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The Southern Israelite
To Our Many Jewish
Friends and Patrons
A
Happy and Prosperous
New Year
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Synagogues will be filled at the High
Holiday season this year as in the
past. Observers witnessing the rush to
the Temples will be convinced that
Judaism possesses irresistible strength
in this country. But appearances are
no less deceitful in this instance than
in many others. The mere presence of
hosts of worshippers on the New Year
and Yom Kippur is by no means a
guarantee of the vitality and persis
tence of Judaism. If the same observ
ers entered the synagogues a few
weeks later, they would be appalled at
the paucity of the attendance.
The modern world is hectically pur
suing other objections than what the
traditional church and synagogue of
fer. The fault must be charged not to
religion, but to the Zcitycixt.
Liberal Judaism has a unique oppor
tunity to lead a spiritual renaissance
in the modern world. Edmond Fleg
wisely remarks in his brochure: “Why
I am a Jew,” that Judaism does not
ask thinking men and women to ab
dicate their reason. Not only is it a
rational faith, it preaches unflinching
ly the message of social justice. If
taken seriously, it cultivates aesthetic
appreciation through the medium of
ceremonialism and religious pagean
try.
But Liberal Jews, its alleged adher
ents,, fall pitifully short of the high in
junctions placed upon them by their
religious system. They are willing to
point to their beautiful Temples as a
monumental token of their own re
ligious attachments, but once these
buildings arise, they turn their at
tention elsewhere for amusement. Lib
eral Jews for the most part leave the
championship of the Jewish cause to
the professional synagogue and com
munal leaders. They read next to no
Jewish books, fearing that too much
attention “to one subject” will cramp
their intellectual horizon.
The hour has come to search the
Jewish soul once more. Liberal Juda
ism must remain, but Liberal Jews
must rededicate themselves to it with
unflinching zeal if Jewry is to remain
intact.
Measuring Results
MILTON K. K \ll\. Prendrnl
Men's ( Inh Temple llelli Israel. Portland. Ore.
In an age of uncertainty of values
and of losing sight of fundamentals,
there appears a challenge to the mod
ern spirit of the Brotherhood move
ment. Thinking men sense a breaking
away from the real and the true, and
the substitution of the cheap and the
tawdry. No field of human aspirations
seems free from this blight.
In organized religion this breaking
down process is slowly, steadily and
consistently going on. It here becomes
evident and shows itself by trying to
make the synagogue a glorified substi
tute for those cheap forms of pseudo
uplift and service so blatantly put
forth week in and week out by groups
of simple-minded individuals just be
coming dimly conscious of a slight
mental and spiritual awakening.
It is not necessary for the syna
gogue to place itself in competition
with these organizations in which ram
pant mediocrity is enthroned and em
powered.
The synagogue is real, the other
false; the Synagogue lasting, the other
fleeting; the synagogue a bearer of a
true message, the other a platitudi
nous shouter. While there may be
some temptation to bring the many
within the life-giving influence of the
synagogue by whatsoever means may
be at hand, such a consession would
be a sad surrender, a losing sight of
the high spiritual values which Ju
daism has to offer to a sorely tried
world.
Ear better it is to hold fast to that
fine heritage which has come down to
us from the ages past, even though
at times it may seem that only a rem
nant stands firm, than to assume the
motley and to have multitudes at our
call.
No, the most important thing is not
to have the synagogue thronged and
peopled with great numbers but that
the synagogue continue to hold itself
truly worthy of such a devotion, even
though its message comes at times on
ly to the few and faithful. Then will
Judaism serve its real purpose not by
descending but by raising up of those
that come within the sound of its true
voice. For this ideal the Brotherhood
should gird its loins and go forward
resolutely and proudly.
Amery States Views on Palestine Situation
Toronto (J. T. A.)—The Rt. Hon.
Leopold H. Amery, Secretary of
State in the Baldwin cabinet, who is
now on a visit to Canada, addressed
the Empire and Canadian Clubs here
yesterday on Great Britain’s work in
the middle East. Speaking of Pales
tine, the former cabinet member de
clared:
“Palestine presents a difficult prob
lem. We have obliged ourselves to as
sist the Jews to develop the land and
make of it their home, at the same
time without prejudice to the Arabs.
We intend to stand by the Balfour
Declaration. The recent uprisings in
Palestine are most regretable, revolv
ing about the Wailing Wall. There
will naturally be an inquiry and the
persons responsible for the outbreaks
and the tragic murders of innocent
people will be punished.
"The differences will eventually be
cleared up and there is reason to be
lieve that both Jew and Arab will
live amicably there. Religious out
breaks of this nature in the. East
should not make us pessimistic. The
religious ardor of the Eastern peoples
is extremely warm and it does not
require much to set their passion
aflame, with consequent revolts and
bloodshed, he declared.
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