Welcoming the appearance of the enlarged Jewish Daily Bulletin, Dr. Jacob Katz, speaking at the synagoue of the Monfetiore hebrew Congregation, found “its potentialities in the d evelopment of New York Jewry cannot be overestimated,” but warned that “to succeed and to be influential in must not be the property of ‘influential’ Jews but the mirror of Jews of all shades, opinions and classes.”
The very attempt to publish an English Jewish daily shows that Americanization has taken hold of the Jewish people, he said. “What remains to be seen is whether our American-born generation will grasp the opportunity of acquainting themselves with Jewish current events and thus Jewish acquiring Jewish consciousness.” Congratulation the editor, Rabbi Katz believed “his problem is doubly difficult as an American and as a Jew, but his reward spiritually is commensurated with his efforts. His office is the gateway for the creation of an adjusted Jewish life in the American Commonwealth.”
ATTACHKS DR. ROBINSON
Commenting on reported remarks of Dr. Frederick B. Robinson, president of the college of the City of New York, Rabbi Louis I. Newman devoted his Sabbath dicourse at Congregation Rodeph Sholom, 7 West 83rd Street, to criticism of the thesis that “lack of personality and social prestige” should bar young Americans from the doors of opportunity.
“If Perdident Robinson was correctly quoted,” said Rabbi Newinan, “his advice to the students under his charge that they refrain from entering medeicine because of their handicaps comes with a distinct sense of shock to his publicly condemned his own childen.”
The fact that ehe stdents at C.C.N.Y. come from families of small financial resources is no reason to diquality them from “wise and considerate attention,” he pointed out. “Moreover the record shows that many of the finest physicans in the country are graduates of City College. In every walk of contemporary life, City College alumni are to be found.”
Morris Raphael Cohen, professor of philosophy at the City College, was charged with “attacking prejudice from the wrong viewpoint” when he “declares that anti-Semitism will increase in this country because Jews are rising too rapidly to prominence.” Whatever the consequence, the minister held, “Jews are determined to bring their hightest service to present-day society, America included.”
HOLY MAN FORGOTTEN
In a workd of spiritual travail and material agony, “the holy man must be brought to the fore as the highest standard of individual success,” said Rabbi Herbert S. Goldstein, preaching at the Institutional Synagoue’s West Side branch, 148 West 85th Street, on Saturday.
“We need a new appraisal of values,” he declared. “We must take stock and see whether or not we have inflated certain strains in life and deflated oters.” Better women and men will emerge from the courrent depression, he asserted. “We will appraise life according to different standards,” Rabbi Goldstein concluded. “Religion with its emphasis on the holy man and the means of at taining this sublime degree, will, I trust, once more take hold of us in our pursuit for real happiness instead of ephemeral satisfaction.”
JEWISH HOMELAND IDEAL
That the mission of the Jew is to teach and live the ideals of social jstice in whatever society he finds himself was doubted by D. Israel Goldstein, lecturing Sunday before his congregation, B’Nai Jeshurum, 88th Street, west of Broadway.
“The injunction to the Jew to be the saving remanat of the social order fails to reckon with sociological facts,” he argued, stressing the point that the Diaspora envionment “is too strong to be resisted.” He believed “the one chance of bringing about a characteristic Jewish contribution ot the ideals of social justice is through a Jewish homeland in Palestine. Given a Jewish people in a homogencous and congenial environnen, in a land where every food of soil is reminiscent of the Prophetic maessage, a condition if created which will enable that people to take up the thread to it spristne idealism.” Dr. Goldstein emphasized the idealistic character of colonization in Palestine.
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