The Denver Jewish news. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1915-1925, 1920-02-18

! IN Portland, Oregon called THE Ola
Mems Hebrew Society. Sixty men
nave already Joined and have each
contributed 500 for buying u home for
| homeless old men. The membership
will be limited to 100 men with initia-
ton of 800 and dues of 81 90 u month.
Rabbi Ephraim Frisch, of New York.
will deliver three lectures at the Uni
versity of Syracuse on Facts and Fic-
| tons About the jew" The lectures
will be delivered before tine entire
student body during the summer SEES
sion and have been arranged by the
Jewish Chautauqua Society.
Mrs Theodore workum of Cincin-
Hati has been reelected executive OF
the Ohio Humane Society for three
years. During the two years that she
has been in charge she has broadened
the scope of the work of the organi-
cation and greatly increased its nc
tivities. Her aim is to adjust diff
fcrences and re-establish homes by
arbitration rather than by prosecution.
a number of wealthy Philadelphia
Jews have formed a new country club,
to be known as the Green Valley COun-
try Club, and have purchased n prop
erty of no acres at Marlborough, with
in seven miles of Philadelphia. About
S30O,0OO will be expended on the pro-
ject, and 100000 has already been sub
scribed.
In 1916 the Berlin Jewish weekly re-
ported that three Jewish brothers who
were supporting their old mother and
an invalid sister were called to the
| colors and sent to the front. Two
of them We're killed in action within
| the first nine months of the war. The
| Colonel of the regiment under whom
all the three brothers served was hu-
name enough to suggest TO the surviv-
ing brother to petition the military au-
thorities with view to get his release
from the army because after the death
of his two brothers. he was the only
| supporter of his family. But the brave
fellow refused 10 comply with this
suggestion asserting that Gentle
could do it but not Jew, because
people would say that the Jews were
slackcrs and he would rather sacrifice
his mother and sister than the rep
utation of his people.
Many new members have enrolled in
the Jerusalem Chamber of Commerce
which has succeeded i'll securing the
abolition of the extra import duty at
Jaffa on goods coming to Jerusalem.
Morris Cohen, formerly of the Cen
ttal Hardware Co. st. LOuis. left with
his family on Sunday, January Is, for
Palestine.
The publication in the near future
Of the Connecticut Hebrew Record
has been announced. II will be is
sued ut Hartford, with Assistant U. 5.
District Attorney George ii. Cohen as
its cditor-in-cliief. DIR. Cohen Is
| graduate of Yale Law School and
holds the NJ. A., PhD., LIB. degrees.
| He served as lieutenant in the army
during the war.
Two prominent residents of Wash
ington. ID. c.. were hOnored in the last
week, Leon Tobriner and Isaac Cans,
Mr. Tobriner. who is prominently iden-
tilted with the law profession, was
elected president of the Bar Associa-
ton of the District of Columbia-a dis
tinction rarely before conferred upon
jew, despite the number of rep
utable lawyers of Jewish faith resid-
ing in the District. Mr.. rObriner has
always identified himself with Jewish
interests and has been especially active
IN the work of the Associated and He
lrew Charities. Mr.. Gans, who is one
Of the most pul.lic-spirited citizens OF
the District and has always been rec
ognized as such. was reelected sec
cnd vice president of the Chamber OF
Commerce. an honorary position which
he has held for number of years.
Congregation Temple Isiacl has been
organized at Amarillo, Tex As soon
as necessary funds are i'll hand
I synagog will be erected.
| Philip \. Sapiro, well known San
francisco musician, has been elected
leader of the san Francisco NUM-
cipal Band for a term of four and
half years.
In Berlin and Breshau, Jewish Peo-
pies Universities have been founded.
Professors of the local rabbinical