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BACK THE ATTACK!

The Program of Liberal Judaism

Police Chief's
Son Hunted in
Attack on Jews

Traditions and Aspirations
Told by Rabbi Eisendrath

EDITOR'S NOTE: The recent election of Rabbi Maurice N. Eisendrath
of Toronto as director of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations
brought to the fore one of the younger men in the Reform Jewish ministry.
In the following article Rabbi Eisendrath interprets 'Reform Judaism to
America in a way compatible with its traditions in its aspirations.

Army Corps Patrol 'Streets
of Quebec Village to Nip
Anti-Semitic Riots

By MAURICE H. EISENDRATH

The American Jewish Conference provided an excellent
opportunity for various segments of Je*ish life to rub shoul-
ders with Jewish personalities and organizations that here-
tofore have been virtually un- <>

MONTREAL, (JTA) — Police
authorities' of Quebec Province
were hunting this week for
Rene Bolduc, son of the chief
of police of nearby Plage Laval,
in anti-Jewish riots•which broke
out there last week, while mem-
bers of the Canadian Army
Provost COrps continue to patrol
the village streets in order to
prevent new outbreaks.

Liberal Judaism Publishes
Sikorski's Pledge to Jews

People of Poland Will Destroy Walls of the Ghetto For:Ner
On Day of Victory, Ill-Fated Premier Promised in
His Last Testament Regarding Jews' Future

What is regarded as Gen.
Wladyslaus Sikorski's last testa-
ment regarding the Jewish fu-
ture in a liberated post war Pol-
and is contained in a special
article contributed to the Aug-
ust issue of Liberal Judaism by
Poland's tragically fated Prime
Minister and Commander-in-
Chief, killed in a plane accident
recently.
Declaring that the "promotion
of anti-Semitic policy would be
detrimental to the nation's wel-
fare," and expressing admira-
tion for Jewish heroism unex-
ampled in civilian resistance"
displayed by defenders of the
Warsaw ghetto, Sikorski made
this pledge in the name of his

