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CLARIFIES JEWISH
ATTITUDE ON JE SUS
to
SINCE REST Chanukah
Greetings to the Entire
Jewish Community
of Detroit
the humble home of Rabbi Elias - !Zion. The Chalutzah explains the
' berg, where we meet the rabbi an d' reason for Palestine for the Jew:
his wife. There we learn the stor y "We're seeking a new way of
of am, who refused to take a
(Continued from Preceding Page) interest in Jewish studies and pre n life. Since we're Jews it must be
(Continued from Page On e )
- a Jewish way of life. Other new
plc Beth El, in a church, may serve tion are always just around the ferred his university courses. I t ways may be just as good. They
was
when
an
anti-Semitic
professo
•
corner."
r wouldn't be ours. They wouldn't
an instructive illustration.
One is tempted to ask what Mr. I came to his school and one da y fit us. And a new Jewish way of
Jesus in the Talmud.
"Rabbi From divides the J ewis h Lewisohn would do if he were in asked all the Jewish pupils to rise , life can be sought and created only
t - attitude toward
e Jesus in three he position of the Jews in Pal s- that Adam remained seated an d here."
It is Mr. Lewisohn's uncomprom-
who were compelled to de- drew from the professor the re -
stages. The primary stage i ' the
- attitude of his contemporaries . li fend themselves. Perhaps he fore- mark that the most dangerous and ising solution. Ile has been consis-
corrupting Jews were the hidden tent in offering this solution in all
calls it the Period of Silence. lie saw this question when he placed
Jews. Punished by his Jewish fel - his recent works—this with per-
justifies this name by proving that in the mouth of Rabbi Ismael the
low-students for his disloyalty, he haps the addition of the sentiment
I'hilo, for instance, was una ware words: "I am no prophet, neither
flees from home. But every Rosh embodied in the final words of the
am
I
a
prophet's
11011,
but
I
know
- of Jesus and his teachings. Now
Ilashonah
since the war the presi ' Chalutz and Chalutzah •
he might have added that I'hilo was that this will be the last war of '
dent of the congregation received
Chalutzah: "We must have
You still have time to send
unaware of Darwin's or Carl forever. One martyr is
a
large
sum
from an English mil - children to live in the land."
Marx's teachings, as he could a acr , t 1 stronger than an army with ban-
your party dress, tuxedo
lionaire—Adam Ether. Adam had
esus
ners."
Chalutz:
"To live with their
- have known any more of J
k ept the first syllable of his name , own people — in the land — in
The Drama of Adam.
- than of them. Philo lived in the
and other accessories for
and translated the last into the peace.
- First Century, A. D at a time
The diversity of the seven holy language.
New
Year's wear, to For-
Not
once
does
Adam
Elhar
him-
scenes,
which
take
us
to
our
own
when neither Jesus, the way he
In the final scene the actors are self appear on the scene in Lewi-
- was conceived later by his disciples' times, adds interest to the drama.
est. You will enjoy the
Elhar's pilot and valet, and Elhar sohn's drama. But he is a symbol
In
the
first
a
lady
and
a
gentleman
disciples, nor his doctrines and
is the subject of their discussion. of Jewish homelessness, and the
evening better, look smart-
theologies existed. Moreover, he discuss the social intrusion of
Elh ar wanted to fly to his home
er and prolong the life of
lived in Egypt under the Platonic Adam Elhar, the symbolic hero of village. Then he changed his mind Jewish way of living, as proposed
- and Stoic influences, and entirely the drama. The lady is especially and ordered that the plane go else- by the Chalutzim, is the solution
your garment. There is
to a sore problem. JP. 1
out of the reach of any controversy resentful. We learn the reason for where. Then he changed his mind
"Adam," in its concise driatamic
with Jesus or his followers, even it when the gentleman asks her
no time to be lost. Call
again.
As
the
pilot
relates
this,
form,
in
its
directness
and
in
the
here
what she thinks Mr. Elhar is, and
if we should suppose that t
the valet tells of a conversation he, diversity of its scenes becomes a
Forest Cleaners this min-
were , such in the Palesti Man the lady "whispers a syllable into in turn, had with his employer.
greater work than "The Island
his ear."
schools.
' il ute.
Elhar asked him if he was happy, Within." It is more direct in of-
In the second scene we are in-
"Rabbi Fram further affirms the
and
when
the
valet
described
his
fering a solution to the Jewish
- Period of Silence by stating that troduced to Lucy Elhar, her family happiness, Elliot- said he en-
- the Talmud contains not a t race mother and brother. Mrs. Elhar vied him. Suddenly the pilot and problem. It adds another great
work to the shelf of better modern '
- of Jesus. There is a saying in the called her relations from America valet hear a noise, and the valet
literature about the Jew.
