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threatened with a suit for damages by Aaron Sapiro.
Since April one of his assistant ignoramuses by the
name of Morgan has been writing disparaging articles
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led by Aaron Sapiro. If one is interested in the it of
CONTINENTAL ANTI-SEMITISM
Joseph J. Cummins, President and Editor
using avalanches of words without stating a pertinent
By SAMUEL C. LAMPORT
Jacob H. Schakne, General Manager
fact we heartily recommend Mr. Morgan to them as the
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The position of our brethren in
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supreme exemplar of this difficult though rather shoddy
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most Parts of the Continent east of
Mich., under the At of Harsh 3, is79.
art. But in the use of invective, the careless handling
the Rhine is just now one of peculiar
thus cut off with their own ha n.. cc•
General Offices and Publication Building -- -
anxiety. From almost all conies con-
" Ni news is good news" has fur no
of fact, this same gentleman is an adept. It is hardly
religious culture which has aei,H.
one else as deep a significance as for
Street West
stant news of more or less attacks
necessary,
nor
will
it
serve
any
useful
purpose.
to
dis-
all the storms of history.
the Jewish reader of the daily press,
Cable Address: Chronicle
upon Jews. Some is palpably exag-
00igh
This campaign is being \co..
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cuss these articles. Suffice it is to say that Mr. Sapiro
for it is with dreaded suspense and
Berated, but these is much that gives
tworlon Office .
the Soviet government throo.d
W. 1, England
abundant ground for heed. Perhaps
fearful anxiety that he takes up his
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has exhausted his patience and now he has written to
14 Stratford Place, London,
agency
of Jewish traitors,
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newspaper to read the latest reports
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the WI ■ rst aspect of anti-SenliOnn. ac
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renegades not only to Judi,
Henry Ford and his two agents provocateur, Cameron
from certain parts of the diaspora.
it is met with in the countries to
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to
the
every
essence of hum. •
Who, following up Jewish current
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and Liebold, that suit will be brought unless there is a
which we allude, is the fact that it has
all thrreepondenee and newts matter tenet reach this
self--the Jewish section of On
To leisure publication.
office by Tuesday evening of each week. _
events 'yen superficially these recent
become so firmly interwoven into
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full and satisfactory retraction of the libelous matter
It is they who ..
munist
party.
Imagine if, in this
years, needs to be told of the nature
party politics.
unlimited control over the i•
Jewish Chronicle invitee corre.nondthre on subjects of intr.=
in these articles.
of the tidings? If Jewish distress has
country adhesion to one of the great
rag u crop
rife
of
tine
views
of Rus•'•
to the Jewith people. hut disclaims responsibility for •
any special meaning for hlin, he
Ford is sued and he does appear we shall be
parties in the state involved as a
views expressed
MI religious activities Ilf
1' f the writers.
I
needs feel crushed under the ava-
dank in its platform active hatred
in
Russia
have
come
under
treated to the spectacle of a man steeped in ignorance
lanche of human misery that t v
of the Jew! Yet it is not much, if at
of these fanatics of the Left.
Shebat 12, 5685
cable dispatches portray to him in
all, stretching the analogy to say that
