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The “Jewish Daily News” adopts the same tone as Mr. Fishman in the “Jewish Morning Journal”, in dealing editorially with Rabbi Schulman’s criticism of Professor Eliot.

“Here’s a rabbi”, says the “Jewish Daily News”, “who all his life has preached the gospel of assimilation among Jews, when along comes a great scholar, a Christian, and tells the Jews that assimilation is an undesirable thing. Isn’t this aggravating? It is a disgrace for the Rabbi’s temple. The members of the congregation, reading the speech of Professor Eliot, may yet think that Dr. Eliot is a better Jew than their ‘rabbi’. Bad business!

“To insult a Gentile by accusing him of preaching Ku Kluxism simply because he prefers Jews who observe Judaism to such types as Rabbi Schulman, for example, is indeed a great offense. Dr. Schulman forgets that Dr. Eliot is not a member of Schulman’s temple and that he is therefore, not obliged to be an assimilationist and enemy of Judaism as Schulman is.”

WILL NOT TRUST BOLSHEVIKS

The conference to aid Jewish colonization in Russia which took place last Sunday in New York, has left the “Day” as critical toward this new movement and its organizers at is was hitherto. The “Day” states in its editorial of yesterday that the results of the Conference have only affirmed its previous conviction that this new organization is being managed by Russian-Jewish communists.

“The committee which was elected by the conference to collect one million dollars in this country to aid the Jewish colonization work in Russia is certainly a remarkable committee for an impartial conference. If this is impartial-what would constitute a Bolshevik committee? With the exception of two or three of its members, all the members of the Executive Committee are outspoken communists. And it is they who will ask American Jewry for one million dollars!” says the