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The Southern Israelite random THE WHOLE TOWN IS TALKING Not only about the many Low Prices on National ly-Advertised Foods but also the Courteous Treat ment received from our Managers. I he cheerful orderliness and truly typical A 0 P service will please you. «MA1 Atlantic & Pacific tta ca When in Chicago Enjoy Your Stay— at the Superb Sew MORRISON HOTEL Ctormtr Madison and Clark Sts. THOUGHTS (Continued from Page 10) to American Jewry, your accep tance of my challenge will afford many of our people an opportuni ty to familiarize themselves with both the positive and the negative views on Jewish Science, and they will be able to determine for themselves what their attitude to wards this important issue should be. “Awaiting your reply, I am. “Sincerely yours, “Morris Licnenstein." In the same mail that I received a letter from Dr. Einstein, of Pitts burgh, correcting his statement that the Phi Lambda Kappa fraternity was the only Jewish fraternity in the United States by qualifying it as "medical.” I received one from the Vice President of the Lambda Omi- cron Gamma, from Philadelphia. Mr Fibish writes he wants to correct Dr Kpstein. He says: “Even piling Orsa on Potion I must add that the Phi Lambda Kappa is not the only “medical” Jewish fraternity, though I free ly grant that it is the larger. And tt is the only Allopathic Jewish frat, but the L. 0. G. is the only osteopathic or.e . It may in terest you to learn of the cos mopolitan membership of the Philadelphia chapter, consisting of Jews from Palestine. Spain. Koumar.ia. Russia. Canada and. of course, the United States, at tending the Philadelphia College of Osteopathy.” I always enjoy reading the “Reflex” magazine. It shocks us sometimes but then few of us die of shocks. Re cently, Dr Melamed, the very much a.rrt editor, suggested the need for a Jew.<h University That didn't shock me but it ruffled my feathers a bit. So I replied. Now the Doctor writes me a most interesting letter, the first part of which is to be read with vour tongue in your cheek for that was where Dr Melamed held his when he wrote it. But the remainder you are to ta.ce seriously. I: is a most inter esting communication and :s very provocative. It may even provoke thinking which so many of us are so **dly in r.eed of. "Dear Mr. Joseph: ^ our approach to tne idea of j. Jewish university in America ana your position are natural and well-founded. Tnere is no Jewish problem in this country. In Araer- *can social and economic life, we ire " o: discriminated against. Uwry able and promising young newish scholar or scientist i* en couraged by the American Uni- v ~fty. ^ offered the oppor tunity to »cucn. ar.c to do research work. Our undergraduates , join any fraternity they like, are welcomed in ever-increasing numbers m all universities, in cluding Harvard and Yale. There fore. only a pervert could propose the establishment of a Jew^h mi ranicy ia A>«ric*. “Those who oppose to this pro- posal are the savers of Judaism m America. Hurrah for the <av- ersl “You are opposed to a ghetto— rr.av so am I. So is every Jew, but let me give you one of my secrets. The ghetto is the creation of the Goy, and not the Jew—the Jew never wanted a ghetto, and has always been opposed to it. Th«r Goy insisted that there be a ghet to, and is still insisting, and what are you, Mr. Joseph going to do about it? “You say that a Jewish univer sity in America would contribute to the ghettoization of the Jew Can you please explain to me why a Jewish university in America, regardless of its name, would be more than a ghetto than Jewish baseball, Jewish swimming and ail other Judaized sport activi ties; which form part and parcel of such Reform Congregations as Sinai in Chicago? The Sinai peo ple sureiy do not want any ghetto, but why are there Sinai swim mers, and Sinai tennis players, etc. ? If I am not mistaken, Sinai was established for the purpose of getting away from the ghetto, but today the Sinai in Chicago is more of a ghetto than the old-fashioned schule. I quote this to you, show ing you that your attempt to run away from the ghetto brings you right in contact with it. “We all attempted to escape from the ghetto, and all of us came here because we did not warn a ghetto, but since Jews are not just exactly social atoms, but represent a religious, or ethnic or racial group, the ghetto is right there, where there are Jewis in considerable numbers, and ar. at tempt to run away from the ghet to is just as wise as an attempt to escape from your own skin. Try and do it! “I believe that a first rate Jew ish university would not only solve the problems of our scien tists and scholars who are de graded and humiliated, but it would also establish us as a cre ative group—for my part call it religion. Every religion of the major religious groups m Ameri ca may own a university, may make contributions to art ar.d science, and we may not. because we— and you are not ar. excep tion—to the rule—suffer from at inferiority com plea and that is the only reason why you, together with thousands of other well- meaning Jews in America, are op posed to a university. “It is your good right to fight the proposal, but please do not treat us to arguments like ghet to ization — because ghetto in America is such a reality, that ” seems to be impossible to oeny it. “Cordially yours, “S. M Melamed I nave received so many interest.ng letters of Late that should f-rc •"*- way In RANDOM THOUGHTS that F s impossible to publish them it :ne issue. There are one or tw: —ire :hat will have to be postpone-: next week. They help fill the c0 ‘ urn a,” of course, bat they have * much more important purpose. They serve to give Jewish groups interested in Jewish fife and Jewish prcciem* food for thought and discuss::'