Religious faith is the indicated cure for the world’s ills, Rabbi James G. Heller of Cincinnati, declared last night at a meeting marking the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the Central Synagogue. The meeting was held under the auspices of the American Jewish Cavalcade, a religious emphasis program sponsored by the Union of American Hebrew Congregations.
“It is appropriate that Judaism, the mother religion of our Judaic-Christian civilization, should, through the American Jewish Cavalcade, take the lead in a program of religious revival,” Rabbi Heller said, adding, “It was the first of all religions to preach the doctrine of the God of history. Social justice, applied to the individual and to the nation, is the very warp and woop of its message. And optimism concerning man’s place in the universe and his destiny here and hereafter, has always been implicit in the Jewish spirit.” Other speakers were Colonel Frederick F. Greenman, president of the New York Federation of Reform Synagogues, and Dr. Jonah B. Wise, rabbi of Central Synagogue.
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