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Sabbath Readings of the Torah
Pentateuchal portion—Ex. 6:2-9:35
Prophetical portion—Ezek. 18:25-19;21
Rosh Chodesh Shevat Reading of the Law,
Wednesday, Jan. 17
Num. 28:1-15

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January 12, 1934

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Friction in Zionist Ranks.

What was until now difference of opin-
ion as to method and policy among the
different factions in Zionism is today de-
veloping into cause for inner warfare which
is the most damaging danger to the move-
ment.
Here is the situation as it exists today:
Revisionism is on the warpath against the
labor 'Zionists as well as the general Zion-
ist organization; the laborites will not per-
mit a single opportunity to go by unchal-
lenged without thrusting a lance at the
Revisionists; now come the Mizrachi and
not only condemn the Left-wing Zionists
of the Labor movement, but have also in-
augurated a campaign for a Palestine fund
of their own, quite definitely thereby at-
tacking the Keren Hayesod and establish-
a policy of competition to the established
fund.
It remains to be seen whether this Zion-
ist battle will result in a Mizrachi-Revision-
fat fusion against the Laborites and the
general Zionists. In reality the war com-
menced at the last World Zionist Congress
when both the Mizrachi and Revisionists
were eliminated from the world executive
committee. In official quarters the charge
is made that Mizrachi's anger is occasioned
by the elimination from the Palestine Zion-
ist Executive of Herschel Farbstein. Miz-
rachi denies this and gives as the reasons
for its actions the breaking of the Sabbath
by the labor Zionists in Palestine and the
serving of non-kosher food in public kitch-
ens maintained by the Keren Hayesod.
These reasons were advanced last week in
a statement by Rabbi Wolf Gold, president
of the Alizrachi Organization of America.
.
What makes this battle especially re-
grettable and tragic for the movement is
that there is a considerable amount of truth
in the charges as well as the counter-
charges of all factions. For instance, on
the question of the Sabbath, Rabbi Wolf
quotes Chaim Nachman Bialik, great poet
and educator, who, ill a letter to a recent
Tel Aviv protest gathering against the
desecration of the Sabbath, said: "The
desecration of the Sabbath in public in-
flicts upon the heart of every true Jew an
unhealable wound . . . I cannot picture to
myself any possible national life without a
wholesothe Sabbath. Do not quiet down,
do not rest, until you bring back the Sab-
bath to its former glory and beauty." Rabbi
Wolf also quotes a statement by Mayor M.
Dizengoff of Tel Aviv who said: "We are
duty bound to keep the Sabbath from open
desecration in order not to tear ourselves
away from the nation."
Nevertheless, Mr. Bialik and Mr. Dizen-
goff saw fit to issue a joint statement on
Jan. 3, in which they declared:

"We repudiate entirely the statement that
we ever made any accusations against the
Keren Ilayesod. We protest strongly the use
of our names. Any attempt to obstruct the
work of the Keren Ilayesod constitutes a na-
tional betrayal and ■ conspiracy against the
upbuilding work, particularly at this moment
when the masses are seeking entrance to Eretz
Israel. The Keren Ilayesod must be strength-
ened. We call upon all sections of the Jewish
people to mobilize in favor of the Keren
Ilayesod."

breach of the elementary meaning of the
Mandate."
The Revisionists also content the claim of
the Palestine government to regulate Jewish
immigration in accordance with the absorptive
capacity of the country, charging that the im-
migration policy is dictated not by economic,
but by political motives, "whose very essence
is contrary to the Mandate." They further
point out that in 1926 the population of Pal-
estine approximated 650,000 which increased
to 1,200,000 in 1933, an 85 per cent increase
in 11 years, accompanied by an exceptional
prosperity without a trace of unemployment.
On the other hand, the government is expelling
Jewish tourists who overstayed their visas,
and who are the healthiest type of immigrants
naturally absorbed within the strictest mean-
ing of the word "capacity."