February 6, 1925
whit iS trying to tell a Whole world what they should
to
the
lowest
let.
stooped
have
simple, every-day and matter of fact
there are certain political parties in
do. Another thing which will he revealed to many who
to
carry out
degradation
language. Just the bare narration of
continental countries from which a
scheme.
Property
of
religioce
would soft-pedal Ford's anti-Semitic complex is the
the incidents, without 0 word of am.
man would be banned if he expressed
Barbarous Herrin.
munities is confiscated to be tia
plification, suffices to produce a tale
fact that he has in no manner abated his hostility to the
the same regard for a Jew as he did
the desecration of the sacred
are
of woe comparable with the horrors
for any other human being. We
Herrin, III., has held the center of the stage of Am-
of the dispossessed. Woe MO J
Jew, but has merely disguised it and made it more pal-
described in Dinde's "Inferno,"
happy to think that in several in-
rabbi or Hebrew teacher cauchi •
erica for the last few years, but it is anything but an
atable. The one outstanding feature of the Dearborn
True to historic form runs Jewish
stances our people are giving good ac-
s
structing the young. The It
enviable reputation which this uncivilized, bloody com-
count of themselves and, by organized
experience in the lands of persecution
Independent is its poisonous attitude in all matters af-
of the Cheka will close upon hilll
1
n
it;:e
l
erst.
,„,
,,,,h
apex 3 et,.,,f
resistance to brutal hooliganism, un-
munity has achieved. The communal spirit seems dried
•.
he will be torn out of life
fecting the Jew; at no time does it betray a sympathetic
the guise of political faith, are at
,,,tita elritks n ,,
' p .i e nn7,...sr.::(:) " , v ti arty a ittlin
a trial or advice to friends or fa,
up at the roots. It is cynical, calloused and apparently
chapters in our
or understanding position, but always an attitude ad-
least keeping in check the worst ek-
Jewish members of labor tin.
their
enemies.
The
situ-
beyond the reach of any influence which could bring it
t
meats among
medieval history in Europe. Thor-
versely critical, if not bitterly antagonistic. We do not
are penalized for religious ...-
oughly helpless, victims of a relent--
anion in Germany at the moment is
to the realization that violence cannot settle social prob-
tutees
by the loss of every
ask for friendship. but we do ask that when a man
one little short of peril for Jews,
,
le-s ,.!RIDS, the Jew's are the private
its to earn their daily bread.
denies hostility he should manifest freedom from
property of the governments. Their
which would develop into actual Ilan-
lems.
tic' of the Jewish wielding r i.•
condition is an "internal matter" with
ger if there should be a monarchist
First, it harbored a labor war so bitter and intense
hostility by a tolerant expression at least on some oc-
circumcision or any other ride ,••
which correct diplomacy forbids any
revolution, certainly a not impossible
duty is sufficient to lose all rirly • ,
that the murderous episodes in other strikes seemed to
casion.
happening. In such circumstances,
interference, as long the the country
he considered as a human being. r.r
in question „hits its „,„ J ews. .
any
sign
of
a
sane
attitude
towards
pale into insignificance. This prenomenon of armed con-
Since Aaron Sapiro has thrown his hat in the ring
such there is no justice in Ross a .
Jews is worth noting, and the words
In this orgy of Jewish persecution
law whatsoever.
flict is not new in American industrial life. The refusal
We hope that he will go through with it. Mr. Ford and
s
employed by Cardinal Csernoch
ltioin
rive
,
31t1,1p
Inn sim ilar way every man r.
R s,,ni ,,st .11 1.,,i;i1 eItyns i,,f,i irysit
touisa
to try civilized methods of settling disputes has occu•ed
He said,
his aids will hardly retract. If Mr. Morgan has told
