Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-08-16
BIC CONGREGATION
HEARS. RABBI TALK
Tells of Jewish Tenets and
Also Speaks of Pales-
tine Status

congregation that filled the main
auditorium and overlooked into the
balcony heard the address by Rabbi
Fred /. Rypins of Greensboro, in the
First Methodist church Sunday night.
He spoke of the meaning Of Judaism
and also discussed briefly the present
day situation IN Palestine
Invited by Ministers.
Rabbi Rypins was invited here by
the ministers of the city. The union
service was one Of a series being held
by Protestant churches of the city on
Sunday evening during July and Au-
gust, at most of which the pastors al
ternate in preaching. There will be
two more of them before the series
is ended.
Rabbi Rypins, husband of the foi
mer Miss Ruth Roth, daughter of Gus
Roth, veteran Henderson merchant.
and Mrs. Roth, is the leader of the
Jewish synagogue Temple Emanuel in
Greensboro, and is also president of
the Greensboro Rotary club. His re-
ference to the Palestine situation
grew out of observations made during
a visit to the Holy Land during the
summer in company with three Chris
tian ministers and two others in a
party that proceeded there after at
tending the convention of Rotary In
ternational at Nice, France, in late
June.
Jewish Teachings.
The speaker said the Jewish re-
ligion conferred around the teachings
of optimism and the utilization and
magnifying of the good in the world,
of benevolence and helpfulness where
ever opportunity afforded, and of
striving toward holiness. That was
something to look to. Not SO much
emphasis, he said, was placed on the
thereafter" rather stressing the strug-
gle for goodness and holiness in this
life, as achievements that may assure
the future.
In the proposed repatriation OF
Palestine by the Jews, he said, his
own people unfortunately were divid-
ed. One element thinks the Jews
should be gathered again in the home
land there to become a great nation
of their own, and to take its own place
in the world The other group thinks
the Jews should strive to become a
part of society wherever in any ma
ton they may find themselves, and
there to work out their own destiny
and live their own lives.
Many Angles in Palestine.
The rabbi said there were many
factors of influence in the situation in
Palestine. Whether or not the Jewish
migration there could develop bene-
ficially depended in large measure up
on the course ofsMussolini, the italian
dictator, in his determination to dom
mate the Mediterranean Sea countries
and on whether or not Hitler's future
course for Germany should be one for
good or for evil for his own and
other peoples. :. ~
Tolerance of religion, creed and
race, as exemplified by the invitation
of Henderson ministers to him to
speak here, and by the apparent
eagerness of the people themselves to
hear of the Jewish faith, were praised
by the rabbi as hopeful sign for
closer cooperation Of religion and for
better relations among the American
people. ~
Well known in Henderson.
Rabbi Rypins has visited Hender-
son much in the past decade, and is
quite well known to large number
of citizens here, many of whom I'm
gered after Sunday nights service TO
greet him again.
The speaker was introduced to the
congregation Sunday night by Rev. l..
J. Whitehead, pastor Of the Meth
odist Protestant church, who knew
him for two years while pastor IN
Greensboro, and who characterized
him as a man intensely interested IN
the general welfare and religious up
building of his city and State. Rev.
R. E.. Brown, pastor of the First Meth
odist church, and host to the meeting
presided.