The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-05-06
RABBI WOULD REFUSE
ALL TAINTED MONEY
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who levy these taxeA on the unfortu-
nate women. contribute, some of them.
to the support of churches and other
respectable institutions"
1t was in this respect that Rabbi
Coffee declared the ministers OF Ju-
daism must take a positive stand and
refuse to accept any money on which
there was the slightest faint.
In further laying down the rules of
conduct which should characterize the
rabbi. the speaker declared that the
former, II he is conscientious, will re-
fuse to marry young people unless the
prospective husband can show a clean
bill of health In the form % a reliable
Doctors certificate.
Women Must Help.
Turning to the women in the au-
dience. Rabbi Coffee exclaimed: 1T
behooves you mothers in Israel to see
to IL that your children are not brought
up in ignorance OF the dire evils re-
sulting from immortality. 1t is for you
to put period to the generally ac-
copied proposition that money covers
a multitude of sins. A young man
cails on your daughter. He is young
Mr.. Money Bags. That is as far as
you inquire about him. He marries
your daughter. and in few short
months her bloom OF health is gone,
she is put on the operating table. her
life destroyed, her life blighted for
ever. ], for one. refuse to- take any
further share in the performance OF
these unholy weddings which bring
blind and deformed or imbecile chill
dren into the world, filling it with
pain and misery"
DR.. Coffee made the charge that most
ministers were SO poorly paid that they
did not dare take'an independent stand
and tell their congregations the actual
truth about life and the terrible con
ditions which surround them. They
dare not tell what they know-the
appalling things which come. within
their own experiences in the course of
their ministerial duties.
tSince this,.is the case" said DR..
Coffee, it devolyes upon you mothers In
Israel. for the sake: or your sons and
your daughters,.to sustain. your rabpis
In this matter. and to fully protect
them in their efforts to place the truth
before the children so plainly that
they will avoid the pitfalls into when
SO many ;thousapdsIare falling every
day that we live
Discussion Is Spirited.
At the conclusion of Rabbi Coffee's
address, there was q spirited discus
sion, which was entered into by Rabbi
H!rsch, the foremost rabbi in Amer lea:
Miss Sadie American, president OF the
Eastern Council OF Jewish Women,
and others. Miss American took a
positive stand against teaching child
rem the secret of sex. She. declared
that the subject was wo-edgcd
sword. and one of such vast psyche
logical Importance that 1t could not,
with safety. be discussed with child.
She was, however, in sympathy with
Rabbi Coffee, in the insistence Of the
single moral standard for men anu
women. and the ostracizing of young
men who We're known to be immoral.
Rabbi ;Hirsch expressed the hope that
the Jews would soon return; to the
ancient Jewish standards of purity and
chastity BE did not think, however.
thek these standards had ,been broken
down by contact with American life
to the extent that some suppose. He
was not In favor OF introducing the
subject to children OF tend err years
but It WAS well to Impress them with