These are justified accusations. But
wrong methods in seeking redress may give
us more trouble than the British injustices
themselves. Furthermore, division in our
ranks will certainly weaken our case,
whether it is presented to the British gov-
ernment or to the League of Nations.
Zionists of all parties owe an obligation
to their people and to Palestine to demand
from their leaders that they should aban-
don separatist policies and should strive
for unified effort in behalf of the movement
which provides the only cheer in a tragic
Jewish situation. If principles are to be
embodies in the Palestinian program, they
should be made the responsibility of the
governing Zionist body. By striving for
unity it should be possible so to solidify all
factions as to place on one governing body
spokesmen for the Labor, Mizrachi, Re-
visionist and General Zionists. Unless such
unity can be achieved, the Zionist move-
ment will find its road to success blocked
and its progress checked.
We realize that Ben Gurion-laborites
may refuse to sit in council with Jabotin-
sky-Revisionists, or with Farbstein-Miz-
rachists. But the good of the movement
demands concessions which should make
the leadership of the various faL, tions rise
above partisanship and personalities. The
present division in the ranks should pro-
vide ample proof that there is serious dan-
ger on the Zionist road. This danger must
be removed, and only unity of action will
be a sure provider of safety against it.

The Jews a Century Hence.
In "The Shape of Things To Come," H.
G. Wells makes some challenging state-
ments about Jews and Judaism. Referring
to us as a people which keeps itself apart,
eats peculiar food, practices distinctive re-
ligious customs; calling Judaism an "anti-
quated obdurate culture," Mr. Wells pro-
phesies that within a hundred years this
peculiar people and religion will disappear.
To quote Mr. Wells:

There has been a widespread belief in the
tenacity and solidarity of Judaism. The Jewa
had been able to keep themselves a people
apart, eating peculiar food and following dis-
tinctive religious practices, a nation within
the nation, in every state in the world. They
had been a perpetual irritant to statesmen, a
breach in the collective solidarity everywhere.
They had played a peculiar in-and-out game
of social relationship. One could never tell
whether a Jew was being • citizen or whether
he was being just a Jew. They married, they
traded preferentially. They had their own
standards of behavior. Wherever they
abounded their peculiarities aroused bitter
resentment.
And yet between 1940 and 2059, in little
more than a century, this antiquated obdurate
culture disappeared. It and its Zionist state,
its kosher food, the Law and all the rest of
its paraphernalia were completely merged in
the human community. The Jews were not
suppressed; there was no extermination; there
were world-wide pogroms during the political
and social breakdown of the Famished Fifties,
but under the Tyranny there was never any
specific persecution at all yet they were edu-
cated out of their oddity and racial egotism in
little more than three generations. Their
attention was distracted from Moses and the
Promise to Abraham and the delusion that
God made his creation for them alone, and
they were taught the truth about their race.
The world is as full as ever it was of men and
women of Semitic origin, but they belong no
more to "Israel."

Why the Jewish People Should Survive

By HELEN ZIGMOND

A Rejoinder to Waldo Frank

By RABBI ISRAEL GOLDSTEIN

(Congregation B'nai Jeshurun, New York)

S.