known one to the other. Among
those little known to a larger 1921, insisted that. "we must
section of American Jewry was guard , against : conferring upon
the Union of American Hebrew theth - (the, early founders of
Reform) the claim -of • irifallt-
Congregations.
bility—we Would sin against the
The Union, founded in 1873, very spirit of progress which
. was one of the oldest of the made them leaders and prophets.
national organizations represent- of • their age,. should be attempt
ed in the Conference. Besides to canonize their every word.
Queried as to the role played
it, many of the numerically Truth grows, and many a thing
stronger groups seem but which seemed true 50 years ago by his son in the attacks on'
youngsters • barely out of their is . no longer considered so to- Jewish visitors to the sammer
resort, the chief . of police of
swaddling clothes. But it has day."
Plage Laval stated that he had
far from completed its allotted
Compel 'Re-Thinking
no comment to make. He ex-
span of life. On the contrary,
The
same
applies
to
our
pres-
pressed resentment, however, at
it is in the midst of a renas-
cence of mind and spirit, not ent attitude to Zionism which is the • "instrusion" of the provin-
the least significant sign of another indication of the Union's cial police authorities. • His son
which can be seen in the active quest for unity with its breth 7 disappeared shortly after the
role which it played in the or- ren of the house of Israel. Fore- riots had been quelled and has
ganization of, and participa- most among those things which not been seen since. Moe Her-
tion in, the American Jewish seemed true 50 years ago and scovitch, former Canadian Olym-
can "no longer be considered so pic star, who was attacked by
Conference.
today," was the supreme con- 20 men in the riot, is likely to
Founded in Germany
fidence of the early Reformers lose the sight of one eye, it
It is a caricature of Reform that the millenium was im-
Judaism to regard it as separ- mediately around the corner was reported last week.
atistic and schismatic, as draw- and that the dream of return-
Dear Boys and Girls:
ing in the hem of its garments ing to Zion was seriously out of
The High Holy Days are ap-
Airmen
from its brother Jews. That harmony with the spirit of that
proaching, and you should all
may have been true of some of supposedly humanitarian age.
begin to study the importance of
the earliest lay-founders of Re-
Grim reality has compelled
Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur
form in Germany; although even considerable re-thinking on this
NEW YORK (JPS) — T/Sgt. and Succoth.
they were restrained by the problem and we do "sin against
rabbinic reformers from such the very spirit of progress" if we Daniel Goldstein, a Flying For-
With opening of school. next
radical departures as might con- attempt to canonize the every tress radio operator • and gunner, week, you also will be preparing
spire to convert Reform Judaism word of a Kohler and a Wise on and Capt. Roy Bright, a naviga- for the opening of the Jewish
into a separate sect cut off from the place of Palestine in Jewish tor, have joined the ranks of schools. The United Hebrew
the main body of Israel. As far life, precisely as they insisted we three-medal Jewish servicemen Schools already have resumed
as Reform in . America is con- would sin in applying withoUt in the U. S. forces, it is report- sessions and the study of the
cerned, the founder of the reserve the dicta of Geigek and ed here by the Jevvish Welfare Holy Days is a major subject for
UAHC, Isaac Mayer Wise, con- Holdheim, Einhorn and Hirsch Board's Bureau of War Records. all students.
tinuously sought to bring a in their day.
I hope you all had a pleasant
Sgt. Goldstein, 27, of Brooklyn,
larger measure of unity into
previously awarded: the Air summer and that you will plunge
Outstanding
Leader
American Jewish life.
Consequently, Reform Juda- Medal and an Oak Leaf Cluster, into your studies—in the public
It is significant that the first
ism
has provided many of the has received the Distinguished and Jewish schools—with dili-
clarion' call to unity to be
Flying Cross for "extraordinary gence. •
heard on the soil of this new outstanding leaders in the Zionist achievements in the European
This week I am happy to be
movement
today
while
the
Union
land was issued by Dr. Wise
Theater of Operations." Capt. able to publish a poem written
itself,
as
early
as
the
year
1937,
and was directed not merely to
Bright, 28, of Eveleth, Minn., re- by Miriam Bernstein, 14-year-
his fellow "reformers," nor even voiced its unequivocal demand cipient of the Air Medal, the old daughter of Dr.. and Mrs.
to his "co-religionists" alone: for the literal and legal fullfill- Distinguished Flying Cross and Albert E. Bernstein . of 2400 Bos-
but rather to "All Israelites," ment of the Balfour Declaration the Silver -
Star, was honored for ton Blvd.
be they religious or secular. and the•Mandate for Palestine.
I wish you all a pleasant Sab-
completion of dangerous mis-
To
be
sure,
it
will
continue
That was almost 100 years ago
to insist upon a religious, rather sions as well as for gallantry in bath.
Congress' First Call
UNCLE DANIEL.
than a nationalistic, interpreta- action.
In the Report of the Commit-
tion of Jewish destiny, especially
tee on Preliminary Studies for
in America. Yet it formula Led where; we wish to see a home-
The Power to Create
the American Jewish Confer-
a declaration of principles for land for the Jews facilitated and
By MIRIAM BERNSTEIN
ence it is stated that "the first
The people of Israel are not dead,
call for an American Jewish the American Jewish Conference speeded in Palestine.
Their wonderful words are not
Spiritual Way of Life
Congress was promulgated by to provide a platform upon which
- yet said.
Above all, Liberal Judaism ar-
the Union of American Hebrew the various dissidents in Jewish
today might find common gues that if there are those who Their actions good and great,
Congregations in 1903 and was life
ground.
insist that the Jew cannot live Will be performed a little late.
again suggested after the Kish
without his land; surely it must
Unique Opportunity
ff pogrom in 1907."
The Union, comprised as it is be conceded that he cannot live Their beautiful songs are not yet
"Far from being a divisive
sung,
force in Jewish life, as some of of various shades of opinion re- without his God, without his Their poetry has not found
Torah,
without
his
synagogue,
lating
particularly
to
Palestine,
its detractors insist, Reform
tongue.
Judaism, as represented- by the took full advantage of its unique without his diStinctive spiritual
Union, has ever sought and is opportunity to effect a synthesis way of life. If there be assimila- Their paintings that are really
true,
seeking most vigorously and between these opposing view- tionists in our midst today, they Are as
yet only few.
are
to
be
found
not
merely
among
points.
It
seems
that
only
the
hopefully today the most in-
the
reformers,
but
among
those
blinded
partisan
could
fail
to
clusive t: pity • with the whole
Oh Israel, awake! awake!
body of Israel that can be at- give serious attention to its pro- who neglect these erstwhile All our culture is at stake.
tained.
gram which seeks the fullest im- axioms Of Jewish survival.
Rise up great scholars from the
Liberal. Judaism, through the
plementation of the Balfour Dec-
Must Change Attitude
grave,
To effect such a reap'proch- laration while refraining from Union of American Hebrew Con
gregations,
-
seeks
such
a
re-
ment, there must be changes of reducing all Israel to a mere po-
attitude on both sides. Insofar as litical entity which would make awakening of the spirit of the
Reform is concerned . these our proud and historic people Jew and of his faith. In this
grave moral crisis, it would go .
changes are marked. - Take, for "like unto all nations."
example, the present program
"Truth grows, and many a Out to the "men of the abyss"
of . the Union with regard to the thing which seemed true 50 with its light of hope for a better
re-introduction of ceremony and years ago is no longer considered day which we must help to build.
form into the practice of syna- so today." These words should (Copyright, 1943, by Independent
Jewish Press Service)
gogue and home. There are serve as a warning to Zionists as
those who interpret this as a well as to static reformers. Jew-
complete volte face and a hu- ish life, like all life, must con-
miliating surrender of the prin- tinue to be dynamic. The whole
Yeshivath Beth Yehudah
Dexter at Cortland
ciple of Reform.
era of nationalism may be on •
On the contrary, even so radi- the wane and we must fix our
Patriotic Convocation
• cal a reformer as Dr. Kaufmann gaze forward rather than back- -k Sunday, • Sept. 12, at 2 p.m.
r - Speaker: Rabbi S. P. Wohl-
Kohler, president of the Hebrew ward. We, in the Union, want
gelernter of Seattle. Wash.
Union College from 1903 to full justice for the Jew every-

Our

CHILDREN'S
CORNER

Two Jewish
Awarded 3d Medals

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government and the Polish peo-
ple:
"On the day of victory the
walls of the ghetto in Poland
will topple. The people of Pol-
and will raze them forever."
Among feature articles in the
current issue are the following:
"The So-Called Realists" by S.
Niger who discusses the evolu-
tionary changes and conflicts in
American Jewish life. Rabbi Al-
lan Tarshish reveals little known
facts concerning the role played
by Reform leaders in the pre-
servation of the Sabbath. Rabbi
Isaac Landman appraises the
career of the late Prof. Ismar
Elbogen, who has influenced re-
ligious and lay thought on two
continents.

Make us like you so strong and
brave.

Israelites take up the pen,
We must learn to write again.
The palette and brush we for-
sook,
We must give another look.

We must banish any doubt and
fear,
And write freely of what we hold
dear.
We must have no hate or angry;
thought,
But fight for what our fathers
fought.

Our dusty brains will come to
use,
They have suffered much abuse.
And though our fathers are now
long dead,
We shall do what they have
always said,
"Without any fear and without
hate,
Ye shall have the power to
create."

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