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(DOAS OOLDBEBO, Edit** i»4 FebHaher
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"Cod to . God of M mere, and|
loving kindnaaa, who considers th*
cilia of tho father* aa a mitigating
circumstance in (bo conduct of tbo
children.’'
Before he came out with ouch e
revolutionary interpretation, Donath
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RABBI SAMUEL'ROSINGER-.
____Editorial Contributor
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Th* Jswlnh Herald invite* correapondence on subject* of Intereat to
the Jswish people, but disclaim* responsibility for or Indorsement of
th* view* expreteed by the writers.
IB THE HEBREW COO A GOO Of
VENGEANCE
By Arthur GroooAorg
A groat atir haa recently been cre-
ated in Chriatian aa well as Jewish
circles throughout Europe by a Vi*
ennese Biblical scholar, Benjamin Da*, consulted soma eminent rabbinical
noth, who claims that certain paa-1 *nd jt nid that they ad-
sages in the Bible which describe the mitted that Donath was right. He
I Jewiah God aa a “God of Vengeance’’ I claima that the mistake was made 270
Hia an erroneous translation of the yeara bafare the b,^ of Chrit^ when
Hebrew words* “El Nekamoth,” snd g^venty Jewish theologians translated
that atepa ahouid be taken to cor- the old TeaUment into Greek at
rect that error in the Latin ^‘Vul-1 Alexandria, Egypt, which translation
gate,” the version of the Bible that j u ag tha «s#ptuagint” version
is used by the Roman Catholic nt RjhiA Tk« '• or latsr
Church, and in other Christian trans-
lations of the Bible.
Donath’s findings have arouaed so
much interest in the Roman Catholic
Church that he was summoned to
Rome a year ago by Cardinal Gus-
of the Bible. The "Vulgate,” or later
Latin translation of the Bible, was
baaed largely on the ancient Greek
version. Donath shows that the idea,
of a jealous and vengeful God was al-
ready fought by the prophets^Jere-
miah and Amos, who protested
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sew address that wa may properly direct their paper
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quet, the famous and scholarly ben- against the false prophets who dis-
edictine prelate, who was president seminated this idea. He also ehowa
of the Vatican International Com- that the God of Israel is represented"
I'M'iiimniilliliili
RUSSIA AND CIVILIZATION
By Dr. Alexander Lyons
Eighth Avenue Temple, Brooklyn
of us in civilization as it now is.
No power upon earth dare proceed
today in total disregard of the
others. How meet the situation?
The churches have rightfully pro-
tested except in that some of them
have rather narrowly btrayed a de-
The entire civilized world has been
painfully shocked by the treatment
of Religion in .Russia. The economic pjorabj-e partjsan zeal in confirming er'
revolution the Soviet Government is thcjr appea, in behalf of Rus8ian “
trying to carry out may succeed in Christians. At 8Uch a time denomin-
part. I doubt its complete success. ationalism must remain dumb. Not
I believe that there is greater wis- the right of Christian or Jew ia to
dom in the prophetic insight ^of Zcch- bc safe-guarded but the superior
right and duty of any and every hu-
man being to aipproach the Divide
Being in his own particular and even
peculiar way as long as his conduct
does not contravene the general
good. And yet a union of Ibe
churches of the world will be inade-
mission on the Revision of the Bible
until a few months ago when he died.
Cardinal Gasquet, marveling at the
learning of Donath, agreed that the
version of a "God of Vengeance" ia
faulty, and stated afterwards that
an official application would be made
to the Vatican to make the neces-
sary correction.
Donath, who has worked as a wait-
a baker’s apprentice and who is
now in charge of a tourist agency
in* Vienna, has by self-study taught
himself to write and speak fluently
ten languages, and his method of
;U in reud-
in the Bible as asking every human
being to account for his own gins.
Biblical research consist
In this connection it might be in-
teresting to hear what the “Jeudis-
chcs Lexicon,” a Jewish encyclopae-
dia in the German language which is
an authority on all Jewish matters,
has to say about the term, "El Naka-
mot," and about the Christian ob-
jections to a God of vengeance.
Under the title, "Gott der Rache"
<God of Vengeance), this encyclo-
pedia says:,
"In times of national calamity, the
uriah that "not by massed wealth
nor by power”, does man prevail.
Communism is crowd-rule. It is an
attempt of a few brainy men to com-
press society into a common mould.
