The fourth year of the Academy for Adult Jewish Education, Eighth avenue and Garfield place, Brooklyn, got under way last night with a convocation in the Temple House of Congregation Beth Elohim, at the same address. Supreme Court Justice Meier Steinbrink, chairman of the board, presided.
Addresses were delivered by Nathaniel H. Lyons, president of Congregation Beth Elohim, and Rabbi Isaac Landman, founder and director of the academy.
Rabbi Landman said Adolf Hitler paid the Jews a compliment when at Nuremberg recently the Fuehrer of Germany announced that Nazism will endure 1,000 years, “during which it will eradicate Jewish intellectualism,”
“The facts of 3,500 years of Jewish history,” Rabbi Landman asserted, “would answer that Jewish intellectualism can be destroyed only when Jews themselves will permit their intellectual approach toward their religion and culture to die.”
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