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A Book of Jewish Thoughts
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qty and religion.
And also in thi. respect we harp'
an opportunity and I befit it a call
for reconstruction, the more import-
ant since it will be of large compass
14 ill all rasp's of C11111 . 111 develop-
ment, the middle course is not only
It will make an end of provincial•
ism amongst us. This provincialism
or localism has been a handicap to
our progress. There was a time when
we were universalists, not merely in
our profession. but also in fact. Pole,
were Rabbis in (iermany, Bavarians
that a Brit's') Palestine will be either
dead point or a storm renter in km-
ropean politics, litit would not any
oilier kind of a Palestine, and even
more intensely? It may be that the
Declaration may make of the Jew. a
IMarde d'honneur fn Palestine, of the
sacred places and of the peace of Eu-
rope.
Bin that would not detract
from the dignity of the Jew settled
there, hot rattier enhance his pres-
tige.
It may he that a Palestinian
Jewry may be reduced to a patrol be-
tween the East and Egypt. ..1 fid that
role in the conflict of nations and of
IWO ronifnents and on the highway
of sordid world (. 0111111•rfe. may be
neither graceful nor easy. But the as-
signment of such a role would lie a
compliment to the ability and the
Jew
such as Europe
11:14 As yet given to none.
at to
l'fief0eitur
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and far-reaching influence.
honesty of the
Professor Neumarh's New Book .
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this Ithaae of Ihr proposed
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in the • ventual Congetss of Peace. we merely interpreter. id the past and
may be cert.. it it offers it, not merely I exhorters. they may function a. had•
a. a compliment to the Jew., but 11011- era in the constructi%e work of soil-
..arned the coneaknce of the Jew • of
England
the rnitt II ', tato
and. i 'nay add. ••f the Jews of tin
world. not merely by it avowal of
g oof/ intention., hut
by its pro-
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pronitses t„ s teer
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hanre its signitir•nce and there is no
need t.• urge our belief in it.
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he protected and the l Wiwi 11a•hern
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fl rem,. in an titan' Of 111.•useelser-
are One of the .inister d•nger•
ing, a. it sere, aholi•hed comment,.
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of the to,nist Reform di.- it considered unnecessary. and eme.g
war o in the atter effect. the 'nyder- them the ton,m Ifs, on
i• the a0h entage of paternal lent maternal tir , tectiot,
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••it preparinti h. change the character of their in•ti-
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di-pine. and will probes lily rn.opo•• fp
loi 11, 0
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1,, done with vehemence and a•perity •)sng with the heitosh
.uels a.
44wal among
.11. h , 14,11. 1 at kJa what ie
know one another well and need 001 they had newer been
waif tiii‘m the nic• ties of convention
1n•1 the Itrii.sh Dettaratis-1.
on'y I .2111 to protest against that .tone something else
it ha•
Phillptini•m which is unworth, of an the Jew, of the i•-•ss • •••not,.•
honest and •incere riponent
fhr nearer to one anothsr
•Ii•putants should
■ (' rrrlprorat •141 the tOn.wnor
nuns,,
h••
re.pectinInet• which
,. not
iinIN i awakened to d.. p.m, 1,• th, Jew
knightly but also mini•terial
n.1 telt ,,,, 'where
TM* ...•nstitute•
they •lionld otoirrve the top and
rent .pmt, *hoot absence cannot hr • ADCr.
NOVI It• the 11171, for a unit.
ele ■ io.,1 • :1
, t1Olti• et that .:.tre , tinder
•4nr10 1...4 for , Tura! !unwired. nr
cloldren I /elate every thing.
mole,
eircante.ratice., the mark of the institution i• left upon
/re*
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(' P11 limier the rtb••.
