(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
The uniting of two wealthy Anglo-Jewish families through marriage attracted attention here yesterday when Sir Edward Stern, famous banker, aged 71, was married to Sybil Tuck, 38, at the Berkeley Street Synagogue.
Sybil Tuck is the daughter of the well known art publisher, Sir Adolph Tuck, who is the treasruer of the Jews College, London. It was rumored that the marriage settlement amounts to £1,000,000.
LOUIS MARSHALL’S STAND ON THE WISE CONTROVERSY
Louis Marshall, president of the American Jewish Committee, took a stand in the controversy over Dr. Wise’s sermon, in a statement issued to the “Jewish Tribune” yesterday.
“You have asked my views concerning Dr. Wise’s statement on the Jewish attitude toward Jesus. Not being a theologian, it seems idle to express an opinion on the subject which is highly controversial and leads easily to misunderstandings and misconceptions,” Mr. Marshall declared. “Nobody has a right to define the Jewish attitude. because it diverges with the individual. The Gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke depict Jesus to have been a man, and his sayings show that he was a Jew in thought, faith and profession. The Sermon on the Mount and many of the parables demonstrate that his ethics were drived from the Hebrew scriptures and from the teachings of the rabbis. It was an entirely different Jesus around whom Paul built Christianity. The refusal of the Jews ‘to accept him’ either voluntarily or under compulsion resulted in an age-long tragedy and made of them a martyr people. Yet they have survived and Judaism continues to flourish. One need not, therefore, be surprised that to Jews who are loyal to their past ‘the acceptance of Jesus’ is not a harmless phrase referring solely to a recognition of his Jewish background. To them it signifies a departure from basic principles and the surrender of cherished ideals.
“I am sure that Dr. Wise did not intend to express any opinion looking to apostasy. It is regrettable that he has been misunderstood and misinterpreted both by Jews and non-Jews. It merely proves how circumspect a preacher must be when those whom he addresses have varying points of view. They naturally apply to his words conflicting definitions. The unfailing consequence is a war of polemics, which is always deplorable.”
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