12th, 1931 • • 8 p. m •

Judge Carl D. Friebolin will speak on

"What This Country Needs"

Otto Zinner, Mal Seigel, Armin Friedman, Harry Wolpaw and Company

present

"Murder Will Out" or "A Spasm in One Breath" wherein they have a bit of fun with the activities of the Men's Club

Some Jewish Folk Songs

by the

JEWISH SINGING SOCIETY (Remember how you enjoyed their program at the Chanukah Rally?)

SMOKES REFRESHMENTS

Th. meeting i. open only to members of the Men's Club and to those who will join the Club for the year beginning September 1st, 1931.

Confirmation Class Nite-May 10th Confirmants and their parents will

gather on Sunday evening, May 10th in our Recreation Hall for an informal sup­per and program-Class Nite,-the annual event of the confirmation class.

The program will begin with a catered supper at 6:00 P. M. Class songs, class personals, history and prophecy together with a talk by Rabbi Brickner will make up a program of unusual interest.

Tickets at $1.35 a person, or $4.00 for three, may be purchased in the temple office.

Club Day Service The Club Department will close its sea- j

son of activity with the Annual Club Day on Saturday, May 9th. A special Children's Service is being prepared in which mem- J hers of the clubs will participate. As part of the service there will be a pageant entitled "Every Boy and Every Girl."

Preceding the service at 10:00 A. M., members of the clubs will assemble for the annual meeting, where the President will read his report, Rabbi Brickner will extend his greetings, and awards will be , made.