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…, of Justice, of Americanism. Russia has been reproved! S. S. G. Michigan's Only Jewish Publication. Editor SAMUEL J. RHODES, Subscription in Advance - $1.150 per year Offices 701 Penobscot Bldg…
… editor of the Journal means to imply that the Jews of this country vote as a unit, and that they arc swayed in their choice of candidates by the appointment of a Jew to high office, then the Jour- nal has…
… much to learn about the true state of feeling among the Jew- ish people of America. The fact of the matter is that there is no social or religious group in which there is such a diversity of political…
… opinion as is the case among the Jews. The Jew is, above all, an in- dividualist. He thinks for himself and acts by himself. Even in their thinking along religious lines, where one would expect the greatest…
… harmony, there is by no means a unity or even a spirit ap- proaching that of uniformity among the Jews. And this is true in an exaggerated sense of the Jew's attitude toward great national and in…
…- ternational problems. The Jews are hopelessly divided, for instance, in their sympathies in the present war, and it would be very difficult indeed, to say whether there is a preponderance of sympathy among…
… American Jews for the Allies or for the Teutons. In American politics certainly Jews do not vote together, and tho' politicians and news- paper. men arc frequently fooled into the belief that there is such a…
… press that always betray a most hopeless ignorance about Jews and things Jewish, should fall into the error of still talking learnedly about the "Jewish vote," but that a paper usually as wide awake to…
… will see in the recent action of these two great political parties only selfish, ambitious motives. The explain their action by attributing it to an effort to pessimist will procure the vote of Jews. He…
… will give as their reason for their de- fense of the Jew, at home and abroad, their desire to gain political advantages. But, after all, the reason behind this action is not nearly so political bodies…