The Denver Jewish news., 1922-08-09
By \. LEVIN.

IbOflScnhiSkN OF lionel huu hau the
''impudence" To appear at so-c;iled
non-partisau Labor Conference in
Homel to plead with the Jewish Com
munists to spare the Chodariu. The
'Emess." the official Orgaa i'll Mos
COW of the Jewish Communists. vent
ed its wrath ON the Rabbi at the
time, but found nothing to object to in
his action save that he had defended
what it calls the out-of date methods
education against the newly consti-
tuted guardians of the Jewish people
the Jewish Communists. organized in
the Jewish Section of the Russian
Communist Party. No other accusa-
tion was made against the Rybbi.
Now. however. Rabbi Borischansky
has been arrested.
In order to give semblance of act
uality to the arrest. one of the mem
bcrs of the Homel Jewish Section.
Comrade Rililin. has published It's
the Rabbi but against the whole of
Homel Jcwry, and not in the Jewish
paper, in the "EmesS." hut in the
"Isvestia" itself the organ of the Rus
ing to the whole of the Russian work
ing-class. Comrade Riklin besmirches
the name of the whole of the Jewish
population of Homel.
,,rIs. M
(that is. followers of the Patriarch
TikhoI. who has been imprisoned by
the Soviet Government for refusing to
carry out its decree to surrender the
treasures of the Greek Orthodox
Church,. There has been arrested
in Homel." begins the article. printed
in the 'Isvcstia'' No. III. the head
of the Homel clcricals who are out TO
fight against us Rabbi i'orisrs,nnsky
He too has been arrested because he
refuses to surrender sacred treasures
albeit sacred treasures of another
kind He refuses to give up the Jew
ish children from their nests of dark
ness and igaorancc-the Chcdrarim.
"A short while ago" he proceeds
there was held in Homel n conference
of all the Jewish workers. The con-
ference decided almost unanimously
that the time had arrived. once and
for ALL to wine ont these last relies
of the bourgeois clericalist commun-
ity and to close down all the Chedarim
and Yeshibas.
"A special mission was elected by
the conference to transfer the childre:
schools. Jewish or Russian. according
to the wish of the parents. Immediate
ly. the clercalists got to their sinister
work. Rabbi Borischansky called
meetings in the synagogs and urged
the spectators to resist. 1t must he
remembered proceeds Ccmradc i.ik-
lin. that IIomel is town full IF
petty spectators. Recent events. the
cessation of acquisitions, etc. have
simply turned the heads of these spccu-
lntors. The trembling and detected
speculator has become II privileged
merchant. and he dares to have pre-
tensions. and has the impudence to air
opinions. OF course, it goes without
saying that he is Il member of the
opposition. that he is hostile to the
Soviet Government.
THE head of these spectators, of
these opponents of the Soviets, was
the Rabbi Borischansky. He organiz-
ed II sort of group of followers of Tik-
hindcred in all possible ways the re-
lief work for the starving. 1t made
collections of its own, uncontrolled
by us, for what they called their own
famine victims. (Comrade Riklin evi-
IDENTIFY refers to the collections made
for the Jewish coionists in South Rus
sia) They held secret assemblies i'll
the synagOgucS. Rabbi BoriSchanslly
being present and conniving at their
anti-Soviet activity. They passed res
olutions of protest against the 'unhear-
able taxation. and decided not to pro
cecd to their work. that is to say. to
keep their shops closed. tp strike
against the Soviet authorities.
THE fear that their Chcdarim were
going to he closed excited the spccu-
lator clericaliSts among the Jewish
population in Homel to an amazing de-