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ANALYZES LAYMAN'S
DUTIES TO JUDAISM
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And so, too, might it be said of
the spirit of Christianity. Though
we do nut believe in its dogmas,
though we have been the most per-
sistent opponents of some of its theo-
logical principles, yet we cannot but
appreciate the worth of its moral
teachings, and must therefore de-
plore the facts that these teachings
are honored by our Christian neigh-
bors more in the breach than in the
observance. The followers of Christ-
ianity generally are content to give
it but lip service. Unfortunately, too
often their attachment is of the sort
that discredits and dishonors. Who
can deny that were its spirit domi-
nant in the world today, even as the
number of its nominal followers ex-
tend over the earth and rule is poli-
tics and its finance, that the bloodiest
pages in history would recently not
have been written.
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But our problem today is not with
Christianity, but with Judaism. With
us the situation is not greatly differ-
ent. The same indifference prevails.
We have acquired the habit of whin-
ing incessantly because we are mis-
understood and exaggerate the pin
pricks to which we are occasionally
subject as though the most important
thing in our lives for us to be liked
and petted. Too often do we he ar
the statement and are solaced by the
thought that collectively we are d e
cent as our neighbors. We listen
with too much satisfaction to what
may be perfectly true, that our vices
are no greater and no worse than
our neighbors': that if we make a god
of business, so do our neighbors; that
if we keep holy but one day a week
and profane the other six, so do our
neighbors; that if we at times neg
ect our obligations to our city, State
and country, so do our neighbors.
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"My house should be a house of
those who advocate assimilation as
the end of Americanism too often prayer for all people."
Inside the temple we have a men-
fail to distinguish the two. There
is the passive assimilation which is tat reservation:
"For such as we can afford to pay."
mere conformity to a preestablished
So long an there is a single reform
order; but there is also an active and
progressive assimilation which con- Jewish congregation where property
gists in bringing to the new order, rights are evidenced by private own-1
contributing to, and combining with ership of pews, involving as it does
rich man's corner and a poor Illan's
it, all that is good and fine and true a
in the old. section, we are maintaining, "an
‘Ve Jews are the heirs of a noble abomination in the sight of the Lord.'
Responsibilities of Jews.
past. Vce have all inherited some-
thing that is very much worth while
It has recently been demonstrated
--something without which our nat-
Tonal life would be poorer. We shall beyond
a shadow of doubt that such
sy stem, admittedly wrong morally, '
not serve the cause
of America truly a is b ad from a business point of view
us
unless we The
see thing
that some
is pre- as well. There should be no corn-
served.
that thing
we Jews
in America in which the Jew
r : nunit Y .
have must
inherited—the
thing
we is
preserve—is
our that
religion.
unwilling to maintain and support
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Jews w age has come which no man his congregation on the basis of the
A ne t But the past is the key unassigned pew system. and there
in America where
can forecas
s
should be no spot
s
ld i is not given a full
Anil our religion lies at the ever
sh child
to it.
, ery
center of our past. We cannot a6
ford to ignore it, becae in it lies and
opportunity
for Te
free
Jew
ish equal
religious
deprive
us education.
usion.
strength and inspirat
our st
' even one child of his heritage is a
reproach to those responsible for the
Religion in Foreground
W e shall not bind our factories neglect for which they in time may
and our great department stores any pay an awful price.
faster by destroying our ancient land-. It is poor business, too, to main-,
marks. No people—and no group— tain a synagogue for two services a
is strange that it has tak-
that loses hold of its traditions and pear. It
its ideals can long survive. en the business so long to under-
"W'here there is no vision," the stand and correct what the 8o-called
proverb runs, "'Where there is no , impractical rabbi has long understood
vision, the people perish." None of us would intolerate for an
Those of us who maintain that we instant a condition making for only
are Jews by religion only and who' two days' activity in a year our own
reject the doctrine of the race Zion- business establishments.
ism, certainly have an additional ob.'
Appeals to Business Man.
The
ligation to reassert the central tune-
Th business can help by giving
tion of Jewish existence, namely, to of himself. We have had too much'
be a people.
religious
factor
in the
lives of
the
This
cannot
be done
ef- of an un-Jewish spirit of letting the
Idealism First
Because others fail to measure up
to the idealism held before them
should be no excuse for us. Ideal-
ism—not manufacturing nor store-
keeping—is the primary business of
the Jew
Without attempting to pass judg-
ment upon our friends of other faiths
and creeds we certainly must recog-
nize that our responsibility is great-
er than theirs. A minority must
have an excuse for its existence, and
that excuse must be found not in the
distant past, but in the present, and
in the future.
The spirit of Judaism has not
found its fulfillment even though its
laws, its ethics and its theology un-
derlie modern civilization. Israel's
God is not yet worshipped, nor does
her conception of social justice yet
obtain.
Unlike the dominant religion the
motif of Judaism is not the world
hereafter, but the world here and
now, with its consequent immediate
duties, obligations and responsibili-
ty.
