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PAGE ELEVEN
ILIEVEnton;tEnsn.&Rc enci A
was •ee&XXV&
If you remember correctly, that
a bad year in the suit land clothing
trade. Mn. Fishman was getting
along successfully when the garment
workers' strike happened. Before the
strike concluded, Mr. Fishnian was
By DANIEL SPEAR
out of business. Ile might have - gone
through bankruptcy, but he did not.
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While lay and religious leaders are butter by the Sheffield Farms Corn-
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ducts bhing
Ile called his creditors in am s
wracking their brains for ways of pony, and Passover
pro
We
are establis the them everything he had-every last 000
bringing the Jew back to Judaism- Fisher Company.
saving the young Jew for his faith, a kosher cafeteria for the Jewish stu- dollar. 'then he moved to Detroi..
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It was just 14 years ago, on St.
the Orthodox Jew is content to sit dents at Harvard University, for we
the Torah, to have learned that the college youth, Patrick's Day, when he wandered into
among his holy books of
chant his prayers of praise, and to no matter how radical his mind sk
may
im. the office of M. E. O'Brien, president
say: "Bring back the Jew to Judo- be, has a thoroughly Orthodox to a of the Detroit Life Insurance Com-
pony. Ile told Mr. O'Brien of his
ism? Why he has never gone away! itch, and c adjust himself
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Traditional Judaism is by far the pre- nonJewish cuisine. These are hardly dilemma. He never had met him be-
veiling Jewish viewpoint in America. concessions in any way. They are fore. Ile liked Mr. O'Brien and Mr.
New synagogues and schools for the merely additional defenses for the O'Brien liked Mr. Fishman. They
propagation of our ancient faith open !wall. And yet they do show that the talked it over that afternoon. Mr.
their doors each day. Store-rooms, Union of Orthodox Congregations does Fishman did not know the first thing
clubrooms, private homes, must all be adapt itself to conditions of American about a life insurance policy. He
made into temporary synagogues for I life. We are prone to look with some hod energy and ability and he wanted
a job and he started out the follow-
the Holy Days so that the American amusement upon the troubled spirits
ing Monday as an agent for the De-
Jew may worship as his fathers did who talk about the Jew's abandon-
fruit Life Insurance Company. To.
for thousands of years. The laws of
( Judaism in America. We day, he is one of the most successful 0
kashruth, far from disappearing, have .
come under the supervision of the 1 point instead to the fact that being
new men in the life insurance business in
are
government of the state of New York I centers, new synagog l ues,
the land. Detroit, and in the United States.
To visualize what had happened in
' for more vigorous enforcement. To I opened continuously al over
I the Jewish youth, traditional Judaism J Where you find a real estate develop- 14 years, it night be explained that
the
Fishman Agency of the Detroit
: has the eternal echo of thousands of ment, there within a year you , find
an( the
in
s ynagog
Life Insurance Company wrote in the
dreamers, living and dying in the beginnings of a ten
s uean
.
faith of an ideal." e out of it i (mho-
y Days month of March, 1926, just conduit.
This thought I brought away with I don
group.
On cent
the High
le at- ed, over $2,000,000 worth of busi-
at least
KO per
of our pro de
ness. The company itself, operating
nte
i tend services in Orthodox syna- exclusively in Michigan, wrote in ex-
me after I had gone
ma
Rabbi Herbert S. Goldstein. i. R
dens of $4,000,000 worth of business,
"
ues-
con-
Goldstein, himself a representative ex- g'It 'Then," I concluded, "you feel
thus breaking all the records for a
of the young American
Jew, is Silent that the future will find Or-
ample of
of Orthodox
I ample
single month's performance of any
of the Union of America. thodoxy the prevalent faith of the life insurance company of the tota l
American Jew-in spite of the fact
Jewish Congregations
of 106 companie+ operating in Michi-
! Young man, and American, he is lead- that European immigration will no
gan territory, and of this aggregate a,
er of Orthodoxy in this country, and longer be able to influence it by the
Mr. Fishman, personally, is the
And so
guardian of its destinies.