Talmud that one is permitter I to to England because she could no comes back with the news that El-
the live with her husband. The
tell an untruth sometimes for te
har had jumped into the channel.
sake of peace. For the sake of mother and brother press her for , (On July 4, 1928, Alfred 'Amen- Scanning the Jewish Horizon
533 - 547 FOREST AVE E
good-will the rabbi made such a a reason The former is anxi ous stein, Belgian millionaire, com-
about
her
future
income
wh
ich
(Continued from Preceding Page)
remarkable statement when anyone
mitted
suicide
by
jumping
from
his
who is not able to read the Talmud was, since Lucy's marriage, s Up. plane into the English channel.
in the original and uncensored edi- plied by Elhar. The brother wants .owenstein denied his Jewishness. of psychoanalysis, is on the verge
tions can find all the Talmudic to know whether Elhar was un- Did Lewisohn merely borrow from of death from cancer of the face?
That Will Rogers is rumored to
sayings in connection with Jesus, faithful to her. Neither is able to Lowenstein's coincidental act of
be of Russian Jewish descent?
directly or indirectly, open or understand Lucy's spiritual dilem- s uicide for his theme?)
Warburg and Otto Kahn are now
That Meyer Weisgal, secretary the heads. The office of this firm few blocks of the office, from
ma, even when she begins to ex-1
= marked, in T. llerford's book, plain
The Solution.
of the Zionist Organization, is the is located in the heart of New where they walked the rest of the
that "Adam is a very unhap-1
"Christianity in Talmud and Mid-
In
the
epilogue
we
are
taken
to
biggest cigar-moocher in American York's financial district. Schiff , way. Schiff himself always rode
py man;" that "there is an empti-
rash," and in many others.
field in Palestine. A Chalutz and Jewry?
in the subway. Today, of course,
made it a rule of the firm that r all that has been changed,
It is clear, that it was rather a ness about him. He doesn't fee l I a Ch alutzah are the actors. In this
and
every executive had to come down- many a Rolls - Royce and
Period of Disregard and Disdain, happy with any of the people that! cene we are offered Mr. Lewi-
Lincoln
WHEN SCHIFF WAS AL
crowd
around
him."
"Ile's
so
E
town in the subway, so that time' deposits passengers before the
and the one who comes to Gentiles
ohn's
solution
to
the
Jewish
prob-
of-
homeless. People only make him I
The secret of the late . acob
and tells them of a Period of Si-
em. The Chalutz, an American, Schiff's many-sided activities was would nto be lost while automo-1 fice of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. Inci-
biles got jammed in the traffic. Of
lt ace simply relies upon their ig- feel more so. Ile wanted me to e xchanges views with the Chalut-1
dentally,
the
late
Louis
Marshall
his ability not to waste time. Dur- course, many of the executives got
give him a home in my heart,
norance of the subject or upon their
my soul, in my senses. I can't, ah, who could not get into any ing his lifetime he was the head of up a little earlier and had their also used to ride in the subway.
indulgence.
, (Copyright, 1929, by Seven Arta Feature
We're too different." Adam, who Iungarian university and came to Kuhn, Loeb & Co., of which Felix chauffeurs drive them to within
Attitude of Orthodox.
a 1
Syndleetel
doesn't care about money, whom
The third and present period
she calls "really a good man, a
the rabbi designates as the Period
Christian," has turned her into a
of eclamation. liere he relies ghost.
up n the Jewish people who still "Queer Desire for the Nordic." '
m intain their Attitude of Silence
At the New Yorlt office of the
to and Jesus and His preachings,
that they will not read his sermon Elhar Platinoid Company, to which
we
are taken in the third scene, a
on Jews and will not come out with
protests that he misrepresented clerk makes love to the stenog-
rapher.
When he is rejected he
, them. The Orthodox Jews are still
I in the Second Period of Abomina- tells her that he knows she's been
meeting
the manager. When the
' tion. They still call him, when
'they are forced to refer to him, manager comes in during their dis- '
cussion,
the
clerk opens a tirade
' as Oso-Ilaish ("That Man.") The
very scrupulous among them still against him and all the other Jew- I
ish
heads
of
departments,
"a crowd
refrain from studying the Torah
on his supposed birthday, fearing of dirty foreigners and that Ether
is
the
dirtiest
of
'em
all!"
