The Savannah morning news., 1904-10-14
THE JEWS or AMERICA.
DR.. IsidOr Singer Suggests the For
nation of a Central Consfstory.

Ut. AsiuoF singer Suggests the FOR
nation of a Central ConsfstOry.
From the American Israelite.
We modern Jews do not constitute
religious community in the sense OF
the Roman Catholic and the various
Protestant churches, and therefore,
neither the theologian nor the syna-
gogue as house of prayer are the gen.
uine centers of the Jewish community.
Neither are we, however a nation in
the scientific sense of the word, having
neither common land nor a common
language of our own. We are alas,
since the destruction OF Jerusalem
through Titus, "A religio-national be-
tween and betwixt, too strongly rooted
IN the past to die, and not sunk deep
ly enough In the new soil to live a
genuine, Independent life. Having done
nothing, In the political sense of the
word, we have no history proper since
that ninth of Alb, which buried forever
the national existence OF our Pales-
tinian ancestors. our only record of
the past consists I'm one gigantic Mem
orbuch, with thousands of chapters,
written In dozens OF languages, but all
telling Of the same woe. from the first
prosecutions Of the Jews in the Roman
empire to the massacres of Klshineff.
Lit UhtEAlDilg kIt Diliy IGhl lSNut Dt-
fore the modern, principally before the
American, Jew is Can we stop this
age long martyrdom, and IL so. how?
All other question OF merely dogmatic
or congregational Importance are moth
ing but trifies and side issues, and the
American born as well as the immi-
grant Jew either does not understand
yuor petty religio-communal policy or
Is too delicate to show to you. rabbits
and parnassium presidents of Jewish
communities), the immense gulf which
yawns between his and your "Weltans-
chung" as far as Judaism is con-
cerned. You only feed the result In
numbers; he stands aloof from the
synagogue, and i am afraid that in
spite Of the successful tours of relig-
ious revivalism by the energetic Rabbi
Zepin, the ratio of the "unafiiliated"
Hebrews viii always remain Ave TO
one.
The prosperous son OF a poor immi-
grant family having still a dozen or
two Of dear relatives In the old coun-
try suffering untold miseries has not
the moral right TO indulge IN the same
expenses as his colleague of old Amer
lean stock disposing Of an income SINH
lar to his. The one has only 10 think
OF himself and his future: the other has
n noble duty toward others to fulfil.
i mean, the Roman Catholics ana BrOt-
estants, being in possession of an I'M
disputed national, territorial and so
cial inheritance, are free to spend a
part Of their energy and wealth for
the maintenance OF their ecclesiastical
organizations, even II they do not i'm
plicitly believe I'm their dogmatic ten
etr. They consider their churches. con-
vents and seminarics In the way a
modern English or French arlstocrat
looks at the old castle Of his ancestors.
which he maintains. although for many
"A year he spends hardly week or two
within Us walls.
The Jewish commonwealth OF Amer
lea, II Il has the nerve and pride Ia
live up 10 the great mission TO which
Il seems 20 have been predestlned by
Providence. 4. O., TO be the Goel. the
dellverer, OF the 5000 900 Jews In East
ern Europe and the Orient, must not
dwindle down TO a church and "A loose
group Of philanthropic institutions.
Entire Israel looks uD TO AS for the
guidance OF It's future destinies The
great originator and leader OF zionism
II dead n ~ now up 10 W 20 raise
on the free American soil. with ite un-
bounded possibilities, the DAG Of Great