materialists and idealists, paci-
Mr. Waldo Frank's article in
the New Republic of Dec. 13, on
fists and jingoists—without feel-
ing any Jewish "tendenz." The
"Why Should Jews Survive?" is
a noble call to the Jew to give
Diaspora environment is too
strong for a people, even with the
ideal motivation to his life, and
thus to invest with dignity the
tradition that the Jewish peo-
ple has had to resist. It is hard
ersonal tragedy inherent in
Jewish survival, for a tragedy
enough for the Jews in the Dias-
pora to just remain Jews. That
without such investment is gra-
task alone calls for almost maxi-
tuitous and therefore all the
more tragic.
mum resistance.
I am not defending that situa-
Mr. Frank's diagnosis of the
tion. I am merely endeavoring
role whoch the Jew has played
to
explain it.
in the economic order of the past
I do, however, see one chance
is, however, a personal interpre-
of
Mr. Frank's hope being ful-
tation of questionable validity,
filled, but it must be in a way
and his injunction to the Jew to
which he does not contemplate
be a saving remnant in the so-
in his article. It must be through
cial order of the future, fails to
a Jewish Homeland in Palestine.
reckon with sociological facts.
Though it may be objectively THE SAVING REMNANT
true that the Jew, finding his
Given a Jewish people in a
lot cast in with the bourgeosie,
homogeneous and congenial en-
proved to be a leaven in the rise
vironment, in a land whose every
against feudalism and in the as-
foot of soil is reminiscent of the
sertion of human rights, it was
prophetic message, a condition
not a deliberate part which he
is created which will enable that
was playing. Mr. Frank imputes
people to take up the thread of
to him a role which neither the
its historic mission. It would
Jew himself nor the society
be purblind to imagine that mere
around him was conscious of.
transplantation to Palestine
would forthwith cure every Jew
DIASPORA DIVISIONS
Now the Jew is exhbrted by
of greed, ambition and the all too
human impulses of exploitation.
Mr. Frank to carry on the pro-
hetic tradition and throw in his
In a Jewish commonwealth in
Palestine, there will inevitably
ot with those who are striving
be contentiousness between par-
for justice and righteousness in
ties and factions holding differ-
our day. Would that it might
ent economic and social ideolo-
be so! Unfortunately the char-
acter of Jewish life in the Dias-
mendous moral force upon Jewry
outside of Palestine and which
pora precludes such a possibility.
can strengthen the hands of those
Jews will continue to be divided
in other lands who would take
in their social and economic
theories and prejudices. The en-
up the causes of social justice.
It is not without relevance to
vironmental forces are too strong
to be resisted by Jewry "en
this argument that one of the
masse." Even "a priori" sym-
earliest creations of the Zionist
movement in Palestine has been
pathies for the ideals of social
the Jewish National Fund which
justice and human brotherhood
redeems land in Palestine by pur-
are not likely to remain gener-
chasing it with public funds and
ally unyielding, in the face of
which vests the title to that land
greed, ambition and all the other
in the Jewish people. No part
forces which compel people as
of the Jewish National Fund
a rule to yield their social ideal-
land can ever pass into private
ism. While leaders and preach-
ownership. It is not subject to
ers may go on exhorting, and
exploitation for private profit.
especially sensitive sons of Is-
Owned by the Jewish people, it
rael may continue to feel a pas-
is leased to those who are willing
mien for the service of the Most
to settle on it, cultivate it and
High, in terms of social ideal-
build their lives upon it. Tens
ism, and while the numbers of
of thousands of acres have thus
such idealists will, as in the past,
been redeemed in Palestine dur-
be probably larger than the Jew-
ing the past 30 years of the oper-
ish proportion of the population
ation of the Jewish National
would warrant, these phenomena
Fund. Thousands of families
will be accounted for as they
have settled upon that soil, many
have been accounted for by the
of them in collective settlements
fact that the Jew, by virtue of
working together and sharing the
his being born into a popular
fruits of their labor together.
minority, develops all the keener
Their struggle has been a strug-
gies. But there will also be the
gle in behalf of a Jewish social
Jewish predisposition toward so-
ideal. Nowhere in the world
cial justice which will have a
and at no time in history has
strong chance to exert itself be-
there been a more idealistic col-
cause it will not be obstructed
onization enterprise.
by alien civilizations, and by the
difficulties inherent in the.aheer
* That jp a Jewish achievement
problem of carrying the burden
which Palestine has made possi-
of being a Jew which often be-
ble. Because of its collective char-
devils the Jewish impulse to so-
acter, such an achievement is far
cial idealism.
more significant of the Jewish
role in social idealism than the
A Jewish people living a spir-
sporadic achievements of individ-
itually creative life in Palestine
ual Jews, here and there, whose
can become, moreover, a saving
inspiration even cannot be entire-
remnant for Jewries in the lands
ly attributed to Jewish influences
of the Diaspora. The Jewish
or to Jewish hereditary.
people in Palestine will create
Why should Jews survive?
a standard of Jewish righteous-
Jews sl,ould aurvive in order that
ness which will exercise a tre-
the Jewish people may survive.
resistance to-the conventions and
Why should the Jewish people
stupidities of the social order. It
survive? The Jewish people
1a a conditioned phenomenon ra-
should survive in order that Jew-
ther than a hereditary one. The
ish values which the world has
situation as a whole will prob-
ably be in no wise different than
acknowledged to be worth pre-
serving, may survive. The Jew-
it is now. The Jewish people,
ish people can create its values
scattered throughout the world,
beat in a Jewish homeland.
will be capitalists and socialists,

