The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-05-07
SHARP REPLIES TO
ADDRESS OF RABBI
Paper by Dr. Wise, Of New York Causes Big Stir and
Provokes Criticism From Several Quarters.
New Officers Elected

CTS EleClcQ.
j, Jews. he concluded. should take car,
of their own where they find them
and the conference should not adjourn
until some definite action had beer
taken in the premesis. Let us dc
things" he exclaimed, land not dream
them all the day"
After DR.. Wise.
Following the reading OF Mr.. Kriega.
l.haber's paper. with which, later discus.
/ sions showed. almost all the members
were fully in accord. came the real and
heated debate of the session on the adj
dress made the day before by the Rev
Dr.. Wise. of New York
i Rabbi Caliscl,, the first speaker to
discuss the much talked-of address.
was perhaps the most conservative of
them ALL though the veiws that he adj
vanced were in no way half-hearted.
i He agreed that 1t was advisable to
| have specifically Jewish institutions.
but charity. he said. Is the same in
spirit no matter What the object.
| Thoroughly also he agreed with the
speaker of Tuesday that It was per-
ferable to feed the hungry than to
pay the rents and preach the gospel.
ut Is not wise he said. ito preach to
men with empty stomachs. Give i'm
mediate relief to the actual wants OF
4 the suffering then seek out the causes"
He advocated the increasing of Jew
ish activity along charitable lines, but
not to confne it strictly to Jewish
people. There Is but one humanity. he
said. therefore no form of charity
should be despised. Study all condi-
tons. he advised his hearers, and
where help can be given. give freely.
After DR.. Calisch came DR.. Fl. c.
Enelow, rabbi OF Congregation Adatl,
Israel. Louisville. Ky. He opened his
discussion by saying that the address
of DR.. Wise was more of a sermon
, than an address on the subject assign
ed him. referred in somewhat sarcastic
terms to his perfect enunciation, splen-
did voice. and In short spoke OF the eff
fort of the New York rabbi as one OF
rhetoric and oratory. rather than one
for the elevation OF the cause and the
edification of his audience. Referring
to the speech, which stirred every mem
Der OF the conference. DR.. Enelow said:
What there was new in it was not
true. and what there was true in it
was not new"
Cooperation OF Denominations.
Concerning the plea of DR.. Wise for
Il Jewish trades schools, the speaker said
that h:s could see no use for institu-
tons cC this kind OF distinctly Jew
ish character as the State is just as
bound to do It's duty by the Jewish
citizens as by the Gentiles.
!. He pointed out that such schools
/ would not teach carpentry Of a distinctly
Jewish character. nor any other trades
that would be more useful than those
taught by the regular schools. AS did
his predecessor, he advocated the CO.
operation of the different denomina-
tons to one end. saying that the prob
/ lem. could not be solved by creating
racial or UNCONVENTIONAL prejurice
! Moderation and tolerance, he said. are
the greatest things for attaining the
4 true ends of real charity. Religion
and charity should not conflict, and
I! there should be no clash in the great
4 work even though the Jews. as he ad-
vised them, would stick to their rel-
| gion and traditions. and other demon
/ nations, as they should. would do the
4 same thing.
/ The union. not of church and state,
but of charity and state. was the key
I.note of the address Of Rabbi Morris
feuerlicht, of the Indianapolis Hebrew
i Congregation.
4 having Jewish workers in the Jewish
settlements. and instead of going into
the new Ideas, many of which were
i brought forward by Dr. Wise, he pros
posed TO let things be AS they are to
/ the end that they may work out their
I own destnies. Some questions raised
by DR.. Wise. he said. were not to be
considered by the Jewish conference,
but by the National Association OF
Charities and Correction.
Further. lie excla lined, the Jews had
heard ad nauseam the cry. christian
, clarity" as though charity had not
been known before the rise Of the
. Christian religion. Tho Jews had
known the full meaning and signif-
3 canoe OF the word centuries before the
birth of Christ. Render unto Caesar ("
t he cried, the things that are Caesars.
J and unto God the things that are
( Gods"
Rcfutcs Assertions.
+ MT. Lowenstein, the secretary OF the
conference, then arose in behalf OF the
: societies OF which lie is a prominent
r worker. TO refute certain assertions
1 made by Dr.. Wise in regard to the
!, treatment OF orphans in the city of
h new new YORK ,,, Statements about putting
r orphan children out with other women
/ instead OF their own mothers were, he
@ said, TO put 1t mildly" untrue. He
g declared that although the infant asy-
d iums We're overcrowded and inadequate
V theS were not nearly as bad as the
/, speaker or tuesday had pictured them
q As TO the putting out Of orphan chill.
n areh TO others than their own mothers
y this was never done except for 1he
: manifest good OF the children them
IS selves, and when the mother was un.
o able TO give them the proper care.
d OFTEN he said, though the member.
o or the society did not approve tn,
move, the mothers preferred,, on ac
i count OF tne superior environment. tina
instead Of the squalid "East Side"
!, homes, Many hits made against tn,
" so-calied scientific charity" were re-
re scented by him, and he said that as IN,
% as ne was able to see It was much ire
is leranle to the old style of promlscuou!
= DR. Collins and Mr.. sulzberger ala,
y contributed their share to the critI
- cisms. The former resented the as
le ssrtlon Of DR.. Wise that only Christia,