when I asked him "Can Orthodox Ju- accession of large numbers of kyal largest individual producer. His
airency has been the leading agency
"
s?
deism be made to appeal to the Amer- Jew
"The American government was in-
ro I
in- of the Detroit Life Insurance Co-
icon Jewish youth?"
he answered
icon
hesitatingly,
"Orthodox
Judaism un-
can spired by the universal ideals of Or- pony for the past seven years.
thodox Judaism," Dr. Goldstein de-
[
this city a syna- Fishman has been the leading pro-
be and is being made not only appeal- dared. "There is
rici;
a
t ducer of personal business for the
America,
no(g
ing hut compelling to the American
theo
last five years.
. Jewish youth. As a matter of fact, Ir
ko h st is rigidly Orthodox.
e hm
d e thw
aniCu
When asked for a recipe for his
if statistics could be taken, they would members, one of whom is Captain N.
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show that there are many more young Taylor Phillips, vice-president of our business success, he explains that
. I affiliated with orthodox con- I organization, boasts an American line. there was just one answer, and that
is
"hard
work."
First
of
all,
he
likes
gregations than with non-orthodox age as ancient and as proud as that of
congregations. The American Jewish any Mayflower descendant. Throug h his work and he says that no man
youth, in particular, senses camouflage them traditional Judaism has been can make a success in the life insur-
in religion, and has a reverent regard carried on in America for many gen- ance business unless he is confident
for devotion and loyalty. The Ameri- erations. In them you will find an that it is the most serviceable work
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can Jewish youth is idealistic. He is answer to your questions about Or- that any man may do for his fellow
most feel, as Mr. Fishman
emotional. He finds in the laws
thodoxy. Will it survive the test of man.
does,
that
life
insurance
offers
the
Israel an understanding of the intel- American living? The answer is-It
greatest opportunity for investment
lectual heritage that is his. Full o f has survived.
of surplus funds in addition to its ob-
i admiration, he says to himself: 'Our
ligation as a business necessity.
old scholars and teachers were mar-
The
Romance
of
Business.
' velous. In a day of ignorance and
[ superstition, they were scientists as
well as scholars, physicians of the
Morris Fishman of the Detroit Life ROUMANIAN PATRIARCH
I body and spirit, saints who could vis- Insurance Company says:
FOR NUMERUS CAUSUS
"First of all, my experience teaches
ualize eternal need, and above all, they
I were human, understanding the
y s I me that real success as a life insur-
e find
'and hearts of men.' Besides, h
once salesman is dependent on being
BUCHAREST.-(J. T. A.)-A de-
I in the Orthodox ritual an emotions i n the life insurance business exclu- fense of the attitude of the Rouman-
response to the effervescent idealism sively. A man cannot attain actual ian anti-Semitic students in demand-1
' in his own soul.. Men went to the complete success unless he devotes ing the numerus clausus against Jew-
stake for this faith. They faced death his whole time to the insurance busi- ish students was made by Patriarch
praising this God. Their tears and
Miron Christen. head of the Creek
hopes fill every prayer.
"He must have confidence in him- Orthodox Church in ROUTIlania, in an
Sand Blasting is the Economical and Modern Method of
He paused. Then his voice dropped I . ness.
self; he must have confidence in his address he delivered here.
confidence
for a moment from the vibrating en- thoem pgaonl iy
me rotrhtahvee confiil
prospect. i n
Cleaning the Exterior of Buildings whether they are of
r ; y h
hde d must
The Patriarch protested against
to executive efficiency: "Do c
what he termed "the deforestation of
also are equipped for Rust- I thusiasm
— We
Granite.
you
want
concrete
evidence
of
this?
And
he
must
determine,
after he Bukowina and Transylvania by for-
Brick,
"
You can find it in the steady growth
Let us make an estimate on your re-
of community centers, where the re- has this confidence, that he is going eigners."
