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governance of the whole of life as in
the Jewish tradition". Which again
is an error of fact . I advise Mr. Hur-
witz, painful though it be, to study the
authoritative sources of Reform theory,
and he will discover that the Reformers
stress, over and over, that religion is
not one, but the Supreme Interest of
Jewish life. He will find closer approx
imation to his version of Christianity
(which, by the way, all Christian theo
logians will deny) in a certain Jewish
nationalists theory which asserts that
Judaism is a civilization, of which re
ligion is but one phase.
But the most lamentable error into
which Mr. Hurwitz has fallen in his
zeal to prove that the Reform theory
is assimilation to Christian doctrine, is
his statement that "the earliest Chris
tians . . . made charity their central
ideal in this life . . . nineteen centuries
later, equally rejecting the Rabbinic
Judaism of their own time, the Reform
Jews have made charity the main in
terest ... of their life as Jews." Mr.
Hurwitz is guilty of two grave mis
takes, one philological, and the other
historical. When the New Testament,
in its English translation, speaks of
charity, it means not charity in our
sense, but love, for the original Greek
has agape, meaning love. To Jews,
Reform or otherwise, charity is "zeda-
kah”, meaning, as Mr. Hurwitz knows,
righteousness or justice, implying tin-
duty to care for the needy. The his
torical error is due to Mr. Hurwitz’s
leaning too heavily on Christian
sources and opinions. Were he to con
sult Jewish sources, he would discover
that "zedakah” is an oi * Jewish con
cept and practice, with its roots in the
Bible, and its trunk, branches and fruits
in all subsequent literature and times.
So that if it be true that the Reform
Jews main Jewish interest is the prac
tice of charity, it is at least a Jewish
interest.
To sum up. Reform and Reformers
need criticism, and I for one welcome
heartily vigorous critiques like that of
Mr. Hurwitz. Unfortunately for Re
form, the real defects have infrequent
ly been touched on. What these are
may be considered later, but one def
inite difficulty may be stated here:
Reform is not sufficiently Reform.
Warsaw.—Officers of about 400 Jew
ish communities in Poland will be chos
en at elections that have been set for
the end of May, it has been announced.
Simon S. Selig Honored
The Board of Directors of the Stand
ard Club honored its president, Mr.
Simon S. Selig, with a dinner to all
of its members on April 6th.
The successful functioning of the
Standard Club, and its enthusiasm that
has been maintained both from a finan
cial and social point of view, has been
due to the efforts expended by Mr.
I'hoto by Elliott's Peachtree Studio
Simon S. Scli</
Simon Selig and its Board’s constant
attention.
Aside from the exactions made ti|>on
Mr. Sclig’s time in his business, The
Selig Company, he has given a great
deal of his time and interest in the
activities of the Jewish populace of
Atlanta and the South.
Along with his active affiliations with
Jewish activities, Mr. Selig is a direc
tor of the Fulton National Bank, a
director of the Georgia Military Acad
emy in College Park, a member of the
Kiwanis Club, a Mason and a Shrincr.-
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Berlin.—The honorary degree of doc
tor of engineering was bestowed upon
Bernard Behrend, of Wellesley Hills,
Mass., by the Darmstadt Institute of
Technology, in recognition of Behrend’s
distinction in engineering. Ill's work in
developing induction machines merited
special mention.
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