“Today finds Jews and Judaism with their backs against the wall,” declared Sidney H. Reiss, speaking last night on “Judaism and the Modern World” over WBNX under the auspices of the Young People’s League of the United Synagogue of America. “Jews are fighting,” he said, “not for new worlds but for the right of existing and surviving catastrophe after catastrophe.”
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