should not be ad-se d.
ti on of .lowish if is crushed. It
with such frequence that many accept it as a neces-
"There must lo. a stop to all eX-
for millions of human beings. On its
er it be literature or the pie--
the truth :Wont the notable Jews mentioned we want
.
ewes. We must set out on a new
portals may truly be inscribed: "All
theater or educational work, c
sary concomitant of industrial life. This truculent
to know the truth and will %velcome a complete and
•
who enter here leave hope behind."
period of constructive work, where
blighted by the Jewish section
spirit has its base in the belief that the parties them-
adequate examination of all the facts.
Its flag flies over the most boneless
there shall be no persecutions Of
Soviet. It is the &sea, center
remnant of Israel. Wit'•in the boun-
selves all best settle their din allies. Both sides are
races or religious communities. There
which radiates a mortal paralt -
of
must he complete equality for all sec-
every limb of Judaism in Russia .
darks of the Soviet State:, T11'114)11 ,
moved but little by reasonableness, both have an intrin-
our brethren art. writhing under tor-
lions
of
the
population,
irrespective
The persecution of the Zion ,-•
COO k(411.1CTICe is warfare.
e
th
l
faith
in
vio
ence;
of
their
faith.
we
must
return
to
Russia be the Bolshevik goverp !,
sic
'MOIL
The Soviets and Bernard Shaw.
the old Threat traditions of Hungary.
constitutes one of the dark, ,
In Russia, whose Jewry up to the
For a time this turbulent area was quiet, but not
tors of Jewish life in thin cog
beginning of the late war was the
..1 r, , ,,olize no di•inctioo between
for long did the old antago nism lie dormant. A bar-
W hen Bernard Shat' caustically told Zinovieff in
man awl man. I am on the closest
heart of Jewish cultural and spiritual
Not a Ike Passes but we ht.:11• i.;
•
repressions and arrests of w' r,
of friend
Budapship with the Chief
life throughout the world, there ex-
barons, bellicose community :.:iich as Herrin was sure
terms t,f
the .symposium conducted by Isvestia that he must
,
-
animosi
and
I
hive
the
w
ne
today
but
as
ghastly
sliadow
of
est
OW national movement. Jcwi-l.
ground a.: soon a s
Rabbi
ists
.
-
to become the battle -
"choose between statesmanship and schoolboy non
tienalism is a public crime in Ito• •.
greatest respectandadmiraticm for
what nut so long ago W:11S Il il I m.„
ties and tintligonisms were generated. Where differ -
I
act,
and
•.
is
counter-revolutionary
an.
It
li
thriving, producing and inspiring or
a
this fin and scholarly m
sense" and when he further castigated the Soviets on
are viewed with suspicion, the soil
subject to the punishment which I .
,h.
i hat th,: . nt. Csa,tili tic
gal of our national body. First the
to
sores ever so slight
1..
so well to met.. .. •
their sorest spot in this sparkling bit of criticism. that
o viets ..now
S e0nets
C h ur ch is b eh ind
war visited upon the Rus-inn Jews the
is very fertile for bloody outbursts. And the Anwri-
Zionist meetings cannot be held ,
ls which to tin y' greal i' regret c
cao'io(l'il igo,
full ua'''''''''' of its t•rrots. The ,Iew-
can scene has not been wanting in the last few Years "modern Socialism has left Karl Marx as far behind as
out
being
raided
by the polite. a- I
hate.
ish world still shudders as it recalls
has be•n going on in Hungary of
modern science has Moses," he hardly knew how truly
, 11 t ,.,
endeavor n tolitat only
in those hatreds which are the fuel for internecine
they wine criminal convict\ es
a ncrr;t
ea
the horrors that devoured hundreds
It is
This
is
a
picture
of what
clergy
of thousands of Jews in the Ukraine
he spoke. For he was severely reprimanded by the
strife. It is scarcely possible that the Ku Klux Klan
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would avoid such a delicious morsel as Herrin. This

