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Sivan 15, 5686
May 28, 1926
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The Pilsudski Revolution.
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The situation in Poland, prior to the coup d'etat of
Joseph Pilsudski, was pregnant with many possibili-
ties. The resignation of the Skryznski cabinet, fol-
lowed by the inability of Grabski to form a cabinet and
the final attempt on the part of Witos showed clearly
the political instability and insecurity of the country.
As to the economic and industrial conditions, no
one knew better than did the Jews the utter hopeless-
ness of Polish affairs. The practical cessation of work
in the textile cities of Lodz, Vilna and Bialostock has
caused such suffering among the Jewries of those cities
that no one has as yet adequately described the tragic
epic of travail which these people have endured. The
crises in Polish industry and business affected the non-
Jewish population just as seriously asjt did the Jews.
The military budget was inordinately large; the
zloty continued to fall; foreign relations did not im-
prove and on the whole Poland offered every possibility
for a successful change of control if only the man arose
to take advantage.
Without notice to the outside world, word is re-
ceived that Joseph Pilsudski, a former president of the
republic of Poland, beloved of the soldiers and a friend
of the working people of Poland had launched an of-
fensive against the government under Witos. No doubt
the preparation for the revolution had been perfected
long before it materialized. The apparent ease with
which it was accomplished would prove this.
Several striking features stand out in this rather
unique revolution. Pilsudski has no desire or intention
of becoming a dictator. He has excellent precedent for
accepting the dictatorship, inasmuch as it is really the
approved fashion in most of Europe today. He insists
upon calling the assembly in a constitutional manner
for the purpose of electing a president. He is interest-
ed in bringing some measure of stability and honesty
into the affairs of the Polish state. Above all he is
deeply concerned about the industrial and economic
condition of the country. Pilsudski has a regard for
the welfare of the common man in Poland. In the days
of czardom, he was associated with those who opposed
the absolutism and tyranny which were implicit in the
old regime. Despite the liberation of Poland, he still
retained his interest in the common man, especially the
working man.
Another striking feature which especially pleases
world Jewry is the fact that throughout the troublous
times, there was a complete absence of anti-Semitic
excesses. We do not believe that is an accident, for it
appears that when there was the slightest indication of
pogromist action it was put down by Pilsudski troops
with despatch and determination. That indicated that
the revolution was not for the purpose of making a
scape goat of impoverished g,91i.sh Jewry.
It is rather premature to predict the outcome of
the present struggle, but for the Jews any movement
which is not reactionary or chauvinist is acceptable.
World Jewry learned one lesson in the last 10 years
of war, peace, revolution and counter revolution which
has but one connotation, and that lesson is that nation-
alists, reactionary, chauvinistic governments are ever
ready to resort to anti-Semitism as an excuse for its
failure; an expedient to escape responsibility ; as a
means of dissipating discontent of the insistent masses.
We hope that the outcome of the present crisis shall
mean a measure of peace and prosperity for the masses
of Polish people and for our own brethren who have
suffered more than even their share.
Weizmann at Tel Aviv.
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Chaim Weizmann delivered an address in Tel Aviv
just prior to his departure from Palestine, in which he
gave a survey of the economic, military and political
conditions, with special emphasis upon the economic.
It is hardly surprising that he stressed the economic,
for with unsatisfactory economic conditions all other
matters become inconsequent.
Weizmann has a capacity for realistic facing of
facts, but he does not go the whole way, but has the
habit, of the special pleader with a bad cause, of call-
ing his adversaries bad names, or of ascribing his fail-
ure to reasons wholly extraneous and unrelated.
He found unemployment on a scale which made
him anything but optimistic and he discovered that the
40,000 who entered Palestine were beyond the absorp-
tion capacity of the country. Even these admissions
coming from one who refuses to see eye to eye with
Zionist propagandists stamps him as an enemy of the
Zionist movement, but coming from Weizmann gives
cause for re-examination of the numerous projects for
stimulating immigration. This much is confessed ;
there is considerable unemployment and the number of
immigrants exceeded the assimilative capacity of the
country. Although Weizmann is of the opinion that
the unemployment crises is only temporary, we do not
agree with him.
