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Jewish Activities in Jackson

Greetings of the Season

PAGE TWENTY-ONE

Martin Buber and His Utopia

Glimpses Into the New Religious Currents in Judaism.

By A. L. KRIM.

HOTEL

DALTON

ED. DALTON, Prop.

JACKSON, MICH.

The Season's Greetings

The Jury- Rowe Co.

Jackson's Largest Home Outfitters

Furniture, Rugs, Stoves, House Furnishings,
Radi o— Victrolas — Records

200-208 S. Mechanic St.
JACKSON, M IC II.

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BETH ISRAEL SISTERHOOD OF
JACKSON

not forgetting local charity organ-
The Jewish nationalistic move- corresponds to the third of Judaism
izations.
The sick were remembered with 'moot can show no leading type of formulated in the "Drei Ryden,"
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so
strong an energy of soul as Mar- the idea of the Future. Bubo
flowers and visits.
A Chanukah party was given for tin Bubo., the loader of the Jew- strives to hint and foretell how the
lish
youth
in
Germany
and
transla-
mission
of
Israel
will
be
accom-
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A Resume of Activities by Rose Levy, Secretary.
our Sabbath School children.
Established Over 40 Years
The year was closed with a for of the Rade into a modern Ger- plished. He deals with the "Way—
- the way Of tomorrow—the eternal
Although the past year was not into groups, one for each month luncheon and bridge. Then fol- man, attempting not merely to re
all that the Sisterhood wished for, •of the year whose duty it was to lowed the state meeting of Sister- produce the meaning of the Hebrew way of Israel and God."
The mission is defined as the real-
we did considerably well, the arrange social affairs each month hoods at Flint, at which time 14 of words for the German speaking
many handicaps being taken into for financial as well as social pur- our members attended, and all iwople, but imitating the peculiar ization of Goers rule in humanity.
came away heartened anew by the formation of the sentence and the The way is to establish a true, ideal
consideration.
poses
With a membership now about
During this time a rummage tine reports of other Sisterhoods. ryt Ion in the ancient text, and at community. "Ile who speaks of
50 we are in hopes of growing in sale was held, making a goodly I feel sure in saying we will have . the same time enriching the Ger- , this." says Huber, "speaks not to,
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number this coming year. Last sum, also card parties , a keno much to say before another year. man language. Ile has recently Jews aline but to all peoples."
We Jews, is 'tuber's terrible ay-
celebrated his 50th birthday.
year began with bi-monthly serv- party, dances and baked goods
Martin
Huber,
like
Abed
lia'am
cusation,
are
all
apostates.
We
are
ices and Sabbath School each Sun- sales. The latter brought in $55,
before him, wishes to see Judaism apostates, not because land, Ian.
day morning for our little people, which was sent to the Iladassah. SISTERHOOD OF
1saved and revived, but whereas the gunge Mid culture of other peoples
•about 26 in number. Our Sister- We also made the usual donations
CONG. BETH ISRAEL ;latter disdains
any influence upon have penetrated (sir soul—our own
hood arranged a program by which to the Hebrew Union College Dor-
the masses, his aim being to create : land, language and culture might
it was hoped each moniker would mitory, Pro-Falasha Committee
Card parties, supper dances and I an aristocratic spiritual center, the be returned to us without our re-
' do her share. We were divided and other worthy Jewish causes,
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teas were aiming the affairs spon- former directs his attention mainly , gaining that essence of Judaism
sored by the Sisterhood of Temple towards the youth. A poet and towards whcih we have become
master
of
words,
he
chose
for
the
faithless.
Nor
are
we
apostates
in
Beth Israel during the past year.
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The successful year was directed most part the public address as thelliuber's opinion because the major-
BONDS
GRAIN
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under the leadership of the follow- medium to reveal his views. His ity of us have given up the norms
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works, therefore, bear throughout of Jewish tradition and its system
ing officers:
Mrs. S. L. Seaman, president; the character of high poetic con- of life. Those who have kept it'
New York Correspondents
ALWAYS GOOD-
Mr,. Emil Levy, first vice.presi- ception. Ile is known as an ex.,' faultlessly in its positive and nega-
Post & Flagg
d, nt; Mrs. Rose Cohen, second ponent of modern Jewish mysticism1tive aspects have not preserved the
Livingston & Company
vice-president; Mrs. NI. M. Levy, or nee-Hasidism. In all his works inner essence more than others.
Thompson
& McKinnon
secretary; Mrs. A. Swartz, treas- Huber emphasizes the essence or The real apostacy is the renuncia-
Ition of the "costliest heritage of
MEMBERS
urer; Mrs. J. R. Rosenberg, corre- inner meaning of Judaism.
1.1 Dare wor ds.
classic Judaism: The tendency to
sponding secretary.
New York Stock Exchange
In a series of books Martin Hu- realization."
Chic•go Stock Exchange
The Sisterhood was formerly or- ber developed his ideas: "Drei Red.
As a result of the "Galuth," sub-
Chicago Board of Trade
ganized as the Ladies' Aid Society en Lieber dos Judentum" (Frank- jection to the yoke of a foreign
25 years ago and 12 years ago re- furt 1911);
New
York Produce Exchange
"Vom Geist des Juden- world from which no revolution can
organized as the Sisterhood of
tums" (Leipzig 19161; "Der Ileil- liberate, it was necessary for the
BRANCH OFFICE
Congregation Beth Israel.
Order by the Case for Family Use
ige Weg" (Frankfurt 1919). All Jew's in order to exist, to resort to
512 Post Building
Under its auspices, Sabbath these books are confessions of a two methods: "Adoption" and "De-
