The Denver Jewish news., 1924-01-31

tnHt Oh clNIilZatlOH In It's true sense
Schechter said these thoughts create
men and women. We have this library !:
we have this great dynamo station we
have the man who operate it; we are
seeking to train men to become fami-
liar with those thoughts, and with
that power to disseminate it. VIII you
withhold your assistance to make 1t
possible that there shall be n real re-
birth of American Judaism?
IF You do. you need not be concerned
about all the nameless individuals who
are our enemies, who. in their ignorance
attack us. Who misrepresent us. There
is always one full complete and perfect
answer to all falsehood and all calum-
ny-that is right conduct. Right con-
duet is taught in our Seminary by our
teachers, by our rabbis. and, God will
ing. we will prove to the world what
Judaism really is; what it means !;
what Jewish life betokens
Time was when the pious Jew re-
vered every word in our sacred litera-
ture. Time was when the father and
mother brought up their children in the
fear of God and sought in their way to
train them according to the lessons that
they had learned from their ancestors.
We adored and revered Father Israel
and Mother Judaism because we knew
them. We were not strangers to them.
Let us once more become acquainted
with them; let us once more reunite
the following upon the basis of a real
Jewish household; and to do that you
have got to begin in the synagogue and
in the religious school. 1t cannot be
done in any other way We have tried
all kinds of experiments. Our people
have gene astray in every possible di-
rection. They have become agnostics
and atheists add Christian Scientists
and what not. Let us once more try
Judaism. and they can only; get that
when they have the teachers and the
rabbis.'
An ovation was given David A.
Brown, who was the next speaker.
Il am almost taking it for granted
that your very presence here is an in
dication of your interest and that your
to serve in this effort, that you intend
to give in this effort, and the success
or the failure of this campaign through
out the United States of America is
dependent absolutely upon this group
right III this room. If yen fail to meas
IRE in your respective communities. If
You fail to render service and if you
fail to give. and give up to what the
people in your community know you can
give. you can rest assured that every
man and every woman in your COM
munity will he guided by what you do.
That does not necessarily mean that a
man of modest nenMs must give large
sums. but he must give in proportion to
his means. and if you can't give money
you can ccrtinly give of yourselves.
Il second all that Mr.. Marshall has
said and every other speaker has said
about the need for the rebirth of the
Jewish spirit in this country and I am
not talking to You as preacher. I am
talking to YOU as Jewish business
man who has had to carry the burden
of the fnct that he was Il Jew and han
dicapped because he was n Jew, but
WHO recognized that handicap did not
blind MY eyes 10 it, knew. that carried
that handicap and MS proud of my Jew
isliness as possibly could he and never
tried to hide it even if my name might.
say that throughout this country
there is IA recognition of the fact that
before tile people of this country can
have for us the respect that we are en-
titled TO. we have got to have Il whole
lot more respect for ourselves as Jews.
And you do not show respect for your
selves as jews unless you put your
heart and soul and your pocketbcoks
behind every Jewish cause that pre-
sents itself nc matter how many of
them may present themselves.
Your non-Jcwish community holds
i'll high regard what type oil man You
have in your community. He holds in
high regard only those men who play II
big part in the Jewish communal life in
that community If ycu We're to ask
the non-Jews who are the outstanding
figures in any city they would not point
to the rich man alone but they Will
point TO the men in the community who
are Jews and vSio live as Jews ana who
function in all their activities as Jews
and if a man functions that way YOU
need not worry about his being fine
citizen because the two 90 hand in
nand. n good jew must necessarily II,
ii good citizen of the country and the
section in which he lives.