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by side in our history, with the Balfour
Declaration continuing to beckon to the
Matzoth for the Poor.
Jewish people for action. Surely the mem-
The custom of proffering aid to the ory of Balfour echoes the sentiments of
needy on Passover, by supplying them ninny Jewish leaders who, while mourning
with necessities for the festival, is one of the death of its author, declare that the
the most cherished traditions observed by Balfour Declaration lives,
the Jew on the eve of the Festival of Free-
dom. Through the fund known as Moos
The Law of the Land.
Chitim, it has become an established custom
The Jewish law that "diva de-malkuta
for the well-to-do to aid those who are less
fortunate. "All who are hungry may come dina," that the law of the state becomes the
and eat," every Jew recites at the Seder, in full law for the Jew living in that state,
invitation to those too poor to arrange their was propounded in the third century of the
own feasts. It is in this spirit that all com- present era by Mar Samuel, head of the
munities are obligated to the poor in their Academy in Nehardea, and has since been
midst. On Passover not a single Jewish recognized by all rabbinic authorities as
soul is to be deprived of the traditional binding.
It is unfortunate that enemies of our peo-
feast.
This is not a stereotyped appeal. This ple who launch attacks upon us in many
year especially it is important that the instances question our loyalty without
Jewish community remember to observe ascertaining the strength of the command-
the tradition of Moos Chitim. "The poor ment upon the Jew to be law-abiding and
have become poorer and many who were to honor the statutes of whatever country
once our big donors are now among the he resides in.
In the recent unemployment demonstra-
applicants for aid," reads an appeal from
the Detroit committee. It spells a simple tions, the injustice of charges against the
but important obligation. It means that Jews again manifested itself. At Madi-
those in position to give must give promptly, son, Wis., Robert Sykes, senior at the Uni-
and those who can increase their contri- versity of Wisconsin, former football star,
blamed the Jew for Communist lawlessness
butions should do so.
Every Jew who is looking forward to the and shouted thit "we are getting so many
beauty of the Passover Seder must first damned Jews here that something must be
remembe • to help provide Sedorim for the done."
Such sentiments can be most easily
poor by giving to the Moos Chitim fund. '
counteracted by information of the true
Jewish obligations to observe the laws of
"The Sum of All the Congregation."
the land, and it would be well for Jews
When the population of this country is themselves to keep informed on their own
counted during April, in the decennial cen- important laws. The recent Dropsie Col-
sus, the custom will not be a new one for lege, Philadelphia, volume on "The Jewish
the Jewish people. In fact, Jews can pride Law of Theft," by Dr. Moses Jung, con-
themselves as having been the first in all tains an interesting chapter on "Dina de-
known history to have instituted the prac- Malkuta Dina" and is replete with informa-
tice of census-taking.
tion on Jewish law as compared with
Several instances of census-taking are to Roman and English laws. Especially valu-
be found in the Bible. The first known rec- able to the legal profession, this volume is
ord of such counting of the people is to be among the useful works to keep Jew and
found in the first stanzas of the Book of non-Jew, layman and professional, in-
Numbers, which name is derived from the formed on the manner in which Jewish law
numbering of the people of Israel. The guides Jews to be law-abiding citizens.
first reference (Num. 1, 2) reads:
"Take ye the sum of all the congregation
Solving Jewry's Economic Problem.
of the children of Israel, after their fami-
There were only 1,000 Jewish souls on
lies, by the descent from their fathers, by
numbering the names, every male according farms in the United States in 1900. More
than 80,000 are today said to be cultivating
to their polls."
There are other references to the first about 1,000,000 acres in this country. The
census in Numbers, the early poll showing annual report of the Jewish Agricultural
that Jews numbered 603,550 at the Exodus. Society, revealing these facts, states in
The census taken by King David and re- part:
corded in II Samuel, 24, was another
All told, 451 farms were examined and ap-
praised and 89 families comprising about 450
attempt to number Israel, and David's
souls were established on farms in Connecticut,
census took nine months and twenty days,
Delaware, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jer-
showing 800,000 for Israel and 500,000 for
sey, New York and Pennsylvania. The cost of
these acquisitions totaled the respectable sum
Judah. There is mention of the census also
of $492,156, an average of $7,132 per farm.
in I Chronicles.