I it, ..torlde ••• •ndol ions, hr de,
Finally, it
may be that w neutralized Palestine
may turn out to be a second Belgium
in the event of another (or possibly
the same) swashbuckling adventurer
who may grind the Jews under his
heels, But that prognosis would be a
established congregation. in Vienna,
and Viennese Jews settled ill Berlin,
and in our communities Spaniards and
Poles and Russians are mingling with
increasing congeniality. There is
danger of our developing in streaks,
In Russia orthodox) goes parallel
with radicalism, and the originalBer-
man Reform was quite different from
contemporary American reform. Even
in this country, freedom in organiza-
tion has produced many varieties of
ritual and congregational policy
which our Union of Congregation,
have deemed it impolitic to attempt
to unify. The danger that lurks in
this diversification lies in this, that
local precedent s in religions
forms
and habits, both Milli idual and coin.
;tumid, acquire authority and become
exclusive of other equally entrenched
local precedents ill other communi-
ties, and so in unseen ways and with
cumulative force the homogeneity of
invaded, disturbed and de-
strov
Reform which should hair
a
world
that
will
have
reconvert
its
neutralized the differenci s seems to
boob
ofo It , ,o , fill anti 114111081;MM 1101114;11,
morality.
Ni.
argument
on
the
score
have
accentuated
them. Nor ha. or-
Ills' synagogue, S110,11111
proposed
I ft ttl111114114, who lot slimly years has been Professor of
1,0' veto tally
of min-lira, politics can •lisproie the thodoxy responded to that need for
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adopted, this could no longer be the rat'.
(111t11
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ph). al 1111' 111'104.w l' Him, College, is
In the first plate, all
scholar of possibility or civil practicability of homogeneity which one would think
it would respect a. a party tif con-
010 ntovflothw
I ('w's are In be imassigned sit Ilia( it 1111' Ilaglok11/'
ttpai Ile snip- the itrifish Deelarminn.
1101 I i, t,g111/col
Pon there may be hesitation of quite servation.
longer to be a rich mail'', 1 ., triof ;obi a insa
back of j1 the authorit , another kind to herald it,
word'?'. III dila jet f ill 0 114/ 11 11/' 1144 hdlg
as some en-
As a first step toward homogeneity.
particular matter, lel II he said III pa.sing, 1111'1' It 11,4111114 (11'14, of 110 ,
llinsiasts do, at tilt' Magna Charta of may be the fact that many Jew • in
1ittet. 'rumple Holt 1',1 of Ile 1;4,11 1141111111 ), P111
the
Jewish
'people.
For
these
en-
the
American army and navy OMe
eve, ;se/eel/04 1111,
1114/i ill 1111' mar Inthre, we hope to
in these
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er, it may be safely said that th e
Jews
poor testimony to our confidence in
■
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II Ilals
folk", el le', ,1 I/111111/n
a detailed art muff of the worts with no It enmnien• a.
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A Notable Anniversary
in Sunday of Mal weck, Ilie Jew 1.11 I trpliim .%.) him 14 1 Isle
Luul I elt Itratull the fiftieth 1111101ms/1r) of II* (1 11111111111 1 01) 1 01 11111.11
who through this long maim' Mist' u, rtot•cittuthan•v and all 411C,
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restated Its (omit lion with a hearty
appr(riNnnn nl the (1141 inclion which
f4 timile by Ihnse who plead (or
te, 4 1f,talion not of religion. exaltation
411 , 1 those who 'lore a 'olivine of !mil-
k al ruterptlses in the face of the col-
lapse of all national and int•tnalional
Ile 0,11tri INIr4 uellhrr per
o blowy, not the dilator-
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Ile politics 'I he iit.t has at least t h e
North It to,p,it 1111, pea la looking II . idiom of sentiment, the tither loses
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of Its 1411111, 1140 1/11 1 14 r innilrllrll I I ) i ifir 111, 04
of the dependent
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government, for a concession. The
Nationalists contradict their allega•
lions, They say they Irk 4111 to Ire
, rankly national as all others are, and
at the same time they fawn, as none
others do, at the feet of governments
and congresses to grant them permis-
s : on.
It is not of such stuff that na-
lirens air made. A virile nation does
SO that while we may miequiiocal-
ly express our admiration to the Brit-
ish imetninent for its farsightedness
l f e'lt 11:g".I'Llr", lietfifl
n'itili do
which
\‘'ithont the Cleveland I Irphan A•111111' 11 1 4 11111111111 In mallet' gd11111N1 lib's
ate a n d in Ihr toll 111r in the politic.
who
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troth' titittplk.grilii4. A I'lopia j4 lig.
