Omaha daily bee., 1921-11-21
Rabbi Pleads for
Disarmament at
Brandeiis Meeting
Three Day Golden Jubilee
Celebration of Temple Israel
Ends With Service at
Which Visitors Speak.

A tremendous ovation was given
Rabbi Abram Simon in the Bran-
deis theatcr Sunday morning at the
end OF his powerful plea for moral
and religious as well as military dis
armament.
I'VE have so many religions, we
have lost religion. SO many frater-
mites VIC have lost fraternity. So
many fences built for offense, not
defense. Just enough religion to
hate each other, not love-" accord
ing to the Washington rabbi. .
Like will o. the wisp men have
pursued the ideal of world peace
since before the Christian era, but
it is the worlds will which alone
can bring about the realization OF
this ideal, he declared. 7
Throw Off Our Own Cone.t.
1--WE must disarm our own hosti-
lities, forswear our own prejudices
within the limits of rationality; we
must recognize there is place in
the world for every religion, as well
as every nation; that others have
the same right to moral dignity and
spiritual expansion as we have, be-
fore we clasp her in our hands"
To do this we must throw off
the armor of our own conccit, he
emphasized.
The rabbi paid an eloquent tri-
butte to President Harding for his
part in making the dream come
true
THAT 'wisp of will in the White
House, backed up by the will pow
er of the world, is the dynamo be-
hind the movement TO disarm-not
merely the cry for economy or re-
duction of taxation" he declared.
Tells Of Jews Interest.
He expanded on the theme OF the
Jews special interest in the WASH
ington conference.
Our responsibility as a religious
people is over and above all else
the accomplishment of the spirit
ual disarmament of the world"
the rabbi announced.
To accomplish this, he called on
both Jew and gentle to disarm: The
Jew, not Of his spiritual mission
throughout the generations, but by
scrapplng every quality not of the
highest and by forgetting the per-
secution Ct centuries.
The Christians he exhorted 10 "bc
really Christians, practicing good
will to men, Disarm your suspicious.
unsound prejudices and the barriers
you have raised to keep from loving
each other, as the Nazarene directed
Rabbi Franklin Talks.
Rabbi Leo Franklin of Detroit in
his Jews Reply to the Worlds
Challenge" took occasion to ac-
knowledge Henry Ford's charge that
the Jews seek world dominion.
I'VE do-but it is spiritual, not
temporal power we seek and have
sought for 5000 years. Pray God
we attain that height"
He called on his people, TO forget
they are martyr people, but to re-
member they are a master people,"
I'VE speak too much OF the wan
dering Jew, not enough of the eternal
or indestructible Jew; too much OF
our prosecutions, not enough of our
triumphs."
Can Ashieve Brotherhood.
Despite the retention of Jewish en-
tity, the rabbi stated there was no
reason why the brotherhood OF man
could not be achieved.
Like different instruments in
symphony orchestra play, each their
own part, yet create one great har-
mony, so can all religious spirits be
attuned, no matter what the differ.
ences between Christian and Jew
orthodox and radical, Catholic and
Protestant"
He voiced the hope for splendid
future for American Jewry.
Ends Golden Jubilee.
Il am filled and thrilled with the
possibilities for the union
OF the faith of Judaism and the free
dom OF America, in bringing about
larger ideals, finer humanitarianism.
nobler relations between God and
man and between man and God"
The meeting, marking the end OF
the golden anniversary OF Temple
Israel, closed with the singing OF
America" Rabbis Jacob Singer OF
Lincoln and Frederick Cohn OF Oma-
fla offered prayers.
Leo Rosenthal and w. L. Holz-
man were publicly honored fo- their
part in arranging the festive three
day program. The visiting rabbis
were guests OF honor at a reception
last nigh, at the home OF Mr.. and |
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