The average capital possessed by families set-
tled 18•1111 $3,977, somewhat larger than last
Thus Dir people lay claim to having in-
year. The average cash payment per farm was
stituted the tradition of an important
$2,319, also slightly larger than in 1928. The
practice now universally accepted. It is
balance remained on mortgage. To help fi-
nance the operations., our society made thirty-
still possible to look back, for the origin of
four loans aggregating $52,391 and averaging
many modern customs and practices, to
$1,540.92. The others were able to start under
their
own resources. Some of the latter may
ancient Israel.
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COLLEGE CLOAK AND
SUITERS.
The cloak and suit manufactur-
ers are going in for the academic
life! A chair is to be established
in one of the big eastern universi-
ties, so the report goes, to prepare
young men for managerial posi-
tions in that industry.
There's evolution for you. Most
everybody knows now and then, it
appears, has worked on the gener-
al theory that the cloak and suiters
were somebody to be laughed at.
"Jewish hardware' they have been
called.
But they had better be done with
their laughing. The industry is at-
taining dignity. You won't be
able to laugh at a cloak and sinter
who graduated from Harvard.
need our assistance later.
Jewry's Great Loss.
The death of Lord Balfour has brought
grief to Jewry everywhere. Expressions of
sorrow and mourning by representatives of
all groups in Lsrael, everywhere, give evi-
dence of permanent inscription of the name
Balfour in the memory of the Jewish peo-
ple.
Among the mourners are the men who
opposed political Zionism but who know
that the historic significance of the Balfour
Declaration has, as was expressed in the
annual report of the American Jewish Com-
mittee on Nov. 10. 1915, "removed the fu-
ture of the Jews in Palestine from the
realm of idealistic conjecture and political
propaganda to the plane of a practical
probability, if not a reality; it opened up a
vista of inspiring possibilities which filled
all Jew's with sacred enthusiasm."
Lord Balfour's name will live in Jewish
history for the same reason that the name
of Cyrtis, the king of Persia twenty-four
centuries ago, is now inerasable from Jew-
ish annals. A comparison of the procla-
mation of Cyrus and the Balfour Declara-
tion, and of the conditions and events ac-
companying the two. guarantee a perma-
nent place for the latter statement side by
side with that of Cyrus. The Balfour Dec-
laration of November 2, 1917, promised :
"His Majesty's Government view with
favor the establishment in Palestine of a
national home for the Jewish people, and
will use their best endeavors to facilitate
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These figures will be generally hailed be-
cause they point to the step in the right di-
rection at solving the Jew's economic prob-
lem. Unfortunately not enough of our peo-
ple realize the seriousness of pressing eco-
nomic issues. We are experiencing every-
where a change in economics. The mid-
dle class, particularly that group which is
engaged in conducting small stores, is
pressed to the wall. The day of the small
shopkeeper is numbered, and the Jews are
very numerous in this class. In the profes-
sions the young Jew is faced by the prob-
lem of being overcrowded and outcrowded.
The effect of prejudice in industries in Eu-
ropean countries and the oppressions of the
ages have had their ill results. in that Jews
are few in numbers among laborers,
Every Jewish mother and father and
every Jew who is concerned over the future
of his people, must give serious thought to
the economic problem of our youth. And
just as in Russia and Palestine, as well as
in other countries, Jews are beginning to
realize that the solution must be intimately
connected with a return to the soil, so must
Jews, wherever they may be, in this coun-
try and throughout the world, begin to
think of farming.
Our numbers on the farms have increased
encouragingly. But the movement, if it is
to give true health to Jewry, must assume
a mass proportion. In farming lies a solu
tion to many economic ills facing many
Jews.