Having read these statements, we began
to turn the pages of history in our mind and
we reminisced about the legion of men
before Wells who both prophesied the dis-
It is clear from this statement that while appearance of Jewry and prayed for it.
these two outstanding Palestinian leaders But we are here, blamed for the same pe-
are opposed to the desecration of the Sab- culiarities, condemned for our separateness,
bath, they refuge to see the disruption of hounded for being either good or bad, radi-
Palestinian institutions simply because
cal or conservative. A peculiar phenom-
some Jews abuse Jewish traditions within
them. While Rabbi Gold denies linking enon indeed!
their names with his references to the And as we pondered on this question we
Keren Hayesod, it is the central truth—the wondered whether all these discussions
obligation of all Jewry to the Keren Haye- about Jews and Judaism after all con-
sod—that matters, and any attempt to de- etitute a Jewish problem. Is it not, in fact,
atroy Zionist unity by destroying the Keren
Hayesod is a "national betrayal" which a world problem? Is it not the world
There
truths at also
in the charges which imposes upon us difficulties and dis-
should
be are
avoided
all costs.
abilities which are the direct cause of Jew-
made by the Revisionists. At Paris, last ish issues and debates?
But granting that Wells is right, that
week, a movement was instituted by this
party to seek redress from Great Britain "Jews will be educated out of their oddity
for its failure to live up to the mandate and and racial egotism," what guarantee has
for blasting Jewish hopes in Palestine. The Mr. Wells that the shades of Jewish grand-
report of Revisionist action, cabled from
'
Paris by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, mothers will not be invoked, for those of
Semitic origin but who no longer belong to
states in part:
Israel, 100 years hence?
In 1926, twenty per cent of the population
Therein lies the crux of the problem:
Of Palestine was Jewish, the Revisionist letter
pointed out; in 1931 there was a decrease to
If the grandmother was Jewish it Is just too
17 per cent; in 1933 there was further de-
bad for the poor souls in Germany, and
crease, while the immigration policy of the
Mandatory Power and the total exclusion of
Mr. Wells fails to provide the necessary
the Jews from the Translordan, accompanied
by the heavy influx of Transjordan Arabs into
assurance that this myth created by
Palestine, completely out-balances the Jewish
Aryanism may not be revived and adopted
Increase in Palestine.
"ine Palestine government refused to stem
by others whom we now look upon as civil-
the flood of Arabs attracted by prosperity
Sweated by the Jews," the Revisionist Union
ized, as we did upon Germany not so Ion

Mated. "at the same time cramping Jewish
immigration. This constitutes a deliberate

ago.

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Our Film Folk 1 By-the-ay

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PLAIN TALK

HOLLYWOOD. — Benjamin
Warner, papa to the Warner
Brothers, was unable to attend
the nuptials of his granddaughter,
Doris Warner, and Director Mer-
vyn LeRoy . . . but he heard the
entire ceremony. A direct wire
was arranged so that he was not
only able to hear every sound of
the occasion, but he also spoke to
those at the other end of the
hook-up. Harry Warner, papa of
the bride, gave her a complete
moving picture (a talkie) of the
wedding proceedings as a gift.
.
• • •
Did you hear about the tele-
gram that Ben Hecht and his
collaborator, Charlie MacAr-
thur, sent Louis B. Mayer?
They offered to buy MGM .
finally bidding up to $15,000,000
for it. These boys should con-
trol their mirth.
• • •
During his European jaunt Jos-
eph Schenck has appointments with
Hitler and Stalin . . . all touchy
topics will be avoided . . : they'll
talk about the movie game . . .
and maybe the weather.
• • •
Adele Jerome, one of the
Benjamin Zemach dancers, will
tour the country dancing the
"Raftero" . . . if you've never
heard of it, don't be mortified
. . . it's • step arranged a s an
accompaniment to George Raft's
new picture, the "Bolero."