DIAL 4733
Battle Creek
school activities were made pos- glowing soul, a modern spirit which fense." By "defense" is meant
Phone 46141
sible.
A
visiting
rabbi
from
Cin-
pure
religious
ritualism
which
din
not recognizing any traditional,
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cinnati addresses the congregation cosmic formulation of Judaism damns foreign customs and teach-
every month and Jewish activities seeks nevertheless to attain a pos. 'rigs, but which chains the "tenden-
•are sponsored.
itive relation with our traditional cy to realization." By "adoption
is meant pure money--economy,
religious values.
The entire view of Huber and his which should enable the people to
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school bears the impress of its in-lstand the strongest pressure, but
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Wishing All Our Jewish Friends and Patrons a
dividualistic origin: in race-con- which spoiled the "domain of real-
Happy and Prosperous New Year
Most
hateful,
says
BA-
!
sciousness, the feeling of affinity ization. •
BATTLE CREEK
with the great spirits of the !Mill- her, is the sight Of a combination
GLASS WORKS
ca past, with the standard-bearers of the two in one individual.
The Rode to Zion.
of Jewish martyrdom, with the or-
JOHN
P. VOELKER, Prop.
What shall Israel do? What
iginators of Jewish mysticism, Hu-
bar's Judaism is born. What differ- shall he do to save himself from
entiates the Jews from the Euro- the unreality of the present in or. ,
Copper Store Fronts
pean peoples, according to Buber, is der to reach the realization of his
Plate and Window Glass
Real Estate and Insurance the tendency to conceive the world truth?
"Der Ileilige Weg," The Sacred
Auto Glass Installed While
through the soul, subjectively, in
City and Farm Property
You Wait
opposition to the tendency of the Road, ie *he road to Zion and from
Window Glass Panes, Mirrors
European to conceive the world Zion to humanity, to an ideal hu-
"ALWAYS ON TOP"
man state. Stronger than words
Made to Order
through
the
senses
and
their
devo-
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tion to the external impression. The are deeds. As at Sinai of old we
544 North Jackson St.
Telephone 8433
:characteristic of the Orient is sub- shall obey and listen—to our own
Dial
■ 5.725
BATTLE CREEK, MICH.
1jectivity,
the characteristic of the deeds. The true humanity, the ideal
JACKSON, MICH.
brotherhood is the Sinai of the fa-
, Occident is objectivity.
Jackson, Michigan
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tare.
The "Deaf Roden."
In the Messianic dreams and out-
In the first three addresses, the
Roden," which corresponds to pouring, of the Galuth, national
the first of his three ideas—Unity, and human longings were always
Action and Future, Huber tries to
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Season's Greetings
A Happy New Year to You!
longing for and
liberty
and the longing
define the spiritual situation of combined
amalgamated,
the
modern Judaism under the aspect for salvation, the longing for our
of its mission. It is a message national homeland, and the longing
are for an ideal humanity.
"A
t .f h te .w s.,"wisThhepyeoaprie
j
Medorn Zionism must be based
ifnrtoemn d tjoe we aI
I°
to self-determination, to self recog- , on these two longings. When the
nition, and to "readiness," which is national and the human liberty and
to make every individual fit to par- ' salvation, the longing for our land
Roman and Venetian Mosaics, Terrazzo Floors,
ticipate in the mission of his pea- and the longing for an ideal human-
Sanitary Wainscoting, Terrazzo Bath Rooms,
ple, ity become one—then will the re.
53 W. MICHIGAN AVE.
"What is the meaning of Judo, generation of the Jewish people
Porches, Steps, E,scaustic Tiles for Floors and
Phone 5922
ism for the Jews?" asks Buher. take place.
Walls
"Why do we cull ourselves Jews? .' Copyrisht Sy S T. A., 10251.
And Three Complete
Jeweler and Optometrist Because we are Jew's? What does •
Neighborhood Drug Stores
it mean that we are Jews? Do we Performance of Whippet Six
613 UNION STREET
DIAL 2-4406
Established 1903
call ourselves Jews merely because'
Kodak Headquarters
Amazes Owners.
our
parents
and
forefathers
culled
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thenselves Jews; as hereditary cus-
BATTLE CREEK, MICH.
Unusual performance values de-
tom? Or do we call ourselves Jews
veloped in tests made under every
becaus• of a reality?
•
"Is there a Jewish religion? Is conceivable condition have con
there a Jewish religiosity? Not tributed tremendously to the popu-
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dogma and norm, cult and rule: larity ;f the Whippet Six, a survey
Where is there a divine ecstasy conducted among dealers of the
A Happy New Year
among Jews, which should imzellWillys-Overland Company indi-
to You!
them to go forth front the selfish cute.
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occupations of society to a true life,1 These performances of speed,
to a life which testifies to God and !pow"' stability and sturdiness
ONE FROM A
makes Him a reality, because they have placed the Whippet Six in a
distinctive class, this investigation
It ► VER• IT
live "in His name?"
disclosed, while it has shown a
WAS 'FINISH"
Meaning of "Unity.'
In
the
second
address
of
the
first
performance
equal to that of many
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FOR A FLIVVER
series Buber points to the coming sixes of a higher price range.
For Heaters
Jewish synthesis which will raiseThe power development of the
Phone 7424
the demand of Unity against the- pet Six has struck a new
struggling
for ears of this class, showing
thousands of shattered
ante
Day and Night Service
Yard, 85 S. Washington Ave.
tendencies of humanity. What this an ability to climb the steepest
156 West Pearl Street
156.164 West Cortland Street
Unity means he explains in the secs- grades in high gear, accomplished
