The American Jewish world. [volume], February 04, 1916, Image 6

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that the Jews are a "miraclc people,"
meaning by that they expected re
sults like freedom to be obtained
without the resort to the means by
which results would naturally be se
cured. It is indeed extraordinary
that the Jews should entertain such
an idea. For there is no people in
the world in which the individual
members are more conscious of the
fact that success is the result of per
sistent effort. No Jew expects any
results for himself by miracle. He
expects to work for them, and the
Jew so frequently obtains results be
cause he does work for them. It is
the persistence of the individual
Jew his willingness to exert him
self to forego pleasure and to un
dergo pain, to brave dangers, and
submit to sacrifice, that win his in
dividual success. But when the
Jews have sought results for the
whole people, they seem to have
forgotten the lessons of everyday
life. They have lacked the states
man-like quality which should bring
them together each saying: "I as
one of the people will join with each
and every other member of my peo
ple to attain the end in which the
whole people is interested, and as
such I will make the necessary sac
rifices so that our great end may
be achieved."
What we need, therefore, is that
the Jews individually shall, for the
common cause of the Jewish peo
ple, be ready to make sacrifices like
those which they are always making
in order to attain their individual
successes. When Jews are ready to
do that, the three million Jews of
America with their high intelligence
and strong will cannot fail to have
a great effect in ameliorating the
condition of their brethren in other
lands. Patience may be necessary
as well as persistence. But patience,
persistence and devotion will ac
complish, sooner or later, in one way
or another, the great end we have in
view. The purpose of our deliber
ation, when we come together in
conference and in Congress, must
be to discover what the best way
is to proceed in order soonest to at
tain that end. But it will never be
attained unless the individual Jew
is willing to make such sacrifices in
time, in effort, and in money.
The great Jewish inheritance and
the great American inheritance de
mand that each and every one of
you should specially pledge yourself
to wrork for that end.
At Los Angeles. Cal., a Woman's
Auxiliary to the B'nai B'rith lodge
has been established.
406 THE AMERICAN JEWISH WOULD
NEWS ABOUT JEWS
EVERYWHERE.
Mrs. Joseph Fels, of Philadelphia,
has been chosen one of the five
permanent American members of
the Ford Peace Party.
Nathan Straus, Jacob H. Schiff,
Daniel B. Freedman, Alvin Unter
meyer, Charles S. Guggenheimer,
Harry Bronner and Bernard Sachs
are among the incorporators of the
Andrews Freedman Home for the
Aged and Infirm.
Isaac N. Seligman has been made
third vice-president of the Tuber
culosis Preventorium for Children.
Dr. Joseph I. Gorfinkle has been
appointed a member of the City
Planning Commission of Mount
Vernon, N. Y.
The New York Immigrant Aid
Society has learned from private
sources that there are now a num
ber of Jewish refugees in various
towns in Japan in dire distress. Many
of these are deserters from the Rus
sian army, very few of whom have
managed to get to America.
"Gymal Doled" is the rather sug
gestive name of an organization of
a society of Jewish young men at
Milwaukee, Wis. The Society is an
organization, primarily social, but its
members are actively interested in
all things Jewish.
Reports which have reached from
Siberia paint in gloomy colors the
position of the Jewish refugees and
exiles sent there. Thousands of
Jews from Poland and Russia were
transported to Siberia, and in the dis
trict of Fnisseisk alone about a
thousand Jews are scattered in
twenty-nine villages. Many of
them were only released after the
recent strong demands of the local
Liberals.
There were a number of Jewish
delegates present at the National
Conference on Immigration and
Americanization held at the Bel
levue-Stratford. Philadelphia, Pa.,
January 19-20. Some of them were:
Rev. Dr. Henry Berkowitz, Mr.
Charles J. Cohen, Mr. and Mrs.
Samuel S. Fels, Mr. Samuel S.
Fleisher. of Philadelphia Dr. Jacob
H. Hollander, of Baltimore Mr.
Julius Rosenwald, of Chicago, and
Mr. Felix M. Warburg, of New
York.
At the request of the Shakes
peare Tercentenary Celebration
February 4,1916
Committee, Mayor Mitchell has ap
pointed a committee to assist in the
festival to be held in New York City
next May. Otto H. Kahn will be
chairman and some of the appointees
are Jacob Adler, David Belasco,
Joseph Barondess, Abraham Cahan,
A. J. Dittenhoefer, Samuel Gompers,
Mrs. Daniel Guggenheim, Morris
Hillquit, Adolph Lewisohn, Dr.
Henry M. Leipziger, Walter Lipp
man. Adolph S. Ochs, Jacob H.
Schiff, Mrs, Mortimer L. Schiff,
Oscar S. Straus, Miss Lillian D.
Wald and Dr. Stephen S. Wise.
Rabbi To Conduct Camp.
Rabbi B. C. Ehrenreich of Mont
gomery, Ala., will conduct a boy's
camp at Minocqua, Wis. It will be
known as "Camp Kawaga" and will
combine the features of vacation
camp and summer school. Rabbi
Ehrenreich plans to make Kawaga
one of the best equipped and most
beautifully arranged camps in the
country. It will be open during the
coming season from June 29 to Sep
tember 4.
Paper Fined For Jewish Sympathies.
The publisher of the Russian pa
per, Smolenski Telegraph, has been
fined 3,000 roubles for publishing a
pro-Jewish resolution of the peas
ants in the government of Smolensk,
and the editor of the paper has been
sentenced to three months' impris
onment. The resolution in question
points out the great sacrifices that
the Jews in this war have brought
for Russia and the terrible position
of the Jewish fugitives, and requests
the authorities of the government of
Smolensk to grant the 23 fugitive
Jewish families in this district the
lease of communal land and the
right to trade, as this is also in the
interest of the rural population.
Society To Study Jewish Life.
In Petrograd was recently formed
an organization of non-Jews with
the object of studying Jewish life
and history and combating anti
Semitism. Among the prominent
members of the organization arc
Leonid Andreyey, Count Tolstoi,
Professor Milyukoff, Deputy Ker
enski and a number of other writers,
artists and statesmen. In the open
ing address Maxim Gorki said that
it is the aim of the society to give
the anti-Semites an opportunity to
study Jewish life and culture. After
they have learned something about
the Jewish spirit they will cease be
ing anti-Semites. An unknown per
son donated the sum of 10,000
roubles for the general purposes of
the society.