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thrtmgh ill influence loot been reared In (lm' manhood and scoittan 1111114 1 1 lf111/111
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mous assertion. No people has be-
come genuinely free through some-
body else. .11o1 the Jews, if they are
not buy its freedom nor peCtion for
it, nor wait upon generosities, nor ac•
rept •ii alien Declaration as its 11ag-
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MESSAGE OF THE PRESIDENT
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fill.
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lieu, end tinder restreints which not
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procilts11,11, nor bounded on a time con-
reptIon iuf ,Indalmi or of the function
lel( 'on Mk drops', In
ainerlatit t k, ft Jewish people la the
economy
Istuts
1 I bus Iltate Mote than Illtl of the Norld
, It his been &tie volit-
Ills 1 oillineme htl stunted
into personal touch with the lei ,
serving in the armies of our .Mlles
and establish a friendly exchange itilll
them. Dedribution has id, ay.: been
the 111 , 1 , t effective agent. y for reform
and influence. It is our mission to
distributed, which literally means
tieing sent forth. Localism in Juda-
ism must yield to Jew ish internation-
be
alism. And it must dip sr, !until in do-
mestic Jewry as well a. toward for-
eign Jewry. \Ve must make connec-
tion with the Jew, of the world, but
we must, as a preparation fiir that,
fuse the e'ements that stand apart in
this country. 11'e must have an Amer-
ican Judaism, but that sho u ld express
itself not in a Union Prayer Book
alone. nor in merely formal matters.
It should he a thorough-going Amer-
icanization, a genuine democratiza-
tion, in which origin and birth and
caste and employment are wiped out
as irrelevant and congregations hc-
r0IIII• center, for fusion and equaliza-
for it. appreciation of the spletuld time.
mare the Jew has in civilization, and
for its confidence that Jewish genius
has•much to contribute In civilization
The Spread of Reform.
II is wi th this in ■ i, it that I call
attention to the athisalality of being
ill II restored world, we must not rtin
alert in the religious provision we
off the tangent with the impuls've
make for the American Jew s who are
hision Brat it has solved the Jewish
"over there." In the face of the equal
prolle in. That problem will vex the
stake of life, the equal heroism, and
world and will embarass us until the
the equal loyalty, we should tint di-
world•morale will have swept it away.
vide men into orthodox and reform.
1 Jewish Palestine will still have to
It is not tolerable that there should
al with a Christian, it 1 ,4 111110-
be a segregation of one Vint of A mer-
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ican men from another kind accord-
of international law is strong enough
ing to pre-war antecedents.
24 the 11, 01111 area now 10 its 4112111e
And we ought to have in mind also
and confusion, to prevent or sup-
press hypocrisy and wrong. Only a that we have a rare opportunity to to
for French Jew's. for English Jews,
moralized Europe can make Palestine
and the Jews Senile, but if it Call do for Italian Jews, for the Jews of Eu-
rope,
what we
that there will be no more anti-
e-
setnitiato to flee front, and no neces• selves. It is ti
say fora Declaration to reassure 114. form world.wid
the et angelizat
r-
Union In Israel.
tain where we
'rile British Declaration has re- yincial and wit
't1
opened the betssh question and has the universal
rf
made it international. l'p to its and ethics,
ly
promulgation the Jewish question Was correct but
al
local or national, and was tinkered American cond
with by legislatitres and parliaments
It may he pra
in fragmentary and desultory ways,
a number of re
Thr British Declaration has lifted it
Jews to undert
In world importance and it will from
enterprise to ai
now tin be impossible for any govern.
IA reform, in
meth to consider itself irrestionsible
to the con•rience of the world as to gations, which
still undevelope.
it
the manner in which it d'sposes of
Allies, and I sus
the Jewish question. Already.the Can.
trai Powers, Io long cynical s'nners
il'nnitalle y t■ !.. s-r. rr