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future development Judaism in over-adulteration of Judaism until its was in their own youth, yet cannot g 165 PENOBSCOT BUILDING
America directly and materially. It ultimate complete disappearance. link backward far enough to survey ,
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means that whereas during the last From these premises the logical con- the whole, long devious course which
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40 years two and one-half million clusion must he drawn that Judaism Judaism has travelled thus far, only
13. F. STEP}IENSON, Pres.
in America is inevitably doomed.
D. IIAIIN, Vice-Pres. anti Secretary
they are filled with foreboding and
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Hut if this syllogism be correct, proclaim the doom of Judaism. 2
J. F. McDONALD, Treasurer and Auditor
then its application is far more far- In 2000," they say, "Judaism in 2 JOHN I.. AUSTIN, Attorney
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C. S. TAYLOR, As , '
reaching than may seem at first. For America will be dead and forgotten.
JOHN F. MeCANN, Asst. S,
E. A. IVs RNER, Asst. Sec'y
it is not only the Jewish immigrant We are the last generation of true,
A. C. BUTTERBAUGH, Asst. Sec'y
to America who succumbs irresistibly
to the influence of his new cultural dews in Anierica.
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It it an told refrain in Judaism.
environment. The Jewish immigrant
D. D. DUTCHER
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to any land, whether to Argentine, Each passing generation has repeated
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Australia, South Africa, England, it again and again as it witnessed 0 THOMAS P. HUBBARD
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with coal or with Nokol. The two curves in the
to his new environment in precisely its children. Each generation has
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not only the Jews, but immigrants of in America it will live on, for all the
all races and nations and at all times, generations to come, not as Orthodox
regardless of the forces or conditions Judaism, it is true, nor yet even asi2
Reform Judaism, as it is called; but
which have caused the migration.
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emotion the internal culture of a land
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and a people is constantly changing This American Judaism of tumor-•I
and progressing. So long as men live row will not be the mere continuation 1 2
and think and discover new knowledge of any one, single, present-day move- ;2
DR. JULIAN MORGENSTERN,
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President and Profemor of Bible and and new truth, culture can never ment in Judaism, neither of Reform 11
nor Orthodoxy. To it all the various l i
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tributions, each in the measure of its;
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lion, probsbly considerably less, will
spiritual strength and wealth : Reform
come hither. It means, too, that
and Orthodoxy alike, Portuguese, Ger- ',/
whereas there are now in America
man and Russihn Jew; perhaps, for '2
about 3,50,000 .lews, of whom approx-
all we can tell, even the atheist Jew. '•
imately 3,030,001, or 85 per cent, arc
American Judaism will voice the spir- •
either foreign-born themselves or,
itual beliefs . and aspirations of all, A
though born in America, have been
American Jews. It will be Judaism,
reared in a al-culled Ghetto environ-
becanse it will rest upon the old, eter- , p
ment, in 1950, one generation hence,
nal foundations of Jewish principles,
there will probably be close to 5,009-
history and tradition. And it will be
000 Jews in America, of whoni only
American in that it will have adapted 2
about 1,001,04 1, 21 per cent, will
these eternal principles to the peculiar 2
MRS. J. WALTER FREIBERG,
life which we Jews must live here as
vave been barn air cal or reared un-
der foreign influence; and that in President of the National Federation American citizens in the midst of; and •
2000 there will be approximately 8,-
as a loyally contributing factor, in the A
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000,000 Jews in America, of whom, as-
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suming that present conditions do not stand still, but must go f•orward stead- u
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change'materially, less than one-half ily. And the life of twee). people or
million, less than 0 per cent, will be group or individual who come under
foreign lu rn or bred; the remainder, the influence of this 'changing, grow-
the overwhelming majority will, then ing culture must change and growl
with it. And if it tie a law of his-
be native, born and reared.
tory that Jews, like the ,rest of man-
Two Impliestios.
The question, what will American kind, must yied to the influences o f
; Judaism be in 2001, is based upon their environment, then it follows that
these facts. And it carries with it Judaism, too, either with or without ,
I two very significent implications. In immigration, must change and grow
, the first place, it implies that it is or decay, as the case may he, and that
I the Jewish immigrants to America this process is absolutely unavoidable.
The crux of the question, therefore,
I during the last 411 yearsi' who have
kept Judaism alive here and that were lies in the second premise of the syl-
logism.