Freedom of Opportunity
fictively unless we, the laymen, unite do
rabbi,
women and and
the of
children
our the
worshipping
com-
with the rabbis in placing religion in, promising with ourselves by contrib-
•
uting
a little money. And even the
the foreground of our thinking.
few dollars subscribed have been al-
Faith of Fathers.
We are what we are because of together inadequate and quite out of
the intensity of faith of our fathers. proportion to our responsibility and
Without their earnestness Jewry ability.
would long since have passed off the. The Jewish congregation ought to
stage of history. We expect too be the greatest power for usefullness
much of our rabbis. As our teachers —the strongest unit making for
righteousness in every community.
we have a right to demand of them
It would be if the business man co-
that they be an example to us, but it
operated with the rabbi; if instead of
is contrary to the teachings of our
good-naturedly sneering at the im-
faith that we should expect them to
practicability of the rabbi's so-called
be the priest warden of the temple
altar or the vicarious delegated wor- economic radicalism we were to re.
shipper for the congregation. member that no rabbi is quite so rad-
Vicarious atonement is a doctrine ical as those of our prophets whose
that we reject with all the weight of sermons we venerate as holy. If
our historic past, and we believe that the business were to hold up the
there is no duty imposed upon the hands of the occupant of the pulpit
rabbi that is not incumbent upon, by actually living in his daily busi-
ness life the principles of social jus-
every one of us.
tice expounded in his pulpit in the
A people that for thousands of
years has recognized its election as spirit of the prophets, lawgivers and
a priestly people, and a holy nation, sages of Israel, can you doubt the ef-
cannot lightly reject its past, nor can fect of the social fabrice of the !m-
it idly stand by—hoping some time tion?
Personal Consecration.
and somehow through an act of Prov-
idence, perhaps, but through an act The thing that we need above ev
of its own, to fulfil its mission. Such erything else is what Ralph Phillip
is not our idea of the working of Boaz, has so well expressed in the
God's law. May number of the Atlantic Month-
Team work is required; with ev- ly: "Personal consecration to right-
cry man holding the Jewish concep-' eousness, humility in success, a gen-
tion of individual duty and responsi- tleman's regard for the sensitiveness
bility, doing his part. of others, a willingness to yield one's
In taking stock of our acts of legal rights before the quality of
omission and commission, we may mercy," and which thousands of
well in the words of the atonement' years ago was expressed in these
ritual unite in repeating: words: "It bath been told thee, 0
"We have sinned; we have griev-, man, what is good and what the Lord
1 doth require, to do justice, and to
ously sinned."
■ love mercy, and to walk humbly with
Neglect of College
God."
No greater indictment can be I thy
brought against the American Jew' If we were only to feel the old
than his neglect of the Hebrew time sense of responsibility for Kid-
Never in history has the Jew been
accorded such freedom of opportun-
ity as in America. If every other
sentiment fails him gratitude alone
should impose upon every Jew the
— WE PAY SPOT CASH
personal obligation to repay Am-
erica, with interest compounded,
what America has been to him and
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his. If every Jew in America were
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to yield his life for his country's good
he would not be paying Jewry's debt.
But America does not ask of him that
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1 he make the supreme sacrifice; she
Canning and Preserving.
does, however, ask of him, as she
does of every one of her other citi-
zens, that he live for her and that he
give her the best that is in him. Am-
MRS. JOSEPHINE JACOBS,
erica of all countries does not ask its
Cadillac 790. / citizens to conform to a single norm
Addison Hotel.
—to a single type. On the contrary,
what it demands is that each group
contribute to the the national wel-
DEMAND MOSLEM KING
fare all the fine things of mind and
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LONDON.—Replying to a speech spirit that have come to them from
by Sir Edward Montague, Parlia- their forefathers. •Unfortunately,
there
are
many
among
us
who
mis-
mentary Minister for India, Sheik
read their Americanism and misun-
Kidwi, head of the Indian delegation
now in England, demanded that a derstand their Judaism.
Defines Assimilation.
Mohammedan king be enthroned in
They procaim assimilation as the
Palestine and that a parliament in-
cluding Mohammedans, Christians test of Americanism. But there are
two kinds of assimilation, and
and Jews be set up there.
Wanted
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Union College and its affiliated ac- dash Ha Shem (hollowing the name
tivities. Nothwithstanding the re- of God), if we would only realize that
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cent drive, not one in ten who ought our individual action, righteous or
to have subscribed has subscribed,, unrighteous, may make or unmake
and not one in ten who has subscrib-, the whole Jewish people, what a pow-
ed has subscribed in proportion to his en for good we might become and
ability to pay in accordance with the' what an asset for America! If every
importance of the undertaking. Jewish immigrant was taken by the
The college is the keystone upon hand and shown the best side of Am-
which the arch rests. If we are hon., ericsn life, instead of the worst side; Pious, fanatical zealots, throttled
by Talmudwcoil,
est in our professions, every reformed if he were helped intead of exploit-
mpious, lecherous skeptics, cyni-
Jew in America should, if necessary, ed by his own and others—to what, Impious,
to
cal stalkers of spoil;
go hungry to keep the college, and heights might we not expect him
the synagogue, and school depart- rise!
