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Need of a Jewish Revival.

BY JACOB A. SCHIFF.

Address delivered before hlenorall Convention lied(' recently in New York.

T is a highly momentous its people forgot the rock out of
time that finds us assembled which they had been hewn. And thus
here tonight in celebration it came about, as soon as the idea and
of the quinquennial conven- the ideal of the only God began in
tion of the Intercollegiate Menorah the Jewish State to wane, so soon as
Association. Serious though the times under its kings, who were the cm-
are, we have good reason and are jus- bodiment of the State's authority,
titled in rejoicing, because the asso- heathen Gods—Baal and others—be-
office Tuesday evening of each week.
ciation has grown and expanded, and gait to displace the Jewish God, it
though yet young has reached a posi- became only a question of time for
The Jewish Chronicle invites correspondence on subjects of nterest to the
lion of comparative strengths and itn- the State to break down, for the na-
Jewish people, but disclaims responsibility for an Indorsement of the views
Students for the ministry are, by- definition, exempt from the portance. tints to disintegrate and finally to end
expressed by the writers.
\Ve know of its humble beginning; in dissolution. Because of conditions
draft. Nonetheless. eleven students of the Hebrew Union College,
we know how, starting as a small it had itself brought about, and
rtpast nting more than one-third of the students in that institution gathering in a single college, the against which it had been solemnly
Entered as second-class matter March 3, 1916, at the Postoflice at Detroit,
of military age, are now serving in the Army' and the Navy of this Menorah idea has spread with con- warned by lawgiver and by seer,
Mich., under the Act of March 3, 1879.
siderable rapidity over the universi- Israel was forced to abandon its
country..
ties throughout the land, until it has home, had to take up the •anderstalf
This is an attest of patriotism that is worthy of note. We now become recognized as the center and to go into exile.
question whether there is another theological school in the country' of Jewish culture in university life— And now, after many long centuries
A long step will have been taken in a forward direction when that can show an equal proportion of volunteers from among its the pivot of Jewish self-respect in the of trials and persecution, we once
more, like our ancestors emerging
the Community Union of Detroit, which is now in process of forma- students, who, because of their professional work, arc entitled to Jewish student.
I have said these are momentous front Egyptian slavery, see the light
tion by representatives of the leading social service agencies of exemption.
of freedom, may begin to hope that
times, times in which the world is be-
Detroit, will have become an accomplished fact.
We believe, as a matter of fact, however, that the spirit mani- ing remade, and who can tell even our long struggles are nearing an end,
• Briefly, the Union proposes to co-ordinate all agencies that fested by the students of the Hebrew Union College in this matter today where, upon completion of this that the prayers of fathers and fore-
fathers throughout the ages, that Pal-
have to do with the social betterment of the community and through is not exceptional so far as Jews are concerned. While lucre and awe-inspiring process with its great estine again be restored to our people,
sacrifice in human and material
co-operation not merely prevent duplication of function and useless there among our co-religionists, as among others, there will be found treasure, the different peoples of the appear to be nearing fulfilment.
It will lead too far to speak here of
expenditure of effort, but also add to the efficiency of each func- an occasional slacker or shirker, the rank and file of our young men world shall find themselves?
all that has happened and has brought
For our own country with its lofty I about what we now hail, of the efforts
tioning agency in its particular sphere. It is not proposed that any are eager to serve their country and, when necessary, arc ready,
and unselfish purposes in this world of gallant and not to be discouraged
organization shall altogether lose its identity or give up its inde- without flinching, to bring the supreme sacrifice in its behalf.
conflict, we shall hope that it will leaders, who its recent decades have
pendent existence, but where functions of different societies overlap,
emerge greater and stronger, willing- untiringly labored to make it possible
these will be co-ordinated.
ly recognized by its allies and even for us to reach where we have now
by present foes as a guide, at once arrived.
