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The Southern Israelite
SO GOOD for Children
0000 so more Southern Mothers
buy Merita Bread than any
other kind
SOUTHERN mothers know good bread.
After comparing the richer flavor, finer texture
of Merita, hundreds of thousands of these mothers
prefer Merita over all other breads.
Every mother knows that bread made with
milk is more wholesome, more nutritious—good
for growing children. Merita is made with milk.
That’s why more boys and girls in the South are
being brought up on Merita than any other bread.
You, too, can give your children the healthful
benefits of Merita milk
bread. Join the million
women a week who in
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A Modern Interpretation of Judaisn
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the Jewish women of America into an
organization dedicated to “Faith and
Humanity." What inspiring work they
have done in Religion, Philanthropy,
Civics, and Education. And what a
wonderful opportunity for service is
here. It brings an ever growing, ever
broadening horizon to its members. Its
work stretches out to embrace humani
ty. It brings guidance to the newly ar
rived immigrant, understanding and
help to the woman isolated on the farm,
scholarship funds to enable women and
girls to start life well. It promotes com
munity centers and health work; it
brings hope and training to the blind
and deaf. It unites Jewish women for
cultural purposes, for service to city
and nation, for philanthropic work that
ignore creedal lines.
Every institution, be it state, church,
school, buiness or labor union is valu
able only in accordance with what it
contributes to the best in human life
and happiness. No organization or in
stitution is an end in itself and will be
valuable to society only as long as its
members realize that they are working
for humanity. They must see beyond
the organization to its ideal. It is this
spirit that has made the Council of
Jewish Women great and it is in this
spirit that we should dedicate ourselves
anew to its service.
Let me repeat that as Jews and
women it is our duty to work for
humanity, and when I say this, I don’t
mean it in any nebulous and imprac
tical way. I mean something very defi
nite and concrete. We can serve hu
manity—
(1) by keeping a universal and spirit
ual outlook always before us, so that
it colors our thing and fashions our
relations with others;
(2) by improving human institutions
One of the greatest moments of today
and one most fertile in opportunity is
training for peace through an attitude
of mind. Disarmament is not the main
thing in accomplishing world peace.
Every lover of peace wants disarma
ment and yet alone it is not enough.
If the entire continent of Europe were
disarmed, and the passions of the
♦—
people were aroused by propagan ’
lies, war of some kind would
The will to peace is the imp
thing and it is here that we I<
women, who should of all peoph
a world perspective can do a
work. We can, with peace and fr
ship in our hearts, meet the task of
the day, do our work in harmony
co-operation with others, try to r<
cile the opposing forces in industr-. to
their mutual advantage, train
children to be peace minded, and thus
from the ground up, build a genuine
desire for peace. This is the real and
only lasting foundation for the nut-
lawry of war.
Another of our most imperative du
ties is citizenship. Democracy is still
an experiment and its success or failure
depends upon the type of its citizenship.
We have secured the right to vote and
thus influence the government under
which we live. It is our obligation as
women with the heritage of Judaism to
use that right and to use it well and
intelligently. Citizenship is the key
note of the future life of this county
and upon it depends the existence, con
tinuance, and improvement of our in
stitutions.
Discharge your responsibilities as a
Jewish woman living in this remark
able age in this land of opportunity.
Develop yourself to your fullest intel
lectual and spiritual possibilities, and
then put these powers to some service.
Go outside of your four walls to
serve. Fulfill your obligations to
Democracy by being a good citizen;
inform yourself of your government,
and vote. Do some constructive, co
operative work with a spiritual pur
pose ; identify yourself with the best
in Judaism.
You will come back to your family
a more interesting and simulating per
son to live with, a woman with a
broader, more universal outlook. You
will be more alive to atid better fitted
for your responsibilities to your family
as important member not only of your
own home, but of the world. Through
service, you will be a better woman,
a better wife, a better mother, a better
Jew.
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The Sabbath
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soundness of her religious belief.
Does she return to pray (except once
or twice a year) at the synagogue from
which she received her Biblical educa
tion ?
Does she keep the commandment,
"Remember the Sabbath to keep it
holy," which she enunciated or heard
enunciated the day she swore allegi
ance to the banner of Judaism?
She passes with her mother the syna
gogue on Saturday, as she attends to
her weekly shopping, or if she be of an
intellectual turn of mind, she rapidly
silences the voice of conscience in her
mad desire to be the first in the lec
ture room. When she reaches the age
of maturity, her mother is busy equip
ping her with the trenchant weapons
of French, German, painting, literature,
etc., with which to attack society’s
fortress. Whether she is spiritually
armed, occupies no question in the fond
parent’s mind.
Hundreds of years have passed since
the time when the Mosaic Sabbath de
veloped its features, but today, while
progress and circumstances have
worked wonderful changes with our
people, we still have much to learn from
the time when plough, sickle and press
were dropped for the observance of
rest and prayer to God.
We dare not close our eyes in regard
to our critical position relative to the
Sabbath, as concerns our youth and
men. The Jew’, formerly so rich in Sab
baths, finds the demands of the time
crushing out every semblance of a holy
day of rest.
The typical Jewish man, bound so
closely to all that interests his family,
has sadly drifted away from them in
the observance of the Sabbath. As rich
as he now’ is in understanding, the
proper way for a universal holy rest
day has been an indissoluble problem
to him. The girl is the •woman of the
future and we hope that she will be a
devotee of the synagogue, for in this
age of transition, we look forw . to
a return of some of our good 'ld-
fashoined customs, of which son
servance of the Sabbath in som J >
or other, will be one of the first r
of evolution. So long as the bes;