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Lord Melchett and the Jewish Agency.
On the eve of the national conference for the for-
mation of the Jewish Agency, scheduled to be held
in New York this week-end, comes an astounding
statement from Lord Melchett, until now looked upon
as one of the pillars in the Agency movement. In a
special interview granted by Lord Melchett, the form-
er Sir Alfred Mond, to B. Smolar, and published in the
Day, the Jewish Lord, who, by the way, is also presi-
dent of the English Zionist Federation, is quoted as
follows:
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Sabbath Reading. of the Torah.
Pentateuchal portion—Gen. 6:9-11:32.
Prophetical portion—Is. 54:1-55:5.
October 19, 1928
Cheshvan 5, 5689
Palestine to the Front.
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Activities in this country in which Zionists as well
as non-Zionists are active are placing Palestine in the
front rank are claiming a united Jewry's attention. For
the first time in the history of Jewish endeavor in and
for Palestine, practically every element forming
American Israel is being mobilized to make real the
dream of centuries, whereby a physical center will be
built for a great portion of our people, and a spiritual
center for all Diaspora Jewry.
Thus. at New York this week-end, Louis Marshall,
Felix Warburg, Lee K. Frankel, Samuel Untermyer,
Paul M. Warburg, Aaron Sapiro, and at least two hun-
dred other leaders, whose names spell leadership
among the wealthiest and most influential elements
among the Jews of this country, are to join hands with
Dr. Chaim Weizmann, coming from England for this
conference, in a united effort for Zion.
This union of hitherto opposing forces almost spells
the legend: "Jew's of the world, unite!" The tragic
and ridiculous charge made against us that we control
the finances of the world and that Jewish international
bankers are an oppressive element in world economics;
and the charges from other sources that Jews are in
back of every disrupting radical movement in the
world, have made it appear as if Jews were united on
something or other. As a matter of fact we have not
united on anything, whether as Jews or citizens of the
different countries of the world. With the exception
of the gigantic war relief movement, not even the syn-
agogue has succeeded in uniting Israel for a common
cause.
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From the movement for Palestine there radiates a
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hope that Jews may really be united for one great Jew-
ish constructive effort. The hope that is held out from
Zion that on Jewish soil our people may become forti-
fied not only economically but socially and culturally,
and the great progress already made in Palestine for a
return of Jews to the soil and to constructive effort,
offer a solution to the Jewish problem at least for those
who will be among the more fortunate members of the
legion of oppressed Jews throughout the world to be
settled in Zion.
There are differences of opinion over methods in
the organization of the Jewish Agency. These, it is
certain, will be ironed out. But the central idea, the
achievement of unity for Zion, which is nearing reali-
zation, is a triumph for Palestine and should be a
source of joy for all lovers of Zion.
An Act of Historic Justice.
The approval by the Art Commission of New York
City of a model for a monument to }laym Salomon,
Jewish Revolutionary War patriot, finally guarantees
a way of honoring one to whose memory honor is due,
but which has been delayed by the cruel game of pol-
itics.
Designed by Anton Schaaf, a New York sculptor.
and presented to New York City by the Federation of
Polish Jews of America, the American financier who
came to this country from Poland with Kosciusco and
contributed so much to the success of the American
Revolution, will at last be given recognition.
Evidence of the fact that Haym Salomon was a
financier of the Revolution is to be found in the diary
of Robert Morris, where his name appears at least 75
+' times, and in letters of James Madison. In a letter on
Aug. 27, 1782, Madison wrote:
I have for some time past been a pensioner on the
favor of Ilaym Salomon, a Jew broker.
On Sept. 30, 1782, Madison wrote about him:
The kindness of our little friend in Front street, near
the coffee-house, is a fund which will preserve me from
extremities, but I never resort to it without great morti-
fication. as he obstinately rejects all recompense. The
price of money is to usurious that he thinks it ought to
be extorted from none but those who aim at profitable
speculations. To a necessitous delegate he gratuitously
spares a supply out f his priate stock.
In 1850, a United States Senate Committee report.
upon the claims of Salomon's heirs for large sums ad-
vanced by the Revolutionary financier, stated that
Salomon
gave great assistance to the government by loans of money
and by advancing liberally of his means to sustain the
men engaged in the struggle for independence at a time
when the sinews of war were essential to success.