It essays to raise mankind like a
machine. Only a God could make its
success possible by remaking human
ing the Bible in different lpnguages. Jews at least found hope in the nat-
Biblieal scholars from all over the; ural feeling that God will requite
world come to look him up in one of the oppressors of Israel. But towards
the Vienna coffee houses where he is the sinners of his own people God
always to be found. Bishop Ottokar too appeared as the “El kanna," the
Prohaszka, the most famous preach- "zealous God," who leaves no guilt
er of Hungary, carries on a corns- P0 unpaid. Christian theology, em-
pondenco in Latin with Donath on phasizing God’s love and mercy, takes
home today. Formerly, she pointed
out, the home was the center of all ac-
tivities. Today much of the former re-
sponsibility of the home has been ap-
propriated by the State or by eome
other agency. Then, too, the youth
movement abroad, which is demand-
ing a greater freedom in moral ac-
tion, ia definitely affecting the Meals
and ideas of the American home.
“The Jewish people,” said Mra.
Kaplan, “are especially affected by
these new modes of thought. The
questions that arise are, what haa
been the effect on the Jewish home
by the change in the life and thought
around it? Has Judaism been
strengthened or weakened? Are our
homes more consciously Jewish o$
less? What is there in the Ameri-
has also been introduced to ^he pres- upon tbe jewsb ‘God of" Vengeance,’j can Jewish home today to mark it
ent Pope, who has shown tho great ono can sb0w the many passages in aa Jewish?
interest in his discoveries. • the Bible where the talk is of a God Few Religious Oheervenees Left
Donath is now also trying to have Gf jove nnd mcrcy. since Judaism "From the point of view of cere-
Protpstant bodies in Germany and knows only one God, it must inter-! mony or religious observance, there
v,-K,v .....v..- . , Holland admit the crrbr, With a view prct every historic occurence end the; is very little left, we must admit.
Prophet Zcrhariah is literally cor- "“^,at,°" ®very corp“rat?" or . of removing the translation from sub- fatc of cvery human individual, joy1 On the door posts of how many
reel, that man’s success depends ul- .1VI ua 1 n Pal"Pe^s ussia s po icy geqUont new versions of the Martin as well ag sorrow, reward as well as, homes will you find a Mezusah, that
Umatcly upon God’s Spirit, ■ y con n u ing o i # economic i e. Luther translation of the Bible, the punishment, as attributes of this one! ancient symbol of a Jewish home?
Man is more than brain, body and 'rt . us?la c P ncc urutr an eco James version in English and divine power. ‘I am eternal and In how many homes are the Sabbath
stomach, lie has limitat^ms and as- n^m'? cm argo. t every mo a or j.be translation of the Dutcy Synod none else, he who creates the light lights kindled, in how many homes is
pirations which necessitate the sup- 0 u.?!!*!:**** ! °^ Dordrecht. and forms the darkness, who makes ' a prayer of thanksgiving offered to
nature and turn ing people* into pawns qU8te ft » fa H * MW ? • B - <>u st^ns The Secretary of offence at this vengeful attribute of
u 3„mW the International Commission which i God. Andclaim. that on this point
More must and
I would like to
be done.
the Church
the Vatican appointed to revise the loo the Christian idea of God has
Vulgate, has made several trips to j Overcome the Jewsh one.
"But aganst these many attacks
upon the great chess-board of the
world. Unless the entire world be-
comes communistic, real cammqnism , .. . . , ... .. . . , , . —. --- ------ -------
will bp impossible anywhere. l^e r.®*t. o{. ®‘v'hlntl°n ^acked by Vienna to interview Donath. Donath
.... . n . , v the Capital of that civilization serve
When wo come to Russia a reliff- . .. .. ■ .
. 4. , .. .. notice upon Russia that as long as
ious revolution my doubt disappears. _ . ■ . * *
. . . /•> r . - Religion is persecuted there our cash
My knowledge of Religion from ex- . * * . . . . . .
. . u’4 - will cooperate with our churched. Let
pencnce and history convinces me ■ “ t . . .. .
that the attempt to abolish it i^doom- our churches consistently and cour-
ed to tragic failure. Here ag>,n the affF0Usly ca*tigate W,th prophct‘C de"
sVju*k'f
h ■ apeseh given nesady it th*
first Southeastern Convention of tho
Union of American Hebrew Congre-
gations n( Atlanta, Ga., Mra. Cora
L. Kaplan, of Jacksonville, Fla., die-
cuseed the queetion “What' Can the
Home Contribute Toward the Preser-
vation of Judaism?"
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Jowi-ita
tho
to Canada waa
8. W. Jacobs and A. A.
two J swish member*
Parliament. They poll
while the Canadian gove
copying the immigration
Washington it is doing its 1
to lessen the number of Jews i
in Canada annually.
