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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE
Thursday, September 22 .1949
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not only in American orthodox display even less respect for the
synagogueS, but even in many things of the spirit-11'144i
conservative and reform Temples poetry, music—than do their
which are supposed to emphasize husbands, who are at least spirit-
ually disciplined by a businets
decorum in the House of God.
While American Christians and its attendant work and
despite all the selfish materialism worries.
By PHILIP RUBIN
Rabbi's sermon. But there is a
All too many of our middle-
and cynicism of American life,
YOU ENTER A 'Synagogue on buzz-buzz all around you—folks
still show some respect for the class Jewish women seem *
are
whispering
to
each
other,
en-
Yom Kippur eve, the holiest
faith of their fathers, as one can imagine that life can really be
night in the Jewish calender. joying a private tete-a-tete, in
see by their behavoir in church, converted into one vast deight-
tent
upon
communing
with
God.
You are ready to listen to the
more and more American Jews ful gin-rummy party.
age-old prayers and gather some You are intensely irritated, your
are beginning to regard their
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inspiration that will last for a inspiration has fled.
synagogues and temples—to say VERITABLE EPIDEMIC
Or you c o me to a big Zionist
while.
AND SO WE HAVE reached
nothing of their secular institu-
You are anxious to hear the gathering. A noted orator is re-
tions—as mere social gathering the stage here in the United
viewing the great happenings
places where prayers, sermons, States of an epidemic of talka-
in the newborn State of Israel
lectures, fine music are merely tive Jewish women at serious
during the past year.
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excuses for bringing Jews to- Jewish gatherings, with
feel.
New Year's Greetings
At first everybody listens in
gather in one place, there to in- ing, with no interest whatsoever
silence. But after ten minutes
dulge in remarks about a neigh- for what is being said or sung
or so the man and lady behind
RABBI MEIR LEVIN
boring woman's hat or dress, or or played on the pulpit, platform
you, the two young girls in
what nut,
stage or concert-hall.
front of you and the people who you go nowadays to a concert
Our American Jewish women,
Is this a symptom of the decline
sit at both sides of ,:ou seem to of fine Jewish music, rendered I have noticed, are the greatest of the Jewish spirit here? if so,
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Today a great many of our spiritual values?
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keeps quiet during the whole American Jewish women, pam-
After observing the situation
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HARDLY MUSICAL
recital.
pered by their middle-class hus- over a good many years, I am
JEWS HAVE a reputation for
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The rest seem to regard the bands, having little work to do regretfully compelled to answer
being a musical people. But if music as only a charming accom- In their homes or anywhere else,
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paniment to their private talk-
tests. The attitude of the latter
ROSH HASHONAH GREETINGS
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great singers but the content of
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ROSH HASHONAH GREETINGS . . .
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GREETINGS
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ROSH HASHONAH GREETINGS
GREETINGS
If our Jewishness is some-
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will to strengthen Judaism by
New Year's Greetings and
teaching us a great lesson.
That lesson is: Respect, if not
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reverence for the things people
say they believe in.
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U. S. Leaders Are Urged
to Revitalize Jewish Life
In Israeli Cabinet
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