Commenting on the injection of the Jewish question into the local primary campaign, Judge Joseph L. Kun, of the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas and B’nai B’rith leader, sent the following letter to Dr. Hyman J. Goldstein, Camden Jewish leader:
“I agree with you that the bringing in of the name “Jew” or “Jewish” in political campaigns is not only very bad taste from the Jewish standpoint but is definitely harmful to the interests of Jews as citizens of this country. The Jews should be the last to inject any racial or religious questions into the politics of this country.
“The attempt recently to organize the Jews of Brooklyn into a political group has brought down upon the sponsors the condemnation of all the leading Jews of the country, as well as the leading Jewish periodicals. It is the worst thing we can do.
“The fact that a man is a Jew has nothing whatever to do with his ideas on politics and has no relation whatever to his affiliation with one political party or another. In determining matters of political policy he must act as an American citizen, for the best interests of the country at large, without regard to the religious affiliations of any candidate.”
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