The results will be for good, not only to the organizations
just and unselfish—as a trustworthy
Led by far-seeing and generous
themselves, whose overhead expense will be materially reduced and
friend and protector of the interests Great Britain, the nations appear to
of weak and strong alike.
whose actual work will perhaps be lessened, but it will re-act also
be at last willing that, at the proper
Thus we, who are here, rejoice be- time, the Jewish State in Palestine
to the great benefit of the beneficiaries of the various organizations
brushed away by sarcasm, invective
cause we are part of this great station, shall become re-established. The Jew-
or
hair-splitting
argumentation.
who will be dealt with intelligently by one agency and whose
(Editorial in
The Balfour declaration does not thus we, who celebrate here tonight, ish people, long considerably divided,
Jewish
privacy will not be intruded upon by representatives of three or
indorse the new nationalism. Secre- feel gladdened, because we are Ameri- are drawing closer and closer to-
Exponent.)
four or a half dozen organizations.
tary Balfour has promised the aid of can Jews. gether and are preparing to assume
Smite of the Jewish nationalists
their glorious inheritance. Will they
British Government to establish
After the War and the Jews.
Subsidiary to the Community Union, but of no less social sig- lucre and in England have greeted a the
succeed? And what need be done to
national homeland for the Jews in
Perhaps to no other of the peoples attain the ends to which we are aspir-
nificance, will be the grouping of special phases of activity by such with loud acclaim the declaration of Palestine, coupling it, however, with
Stuart Samuel, president of the the declaration that the civic rights of of the earth these times are likely to ing?
organizations as care to pool their interests in one way or another. Sir
Board of Deputies, anent the forum-
mean more than to the Jewish people.
Need of Revival.
Of particular interest and importance to us is the proposed plan tion of the League of British Jews, the Jews who remain in their present The end of the present conflict should
homes shall not be impaired. This
lvfay I humbly give the answer?
to link together all agencies in Detroit having to do with the col- that "he would never cease to protest means just one thing, and nothing bring to some nations restoration of
lection of funds to be expended upon welfare work in the U. S. against the monstrous suggestion that else. The Jews who go to Palestine the domain from which they have What we need is a Jewish revival!
there is any difference between any
been forcibly driven by the ruthless IVIiat we need is to see all along the
Army and Navy. Should this plan, which is now being considered, Jews whatever." The league was to live will regard it as their national conqueror, to others re-establishment line a return to the God to which as a
home. All others must retain their
come to a successful issue, each group presently engaged in this formed mainly by Jews born in Eng- present allegiance. It can have no of independent national life within people we owe existence and respon-
work would submit to the proper officers a budget in accordance land who profess to see in the doings other meaning than is logical, consis- the land for centuries occupied by sibility: what we need is to again be-
of the Jewish Nationalists a serious
them as subject nations, to others come the "Am Adonai," God's People.
with its needs. Thereupon, a single collection would be made in menace not only to the status, but tent or workable.
again, in their, existing common- The "Hear, Ohs Israel, the Eternal,
behalf of the organizations pooling their interests and an amount also to the rights of the Jews of
wealth's, new and entirely changed our God is an only God," must again
political conditions and lastitutions. become the cherished inheritance of
apportioned to its particular needs, would, at the end of the cam Great Britain. They argue that a man
cannot belong to two nations—es-
Ilse Jewish people alone, finding all who claim the privilege of being
paign, be allowed to ••••^,-
7 '
, , ated, moreover, tha t pecially when each of these nations is
themselves dispersed among almost Jews, for without the acceptance of
monthly installments presumed to express the conscious
all the nations of the earth, aspire and the I. uidi conception of the Deity,
and distinct political ideals of two
hope to attain from the upheaval we without entire loyalty to the Jewish
Twenty-three Students of Hebrew are witnessing, the re-establishment of God. no one can in actuality be a Jew.
separate peoples.
ded. At the present Sir Stuart Samuel, as the official Union College Join Army—Repre- what they ceased to be twenty cen- AVithout this a Jewish nation would
the field, and all of head of the representative body of sent 39 Per Cent of the Student turies ago, an autonomous common- be a paradox, could not exist, and the
wealth, to become anew a people on agitation to found it anew would only
the average man to British Jews, formed to safeguard Body.
