Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-27
HONOR NEWARKER
IN JEWISH ORDER
Frederick Jay Elected First
Vice-President of District
B'nai Birth.

pHlIA DEsLBHlA, Jan. 2t.-tIeu-
erick Jay, well-known attor-
ney of Newark, N. j., was elected
first vice president of the Dis
trlct Grand Lodge No. g. of the In
dependent Order OF B'nai Birth, at
Yesterdays business session or the
biennial convention held at the Ma
iestic Hotel, in this city. Another
Newarker to be honored at the con-
vention was Arthur Phillips, of %
Hillside avenue, that city. Mr.. Phil
lips was chosen as one of the nine
delegates to the national convention
of the order to be held in San Fran
cisco next year. DR.. Il. s. Pollak,
of Jersey City, the retiring president
OF the Bnai Birth, was chosen a
/ delegate for the national convention,
also The other officers elected TO
serve two-year terms are as follows;
President, Abe Well, of Philadelphia;
1 second vice-presldent, Marcus Feucht-
wanger. Newcastle. Pa; treasurer
| NJ. S Meyerhoff, Philadelphia; sec
rotary, Louis Sulzbacher, Braddock,
Pa.
Sabbath schools that emphasize the
| part played by the Jews in the per-
secution of Christ, and public schools
that place before very young pupils
Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice"
Shylock, We're made the subject OF
an earnest protest at yesterdays SEES
sions. Hotels that bar Jews also
came in for criticism. A speech by
A. b. Seelenfreund, international
secretary of the order, pleading for
cessation of such race defamation,
was Endorsed by tumultuous ap-
plause from the delegates from Penn
sylvania, New Jersey, Delaware and
r. H., = 5Eal led a
Majestic. Resolutions expressing an
appeal that "a whole nation be no
longer compelled to suffer for acts
recorded against the history of parts
of It's people" were unanimously
adopted. Reliance is placed upon the
sentiment that is gradually fostering
worldwide brotherhood by wiping
out UNCONVENTIONAL lines in Chris |
tianity, to bring an early and favor |
able response to the plea.
Object to Faulty Teaching.
In regard to the history OF the |
Christian church the suggestion to
change the lessons on the Saviour's |
death concerns only the accepting of |
the fact that it was brought about |
by the Jews. Members of B'nai |
Birth contend that little children
have instilled in their minds hatred |
for the race that would not exist If
the whole story of Christ's death were
brought to them in their later years.
They believe that the constant recur-
renee of instruction that points to
the Jew as the enemy of Christ is at
the foundation of much of the preju
dice that ripens into discrimination
by adults and adult organizations.
Without making a specific plea con-
corning the limit of elementary teach
ing in the Sabbath rooms they OBJ
jeeted only to the emphasizing of the
nationality in otherwise tempered in
struction from the Bible.
The Merchant of Venice" by
Shakespeare, was suggested as the
second source of hatred of the Jew
by the non-Jew. A. b. Seelenfreund,
secretary of the grand lodge of B'nai
Birth of the world domain, who
voiced the plea of the ord"~, declared
that children OF the element ry grades
have not the minds to grasp the real
significance of Shylock, and recon-
mended that public schools be asked
to substitute a classic of equivalent
worth, of which. he said, there are
more than enough.
Asks for Justice to Jew.
I'VE are not asking favors," he |
said. I'VE do not bow the back or
bend the knee for little acts of grace. /
We ask only the consideration that
is given other races; we ask only
equality of justice. Generally, the
Jew, to be taken as silver, must be
as pure as gold and he must be doubly
good to be as good as his Christian
neighbOr. He is misrepresented in
moving pictures and Is caricatufed
on the stage; for the sins of the few
his race must suffer. We would have
the Sabbath schools present religious
stories in their true color; facts
should not be distorted to inject the
poison of race hatred into immature
minds. Children are told of Christ's
sufferings at the hands of the Jews
and from the fountain of brotherhood
they go forth hating their brothers.
Is it not unjust that religion should
foster unbrotherly feeling?"
Hotels That Discriminate.
Hotels that discriminate against the
Jew were criticised by the world
lodge delegate. He said
I'VE are too proud to enter them
and we do not want them to ask us
in; but we do resent that the Jew of
North Michigan is classed as a dog
and that the Jersey Jew is looked |
upon as a shore insect"