The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1946-07-01
The Meaning Of American JewrY

with it the entire world He is the religious spring and
out which all the rest of the peoples have drawn t
religions the pioneer of liberty The
the pioneer of civilization The Jew the emblem OF civil
religious oerationove the stranger and the so1orne
The Jew is the emblem of eernity!-Leo TolsoY.
The phrase American Jewry implies community aware OF
destiny dominated by idea How many
individual America feel that they have common destiny
with the other individual Jews comprising american Je ana
how Jews feel that they idea with their
fellow in American Jewry?"
Jewish and lay leaders and
teachers drifting away from Judaism
showing the most intense signs ibuaton as to the survival
Judaism America Statements ranging from despair over
the noads of assimilation American Jewry to confidence
that with enehgec leadership cooperation by all in the com
mun Judaism nsurve the United States hav ebeen studied
the various and been the conclusion OF numerous SYM
posia the subject.
Today the Jews in the United States do not very
evauang American Jewish life They to be
The very slight tenu
Gus together able
The sad tale told
rretnn gJewis chapans to the state Jewish under
standing and feeling for Judaism among our Jewish servcemen is
most unpleasant commentary the past accomplishments OF
abbs eh educators. Of not all the rabbis
guilty forgetting traditional eache-but the
Der rabb who did forget their primary obligation and the
number who still do too great is hbhy entertaining
hear rabbi review book discuss world political ideooges
about the destructive capacity of the bomb BUT
not fulfilling his role of spiritual teacher and guide his
gregaton o. community.
Under circumstances too surprising to find
American Jews lack the historic and the will to
live How they responsibility Jews
they practically ignorant
this responsibility and have haG instruction make them
derstand the wider aspects Of Judaism which and
complicated them AS kaddish
Rosh Hasdonah-Yom Kppu Jews and that large
whose sole interest is dollar Judaisthe giving of money
local Jewish charities and welfare services These Jews consider
they have fulfilled all their obligations and living their lives
fully jews when they another of the isolated
actviteC just enumerated.
abbis and educators and Jewish community leaders however
do not all to to what fill the hiatus
in American Jewish life
lions combat antdefamaion and antiSemc manifestations
the way larger number feel that accenng spiritual
religious identity of the will the problem majority
feel that of intensive education Hebrew culture
ethics and the principles of freedom and democracy understand
ing of Jewry historical part in modern of social justice
full and complete understanding of
the return to the Jewish homeland and the ending
that will be proud of its and conscious right
to live a group"
Rabbis educators
the foundation rock which
the country to Jewish ignorance" AnSemism must not
the centrifugal force Jewish life it todaythe
muny realize has valuable to the
general community Jewish and distinct
its environment
American Jewry" today only mark" an assumed
do business Unfortunately this trade
Jewish product that is not the public
Jewry label well be called false
Jewish eader make this label" significant true
means work and turnin from old concpsut
DONE and Jewish youth be saved Jewry
given pride in their historical heritage and JEW
ISH EDUCATION is the thing The Mathe
MATES In the Social Sciences
conveniently hide his Jewish
know what Jew stands for and ruled ignorant COWS
cepion An added shock the sensbes of our Jew
h chaplais during the the Jewish bows who
accidentally lost their identification dogags and when re-
placing them forgot to have the distinguishing T stam
ed them All this is due to Jewish ignorance can be cor
rected by Jewish educaiotn"