Mr. Heap and Mr. Jacobs i
hope that the situation would cfa
and the Canadian government
adopt a more liberal immirgnUon
policy. Neither of them believg in
m
the success of the contemplated plan
to transfer immigration contra! to
the provinces.
The Jewiah members of Parliament
were thanked for their efforta on
behalf of immigration at the annual
meeting of the Canadian Jewiah Inti-
migrant Aid Society. ■
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! CONGRESSMAN GOLDER HEADS
PHILADELPHIA ALLIED DRIVE
Philadelphia—JTA—Gongreaamait
- Benjamin M. Colder will head the
Mra. Kaplan took Into consider,- j
tion the changing conception of the
Mr. Morris Wolf announced at a
meeting of leaders of the community
held in the library of the LoCust Club.
Mr. Wolf was chairman of a com-
mittee appointed several weeka ago
by Judge Horace Stern charged with
the task of selecting a chairman for
the Allied Jewish Campaign in thia
city. The quota for Philadelphia aa«t
"vicinity haa been set at $600,000.
At the suggestion of Congressman
Colder, Dr. Cyrus Adler and Judgsr
Wm. M. Lewis were elected Honor-
ary Chairmen of the Campaign. Har-
ry G. Sundheim was elected treasur-
er and David J. Gaiter, secretary.
Judge Horace Steni was made chair-
man of the Executive Committee and
Mrs. Morris Wolf chairman of thw
committee on teams, assisted by
Judge Horace Stern, Rabbi Max D.
Klein, Albert H. Leibereman, Rob-
ert M. Bernstein and Benj. L. Rub-
inaohn. It was Agreed to set the date
for the opening of the campaign for
Sunday evening, June 15th, in tho
hope that the campaing would not
extend beyond a week or ten days.
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AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORICAL
SOCIETY TO MEET IN BOSTON.
sup-
plementing of hia life with the in-
castigatcd as a traitor to humanity.
In Jewish circles in Europe too Do- peace and brings calamity, I,
all that.’
________mw _w the I God for all hia bounties? In how
flow of spiritual stimulus from the I would go further. If Russia con- path’s discovery has created great cx- eternal, perform all that.’ many homes is there a discussion of
vast reservoir of Power everywhere tinues her policy of religious perso- citement. In an official declaration ■ ^ | events of Jewish interest, and in how
about him which he reverently calls cution Americans shquld withhold the Rabbinate of Budapest, Hungary, At the same time the New T**ta- | mahy do we see parents and child-
Und. No. human group known to his- their foot from Russian soil and,their ; declared that the matter was of great- j"cnt ■*" can°™*e<» *««n describes , ^ thg Sabbath w,ai, going to
tore have i'.em without n"recognition • 5°n-«y from Russian pockets. No est importance to Judaism, since they ^®r. . .exact,y “ °e8lTemple together?
acknowledgement of the exist- European country can well afford to|*ay it concerns an error in the Bible 1 ! Religion Crowded Out
“Why have we Jews permitted our
high idealism to become materialized?
Many answers can be given and all
of them might be contributing/acors
and acknowledgement of the exist- r.uropean country can wen an ora to say it concerns an error in the Bible . . *. ’ T r
cnee and value of this Ultimate Real- affront our vast VQlulbe oY visitors to which has persisted for thousands ®*-i **!?**,_ _ _****.th* ,>de^.°r vcn*e‘
ity. Infrequent individuals have pro- .bc? shores.
feased and even proudly proclaimed If religion continues to .be reviled pie great suffering at the hands of j
their godtessnesa and. their antagon-. and ruthlessly treated fn Russia it i their enemies^
WIUUI liua pcmibbiru J-ui muuauuuj Wi. . : , '
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anity too teaches the wrath of God,'
,sm to (;<>d hut such only betray a will be becau* the rest pf us are not j WlR^wfe
-----will bring calamity
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poor psychology or a careless use of genuinely religious.