Sam Goldwyn's hope and pride
was having his ears washed and
wasn't at all enjoying the process .
He expostulated, "Say, ma, the
way you dig into my ears you'd
think there was gold in 'em!"
• • •

They are spending "high, wide
and handsome" on that Rothschild
film . . . Among the startlers will
be the coronation scene in which
Rothschild was made a baron .. .
it will be "shot" from the largest
wet ever photographed in color.

Cogitations on Hollywood by
Sam Hoffenstein, suthor-scenar-
ist: "The movies ... they drag
you from home ■ and friends,
force you to work on the rank-
est claptrap, tear all the heart,
hope and ambition out of you,
and what do you -et for it?
... A pediculous fortune!"

Skip it if you already know that:
Joseph Von Sternberg directs
La Dietrich in German ... A res-
taurant in Brooklyn features a
highchair used by Mae West when
she was a baby ... Groucho Marx
sings "Way Down Upon the Swa-
nee River" — in Yiddish — and
leaves his listeners gasping for
breath . . . Doug Fairbanks, oh-
so-social in "Lahndon," was seen
riding in a street-car! ... Nicholas
Schenck, Joseph Von Sternberg
and Sol Wurtzel are the only pic-
ture people thus far whose biog-
raphies have reached the public
prints via the New Yorker maga-
zine . . . Lenore Ulric peers
through a lorgnette at things be-
cause she is really near-sighted.
• • •
Sid Grauman gave Lawrence
Tibbett his first professional
chance. Tibbett was hired to
sing "Eili, Eili" in one of Grau-
man s prologues at • $50 weekly
salary. But not knowing the
meaning of the Yiddish, he sang
it coldly and was a complete
"flop" ... Grauman had to re-
place him with a Jewish warbler
who put the proper. sob into it.
•
Clippings:
Al Boasberg say's it might be a
coincidence, but just as his agent

(Turn to Next Pap)

A Column of
Frank Speaking.

By ALFRED SEGAL

Tidbits and Ntf,VJ

By DAVID SCHWARTZ

1Collftlebt, 1933. Jenleit TelMmPhie Aim., 1m /

A JEWISH BOOK
My good friend, Mr. Day, the manager of the Hotel Imperial,
where the present writer makes his abode, is a great lover of Jewish
works. That is why, presumably, every room at the hotel contains
that well known Jewish book called the Bible.
I must say that of late years I have been neglectful of my
spiritual reading, but the other night, after a dinner topped off with
a mint julep, reminiscent of my old southern days, I felt benignly
spiritual, and I picked up the Bible and began to read the latter part
of the work—the New Testament.
•
•
•

COMMUNISTS! I HISS!
Somehow I found myself in the Acts of the Apostles and I read
how Peter baptized the early Christians, and then the passage went
on to say that these early Christians were of the faith and held all
property in common.
"Communists," I hissed. I thought of sending a marked copy
of the work to Herr Hitler. He is so down on the Old Testament,
yet the Old Testament says nothing against private property in land.
It regarded the land as the common property of the whole people.
But the New Testament goes the whole way to Communism. And
so Herr Hitler, if he is consistent, has much better reason for black-
listing the New Testament instead of the Old.
•
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•

COMMUNISM IN NEW TESTAMENT
The Christian part of the Bible is more communistic, and I think
the Jewish element in Communism in general has been vastly exag-
gerated. If Marx did not believe in private property, there were many
Christians long before Marx who expressed quite similar views. There
was Robert Owen—there was Cabet—there was Saint Simon—the
whole school of pre-Marxian socialists.
•
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•