If those industries controlled by
Wedded 'neath Ilebrew awning,
ment in plenty. So far, few of us
buried 'neath Hebrew sod,
have gone hungry, and we can do all Jews a decent respect was shown for
and much more than is needed with- the rights of labor and of the pub- Between not a dream of duty, nev-
, lie; if in other industries where the
era glimpse of God;
out undergoing such a hardship,
Our congregations have generally Jew' is less of a factor he aimed to
Tantalus-Proteus of Peoples, ac-
been financed by methods that would unselfish leadership, not by taking
ing
vi to oth
comes from within;
hardly be justified in a social club. for himself but by , 1 J
hardly
resu lts be
Where is the lion of Judah? W car-
On the outside of our temples we in-. less fortunate,
worth while, do you think? If every
an ass's skin!
ing
scribe the motto:
Jewish business man aimed to give
service and value—if the Jewish
Hear, 0 Israel, Jehovah, the Lord
, profiteer were shunned like the
our God is One,
plague—what do you think would be
But we, Jehovah, His people, are
the result?
dual and so undone.
If Jewish business men with such
w . nen a new Zangwill is moved to
ideals entered politics to serve and
not to get, don't you think they
y ears after, le t
would accomplish more for the Jew write
of Israel,
that
will Y not find a ' di-
hope
t t he
e sixty
w
us h
than the miserable Jewish political vided household, but a unit in high
clubs that exist only to further the thinking and useful living, so that
ambitions of some cheap, low, self- his refrain will not be—
seeking politician?
Israel is duel, and so un-
All the American Jew needs is to done,"
ne, but rather
be true to himself and to hit—and
That Israel is ,one, and in ideal-
hit hard—every man that goes by ism second to none.
the name Jew only to profane it.
We have the remedy in our own
. hands. We only need take our busi-
, ness of being Jew's more seriously. .
We need to bend all efforts—to unite
all loyal hearts in a systematic or-
ganized movement—in a relentless
, campaign of education to infuse more
Jewishness into our business life, to
NEW YORK. — Professor Albert
put new vigor into the Jewish home, Einstein, who has been in the United
school and pulpit; to train the young States for several weeks expounding
, for active service in the synagogue'
to bring within its folds those who his theory of relativity and working
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have drifted away, and within its in- in the interest of building up Pales-
tine as a Jewish homeland, sailed
fluence those of other beliefs.
Monday for Liverpool on the Celtic.
All Shall Know the Lord.
I formal statement he said:
We must renew the bond of faith Ina
"I would like to add that the re-
between the old and the young in
Israel. We must enter into a sot- sped and admiration I always felt
' emn covenant with one another to for American scientists has been
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parts, and to write it in our hearth personal contact with them. I have
and in the hearts of our children, so seen a sympathetic dealing with the
de-
that all shall know the Lord from the theory of relativity and a truly de-
to the greatest of them, and all tached scientific interest in it."
least
Professor Einstein announced he
shall walk in His way.
In proportion as we succeed or had refused to accept an invitation to
fail in bringing the message of our be Lord Haldane's guest in London,
faith to the heart of Israel and the but gave no reason for the decline-
in.
heart of mankind, "we shall nobly
Professor Einstein was accom •
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save, or meanly lose, the last, best ponied
on his return trip by Mrs.
hope of earth."
and Mrs. Chaim Weizmann
Today as upon the threshold of Einstein
Israel's history the supreme choice president of the Women's Interne
is given us, and we are once more en- tional Zionist Association, which is
joined to choose life and the good. trying to raise $5,000,000 for wel-
We are again at the parting of the fare work among Jewish women and
—one path leads to materialism children in Palestine.
ways
Mrs. Weizmann, prior to leaving
and death, the other to God and life.
A3 our fathers of yore, let us accept this country, issued an appeal to the
women of this country to contribute
the challenge of the new day and not their jewels nad treasure, "gold and
again give cause to a Jewish thinker silver, new and old," to the women's
to lament the dual life of our people
s ., Zionist fund.
as does Zangwill in his lines on "I
rael:"
Hear, 0 Israel, Jehovah, the Lord
our God is one,
But we, Jehovah, His people, are
dual and so undone.
Slaves in eternal EgTpta, their
their strawleas bricks,
At ease in successive Zions, prat-
ing their politics;
Priests of • the household altar,
blessing the bread and wine,
Lords of the hells of Gomorrah,
licensed keepers of swine;
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PARIS.—The Committee of Jewish
Delegations here has requested the
officers of the Canadian Jewish Con-
gress to negotiate with the Canadian
government concerning the introduc-
tion of a large number of Jewish im-
migrants into Canada, and to ap-
proach the governments of Brazil,
Argentina and Chile with • similar
proposition.
Woodward
and Adams