Liberal religion has proved a tragic disappointment and is now facing a crisis which will determine its fate for the next half century, Rabbi Louis I. Newman of Temple Emanu-El San Francisco. said in the baccalaureate sermon at the second commencement of the Jewish Institute of Religion, 40 West Sixty-eighth Street, New York.
“Liberalism in religion, like liberalism in politics, is trapped in the noman’s land between the opposing armies of extremists, and is succumbing to the assaults of both,” said Rabbi Newman. “Liberalism possess merely opinions, which edify, but not convictions which create. A new program, a new technique. and a new generation of prophetic leaders alone can rescue liberal religion from its dilemma.”
Eight students were graduated from the Jewish Institute of Religion. They are: Maurice Joshura Bloom. of Newcatsle. Pa.; Mitchell Salem Fisher. of Hoboken, N. J.; Joshua Louis Goldberg, of Astoria. L. I.; Harry Kaplan of New York; John Tepfer, of New York; Gershon Tschernewitz, of New York; Samuel Teitelbaum, of St. Louis, Mo.; and Leo M. Reichel, of Dayton.
Alfred M. Cohen. president of the Independent Order B’nai Brith, and governot of the Board of Directors of the Hebrew Union College will deliver the address at the commencement exercises Wednesday night.
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