It is a matter of historic justice that Haym Salomon
should at last be given a due tribute. To the Jewish
people this honor is especially gratifying because the
story of Solomon proves the claim that the better the
Jew the better the American. This Revolutionary pat-
. riot was one of the original members of Congregation
Mickve Israel of Philadelphia and was active in Jew-
-A ish charitable work. It was his address of complaint
to the Council of Censors of Pennsylvania against the
requirement for office-holders to take an oath of be-
lief in the Old and New Testaments that this restriction,
which prevented Jews from holding public office, was
finally removed when the constitution was revised.
Let it be known so that all understand that my going
to Palestine with the Expert Commission does not com-
pel me to come into the Jewish Agency. The Expert
Commission I consider an undertaking of the utmost im-
portance, while the scheme of the Jewish Agency is not
altogether clear. In the first place it is necessary to know
what is good and what is bad in Palestine; what is pro-
ductive and what is unproductive work there. The Expert
Commission wanted to investigate and report. But the
Jewish Agency—what is it? Who wants it? What is to
be its obje'ct? Will it undertake the day-by-day worries
of the Zionist Organization or is it only for high diplo-
macy? If for the first then it is unnecessary; then we have
the Zionist Executive. Why have a Zionist Executive and
a Jewish Agency for one and the same object? If on the
other hand it is only for high diplomacy then I cannot see
how the Jews in America and in Germany sitting in New
York ad in Berlin can do diplomatic work in Palestine.
This in itself is surprising enough. But Lord Mel-
chett went on to tell his interviewer that Palestine will
be built only by means of private capital, and what is
more, that it does not matter whether the capital is
Jewish or non-Jewish, so long as Palestine is built.
These sentiments recall the warning of Rabbi
Daiches of England to the convention of the English
Zionist Federation on the day of Lord Melchett's ele-
vation as British Zionist leader, that the Lord declare
openly his Jewish religious sentiments, intimating that
to be a good Zionist one must first be a good Jew. Dr.
Daiches' warning is now justified on the strength of
Lord NIelchett's failure to understand that if Pales-
tine, where the position of our people is still weak, is
not built by Jewish capital, it will either never be built
at all, or if built it will never be Jewish again.
Insofar as private enterprise is concerned, Lord
Melchett's statement is equally as foreign to fact, in
view of the constant encouragement given by Zionists
to private investors. But the need for private invest.
ment neither diminishes the importance of public en-
terprises by the Jewish people as a whole in Palestine,
nor does it belittle the effort for united Jewish effort
in Palestine. On the contrary, it is an argument for
the Agency.
We recall also that when Sir Alfred Mond chose
to name his peerage Melchett, the London Jewish
World asked, if Melchett why not Melchitzedek. And
in a later issue it suggested that it might have been
Al Chett instead of Mel-Chett. There is a grave
"chett," a serious sin, in Lord Melchett's attack on the
Agency on the eve of its formation, and our sentiments
at this time are certainly with Marshall and Warburg
and Frankel and all friends of the movement which
will place Zionists side by side with non-Zionists in
the movement for Palestine's upbuilding.
'Fortunately, Lord Melchett is to be present at the
Non-Zionist Conference this week-end, and it is to be
hoped that deliberations there will help clarify what
he refers to as "confusion as to the whole scheme of
the Jewish Agency."
A Bit of Early American Jewish History.
Building Economy, a magazine published in Cleve-
land, in its current special Philadelphia number, re-
vives a bit of revolutionary American history in which
a prominent Jewish family played an important part.
Speaking of the "Logan House" as a "onetime
hotbed of Toryism," this magazine tells the story of
David Franks and his talented daughter, Rebecca:
During the British occupation of Philadelphia the
Logan House at Second and Sanson streets, owned by
David Franks, a Jewish merchant of prominence in that
city, became so markedly a home of British sympathizers
that after the end of the war Franks was compelled by force
of public condemnation to leave the city. Franks had
abandoned the religious faith of his fathers long before
this. Originally he had come from England and it is said
that in speech and manners he appeared to be more
English that Jew.
His home speedily became a favorite gathering place
for Lord Howe's officers, an added attraction to his frankly
spoken sentiments being his exceptionally attractive daugh-
ter, Rebecca. Before the British left Philadelphia she had
married a young British officer, who later became a lieu-
tenant-colonel and after the war was made a baronet by
the English Crown.