COBBLERS AND TAILORS.
Why they should ever have been
laughed at in the first place I don't
know. The Jews have been the
tailors of America, and personally
I think it is something to be proud
of.
Take the shoemakers. Now, I
don't see that there is one whit
more respectable in cobbling than
in tailoring, yet it is an historical
fact, that the shoemakers have
played a tremendous part in mould-
ing this America of ours.
Seventy-five and one hundred
years ago—and even less than that
—morepublic opinion with respect
to politics were formed while sit-
ting talking with the cobbler than
in any other institution of the coun-
try. Our own Calvin Coolidge, you
will remember had as his chief ad-
viser a humble shoemaker of
Northampton, and a generation be-
fore the days of Coolidge, the cob-
bler's shop came nearer to being a
public forum than any other place
in America.
SOMETHING TO THIS
But somehow we Jews have al-
ways laughed at our tailors. I re-
member attending a public meeting
some time ago.
One Jewish brother, persisted in
standing up.
"Sit down" shouted another.
"Let him stand up--he's taking
a rest," shouted still another.
A FRENCH JOKE.
From Philip Slomovitz, Detroit
editor, I get another. It appears
that in one of the Jewish organiza-
tions of the Michigan city, there
was a heated debate taking place
on the constitution of the organi-
zation.
Finally, one of the brethren be-
came a little fed up with the word
constitution, and exclaimed in
French:
"Vas mir in America a consti-
tutzie, yen mir in America • eon-
stitutzie? Kenste tuste—fiats all."
FROM BAD TO WORSE.
That reminds me of the story
they tell me happened one day at
an affair given in the basement of
an East Side synagogue. One of
the members of the organization
was giving a violin recital. In the
audience, sat the enemy of this par-
ticular violinist. As soon as the fid-
dler began playing, the enemy
called out, "Tramp"!
The chairman of the affair im-
mediately stopped the program and
asked for the one who had called
the violinist a tramp to apologize.
No one owned up.
The chairman persisted, begin-
ning in the front row, and asking
each one, "Did you call the fiddler
a tramp?" and as on down the
line.
Finally, the enemy became all
fed up. He arose and said:
"Mr. chairman, it seems to me
the question isn't who called that
fiddler a tramp but who called that
tramp a fiddler?"
RABBI COHEN WRITES.
With reference to my recent dis-
quisitions on the Lost Tribes, I
have a note from Rabbi Henry
Cohen of Galveston — the best
known rabbi of any of the smaller
towns of America—in which he
says:
"History tells us that Britain is
from Brutayne —something to do
with Brutus. "Brit Ish" is apoc-
ryphal."
The derivation that Rabbi Cohen
offers is very interesting. I need
hardly add however that in pre-
senting the "Brit lob" thought, I
was not presuming to indorse it. I
regard the entire idea that the so-
called lost tribes ever were carried
off to any very remote parts as be-
ing but one more of Lose myths
which clog the corridors of history.
HOW INGENIOUS.
I believe, indeed, that an ingen-
ious fellow could if he wanted to
take the trouble, make out a plaus-
ible case for the early New Eng-
land Yankees as in this "Brit-ish"
matter.
How easy for instance, it would
be to derive Yankee from "Yank-
ov," which, it will be recalled is
frequently pronounced "Yannkov".
But that would be only the begin-
ning. The Yankees were noted in
particular for one characteristic-
-a sharp bargaining instinct—which
too, our foes declare is one of our
marked characteristics. Not only
that but the very term "Yankee"
was not infrequently used to im-
ply outwitting.
I think I could even add to the
plausibility of the ease, but I shall
desist for the present.
What does it prove? It simply
proves that you can make a pre-
tense of provin g pre tty nearly any-
thing in this mundane sphere of
OWL
TEARS OR LAUGHS.
