What Bulletin Readers Say

To the Editor, Jewish Daily Bulletin:

On January 28, in your column “Between the Lines,” you administered quite a tongue-lashing to the producers of Jewish radio programs. You state that the broadcasts are vulgar and that they misrepresent Jewish culture. Nowhere throughout the entire column do I find any words to indicate that there are exceptions to this rule. If the Lord Almighty was willing to listen to Abraham asking that Sodom and Gomorrah should be saved if there were only ten righteous men within these cities, surely the Jewish Daily Bulletin can be equally magnanimous and put in a good word for the well run, dignified Jewish programs.

My organization presents what are generally accepted as the highest class of Jewish programs on station WMCA. On Sunday evening we give a dramatization of the lives of such outstanding Jewish world personalities as Walter Rathenau, Moses Maimonides, Uriah P. Levy, to mention but a few. This series is called “Israel Among Nations.”

1. myself, twice a week broadcast Jewish current news, which program has been criticized as too limited in its scope, but has never been called vulgar. On Tuesday evenings, at 7 o’clock, we give a half-hour program devoted to a complete Jewish opera. The music of Abraham Goldfaden in “Bar Kochba” and “Shulammith” certainly represent fine Jewish entertainment, and I can say without any question that these programs are artistically produced.

On Wednesday evenings we present a series known as “Jewish Composers,” where we give the life-story and the music of world figures like Felix Mendelssohn, Anton Rubinstein, Jacques Offenbach, and other important Jewish names in the world of music. On Thursday evenings our “Folk Singer” travels through the world, viewing Jewish communities and singing their songs. She is followed by a dramatization of Bible stories.

Not only are our programs high grade Jewish programs, but we know also for a fact that such outstanding features as the Forward Hour on WEVD do not come within your sharply worded classification in your column of January 28. We think you should print an exception to your diatribe.

Joshua S. Epstein.

New York,

Feb. 1, 1935.

JABOTINSKY AT KRAKOW

To the Editor, Jewish Daily Bulletin:

We beg to advise you that you were not well informed of the statement which the president of the Tel Hai Fund, Mr. Vladimir Jabotinsky, made in his inauguration speech at the World Conference of the Tel Hai Fund, at Krakow, on the eleventh of January, 1935. Therefore we take the liberty of sending you the right text which runs as follows:

“At present there is still one thing lacking: the right relation to the Tel Hai Fund and a real comprehension of the necessity of intensive work for its sake. We are sorry to say that there exists an old custom according to which the collected sums of the Tel Hai Fund are considered as if they belong to nobody (hefker). It is time for this wrong conception to come to an end. Not a single penny of the money of the Tel Hai Fund is allowed to be spent for any other purpose than those stated in its program.” To grant subventions to the Revisionist party is not one of the points of the Tel Hai Fund’s program.

You would oblige us by publishing this misunderstanding and by drawing your readers’ attention to a fact which, as you may easily judge by yourself, is of great importance to the development of our further work.

Thanking you in advance for your kind endeavors, we remain.

Jeanne Jabotinsky,

(General Secretary).

Paris,

Feb. 1, 1935.