David Franks, history tells us. was an intermed-
iary during the war with England in the exchange of
prisoners, and he was an "agent to the contractors for
victualing the troops of the King of Great Britain."
He was imprisoned in 1778 by order of Congress be-
cause his intentions were considered "inimical to the
safety and liberty of the United States." Ruined in
fortune. he left for England, but "returned to the
United States in 1783 and engaged in the brokerage
business in Philadelphia, in which he continued until
his death from yellow fever during the epidemic of
1793," we are told by the Jewish Encyclopedia.
He is not to be confused, however, with Lieuten-
ant-Colonel David Salisbury Franks, who, unlike his
namesake, joined the Revolutionary forces and served
as an American diplomatic agent. Robert Morris,
superintendent of finance, sent him to Europe in 1781
as bearer of despatches to Jay in Madrid and Frank-
lin in Paris. On Jan. 15, 1784, Congress resolved
"that a triplicate of the definite treaty (of peace) be
sent out to the ministers plenipotentiary by Lieut.-Col.
David S. Franks," and he again went to Europe on a
diplomatic mission. On Jan. 28, 1789, he was granted
400 acres of land in recognition of his services -during
the Revolutionary war.
The Franks family contributed another officer to
the Revolutionary army, in the person of Colonel Isaac
Franks.
Although a handful of Jews cast their lot with the
British loyalists. the community that formed the Jew-
isli population in this country at the time of the Ameri-
can Revolution certainly sided with the rebels, and the
share our people had in the revolt was a fine contribu-
tion by Jewry towards the building of the United
States.
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Speaking of letters, I call the one I am going to
quote a good letter. Most persons who write lack style,
and their letters are deadly bores. They may be perfect
rhetoricians and know every rule of grammar and apply
them correctly, but the way they express themselves is
without flavor. This letter is written by the author of
a new book called "Man Alive"
Through Darwin's notion of natural selection
(before Bill Bryan could put a stop to it) I was
born of man, and through the ideals of Abraham
and Moses I was made a Jew. For this I blame not
the living, but my habitual reading of Random
Thoughts, no soothing to a Jewish heart, I lay
purely to the wiles of your pen.
Without the slightest twinge of conscience,
therefore, I intrude upon your peace with my
book, "Man Alive," and with a thousand horse-
power urge to con the contests. As a "scientific"
nian I cannot accept that "as soon as I get time
to read it" affair. I have it from good authority
like Mr. Edison and my grocery man that anything
above a four-hour snooze is a criminal crushing of
time, and if you are guilty of such abuses. lay
off. Rescue the precious moments from the ruins
and concentrate them upon the noble aim of
reading "Man Alive!"
A metamorphosis will take place; your being
will change to a living dynamo once you swallow
the elixir of its contents. You will find a lubricant
for toil therein which will enable you to face the
task of Atlas with an impetuosity of profound
slumber.
Should your emotions waver at the cold icono-
clastic cruelty of "Man Alive" just recall (a few
hundred brief summers back) the kind of exercise
in which my name's sake Abraham indulged.
I want you to read this book because it will
add many years to the usefulness of your pen.
Sincerely yours,
A. G. Coplon.
I shall surely read the book!
A political debate was scheduled in a synagogue in
Hartford, Conn., and a reader sends me a clipping from
the Hartford Courant, containing the views of one who
was announced to take part in the debate, but refused on
the following grounds:
"I am deeply interested in the success of the Repub-
lican ticket in the state of Connecticut and am working
to bring about the election of Mr. Hoover, but I will not
attend meetings called for the purpose of discussing
political questions in churches or synagogues.
"I will speak in an attempt to convince American citi-
zens, as such, that the politics of the Republican party
will best conserve the interests of the people of the
United States, but I will not talk to religious congrega-
tions or ministers, as such.
"Churches and synagogues are places set apart where
people can congregate for the worship of the Heavenly
Father. If they are to be used for political meetings,
their value as factors in the religious life of the country
will be greatly minimized, if not entirely destroyed.
"Being a Catholic, I never hear politics discussed in
my own church. Any pastor who uses his pulpit for po-
litical purposes would, I am sure, be reprimanded by his
superiors. In the Catholic church politics is taboo. I
hope that some day this will be the universal rule."