without a strain on the car while
Phone, Office 5050
and
address
of
the
second
series
Dial 2-1933
JACKSON, MICH.
the engine remains cool ad func-
"Vom Geist des Judentums" which tioning perfectly. New owners of
Battle Creek, Michigan
11
Jackson, Michigan
corresponds to the second of the the Whippet Six arc amazed at the
I three guiding ideas: Action, in unusual speed development of the
♦ which Jewish religiosity is present-
car, its fast pick-up and getaway
I
ed as merely an aspect of true gen- and the ease in which it is handled,
eral human religiosity. "It means especially in heavy city traffic.
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to chisel out God's presence from While high speed is not claimed,
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, the human block of clay. Religion- owners eeport speeds of 60 miles
' ity is defined as the progressive ele- an hour or oetter and an ability to
ment in religion, which is merely maintain it easily without working
the sum of customs and teachings a hardship on the motor or the
in which the religiosity of a certain car. It has shown remarkable re-
epoch of a people is expressed and sponse to any demand of the driver
in the form of solid dogma trans. under the must adverse conditions. I
milted to future generations, but
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Builders of
which is true only as long as re-
ligiously endows it with a new grow-
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ing meaning. Once, however, the
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From English Woolens
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come torpid, no that the religiosity A m
triu nse. ting child's hand laid in
is powerless to move it, or does not
Ward Building
, want to adapt itself to it, then re- Rich brown earth and wind-tossed
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516 Michigan Ave. East, Opp. M. C. Depot
, ligion becomes unfruitful and with
Phone 5344
trees,
JACKSON, MICH.
'this, untrue.
JACKSON, MICII.
Battle Creek, Michigan
The Act, which in all times ap-
bees.
•
, peered to Judaism as the essence The of
state
of grapes and the drone
I and foundation of all religiosity, is
days,
the Act of Decision for the good A ryhthmie
gallop, long June
Irtzi,-1,edged land and lover's
' deed as the realization of divine
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Rosh Hashonah Greetings
Season's Greetings
freedom upon earth. "Thou shalt A
fazsl, come smile on neighbors',
love the Lord thy God with thy
whole heart and thy whole soul.' The
I
Or '*
Every human being experiences the Cool, wide hills and open places,
inner life as a pilgrimage from Breeze-blown fields of silver rye,
crossroad to crossroad, where he is The wild, sweet note of the plover's
cry,
faced by the two opposing tenden-
1 .
cies: good and evil, and he must Fresh spring showers and scent
Wholesale and Retail Dealer in
decide which road to choose. No
o b itI,P
pale tint of the garden
MORTICIAN
one, however, knows this dualism The f soft
phlox,
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, in the human soul, this hesitation
between two opinions as the Jew. A dappled fawn in the forest hush,
All the prophets proclaimed against Simple words and the song of a'
sha re
thrush,
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this dualism, from the Prophet
Rose-red
Elijah on, who speaks to the peo- Ro-ref! dawns and a mate to
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910 East Michigan Avenue
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ple: "Ilow long will ye limp be-
tween two opinions?" No other peo- With comrade soul my gypsy fare,
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ple had such vile traitors, no other A waiting fire when twilight ends,
BATTLE CREEK, MICH.
people had such sublime prophets A gallant heart and the voice of
friends.
and saviours as the Jewish people,
Jean
Brooks
Burt.
and not, indeed, in different epochs,
but in every period these two are
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met together. Often these two op-
posing tendencies dive , ' together in
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Which,
I wonder, brother read- '
Oic=a4
'the same Jewish soul, one strug-
er,
is
the
better
lot,
to
die
pros-
!
gling with the other. In no human
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being is this dualism so strong, porous and famous, or poor and
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overpowering and central as it was disappointed? To have, and to be i
and is in the Jew•. Yet nowhere forced to yield; or to sink out of
Starters, Generators, Ignition, Batteries, Electric Motors,
has this dualism created no wonder- life, ha•irg played and lost the
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ful a phennnemon as in the Jewish game? That must be a strange
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people: The longing for unity. feeling, when • day of our life
Unity is the decision to do what is comes and we say, "tomorrow, Mr-
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cess or f a ure won t matter much, ;
good.
and the sun will rise, and all
"Der Heilige Wag."
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The second series is an exposi- the myriads of mankind go to flitir I
tion of the eternal, inner dynamic work or their pleasure as usual,
' forces, through which the mission but I shall be out of the turmoil."
147.149 Pearl Street
Phone 6-181
Dial 7825 will be accomplished. In "Der Heil-1 — ,ac eray.
221 Francis St.
C
A
Phone 8731
ige Weg" Huber has As his purpose I
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Battle
Creek,
Michigan
conversation
the mission itself, the Kingdom of
The conveation of lovers is in-1
God, its becoming and its being. It , exhaustible.—lienrietta Temple.
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WARREN &
CHANDLER