WHO ARE COMMUNISTS?
I hope I shall not be misunderstood. I certainly do not regard
it as shameful for any Jew to be a Communist. Although not one
myself, I rather think that in a certain sense, a belief in Communism
reflects credit upon the person. It reveals, at any rate, that this
person has a sense beyond the "meum"—a sense of social idealism.
But what I want to point out hereby is that the facts happen to
be that some of the foremost Communists have been Christians and
also that some of the most critical and antagonistic works toward
Communism have been written by Jews.
•
•
•
PROFESSOR OPPENHEIMER
If Herr Hitler were really sincere about his Communist talk,
for instance, I know of no man whose economic philosophy would
have been more valuable to him than that of the Jewish economist
of Germany, Professor Franz Oppenheimer.
Oppenheimer has really developed an economic philosophy which
rationally challenges Communism and presents a solution of the
economic problems that can certainly not be completely ignored.
As far as Hitler is concerned, I fail to see any economic program
that could stand any intellectual test.
•
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•
HITLER'S INSINCERITY
Oppenheimer, by a different approach, independently arrived at
the same conclusion that Henry George came to—namely, that the
evils of the economic system spring from the land factor. He worked
out the case in a brilliant, masterful manner.
I do not intend here to go into any elaboration of those views.
All that I want to point out here is that here was a Jew who had
stocked out a system which even its critics will admit presents some
intelligent challenge to the Communist philosophy. A challenge of
the intelligence—not of the color of shirts.
And yet here is a leader—out friend Hitler—who professes to
want to fight Communism and yet makes the man who presents the
one intelligent challenge—a pariah and exile.
And let it not be thought that Oppenheimer was merely a Ione
voice crying in the wilderness. He had quite a school in Germany,
and in Holland a parliamentary party was formed which advocated
his views.
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•
TWO CRITICAL BOOKS
If I were asked to name the two books most challenging to the
Communist philosophy, I would name two books written by two Jews,
namely, Oppenheimer's "Weder Kapitalismus noch Kommunismus,"
and Max Hirsch's "Democracy versus Socialism."
•
A STRABISMIC WORLD
But to come back to our original point. It smacks of little sense
for Christians, whose New Testament does represent a Communist
vein, to attack Jews•for being Communistic. Are then the Jews too
Christian for Christians?
It reminds me somehow of a story I heard the other days of
three little boys in Germany.
Someone asked the Nazi boys what their names were.
Replied No. 1: "My name is Jakob."
Replied No. 2: "My name is Joseph."
Then the Jewish boy was asked. And he replied: "My name is
Adolf."
If you gather my moral—it is something to the effect that this
is a strabismic world, my friends, ery strabismic.

WORDS AND MUSIC
I see w'bere Gertrude Stein's poem on Napoleon or something or
other, which reads like the following, "The red white lily red white
red white lily lily red," is going to be put to music.
Won't someone else put the Chinese laundry ticket to music or
maybe the New York Telephone Directory with its 28 pages of
Cohens? The 28 pages of Cohens would certainly make a good
refrain. That is to say, I hope they will refrain from printing more
than 28 pages of them.
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LATEST BY KATZ
A man I envy is my colleague, Aleph Katz. In a day when
material problems hang as heavily on us, Katz can lose himself in the
composition of verse. Just off the press is Katz's "Dos Tellerl Fun
Himl." There is the rhythm of Hiawatha in it and there's philosophy,
too, and a very pretty cover. A swell present for your childhood
friends or for adults with the spirit of youthfulness.

WHEN YOU DRINK, SAY UTAH"

