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THE JEWISH CHRONICLE

upon the advisability of creating aIAN ADVENTURE IN THE LIFE
OF SHULEM, THE SHADCHEN
Central Jewish Teachers' College
which, besides training and supplying
Continued From Page 6.)
the teachers. will unify the methods
We shall have to reorganize nary step in our progress. The hues of instruction and place it upon a make getillte fish.
.
our communities. In pre-war condi- of demarcation between reform and scientific basis. Judaism has always
"Such a nice girl," I said to myself,
tions the Jewish communities were orthodoxy are nowadays not so tight- been a religion of education, and this "and she is about to fall in the hands
decentralized. And in that regard ly drawn, for nothing is so vague and must be pre-eminently true of the of a wily man. I must save her."
hey vvere moving against the current shifting and whimsical in increasing Judaism to come. No reconstruction
"Good afternoon, Miss Mandell" I
t
of our traditions and away from the instances as they. The economic is possible without it. Congregation- greeted as 1 came in. "Such beautiful
genius of our religion and morals. pressure, the spirit of the times and alism has struggled with this ques- getillte fish you are making; it teases
The history of the Jewish people is a the fusion in settlement and kinship tion. Let the new Judaism di:Tose of my palate' just to look at it. How
series of social crystallizations. We have reduced the significance of the it with statesmanlike forethought.
happy will be the man who will eat
were abvays organized from a center. technical distinction. The second, and
your fish every Shabos!"
The New Ministry.
We were never a society that grew by surely the third generation of Amer-
"\I an, man, man!" she mimicked
under-
is
'Flue
Jewish
ministry
also
mere accretions. Up till today there ican Jew's has e lost the scent for
me; "you shadchens have iso other
going
a
change
and
the
new
world.
them.
But
es
cry
interest
in
was no process of development of the them and
subjects Ism matt, man, man, I hate
It grew by ad- they hate a very keen interest in the period 55 ill affect it even more. The men! It is a sail world indeed that
Jewish community.
ish traditional conception on the part f eventually a girl has got to Like a
ditions irons without, but not by an communal life of the Jews and wish
inner, central vitality. Society was to hold a share in it. The issue today the ministerial profession and of the man. To me all men seem so silly,
added to society, :old besides the du- is not belief, but life, social life, social congregations limits its scope to not much wiser than the kiddies I
plication and unavoidable confusion, order, social integration. This has teaching, to exhortation, and to those teach in my class. I tell you that I
there was secularization and laicisa- application with special force to the pastoral functions which wait upon would rather spend all my life with
tion. To this perhaps more than to Jew of today. has never had individual and domestic experiences. the little kiddies than give it away to
ny other circumstance may be charg- either liking or aptitude ior abstract These, however, offer little opportun- one big kid."
a
ed the weakening of the religious in- thinking, while Inc has a passion fur ity for constructive work and some
"Miss Mandel," I began, not know-
fluence which constitutes the lament- the ethical practicalities. Of these Rabbis have been restive under the ing exactly h uss y to proceed, "is it
able fact of latterday Jewish tile. 'the Ilse basal and the most inclusive is limitation. 'Hie store so since they possible that there its not one matt
center was shifted from the Synagog organization, to be an efficient mem- feel that modern issues call for men in the world that would suit your
to the Charity building, or to such ber and a promoter of human society. of action. They observe that the taste?"
The following may comprise the large movements of modern life flow
other social pre-occupations as have
"So far I have not met one she
neither the representative quality nor subjects of investigation and of event- over into the Jewish communities and answered.
the sins, nor the vision and the spirit ual readjustment accordance with that grave decisions on vital subjects
"But at the same time," I said, "I
are being made, decisions which seem advise you as a friend of your family
the findings:
of religion.
