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According to the Scribe, provisions were made for Matzoth for 165 Jewish inmates in the Federal penitentiary at Atlanta, Georgia.
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According to a Budapest dispatch Miss Elizabeth Simon, who was “Miss Europe” at the Galveston Beauty Contest, has withdrawn, the reason assigned for her action being the anti-Semitism which has been increasing lately.
Evidently the modernistic group among the Jewish people in committing them selves to this position are entirely adrift, having destroyed their moorings to the ancestral faith. Only the sufferings and throes of the Day of the Lord, “the time of Jacob’s trouble," can arrest them in their mad plunge into everlasting dark ness. Agreement Between th e Vatican and Russia According to Jewish Gleanings, rapid changes politically and religiously are tak ing place in Europe. Since the political power has been restored to the Papacy, friendly relationships have been entered into by Soviet Russia and the Vatican. By this agreement, according to the re port, the Roman Catholic hierarchy will be permitted to carry on its propaganda in the Soviet territory without political con trol or hindrance. This new development, together with the modernistic trend, will, doubtless, open up the way for a union between the Roman Catholic and Greek Catholic churches. —o— Jewish News Notes This year the Jewish Passover fell be tween April 24 and May 2. Press dispatches from Harbin, Russia, report that Russian monarchists are spreading anti-Semitic propaganda in China. — o— Palestine is no longer of the “unchang ing East” but is rapidly becoming modern ized. Approximately 3,232 telephones are in use. — o — Approximately thirteen cars of Mat- zoth, the unleavened bread for the Jew ish Passover, have been shipped from Germany into Russia and the Ukraine. Communistic agitators are attempting to incite the Arab population against the Palestinian Government and the Zionistic Movement. — o — An edict in Yemen forces all Jewish children upon death of their parents to embrace the Moslem faith. — o— — o —
The Passover Festival TN the issue of April 19 of the American A Hebrew the first editorial concerns the Passover festival. The editor sees an en during monument which will survive all archeological and critical discoveries. It is a monument, according to this author, of an' actual historical fact—the deliver ance of Israel from her bondage in Egypt. Although he has an unswerving faith in the historicity of the event which it celebrates, he is committed to the" critical view concerning the origin of the Penta teuch. . . Notwithstanding the doubt concerning the accuracy of the account of the exodus, the editor sees an imperishable spiritual element in the Seder Hagaddah (the ser vice in connection with the Passover meal). It is indeed sad to see how unbelief and doubt are undermining the faith of Jewry in America. Another editorial in the same issue of the American Hebrew states that the archeological findings of Prof. William F. Bade, of the Pacific School of Religion, has unearthed archeological data at Tel Nasbes, which is just north of Jerusalem. The professor believes that he has found evidence that the young ladies who lived in Israel between 1100 and 1200 be fore the Christian era wore bobbed hair and were like the flappers of today. While the article does not produce any evidence of such a fact, it is not sur prising, because Israel constantly assimi lated many customs, both good and bad, and mostly bad, from the surrounding heathen nations. — o — Prof. Harry Elmer Barnes, Prerequisites of th e Fellowship of Religions In the April 19 issue of the American Hebrew appears as the leading article of the issue á long dissertation on the pre requisites of a future fellowship of relig ions. This article is approved by the ed itor in the editorial columns, who ana lyzes, to a certain extent, this article. According to Prof. Barnes, there could be no real cooperation and fellowship among peoples until the supernatural con ception of religion has been discarded in toto and religion is reduced to a natural istic basis. When this is accomplished, people who are now associated in the dif ferent religious groups can come together for the benefit of cultural and secular benefits. Since the supernatural is eliminated, ac cording to the professor’s theory, it is not certain whether there is a God. It is, how ever, certain, according to him, that there is no such thing as the immortality of the soul, heaven or hell. People are to engage in scientific knowledge and seek all en joyments and satisfactions during this life. — o — Flappers in Ancient Israel
Providing Memories Deuteronomy 32:1-9. “Remember the days of old." Memory is one of the most precious of human faculties. And among men the rank is largely determined by the varying power of memory^—memory of faces, memory of experiences, memory of books and facts, memory of impressions, memory of ideals, memory of purposes, memory of failures and faults. Not only is all this true of men, but much of the joy of life is based on happy memories, as much of life’s sorrow is caused by memories that are sad. We are likely to think that we can do nothing about this, that our memories are in the hands of fate; but that is a deplorable mistake. Really, our memories are almost entirely in our hands, and we can build them up as we will. Here are two wise sentences from the writings of Henry Clay Trumbull: “All men are glad to have pleasant memories, but not all are providing the material for such memories.. If you would look back, by and by, to something that you are glad you said or did, now is the time to do or say something which will give you food for gladness.” We plan eagerly for building up an es tate in lands and houses and money; but we let our estate in memories take care of itself. That is the real,¡estate. There may come a time when we would be glad to give all we own in other goods if we could get rid of certain evil memories and put happy memories in their place. Why not do that now, while it is possible?— Amos R. Wells. Dr. Torrey’s Ancestry The following interesting paragraph was clipped from the Somerset County Gazette, published at Taunton, Somerset, England, and sent to the editors by a Cali fornia reader of T h e K in g ’ s B u s in e s s . “You no doubt noticed in the papers a report of the death, in America, of Dr. Torrey, the well-known evangelist. Prob ably few people know—I didn’t till I learned it from a friendly correspondent —that Dr. Torrey was of Somerset an cestry. As a matter of fact, he was a descendant of Captain William Torrey, who was one of the Puritans who left Combe St. Nicholas at the Restoration, and sailed for America in 1662. When Dr. Torrey was in Somerset in 1903 he visited Combe, and had a look round the church and churchyard, where many of his an cestors were buried.”
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In the Island of Crete, Prof. Andreas, the Greek archeologist, has unearthed an ancient Jewish synagogue from the times of Christ and Philo.
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