Revival of the Jewish Sanhedrin, ancient high court, as a means of solving pressing Jewish problems was suggested here today by Rabbi Julius Berger.
Rabbi Berger urged the immediate convocation of such a body to study anew religious problems, laws and traditions, which have been accumulating since the beginning of the second century. Thus modern Jews would be enabled to take a definite stand.
“Are Jews a creed, a race or a nation? This would be the most important question a modern Sanhedrin would have to answer,” Rabbi Berger declared. “The Sanhedrin would also be asked to plan a course of action and a solution for the vexing problems which confront the Jew in a changing world.”
Rabbi Berger made his proposal before the combined Jewish student organization in McGill University, where he teaches in the department of Semitics.
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