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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
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onto a new, unspoiled world. far of Ameridan Hebrew Congrega- with such eminent and universally
a
removed, by a vast ocean, from tions. Now, he nor his congrega-1 acclaimed distinction as chaplains
the bitter memories of Europe, tion no longer stood alone. They in the armed forces of our nation.
NEW YEAR'S GREETINGS!
that worked this strange magic in were magnified and Multiplied
Both the Hebrew Union College
the soul of those who came to into a Union of some 30 congrega- and the Union of American Heb-
these shores. Perhaps it was the tions and some 2,000 souls. Though rew Congregations, so uniquely
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consciousness of the ever-present the beginning was small, the lat- "Made in America" Will continue
frontier which brooded over our ter end has reaped abundant fruit- their ministrations which have s:
nation's history for a hundred age from his planting. Today, that proved to be of such far-reaching
years, the frontier which called ha n d f u l of congregations has blessing to America and to Israel.
NEW YEAR'S GREETINGS AND BEST WISHES
(or brave, resolute men to heat grown to well over 300 and the Thus, the Liberal Judaism, as en-
across the wilderness a road to mere thousand or so souls whose visaged by Isaac Mayer Wise, a
. freedom and better life. Whatever representatives first met together Judaism first forged in ancient
• was, this we have become; ere- three score and ten years ago Zion, but now recast, remade in
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tive, constructive men who build. have become many hundreds of America, created out of the uni-
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thousands
of
men
and
worsen,
who
Even now, we will leave to the
versal vision of the Hebrew proph-
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leaders of other nations to debate view with pride the achievements ets and intensified by the all in-
and devise the theories and ideo- of their pioneering forbears.
clusive fellowship which Is Amer-
"Made in America," likewise, has ica, continues today as a living
logies for a united world. We
Americans will forge the machin- been the Hebrew Union College, monument to a Bohemian im-
ery which will make it work and the first Jewish theological semi- migrant rabbi who came to these
Best Wishes for a Joyous New Year
move. Whatever it was, that kind- nary to be reared on the soil of shores just 100 years ago.
led this creative spark In virtually this new world which wee brought
every pioneer who touched these into being exactly 70 years ago by
Quality of South African wool
shores, Isaac Wise possessed it to the Union of American Hebrew has been lowered this year by
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a preeminent degree for of none Congregations. Here also was drought.
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are these characteristics of Amer. something new under the sun--
something
"Made
in
America"
in-
Ica more true than of him.
From the moment he came here, deed! And again, though its be-
SEASON'S GREETINGS
therefore, though as he himself ginnings were small—a basement
room
in
Wise's
synagogue—its
!at-
confessed he was but an humble
immigrant hardly able to speak ter end hath, in truth, become
our tongue, nonetheless, he sought exceedingly great. It stands today,
to build, to build, and continuously in one of Cincinnati's attractive
to build. First of all, he found, suburbs, this Hebrew Union Col-
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WISHES THEIR FRIENDS A VERY HAPPY
among his own people especially, lege, with its several modern and
a lamentable lack of any genuine majestic buildings, high upon its
REFINING COMPANY
NEW YEAR
religious organization. Everyone stately hills, fringed by the ver-
dant
woods
across
the
way,
which,
did what was right In his own
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eyes with the result that naught with its eminent faculty, its in-
Mr. and Mrs. Nathaniel B. Carroll and Family
but chaos and anarchy main- comparably rich library, has be-
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Lieberman
come,
in
truth,
the
cultural
and
tained. The facilities for Instruct-
Mrs. Sam Lieberman and Family
ing the young and for ministering spiritual arsenal of American Is-
to the old were totally inadequate rael. Ito benefactions have been
and, being sundered one from the almost beyond belief; it has sent
Rosh Hashonah Greetings
other by the vast distances of forth its spiritual sons, echoing
this wide-spreading half-continent, the Hebrew prophets of old, but
there was little cooperation or co- speaking the :diom of America, to
ordination between one community minister to hundreds of congrega-
and another. There was no na- tions and communities not alone
tionwide unification of all these in these United States, but in the
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scattered and sporadic efforts, no Dominion of Canada, in Great
Semet-Solvay
Coke
Britain,
in
Australia,'
and
the
means by which the new ideal-
ism could be widely disseminated. Union of South Africa and who,
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Each teacher who shared his own to so unparalleled a degree, have
more
recently
served
in
such
pro-
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fresh vision and purpose was an
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Isolated voice crying in the wild- portionately large numbers and
erness, so pathetically alone that
few would hearken, while even 4
fewer would heed.
Roth Hashonah Greetings
Le Shone, Tikosevu
Very quickly, he came to the
conclusion that if this new inter-
pretation of Judaism were to be
saved, the individual teacher must
be implemented to a strong, united
Jewish religious community In the
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lieved with him that Judaism, to
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live, could not be static, but must
be a continuous and progressive
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development, would have to join
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together for an organized expres-
sion of that faith. Through such
a widespread institution his Liber-
al, "Made in America Faith" would
no longer stand alone in pitiful
isolation, but would reach out
into distant places, to crowded
cities and remote villages; would
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follow the frontier westward and
southward whither Jews were go-
ing with America on the March.
And like the good American that
he was, he was not content with
words or wishes, with pious pray-
ers or devout desires. He acted.
In the year 1873, he called togeth-
er the representatives of a bare
handful of congregations and to-
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