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Dorf Remains Grand Master of the Brith Avraham

Daily Jewish Courier, May 18, 1919

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Atlantic City. The convention of the Brith Avraham (Brotherhood of Abraham) closed after the adoption of the following resolutions: Members of the Order admitted in an incorporated institution or Home may bequeath half their endowment for that specific institution, but no one is per

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St. Paul's House

Sonntagpost, May 18, 1919

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"No child and no elderly person among us shall be without a home." This was the motto chosen by St. Paul's German congregation when the members decided to enlarge the field of their benevolence by founding St. Paul's House, which may be looked upon as a sister institution to the Uhlich Orphan

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May 18, 1919

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Lag B'omer will be celebrated by the Jewish Radical Folk School (Socialist Zionist). The Maccabees and Northwest Side school children will meet at Roby and Division streets; from there they will march to Humboldt Park. This will take place Sunday May 18th at 10:00 A. M. Lag B'omer will be cel

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May 18, 1919

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The United Garment Workers are joining the Amalgamated. The tailors of Blumenthal and Frost, all of whom belong to the United Garment Workers, have done well in joining the Amalgamated Clothing Workers. The president, W. Milstein, a radical worker, did inside work in bringing in the

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I Not with any wooden weapons To the forest children come! Too many ruffians, combatants Await us there-in formation. II The teacher then will helpless be Us to shield against their guns, Strong and powerful are t

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De Haas Speaks This Evening in Hertzel School

Daily Jewish Courier, May 18, 1919

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Jacob De Haas, the clever general-secretary of the American Zionist Organization, who witnessed the great Zionist conference in London and Paris and participated to a great extent in Zionist diplomatic activities in Washington, London, and Paris, arrived this morning here to bring personally

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The Denver Sanitarium Convention

Daily Jewish Courier, May 18, 1919

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St. Louis, Mo., May 17. The Jewish Consumptive Relief Society Convention opened tonight in the Statler Hotel, with an attendance of 500 delegates from almost every state in America. The convention was opened with an appropriate prayer by Rabbi Abramovitch. The institution

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Yesterday evening, at a well-attended meeting in the Hertzel School, Mr. Jacob DeHaas gave a report of the Zionist accomplishments at the Paris Peace Conference. Mr. Jacob De Haas pointed out that the prospects of Jews acquiring Palestine for a homeland, where in time they can estab

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The [Hebrew school] of the [Marks Nathan] Orphan Home has settled its strike with the union, and has granted the union all of its demands--even the demand that the teachers be paid back wages for the period of the strike. [This settlement is expecially significant] in view of the fact that th

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May 19, 1919

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All Chicago Jewry will protest tomorrow against the Polish and Rumanian pogroms against Jews. All Jews of Chicago are expected to participate in tomorrow's day of mourning. All Jewish workers will stop work at 2 P. M. The store-keepers will close their shops, the business man will cease from

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One Heart, One Spirit

Daily Jewish Courier, May 19, 1919

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The great Victor Hugo said, somewhere in his work, that the history of civilization presented no more beautiful, no more inspiring concept than the realization of an ideal. We Jews are now passing through an epoch where we can verify by our own experience the great truth uttered by the great

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Empire Theater

Forward, May 19, 1919

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Upstairs and Downstairs Comedy and Music by Harry Kolomonovich Produced by Barris Tomashevsky Music by Rumshinky.

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The report of Doctor Hyman Davis yesterday noon at the Anshe Knesses Israel Shul (synagogue) concerning the condition of our sisters and brothers in Eastern Europe, where he visited as an agent of the American Red Cross, wrung tears from the large audience of men and women. When Chazen Kalman

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The American Jews in the Great World War

Daily Jewish Courier, May 19, 1919

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The attitude of American Jews at the time of the great crisis, the World War, in which America joined the forces of those powers that fought for freedom and democracy, was such, that none can refute their share of sacrifices on the altar of true patriotism, which is on par with any other fore

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Immigration and Emigration

Daily Jewish Courier, May 20, 1919

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Among the many important problems before Congress is that of immigration, which should have been passed upon by the last Congress, but because of Senate filibuster and other parliamentary technical difficulties, its business failed to be completed. The government issued a proclamation to stop

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Ask for Bids for the Oak Forest Synagogue

Daily Jewish Courier, May 20, 1919

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The Lag B'Omer (holiday) celebration,held last Sunday by the Women's Auxiliary of Jewish Incurables in Oak Forest excelled,not only in the delicious supper and fine speeches, but also in the support that was promised for the synagogue and social center to be established there for the unfortun

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About Protests against Polish Outrages

Daily Jewish Courier, May 20, 1919

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The protest movement against Polish wrath vent on Jews has encompassed the farthest corners of American Judaism. In New York, conferences are now being held between the leaders of large Jewish communities and representatives of New York's Judaism. Their purpose is to devise a plan f

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The Future of the Western Wall

Daily Jewish Courier, May 20, 1919

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Under this heading writes the worthy Dr. Abraham Jacob Bravor in the Jewish Morning Post: It is hard to find another thing in this world so strongly ingrained on the imagination of the Jewish people as the Beth-Hamikdosh (ancient temple of which the Western Wall only remains), with

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From the Workmen's Movement

Daily Jewish Courier, May 20, 1919

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The recently ended strike of the milk drivers, which secured for its workers a few dollars increase in salary per week, and which gave the milk dealers an excuse to raise the price of milk, assumed more the characteristics of a lockout than a strike. The large daily newspapers spare

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Charlie Chaplin Sails for Palestine

Daily Jewish Courier, May 20, 1919

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Mr. Harry Goldman, formerly of St. Louis, now of Chicago, and in the future of Palestine, left Chicago last Sunday bound for Palestine, taking with him Charlie Chaplin and a group of beautiful and capable actors and actresses. More definitely, these artists are not accompanying him