I think Mr. Holden is right. Don't you?
In Duluth, Minn., they are finishing, a campaign for a
Community Fund to which Protestants, Catholics and
Jews contribute. I was very much interested in an
article sent to me by a reader in which one of the leaders,
a Mr. Crosby, commented on the "drive" at the Victory
Dinner. He said:
"Seven years ago a Jew in Duluth conceived the idea
that the Community Fund would be a good thing in
Duluth. So he called a few' men together at a dinner and
explained the proposition. This Young man was very per-
sistent and the next day he saw three men who were
present at the dinner. This young man was Edward A.
Silberstein. Another meeting was called and it was
decided to go ahead.
"Since the Fund has been started we find that the
Jews, the Catholics and the Protestants are the people
back of this.
"Isn't it wonderful that this plan knows no creed, no
race, that we are all for one and one for all?"
Glad to know you, Mr. Silberstein! It's good to get
acquainted with new names in Jewry.
I am amazed that Mr. Hoover invited to be his guest
on his train bound South, one of the owners of the Fel-
lowship Forum, a klan newspaper, and one that does not
handle language with kid gloves when it delivers its
broadsides of hate against those who are not one hun-
dred per cent Protestant, and of course, white. This
does not in any way commit me on the presidential
issue, but it is a personal matter affecting Herbert Hoover,
the Quaker. He, of all men, should see to it that
even so great a prize as the presidency should not
force him to stultify his conscience to the extent of
placing the stamp of approval on a man whose whole
outlook on American life is one of hate. This is the
first time that so specific an instance of the encourage-
ment of religious intolerance has presented itself in this
campaign on the part of either candidate. I have seen
this paper, the Fellowship Forum, and it is merely a
camouflaged klan sheet, that panders to bigotry and
fanaticism. For the sake of Herbert Hoover himself, I
hope that he will avoid placing himself open again to
such criticism.
The Rev. Dr. Marlin, of New Castle, Pa., who has
brought such a storm about his ears because of his unwar-
ranted attack on the Jewish People, seeks to make an
explanation and an apology for some of his statements
in the current issue of the United Presbyterian, of Pitts-
burgh, Pa. I confess I am unable to follow the reverend
gentleman's mental processes. In one breath he thinks
perhaps that he has generalized too much in condemning
Jewish children as utterly lawless, and the next time he
draws his breath he asserts just the contrary. I.et us
read what he says on this subject:
Is he (the Jewl a good neighbor? In a law-
less age are his children any more lawless as a
rule than the children of Gentiles? Amonglews
will be found many good neighbors. In their
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ENTER YESHIVA COLLEGE
Israel's Ancient Truths Will Not Be Scorned Because
They Are Old; New Ideas Not Viewed as
Final Because They Are New.
By NATHAN DAVIDSON
America made an important acquisition in the field of
its educational institutions.
At the beginning of this academic year, the first course
in the Yeshiva College, the institution conceived by leading
New York philanthropic Jews, planned for many years as a solution to
the problem of perpetuating Jewish higher learning in the United
States, in a happy combination with secular knowledge, was begun.
quietly and without much ado, the Yeshiva College, at thoroughly new
contribution both in name and
"To us, the conception of the
content, made its entry.
'inevitability' of such participa-
The formal dedication of the
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new magnificent buildings, erected lion in modern life, thought, and
in New York City at a high cost, culture is not one of anxiety. We
to house the new institution for consider the spirit of progress, of
higher learning, will take place love of and search for knowledge,
some time this winter. However, and the advancement of its boun-
the work of the Yeshiva College dories and its mildest dissemina-
tion, not only compatible with,
has already begun. A faculty of
but inherent in the very genius of
leading professors was formed; a
The
student body, at present consisting the genuine Jewish soul.
of 35, was enrolled and has em- Jewish cultural, moral and spirit-
barked upon the course of absorb- sal contribution runs through the
ing Jewish and secular education entire course of recorded human
simultaneously, an experiment ex- history, as the gulf stream of the
tr•mely interesting. The ideal of spiritual sea of mankind.
