Friday, September 15, 1944
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The legal Chronicle
iiMaintaining the Spirit of Israel.
(An interview with Samuel Rothstein, newly-elected President of
The United Synagogue of America)
By ALFRED WERNER
EDITOR'S NOTE :—Alfred Werner was born in Vienna, Austria,
and is a graduate of the University of Vienna. He was editor
of "Gerechtigkeit" and "Die Stimme," and director of the
literary department of the Vienna Jewish Cultural Association
(Wiener Jeudische Kulturstelle). After the Nazis invaded Aus-
tria, he was kept in the Dachau concentration camp for six
months. In 1940 he came to the United States, and has since
been writing for the general as well as Jewish press here.
Dr. Werner was on the editorial stair of the Universal
Jewish Encyclopedia.
In the year 1913 Europe's the day of Armaggedon. On Feb.
great powers were busily forging 22 of the same year, a group of
their weapons of destruction for
important people met in this means of the coming showdown
country to discuss the ways and battle. But when Professor Sol-
omon Schechter, president of the
Jewish Theological Seminary of
America rallied his forces in the
old Seminary building on West
123rd St., New York, he (lid not
think in terms of rifles and guns;
he convoked the representatives
of congregations and institutions
of higher Jewish learning solely
for the purpose of combating de-
terioration and dissolution of
Judaism in this country!
It was not difficult for him to
convince these people of the
necessity for adapting the forms
of our religious life to the re-
quirements of 20th century
American environment, without
discarding any of the essential
features of our ancestral faith.
The great old scholar insisted on
the traditional observance of the
Sabbath, the dietary laws and
the Hebrew language, but he rea-
lized at the same time that he
had to meet certain American
conditions in order to provide an
up-to-date broad-minded general
concept of Judaism for the new,
American-bred generation o f
Jews who, otherwise, would no
longer feel at home in the syna-
gogue. On the other hand, he re-
fused to go as far as some re-
formers who diluted Judaism to
such, an extent that it lost all of
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