The Denver Jewish news., 1924-01-31

need teachers who speak the English
Language, who speak it correctly. who
| speak it without the European accent
who can address them in n language
! which they understand and which Will
appeal to them; II language which their
associates in the public school ana IN
their daily life speak and understand; !;
a people who speak in language
| whom they would not be ashamed to
have address their fellows ut school,
and who they know would have respect
for the teachings of one who is able to
confer the information for which he
seeks. to confer in the language of the
| land,
| 81 do not think that the question is
one which needs discussion or elucida-
| ton. Unless we are willing to keep our
children and our grandchildren out of
the Jewish religious school; unless we
are willing to drive our children and
our grandchildren out of the Jewish
synagogue in America. we must edu-
cate rabbis and teachers trained in the
| English language. familiar with the
learning of higher educational institu-
tions, colleges ana universities. under
stand the spirit of Judaism, know all
| TINT pertains to il and who can make
enthusiastic the American boy and girl
whom he informs them that he is
member Of the greatest the oldest, the
nObliest aristocracy that the world has
ever known.
| 1T would seem. therefore, that we
can accept as further proposition, as
| to which there can be no reasonable
doubt. that it is essential that we shall
| train Il continuously increasing number
, of rabbis and teachers who can give
instruction in the language of the land.
and say again that in making this re-
! mark. am not seeking to detr;ict from
the scholarship, the piety, the learning
the sincerity of those who are unfortu-
,mteiy lacking the opportunity to famil-
| imrize themselves with the English lam
susge and who never will be able to
perform the function that is required
uf them for the boy and girl of Jewish
parentage in America.
I'VE are. also. prepared 10 go one
| step further and to say that even
those who were born abroad, who came
to this country when they were, fairly
young, who have grown up in an Ameri-
| can environment, that they too have
changed their point of view. not with
regard tc Judaism. but with regard to
certain eNternals. and that they too de-
| sire to ATTEND II synagogue where the
| sermon is delivered in the language of
the land and that their minds have
! undergone such n change in rasciosin-
ation that they would prefer the direct
method OF augmentation and discus
| sicn and instruction which has at least
| the appearance of occidental training.
There is another reason which in
some respects is Il ccrollary of what
have just said and that is that many
| Jews in this country-nnd l am afraid
| IL is true elsewhere. too-haye become
materials in their outlook; they
| have not that spiritual background that
! is needed to make fine men and women
| They look for amusement, entertain
ment. pleasure, money success. worldly
1 success. !;
| Their parents We're poor when they
came here. And yet those parents were
loyal TO their faith They attended the
| .,tt ..fs al
to it. But these of the modern intellec-
| tunl treud-I do not call it higher-a
| different trend. did not have that same
necessity that their parents had. Many
of them can he brought back to the syn
agoguc If the syna @oguc has at its head
| teachers and preachers. rabbis and
scholars. of the type that we are seek
| ing TO train. in the Seminary.
Il venture TO say that if there were
| in every community in this land con
scrvatiye syuagogueS-l am not talking
now of Reformed synagogues-thes same
| disease goes through all: Lam talking
now Of conservative synagogucs. with
| men at their head of the type that You
have seen here today. with many of the
young people and .middle-ased people
who have become country club fanatics
and automobile manacS and consumers
of paint and powder and kalsomine and
enamel would come back 10 the syna-
goauc and I've interested in something
which enables them to feel the eSultat-
finn pf Sprious thauoht and the thrill
that comes to one from lenriliilgs, know
ing and understanding the wisdom Of
the various generations.
We must train ourselves TO under
stand the true content and inner mean
ing of Judaism. We must seek TO pre-