Proofing of
his "last," like every good
"When our students demand a nu-
icaltkteor. his
hosetm
ligious influence is orthodox. You to
quirements.
merus clausus, complaints are raised
can find it in the institutional Syna-
Talk about the romance in blvd. abroad that we persecute the minori- 1
gogue and the Young Israel move-
manta, in the meetings of our high ness! The story of Morris Fishman ties. The fact is that in several
just as romantic as any ever pub- places we are unable to have Rouman-
.
youth."
school
"Will and
you college
make clear," I suggested, Imbed. Properly to appreciate it and ian officials and there is now a nu-
st what the Orthodox viewpoint is to get the full flavor of the perform- uterus eitillSUP against Roumanians;
"ju statement of fundamentalism, if ante, one really has to hear Mr. Fish- I, as the spiritual father of the 14,-
wherein it differs from man himself tell it. Here are Use de- 000,000 Roumanians, demand that jus-
and Conservative Judaism?" tails as nearly as our reporter could tice be restored and that all our con-
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will, and
you
Reform
rrie d interview tacts with aliens be revised."
m from a hu
ith and gather the
°o rthodox J u d ai sm i s the fa
ce-president of the Detroit
practice of the Jews as laid down in Life
with Insurance
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the and oral la w-the Bible, Li Fourteen years ago, Mr. Fishman
'the
in the business of manufacturing Great fish are caught in great wa-
' the Talmud, and the Codes," he said.
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is obedience to the law'. It is unthink-
able, according to the Jewish religion,
to have a vote taken as to whether
not we should accept this or that
practice of the faith. The sole cri-
terion i s th e law.
"We can understand those who be-
gan the Reform movement insofar as
they frankly declared that tey
wanted to break away from tradition-
Judaism. They wanted to give up
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the oral law. The development of
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Conservative Judaism, however,
I been due largely to the fact that some
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men and women whom God has blessed r
with me ans, have been desirous of
outwardly
the
reform
ele-
emulating outwardly
ment, and at the same time stilling I=
their conscience by maintainng some i=
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of the traditions of Orthodoxy."
"Would you then," I asked, "con- =
Distributors
break from traditionall=
Rider this
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Judaism?"
By all means. Though they are
afraid to take the whole jump, this =
group has slowly but surely begun
the descent. Let me quote from the =
comment which that sage and saint of
present day Jewry, the Chofetz Chaim,' =
' he following verse from I=
ma nes
Ecclesiastics, Chapter 10, Verse 8:
'Whoso breaketh the fence shall be
bitten by a serpent. (For in that
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t i found )' What connec-
tion has the latter part of the verse al
with the former? The Chofetz Chaim ' a.
answers: 'Just as the serpent when -a
small insigni- I =
it bites wounds only
ficant part of the body with a very E=
trifling dose of poison which gradually
spreads over the whole body, so too =
have the trifling breaches which the
Conservative movement has made in =
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Judaism's fence of tradition resulted E.- - -
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in the dissemination of the religious ..b
poison throughout the body politic of I =b
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Israel.' To change the figure of
speech-the law is the protecting wall :E.
Prop.
of the Jewish faith. If one small I El
breach is made, the waters of divan- =
tegration widen it and rush in. One ,=
Phone Hemlock
breach, and the whole is engulfed.".=•-•
"Tut," I insisted, "do not Americanl=
conditions demand some change in the I=
forms and practices of Orthodoxy-l=
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some concessions?"
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catien is rather our means. The =
pedagogical methods used in our He-'
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bang changed to =--
brew schools
meet changing conditions. We con-; =
scientiously strive to instruct the Jon.=
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lab youth in the history, traditions I Er
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and ethics of Judaism by lectures, IF -
open forum meetings, books and IF;_-7
the kashruth, the ,=
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I I Jewish mother who insists upon strict ' E.-- -
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observanco of the dietary laws
the government of the State of New -=
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a
staunch
ally.
It
maintains
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York
rigid inspection and discipline of =
kosher establishments, for her pro-
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tection. Morover, our committees
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baking of special kosher
pervise the bakin
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