“Jews of America seem to have lost some of their ability to protest,” Rabbi James G. Heller declared here Sunday at the memorial services on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the death of Dr. Theodor Herzl. “Anti-Semitic outrages still are being perpetrated, but American Jews seem apathetic,” said Rabbi Heller.
The problem of assimilation offers a second challenge to American Jewry, he added.
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