Our quarrel with Weizmann is not because of his
realism, but because of his special pleading.
"How could we have known that European Jewry
would need assistance," he complains. Even should it
be admitted that such a contingency could not have
been forseen, yet the fact remains that even should such
a contingency not have arisen, Palestine could not have
absorbed the immigrants and the unemployment situ-
ation would have arisen. Can it really be maintained
that a few million dollars more would have enabled
Palestine to absorb the 40,000 or have prevented the
unemployment crises, and even if it did postpone it for
a few months, we believe the present situation was
practically inevitale. We cannot help but remind our
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readers that Abraham Cahan found that not a single
colony was self supporting. We must also recall the
fact that Morris Rothenberg, writing from Tel Aviv,
said that they refused to think what would happen if
the building boom collapsed. Well the artificially cre
ated boom did break if it did not collapse. Many build- New York With Original Quota of
$4,000,000 Raises $6,656,000 For
ers went bankrupt because the banks refused to extend
Chest in
$25,000,000 0
credit.
Greatest Campaign In Its History
And does Weizmann think that the calling, of those
NEW YORK.—Six million Mx hun
who did not agree with the immigration policy, defeat- dred
and fifty-six thousand done:li-
ist, changes the complexion of the matter.
the largest surn ever raised by one
city
in
the history of Jewish philan-
The word defeatist has an unsavory connotation be-
thropy the world over, in the greatest
cause of its application to those who saw the folly of drive ever staged in the biggest city
the war before those who were in authority saw it. At of this country—that was the an.
made by David M. Bres-
this date, it is indeed most unusual to find anyone 'who nouncement
sler, acting chairman of the $6,000,-
does not realize that the war did not achieve any of 000 United Jewish Campaign in this
the purposes for which it was waged. Therefore, when city to the hundreds of enthusiastic
who assembled recently at
Chaim Weizmann seeks to escape from the insistent workers
campaign headquarters, in the Hotel
fact that Palestine did not, and we say cannot, absorb Biltmore, to make their final reports
40,000 in a year, by calling those who were opposed and to learn by how much the cam-
paign had gone over the top. •
to it, defeatists, he merely dodges the issue.
That the drive would swing way
Since Weizmann is realistic up to a certain point, over everyone of the officers of the
New York campaign and National
why not go the whole way.
Chairman David A. Brown, who has
We are compelled to ask pertinent questions. How been concentrating on its success for
the past six weeks, was confident.
long must world Jewry continue to support Palestine?
that matter, during the past
What essential difference is there between supporting For
week, everybody in New York was
old religious Jews in Jerusalem and assisting chaluzim equally confident, even those who at
the outset were sure that the drive
in the colonies if the latter is to be an endless task?
■ iy ould
halted in its objective.
Certainly those who are already there must under
i
er
ore i t b elua
all circumstances be helped, but all efforts should be question duringgd the last e w ceeko of this
tremendous steadily forward-pushing
expended in the direction of enabling those who are
Aeld the attention
there to become self supporting. Until the unemploy- s :if ° the whole Amer
had rc a continent r
ment is ended, and until all who are there are absorbed, was the subject of nfrequent cable
tche., to every part of the civi-
there should be an end of belly-hoeing and propagan- Iiispa
,wasibe
dglo since it began on April
b y how much will it go over.
da. This is not a matter of words or of winning argu- Ae
And now New York has answered
ments, but of actual human life.
with $656,000 over its original quota.
Jewish Campaign
Out in the Open.