their own soil in a homeland under end in failure. Zionism to succeed
their civil and religious rights in their
giving today to one own land, and the rights of their Although the students of the He- their own home rule.
must first adopt Judaism without any
brew
Union
College
are
exempt
from
may tomorrow be called upon by another, he re- brethren in other countries, is en-
Will these, our hopes and aspira- other "ism," for the Jewish God, now
military
service
by
proclamation
of
lions become realized, and have we a
rtams, as a rule, on the safe side, and actually gives less than he is tirely correct and reasonable in his
President Wilson, 23 of them have right to ask and to expect from those as
of old. remains
a jealous
God,
destroys
those who
attempt
to who
dis-
able to give or than he would be willing to give were he assured attitude. There is no difference be- offered their services to the govern-
tween the Jews of any land, as Jews.
in whose hands the decision of this place or ignore him.
that he would not be called upon to give again and again to the There is, however, a vast difference ment since the outbreak of the war. must in the first instance necessarily In speaking thou, unreservedly, have
same general cause.
in their political allegiance. No one This number represents 39 per cent of lie, that Palestine be restored to us I gone too far? For I know I am a
recognizes this more fully than Sir those who arc of military age; 11 have under some form of satisfactory in- newcomer, who yet stands outside the
We are hopeful that the Community. Union will be established Stuart, nor is any one apt to act on it thus far been accepted. Sonic were dependence?
gate, because lie wants to stake cer-
and especially that the joint collection plan will be tested out. We more consistently, as the president of rejected on grounds of physical dis-
If, as we believe, we possess this tain before he enters that he can feel
ability,
and
still
other
cases
are
pend-
the leading organization representing
right and are justified in our demands reasonably assured, that the endeavor
feel sure that it would lie a success from the start.
ing.
the Jews of England.
and expectations should we not from to establish a Jewish homeland n
The following 'Roll of Honor" of the outset examine into the causes Palestine has primarily the purpose
It is the out-and-out Jewish na- the Hebrew Union College was pre-
to create a center from which shall
tionalist who does not recognize the pared for presentation at the meeting that once before destroyed the Jew- flow anew and spread over the earth
the Board of Governors on Dec. ish State and sent our people into all
•
The news from Baltimore that the three leading Reform congre- truth which Sir Stuart Samuel pro- of
claims. The new nationalist has, time II. M this meeting occurred the sucl- corners of the earth, so that its mak- the stimulus the Jew has given
gations of that city arc holding Union Services is indeed gratifying. and again, especially of late, proceed- den death of Edw. L. Heinsheimer, mg preparation to construct the Jew- through his Bible, his culture and his
\Vhile primarily the policy was adopted out of the patriotic motive ed to read out of Jewry all Jews who president of the board, which has ish State anew, we shall not again literature to the spiritual life of man-
risk to fall into the errors of the past, kind; that anew it shall be "ki Mizion
of conserving fuel, the effect of the experiment will be watched do not subscribe to the nationalist caused such widespread sorrow.
theizeh Tauro, udwar Adonia Miro-
in its more recent develop- Hebrew Union College Roll of Honor. and which once before destroyed its sholajim—For from Zion comes forth
with the closest interest, not only by the people of Baltimore, but program
as a nation?
meat. The man who cannot under-
Michael Aaronson, 21 years of age,
by the Jews throughout the country.
We have indeed not far to seek for the Law, and the word of God from
stand how he can belong to more in the preparatory department, en-
Jerusalem!"