I hadn't heard the Rev. Meehan-
sky for many years. You will re-
call that a decade or two ago, he
played a most vital part in stirring
the fires of the melting pot. How
he could take the ordinary audience
and just move it anyway he saw
fit was • treat to behold.
The other day I heard him again.
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JEWS IN THE NEWS
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AS A MEMBER of the committee to select the
Jew or Gentile who has rendered the most dis-
tinguished service to Jewish life in this country
during the year 1929, I invited my readers to make
euggestions. The winner will be awarded the Rich-
ard Gottheid Medal by the Zeta Beta Tau frater-
nity. Thus far the names of Julius Rosenwald,
Salmon 0. Levinson and Hiram D. Frankel, all of
Chicago, have been suggested to me. Also Nathan
Straus, Claude Bowers (non-Jew, whose attacks
on religious intolerance have attracted nation-wide
attention), Felix Warburg and Dr. John Haynes
Holmes. I wish to remind my readers that Rabbi
Stephen Wise, Aaron Sapiro and David Brown have
already been awarded the medal and cannot be con-
If you know of
sidered in the present selection.
any one who in your judgment is entitled to be
considered for the award I shall be pleased to
receive your suggestions.
MR. RICIIARD S. SCIILESINGER of Newark, N.
J., has very kindly sent me a clipping from the
New York Times which announces Jewish Science
service in New York. This in answer to an inquiry
from another reader asking for information on the
subject. Rabbi Morris Lichtenstein is the leader
and founder. And these "Authorized Jewish Sci-
ence Services" are held on Sunday morning at II
o'clock at 150 West Eighty-fifth street; also on Fri-
day evening at 8:15. I have commented in the past
on Jewish science and while I do not subscribe to it,
is doing lots to stir up the droopin s
hopes of the ('incinnatians. Weil
a likeable fellow, is sure to become
popular over the big league circuits
and certainly he has the good wish-
es of Cincinnati's rabid baseball
fans.
If sonic mischievous radio an-
nouncer in introducing Roxy, the
famous moving picture impressario
were to introduce him by the name
under which he votes and signs
checks, Samuel Lionel Rothafel,
many radio listeners would not
recognize their favorite and to Roxy
himself such an introduction would
have a strange sound. The Rosy
Theater in New York, the world's
largest movie house, is celebrating
its third anniversary and so Rosy
is again in the news. Book agent,
cash boy, marine and what have
you were among the enterprises
that Rothafel tackled before he be-
came a nationally known charac-
ter. It was his originality and
taste in developing amusement tid•
bits for the movie Wrong of a com-
paratively obscure house that gave
him his first real opportunity with
the Strand Theater. Roxy's devel-
opment of new popular style of en-
tertainment by surrounding pic-
tures with a variety of divertisse-
ments end adding the courtesy-to-
patron idea gave the theaters with
which he was connected, the Rialto,
Rivoli, Capitol, now his own mag-
nificent Rosy Theater, on air of
distinction and refinement which
other impressarios have found it
hard to duplicate or equal.
Rose Pastor, the little Jewish ci-
gar worker and radical whose ro-
mance with J. G. Phelps Stokes,
wealthy Socialist and philanthro-
pist, a generation ago created a
modern Cinderella story, is back on
the front pages again. home swain,
ill and impoverished, the one-time
"Rose of the Ghetto," whose career
as agitator, social worker, radical
lecturer and writer had combined
to keep her constantly in the pub-
lic eye for two decades, is causing
sadness on the East Side. While
she was working on a Yiddish pa-
per in New York she met Stokes
who fell in love with her and mar-
ried her. The former factory girl,
even though wife of a millionaire,
was an outspoken and active adher-
ent of labor and aided in organiz-
ing unions. Her marital difficulties
in 1925 created something of a sens-
ation.