He is
that the efficacy of their religious
fired, and after he leaves the Chris-
study might do him some good. The
tian
stenographer,
too,
leaves
the
modern Jews, especially the en-
Elhar employ. tier resignation is
lightened and nationalistic, declare
their objection to his doctrines on preceded by a discussion with the
manager, who tells her of his wife's
a sound, scientific basis. Every-
chase after' Gentile society and
one who wants to go to the church-
"that we seem to have this queer '
es and tell the Gentiles of the Re-
desire for the Nordic. Some of us,
clamation Period should first read at least." Of course, the stenog-
and study the monumental essay—
rapher believes in the story of the
"Gospel and Judaism," by Ached- Elders of Zion. This seene finds
'loam, a man who is the most rep-
relief in a telephone can from the
resentative philosopher of modern
manager's wife that an engage- ,
Judaism, who proves in his essay ment with a painter was broken I
the fundamental difference between and that husband and wife could '
the two doctrines and the impossi- therefore dine together. Happy
bility of their reconciliation. If relief in another problem of a
I
■ Achad-lla'am is not sufficient, let Jewish chase after the Joneses! '
him , study the well-known book,
Next Lewisohn takes us to Ger-
"Pharisaism," by T. Herford, a many, where an actress, Elhar's
great and pious Gentile, who proves first sweetheart, meets the poet I
,
in the most objective and scientific whom the actress originally reject-
way the gulf between the Jewis h ed. The poet came for a final
Mediator, between Jews and God , "yes" or "no," but first wanted
namely, the Torah, in its wide st an explanation of the actress' re-1
and deepest sense, and between th e lations with Elhar. She describes
C h ristian Mediator in the person him as "a wounded and divided
of Jesus. Let him go to the ma- soul, full of generosity, of sadness
jority of Jewish people, and he will —a lonely grand seigneur and a
be amazed to find that they do not frightened and confused small boy
read the gospels, and, therefore, . . He has millions. And with his
they do not re-discover or reclaim millions he can't buy what you
the "Oso-Ilaish" ("that Man,") have unbought and from the begin-
and if they do read they fail to ap _ sing: earth, home, speech, inner
' preciate the originality of histeach _ oneness, inner security." In a few
ing.
words Lewisohn has summed up
Refers to Klausner.
the misery of unnatural Jewish liv-
If he goes to Prof. J. Klausner' a ing. The simplicity and grandeur
hook, The Life of Jesus," he wit I of such dialogue in this drama
find a passage where he declares makes a combination of literary
that if we would select the best greatness.
there is in the gospels and make
In the fifth scene we are brought
little book of it and introduce it before three Jews who discuss the
t o our Hebrew literature, it would problem of land purchase in Pales-
he just another book of moral ex- tine, and the name of Elhar is
ortations, of which there is such brought in as a possible contribu-
a n abundance that the book would tor. But the first Jew had already
s ot be worth the trouble of arrang- approached him. Ile asked him to
i ng and collecting. Let any one search his heart and to admit what
ho wants to be "a prophet for the d ivided him from his people. All
ations" lend an ear to the inner he finally got from him was a hun-
v oice of the Jewish people, those dred pounds. The second Jew in
bo "live from inside out," as Lud- this scene asks whether Ether has
ig Lewisohn expresses it, and any children, and when the reply
REAL-
e will hear the solemn declaration: came in the negative the third Jew
We do not reclaim the Man, the quotes the Hebrew "kol edam she-
ISM."
ew, the Rabbi Jesus." As a Man ein lo banim—" which draws the
e is an extravagant moralist with comment from the first Jew: "Yes,
morbid spirituality which puts the Talmud is quite right there,
im in the class of the "Mebalai- Reb Nachman: a man who has no
lam" (destroyers of the world), children is as though he were dead.
hich are mentioned in the Tal- Especially applicable to this par-
ud. As a Jew and rabbi, he was, ticular Adam." Elhar is dead to
pictured in the four gospels, un- his people.
How It All Began.
arned and untrained in the Oral
In the sixth scene the audience
aw, as it was formulated in the
islinah. Living in a time of Ro- is taken to the Polish frontier, in
an oppression, he had no ear and
o heart for the affliction of his
ople, as if they did not exist for Mg" will remain decidedly one-
m, outside of his wrangling and sided.
willing with the Pharisees, whom
"Our advice to those "prophets
i so deplorably misunderstood, for the nations" is to go to the Gen-
of a heart-breaking sigh for th e tiles and instead of repeating to
wish national disaster which was them the "Sermon on the Mount"
p proaching in his life time. Not and make vain and hopeless effort
word of prophetic commiseration to prove our share in its glory, to
d comfort which should remind follow Ludwig Lewisohn's exam-
in the least tof the second ple in his "Midchannel" and deliver
aiah or Jeremiah. No, no, we to them the "Sermon in the Val-
not reclaim him!
ley." Let them hear the Jewish
"What Will the Gentile Say?"
outlook on life, the Jewish morals
"While this is what every full- and ethics, as they were formulat-
ooded Jew will say to the rabbi, ed in the Talmud and fostered for
is worth while imagining what hundreds of years, They may not
e Gentiles will say. Surely, if agree with them but they may find
ere is one man of Pilpul (casuis- out that we have created some-
try) among them he will use a Kai- thing original and unique. Let 1
.' vachomer (a fortiori), saying: our "prophets" follow the footstep ;
"If the Jews amount to something of the great G. F. Moore in his
because they recognize Jesus as a great work "Judaism," and give
good Jewish Rabbi, how great and the Gentile church-goers such an
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"Let the Gentiles hear of our
and years of more chastisement great achievements in Ilebrew
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prophet, two thousand years more Dark Ages. Let them hear the
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and accept him as the Messiah and glory of Talmudism as it was ic-
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IA
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'
It goes without saying that such there will be po time to spare for
sermons will make for anything but Jesus."
1:w
nti n, ina v i-ets hpee
e tniufotura t u d na di e sm
rstaa nn dd .
Ludwig Lewisohn Reaffirms
His Faith in a Drama.
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