The Denver Jewish news., 1924-01-24
Continuation

"A rabbi in a community means that
thousands of men. women. young people
and children are brought nearer 10 Jud-
aism. Through the synagogue. through
the various clubs. through the school.
through the various social functions.
he represents is brought home to most
of the Jews of the country. ! can,
therefore. state that these graduates
are today ministcring TO one million
souls.
"Ali Israel will he the beneficiary of
these funds. The Influence of the Sem
inary is not confined to any locality or
to any party in Jewry. The first grad
uate Of the Seminary, DIR. Joseph Hertz.
chie.' rabbi of Great Britain. one of its
.r;dutes. DIR. Herman AbromawitZ. Is
the recognized head of Canadian Jew
nv. While one OF its graduates is the
president of the United synagogue. an
other is the head of the Union OF Or
thodox Congregation. while still an
other is secretary of the Mizrachi. Re-
form Judaism, too. has been the richer
because of the Seminary. DIR. Schech-
tcr's influence is alive in the hearts or
many leaders OF tho Reform pulpits.
The graduates of-oirs Teachers lnsti-
tutc teach in the leading Reform Com
and one OF them. DIR. Eman-
uel GnmOran. is the educational direc-
tor of the Union of American Hebrew
Congregation. is thus in, Charge of the
training of all the children OF the Re
form Synagogue in Americn.
There is today crying need
the land for rabbis and
tenchcrs. Hundreds Of communities
are without spiritual guidance, without
.eachcr for their schools. What will
happen to these communities scattered
Throughout the land " the Scmihnry l.
not enabled 10 expand its work. only
tho good God knows. 1t is inconceiv-
able that American Israel will remain
dead TO this cry of hundreds of com
muuitics and of hundreds of thousands
of Jewish children ycarning for relig-
iouS guidance.
THE Seminary has in Its keeping
prac ically the future of scholarship
and religious leadership in American
Israel" Rabbi Louis Epstein, president
of the Rabbinicnl Assembly. declared.
community life. Jewish consciousness
religious interest and Hebrew educn-
tion have grown more intensive anu
mere extensive in the last quarter OF a
century and among other rabbis the
rabbi of the Seminary has figured most
prominently rs factor in this prog
reSS.
1T is the Jewish youth in this coun-
try that has perhaps suffered most
from the lack of adequate spiritual
leadership" he said IF every jew
ish community. large and small. had
been guided by the type of rabbi whom
thc Jewish Theological Seminary pro-
duces. in whom Jewish learning ana
mc,lern culture are conveniently COM
bined. If every Jewish community, large
and small. had been provided with the
type of Hebrew teacher whom the
Teachers Institute of the Jewish The-
olocical Seminary trains. in whom Jew
ish emotion and pedagogical under
standing are happily united, then there
would have been less apathy. less ~
norance among the young people in the
household of Israel today
Il greet you as Jews-not as re
formed or Orthodox Jews Sol NJ
Stroock said in welcoming the dele
gates. Because you have heritage
which is possessed by no other people
in the world in any land whatsceVer-
heritage of learning. To preserve
that heritage we have established and
founded the Jewish Theological Semi
nary of America. and l want you t6
mark that particularly, it is not the
Jewish Theological Seminary of New
York. 1t is the Jewish Theological
seminary of America, which is the cen
fer of all the Jews of America wher
ever they may he. whatever their differ
ences and shades of thought and opin
ion may be"
| Mrs. Alexander Kohut, wEo has jus
returned from Europe and whose late
husband was one of the pillars of thu
| Seminary. reviewed the early begin
nings of the Seminary and the prog
ress of the Institutions.
A service in memory of DIR. Solomon
Schechter. Judge Mayer Sulzbcrger
and Prof. Israel Friodlander. was thei
conducted with Cantor Josef Rosen