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...York's lower East Side 93 years ago, twelve public-spirited Jews, headed by one named Henry Jones, met in Sinsheimer's Essex Street barroom. Before the matzoth crumbs were swept away they had established a philanthropic society known as B'nai B'rith (Sons of the Covenant) to establish orphanages, run schools and convalescent homes. Originally a secret society, B'nai B'rith came into the open in 1920 with publication of its ritual. Today over 600 lodges of B'nai B'rith exist in 30 countries...
Last week armed German police smashed their way into Berlin's-B'nai B'rith lodge, arrested the members, cleared out the premises and seized the property. All over Germany other B'nai B'rith lodges were raided, seized and evacuated, as were children's homes, sanatoriums and homes for the aged supported by the society. Though most of those arrested were later released, the entire organization was ordered dissolved and its funds seized, on the pretext that one of the 14,000 German members of the B'nai B'rith...
...Idly the Lymans, good Roman Catholics both, watched a man in a skullcap bring in a baby on a pillow, deposit it on the adjoining bed of Mrs. Shirley Lippman. "Mazzal Tov! Good luck!" beamed the man, rubbing his hands. "It was a fine b'rith!" Mr. Lyman took a second look at the infant on Mrs. Lippman's bed, exclaimed: "Why, that's our baby...
...indeed the Catholic Lyman child who, mistaken for a Jew, had just been circumcised by a mohel. In great agitation Mrs. Lyman arose, dressed, gathered up her baby, swept out of the hospital. Professing to believe that the b'rith made their child a Jew, the Lymans brought suit for $25,000 against the hospital and Hyman Bukanz, a professional circumciser...
...Manhattan's East Side. He helps Jewish charities raise funds, runs a camp for poor children at Cold Spring-on-Hudson, N. Y., has endowed a fellowship at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Sober and articulate, Eddie Can.tor last week addressed a convention of B'nai B'rith in Los Angeles as follows...