We need not feel unduly discouraged because impatient youth has grown hypercritical and seeks solace in strange places, Mr. Ludwig Vogelstein, the Chairman of the Executive Board of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, said speaking at the 32nd. biennial Conference of the Union here.
Some will always fall by the wayside, as they have in the past, he declared, but Judaism will survive. In this day when the best thought of the Western world is harking back to the prophets of Israel, it will yet be seen that Judaism has a wonderful message for the social and spiritual progress of our age.
The Jewish religion, whose origins are wrapped in the mists of antiquity, he contended, will adjust itself to the tempo of modern Western life and to the new philosophical conceptions of our day.
NOT DESIROUS OF FOISTING PROGRESSIVE JUDAISM ON ANY COMMUNITY MISS LILY MONTAGU TELLS CONFERENCE: WE RECOGNISE AND REVERENCE RELIGIOUS CONVICTIONS OF ORTHODOX.
We are not desirous to foist any particular form of Progressive Judaism on any community, Miss Lily H. Montagu, who brought greetings to the Conference from the World Union for Progressive Judaism said. We wait till we have definite knowledge that a progressive presentment is necessary in order to preserve life. Then, at best, we can establish the fact that the form of Judaism can and must be evolved by the people who mean to use it.
The orthodox sections do not ask for help, she said. We recognise and reverence their religious convictions. But we dare not ignore the fact that in many countries of the world there are sections of Jewish people who use the name “orthodox” to cover spiritual aridity.
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