I. The thorough Americanization remote from abstract or theological to look out for Mr. Krantzkuchen.
All this will be changed in the coin-
Juilaisni. The preacher nowadays Ile is a married man and a father cut
ing days. The Jewish life and Juda- of certain sections which are Moll
congeste'.: and segregated. 'flits takes his text out of the book of life, four children."
ism will come to their own. We shall
out of that life which teems with so-
"I know that," she saint," and the
gain a new perspective and a grada- Americanization is to be established
cial perplexities and social idealisms,
oldest boy is a pupil of my class. He
tion of values. This will be the les- and secured for permanence, by uni-
and the Rabbi who witnesses the trag-
fication
of
the
religious
resources.
u sed to be the worst kid in the neigh-
son of the tragedy through which we
2. The Synagog is to he released edies of the collapse of careers or of borhood, but I trained hint so that tie
shall have passed. Religion will loom
homes feels lie cannot give adequate
for
functionizing
in
the
daily
life
of
became a well behaving little gentle-
large, it will he asked very grave
custom, comfort and zest for renewed effort Mall. His father is so grateful to nse
questions and it will be urged to an- the people, in their worship,
nor
re-establish
confidence
in
the
that he is showering me with presents.
swer them. Our elation, commensur- education, social relations, charities
world by words of mere pastoral the-
\VIty should I be suspicious of hint?
ate with our victory over the reaction- and morals.
ology,
.1.
The
co-operation
of
the
ministry
\I r. Shulem, afraid you have been
ary forces and with their complete
The ministry of today is virile and
and
laity
in
these
matters
is
tin
be
misinformed."
disarmament, and the new sense of
does not content itself with mere in-
secured
and
regulated.
"I'm afraid so, too," I admitted
o pportunity and responsibility, will
4. The religious motives and the active contemplation. Scholarship is after the 'natter became clear to nue.
set religious ideals at tine heart of our
a
tool
to
sharpen
the
mind,
to
broad-
social motives are to be determined,
"Anil I also had a good scare."
life, into homes and communities.
where do they' coincide annul at what en the vision and to give insight into
Now you see how much a shadchen
Judaism will have a historic occa-
the
ilifliculties,
the
weaknesses,
the
indeed,
point do they diverge (if,
has to stand for in connection with
sion for bringing to the new world-
powers, of human nature. It is not
they do).
his profession.—The Jewish Gazette,
life its message that religion is not
\\'hat reasons have Jews for an end in itself, but a tool for use in N. 1'.
a creed, but social organization, and
membership in the congregational ac- the realities of life. The minister of
that every part of life radiates out of
tivities and what reasons have those today converts Isis scholarship into . W. B. WOULD SEND
and radiates into a relation with Gott.
who prefer to be engaged in extra- sagacity. It enriches his efficiency
BILLIKOPF TO FRANCE
-
address
our
for the work he has in hand. :\nd he
1 believe that we should
congregational Jewish activities?
jeWiSli Welfare
New
selves now to this problem of the re-
need for constructive
sees
there
is
reasons
(other
than
those
(5. \\Liat
Board of which Colonel )tarry Cutler
adjustment of human life and society
NVI11) work in all directions. Better than a
popularly SUSI/L. 0CM have
is chairman, has invited Jacob Itilli-
and of the centralization of religion control 111e111StilVes with non-affilia- thousand sermons upon honesty, for
kopf to go to France for the purpose
in both. and to the additional prob-
tion. If there be a protest in this, is instance. is a wage adjustment which of organizing the Welfare Work for
lem as to what we will do, to restore
it levelled against congregationalism relieves the laborer of his anxiety and the Jewish soldiers in the American
to the Jewish communities the organ-
or against ministerialism, or is the carries hint beyond the temptation of Army who are now on, the western
ization by which we may cease to be
synagog conceived as is parallel to the shirking his labor.
front. Mr. Billikopf will probably ac-
mere opportunists in social endeavor
Anil in the Jewish life also there
church its clericalism. remoteness and
cept the offer.
and re-establish the ancient sover-
is need for better organization which
merely formal significance?
eignty of our constructive religion.
7. 11;hat is practicable to make the 55 ill guarantee loyalty by mudding it
Amsterdam—Anti-Semitic outbreaks
'Phis is incumbent on Its by the urge
synagog the organ of a centralized to function. The unabsorbed thou- have occurred in Jaroslau and other
of the trials that are coining with
sands
in
American
Jewry
have
as
Jewish community, so that—extra-
Galician towns, according to informa-
rapid stride's and because of the cum- synagogal-charity, for instance, and much of value to give as they are unc-
tion received by the Jewish Corres-
bersome way of the Jewish common-
Of
ities of the present out,of whose cep other neutralized activities by Jews tuously told they will receive out
pondence Bureau from Vienna. Jew-
-,
fisr Jews be put where they belong the saving gospel of synagog minis. ish residents, it is said, have been
ter religion has been crowded.
