The Denver Jewish news., 1920-01-14


Z A weekend party tor about thirty
blind girls and their guides was given
ly tha officers and directors of the
Kew York Guild for Jewish Blind, to
open the new year. Mrs. Ephraim B.
Levy is president Mrs. Joshua Piza
Vice president and Miss Aimee Piza
secretary.
Joseph NJ Samfield of Memphis,
Tenn. and Mrs. Rose f'reyer, of
Shreveport, La, were united in mar
riage in New Orleans on December II,
III the residence of Rabbi Emil w.
:4eipziger, the officiating minister. Mr..
Samfie,d is the publisher of The Jew
ish Spectator at Memphis, Tenn. He
is popular in commercial, social and
fraternal circles of that city, and is
II son of the late Rabbi Max Samfield,
who was well known thruout the South.
Mrs. s;amfield is Il member of one of
.he Oldest Southern Jewish families,
her father having been one of the
carly settlers of Galveston, Texas Mr..
and Mrs. Samfield will make their
home in Memphis.
The mobbing of undesirable citizens
and the raiding of the headquarters
and other gathering places of even
reasonable malcontcnts, is hardly
creditable performance on the part OF
the members of so great and fine an
organization as the American Legion.
hn lt,ly tnI nnf n
officers of the law can very well at
tend TO that kind of small fry ana
have started ito do SO with vim. yigor
tnd every indication or complete vie
tory. II the American Legion wants
TO do something really worth its while,
let it get after those United States
Senator's, who by their obstruction of
the ratification of the Treaties, are
preventing the world from getting that
peace, for the procuring of which the
y. f. +. fought so bravely and eff
GENTLY. Israelitc.
Ben Bernstein, of Montreal. Canada
has received from the faculty of law.
McGill University. the Sir William
Macdonald travelling scholarship
which will give him years legal
study at the universities OF Sorbonne
and Paris. This is the FIRST award of
the scholarship since 1913.
A tablet erected by the Jewish Hos
pital Association of Philadelphia in
honor of eighty-four doctors and nurses
t,.1 xvl in, hn
World War was unveiled at noon sun
day. December II, at the Jewish Hos
p;tal, York and Tabor roads.
Two of the leading congregations OF
81. Louis, namely, Shaare Emcth and
the United Hebrew, have adopted
resolutions to abolish the assignment
of fixed pews and arbitrary dues as
features of the modern synasog. and
will in future have unassigned pews
and voluntary dues. This idea, whicl.
vas originated in Temple Beth lei. OF
rctroit. Mich. is being followed by II
number of congregations. among them
A[izpah Temple. OF Chattanooga, Tenn,
and Temple Bcne Israel. OF Little
Rock, Ark.
Louis /. Aaron died unexpectedly III
his home, at Pittsburgh Mr.. Aaron
was head of several mercantile con
Germs. He was born in Moschin, Ger
many, in 1910, and came to this coun
nv in 1857. He was one of the ear
lest members of the Rodef Shalom
Congregation, and for more than 30
wears served as secretary of the He
brew Benevolent society. He had been
n director of the j. Al. Gusky Or
pnanage and Home since its beginning,
and was the founder of the Hebrew
Institute.
The Department of Synagog and
School Extension of the Union of
american Hebrew Congregations has
annointed n Board of Editors to bring
out book containing a program OF
holiday exercises, etc, besides other
publications to be issued later. The
members of the board are Babbis Emil
q. IIirsch. Louis Grossman, Harry
Levi David I'hilipson, VIM. Rosenau,
.llram Simon. II. G. Enclow, Rudolph
Crossman, Max Heller, Joseph Korn-
field. ELI Mayer, Samuel Schulman,
Kaufman Kohler, and George Zepin.
4 Jewish students union has been
formed in Dublin. ireland, with the
object of promoting an interest i'll
Jewish history and literature and of
promoting social l.fc among the Dub
I'm Jewish students.