place was a heaven-sent spot for the poisonous props-

peddlers of schoolboy nonsense when his play, "Saint
was withdrawn from the Kamerny Theater in

Joktn,"

take no part in this activity, but that
they should fight against it wherever
it appears. I repeat what I have al-
ways said: The basis of Christi•nitY
men, irrespective a
i , Ow love of all tar.
cn
iti TZtnts, r who 4
i.
t.iri.,t,cil.,,rra 7,,,tis-c
permit anti-Semitic
neataret only bat people, but
me
they are had Christians. As the head
Church ,:lii tti s s o c cii,t,inn, -.
,t the
aen fil it: h ,t atlii,ti , ,,,,

Moscow'.
ganda of the evangels of malice and hatred. But Iler-
its clearly drawn lines, with its intolerance for
On e can imagine how the swollen vanities of these
rin, With
pompous frauds must have been hurt by this straight
all that was unlike and with its resort to violence as
from t he shoulder disparagement of their theories.
the final arbiter, gave welcome not only to the night
Without a mincing of words 1w reminded them that it
shirt morons but to the hostile organization known as
was preposterous "that the world should take its or -
the Knight of the Flaming Circle. Bloody Herrin would
nity of nn' P' position, I say that these
not meet the danger of the Klan by a campaign of en-
tiers from a handful of Russian novices who seem to
people are not only not Christians,
but they are not even human beings
}lance
gained
their
knowledge
of
Socialism
by
sitting
ht
mment
and
education.
Herrin
would
not
permit
I . ■
- they are unworthy Si(undrels.
the authorities to meet the menace, and no other meth- over the drawing room stove and reading the pamph-
To eploy
such words in these days
m
od would do except the creation of an organization
lets of the liberal revolutionists of 18.18 - 70." But he
in Hungary needs courage. and all
sinned most grievously when he advised them to throw
which would meet the Klan with force, to the limit and
true friends of that country will re-
Third International and get back to re- j oice and be glad that it nossesses a
Withont. stint. It was downright unvarnished warfare, overboard the
religious leader who sees it his duty
with all the attending evils of that calamitous state.
alities.
to speak thus clearly and does not
which truly shocked the country, was
a 11 o w ,
u one swat
hesitate
. to do 1 't . Rut
'
As champions of freedom the Soviet rulers have pro -
The last episode,
alas, does not make a summer; and
the killing of the leaders of the klan and the circle in
tested so much that It is quite natural that one should
the outspoken denumdation .. of anti-
have misgivings. This piece of imbecility cries louder
a gun duel.
,.t.soletve-i lot l I i l ivngthe !.fahr,c, 11„,niat luaut , i , 1 , 1 ,,nti, ,t, thg
and is more convincing than anything that may be urg-
Some may think this a blessing. They feel that ex-
for that and we can only hope,
termination will settle the problem, but all who ha ve
Cll against accepting the promises of these "statesmen" serious
as so often happens, that the worst
realize
the
utter
as to future freedom in Russia. If they had suppressed
a knowledge of the value of force will
iced—London Jewish Chronicle.
Dome polemical or politico-controversial pla y' , so me
futility of such a method to bring about cessation of
—
plausible excuse might be offered. It may be criticised
civil war. 'Phis Ilerrin calamity must needs make all
CROSS - WORD PUZZLES
as counter-revolutionary or not in the best interests of
thoughtful and responsible people examine this situa
lion with great care. When it reaches such catastro- the Soviet government. But none of these reasons can
An increase in violent crime will be
be honestly urged against "Saint Joan," for if anything
phis proportions it cannot be brushed aside with a Wave
ibuted to attempts to obtain some
it
is
the
very
apotheosis
of
condemnation
of
all
things
mu
esoteric
word for fitting in some puz-
of the hand.
zle, while a perceptible rise in the
against
which
the
Bolsheviki
are
supposed
to
fulmi-
This matter has received our serious consideration

in the past. Nothing has convinced us more than }ler-
rin of the fact that we must refuse to countenance any
organization which proposes to meet the klan with the
weapons of force, hostility and discrimination.
To overcome an adversary it is necessary to use su-
perior weapons, not his weapons. In the present strug-
ble with these ominous forms of degeneracy and bar-
barism we cannot make use of violence or hatred, but
use reasonableness and education and must,
WC must
above till things, inculcate the feeling that civilization
still continues and that men may adjust their differ-
ences by arbitration and agreement.
We do not approve the Flaming Circle any more
than we to the Klan; both are calculated to destroy
the hard fought victories of WWI in his efforts to tri-

umph over the tiger and ape in him.
Herrin is a symbol of the dreadful possibilities
which lie hidden in communities which have lost re-
spect for civilized processes. This is not a Klan affair.
This is a manifestation of barbarism and as such touch-

es us more profoundly.
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The Latest Ford Suit.