. tration. These unabsorbed come out
logically and psychologically?
made the victims of excesses and
We have seditiously asserted that
8, thew shall representation with- of the untapped sources of an prig- their shops have been plundered. The
-
the Synagog is the center of ahe Jew- n and with ou t Jewry be chosen, and final Judaism and it may be that the, authorities. the advices state, refuses!
ish life, but it was largely a th eol oh recognized. flow can unification of hesitate to enter into the modern Ju- to interfere.
cl !moon and did .f comport „ogi-
be secured. for the sake not daism we offer because it disconcertsi
the
I of economy but also of moral them. In the coming days of recoil-.
a facts of our communal situation.
•Y
OPEN A CHARGE ACCOUNT
struction. the Rabbis will 110( limit
The charities, the societies of cultural (1
strength?
with
tn.-elves to preaching, but will
aim and even the congregations were
limy shall reconciliation and
n
in the main organized in a secular co-operation he brought idiom be- throw themselves with enthusiam hit°
spirit and the Synagog was an inci- tween elements of different origin and activities that aim at the upbuililing
dent for them rather than the point diverse halsit? The Synagog is toter- of men and of soviet
where they assembled and grouped.
'file New Congregation.
The Busiest and Biggest
'
The Snagog must he restored to its ant and inelt"" tve he
done t " hel l) the
Nor is the congregation the final
itt. \Vhat can
East Side 'Jeweler.
right place and will Inc restored in synagog
tram seem! the limitations it
y form of organi zation. \\'e deem the
this p eriod of reconstruction. .1nd has had and help it enter the dail y
Cora'
Adams
and Hastings Sts,
life?
Moral
interests
are
the
spring-
congregational
arrangement
logical
the Rabbinate should lead in this re-
am t practicable, because it is inuncili-
Detroit, Mich,
construction. Not only because it is board for that.
ate in its local reactions and responses)
invested with leadership hit because
Such questionS and others urge for and we trust it as a reflex of the Ji.vv-i
Stich
it is familiar with the genius of the
ecause we h as , faith i n „ie
shed "' A' i s h life b
-
.
..
.
Jew ish life. It must gather the threads ""swer
and cannot he "
any longer. \\'e arc not able to reply mocrao. But the congregational
t h at non, h ang loose and must knit
hut the con-
to them with any finality, add”"
our- units even in the same city do not al-
.
them together. l'he most effective ditt.
ways
d,,t.tt.fl
..
and . not infrequently
.
" Its dema " that we
.
way to reform is reorganization. And ,selnes to them with sincerity and with
they conflict. and it sloes not Mire-
that reforns which for nearly seventy-
IlUelltly happen that what one local
'n u iSi"n.
five years has dealt with shat ructions
Religious Education.
ecI arcs e ss dial and
congrt • gat on declares
on the one hand and
answer, 1111WCITI", is ready. We necessary another rejects or com-
the other, must now IseC1 , 1111,. cam-
structive. "Reform" has too long can hear upon tire reconstruction promises. And it has also happened
been merely academic. It must begin which is coming by means of educa- that even a federation of congrega-
to eery .
non. by what we call Religious Edo- noes has give', it tt prestige
te plan and go to work.
This sul)ject is the dead- orga „ ized activities and the convic-
Perhaps
cation.
\Ve are in the transition.
;'‘'s
o f point of .Modern Judaism. None is lions they imply wh'eh either a sub-
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we Jews are a'ava s 'n a process
"""e'll Y s um sequent:session of the• same federa-
d as "'The
transition. of change and of adjust- ' 0
or another federation denied.
It seems to be our pathos. fruitful in possibilities iti substantial tie
is not the same as. fif•.
ment.
and permanent reforni. The new day
mass of votes
\Vave
of migration
wave of
migration,
and the succeeds
Jew is forever
a which is breaking upon us may bring Itineracy and it may not be wise to
let majorities or shifting whims
p'oncer and a nrwronter. So that as it its rightful e""evssi'ms and "Pl""" -
„, tunny It i5 certain, at any rate, that (however sincerely cherished) eisistrol
a „we ,. o f „i„ limey we are e
o Judaism lutist he based upon mattersof piety and personal fen ling.
ill, new
s trained to ever ri p ra ted reconstruc- adi.quate information and enlightened It is worth while, for the sake of this
to ,,,,-
tine.
