Holds Judaism More Important Than Zionism

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Judaism above Zionism was the slogan sounded yesterday by Rabbi Herbert S. Goldstein in a sermon on Palestine at the Institutional Synagogue, 148 West Eighty-fifth street. Rabbi Goldstein said in part:

“I was asked, ‘Do you favor the Zionist-Organization?’ I answered, ‘I am opposed to it.’ ‘The Revisionists?’ I oppose the Revisionists. ‘The Histadruth?’ I oppose the Histadruth. ‘But,’ exclaimed my questioner. ‘You oppose the Zionist Organization, the Histadruth and Revisionism. What do you favor?’ ‘Judaism, Judaism,’ was my answer.

JUDAISM VITAL FORCE

“The political implementation involved in the creating of Zion for the Jew in the land of his fathers assumes a diversity of forms and formulae, but at the core of it all I feel there must be one force from which all work toward a homeland in Palestine must spring and without which we will develop nothing more than a soulless commonwealth. That force is ‘Judaism.’

“Before we can create a Jewish civilization in Palestine, whether it meet with the approval of the Zionist Organization or the Histadruth or the Revisionists, it must meet with the approval of God.

“The importance of the upbuilding of Palestine lies in the fact that here may be created a spiritual center for Israel, which may become a spiritual reservoir for all Israel everywhere.

“Yet how can we hope to have established in Palestine, this central dynamo of Jewish culture, of Jewish thought and expression, if culture, if thought, if the needs of the spirit, if Judaism itself is discarded by the Zionist Organization, by Revisionist and the Histadruth?”

SEES 3 POWERS OPPOSED TO PEACE

Japan, Germany and Italy are the most nefarious enemies of the peace of the world, Dr. Israel Goldstein said yesterday in his sermon before the Congregation B’nai Jeshurun, 257 West Eighty-eighth street.

“While science and invention are proceeding to unprecedented heights, in the realm of morals and ethics,” Dr. Goldstein said, “it is devolution rather than evolution which seems to be taking place, as we compare our generation with the generation which preceded us.”

SUPPORTS PASTOR ON YOM KIPPUR

The suggestion made by Dr. Charles Daniel Brodhead, pastor of the Wesleyan Methodist Episcopal Church, that Christians should observe the Jewish Day of Atonement as a universal day of prayer and penitence was supported yesterday by Rabbi Louis I. Newman in his sermon at the Temple Rodeph Sholom, 7 West Eighty-third street, Rabbi Newman said:

“Dr. Brodhead’s proposal is highly interesting, and should meet with the approval of Jewish leaders. It is a token of genuine friendliness and good-will, entirely divorced from any proselytizing effort, and conceived in the effort to be helpful to the spiritual life of America in these days of depression.”

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