Some years ago an indifferent world was amazed
wealth
to learn that a Mall could accumulate fabulous
and be wholly ignorant of historic facts concerning his
own country which went. common knowledge of school
boys. In this case there were some extenuating cir-

cumstances, inasmuch as Henry Ford did not know
what questions astute lawyers would ask hint on cross-

examination.
As will be recalled. Henry Ford sued the Chicago
Tribune for $1,000.000 because he charged that they
had libelled him when they called him an anarchist.
After a long drawn out trial. replete with incidents that
brought a smile to the face of any person with the
slightest trace of the comical spirit. Mr. Ford ma.;
awarded six and a quarter cents damages. Had Mr.
Ford received $10,000,000 it would not have compen-
expose
sated for the loss of pr . - tige he suffered by the
of his colossal ignorance upon elementary historical

subjects.
One would have imagined that such a denouement
would have driven him to the shelter of inconspicuous
effect for from
retirement. It ha( jos t the e op posite
that time he has become Sir Oracle himself upon many
subjects entirely beyond his purview. He has brazenly
offered ()pinions upon subjects which required special
and detailed study and with a finality characteristic of
the ignorant and the arrogant.
After years of baiting and slander Mr. Ford is

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nate.
"Saint Joan" has been produced in this country and
it is the unanimous opinion of competent critics that it
is the best play in our day. It surpasses anything which
Shaw has done. All his incisive satire. human under-
standing, scintillating, though barbed, wit are employ-
ed With greater effectiveness than anything he has
done. When the long list of his brilliant achievements
is called to mind, it trust be considered that "Saint

Joan" is a superlative work. And so it is. But Shaw

offended the sacred cows who sit in the high places in

MOSCOW.

The y avenge themselves by depriving the

"proletariat" of Moscow of the rare pleasure of view-
ing a human document which was born in the mind of

one of the most sensitively eloquent witnesses of the
tragedy of humanity. But yet we should not be too
keenly disappointed, for they are but schoolboy states-
men with an exaggerated sense of power and a feel-
ing that they must kill every dragon that may infest
the road to communism.

In every act, in every pious deliberation, in every
bombastic ukase one sees children with arbitrary power

playing the role of dictators. The human spirit cannot
well endure dictatorship of any kind. least of all a dic-
tatorship in matters of historic taste.
We are not at all sorry for George Bernard Shaw

but we are sorry for those Muscovites who arc depriv-
ed Of the joy Id seeing the masterpiece of the genera-
tion. If you would plea, , e the triumvirate you must
truckle and applaud even their most infantile pranks.
Things have come to a pretty pass when a man of
artistic genius list present a clean bill of health as to
his politics before his work will be accepted. In Am-
erica the liberal elements are often incensed when plays
are censored because they otTend against certain puri-
tanic standards of morals. Nothing in this play of
Shaw's is intrinsically offensive morally or politically
but the extrinsic fact that he criticised those in author-
ity is sufficient cause to prevent the production.
Russia has a pretty pack in control of its affairs,
•
but the V. orhl waits patiently for the oppressed and de-
frauded to rid themselves of these dictators who have
made of Russia a place where freedom has no existence.
This last piece of impudence is the most amazing.

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Rabbi Hershman hopes for the day when the world
will accord to the history of the Jews during the last
2.0 On years the same reverential consideration it has
accorded that part of our histtor• which forms a phase
of the sacred history of Christendom and Islam. The
rabbi is not the least of optimists.

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Jews In Russian Inferno

',nit, t o th e Jews o f Russia
when the massacres swept (leer the
country tieing immune to the I. -. t
southern area Of Russia, wiping out
influences that radiate from i le '
hundreds of communities. The full
lightened 11,1)1011S Of t he world, '
story of that time perhaps can never
f
wart, to ,oresee
any improvenice , ..,
hard
be told :0 as to give the outside world
the condition of the teL unli--
an idea of the tragedy.
Soviet
should
btamin•
so satiated ii 'II
Bol-hevist Russia has torn from
the suffering it has produced ..- ',,.
Jewry all that is dearest to it. It has
turn to milder methods. Whir. 6•
sent its poisoned darts into the very
Jews of the rest of the world cam at ,
soul of the Jewish people, destroying
for the alleviation of their unforic.
what is more valuable to them than
ate brethren is a difficult mob!. e.
life itself. Not content with the pro-
But one thing certainly should be ar
mimic catastrophe that the revolution
permost in the minds of our ;motile
the
Bid-
ary upheaval brought with
, III,'
. . it,
. ,
I iss we
. are willing to , (vitro
•
sheviks are wilfully am g
a .1, ,
Juda is mnd
disappeat ance of Ju
Judaism out by the root. No pity
in Russia. they must not be forgotten
eople that had felt the hand
for a people
They must be assisted to a nti)
than the rest of the
of (czarism
and body together at least witil -itch
population, but death!
time when more can he done for
It seems that Soviet Russia has
them.
learned the lesson taught by our his-
he
In various communities througut
fury that neither physical torment nor
the world Jews have among tin m
legal and social persecution can des-
friends find admirers of the iici , eus
troy Judaism. They realize that, to
s
Iy....iii, 1, 1 .i.d
that is Ortthhing their peoll.,,,
Be ier -
accomplish what the preceding g
h
1
s a
,
to
nouns of
'..11,
w i wing nn eur wi s t 1 . 1 ' citt a l' ot rga ' n'i ' z 'ral
i. . I 1 :cf
the
life 1
Jewish fife
ey nius
rust crush . ewl.h
they
if these Ca i•
. .t. ract.
.
I b t • a dis.,
I I
t H ould
cultural and spiritual sense, sow ( IS.
should be received Into our coal, ,Is
sension among fathers and children
in oer
so that the latter will learn to despise and be allowed consideration
what was holy to their elders and communal lift..