It is a lamentable fact that in many cities, where there are than one nation, and therefore re- tered college in 1916, volunteered in these causes, nor can there be much
Because our real hopes must hie in
fusses to subscribe to the tenets of the May. 1917. as private. He is now cor- dispute as to the facts and condi-
several congregations, there exists a spirit of competition rather new nationalism, is denounced as that poral at ('amp Sheridan, Montgom- tions which twenty centuries ago coming generations, for in our own
thUng, an "assimilator," and cry, Ala.
than of harmonious co-operation among them. Indeed, there ar •
brought about the disintegration of generation we can only reach the
heights of l'isgah to look into the
instances where, to our shame, the spirit of competition between this by men whose affiliation with any Solomon Fineberg, formerly of the Jewish commonwealth. Nations promised land, but ourselves cannot
form of Judaism is merely nominal. Pittsburgh, entered college in 1913, develop and grot• for a definite pur- enter it, because the realization of our
religious organizations is such as would be worthy of the most The
person who is denounced knows was in the .
pose, generally as guardians of a cul-
collegiate department, en-
aspirations thus belongs to those who
cold-blooded business competitors.
full well that the burden of proof listed in :Marine Corps immediately ture or distinct civilization which come after us, I have made so bold,
It is our belief if, for a little while, several congregations repre- that a man can belong to two politi- upon the entrance of the U. S. into they have developed within their re- men of the Intercollegiate Menorah
cal nations at the same time, and do t h e war. H e
spective spheres of existence. But
has been in training six
senting, of course, practically the saute interpretation of Judaism,
Association, to address you with such
his full duty to both of them, rests months at Paris Island, S. C. Is now whenever the civilization of which a
will worship under one roof, that out of the union a closer spirit on those who hold the affirmative. He in the Quartermaster's Department at nation has become the bearer, or the great frankness, at this your great
purposes for which it exists, cease to convention. l'ou whose high purpose
of unity is bound to lie born among the people. The truth is that knows, too, that the proof has not ashington. D. C.
been forthcoming because it cannot
be upheld by the people that com- it is to sot- tad among Jewish youth
there arc too many congregations in many of our cities. This applies he. He is judicious enough to dis- Louis Graiman, 22 years of age, for- poses
a given nation, it begins to de- the culture and ideals of our people,
me rly of Brooklyn, entered college in
you who arc the hope of a self-
less, it is true, to the Reform Synagog than to the Orthialox, but to tinguish between the Zionism of
cay and finally ends its existence.
1915. Enlisted its the Marine Corps.
respecting American Israel, you, the
Herzl and the new nationalism now
a greater or less extent, it is true of both.
Has since been appointed corporal in
Destiny of Jew.
'true missionaries of the Jewish peo-
so vociferous, and very often lie gives
As a result there is an expenditure of energy and of money his sympathetic approval to the for- the Quartermaster's Department of
The Jew, from his early Aramaic ple, bearers of the light of the Meno-
in the maintenance of separate institutions, doing practically the mer, whilst he shuns the latter and the marines at Brooklyn, N. Y.
rah, God bless and speed you!
Mayer Lipman, 23 years of age, for- beginning, has been the bearer of a
same work, that would not for a moment be tolerated in the indus- makes no secret of his unfaltering merly of Chicago, entered college in Theocracy of his own, has obtained
opposition to it.
The Rada of Ukraine issued paper
trial world. Particularly in these times when conservation takes
1915. Has served in the state militia a land of his own for the develop-
The new nationalist does not over- of Illinois and Ohio. Took the train- ment of his religion and culture and money, which bear inscriptions in
so pronounced a place among our patriotic obligations, these facts
come the difficulty by pointing out ing at the Officers' Reserve Camp, Ft. finally-, after long struggles and trials, Yiddish, Polish and Russian. A bill
deserve very serious consideration at the hands of our co-relationists t hat ever since the downfall of the Benjamin Harrison, and has recently grew into a nation destined to pre- was also passed by the Rada, which
We are impressed with the fact that if the number of small Jewish State the Jews have been cots- received commission in the Aviation serve and to spread the idea of an recognizes the Jewish people as a na-
only God, with all the blessings this tional unit in Ukraine. S. Hurgin, a
a nation by many. It is true Corps.
