Intermountain Jewish news., 1926-09-09
Visitors Of Renown

TAX agEregAtlnE upwards OF SoV,uOuf-
600 during the past year.
Visitors Of Renown
The Jewish community was hon
ored, during the past year by the ar
rival Of n number of distinguished
visitors from abroad. These included
Chain Nachman Bialik, Hebrew poet;
DR.. Solomon Ehrmann, Director Of
the Palestine Bureau Of the Agudath
Israel; Rabbi Moses NJ. Epstein,
dean Of the Yeshivah Keneseth Israel
at Hebron, Palestine; DIR. William
Filderman, president Of the Union Of
Roumanian Jews; DIR. Jacob Klatzkin.
author and editor, Berlin; Vladimir
Jabotinsky, Russian litterateur and
Zionist leader; Rabbi Ezekiel Lip
schitz, President Of the Union Of Rab-
bis of Poland; Leonard Merrick, Eng
lish novelist; Anita Mueller Cohen,
Austrian feminist leader; Sir Mat
thew Nathan, former Governor Of
Queensland, Australia; Maxa Nordau,
talented daughter of the late Max
Nordau; Baron Henry de Rothschild,
surgeon and philanthropist, Paris;
Boris Schatz, head of the Bezalel
School of Arts and Crafts, Jerusalem.
and David Yellin, the vice-mayor Of
Jerusalem.
Inestimable Losses
Death deprived the community of n
number of its distinguished members,
including: Rose Brenner, President
for many years of the Council of
Jewish Women, New York City; Sig
mund S. Hecht, Rabbi Emeritus, Los
Angeles; Philip Klein, rabbi and lead
er of orthodox Jewry, New York City;
Kaufman Kohler. author and for
merly President, Hebrew Union Col
lege, New York City; Ephraim Lede-
rer. lawyer and communal leader
Philadelphia; David Leventritt, for
mer judge of the Supreme Court of
the State of New York, New York
City; Meyer London, Socialist leader
and former Member of Congress, New
York City; julius NJ. Meyer, Federal
judge, Mex York City; Ignatias Muel-
Ter, rabbi, Louisville; Max Parji, law
year, civic and communal worker,
Chicago; Sol Rosenbloom, manufac-
turer, philanthropist, and communal
leader, Pittsburgh; Colonel Moses
Schoenberg, civic and communal
worker, st. Louis; Oscar 9. Straus,
diplomatist and historian, New York
City. 2~
Coming now to consideration of
general events outside of the COM
munity which have interested the
Jews of the United States, we note
that during the past year the move
ments for bringing about the reading
of the Bible in the public schools and
for eXcusing pupils for a certain per-
iod or periods to enable them to Sc
cure religious instruction outside of
the school continued although with
slackened intensity. As to the first
question, the Lutheran Missouri Syn.
cd of Northern California and Nevada
declared that 'the State has no right
to teach religion in any way what
ever or even to do anything that
smacks of religion as does the study
of the Bible in the public schools,
and the General Assembly of Virginia
rejected bill calling for the reading
of the Bible after Baptist clergy
man of Richmond delivered an elo-
quent and cogent argument against
the proposal. Nor was much head
way made by the proponents OF
"Blue" Sunday legislation.
Similarly there was a considerable
let-up in overt evidences of anti-alien
feeling, and the Ku Klux Klan, large
ly due to internal dissension and
falling off of public interest, is be
lieved to have suffered huge loss in
membership. Much attention was
given to the alien registration and
deportation proposals, and protests
against both measures were voiced in
many quarters. 1t is likely that the
registration scheme will be abandoned
at least for time; the deportation
measure has been considerably modi-
fled in the direction of greater libe-
rality, although, in the form in which
it passed the House, it still retained
many Objectionable features.
In spite of the direct suggestion of
President Coolidge in his annual mes
sage, last December, that the immi- |
grafton law should be so modified as
to make possible the early union of
some of whose members are
already here, the Congress appeared
loath to take any action, the immi-
grafton restrictionists, who have the
upper hand just now, being fearful
lest a little liberalization may lead
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