"On the other hand. however,
combining higher Jewish learning
with secular knowledge is no honesty with and loyalty to our
longer a dream. It is a reality true selves, the lessons of bygone
whose beginning is keenly watched days, and the facts of the present
(lay, compel as to admit the truth
by many, The interest in this ex-
periment is not limited to Jews held by many of our sages of all
alone. Prominent American edu- times, that the indiscriminate
cators, deans of universities and teaching of ninny of the current .
colleges arc likewise deeply in- working hypotheses in science and
in speculative knowledge to minds
terested.
immature and void of the knowl-
"Harmonious Blending."
The Yeshiva College has under. edge of the Torah and the verities
taken to face the problem and at- of Judaism, is detrimental to faith,
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tempt to solve it. The problem an. to moral and spiritual harmony
dertaken by the Yeshiva College is and balance. It is especially so
not only that of perpetuating Jew. today, when all the direct and in-
direct forces of life are influenced
ish learning but borders closely on
and inspired by anti-spiritual
what is usually termed the ques-
views, of man's origin, life and
Lion of religion and science.
What method will be chosen in destiny. We stand ready to ac-
rept; we seek the essence of mod-
seeking this solution? What is
the specific approach of the lead- ern culture, its values and con-
ers and sponsors of the Yeshiva structive ideals, but we deplore
College towards bringing about the admixture of elements foreign
to it, allied to it through blurred
that often reiterated idea of Thar-
vision, destructive of religious and
monious blending?"
Uni-
i.
spiritual life as understood by Un.
The writer, feeling that the an- spiritual
Israel of all ages. Even in
swer to these questions will be of
this day, not all is knowledge that
interest not only to academic
parades as knowledge, or prates in
minds but to a great many Ameri-
can Jews who are interested in terms of it.
Jewish Education in United St•tes
the education of their children,
at Crossroads.
sought light by submitting this
"It is no exaggeration to declare
question to Dr. Bernard Revel,
president of the faculty of the that American Israel has reached
the
parting of the ways. This IA
Rabbi Isaac Elchanar Theological
seen by all who are not blinded
Seminary and the Yeshiva College.
by the cries of 'peace, peace.' from
The interviewer found Dr. Re-
the false prophets. The ineffec-
vel most eager and willing to dis-
tive patchwork of Sunday schools,
cuss the matter.
the theories of our educational
"Our Mighty Intellects."
minimalists cannot he of any avail.
To summarize the view of Dr.
Even much that pervades as Jew-
Revel as to what will be the guid-
ish education is spurious and in-
ing policy of the Yeshiva College
consequential, and does not tend
in unfolding, in the course of the
to broaden and deepen the Jewish
years, the full educational pro-
consciousness, interests and sym-
gram of the institution, it will be
pathies of our children. Only a
sufficient to quote at the outset one
return to the ideals and visions of
sentence which impressed the
ouniversal
Israel, to the true values
writer immensely:
of Jewish life, will revive our
"The concepts of our mighty in-
Jewish
will
to live.
tellects of the past and the truths
Yeshiva College as Symbol of
of Israel's ancient utterances will
Abiding Faith.
not be scorned because they are
not new nor will new ideas and
"To further this ideal is the aim
hypotheses be embraced as final
of the Yeshiva 'and its college.
truths merely because they are
The Yeshiva is the historic and
new."
abiding home of the Torah. It
The president of the faculty, a
offers the opportunity of an effec-
famous Jewish scholar, who had
tive and harmonious Jewish and
himself drunk from the wells of
general education for the excep-
secular knowledge, boldly outlined
tional students who, by their pre-
the problem faced by American
vious Jewish training, the desire
Jewry in the field of Jewish edu-
and the influence of their parents
cation and spoke freely of the
and their home surroundings, and
concepts that will go into the mak-
their own aspiration, have been
ing of the program of the Ye-
prepared for such an harmonious
shiva College. One striking ob-
training, and who consider Jewish
servation is the difference in the
learning and culture and the Jew-
. approach pointed out by Dr. Revel
ish outlook on life p vital part of
Unlike Orthodox Jewry of western the training they wish to acquire
Europe, which considered the in their college course. The Ye-
combination of modern culture shims and the Yeshiva College
with devotion to the Torah as an aims to supply such a select group
inevitability, though regrettable,
of mentally endowed and spirit-
and because of that, as a develop- ually equipped young men with
ment which must necessarily be the tools of general knowledge and
met with, Dr. Revel, speaking for
scentific technique, together with
thinking Orthodox Jews in the a Jewish background and perspec-
United States, sees the blending of time: to educate young men earn-
Jewish and general education, as est in purpose and pledged by an
a natural development. To hits
inner devotion to the upbuilding
this blending is not only compat-
of Israelite's religious realities
ible but inherent in the genius of
and spiritual certainties and stand-
the Jewish soul.
