The Denver Jewish news., 1925-09-03
Jewish Prcss Service OF Now York.
The Ar Of Being n dew

The Art Of Being \ dew
Assimilation on the part Of Jews is
not bad, but II IN n dclusion, and fool.
ish and futile dclusion. argues Ludwig
icwlsohn, author of "Up Stream" and
former asslmllatonist, In mn article
The Art Of Being Jew" which ep.
pears In the current issue Of Harpers
There are thousand miscrlcS "con.
ncc'cd with the position Of The asslm-
ilutionlst which the non.asslmilntlon.
ist does not encounter. Mr.. Lcwlsohn
believes, saying: without obtrusivc.
ness, without foolish ovcr-cmphasis, the
on-assimlatlonis is himself; not the
member OF sect, but of people that
has It's history, traditions, character.
rights
This jew need not be Territorial.
list cr n Zionist. These are questions
Of policy. But he cannot be an anti.
Zionist In the sense in which the as
similntionist is one He can never deny
the reality out Of which these policies
arise. He need not, ON the other hand,
he constantly comforting himself with
Jewish achievement, charity, or law
nbldingncSs. He does not shlver If n
jew turns out to he rascal. He Is
not trying TO Justify his existence He
has seen no American do so, no French
man. not even Montenegrin or Al
baninn. Why should he? That peo-
pie has appeared upon the scene of
human history and sustained itself
there is an ultimate fact. II needs no
excuse. explanation, Justification"
Christianity Tending Toward Judaism
what will he the effect of the mod
ernist movement in the Protestant
Christian Church, asks the Jewish
Chronicle In nm editorial reproduced
by the "Texas Jewish Herald" In
answer to this question. the paper
quotes n sermon on the subject by the
Rev. Charles Francis Potter. pastor of
the East Side Unitarian Church Of New
York, wherein DR.. Potter declared that
the prescott trend in the church sis
taking Christianity toward Judaism"
and that "the endency in Christianity
to 20 behind the theological Christ of
the Middle Ages to the human Jesus of
the Gospels. is bound to result In n
closer approach to the ethical mon
otheism of Judaism"
The Chronicles" own opinion on
the matter is expressed thus:
THE Jews will not resist this ten
dcncy to make Judaism the universal
religion. for Judaism is the religious
ideal which embraces all the conccp-
tions of righteousness and justice be-
tween man and man. Judaism Is not
dependent on dogmatic belief, hence
the Jew need not compromise his faith
to meet his Christian brother on COM
mon religious ground
A Just Demand
The demand of the leaders of the
Jewish World Relief Conference. cx-
pressed at the recent meeting of that
organization in Berlin, that the fifteen
million dollars to be raised by the Joint
Distribution Committee in its forthcom.
ing drive he administered through rep
rescntatives Of the Jews when the re-
lief funds are to aid, is endorsed by the
DAY" New York;. which states its
position in these words:
This demand seems to us to he Just.
The old method of distributing the re
lief fund through American field
workers was in many ways unsatisfac-
tory. costly and undemocratic II was
unsatisfactory because many of the
relief workers sent from America were
unfamiliar with the conditions and
needs of the countries or communities
they were assigned to. 1t was costly
because these American workers had to
he paid American salaries. thereby
swelling the overhead expense and
therefore reducing the amount avail
able for actual relief. And it was un-
democratic. since relief given without
consulting those who are to he helped
has the appearance of being imposed
from above.
The faireSt, most efficient. and least
expensive way to help our overseas
brethren, then would he to cntrust the
relief work to them. or rather their
representative organizations, with a
few American Jewish workers of
proven ability, integrity and sympathy
to check up and coordinate, but not to
dominate, the work."
Scathes League Of Nations Societies
The League of Nations Societies of
the vnrious European countries nre
scathinely criticised by the "Befra-
jung" Jewish weekly of Warsaw. for
not condcmnlng. mt their recent con
gress in Warsaw, Poland and the
other governments Of Eastern Europe
for their miStrcatment Of the minori-