Young Jews Will Pay for Errors of Parents, Goldstein Tells 7th Young People’s Convention

“The young people will have to pay for the mistakes and the evils of their parents,” said Dr. Israel Goldstein, at the seventh annual convention of the Young People’s League of the United-Synagogue of America. More than two hundred delegates came from every part of the United States and Canada to attend the opening sessions Thursday, at Temple Ansche Chesed. Dr. Goldstein spoke of the disillusionment in which the world finds itself today “The war to end war,” he stated, “failed to achieve its purpose. There is a great deal of platitudinous idealism proclaimed. But the rumblings of the next war are already shaking the foundation of the world. And it is our young people that will have to make the sacrifice when the war comes. The Jew is facing a wave of anti-Semitism which is more deadly than any he has encountered in the past. Even in the United States of America he is beset by a silent conspiracy that is destroying his life socially, industrially and even educationally. And it is the young Jew, about to establish himself, who is subject to its cowardly persecution. England’s betrayal couched also in hypocritical phraseology will fall with greater deadliness upon the young of Palestine. But we have faith. And youth is strong and brave. The Jew has learned how to wait. We do not despair.”

Rabbis E. Chas. Sydney, Benjamin Plotkin and William S. Malev spoke on the Function of Young People’s Societies in the congregation; in the Jewish community and in the general community. Nathan Levy, national president of the United Synagogue, stated that as long as the young people manifest so great an enthusiasm in Judaism, Judaism will live.