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ews Seeking New Freedom

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By RABBI MORRIS ADLER
Congregation Shaarey Zedek

PASSOVER GREETINGS

knowledgeable leadership than is
HE STRESS WHICH OUR tradition places upon freedom during
the case at present.
the Passover season is intended to convey the profound recogni-
A community which honors
tion that freedom is not exhausted by the removal of outer restraints
spiritual values and upholds edu-
and coercions. The period that links Pesach and Shabuot dramatizes
cation will raise a leadership to
the truth that freedom is fulfilled not when liberation is achieved
match its purposes.
but when through its culture a people realizes its own talents and
Administrative skill and execu-
INSURANCE
expresses its own aspirations.
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tive ability are valuable and
The free community is one that collective understanding and con-
necessary. They are not the sub-
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does more therefore than protect sciousness.
stitute for Jewish background,
its citizenry against servitude.
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Jewish knowledge and positive
It opens to its members avenues
Jewish loyalties.
PATERNALISM, a self-appoint-
to their own self-realization by ed and sef-perpetuating leader-
Democratic America assures
encouraging their creative inter- ship, policy-making by the few,
American Jewry freedom from
action with their culture. Such a a narrow conception of the basic
oppression. The full measure of
Jewish community has not yet cohesions of Jewish life — are
freedom which means the open-
Passover Greetings
come into being in America.
ing of the way to Jewish crea-
characteristics of a stage in the
tive living and self-fulfillment,
One of the healthiest signs evolution of the American Jewish
cannot be bestowed upon us.
within American Jewry is the community from which we have
We must achieve this freedom
growing discontent with Jewish begun to emerge.
for ourselves.
life as it is presently organized.
An enthroned leadership that
In some places this dissatisfac- is blind to this dynamic potential
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Tel Aviv — (ISI) — A trade
nessed to any instrument for its inadequacy but constitutes an ob-
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agreement between Israel and
RABBI MORRIS ADLER
implementation; in others it has stacle to the progress of the com-
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Norway signed recently stipu-
not reached full articulation; and munity.
in still others it is embodied with
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The proponents of this stand- phases, is a community which in- lates that Israel's imports plus
greater or less intensity in com- point seek to achieve a three- evitably disenfranchises the many. $2,125,000 are to be covered by
Thirdly there must be created exports.
munity councils.
pronged advance in the years
conditions
for the development of
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that
follow.
First
is
a
desire
for
force
Whatever its form, it is a
more
Jewishly
oriented an d
to be reckoned with in the de- a comprehensive view of Jew-
termination of the future of the ish living which will embrace
GREETINGS
Passover Greetings .
Jewish tradition and education,
Jewish community.
Jewish
practice
and
discipline,
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from
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Happy Passover to All
MR. AND MRS.
THIS GROWING MOVEMENT, religion and literature.
WEBSTER FLORIST
These constitute areas of com-
HARRY FRIEDBERG
which in its positive aspect seeks
the re-organization of our present mon interest for all Jews and link
AND FAMILY
AND NURSERY
communal structure is no simple Jews not only to each other but
also
to
their
history.
rebellion by the "outs" against
JULIUS BLASE
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MR. AND MRS.
the "ins."
SECONDLY THIS program
To ascribe it to the frustration
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is to misread the real meaning so that active participation in
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phenomena in American Jewish enjoyed by greater numbers. A
community
in
which
fund-raising
life.
More than a decade ago the activity tends to obscure all other z-crocccrx•cizci.
PASSOVER GREETINGS . . .
late Simon Shetzer, an out-
standing leader in shaping the
PASSOVER
Holiday Greetings
viewpoint for a democratic
GREETINGS
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an indication that American
Jewry was beginning to come
of age.
distributors of
There have been Internal and
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external factors that have imped-
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