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THE JEWISH CHRONICLE

THE JEW1$H,PEOPLE—A SPIRITUAL FORCE

(Continued from Page 5.

kieps alive the soul of a brother in The living Jewish people cannot he
Brawl is as though he had kept alive held together by an echo or copy or
a:whole world." What a difference imitation of a spiritual principle, be it
between this Jewish nationalism and religious, moral, political, nodal. The
the nationalism that sends out mil. Jewish spirit is essentially creative.
lions of its devotees as sacrifices to The Jews, after all, are not beginning
the great Moloch of the old Roman, their life as a people. They have a
the pagan, the Teutonic, the modern f full, rich tradition. They have had
Christian State. Not that all modern their lawgivers, their prophets, their
Christians worship this idea of the ab• sages, their heroes of the spirit. Any
solute supremacy of the po li ti ca l principle that is to keep the living

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Judeans Studying to Use Hebrew
Language Only—Use Fists on Other
"Rookies" for "Respeet"—Batallion
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The great barracks up in Canada,

where the first Jewish detachment of
the Judaean battalion. which enlisted
in the United States for service under
the British flag and to fight on the
Palestine front, has assumed a Jewish
atmosphere. Every one of the recruits
is
making a determined effort to talk
State. Recall only the words of that Jewish people together must be at
true Christian scholar, Lord Hugh least as powerful as the principles of Hebrew andthat only. Classes have
Cecil, who, while defending the right- the past in making appeal to the dis- already been organized for those who
diesness of war, declared recently in ciplined Jewish intellect and to the are not yet proficient in the mother
the English House of Commons that deep and mysterious Jewish soul. Can tongue, and the boys are working hard
to make good.
"We are Christians first, and then we this deepening of the life and of the
The recruits have all been assembled
are Englishmen," meaning that higher spiritual tradition of the living Jewish
than the political state arc the sane- people he had in the great communi- in one floor of the great barracks and
the big building rings with Palestinian
ties
of
the
Golus?
Who
knows?
It
thins of morality, of a man's eon-
cience, of his religion, of his God. would be idle to forecast the future, songs which even the "Goyim" are be-
The few voices of true Christians are or to scoff at its possibilities. It is. ginning to hum.
The very first task that confronted
like voices crying in the wilderness. 'under any circumstances, making
e
Whether or not the Christian Church, every
effort on the part of the Jewish the Judacans was to win the respect of
`mole and of the other peoples of the the other "rookies" and they won it--
like the Western Jewish Church, has
i world to maintain as completely as by a liberal use of their fists. It was
broken down, I shall leave for Chris-
,
) ossible the integrity and the vitality an easy victory and their equality, if
flans to say. In any event, one nu- of these large Jewish communities.
not their superiority in physical prow-
man group has not broken clown—the It might, indeed. prove a calamity to ess is conceded. They have already
masses of the living Jewish people, the Jewish people itself if these great established cordial relations with those
permeated with the living Jewish tra-
points of physical and spiritual con. upon whom their fists made first im-
dition. They have triumphantly pro-
tact with the masses of the other pen. pression by inviting them to the special
claimed the universal doctrine, by
pier of the wend(' wire to disappear. concerts which they have arranged. The
word US well as by their whole reac- The Jewish people to fulfill its des-
Judaeans count among their number,
tion to the great catastrophe, that God tiny has no desire to withdraw from
three opera singers, a violinist and a
is the Father of all men, and that all the great human struggle in which the
pianist. The most impressive thing per-
men arc brothers.
peoples of the world are engaged. ceptible among the judaeans is their
.\ people of such qualities is one of The Jewish people has every reason
intense Jewishness. They are all