struggling congregations, in this and other communities, would pool sidered
has meant to all mankind. Every member of the Jewish Socialist party,
that there is ample evidence of this
Jacob
Marcus
entered
college
in
their energies and their resources, not only would they. add to their fact; that eminent leaders of thought 1910 from Wheeling, W. Va.; very page of our history emphasizes the was appointed vice-minister forJe w-
own strength and usefulness, but the cause of Jewish unity would and action, including Washington popular with the student body. 'Was purpose for which the Jewish people ish affairs. D. Davido•itch, also a
be immeasurably forwarded. The idea is certainly worthy a prac- and other heroes of the American editor-in-chief of the Hebrew Union were selected and segregated from member of the same party, was elect-
Revolution, were wont to speak of College Monthly. Enlisted at the tee- among the other peoples of the earth, ed a delegate to the Constitutional
tical test.
the Jews as a nation. But they used ginning of the war. Has since been and as against this every word uttered convention to be held its Khetson.
the term in its modified sense when promoted to battalion sergeant-major by the Prophets warns of the fate and
applied to them as indicating a re- in the Quartermaster's Department, destruction that was to overtake the
Word has been received from Ber-
Jewish nation, if it abandoned the
ligious people or race. They did not Camp Sheridan, Montgomery,
Ala.
lin of the deaths of Toby Rosenthal,
regard their Jewish fellow citizen as Frederick Rypins, 23 years of age , God who had called and formed it, if
the well-known painter. Rosenthal,
The well-authenticated report that Earl Reading, formerly Sir
separate political entity, owing al- entered college in 1912 from Omaha,
who was born in New Haven, Conn
Rufus Isaacs, Chief Justice of England, is to come to this country. Ic giance to another state or nation. Neb. l'rominent in local athletics,
June, 1917, in the Cincinnati Base 69 years ago, was taken to San Fran-
as British Ambassador, will be joyfully: received by the Earl's co- 0 therwise they would not—its fact holding state record for two-mile run. Hospital unit.
cisco by his parents at an early age.
ould not—have lauded their patriot- Enlisted in the Marine Corps at the
religionists in America.
Melville Herskowitz, formerly of He studied art there and subsequently
is m as American citizens. If Mr. Na- beginning of the war. "Pilot" Rypins
Erie,
Iva.,
entered
college
in
1915.
in
Munich, achieving a high reputa-
That an honor so distinguished and so well merited should be It onalist uses the term "nation" as is now in the Marine Quartermaster's
Enlisted in June, 1917, in the Cincin- tion in his profession. Of late years
conferred upon a Jew indicates that the day of better understanding a pplied to the Jews in the sense in Department, Paris Island, S. C.
nati Base Hospital unit.
he made Munich his home.
is surely approaching. The choice of Earl Reading for this ex- th hich these illustrious men used it.1 Robert Lee Straus, 23 years of age,
Ferdinand Isserman, formerly of
en his nationalism does not imply native of Cincinnati, entered college Newark, N. J., entered college in 1913,
tremely important post is the more gratifying because it is made a dual allegiance. But if he consid- :in 1914. Enlisted as private in Camp
The peasants of the Tchetchersk
without political considerations and entirely because of the man's Cr s that the Jewish homeland which , Taylor, Louisville, Ky. Has since been now an advanced student in the col- district, i nthe province of NI ohilev.
legiate
department.
Has
been
ac-
he hopes to establish in Palestine 'promoted to sergeant-major. Has
in dividing the pasture grounds, vol-
exceptional and proved fitness for the place.
wi II constitute a political nation, then pledged to contribute half of his pay cepted in the Aviation Corps.
untarily allotted land also to Jews
It cannot lie denied that many times when Jews have been w hen
William Sternseher, formerly of San who possess cattle. In coming to
it is established he will have to lto the Jewish war sufferers during the
Francisco,
entered
college
in
1915.
elevated to high office in this and other countries, their choice has ch oose his allegiance—and consist- war.
their decision they made it binding
Has offered his services in the Avia-
been dictated, in part at least, by those in high places by- the thought en tly live up to it. That is the logic Carl Herman, formerly of St. Louis, tion Corps; application under consid- on the Jews to work on the pasture
of the situation, and it cannot be entered college in 1912. Enlisted in
ground themselves and not to hire
eration at the present time.
labor.

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