When the total was announced, by
Mr. Bressler, the hall rocked with
cheers frrorhrt the
ihm i hundreds of workers
magnificence
cern cre s
who were
by th m
ag Cheers
of their
gir own
e
achieve m ents.
for Bressler, the man who had thrown
and who had
into the of is
h
time, day and
mon ths
night, at the jeopardy of his private
ijiitmeorera sts f for th e sake of this cause.
rt.r
s,o whose
i h or i rt/a prdonAri
tb
Bur
t
genera
ly to the success in New York, as (. :t.
gne
de-
l e-force t which
v
alho i
h t ben at motive-force
ra
re-
an equa l ly
us rg
sponse throughout t'he whole e country
to the tragic cry for help that comes
onscroaftral rikt
u en J. ews in
f!..nni millions
.
Europe.
Eastern and
ing within a few days of () the end m
of
ag anti
nwe
ore tyesar which Mr. Brown has
Henry S. Pennybacker, chairman of the commit-
tee on admissions at Harvard University, has at last
made an understandable statement in regard to racial
groups, in the Gadfly, the publication of the Harvard
Students Liberal Club.
A group of six undergraduates and graduate stu-
dents interviewed Mr. Pennybacker and asked him :
d to preserve
"How far are the new regulations desi
a balance between racial groups?" Between social
group?
group? His answers are explicitand illuminating. He
declared: "Race is a part of the record. It is by no
means the whole record and no man will be kept out
on account of race. But, those racial characteristics
which make for race isolation will, if they are born by
the individual, be taken into consideration as a part of regarding li hls igg n finZ i =ret. ::; s -
Detroit, his home-ties and his corn '
that individual's characteristics under the test of char- in
fort in order that this tragic cry
should be adequately answered, the
acter, personality and promise."
gri as t regarded bays' h nn
n
New
i th York
He explains that scholarly attainments are not the with
especial
only prerequisite but must be taken in connection with
n'
it)i Itettr,,a ove rw ,Ii ,i;ion
u egeuersy t of
r g
nation.
those vague qualifications which he glibly calls charac- sa
for W i I I h i am
oncgo F
hm o n x, chuiman of Os
the
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ter, personalit3r and proise. To complete the picture
who
lV York
he tells his interviewers that the committee on admis- cam paign
in spir ing impulse o f th
alt
i o nf $T5g 0n ,Os0e0 now
p t contribution
tribut
sion wishes to look at the boys fitness for his job in initial
i increased to,000.
$300
eers
much the same way as employer wants to look at his r 'rfltix o Nt. Warburg, whose ma
Chgnifi cent
for
f $400,000 was accompanied by
employee, and, therefore all applications must be ac-
active effort to bring about the sue
companied by a photograph.
cess which is now a matter of history-
The efficiency expert, whose stock in trade is the Audcheemo
rsLoa rall,r
uiaser
hall,
w I e:
who
° re
charlatanry of the school of applied psychology, should er of A
unflaggingly, unsparingly toward th e
now make application for the job as advisor to the coin- saaarse
lijutlt f o .JoRnash iJ. Goldstei
mittee on admission. We offer as a further aid to de-
Judge a
A.
"The g reat heart of New York has
termine character, personality and promise of the can-
revealed itself magnifi cently in this
didate that they be required to send finger prints and campaign," said Mr. Br
at the s
ea rila,
do
u of w the
he w roarlle y.'n
ro "From
'Irdot the
t
Bertillion measurements.
our
r
are frankly amazed to lea n that such cheap (I i au voeta t:oi,Igl ahy
bleest fi lw
.,,1 oel eudh t yooNarYk e s h ed didn ' t
and tawdry methods are even considered by a school
-
of such standing as Harvard University. Does not the jest. '170 Origina l ly ,
$400,000 but with the leaders o f
committee on admission know that the school of Nor- ,Nitew York bJewry cognizant of the
dau and Lombroso has been thrown into the discard?
a a hroo a rda ired dteom pig toll() ut
:t
Does it not know that shape of head and nose, angle 'the " quota
After all it was not a questio'n o i
of jaw and position of ears are not indices by h Ch g q autottiansg—t wa
hte i args earteasluly a question o e
character, personality and promise can be determined.
in order to relieve the tragic
what is more, even hair texture, pigmentation of Bible
distress otta millions of human beings`
eyes and skin will not really enable it to classify the
quttojarahiaadadbetrat $1.