the great hopes of that new and mys
and every incentive to inject its spir- 1I1Eliied With the thought that they are
tious world arising out of the depth itual tradition into all of the great
preparing to fight on Palestine soil and
of .daughter. For the siike of the new problems of mankind. It is worth this thought has gripped the minds of
and richer life of the human spirit, the every sacrifice to aid the great Jewish some 12 or 14 Jewish "fighting men"
Jewish people and its living tradition communities of the world in their who enlisted in Boston with 110 higher
must not perish, but must realize its vital function as messengers, preach- motive in view at the time than the
fall power throughout the world.
ers, exemplars of the Jewish spiritual chance for a good scrap. These men
Problem of Future
tradition. Israel among the nations have undergone that wonderful trans-
I might end here and leave for an- must continue to maintain the power formation. They have become exulted
other occasion a discussion of meth- of the spirit, "Not by might, and not and are the most eager members of the
ods whereby the Jewish people and by power, but My Spirit, said the Hebrew class.
its living tradition may he organized Lord."
Th legion boasts of a physician, a
Creative Jewish Force
and strengthened. I shall, neverthe-
Dr. Garry. who enlisted at Chelsea,
But
whatever
the
cohesive
force
less, try here briefly to outline a few
Mass., and who refused an officers' com-
principles underlying some of the keeping the great Jewish communi- mission in the regular army, preferring
ties
of
the
Diaspora,
there
can
he
but
practical activity of the future.
to go through all the trials and hard-
The problem principal has its three- little question as to the nature of the ships of a private soldier in return for
fold aspect. First, to maintain and cohesive forces binding together the the privilege of fighting under the blue
develop the Jewish national; second, Jewish community' iu Erez Israel. and white banner of Judaea. The
to maintain and develop the Jewish There the full power of the Jewish proudest member of the legion is
international, and, third, to seek the National can be brought to bear. NIethias ('oiler, Whose hair is whitened
synthesis, the harmony, between the Many forces will hold that central with the passing of over fifty winters
Jewish National and the Jewish In- Palestinian community together, but .ind who surrendered his gun and shield
the chief reason will always be the
ternational.
as sheriff of a small town in Connecti-
Let me say at once that the syn- Jewish reason, that is, the determina- cut in order to enlist in the Jewish
thesis between the Jewish National tion to make all manifestations of the
battalion, To him was accorded the
and the Jewish International is not in Jewish spirit powerful, effective, beau-
privilege of carrying the Zionist flag as
the nature at all of an artifidal task. tiful. The land itself has wonders
the
legion passed in review before the
This synthesis does not have to be and memories that can be converted
Governor of Nrassachusetts 'and the
created. It is there, as I have tried into terms of everyday spiritual life.
Mayor Of Boston.
to slum', in the very nature of the The Land beckons to this ancient
The boys are in uniform time and
Jewish National, whose essence is the people, offering it a renewal of its
they have sent their civilian clothes to
creation of spiritual values with inter- youth, a spring-time of recreation, of
cleansing, of quickening, of hope. Iladassah to he forwarded to their
national, universal validity.
needy brothers in Palestine. They ex-
Let me next take up further the The necessity of self-dependence must
pect that Jewish officers will be ap-
future of the Jewish International. spur the central Palestinian corn-
Should conditions so shape them- tnunity on to give its best. The mys. pointed soon to command them and
come their great hope is that they shall go
selves in America or in Eastern eery of the East, whence have I
Jew 1 , 11 leadership.
Europe that the large centers of the all the world's great rehabs, must into Palestine under
Jewish population break themselves again suffuse the Jewish religion with It is not expected that they will sail
up, there may be but very little color, with joy, with inward radianee. for the front before Passover. The

