12 Friday, March 26, 1916
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Promise of Zionism for the Middle East
idence at the Ecumenical dream dreams and young with Israel at the confer-
BY CARL VOSS
ence table, state bluntly
(Editor's note: The Rev. Institute for Advanced men to see visions."
that "we will never make
Zionism
has
helped
bring
Theological
Studies
at
Dr. Carl Hermann Voss is
peace with the Jews," and
the
20th
Century
to
the
Tantur
near
Jerusalem.)
professor of philosophy
TANTUR, Israel — Zion- starved, parched, eroded promise ruthlessly that
and religion and chairman
of the humanities division ism has restored the ancient lands of the Levant and the they will cut the Israel
at Edward Waters College fertility of Palestine, Land Mediterranean littoral, and "cancer" out of the Arab
in Jacksonville, Fla., and of Israel, and has awakened has fulfilled the ancient pro- World.
Zionism believes that
active in Christians Con- in the Holy Land a renewed phecies:
history
has not decreed
The Lord shall set His
cerned for Israel. He is creativity of mind and spirit
separate destinies for Is-
presently a scholar-in-res- which impels "old men to hand again the second
time to recover the rem- rael and the other states of
the Middle East, for Israel
nants
of His people, and He shall is at the center, a land
bridge to its neighbors on
assemble the outcast of
the north, south and east,
Israel and gather together
a cultural bridge between
the depressed of Judah
the Arabic speaking world
from the four corners
and the West.
of the earth . . . He shall
Zionism maintains that
cause them that come
as a geopolitical and econ-
of Jacob to take root;
omic unit, the region would
Israel shall blossom and
have less coherence and
bur, and shall fill the
cohesiori if Israel were eli-
face of the world with
minated, or made only an
fruit . . . Thou shalt be
enclave in a hostile environ-
a blessing . . . and in thee
ment; Israel's present isola-
shall families of the earth
tion
tragically points to this
be blessed .. . The wilder- danger.
ness
Zionism contends that
and the solitary places shall when
if peace is estab-
be glad for thee. The desert lished and
with
Israel's Arab
shall rejoice, and shall
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A Bicentennial Feature sict
A
Cultural Chronology
(Editor's note: This is the
fourth portion of a weekly
series that will conclude in
next week's Jewish
News.)
1933 — First observance
of Brotherhood Week on a
national scale (during week
of Washington's birthday).
1934 — "Judaism as a Civ-
ilization" by Mordecai M.
Kaplan published — first
exposition of Reconstruc-
tionism.
1935 — 800th anniversary
of Maimonides' birthday
observed in national com-
memoration; Reconstruc-
tionist magazine appears;
Conference on Jewish Social
Studies begins to function.
1936 — Stephen S. Wise
heads Zionist Organization
of America.
1937 — Yiddisher Kultur
Farband established;
"Guiding Principles of
Reform Judaism" defines
Judaism as the "historical
experience of the Jewish
people" — a significant
departure from the
"Pittsburgh Platform".
1939 — American Asso-
ciation for Jewish Educa-
tion emerges, projecting
national objectives; Na-
tional Council for Torah
Education formed by Ortho-
dox institutions; Louis and
Esther Lames Foundation
for the Advancement of
Hebrew and Yiddish Litera-
ture, starts its annual
awards program.
1940 — Louis Finkelstein
succeeds Cyrus Adler as
president of the Jewish
Theological Seminary of
America; Lubavitcher Move-
ment (Habad) comes to
America; Jewish Book
Council of America, Jewish
Reconstructionist Founda-
tion and Association of Yu-
goslav Jews in the United
States are founded.
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