Dean Inge’s suggestion that England exchange with Russian Karl Marx’s bones forthe Codex Sinaiticus indicates the Jewish position and influence in the Western world, declared Rabbi Louis I Newman, speaking at Congregation Rodeph Sholom, 7 West 83 rd street.
”The Codex is a symbol of the contributions which Israel has made to makind through the medium of the Bible,” Rabi Newman said. ”The bones of Karl Marx are a token fo the new influence which within the past hundred years in emerging from the life and works of a teacher who, whatever his official association with Jewish prophets. The world should not begrudge Jewry a sense of pride in his double contribution Whatever may be said of Kar) Marx’s theories, his influence is in creasing from years to year.”
POLIDAYS AND HOLY DAYS
Speaking before the congregation of Temple Ansche Chesed, 100th street and West End avenue, Rabbi Josph Zeitlin declared, ”We Americans have dedicated the birthdays have dedicated the birthdays of a number of great presidents and leaders as occasions when the nation shall celebreate a holiday. But let us not forget that the term holiday’implies a holyday-the significance of which ought to lave a worthwhile message with us. We shall commemo rate during the ensuing week the birday of the Father of this merely be an idle gesture or shall it be a serious reflection upon and the appreciation of the ideals which George Washington was an xious to teach to this country and ultimately to the world-namely, that it is man’s inaliemanble right to enjoy the blessings of freedom and equality? The true American heart must tremble as it learns if the indignities and atrocities tha are committed in European countries in the age of supposed advancement.”
FORESEES EUROPEAN WAR
I belive that the European statesmen have permitted them selves to divert their minds from channeds of peace into those of ware, ” said Rabbi Herbert S. Goldstein to the congregation of the Insitutional Synagogue, 148 West 85 street. ”Under this condition,” the continued, ”war in Europe is inevitable.
”The world cannot be saved by the Present ideology which associates patriotism with war,” he went on. ”There is indeed a hight er partrotism than war patriotism, namely peace patriotism. patriotism implies the devotion of men and women to the enhment of the arts and scienes for the willbering, and not for the destruction of man. Let us be war slackers rather than peace slackers. The hope of the world word rests upon the spirit of our youth.”
PSYCHIATRIST IN PULPIT
”The World War was the result of collective psychotic disturbances of the European nations,” declard Dr. A. A. Brill, spychiatrist, speaking at Temple Rodeph Sholom yesterday. ”Although seemingly finished with the sining of the armistice, these disturbances are still continuing to the detriment of the whole world. This is particularly observed in the German and Austrian situtations. Mass psy choses have existed from the dawn c. cilization. History cannot show any period during which the civilized world was free from wars it would seem that even eivilized human beings are inclimed to attribute all evils to other neighbors; to their own faults and vices, and impetuously impels them to plane their negbers for their misfor tunes.”
BORROWING FROM CHURECH
”What Judaism needs today it to borrow a leaf from the religion for our neighbors” said Rabbi William F. Resenbum, preaching at Temple Israel, 210 West 91st street.
”There is no reason why cathedral and church should have a monopoly on three significant features which attract people religing-th confessional, The continuous avalilability of the sanctuary for prayer and devotions, adn the revival season. Judaism cannot promise absolution to its adherents becouse it is againt the ery nature of our religion to in vest any man however gifted or inspired with the genius to efect salvation for another.”
Rabbis or special ministers should be available to the masses of Jews for consultation or in need of encouragement, he declared, Thousands of men and women in Jewish cirles ”would fine themselves heartened during this or that crisis if they had a friend to whom to turn, a friend whose position in the synapogue made him more likey to have a better perspective and a finer understanding.”
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