The leader of the Zionist Jewish People’s Party, Dr. Alfred Klee, recently read out at a mass meeting of the Party a resolution which is to be introduced into the Representative Assembly of the Berlin Jewish Community, which, if adopted would enable the Party to maintain the united Jewish community.
The resolution was to have come up at a meeting of the Representative Assembly fixed for April 28th., but this has been postponed till May 12th.
The “Juedisch-liberale-Zeitung”, the organ of the Liberal Party, to which the majority of the Assembly belongs, now publishes an article by Dr. Max Mayer, one of the Liberal members of the Assembly, declaring that it is impossible for the Liberal majority to accept Dr. Klee’s resolution. Even if it is not stated in the text, he says, the resolution means nothing more or less than that the united Jewish Community must in future support not only the religiour or the religious and social interests of its members, but must in addition give effect to the Jewish nationalist desires of certain of its members. A religious community cannot do that. The Community must continue to confine itself to those activities on which all its members are agreed. All attempts to sabotage its work by internal partisan conflicts will be steadfastly resisted.
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