0,o0u0 a0 i - .
candidates. All this hocus-pocus of pseudo science has 0'00' and weh
that would not be sufficient, ti,ecaus
validity
as
Nordic
supremacy
theories,
but
a
as much
the
o
need is greater than can be met
learned institution must at least create the impression g li'eonta. by the $25,000,000 national
e
that it is guided by science ev n if that science has the
"As it is, the money raised in this
authentic stamp of go-getter advertisement of how to campaign is the largest sum ever
raised from the Jews of New York
succeed in the work for which you are fitted.
for any purpose and is a splendi
Ponder this delectable morsel. Those racial char- refutation
of the charge that is so
acteristics which make for racial isolation. We won- often made—that this is a c old,
o
in
I iogu of sh ,Lch er n tm
s eamntil
d yes.. yllloa
New
der what they are . The personality and character ex- (1, oo ffrrelc: eint a n o n 1 le,.
'
is
W
pertcan tell that by looking at your photograph. Dark,
has a
curly hair, brown eyes, medium height, slightly hooked always responds in magnificen w t ft:11 11191 k
i on to every appeal. The only i _ •
nose, full mouth, places candidate in class of racial iso-
culty about New York is its size. It
lationists. Blond, slightly curled hair, blue eyes, height is so hardtor
a
i each everybody. There
wide
msanayreapeobpilabetochwered.
five feet 10 inches, straight nose, places candidate in is such are soh
racial non-isolationist. Or we may reverse classifica- and they are so busy that ev ees n egitt f
tions if our expert is not Nordic.
they y itre..,:ttime
willing to do and to give
haven't
o listen,
isten, but
The racial discriminators have discovered most un-
they your message gets
hem they
usual purposes to which the university can be put. We
have always been under the impression that the stu- come is unnec e ssary
gratitude. tt le ss w ar 4'or fr
m Je werytn wo ta ul l :1
dent did not seek a job, but went to learn. He may of
r resen t any
expre
'o expression
of gratitude.
enter without Chesterfieldian manners; his clothes may On
New York Jews are
grateful
tt7a
that
they
nt
trs
not be made by the best tailors; his speech may lack
portunity to do this were Riven the op-
the r fined accent and nuances of the best society; his
e
David
Brown, chairman of the
character may not be impeccable, and yet he may be
y, w i 07 , 11:n ma I ' a ig
d n rivc e ouo o l f the
d not
graduated from the university and during his sojourn United
conceal his elation when the total was
may have acquired all the graces of speech and deport-
t
ment which would qualify him for the most exclusive sn2 = ed Will have
influence on
on rt e h m een rd e n st nso ly f
drawing room and the most irreproachable society. His stimulating
United States and Canada," he
very personality may sparkle and he may become adept said.
i imatoelyt3i00
local driveserognaareowapmprrot
in the use of polite and witty repartee.
and all eyes are turned on countries
We are persuaded that character, personality and because it is as true in philanthropy
promise are not innate, nor are they part of ones racial as it is in politics, that as goes New
so go es the rest of the country.
equipment, but are the product of training and environ-
New York Jewry is to be c ongratu•
ment. Many of our best citizens with charming per- Ii:itetlim great cry so hat nobly responded
sonalities and impeccable characters are the children
m
suffering millions across the
The e f s r e n a s.
of those whose personalities were dull and characters to
The first iP that, having been origi-
questionable and no promise, but yet with favorable
astliteacit taou givaes
ra
$4,000,000, it re-
circumstances, advantageous training, these children i ! le ac t I .:d
voluntarily assumed the respon-
have become our most successful personalities and best and
sibility for raising $6,000,000 al-
though there were many pessimists
characters.
who
declared that it could pnot raise s
One other phase of this discrimination program
the lower sum. The second score on
which is odious and displeasing, is the photograph re- the
which
u6
c:itutu
iistibl it
is that
undertook to raise
quirement. It savors so much of Czarist Russia where
has been exceeded
has
nee
by
y a splendid mar-
qualifications other than scholarship determined fit
gin."
ness for academic training. Perhaps this is the method
employed by Harvard to prove that democracy has
CRITICS AND CROWS
been made safe for the world, but not for America.