But,
in
a
butter
',clue,
and
morc
accoriEng to the unprejudiced apprais- conviction. Religions education is in- Aftf.t,thf..war_Reeffifstenefion.
al of history, reform. readjustmen portant not merely as a cultivated view the experiment we have made as
and reconstruction arc a min dew:. equipment of adults, but more espc- Jews. us ith the congregation as unit.
Jewish Vie has a mobility and pliancy daily as a training influence upon the to collect the data that show to what
alone can bring about the extent it has achieved integration.
service in the }'tong' It
which is of opp
of the people, and it and in what respect it has failed. I
enit Y
,. the
ortunit y and in the h"m"g
utili7ati on of the greatest
alone can make reconstruction real lik e 45 b e li eve t h at t h ose who us
development of character.
phrase "the synagog is the center of
and lasting.
,
Jewish fuilaistn" and ''the congregation is
In this sense we must discriminate
I urge that the subject of
between reform and reconstruction. education
duration Ise committed to a commit- the center of the Jewish people"
The reform we have had for nearly for investigation to report upon mean the same thing. And if the
three generations has been formal. the feasibility of making it a force its synagog and congregation arc identi-
pardon the candid word. It has oc• the reconstruction of the After-the- cal. the result of the investigation
copied itself with ensanc . mtt•on from \\ ar •Jinlaisin. \\lust can the schools might reassure its that, with the crys-
the misunderstandings of tr adition contribute to the absorption of the tallization of religion at the center of
and isf its perversions and misapp li- young
le ,,, wish
bath, we should open the way for the
l e ur csa iitt .,erican
il s itt,i,th ;ii i tt generation
cafe s. There was need for coerce-
Judaism, historic genius of Israel to develop
tio ❑ in matters of practical religion into its ideals and activities, and how organs for re- enforced life and use-
and of elimination front our cab- shall they methodize their work in fulness. At any rate it is worth While
ch'sin of articles of faith which had instruction and training? It is de- to examine the processes of our
ciliter forfeited our assent or had con - sirable and practicable to organize growth. such as adjustment, modern-
fused our way, of thinking. And in- all existing schools into one central- ization, entrance into the large world-
e•••••tr... 4 . 1 e4'.
solar as it met that need reform was ized federal Jewish School Union. life. and the fonts of the machinery
not only justified but also a benefit thus eliminating present waste and of our administration, and to ascer-
Life with its moving forces was the con fusion, redeeming the local schools tain whether there is an inner rela-
motive power in the reform move- from the whimsicalities that rim riot tion between them.
cent and the Judaism of our times is in them and recruiting them into a
And if we shall find that the Syna-
passing out of that period of intellec- systematized whole whose efficiency gog does not adequately absorb the
tual and theological adjustment ve:th will he commensurate with its per- religious interests nor effectively cul-
\long with better tivate them, and that the congrega-
increased soundness. sasite influence.
But theological reform is not re- ordered machinery and more largely tion does not organize nor entirely
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construction, and it is this which is conceded authority. there will be need mobilize the Jewish communities, we
demanded now. As in the former for teachers myth professional expert- shall have a clear picture of the need
period so now, unseen influences co- ness and invested with prestige. The of the times. and what reconstruction
operate. So that, if I propose to this committee will accordingly report must take in hand. Perhaps not the
Conference that it institute an inquiry upon the qt estion how we may create least of the benefits we shall have
from such an examination will be
BS_ to the coning reconstruction of such a teaching profession, and secure
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the Jewish life in this country lap- for it an adequate tenure and an Open that the scandal will cease of the re-
g•Orav
pointing a committee for the pur- road for confidence. freedom and ciprocal flings against "assimilation"
pose) I do so with the firm comic- idealists], .ssential to so responsible Irons one side and of "nationalism"
Lion of its timeliness and as a netts- a calling. And finally it will report from the other.

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(Continued From l'age Four.)

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