Intermountain Jewish news., 1926-04-01

Ing no educafion whatever In their in.
dnism, except the little they get In the
Sunday Schools. II is true that We
have the schools Of higher learning,
such n the Jewish Theological Sem.
mary Of New York, the Hebrew Union
College Of Cincinnati, the Dropsle Col
lcgc Of Hebrew and Coenatc Learning
In Philadelphia. the Chicago Seminary,
the Rabbi Isaac III Channn Theological
Seminary In New York, and The work
Of the Hell Foundation by the fnde.
pendent Order Of B'nai B'rlth, yet the
scope Of the work Of the institutions of
higher learning Il limited TO select
few. Education must begin at home.
and when the children are Young. 9th
crwlse there cannot be Installed into
their hearts the love for the traditions
Of their fathers. | conclude, therefore,
that while in the past education was q
force In Judaism today II is n negative
factor.
H. CULTURAL FORCES
The third Is the cultural force In
modern Judaism. Along this line. there
Is the work Of the American Jewish
Historical Society. the Jewish Publ
cation Society. the Council OF Jewish
Women. the C0uncil Of Young Mems
Hebrew and Kindred Associations, the
Jewish Chautauqua Society, the Hell
Foundation, Jewish Theatres, Menorah
Movement, Young Judia. and other 10.
cal cultural societies and groups.
This. however. is not to be consid.
cred a dominant force In Judaism he
cause all OF these cultural agencies are
attended by limited numbers. and the
bulk of Jewry is not gaining the bcne-
tit of the cultural advantages which are
offered.
". FRATERNAL AND SOCIAL
This seems to be the age of com.
binatlons. groups. clubs and fraternal
societies, and these have n place In n
discussion Of the forces In modern Ju.
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types: First. The fractrnal types. such
as the Independent Order of B'nal
FIRTH; and, second, the social and
rccreational societies. as, for example
the Council of Jewish Women, The
Young Mems Hebrew Association, social
clubs, college fratcrnitles, country clubs
and the like.
The force Of these organizations. as
an agency for accomplishment Is less,
cned. when It is realized that each
group. with the possible exception of
the B'nai Birth. is clannish. OF all the
organizations. clubs. societies and fra.
tcrnal groups. the Independent Order
Of R'nai Birth has been the only fac.
tor and force for the good Of the whole
In Judaism While it is true that in
many lodges of our order, clannishncss
exists, yet as whole the order is al.
truistic and is open not only to Jews
of any shade of religious view or belief,
but even TO those without any religious
view or belief who consider themselves
Jews only as result Of birth and race
II has worked wholehcartedly, unstint-
ingly and without hesitation for the
benefit Of any and every cause affect.
ing Jewry in general Its force lies in
the fact that il Is nn International order
and not purely local in its scope. pro,
tested against wrongs and has fought
for the rights of the Jew wherever he
may live, believing in the precept Kal
Yisrael Chaverim-"all Jews are
brothers" it has. Of course, been active
in the erection of eleemosynary institu-
tOns and in the disbursements of char
ity. The B'nai Birth. in its interna.
tional capacity. well excmplifies the
motto that 'In Union There Is
Strength"
V. JEWISH SOLIDARITY-KEHIL,
LAH AND FEDERATION
Leo y. Levi. in an essay ON Union
Among Jews" said:
Shortly before the middle of the
nineteenth century. the Jewish colony
in the city of New York had grown to
considerable proportions, but it lacked
cohesion. 1t was composed of elements
which, if not altogether discordant
were at least not homogeneous. II
embraced the Sephardim or Portuguese
Jews who held alOof and superior TO all
others; English Jews who were insular
in themselves; German Jews who re
sented the arrogance of the Sephardim
but who themselves arrogated superior.
ity over the Poles; and, lastly, the
Polish Jews. who sneered at the as.
sumption of the Portuguese, English
and German Jews. 1t embraced some
men Of culture in the broadest sense
others Of great scholarship in limited
and Jewish sense only, and still n
greater number of the ignorant and un.
| refined In thn colony wore eOmn Nybs