Evening star., 1923-11-18
NEWS OF THE JEWISH WORLD
BY RABBI JACOB S. MINKTN

Both Kahr. the new dictator Of Ba-
varia. and Hitler, always fishing in
troubled waters. are unremittingly
| hostile to the Jews. and their ac-
cession to power is fraught with the
| of Bavaria.
Signs are not wanting Of the om-
| nous position in which events have
placed German Jews. The anti
Semitism which has manifested itself
there for some time has been un-
mfstakable, and the general con-
census of opinion is that the fall of
| the republic would mean an active
! outbreak against the Jews. Thus
yet another community of Jews has
made itself ready for sacrifice to the
evil spirit which we were assured
the war would lay forever. but which,
4 IN fact, 1t has eXacerbated and in
/ famed. No more terrible Indictment
against European civilization and the
| the task OF shielding it could there
| be than what Jews see today in the
awful plight of their brethren in
| Germany.
! Jewish Artist Signally Honored.
| Rosa Raisa, the famous Jewish So
prano, has been chosen as leading
soprano in Toscaninis first pro-
duction of "Nerone." at La Scala
of Milan. That is. of course. a signal
honor and no small tribute to the
great art of Rosa Raisa. Toscanini
| is known as the greatest conductor
of this age. "Nerone" is the work of
Boito, the composer of "MefistofeIe," 4"
! collaboration with Verdi in rOtello"
and "Falstaff." and poet of note;
! La Scala is probably the most cele-
! brated opera house in the world.
To appear in La Scala is equivalent
to receiving the, accolade or the
| laurel wreath. and to sing a leading
| role at La Scala is to pile up super
| latives. Rosa Raisa of the Chicago
| Civic Opera Company. Jewess who
| has made for herself a name as one
of the leading vocal artists in this
| tions of the old cry, periodically raised,
that the Jews are not artists.
| British Chief Rabbi Denounces
Outrages Against Jews.
In scathing language. DR.. Joseph
Hertz, chief rabbi of the British EN-
/ ptre, denounced the outrages COM
mitted against the Jews in the
| Ukraine, at a meeting of the Fedora
| ton of ukrainian Jews held in Lon
don, England. BY way of comparison
he drew attention to the humane
work that had been called into ex-
istence by the great calamity that
had do Svertaken the Japanese. . j.,
thrilled humanity. Even the Chinese
| coolies had given up the boycott
against the Japanese people in face
of this cataclysm. One hundred and
! fifty thousand human beings had
i been done to death. not by the blind
| forces of nature, but by human fiends,
in the Ukraine. and the world is
| silent. There are 800 Jewish war
orphans who live without food, die
without hope and are buried without
shrouds. Three hundred thousand
! children demoralized. dying, doomed
/ victims of disease and death, crime
! and vagabondage." He concluded by
| expressing the hope that the world
| will come to the rescue of this vast
| mass of infant humanity.
The Jewish Home.
| Whatever may be said of Jews and
4 Judaism, the Jewish home has stood
| for an Ideal which has been realized
during, many trying centuries. From
I Nomadic days to the present cramped
apartment, the Jewish home has
been a sanctuary in which the father
was the priest and the mother the
priestess, and in which both served
at the altar of childhood. Therein
have always been fostered the virtues
of domesticity, which have made 1t
the proverbial standard for emula-
tion. No less today than in the past
! the Jewish home is the heart and
soul of the Jewish people, each one
link in the nightly chain which
holds them together and binds them
with the spirit that combats ad-
| versity and triumphs over vicissitude.
| Modern vagaries have in no way des-
| troyed its sanctitfes and traditions
Its precious beauties continue to be
preserved in the midst Of unfriendly
environment Prosperity and luxury
do not dim the glow which the ages
have impaired to 1t. The Jewish
home is the glory Of Israel, unmatch-
ed and unrivaled.