Let us not be too hard on cavilling
It is well that the position of the committee is known critics.
They find fault for the reason
for now it can be met. We feel that these hazy quali- that they are unable to find anything
else.
They
criticize ability because of
fications of character, personality and promise are
own inability. You musn't ex-
merely a cloak to exclude non-Nordics who would their
pect from a crow anything but a
croak.—Rabbi Alexander Lyons.
otherwise qualify.
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Does Judaism Need Rabbis?
By CLAUDE G. MONTEFIORE
Editor's Note:—Claude G. Montefiore, nephew of Sir Moses Monte-
fiore, and England's foremost Jewish scholar, was invited to deliver
an address at the first graduation exercises of the Jewish Institute of
Religion, which took place on May 26. At this time Mr. Montefiore
was granted the degree of Doctor of Hebrew Literature, as was also
Chaim Nachman Bialik, the poet. The following article is an excerpt
which was read at the Jewish Institute exercises because Mr. Monte-
fiore was unable to come to America on account of illness at the last
moment. Mr. Montefiore herein deals with the task of the modern rab-
bi, and his field of activity.
Judaism, whether Orthodox or Lib-
eral, stands and falls with one great
affirmation. Judaism stakes all upon
belief in God. "Abeenu,Malkaynu;"
our Father and King. He who can-
not soy as much in humble and yearn-
ing faith may be a much better man
than he who can; God knows it is a
very difficult thing to say; God knows
that the reasons for not saying it
seem sometimes appallingly real and
heavy; but yet he whq, cannot prevail.
ingly say it must not be, and is not
fit to be, a rabbi, a Jewish minister or
clergyman, whatever term or terms
you in America can employ. I have
implied that the rabbi no lees, and
perhaps much more, than any other
men must have his seasons of agon-
izing doubt: the everlasting no will
lay siege to him, and it will assail him
all the more because his duty it is to
face the facts, to think about them
and to enquire; but ever through the
doubt and the no must come surging
up the asseveration and the yes: faith
must keep triumphing and it must
seem still more difficult to explain
without Him. That faith is the test
which each candidate for the Jewish
ministry must impose freely, secretly
sincerely, upon himself.
For, as the great scholar-saint von
Hugel once humorously eaid to me,
"Religion is more than brains." He
who is interested in social returns, in
eugenics, in the right solution of in-
dustrial problems, in national and in-
ternational morality, in the abolition
of intemperance, of war, or any other
evil, must not just use religion as a
means whereby more potently or
quickly to achieve his desired ends.
No doubt, religion and Judaism have
something to say about all these mat-
ters. No doubt that a religion which
does not concern itself with them is
not a religion for the modern man.
But, in itself, religion is not any one
of them or all of them. Religion may
include them, but religion--theistic re-
ligion, Judaism—has its own special
field beyond them all. That special
field is our relation to God and His re-
lation to us, and if religion includes
all those other matters I have just
mentioned, it includes them largely
because it envisages, and has to envis-
age, all things in Ilk light.
I would like to say a word about
the subject of sermons. In my young
days, and, in fact, in my middle life,
too, the sermons I used to listen to
dealt very rarely indeed with the top-
ics and questions of the day. So far
as I am aware, industrial problems,
political problems, sexual problems,
were hardly ever discussed from Jew-
ish pulpits in England. Such exclu-
sions would be undesirable now, and
most of all, I should imagine, in
America. The rabbi must be some-
thing of a leader and a prophet: he
must touch upon abuses and denounce
them: he must deal with living prob-
lems and not only with dead ones. He
must propound the right as he sees it.
