Evening star., 1939-06-17
Rabbi Asserts
Palestine Is Not
Key 70 Accord
Jews in Rest of World
Would Not Be Aided,
Dr.. Mark Says

The development of a Jewish
Palestine will not solve the prob
lens of Jews living in the rest of
the world, Rabbi Julius Mark of
Nashville, Tenn, told members of
the Central Conference of Amer
ican Rabbis today.
They will have to work out their
own destiny" Rabbi Mark asserted.
He delivered the conference sermon
before the delegates at services at
the Washington Hebrew Congrega-
tion Temple.
Tribute to the memory of Abra-
ham Lincoln was to be paid by the
conference today in a ceremony to
be held at the Lincoln Memorial at
3 pm. DR.. Max c. Currick, Erie,
Pa, retiring president of the con-
ference, was to speak briefly and
place a wreath from the conference.
Tonight's program will feature the
meeting of the Alumni Association
of the Hebrew Union College, from
which the more than 200 rabbits at
tending the conference at the May
flower Hotel were graduated. The
alumni group will meet at 8pm.
The message of the association
president will be delivered at $50
am. tomorrow, and officers for the
coming year elected The Executive
Board will meet in the afternoon in
the closing session of the conference.
which this year celebrates It's 50th
anniversary
Assails Cynical Men.
Dr. Mark, in his address, said
"anti-s\;,itism is due not to ignor-
ance. but to the desire of cynical
and unscrupulous men to attain and
hold power and keep the masses in
subiection."
Discussing the problems of reform
Jewry during the last so years. DR..
Mark said anti-Semitism appears
when democracy is in distress.
ut has always seemed to me-" he
said. that we have been wasting a
great deal of nervous energy trying
to determine whether we are a race.
a nation or religion. The discus
sion is completely academic and
totally irrelevant.
"a half-million Jews are living in
Palestine and are bound together
bv national ties, even though for
the moment their plans have suf-
fered a severe setback" he as
serted. Their problems will have
been solved. he said. but added that
Jews in the rest of the world will
have to work out their own destiny
Rabbi William H. Fineshriber of
Philadelphia addressed the dele
gates last night on THE Jew, the
Perpetual Sacrifice on the Altar of
Freedom" at meeting at the tenn
pie. Rabbi Fineshriber asked for
united action against intolerance
and counseled courage in the face
OF developments against Judaism in
Europe
Report Attacks Tsms."
Earlier. the conference approved
q report attacking 'isms." which are
founded "on materialism and die
tatorship." and which warned that
the destruction of American de-
mocracy was threatened by anti
Semltism as represented by Father
Couehlin and "other rabble rousers. "
The conferences Committee on
international Peace, headed by
Rabbi Nathan Stern of New York,
urged revision of the Neutrality Act
to make a clear distinction between
aggressor and innocent nations.
At Rabbi Stern's suggestion, the
conference reiterated its abhorrence
OF war, Endorsed a policy of consul
tation, conciliation and arbitration.
and commended the United States
Government for its refusal to recog-
nize the legality of the German con-
quest of CZecho- -Slovakia.
The conference also approved a
report of its Committee on Social
Justice, headed by Rabbi Barnett
r. Brickner of Cleveland, which ad-
vocated appropriation of 100000 for
continuation of the La Toilette Com
mittee on Civil Liberties and sup
ported the bill proposing to prohibit
military drill or bearing of arms by
political groups or private organiza-
tons.