The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-03
Services Held In
 Local Synagogues
Jewry Observing Feast of Rosh Hashanal Rabbis
 Deliver Special Sermons on Current Problems

Impressive services marked the opening of the high holy day in the Jewish calendar, RoSh HaShanah, in five synagogues yesterday and similar programs will be offered to- day and tomorrow featuring inSpir- ational sermons by the respective rabbiS who will ask their congrega- tions to pray for happy and pros porous year
 Rabbi Maurice L. Zigmund speak ing at Temple Israel last evening told his appreciative listeners that we seek to preserve our liberty so we may live in his sermon, "The Re- ligious Mans Dilemma.
 Mrs. Robert Birt played the organ and the musical program was feat ured by Paulette Wolozin, soprano; Mrs. Charles Foster, contralto; Charles H. Shons, tenor; and Ken- meth Tullar, bass. Rabbi Zigmund also spoke this morning in the Cooke Street synagogue on the subject "What Is the American Way?".
 Tonight at 5 o'clock at the He- brew Institute Rabbi Moses D. Sheinkopf will speak on Historic Responsibility of the American Jewry". This morning he delivered two sermons, the first at the Beth Israel synagogue on Sacrifice - Our Greatest Need" and the second at the Institute for the Young Israel congregation on TWO Fears.
 Rabbi William P. Greenfeld used Out of the Horrors of War" for his topic this morning at the Beth Fl synagogue.
 Rabbi zigmund last evening said in part:
 Here is, the dilemma which con- fronts every conscientious liberal, yes, every man who conceives of religion as practical way of life, We do not want to advocate war nor preparation for war. We do not want to kill or to be killed. We do not want to violate the deepest principles of our souls. We do not want to blaspheme our God. And yet, if we are to live, we want to breathe the pure, clean air of free dom. If we are to walk upon this earth, we want to walk in the light of the sun. If we are to abide here, we want to abide in peace.
 Here are the alternatives be- tween which each one of us must choose. Either we must remain faithful to the religious ideals of love, forgiveness, and the return ing of good for evil and resignedly submit to whatever degradation and humiliation fate may have in store for us; either we watch, unresisting, while the world we love tumbleS all about us; either we agree to adjust ourselves to 8 new way of life in which neither our ideals nor our religion will have place: or we must be prepared unequivocally to resist the inroads of despotism and stand ready to make the sacrifices which such resistance entails.
 "But I have reached decision I have decided that if there is nc cause worth fighting for, there are conditions under which life is not worth living. I have decided that even in the bestial carnage that is war, 1t is possible honestly to favor the winning of one side over the other. I have decided that even in the midst of the pain and the blood and the death, there can be good cause as against bad cause.
 "The radicals tell me that this is but another war Of imperialism be- tween imperialists. And while ad- hitting that they are right, I am prepared to make a choice between the two conflicting tmperialisms