EBERLE'S

Delicious Beverages

We Wish You All a Very Happy and Prosperous
New Year

RIDDLE, MILLER & HUGHES

CLARENCE

JOE

CHARLES

_Heating, Plumbing and Repairing by
Thoroughly Experienced Mechanics

Telephone 2-1137

316 1/2 West Michigan Ave.

JACKSON, MICH.

Jackson Roofing
Company

Raymond L.
HEWLETT

QUALITY ROOFING

A Happy New Year to All Our Jewish Friends

Electric Service
Company

I.. W. COCHRAN

J. C. PAULUS

JACKSON, MICII.

509 Francis Street

Phone Dial 2-3821

We Wish You All a Very Happy and Prosperous
New Year

Star Carpet Cleaning
Works

HARVEY B. RAYMOND

CARPET CLEANING

ALL MODERN METHODS FOR CLEANING

JACKSON, MICH.

Phone 8-852

Rosh Hashonah Greetings

SCHAFER'S

ODORLESS DRY CLEANING

Clothes Cleaned With Energine Stay Clean

Longer

Hats Cleaned and Reblocked

Dial 4-174

223-225 South Mechanic St.

JACKSON, MICH.

Holiday Greetings

Thomas Chevrolet Sales Co.

SALES AND SERVICE

AUTOMOBILES AND ACCESSORIES

Complete Service Station

Cars—Trucks

East Michigan Ave. at Perrin St.

Dial 2-7166

JACKSON, MICII .

J. C. PATIENCE

FUNERAL DIRECTOR

DIAL 5-771

JACKSON, MICH.

Greetings of the Season

LEPARD & GRAY

Sash, Doors, Interior Finish. Special Woodwork.
Store and Office Fixtures. Restaurant Equipment

Numbers 304-308 Otsego Avenue
JACKSON, MICH.

Dial 8044

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ONGER CO.

T. E. YAGER

CHARLES K.
WETHERBY

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BARRELS, KEGS AND CROCKS

Season's Greetings

406 FIRST STREET

Maddalena Bros.

CHAS. E. ROAT
MUSIC
COMPANY

COMPLETE ELECTRIC SERVICE

Chapel Electric Co.

BLUE DIAMOND
LUMBER AND
COAL CO.