The word "czar" in eonection
with a Jew sounds ominous but
"czar" Nahum I. Stone has nothing
ominous about hire. Dr. Stone, an
internationally known economist
and statistician, has just been
named impartial chairman of the
dress industry in which he will pre-
side over a system of industrial
control and adjustment similar to
that in effect in the cloak and suit
industry for several years. The
impartial machinery that he will
administer was net up last Janu-
ary at the termination of the strike
of the International Ladies Gar-
ment Workers Union. Dr. Stone
comes to his post with a distin-
guished record of successes to his
credit. In 1911 and 1914 his in-
vestigation ut the dress and waist
industry resulted in an adjustment
of wages for sonic .10,000 workers.
Ile is also a noted expert on tariff
matters and for some time ails a
special tariff consultant of the
United States department of Com-
merce.
I am willing to supply my readers with information
desired.
A
ZIONIST enthusiast livirg in Philadelphia sends
me a letter in which he utters an impassioned
cry to "Draft Brandeis!" And he says that this is
the cry of thousands of Zionists whose patience have
been sorely tried by the notoriously inefficient lead-
ership at present in control of the Zionist organiza-
tion. He urges that Brandeis is a name widely re-
spected, and an inspiration to the Jewish youth. His
return to leadership, continues my correspondent.
will give the Zionist movement in this country the
vitality it sorely needs at this time. I'm satisfied.
If the Zionists want Brandeis they can have hint so
far as I ant concerned. If they want to keep Louis
I•ipsky at the head, that suits me, too. I don't want
to put vinegar in the ice cream and spoil the party,
but it seems to me, an outsider, that while you Call
satisfy some of the Zionists sonic of the time, you
ran never satisfy all of the Zionists some of the
time, and as for satisfying them all, all the time,
well, the age of miracles has not yet arrived. Bran-
deis is a good man of course and he would make a
good lender, but I think Lipsky is a good testier, too,
and I know that Zionism is his life and that he has
given his life to the movement. He has made mis-
takes, of course. Many. But all leaders do that.
With Spring in the air the atten•
tion of sport lovers is turning the
great American game of baseball,
which for sonic reason has had
comparatively few successful pro-
fessional .lewish players. Even
fewerhave been thenumber of Jews
in the business end ofthe sport.
As the new major league season
nears its opening, the National
League team in Cincinnati goes
after the pennant under new man-
agement. When the Cincinnati
Club was reorganized last year Sid-
ney Weill a successful young busi-
ness; man of Cincinnati bought up
the controlling interest in the club
and now joins Barney Dreitus off
Pittsburgh and the lute Andrew
Freedman of the Giants as the
third Jew to own a big league base-
ball club. Down in Florida where
the Cincinnati team is training the
new owner has made a big hit with
the players. Out in the field every
day the youthful baseball magnate
IConyright. 1930, J. T. A.)
THE BOOK CASE
THE English language is a wonderful institu-
tion. And we begin to realize it when we try
Comments on Jewish Authors and their Books.
to interpret the meaning of certain passage's in the
est
Bible. I have always suspected that one of the
By FRIEDA R. BIENSTOCK
many reasons why the Bible is so popular is that
every man can get from it just the meaning he is
looking for. Christians ran find what they want,
Jews can find what they want, l'rohibitionists can
reinforce their views with quotations, and the wets
discover authority for their attitude, the spiritual-
ists find comfort in it, and so do those who oppose
spiritualism.' There is not a question affecting the
relations of humans to the Here or tot the Hereafter
that cannot be satisfactorily answered, depending
upon the individual seeking the answer. I ant
prompted to make these observations by a letter re-
ceived from a lady in Richmond, Kentucky, who
sends me a printed explanation of the real status
of Jesus. She proved, by quoting certain passages;
in the Bible that Jesus was not the only begotten
son of God, but that he was God Himself. Maybe
I am afflicted with Spring Fever but I am in a very
accommodating mood these days. If the good lady
wants to believe that, God bless her! I am perfect-
ly satisfied.