Some people say (in England,) "No
politics in the pulpit." But what are
politics? Most living issues today are
political. The preacher must not be
limited to the issues of yesterday. No-
body objects to slavery being de-
nounced in the pulpit. And yet at one
time, both in America and in England,
it was a very contentions and politi-
cal problem. No. The rabbi must be
free. And yet some cautions and
warnings are desirable. So far as pos-
sible, the synagogue should stand
above all parties and he a house of
prayer for all. In England we have
at present three parties, one of them
being small, the other two being big.
We have a liberal party, a labor par-
ty, and a conservative party. It would
Ile a profound misfortune if Liberal
Judaism, or any particular Liberal
Jewish synagogue, became identified
with any one of these three parties.
In one and the same synagogue, as
worshippers and members, there
should meet together men and women
of all three parties. The rabbi, there-
fore, who, like every other man, must
have his own political affiliations, and
who is to he free to speak his mind
upon the problems of the day, is in a
very delicate and difficult position. It
is not a matter of offending X or Y,'
the rich or the poor. It is something
much bigger than that. It is the ques-
tion of keeping all parties within the
synagogue, and of avoiding party
spirit. The rabbi must stand above
all parties, and sometimes he most
find words of severity to say about all.
What, then, above social evils and so-
cial abuses, about industrial wrongs
and conflicts, labor problems and
ideals, socialist and individualist pan-
aceas? The rabbi must undoubtedly
have the right to speak his mind, and
he must make use of the right; only
let him be extremely careful to avoid
exaggeration, claptrap, flashiness. Let
him be absolutely sure of his facts.
Then, if it has to be, he must speak
out boldly and fearlessly, and f the
will make an enemy, well, I suppose
I
must make one. Amos
Ans did not hes-
itate to speak out, and he must have
been exceedingly annoying. Only let
the moderh rabbi remember that he
is 'probably a lesser man than Amos,
and the thte problems of modern so-
ciety are enormously more complex
than the problems with which Amos
was confronted.
I du not propose to say anything
about Liberal Judaism as such. I
would only beg of you to regard it as a
living, developing, positive religion;
to think of it positivele and not nega-
tively; to think of it not as opposed to
any other sort of Judaism, but rather,
quite simply, as your form, your con-
ception, of Judaism; to think of it as
Judaism (minus any label,) appears
to you, and in no wise as Orthodox
Judaism minus X (where X may he
some few shed dogmas and sonic shed
observances and rites.) Liberal Juda-
ism must stand before the world as a
whole, a whole which is growing, a
whole which seeks to become more
consistent, harmonious and manysid-
ed, as the years roll on. Liberal Ju-
daism is for you and me the Judaism
of tomorrow even more than it is the
Judaism of today; it is for us the only
possible Judaism at all. But I cannot
here enlarge upon, or seek to justify,
these assertions. Yet before I finish
these somewhat disconnected obser-
vations I would like to say a few
words about Judaism generally, and
even about the Jews.
The Jews, to me, are one of the re-
ligious companies, or brotherhoods,
who in Europe and its offshoots, Am-
erica, Australia, and as on, carry for-
ward the fight for theism. As a Jew,
1 hold that our Jewish theism is at
once the richest and the purest th:
ism; as a Liberal Jew ,I hold that it
can, and will, become still richer and
purer than it now is. We cannot
prophesy the future unless we organ-
ize in the present; unless we work in
the present and for the present.
