The Denver Jewish news. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1915-1925, 1922-08-30
Council of Jewish Women
OUR YOUTH AND ITS RELIGIOUS
INDIFFERENCE.

New York City.--m "A discussion of
the question Judaism and Our Youth. -
Mrs. Max l.. Margolis. President of the
Jewish Women. and National Direc-
tor, made very interesting analysis
of the religious situation as il concerns
| the young men and women today. Her
address, in part, was as follows:
Have we tried to solve the problems
that are troubling our young people to-
day? Have we tried to find IN Judaism
an answer for the social, economic, in
dustrial, political unrest of today?
How do we combat radicalism? BY
denying that we have part or lot i'll it:
How did we meet Ethical Culture and
Christian Science? BY Illuminating
against those Jews who went over. Yet
| Ethical Culture is only the youngest
child of modern Judaism, and n CON
certed attempt could easily have shown
that the parent was deeper, richer in
content and thus more soul satisfying
| to the jew who could remain within
| the fold and get all that Ethical Cul-
| ture offers with the added comfort of
| an old. aristocratic and historic back
ground. As for Christian Science
merely denouncing those people whose
minds are so constituted that 10y deny
ing evil they think they can eradicate
| it will surely not bring about results.
| Yet Judaism has n wealth of spiritual
healing to offer as is proven by the fact
| that the Hasidim an entire Jewish sect
not of recent growth but centuries old
have their saints who intercede for the
people. pray with or for them and heal
| their physical and mental diseases by
prayer and sympathy. The elimination
| of evil, sin, disease. through the eff
| cacy of prayer and faith is as old as
mans trust in God. Is there no con-
| certed desire on the part of our leaders
to find n constructive Jewish answer
to these destructive questions?
Are we Jews only strong and fear
less under persecution? Must we he
always race of martyrs to be true
Jews? Is Judaism only worth dying
| LOT. never llNlU- lbl MUS IT w -st-ti
| of us that only while we lived confined
within the Ghetto, restricted in our ac-
| tivities and circumscribed in our inter
| ests that our light so shone before men
| that our domestic life was an example
our sobriety and our chastity proverb-
| ial? Are we so small and weak and
inefficient that we cannot enter the
larger life as observing Jews? Then
why are there seven branches to our
candlestick. if we cannot supply a bril-
liant flame. not only for the centre one
of religion, but for the other siN-edu-
cation, parental obligations. civic con-
seriousness, social service, loyalty, stead
| fastneSs?
Il believe that we are Gods chosen
people with n mission to perform.
Surely the Lord loves us or we would
not be so chastened but that mission
was given to us rs II kingdom of priests
and holy nation What we have been
chosen for what our mission is, that
| we do not know, perhaps ii is to prove
| to II soothing world that when Il people
| fights for what it believes with its
| whole soul is true, that people must
kept herself in readiness to be the
Mother of the Messiah. 50 must we
| keep ourselves in readiness for the
greater revelation which is to come
|