ONLY TO A MAN LIKE WEIZMANN who must
have worked very closely with Balfour could
there he a proper understanding of just how much
the late Earl meant to the hopes and aspirations of
the Zionists. It is reported that when Dr. Weiz-
mann heard of Balfour's death he broke down and
cried as if his heart were broken. Undoubtedly there
must have been a bond closer than that of mere
acquaintanceship between the two. Our readers re -
call how intimate Weizmann was with the English
governmental leaders during the war, when his ex-
traordinary gifts as a chemist made him a most val-
uable aid in prosecuting the war for the Allies. So
it is likely that Balfour and Weizmann were in clos-
er contact than we know. And above all the latter
knows better than any one else how often Balfour
clime to the rescue of the Zionists at critical per-
iods in the development of Palestine. The Balfour
Declaration will be associated with the dead states-
man long after his other public services in the cause
of Great Britain are forgotten. The Jews have lost
a real friend because there can be no doubt but that
he was, at least, after the war swayed by a genuine
desire to help the Jewish people.
I THINK that tribute paid to Balfour by Dr. Steph-
en S. Wise so accurately portrays the was that
I would like to give you the opportunity to read it:
No one may undertake the appraises rich and
full life covering the fields of learning and
statesmanship such as was that of Lord Bal-
four, within a few moments of his passing. But
it may be said that Balfour fulfilled the Greek
ideal of the philosopher-statesman. It was his
understanding of the great movement of human
thought that moved him to champion the cause
of Hebraic nationality, and he never doubted
or wavered despite political scoffing, Arab an-
tagonism, Jewish doubting. To the end he re-
mained the steadfast and noble advocate of the
great cause with which his name is become im-
perishably associetted.
THE COMMISSION to inquire into the situation
created in Palestine as a result of the riots
should soon be ready with its report. But I suggest
to our Zionist friends that they should prepare them-
selves for a disappointment if they believe that the
Arabs ere going to be sweepingly condemned and
if the Jews are to be given a clean bill of health.
That sort of a report is not issued where certain
political considerations must inevitably influence the
members of ouch a commission. Of course, I may
be the one who will be disappointed. But after years
of observing just such situations I shall be the most
surprised man if it will be a lopsided denunciation.
I am more inclined to believe that certain recom-
mendations will be embodied seeking a basis of life
which will lead to a more harmonious relationship
between the Arab and the Jew. And it would not
be surprising if some of the suggestions made by
Dr. Magnes and others of his group should be adopt-
ed by the commission. Prepare yourselves for a lib-
eral use of whitewash for both Arab and Jew. Eng-
land is politically-minded and she has a great many
things besides I'alestine to consider in dealing with
the equation.
Lewisohn's Latest.
A fascinating exposition of an in
teresting subject.
In "Stephen Escott" (Ilarper'e,
$2.50) Ludwig I.ewisohn has sur-
passed his own high standard of
literary achievement. The book,
though not a love story, deals with
the personal love experience of
various characters, from Paul Glo-
ver, who shoots the lover of his
wife, to David Sampson, brilliant
Jewish lawyer and partner of Ste-
phen, whose marriage is as perfect
a union as one could desire. Ste-
phen himself suffers the tragedy
of an unsatisfactory marriage and.
using his experiences and those of
his friends and his parents as
themes, he philosophizes with tell-
ing effect on the tragedy of un-
happy marriages.
"The Kaddish."
Dr. David de Sobs Pool in "The
Kaddish" (Bloch Publishing Co.,
$21, presents the results of his in-
vestigation into the "origin,
growth and language of the prayer
called Kaddish," as he states in his
introduction. He quotes passages
to substantiate his theory that the
prayer, originally the closing dox-
ology to an Aggedic address—
"the final expression in prayer of
the Messianic hope pictured by the
preacher's words." The original
Kaddish is analyzed and interpret-
ed and chapters are devoted to the
Kaddish as a mourner's prayer, in
the synagogue service and in rela-
tion to the Paternoster. The lat-
ter, Dr. Pool finds so similar to
the Kaddish is many portions that
he expresses the belief that both
have a unity of origin, probably
Ezek. In a footnote the author
mentions the fact that many schol-
ars of recognized worth have noted
the Jewish origin of the I'ater-
noster.
