THE JEWISH CHRONICLE'

The Jews of the Chinese Empire

Congregational News

Sabbath Services.
Sabbath services are held in the
Temple Assembly Room each Sabbath
morning at 10 o'clock. The music for
er services s in charge of
the summer
Mrs. I. Lapin Cohen.

Statistical Reports.
Members of the Temple who have
not yet filled out and returned the sta-
tistical reports recently sent them are
requested to do so without delay.

Supplementary Services.
Preparations are well tinder way for
the supplementary services that are to
Rosh Hashono and Yon'
be held on
Kippur. It is expected that the at-
tendance at these services will tax the
capacity of the Unitarian Church,
which has been rented for the occa-
sion.
Red Cross Sewing.
The women of Temple Beth El arc
sewing all day Tuesday of each week
for the Red Cross Society. All are•in-
vited to assist in this patriotic and
necessary work.

■

DR. HUGO A. FREUND NOW
HEADS BOARD OF HEALTH.

Dr. lingo A. Freund, who was re-
cently appointed a member of the
health board of Detroit, was elected
president of that body at a meeting
of the board on Monday evening. Dr.
. Freund fills the vacancy caused by
1 Lieut. Col. Angus McLean being
called to the front as director of Ilar-
. \ per base hospital unit No. 17.

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may be handed down to the latest gen-
"During the course of every month
eration. Erected on a fortunate day
we
fast
and
abstain
four
times,
which
SHAAREY ZEDEK NOTES
in the middle of summer, in the second
constitutes the door by which religion
year of Hung-chee (A. C., 1488), in
is
entered,
and
the
basis
on
which
good-
Saturday morning services begin at
the 46th year of the 70th Cycle, by a
ness is accumulated.
9 o'clock. Rabbi A. M. Hershman will
disciple of the religion of Truth and
deliver his weekly sermon, beginning at
"Every seventh day we observe a holy Purity."
10 o'clock.
rest, which, when terminated, begins
Space prevents us from presenting to
anew, as it is said in the 'Book of Dia- the reader the complete translation. The
COMMUNICATED
grame,' the good man, in the practice of
dynasty in which this record was written
Mr. Louis Lipsky, chairman Ameri- virtue, apprehends lest the time should marked the period of the greatest ma-
can Federation of Zionists, requests prove too short. At each of the four
terial and religious prosperity of the .
us to print the following letter which seasons we lay ourselves under a severe colony. The Mongol Empire had come
he sent recently to the New York restraint, in remembrance of the trials
to an end in 1368, and the native Ming
Times, anent an article appearing as endured by our ancestors—by which
dynasty then began to reign. The decay
an interview with him, and concerning
means we venerate our predecessors and of the colony did not commence until
\vhich editorial comment was made in
reward our progenitors.
the dethronement of the last Ming em-
our issue of July 13. Our Editor deals
peror in 1644, when the first Mant-chu.
"Thus, our religious system has been
further NVitil the matter in this issue.
handed down and communicated from sovereign ascended the throne of the
—Publisher.
one to another. It came originally from great "Middle Kingdom."
FEDERATION OF AMERICAN
Theen-chith (India) ; those who intro-
The "Temple," first reared in 1166 un-
ZIONISTS
duced it in obedience to Divine com- der the patronage of the native Sung
44 East 23d Street, New York.
mands were seventy clans. . . . These Emperor, was successively destroyed by
July 10th, 1917.
brought as tribute some Western cloth. flood and fire, and as often rebuilt until
To the Editor, New York Times, New The Emperor of the Sung dynasty said:
1511, when it was restored for the last
York City:
'Since they have come to our central time. Meanwhile, for over a thousand
Dear Sir—You will oblige me by land, and reverently observe the cus-
years the Jews had found favor at the
printing a denial of the accuracy of toms of their ancestors, let them hand
Chinese Court. The emperors raised
the interview which you gave in your down their doctrines at Peen-leang
many. of them to the highest stations
issue of July 5th, in which I was quot-
(Kai-fung-foo).' In the first year of
in civil, military and political affairs.
ed on the action taken by the Central
Lung-ping of the Sung dynasty, in the They became Mandarins of the empire
Conference of American Rabbis, on twentieth year of the 65th Cycle (A. C.
and generals of the army, and some
Zionism. •
1166) Lee-ching and Woo-sze-ta super- stood high among the literati and physi-
When your reporter spoke to me intended this religion, and Yen-too-la
cians, while the emperors themselves
over the phone he did not tell me that
built the synagogue. . . . Although were for centuries patrons of the Tem-
he intended using what I said in the
our religion agrees in many respects ple.
form of an interview. I was under
with the religion of the literati, from
Like the Jews of Malabar, those of
the impression that what he wanted of
which it differs in a slight degree, yet Kai-fung-foo, as stated above, were in
me was general information as to the
the main design of it is nothing more possession of .manuscripts of the law
status of the Reform rabbinate in Jew-
than
reverence for heaven, veneration from a very early date. Their earliest
ish life. 1 gave him this informa- for ancestors, fidelity to the Prince, and
tion 101 rely from the point of view of obedience to parents. . . . Although copies reached them by the sea-route
from the West through the Jewish col-
an outsider. I was surprised to read
our religion enjoins worship thus earn- onies of Ning-po, Khan-chow and Can-.
the next day that what I had said was
estly, we do not render it merely with ton. Their later manuscripts reached
quoted as an interview.
Especially am I chagrined to see the view of securing happiness to our- them through the Jews of the Malabar
seeing that we have received coast by means of the itinerant traders
that I am quoted as saying that the selves, but,
the
favors
of
the Prince, and enjoy the who met the caravans on their way from
young rabbis in the Central Confer-.
emoluments
conferred
by him, we carry Cabul, and by whom the Scriptures were
(lice are afraid to oppose the leaders
to
the
utmost
our
sincerity
in worship carried by easy stages to the frontier
of the Conference on the issue of Zion-
with
the
view
of
manifesting
fidelity to towns of Shen-se, where the Jewish mer-
ism. I (lid not say anything that could
our
Prince
and
gratitude
to
our
coun- chants from Kail-fung-foo .received
be construed as meaning that. I have
them.
the highest respect for the younger try. . . . As long as heaven and earth
All the Jewish colonies on the sea'
men in the American Rabbinate, and endure, may there be favorable winds
and
seasonable
flowers,
with
the
mutual
coast
of China arrived by the sea-route.
know that many of them are thor-
during the seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth
oughly Zionistic in their views. If they enjoyment of tranquility.
"We have engraven these, our ideas, and eleventh centuries.
have been unable • to overcome the
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views of men like Dr. Philipson, Dr. on the imperishable marble, that they

Shulman and Dr. Kohler, it has not
been due to lack of courage, but rather
to the circumstances under which the
Central Conference operates. When
men like Shulman and Kohler and
Philipson say that Reform Judaism is
incompatible with Zionism, the young-
er men do not feel that they have suf-
ficient theological authority to out-
vote that opinion in the deliberations
of the Conference. The fact is, how-
ever, that the Central Conference, at
its convention in Buffalo, did not
adopt a resolution opposed to Zionism.
On the contrary, the resolution it did
adopt was merely a statement of the
fact that there is a strong difference
of opinion among the rabbis, and that
because of this difference of • opinion,
it was impossible to formulate a policy
for the. Central Conference. This ac-
tion was taken, I surmise, in deference
to the strong Zionistic sentiment of
the younger rabbis.
Very cordially yours,
LOUIS LIPSKY, Chairman.

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