Can Judaism change and grow
I it not for their contribution in num-
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bers, in knowledge and in spirit, and still live and remain Judaism;
Judaism in America would either have or is it the closed, finished, perfect
disappeared already or be well on thing, any change in which means ,
the road to disappearance. Anti, in deterioration, decay, .death? History ,
' the second place, the questisn implies answers the question infallibly. This
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that the Jewish immigrants to Amer. law of change and growth and pro-
ica during the last 40 years also, like gress in culture and in religion, which
their precedessors of an earlier wave is likewise a part of culture, is sin- 1
of migration, yield speedily' and ir. deniable and inescapable. Judaism
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resistibly to the influence of their new has existed too long not to have been I
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environment, and gradually give up profoundly affected by it again and
one Jewish belief, ceremony anti in. again. Every student of the history ,
I stitutien after the ether, adopt of Judaism knows that the Judaism DR. . ABRAHAM
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!strange, non-Jewish ways and pate- of the time of David was radically
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' tiers. and thus weaken and adulter• different from the Judaism expounded' Professor of
Branch—Twelfth at Philadelphia
ate their Judaism two, until eventual- by DeutermIsaiah; that Judaism after . Judaism and Americanism; and just I
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ly with them also Judaism must surely its contact with Persian and Greek because it will he that, it will live and
perish. Only the influx of successive culture and philosophy differed mates -- ' thrive here in America.
TO OUR MANY JEWISH FRIENDS
waves of Jewish migration can save ,ally in montent, in outlook upon life '
Nor is this a mere prediction, a
Judaism in America; and now that and in ritual and ceremonial from
the anti-immigration legislation has what it had been before; that the hope, a dream. The beginning has a -
Judaism of the Talmud and the Shul- ready been made; the process is well
_ effectively limited future Jewish
migration to America, and reduced Olen Aruk differs immeasurably, on under way. All over the land new
it to a practically negligible consider- the one hand, from the Judaism of congregations are springing up, so
ation, the doom of Judaism in Amer- the Bibical period and, on the other rapidly that their demand for rabbis
ica has been sealed; by 21)00 it will hand, from the Judaism of today in and trained spiritual leaders cannot
in all likelihood have ceased to exist. western lands. Judaism is a living,', be satisfied. To answer this demand
I These are the implications inherent growing, discovering religion, not a , our rabbinical seminaries are throng-
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revelation concluded, finished, perfect ed by students in numbers far great-
in our question.
for all time, and capable, not of fur- er than ever before. For the first
Hu th are absolutely false. In the ther progress, but only of degenera- time in its history, and probably in
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viously refutes and nullifies the first. tion and decay. It does not merely the history of any modern Jewish nibs,
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If the immigrants during the last 40 Seer umb to the influence of new and hinical seminary, the Hebrew Union!
years have likewise yielded to the changing environment, whether this College will, during the coming
influence of American environment be brought about by internal progress academic year, enroll over 100 stu-,
and are themselves losing their Juda- tor by group immigration. Rather it dents in its rabbinical department ,
ism, then it can hardly be-true has the rare gift, the precious genius, alone. New departments and schools
that their coming has saved Juda- of not only creating for itself but also are being organized and planned fur
ism for the older generation of Jews of intuitively adapting itself to every the training of professional Jewish
A HAPPY NEW YEAR
in America, or at least has retarded new culture, of absorbing new' knnwl- workers of all kinds, Jewish religious
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JEWISH FRIENDS AND PATRONS
its decay. In fact the second impli- edge, of contributing to new discovery, teachers, social workers, organizers'
WE WISH ALL OUR FRIENDS AND
cation, if it were true, would sound and at the same time not sacrificing and leaders of various sorts. Arneri•
one
whit
of
all
that
was
fundamental-'
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Judaism
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activities,
the eventual death-knell for Judaism
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not only in America, but throughout ly and characteristically and eternal- movements and endeavors of a
ly Jewish. This, above all else, has, thousand complexions. It is vigorous- .
OUS NEW YEAR
the world.
kept Judaism alive, has prevented its ly and earnestly alive. No need to
A Syllogism of Logic.
For, reduced to a syllogism of logic, decay and disappearance through all fear for its future; there is necd.only
the changes and growth and under all that its sons and daughters have
in
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• faith
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the advers it
selves joyously to its service, that they
years of history.
, plan and labor confidently and eagerly
New Judaism in Russia.
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its stagnant culture, and in eastern', What then will American Judaism 1
Europe with its oppressive and re- be in 2000? I do not know. It were ,
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strictive legislation, has Judaism futile to attempt the prediction. For '
stood still for any protracted period we cannot forsee the new discoveries
and in the end come to believe that which the next 76 years may bring, !
this condition of standing still and' the new world to be opened up, the
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conforming, as completely as possible, , new philosoph
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constituted the true essence of Juda- unfolded. Therefore, we cannot fore-,
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Russia today, so we are informed, new outer appearance it may take on,
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there is such an awakening of the nor all that its new, richer, inner
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Jewish soul. A new Russian Juda- spiritual content will be.
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i.m is in process of formation. The
Nor need we know this. Sufficient
old Russian Judaism, creation of the it Is to know that it will be; that it
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Russian Pale, which we have mistak- will he living and inspiring and bless-
,nly called Orthodox Judiaarn, is grad- ing its children and all mankind. In
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in Russia itself, under the influence
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long as America continues to be a
of the new freedom. The old folks free , enlightened, liberal, progressive
may shake their heads sadly and
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Judiasm I nation—American Judaism will live
and
bodingly and mourn for
which they claim is dead. But Jude. and grow and lead and
inspire and
bless. This is enough to know. More
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dying. only the old, sixteenth cen-
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