Otherwise, I agree with Cicero and
George Eliot: Longum illud tempos
cuum non ens maxis me movet quasi
hoc exigumm. We Jews are knights
of theism. We think ourselves chosen
knights; perhaps even, still more dar-
ingly, the chosen knights. All beyond
our pale think those two extra words
false and extravagant. We cling to
and believe in them. But, however,
this may be, our position as knights
of theism is unassailable. If we take
up, or continue to occupy, that posi-
tion, none can deprive an of it or deny
our right to it. And what of those
who in Europe or America also be-
lieve in God? (As a European I lim-
it my gaze. Even if I put Asia on one
side, and most of Africa, the remain-
ing three continents are sufficiently
large.) What of Christianity? I
seem to perceive two distinct duties
or calls for us Jews in relation to the
Christian churches to Christianity.
The two calls are, in sense, opposed
and contradictory; yvt they most be
combined. Both are real, justified,
reasonable. But sometimes, we do not
combine them harmoniously, and we
get into difficulties, or become one-sid-
ed. The first call is a separating call;
the second is an associating call. Our
first duty (I speak dogmatically for
brevity's sake: add to each sentence
"as it seems to me") is to maintain
our religious distinctiveness and sepa-
rateness, with all which this implies.
We have to refuse intermarriage ex-
cept with proselytes; we have to make
clear, and press the excellence of, our
own type of theism, our own religious
ethics, we have even to put forward
and explain the points on which we
differ from the various kinds of or-
thodox Christianity, and how we think
it well to maintain our separateness
even over against all forms of non-
Jewish Unitarianism. That is the one
call to which we most be faithful. Yet
scarcely less important is the other
call, the call, namely, which bids on
recognize all non-Jewish kinds of the-
ism as our allies in the common fight
against whatever is not theism
against any system of thought which
cannot say, "Abeenu, Malkaynu,"
"Our Father and King." These two
calls have to be combined.
e have to cherish our own special
mission, we have our own special type
of theism to maintain, to develop, and
to spread; but we have also to regard
all theists, all believers in the God of
righteousness and love, all adherents
to the war-cry of Abeenu, malkaynn
as our associates and our allies. c%
are knights of theism; we bear a spec-
ial banner and device; sometimes we
have our contests with other knights
whose banners and devices differ from
ours; yet far more constant and fierc-
er must now he the combats we wage
in alliance with those others than the
combats we wage against them; far
graver is the fight in which we enter
the lists by their side; arrayed as we
are against foes, heavily armed and
brave, who wage war both against
them and against ourselves.
an
The $15,000,000 Drive
By RABBI MOSES FISCHER
the own soil of Israel the beautiful
The late sainted Rabbi of Detroit,
life, culture and traditions of our
J. L. Levine, is in his collected ser-
fathers. True Shma, Israel, Work,
mons the author of the beautiful
but it demands and requires sacrifices
phrase, Shma, Israel, Work. Rabbi
in
work and money as all noble un-
Levine designates with this phrase
selfish works and undertakings re-
the kind of work man undertakes
quire!
without consideration of and reflec-
Thy brother shall live with you.
tion upon his own selfish devices and
This injunction of the Bible referred
Shma, Israel, Work, he
interests.
originally,
while
Israel
lived
his
calla the enterprises undertaken with own
country the
normal
life
of a in
com-
the sole desire to glorify God, to en-
munity—to the individual well-to-do
hance the welfare of Israel, to in-
Jew, whose duty it was to aid and
crease the reputation and good name
help the Jew who became impoverish-
of the Jew. There was never a chance
ci dpotoorr. Since Israel raboeftmhea
ed di,mtn„w
for the conscientious Jew to do bet-
the four corners ca
globe since the fortunes of the dif-
Work, than in these days when the
ferent parts of Jewry became so var.
two drives—one for the building up
iated. Since the Jews of one conti-
of Palestine and the other to aid the
nent or one country became prosper-
millions of our people in their de-
ous, free and mighty, while other
pression—are going on. True, noble,
pparts of Jewry eat, at the same time,
Shma, Israel, Work—it increues the
the bitter herbs of affliction, oppres-
glory of God and Israel, it eaves from
sion and degradation—the biblical in-
grinding poverty, from demoralizing
pauperism hundreds of thousands of
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