Rabbi Isaac Samuel Karpen, native of Kobrun, Poland, has been secured as spiritual leader of the Gemilus Chesed synagogue in Minneapolis, Minn. Trained at the Yeshiva at Meer, Poland, he formerly occupied a pulpit at Stolps, Poland.
Denouncing the treatment accorded Jews by Christians throughout the centuries, the Rev. Dr. S. Parkes Cadman in an address here at a public forum in the Universalist Church of the Redeemer, scored as disproved by history and unworthy of any intelligent person’s attention the "myth" that the Jews had killed Christ.
Speaking on the theme, "If I were a Jew," Dr. Cadman said: "If I were, I would try to exercise forgiveness toward Christians. The treatment of Jews by Christians is a thing a Jew should try to forgive, and a Christian should never forget."
He would, he said, glory in the faith that gave the world the Old Testament. The principles of democracy on which the United States was founded, he asserted, began when the Israelites crossed the Red Sea.
Asked about inter-marriage between Jew and Christian, he said he was not opposed to it, but that the couple "should be sure of their love and mutual interests before they entered upon a union which arouses so much antagonism among both peoples."
Rabbi Isaac Samuel Karpen, native of Kobrun, Poland, has been secured as spiritual leader of the Gemilus Chesed synagogue in Minneapolis, Minn. Trained at the Yeshiva at Meer, Poland, he formerly occupied a pulpit at Stolps, Poland.
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