One senses that Lewlsohn is try-
ing to ascertain why the ideals of
lovers are shattered by marriage.
In the marriage of David Sampson
he seems to be pointing out that a
truly happy union is possible,
given two people who love each
other deeply and are kind and tol-
erant in their conduct toward one
another.
Perhaps Lewisohn's idea is best
expressed in the words which he
puts into Stephen's mouth:
About Jewish Authors.
A German Jew, Robert Neu-
mann, makes his American debut
with the publication of "Flood," a
realistic novel that if it gets by
the censor should have a big sale.
The book deals with conditions in
Germany directly after the war.
The Dreyfus Affair, by Jac-
ques Kayeser, a nephew of Alfred
Dreyfus, will be published in the
fall. Dreyfus has given his aid
in the writing..Horace Live-
right, the Jewish publisher, is
about to produce another play
Samuel McCoy, who is writing a
life of Alexander Hamilton, blasts
once and for all the oft repeated
statement that the first secretary
of the treasury of the United
States, was a Jew.
Vladimir
Jabotinsky appears to be headed
for fame as an author in this coun-
try. Ile has been known to an
appreciative European public for
some time. Ills fame on this side
of the Atlantic up to now has been
due to his fiery espousal of the Re-
visionist movement. His "Judge
and Fool" is receiving the unani-
mous plaudits of the critics. The
". . . Love is the restoration
and the fulfillment of self-restora-
tion."
Loss in the Synagogue.
"The Sacred Fire" (Liveright,
$4), by B. Z. Goldberg, is an ab-
sorbing study of the relation of
love to religion from earliest times.
The author attempts to show how
religion evolves!, in part at least,
from the need of man to sublimate
his desire for an unlimited love
life. With the coming of the re-
strictions of society and the ne-
cessity to respect these men sought
an outlet. He found it, the author
states, and proceeds to prove, in
turning to a spiritual love for a
divine being.
Just as there is something of re-
ligious feeling in every deep love
so, the author believes, is there
something of love in every religion.
He describes from primitive times
the part love played in religion,
the sex symbols used in religious
ceremonies, and the refining and
humanizing of religion because of
its close relation to the love-force.
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VIEWS OF LEADING JEWS
DR. STEPHEN S. WISE: "While Balfour lived, much was said of
the need of interpretation of the declaration bearing his name. Ile is
It is for the Jewish people to dedicate themselves to the fulfil-
ment of the mandate, implicit in the covenant which he drew us on
behalf of the British empire with the Jewish people. Balfour is dead,
but the Balfour Declaration lives."
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RABBI SAMUEL SCHULMAN: "Israel has always had a vivid
memory for the noble leaders amongst the nations of the world who
have chivalrously championed its cause. The name of Balfour will be
treasured in the hears of Jews with reverence and affection from gen-
eration to generation. May the memory of the righteous be indeed
a
blessing to mankind."
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gone.
RABBI JAMES G. HELLER: "The entire Jewish people will mourn
the passing of Lord Balfour, a great statesman and friend of the Jewish
people. Because of his humanitarian principles, his name will not only
be engraved deep on the pages of English history but it will also be
enshrined in our memories."
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JAMES MARSHALL: Only a man of broad vision could have been
the author of the Balfour Declaration. Only • man of courage could
have given utterance to it."
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DR. SCHMARYA LEVIN: "In • critical period he departed from us,
he who so deeply understood our strivings with the vision of • prophet,
with the far-sightedness of a statesman, with the sense of highest jus-
tice possessed by a true Zaddik. And in the moment when we must
strain our greatest efforts to realize our ideal, we look proudly to this
great Britisher who has become one of our own."
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