ards of life, that they may de-
ns, Yeshiva College Approach.
velop into leaders and inspirers of
"For the last several genera- our youth, to whom Judaism will
tions, west European Orthodox be a philosophy of life, the applied
Jewry has considered as its ideal art of living," Dr. Revel declared.
the harmonious combination of "The Yeshiva and its college is
modern culture and ways of life the symbol of our abiding faith in
with the knowledge of and demo- the future of Torah true Judaism
tion to the Torah in its entirety, in this land. It hopes in time to
in loyalty to its concepts and pre- help increase the regard of Jew
cepts. The typical champions of and non-Jew alike for Jewish cul-
this ideal were the German Jews, Lure and the Jewish contribution
followers of Rabbis Samson Ra- to man's progress," the president
phael Hirsh," Dr. B. Revel stated. of the faculty concluded.
Gems From Jewish Literature
families will be found many children whom we
can easily love. But how did we become possessed
with the idea that Jews as a class were not good
neighbors, and why did we think that their chil-
dren as a class were more lawless than the chil-
dren of Gentiles, who had lived in Jewish com-
munities, and because of our awn personal obser-
vation and experience when we lived two and a
half years in the midst of a population overwhelm-
ingly Jewish. The Jewish race, however, has no
monopoly in the matter of unsocial neighborhood
relationships. Neither has it any monopoly in the
matter of lawless children. A good neighbor,
whether Jew or Gentile, is a tremendous asset. We
shall never believe that our landlord is justified
in raising our rent while we live under a leaky
roof, but we might not fault him if he raised our
rent because we had • good neighbor on the right
hand and on the left. We regard a good neighbor
as a special dispensation of the grace of God, and
we shall rejoice in him whether he be Jew or
Gentile, Cythian, barbarian, bond or free.
Now Mr. Marlin just. seems to understand that we
resent as unqualifiedly false his statement based upon
the "almost unanimous testimony on the part of Gentiles"
that Jewish children as a class are more lawless than
Gentile children. I am astonished that a minister of
God, a contributor to a religious publication, who has
■ serious responsibility in influencing the opinions of his
followers, should as loosely, and without careful inves-
tigation, take it upon himself to condemn a people upon
hearsay evidence. It is beyond my understanding.
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Selected by Rabbi Leon Fram.
MOSES AND JESUS
In dream I saw two Jews that met
by chance,
One old, stern-eyed, deep-browed,
yet garlanded
With living light of love around
his head.
The ether young, with sweet, ser-
aphic glance.
Around went on the town's satan-
ic dance,
Hunger a-piping while at heart he
bled.
"Shalom Aleichem" mournfully
each said,
Nor eyed the other straight, and
looked askance.
Sudden from Church outrolled an
organ hymn,
From Synagogue a loudly chanted
air,
Each with its Prophet's high ac-
claim instinct.
Then for the first time met their
eyes, !Mitt-linked
In one strange, silent, piteous
gaze, and dim
With hitter tears of agonized des-
pair.
ISRAEL ZANGWILL
THE GOLDEN RULE
A pagan came before Shammai
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and said: "I will become a Jew;
but you must teach me the whole
of the law while I stand on one
leg." The idolater addressed him-
self to Hillel with the same re-
quest, and the master answered:
"That which you would not have
others do unto you, do not do unto
others. This is the whole of the
I.aw. The rest is but commentary.
Go and learn it."—The Talmud,
Tract ate Sabbath.
A JEWISH PRAYER
Thou bosto•est knowledge on
man, and teachest him under-
standing. Grant as knowledge,
understanding and wisdom. Bless-
ed art Thou, 0 Lard, hestower of
knowledge.—The Eighteen Bene-
dictions.
A RECIPE FOR LONG LIFE
Who is the man that desireth life,
And loveth days, that he may see
good therein?
Keen thy tongue from evil,
And thy lips from speaking
guile.
Depart from evil and do good;
Seek peace, and pursue it.
PSALM 34, Verses 13-15
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