Friday, September 12, 1917
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE
all. This is typical of the far places—San Francisco, for ex-
ample—of local chapters of . the
western Jewish communities.
American Council for Judaism.
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The feeling among the general
Jewish population is that the
FREE-LANCE RABBIS
ANOTHER DISCOURAGING presence of the American Coun-
cil for Judaism is a detriment
element is the prevalence of the to the entire Jewish community.
free-lance Rabbi. The species
These were the discouraging
seems to breed out west. The
aspects of what I saw on my
condition may arise from the
tour of the west coast. With
fact that many of the Jewish
such conditions prevalent, many
communities arc young and that thoughtful Jews, asked me,
there is a continuous influx of
"Don't we have a real job of
new settlers. As a Abtsult, no Jewish spiritual ,rehabilitation
community leadership or tradi- and reconstruction to do right
tion has emerged for selecting
the right kind of spiritual guid- here in America?"
ance. These communities need
properly-trained and duly-or-
dained Rabbis.
t.ariipers SOS Food Campaign
These youngsters at the Felix Fuld Camps, Milford, Pa., are
shown packing and loading 4,800 pounds of canned food they
donated, with the help of their parents, to the SOS (Supplies
for Overseas Surviyors) Collection of the Joint Distribution
Committee. More than GOO camps in many sections of the
country conducted similar SOS food and clothing drives.
Dr. Goldman Scans
West Coast Judaism
Still another discouraging con-
dition is the existence in some
Ledermann
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and Other Officers
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And Their Families
A VERY HAPPY AND
PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR
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AN THE WEST COAST today there is increasing awareness of
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the spiritual and religious aspects of Jewish life. Our people
are beginning to realize that it is not enough to gather funds for
the Jews of Europe while the American Jewish comthunity itself
sickens spiritually and emotionally.
The symptoms of the sickness of Jewish life in the parts of the
country I visited were every -
* ere in evidence. You see the them is the frightfully low level
self-styled Jewish "Four Hun- of Jewish education in the West-
dred" in many cities pouring
hundreds of thousands of dollars ern communities. Even the two
into Jewish country clubs and biggest cities, Los Angeles and
Jewish golf clubs, believing that San Francisco, have only very
they can achieve Jewish social recently come to grips with this
cohesion with the cement of lob-
problem.
ster salads and cocktails.
You see 30 to 40 per cent of
It is only a little over a year
the Jewish young people in some since Los Angeles, with its Jew-
communities marrying outside
the faith, making the ultimate ish population of 200,000, reor-
break with their heritage. Or ganized its Bureau of Jewish
you notice Jewish students on Education along modern lines.
the college campus, afraid of be- And it is only this year that
ing recognized as Jews and hop- San Francisco appeinted a di-
ing to lose their Jewish identity rector of Jewish education.
in the midst of the majority, re-
In all the other cities, the
fusing to have anything to do situation is appalling. Even the
with organized Jewish group Sunday School, with all its in-
life.
adequacies, is in a terribly low
Some even go so far as to estate.
avoid walking on the sidewalk
In Seattle, a Jewish commun-
in front of the lintel Foundation
ity of some 14,000, the local
building.
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Talmud Torah has an enroll-
ment of only 130 children. The
LITTLE EDUCATION
THERE ARE OTHER discour- local congregations have almost
aging conditions. Chief among no Hebrew School program at
THE JEWS ON the west coast
look to the East as the center of
Jewish life and they always
welcome the right kind of Jew-
ish leaders from eastern com-
munities.
They want to strengthen their
own Judaism by attracting Rab-
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EDITOR'S NOTE: Dr. Israel M. Goldman, president of the
Rabbinical Assembly of America, has made a 10,000 mile tour,
which took him to Houston, Tex., and the length of the West
Coast as far north as British Columbia. He spoke before
congregational, communal and college audiences and met with
leaders of various Jewish communities. This is his report.)
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Faults But Is Heartened by Young
When I listened to the ques-
tion, I coud not help feeling that
modern American Jews were
echoing our ancestor, Jacob:
"And now when shall I provide
for mine own house also?"
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