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The Southern Israelite
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Relief to Palestine Victims to Be Granted
l.< Loans, Will Not Prejudice Claims
Mrs. Warburg Sends $50,000 For Education Budget
London, (J. T. A.)—Aid granted to
tims of the Palestine outbreak
r ,m the Palestine Emergency Fund
u 1 be regarded as loans, the accep
tance of which will not imply the
abandonment of claims against the
government. In announcing this ar
rangement I)r. Leonard Stein declared
that it has been made abundantly
dear that the Palestine government
cannot repudiate its liability on the
pretext that relief funds are being
collected by the Jewish public.
Over £300,000 (approximately $1,-
kh> ) has been raised for the relief
fund to date. The success of the col
lection. which provided a magnificent
demonstration of Jewish solidarity,
the Executive declared, was due con
siderably to its centralization. Most
important, however, is the continua
tion of constructive work. The situa
tion calls for activity intensified ten
fold and the strengthening of immi
gration.
The Emergency Fund will continue
until October 15, when the Jewish Na
tional Fund and the Palestine Founda
tion Fund will resume their normal
fund collections.
Declaring that all relief campaigns
in the United States were discontinued
for the present, in deference to the
Palestine Emergency Fund, Rabbi
Meyer Berlin, announced that the cam
paign will be concluded the day after
Has Judaism Outgrown
Cerem on ial ism
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Chanukah, that symbol of Jewish
•steadfastness and loyalty to an ideal,
has been re-vivified in Reform life by
the stimulus of their activity. Too
long has Chanukah been but a play
season for the children. Too often
have the achievements of the Macca
bees been mimicked by the youngsters
merely for the entertainment of their
seniors.
To make Chanukah meaningful to
the old as well as to the young the
laymen have instituted Chanukah
gatherings with a public ceremony of
the kindling of the Chanukah lights,
and the singing of those soul stirring
melodies that made our fathers at
one with the Hasmoneans on that
day.
The spirit that motivated their he-
v ancestors on the hills of Judea
eeame meaningful to them as they,
oo. in song and story relived the
struggles of the handful against the
mighty hosts of Greece. The daunt-
spirit of the Hammerer spanned
the centuries to live again in their
hearts on this day, and for them at
ieast ( hanukah had meaning.
Lntil recently the relation of the
layman to the Temple has been wholly
passive. He furnished the material
substance for the maintenance of that
institution, and with that felt satis-
itd that he had fulfilled his duty to
s God and to his Judaism. Of his
spiritual powers he gave little or
^’thing. Sometimes on the Sabbath
and usually on the High Holy Days
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he would dutifully make his appear
ance in the Temple, listen to the Rab
bi’s sermon, perhaps even partake in
some responses and singing, and go
home elated that for another year at
least his religious conscience would
be at rest.
The thought of being something
more than a sounding board for the
Rabbi’s oratory and logic never oc
curred to him. Collectively the laity
was a spiritless mass discouraging
alike to its spiritual leaders and to
itself, until the lay leaders awakened
them to their spiritual powers.
Brotherhood Awaken Laity
With their “Go to Temple Month”
program which included services con
ducted entirely by laymen, the Fed
eration of Temple Brotherhoods began
to awaken the laity to the possibilities
of their making the Temple service a
real spiritual adventure. Their influ
ence in making the Temple expressive
of the highest in Jewish life is in
calculable.
As the late Rabbi Max Heller so
well said, “If the pew calls for the
deeply religious note; if the pew mis
ses an emphasis on the things that
are characteristically and eternally
Jewish, the spiritual leaders who will
respond to these longings are bound
to appear.”
In all their recent attempts to make
Judaism a vital force in the life of
the people, the laity has made dis
tinct contributions; but what is far
more significant, the intiative came
from them. It is immaterial that some
of their beginnings perhaps smacked
somewhat of American Go-Gettism.
The spirit is there; and where there
is a will, the way to a finer lay co
operation in Jewish religious life can
not long remain wanting.
After all the strength of Judaism
lies not only in its spiritual leaders
but even more in the intelligent co
operation of the laity; and Judaism
can live in the lives of the Jews only
when the la.ty recognizes its power
to make it so. It has already made a
beginning.
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