Judaism In Ferment

By ABRAHAM CAPLAN

lunacy returns will, of course, be set
Let us not deceive ourselves. The
down to puzzling over the puzzle.
kind of Jewish culture the Jews of
Indeed, the puzzle of puzzles will one
America will develop both fur their
day be to find anything in the social,
own spiritual purpose and as their
economic, religious and civic life of
especial presentation to American cul-
modern times that may not, in all
tural life will he determined by the
trobahility, be affected deleteriously
by the latest craze. And when its
kind 14 religion they chits., seri iusly
to cultit at and to further. To blink
effects are at their worst, we know
the fact that already there are Jews i n
by hitter ettnerietwie how to us Jews
outlying sections the United States
will be attributed all the evil of the
who have ceased to function in a
unrest, the upset, the downfall of
worthy Jewish capacity, that is to say,
society, the real and true world-revo-
that they no longer ore conscious of
lut'on compared with which Bolshev-
i.m by c'old's play and I ommun-
a place in the sun Of .lewish commun-
al culture, is to testify to poor judg-
ism a laughable diversion.
ment on our itart. There is it growing
And the terrible thing is that We
assimilaticn of Jew,, ilet by Chris-
shall he unable to deny the very hard
tianity but Icy the rising tide of ignor-
impeachment. It will be true in sub-
ance, incident perhaps to the crack-
stance and in fact, as the lawyers
ing of organized religious institutions
say; for a Jew--a great Jew indeed -
but impressively present nevertheless.
none less than Ca. renowned Abra-
The gradual disappearance from
ham Ibn Ezra. wino was born in SpaM
among certain groups of Jews of re-
in the end of the eleventh century, is
ligious practices means the inevitalde
said to be the original inventor of the
extinctien of the so•ial and moral val-
awful engirt' that is palpably des-
ues which these practices suggested
tined to destroy the world and hoe
01111 cultivated.
that therein do dwell.
"His ingenious puzzle was com-
The stir and :tensit)' visible in the
posed of five words which can he read
as yet functioning branch of the Am-
not only down and across, but also
erican Jewish community may he at-
up and backwards- in four directions
tributed to a palpable fear that the
stirvieal of Judaism is threatened.
altogether.
The circumstance of immigration re-
"Ibn Ezra had been asked by a cor-
striction merely shows how unprepar-
respondent whether or not a certain
ed American Jews were for the future.
form of honey was fermented and as
The hue and cry against closing the
to whether it may he eaten on Pass-
doors to Europeans -and the Euro-
over. Ibn Ezra thought that this
pean Jew included -were raised as
form of honey was fermented, and
much because of our inherent spiritual
Ise we are told by a Sunday Express
weakness as Jews as because of the
writert sent his reply in a crossword."
fundamental mischief involved in a
Perhaps the by no means least omi-
pelicy of restriction. Did we net for
nous fart is that Ibn Ezra visited Eng-
many years drelat e that the source
land in 115s. That is, indeed, some-
if our inspiration was the ,Jew's of
thing for the Morning Post and the
Eastern Europe who for four decades
Chestertons, the Bellocs. the Dukes
had fed American Judaism? And the
of Northumberland and the Fascists
statistics showing the number of
to talk about. What a point in favor
youths, born abroad or Vie sons of im-
of restricting alien immigration, to
migrants,
attending the Ilehrew Union
be sure.—London Jewish World.
colit•afit, the Jewish Theological Semi-
nary, to say nothing of the Yeshibah,
Were often quoted, no doubt to pint
GERMAN COMPASSION
o ut tither morals and to adorn other
tales.
A number of Germans have sod-
Let us to t he dismayed simply be.
denly become alarmed over Jewish
cause fear has manifested itself in our
Schechita, and find that the ritual
thought for the future. The instinct
slaughter of animals is unnecessarily
of fear need not be despised, if it as.
cruel. We do not wish to go into the
serts itself in consettut•nce of a menace
merits of Jewish versus other meth-
to conditions which deserve p•rpetua-
ods of slaughtering oxen, but we da
te n. The value 14 our apprehension
wish to point out that somehow it
in regard to the future of the Ameri-
is always an anti-Semite who makes
can Jewish spirit will he gauged by
the iliscovery.
the degree of objectivity and discre-
• It Was true in England, as it is in
tie n which will mark the action we
Geri any'. After all, have anti-Sem-
shall take with reference to the pro-
ites a monopoly an pity, on kindness
n of the Jewish spirit in the
to animals? And if not have they
western world.
a monopoly on a knowledge of what
The mist startling thing about the
is cruel and what is gentle?—The
wanner in which the problem of Ju-
Dy•