Speaking about the liquor question, as we were a few para-
"CAN JUDAISM SURVIVE?" I keeping this foolishness up. Cut it still must carry troubles unique to
graphs back, Walter Winchell is much clbterbed over the fact that
Jews.
asked Doctor Waldo Frank,! out!"
there is no good toasting phrase in English compared to the European
Most
considerate
though
they
his finger counting the pulse-beats;j
He brushed me aside rudely and
manner.
and even as he counted, the stream I wait his way ... "We'Jews should were, the Episcopalians did not let
Her suggests that Americans adopt tie word "Utah," that state
of life-blood fell to a slow trickle, take full advantage of our new op- me forget who I was.
"You Jewish people," said the having been the last and so the determining state in the repeal of the
. stopped!
portunities," I shouted after him.
Eighteenth
Amendment.
rector to me one day, "have a fine
Judaism lay dead.
"We Jews!" I was still con-
Of course the Jews still have "lechassm," and I am wondering if
Our last synagogue had become scious of this identity, though Ju- heritage."
somehow
it
could not be incorporated as some of the other Yiddish-
"Sir," I answered, "we are really
■ cinema and there stood the for- daism lay dead, though I had al-
isms into our American vernacular.
mer shammos in a dazzling red ready applied for membership in not Jewish people any more."
Somehow
between "Utah" and "Here's mud in your eye," I'm
"In a sense," he replied, "but
coat taking tickets.
the Episcopal congregation and had you still have your souls, your ar- afraid the latter will stick.
I myself did not feel as proper- bought • silk hat to go to church dor for righteousness, the prophetic
ly mournful as I should, consider.' with. The consciousness of being spirit, I might call it. The Jewish
ing. I was even glad. No more Jew was as immanent as the con- soul, taking Christianity, has been
problems! Judaism had been a pain , sciousness of being Segal.
a mighty leaven for the Christian
which I had cried in the press. It
So I was not so happy as my church."
By PHILIP W. RUSS
had kept me out of the best club new situation certainlyiustified me
Out of the church as well as in
and how I had suffered to stand at to be. Cone was as furiously hot I was reminded of my Jewish be- Assistant Director of Relationships of tie Boy Scouts of America.
the doors of swell hotels looking in!, against the so-called social sins as ginning. Not quick was the Mine-
It had filled all my thoughts ever and was still being called haha Country Club to take me. In
The Twelfth Scout Law says: mospliere of the scout camp corn-
and conversation. When I went to damn Jew. Others, too, were still fact when I applied for member- "A Scoot is reverent. Ile is reven- pletels absorb him? When he en-
a friend's house for an evening of being Jewish, still taking up un- , ship the scoundrels black-balled me. ant toward God. He is faithful in ters tamp, does he leave behind
pleasure, what was our exchange? popular causes, still pointing with
To one of the board I protested: his religious duties and respects the him b his little world back home
All evening it was about Jews and outrage at this and that. It was "When I was a Jew you didn't' convictions of others in matters of any cr all the spiritual values that
embarrassing.
what to do about being one.
have been developed through the
want me, and even now you don't ' customs and religion."
No more of this! Judaism was
One day in St. Herbert's Epis- want me."
Under ordinary circumstances, • influence of the home, school and
"Well," he explained, "the board boy of any ycreed feels quite at church? What may we expect of
dead now and I could march even copal Church I suddenly became
with those Episcopalians who pass- aware of pain in my conscience. , considered your application from home in the scouting environment. the Jewish boy, for example, of
, ed my house on Sunday morning it was at the moment we had risen all angles. It was pointed out that There in nothing in scouting that °stilettos parentage, when he goes
! under their silk hats en the way for the Lord's Prayer. What was you were in the Episcopalian makes it necessary for him to vio- to rout camp? Unless his parents
, to church.
it that hurt me so? I had remem- church, but, on the other hand, you' late in any manner whatsoever his and he are assured that camp will
are of Jewish blood. The fact was particular religious convictions of not in any way interfere with the
n this was
To my wife I said: "My dear, bered that
recited lre id for decisive against you. Mind you, customs. On the contrary, the constientious observance of his re-
I even the Niinehaha Country Club n and
we do not hold anything against scout law was formulated with the ligios, the Jewish boy with this
I
must
even
here
say
my
Kad-
is for us now."
you personally. It is simply that definite view not only of preserv- backrround will remain sway. Hav-
To my children: "You may
ing the spirit of reverence in the ing Mee been fully assured that the
we are against Jews.
i
dith
"Give
G
us
this
day
our
daily
! marry even the Anglican bishop
