The Denver Jewish news., 1921-03-09
DR.. VIM. S. Friedman al
Kansas City Temple
judaism AND ANIERICANISM"
WAS SUBJECT PRESENTED TO
LARGE AUDIENCE.

DIR. VIM. S. Friedman addressed the
members of Temple B'nai Jehtida of
Kansas City. Mo-. last Sunday morn
ing. i'm one of the series of lectures
delivered in that Temple each sunday
morning.
A large audience greeted DIR. Fried
man in spite of very inclement wealth
or,
Several musical numbers We're also
given.
DR.. Friedmans subiec, vas "Judn-
ism and Americanism."
1.-The two vital questions before the
Jew today" said DIR. Friedman. ARE
Judaism and Americanism. Thest
must constitute his absorbing interest
At present we have n revival of anti
Jewish agitation over all the world
Insitlious propaganda has been made
to place the Jew everywhere under
suspicion. The campaign seems TO
have succeeded in Eastern and Central
Europe. 1t has brought to pass two
conditions which we behold today.
johann Boyer in his book. The Power
of Lie seems to prove the old adagc
n lie often repeated is as good as the
truth. The old lies concerning the
Jews have had their corrupting e.
feet Three-fourths of the Jews of the
world are practically DISTINGUISHED
are the victims of persecution. misery
would
have believed possible in the Goth
Century. Civilization seems to have
turned down its torch. and barbarism
is apparently triumphant. No wonder
that those Jews long for homeland
a nation where they can develop as
men and women and exercise their
God-given gifts of life. liberty and
the pursuit of happiness We cah
sympnthize with. altho we do not share
the ardent hopes of those who long
for return to Palestine.
1--WE may consider Jewish national
aspirations as fatal mistake. us it
tends to verify the clmrge that the
Jew is an alien. a foreigner. strans
or in n strange land. We may feei
that it is n sorry error to give the
Jews minority rights in any country
and believe that it can only have til"
effect of creating n suspicion that the
Jew desires to he nation within II
milton instead of working for common
national welfare.
of To n
stantiate the charge that we are IN
International conspiracy because of the
connections of minority mathematics
in the different countries of the world
When people are cnveloped in dar&-
ness-in black gloom they cannot
have n sense of perspective. The
American jew, native or ioreign-Dorn,
who has inhaled the air of liberty and
equality. and who has all the right
and privileges that man can enjoy
desires no other nationality. The
United States is his nation. and there
is no symbol more sacred to him than
the Star Spangled Bauner. Its colors
are woven into the very fibres of his
heart. For if he is willing to sacrifice
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institutions and of the fundamental
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