-

• ..2*. -•01.

• re.

daism in America was approached
On It ,
that it lacked definiteness.
law hand, it was maintained that .1,
daism needed preservation; on
other hand, Judaism was deemed
concern to which the Jews of Ann •
might give less solemn considefig
than to the least important of
'
communal activities. And just
of the intellectual confusion.
Jew of the United States,
with a life-and-death issue in an
vironment in which the odds a ,
hupetesslp against
vathie
segments, each insisting that it Olt '
■ I..
the precious formula essential for
Jewish spirit. Did not all of IL
make the mistake in believing that . 1
theism was to be handled negatiI.• •
that it was to be apologized fee.
',licitly if net ty actual assertion:
it had nothing to do with the vats.
the Jewish group as such in the p
lir:1111a of American cultural life" I •
they Tod all the while convey the
gestien that the difference !at a.
them and the rest of the coattil. -
"religious," meaning , c.
'Nag

pit re:y

they were, with reference to the
of the community, that one of •
Protestant denominati•Ins is to s
other, hardly more? That they ter. •
perform significantly, aye colorfo
aye dramatically with steadfa , t

to historic Jewish requirements
their touchstone and sacrifices "
their principles as a means of id.. '
the e tAnnn , I
tros
i ht ,: ingishtils ,' ,ti s
tying
no ost
alm
was

i
td u
slogans, formulas, the sum total •

11%.hrilh.st"It'ui:ndd no a in w ala yss'it s ".. 13" ""1
And yet the title of this arti. I.• -
gests something of impending co
ness in the life tit American •
It does and is meant to votive.
.,
suggestive. Pe the cause of the a
ening what it may, the ferawri
tains. It may he due to the rude
and political facts which whirl tit.
the head of Jewry both in Atte
and throughout the world. It IuII
ahaici
rt,, the
rt,,,ie ro
n sttioursi,naelsisy that
ht rai ,lteut it t tal lit

Jewish life and culture fur ease a
comfort and passivity. It milt
te
traced to that dogged eircunt ,
•
thatour
power andPe se "
in that peculiar, indefinable and
tial characteristic which makes a '•
in America kindred with the laic
Jewish figures of the past and e
the passionate personalities of Jeo
generations which made history
themselves, for us and for all I
w orld.
But mire of this in another art.