I had hoped for the happy mar-. boy, but more consciously with ■ conthionn at camp are most con-
' bread," recited the congregation.
daughters."
"Yisgadal, veyiskadash," said I. singe of my sons to the Anglican view to stimulating In him a devel- ducite to the carrying out of his
•
•
religous practices, let us see how
"Forgive as our trespasses," said bishop's daughters with whom they vointifiatint e rest his o w
BUT, THOUGH Judaism lay as
d egree, scouting n hrae l e been this Jewish boy reacts to his new
the congregation.
had gone through school. But though
dead as anything could be,
"Ore sholom bimromov," said I. Judaism lay dead Jewish young helpful to the church and syna- envisinment, Does he feel too race
; this happy millenium was not
During the remainder of the . men were still being attracted to gogue, particularly in those instan- constious in camp, and rather than
quick in coming. What irritated service I was troubled . . . Juda- ' Jewish young women even as they ces where church or synagogue has pernit it to embarass him, does he
me was the way Jews continued to
prefer to conform to all the routine
ism lay dead but my parent from were being repelled by the young directly sponsored • scout troop.
behave like Jews.
I Scouting has also been helpful in of tie camp, and temporarily at
her grave summons me to be Jew- women of the Gentiles.
least disregard the various require-
, There was Mr. Cone who had
stimulating
the
spirit
of
reverence
ish . . . Even in this Episcopal
And wliom do you think my eld-
ment of his religion? Even to the
! been Cohen. He had always been
Church I am summoned . . . Jew- est son married? Ile married a sis- that is inculcated in that boy in his casual observer will be revealed cer-
a sort of prophet in our town.
home environment. Not only in
ish voices sound in my heart even ' ter of Cone!
tain unmistakeable evidence of the
, flaming against the social sins, as
'
troop
activities
but
in
camp
as
well
when my lips should be giving the
"Why?" I demanded of him.
he called them, making himself ob-
are the evidence of these influences menus in which the twelfth scout
Lord's Prayer . . . Why is tliis? "Particularly a sister of that
law of reverence is carried opt in
' noxious to our beat citizens, gather-
. to be found.
. Is there no escape from being Cone!"
ing about him a group of people
With the advent of summer and the trout camp. In this connection,
Jewish? . . . Hadn't I done every-
"Oh," he answered, "I admire
it ',worthy of note that in a num-
(many of them Jews) who blat-
thing to conform to the new and the flaming spirit of the Cones! its lure of the out-of-doors the scout ber of scout camps maintained by
antly called themselves Authors of
happier order? Jews were still They are like • family of prophets. ! looks forward to at least a short loot scout councils of Greater New
, a Better Order.
behaving like Jews ... There was And, besides, isn't she very good- period of camping. Whether he Yott, which are accessible to about.
joins • small group of fellow scouU
So that he was called "that damn that Cone and all the young Jews looking?"
and scoutmaster or whether he at- 60 ace. cent of the Jewish scout
• • •
, Jew," and opprobrium that reflect- around him still behaving that way
poPilation of the United States,.
all
of
us;
for
it
was
the
prac-
, ed on
... There was the variety of other
AWOKE from the dream even tends the official scout camp main- these is provided a special Kosher
tained by his local scout council,
tice to include all Jews in the dam- Jews who made all Jews despised
at the moment of the wedding. he is confronted with several new meta; that is, a Kosher kitchen is
nation of one.
on account of the unpopular causes
. . "It seems." I said, "as long problems that were not present be- cathfully provided and It is under
But even after the demise of they were taking up.
as there are Jews there will be fore he went to camp. If he Is
theconstant and scrupulous super-
a
Judaism, Cone's eyes kept on flam-
Oh, I had been divested of Ju- Judaism• and there will be Jews
visbn of a resident Jewish den-
Catholic, P
ing and they were like two hot daism but I still had problems
I as long an there are hostile Gen- matter of religious observance mast ten, who is a rabbi. Every effort is
coals one day when I met him.
still was asking questions. These , tiles to keep them remembering
mile to carry out, not only the
be considered and planned. What
"Cone," I said "it's time you happy native Episcopalians about who they are, and even when the
, happens spiritually to the boy when letkr, but also the spirit of Koch-
were piping down. We Jews now me were beset only by problems last synagogue becomes a cinema
ru
preparation of food is
he goes to a scout camp? Does
have a chance to become respected that beset all mankind; bat I and the shammos in a red coat is I the spirit of constructive
nlav woe ca led out according to Orthodox
in the beat circles, but you are (though I had become one of them) taking tickets, there will be Jewa" I fun that obviously pervades the at-
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