Attacking the weakening faith of the Jews in religion, Rabbi James G. Heller of Cincinnati, in an address at the sixth annual convention of the northeast region of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations at Temple Emanu-El yesterday, urged a return to the synagogue.
“Faith always was with us a linking of our soul with the Maker,” he declared. “At least we Jews should have the courage to believe in our ideals. Yet for us Jewishness has become nothing more than a social relationship. We know no more how to pray and we have even forgotten how to weep and sing.”
More than 2,000 delegates and representatives of more than 180 congregations, sisterhoods and brotherhoods in the northern states attended the one-day convention.
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