New-York tribune., 1911-01-18
FOR AMERICAN JUDAISM
uebrew Union at Opening Ses-
sion Hears Of Liberal Tendencies.
ADDRESS WARMLY DEBATED
,-ocressive Ideals Opposed and
EspOused - Roosevelt to
Speak at Big Dinner.

,,., than three hundred delegates at
Mi the opening session OF the twenty
md biennial council Of the Union of
,-,sn Hebrew Congregations at the
o., as,or Yesterday They represented
,yrdrcd congregations and more than
hundred and fifty thousand persons.
., them we're women. This first day
devoted largely 10 tho expression OF
~, rrinriplcs Of reformed Judaism
o,,s j Goldman. the president is III at
,.,o,,e IN Cincinnati. and Solomon Sulz-
FL. called the meeting 20 order. Abra-
,prahams. of Brooklyn was made
,r,r, chairman The Rev. Or Isaac
v,.ss made the opening prayer. and
uas an address Of welcome by Daniel
. ,I.vs Of New York and q short speech
yr kh-ahams Max May Of Cincin-
-osd tho address OF President Gold
Tho address ended as follows:
a>..yer lot ms forget that we are Ameri-
toue Proud A. we have a right 10
~ ~ our ancestry and deeply as we feel
:, c,rerines through which they passed
's.,,sb centuries Of oppression, IT is the
,-.,rd not backward when it comes 70
80 ouestlon Of the hour as to what our
-, is toward present and future genera
tons
tn. princlnal speech Of the day was
-. by the Rev. Dr. Kaufman Kohler,
:, cincinnati. president Of the Hebrew
,,,,,, College Hc spoke on American
t-lsIsr1 as Represented by tho Union of
,,-,ricar Hebrew Congregations and the
Hebrew Union college.
No Room for Ghetto Judaism.
arhero is no room for Ghetto. Judaism in
,-sries" No said Look at any Of the
.-,,5, and churches In our free land. They
a., an more tolerant more liberal more
,,oape and sympathetic IN their mutual
,,f,,ors than those in Europe Our free
,,,g.u,ions our common school education.
az ,nrehtpuing press and pulpit with their
.,ossl n common sense. enlarge tho men
,. and social horizon and render progress
., g1Jidinc maxim. American Judaism
,rr s'op forth. the equal OF any church
4, madness ~ riew and largeness Of
,,o,s ss a living truth. as an inspiring
-,s,ars N the new humanity that is now
I, tho making. not as mere memory Of
30 rs,, and "a piece Of Orientalism in the
~fds, NJ vigorous, forward pressing Occi-
,crtsl civilization.
"l 40 no, wonder that our Russian or
Rrmanisn brethren. brought up under the
ramHatng conditions and widely differ
-, religious views and influences " their
firi-h,ed country harbor n certain mis-
tfuyl of ne wNcr they sec our majestic
for,es n Worship and our educational and
rhHanfhrcVir structures reared after and
maintained tv altogether new methods In
heir bswildsrment they faN TO recognize
'ht, In blending Americanism with Judaism
v, have Ike Joseph Of yore, stored up
ns treasures Of life for their children as
vel as for ours, that in changing o. modi-
fnr me form We have been reserving and
rtrdng the faith far better than did our
rr,hrsn In Europe who are being con
rg,,.d with tho peril Of spiritual starva-
m and whose children sell their Jewish
HarFht by the thousands FOR mess
= 'd,,are. FOR political or social recogni-
lN and promotion.
Criticism Arouses Protests.
Rfen ur Kohler had completed his
rs..h, tho Rev. Dr. Max Heller. Of New
o-ssns. who is a reformed rabbi and a
Zmst. said
I rise 70 make the customary motion FOR
vote OF thanks. but / can not say, as
= reformed rabbi. that / relish tho con-
,ar' Use of 'ro word progressive as ap-
l.td only % F,forme1 Judaism. There is
.-ogress of orthodoxy also. With Difference
70 The speaker. Z hold that the Union
psler book .- not based on the Einhorn
EaY,r book amy more than II Is on other
rfgsl' And ] do not hold that the Union
ri itself ON record IN 1905 as opposed 10
ieE.a' Judaism so union could adopt
~ atuudc 30 hostile TO some of lis mem
1ers. Tho convention AZ Richmond did this
'at some OF tr" mcwbers one Of whom !
an 07yo changed their views. Nnd !
nus' 80" mat ] do not care for the en-
I0ass PLACED on fhe Americanlzation' OF
NE Jew. Everything that the Jew en-
JOYS IN 'le way ~ benefits - not due to
America. AmrHosu.z.uE the immigrants IL
no, the only u.ng due them. American
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