The Denver Jewish news., 1920-01-07
NIenOrah.


Cincinnati.
MenOrah.
The Seventh Annual Menorah con-
vention was held iii New York from
December 2S to January 1.
1t opened Sunday morning with II
meeting of the Board of Governors, of
which Joseph NJ. PrOskauer is Chair
man. Many students, professors, and
graduates have gathered in that city
from various parts of the United States
and Canada for this convention. the
first since the armistice. The Menorah
movement was founded at Harvard
university in 1906, and has since
spread to over seventy colleges and
universities in the United States and
Canada. The name Menorah signifies
enlightenment, and the object of the
Menorah Societies is to promote the
study of Jewish life and thought, so
that students may be better equipped
to handle Jewish problems and all
American questions involving religious
and cultural adjustments.
'.The Hebrew Contribution to the
Americanism of the Future was the
theme taken Sunday night by Profess
sor Hartley Burr Alexander for the
Z,rnz Memorial Lecture
DIR. Alexander, who is Professor of
Philosophy in the University of Neb-
raska and President of the American
Philosophical society. said i'm the course
of his lecture:
american citizenship of the future
must be. like musicianship of the high
est order, an ability to bring the in
strumentation of many races and many
peoples into one mastering harmony.
when l consider, apart from cir
eumstances, what should be the most
perfect example of people and n cul-
turc which have shown the power of
give and take, of combination and as
similation without loss of sclf-identi-
ty, l can give but one unreserved an
swer-the Hebrew. Here. in the ac-
complished past, we have the portrayal
of such qualities as are demanded for
the salvation of the future; here. in
race and in idea, we have the illustra-
tion of such powers of union as are
demanded of all races of America in
the secure founding of their mutual
destiny.
Il have sought to show that no
worthy past is lost, and that no peo-
pie emerging into consciousness of the,
higher things of life can ever lose this
consciousness and still be true to it.
self and to mankind; and l have
sought to show more particularly that
the children of Israel stand forward
among the nations as the bearers of a
light that is inextinguishable and as
the servitors of Zion that is eternal.
In America, Asia ana Europe meet
and the whole world seeks the mode
of its harmony. For that final music
America needs the voices of all its
peoples. and the idealisms of all and
where should 1t find its choir-leader
if not from that voice which is not of
Europe nor Asia nor any geographi-
cal center, but of people dispersed
among all?
''In this land of America we are of
many peoples, all, save few thou
sand Red Men, immigrants within
three brief centuries. Together we
shall make the future of the country.
each bringing thereto the heritage with
which his fathers have endowed him"
Hal Resh.
The annual conclavc of the Hal
Resh Fraternity opened December 26
in Cleveland at the Hotel Statler.
About eighty members of the organi-
zation from various parts of the coun-
try were present for the convention.
business meetings were held each
day at the Statler A very elaborate
social program was carried out.
The following officers of the nation
nj body We're elected for the coming
year. Myron II. Morreau. Cleveland.
council chief: Lasker Ehrman. Little
Rock, Ark, council prophet: Joe Fried
berg. Milwaukee. Wis. council scribe;