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chance of maintaining the vitality of All of the thousand threads of Jewish mhos are already under way to make
the Jewish people in those countries, tradition can there be woven together it possible for them to properly eel,-
and of developing the living Jewish Experimentation in the (onus of brae the Jewish Feast of Celebration
tradition. Yet it would be hazardous Jewish living may there become a
to predict what the Jewish future of possibility. Whether or not new "JEWISH" FLAG WAVES—
ALSO THE "IRISH" FLAG!
the great Jewish communities of thought, new ideas, radical and revo-
.1 indica and of Eastern Europe will lutionary action will come from the
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be. It would be folly to contend, as Jewish center, who can tell.? In anv
The war is bringing together strange
some do, that there is no cohesive event. the forms, the habiliments of coalitions and ameliorating century dif-
principle in accordance with which Jewish living and thinking and ac- ferences. .\ story comes from the furl
those large communities of Jews can tivity can there be imaged and exchange of St. Louis. During the
keep together and increase their erought with free Jewish minds and course of the mid-winter sales, it was
strength. Thus far in Jewish history hands, with free Jewish singing and noted that the flags of the l'inteiL
that principle has been primarily re- praying under free Jewish skies.
States, Canada, Great Britain and her
Indeed, why attempt to prophesy allies were prominently displyed. The
ligion. It is true that the principle
of religion, at any rate as at present too specifically as to what the Jewish gnat Jew ish dealers w ho attend the
understood, is not powerful enough people in Palestine or in the coni- "awes from all parts of the world, de-
' among the Jewish people to act as the munities of the Diaspora may create. cided that the Hebrew standard. the
sole force for the living together and so long as we can rest assured that oldest flag in the world, was entitled
the keeping together of the living (be Jewish people will continue to be to it place in the display; and to that
Jewish people. 'Yet who knows what a living people. It has on it the end a committee of the most prominent
the future may bring? Who knows li g ht of its lawgiver who saw the Hebrew furriers ordered one, a beauti-
how deep are the sources of Jewish Almighty face to face. it has touched ful white silk flag, with a double blue
life? Who will dare to predict that it hands with the seventy nations and star in the center. The white silk is
is not possible for the religious genius principalities of mankind. It has emblematic of purity, and the (limbic
of the Jewish people to seize hold looked into its own soul and into the blue star of truth and fidelity. \Vith
upon the Jewish communities of soul of the world with calm content
a few appropriate words \Ir. A. NI.
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Wherever three Jews come together forces of man and of nature, and it the flag to the Exchange and amid the
there the Shekinah dwells. Further - has prevailed. However much Jews plaudits of almost four hundred deal- 1
more. it would be blind to shut out may differ, however varying our views ers, the flag was slowly and impress-
eves to the fact that other spiritual of life and the world, there is one re- ively unfurled from the stand. The
J. CAPLAN, Pres.
forces in addition to that of religion quirement, one lGSI, that can bind us applause and cheering lasted a full fie('
hold together and give power to the all together in the living tradition of minutes. everybody joining heartily.
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Not to be outdone, the Irish mem-
world. We see how masses of Jews requirement, this one test, the one bers got together and their committee
are kept together through C0111111011 evidence o f our living hope is: Faith ordered an equally handsome Irish
(Continued from l'age
industrial, economic, social interests in the creative. spiritual power of the
standard. Mr. .Ahern made the pre-
and ideals. We are mindful, also living Jewish people.
Highland
Park carries with it a mr-
s entation speech from the stand, and
"1-1.1v; beautiful upon the mountain , again
that persecution — religious, social,
ain everybody applauded with might isdiction of civil and criminal cases
economic, political—has also acted as tops are the feet .if him that bringetn and main as the Irish flag, emerald comparable to that of the Justice and
e cohesive force—a negative principle. good tidings, that publisheth peace, green with golden harp. was Unrottelt
it
Recorder's Courts of Detroit. The
which we hope may not operate in that bringeth good tidings of geoid, on the other side of the stand.
.\ ssociate Justice is required to (le-
I.:Ns world now being born, as a that publisheth salvation; that smith
general comment was that all vote about fifty days of his time cur-
unto Zion, Thy God reigneth."
reason and motive for the keeping to- unto
the nationalities were glad to see the ing the year to the hearing of eases.
gether and the living together of the
two flags floating together, and a re - 11:;e,li liie is nut acting as Jmlge, 11 r.
free Jewish people.
Mrs. L. N. Cohen, an active London porter said that many a one hummed Ellmann is engaged in the prartir
The Power of the Spirit
(Eng.) communal worker, died last under hi: breath—or above it--that of of the law at his offices in the Penoli-
Ye t whatever principle of living to- month. She was president of the time \velit , c_Fidd s di tty . If it wasn't scot Building, this being permitted by
gether and keeping together animates
the city charter.
Jewish \Vomen's Conference in 1902, for the Irish and the Jews."
the living Jewish people in the great
Mr. Ellmann is one of the organ-
A noticeable feature was that each
out of which grew the Union of Jew-
centers of the Diaspora, this principle
ish Women, of which she remained flag bore handsome streamers of red, izers of the Congregation Beth Israel
must be spiritual in its nature. It
the president till her death. She was white and blue ribbons. in compliment I of Highland l'ark, and is a member
must have spiritual elements within
also vice-president of the Jewish Do- —and compliment—to our own grand i of l'isgah Lodge of the Irnai Brith.
it powerful enough to engage the
fag, the Stars and Stripes, the hand- Ile was recently appointed a delegate
Jewish mentality and the Jewish soul !nestle Training Home.
1 from the state of Michigan to the
somest flag that flies.
- ('(invention of Roumanian Jews in
BEILIS STARVING IN JERUSALEM. New York mm .kpril loth and ith for
phiba ehthi a , Mendel Beak. who the purpose of demanding civil right;
came into world-wide prominence in for the Jew s of Roumania. M r. Ell-
1913, as the central figure in a ritual mann resides with It's family at 2O
murder at Kieff, in Russia, is starving I 'Waverly Ave . Highland Park. Mr.
in Jerusalem, according to a letter just and Mrs. I:Milano recently received
received by his sister. Mrs. 1Nolf Rubin, the congratulations of their friends on
of this city. Ileitis has appealed for the arrival of a son, their second
relief for himself and family. :TOIL
His letter was written some time ago!
from Jaffa, Palestine, the city recently'
A section of the Council of Jewish
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there en route to America, when theWomen has been organized in Fort
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