terminology. More true is the fnmil- -o-—
iHr claim, that man is incurably re- JEWS IN THE NEWS
ligious. We may oppose perversions By Bernard Postal
of piety Hint spring from the soil -
of Religion but we cannot repeal be- Most men nn rt-n'ent to sit
cause we cannot get away from tho and cnioy tile
back to the third and fourth generation,"
T , .... fruits of a life well is a complete reversal of the original
real thing. A garden is not to be con- spent after they have reached sixty Hebrew text, which really says that
demned because an occasional weed hut not Bo.i.ntrnin N. Cardozo, chief •...-i-.-a.—
sprouts amid its yariegnted grandeur, justice of-the New York appellate • the Mormons has been hospitable to
The debit side of Religion is dcplOr- court Whose sixtieth birthday has ! the Jews and many of the stata'a
ifble. To it, credit must be accorded; brought forth hundreds of greetings ; leaders have been Jews. The recent
an immeasurably vaster volume of from the most distinguished men and conclusion of the census in Salt Lake
blessings. The French Revolution women in America. For more than City, a conclusion eminently satis-
ought to be final in its testimony to sixteen years Judge Cardozo bus factory to the people, has brought
the validity of godlcssncss. The guil-rheen dispensing justice tempered ; into the headlines Harry S. Joseph,
inline was to replace God. Reason im- with mercy. Admittedly one of the | state census supervisor, nnd for more
personated by a beautiful woma'n was greatest jurists in the country he was ! than thirty yearB a factor in Utah
to displace Deity as the dominant of : recently seriously^ considered as a | politics. An engineer by training, he
tation of that much-mooted passage? ; ”,
) He claims that the passage in the Ten l‘P°n ' laP* ®
.Commandments which says: “God isj ^ a ew’
a God of Vengeance who visiteth the | "Paul, the apostle of love, in the
sins of the fathers upon the children letters to the Romans -12-19 takes
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Boston — JTA — The American
Jewish Historical Society will hold its
87th annual session in Temple Israel
on June 7 and 8, with Dr. A. S. W.
Rosenbach, president, In the chair-
The convention will start on Satur-
day evening at ? o’clock with adddi-
tional sessionu held on Sunday at
10:30 and another in the afternoon
at 2:80.
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human conduct. The bloody failure of candidate for the United States Su-
this ought to convince, as in time it prome Court. His colleagues and
will, even an inflamed Russian mind. ’ lawyers s,y of.him that in his years was elected in 1892. Two years later
drifted into politics by way of the
county engineer's office to which he
Is there anything we can do about on the bench he has been creating a
it? j legal revolution by his decisions. A
We have no right to interfere with j liberal of liberals, a brilliant lawyer,
the internal economic policy of an- a humane judge, Cardozo is not only
other nation. We have a duty, how- an outstanding Jew but a notable
ever, to refrain from abetting that i American whom the whole country!
policy as long as we resent and re- 1 honors as he passes three score,
Ject a communistic order of society J —
as false and dangerous. Our govern- One is accustomed to think of the
ment refuses political relations with name Rosonwald with Chicago for
Sovietism and yet American citizens there Julius Rosenwaid has made his
are largely subventing that economic! headquarters for his bountiful gifts
system! j to multitudinous philanthropies. But
Equally ftttle right have we to in- now Philadelphia claims a Rosenwaid,
terfere with the internal regulation a younger Rosenwaid and a son of
of another people or of an ind^vid- the great philanthropist. Last week
ual in relation to Religion. And yet Lessing J. Rosenwaid was elected
when the policy of a nation in eco- {president of the Philadelphia Jewish
nomics or in Religion affects the rest Federation . of Charities. His elec-
he became county surveyor and later
he was elected to the legislature. In
1907 he was speaker. Several times
he has been mentioned as a condi-
date for the U. S. Senate. In the
meantime his achievements add lus-
tre to the Jews of the state who claim
as their own the only' non-Mormon
governor the state ever had.
of tho world with a sense and even
shock of cruelty that larger part of
-tha world would betray a rudiment-
ary development if it did not essay
some Counteracting influence.
protest
prayer
tion was generally admitted to mark
the beginning of a new era, an era
when the younger men and women in
the Jewish community will take over
the responsibilities hitherto carried
in- i by their elders. No better start could
sufficient. Some people are not
amenable to public opinion or to well-
grounded principles. Their pocket ia
the main or only avenue to their
reason or conscience. Ruaeia must bo
given to understand in no uncertain
terms that though she ts trying to
revolnttonfaio tho world she ia stlB
part with •• and i
have been made than beginntng with
Lessing Rosenwaid who has already
demonstrated that he is a real chip
of tha old block.
Utah is probably the only place in
America vdiere the Jews are known
aa Gentiles but even there the Jew
be conaiderata get* into the limelight. Tho hpae of
cognizance of the passage in Deuter-
onomy, 32-35, and states that God
has the right to heap revenge. In an-
other passage Paul paints God’s
wrath and fury in strong colors. One
can also compare Luther’s sermon
upon Exodus 20; "and he haa such
.desires that in his wrath and fury he
is driven to exterminate the evil-
doers.”
The translation "God of Revenge”
comoe from Luther. In reality the
word “Nekem” should only be under-
stood in the sense of a righteous ex-
piation and the execution of divine
justice upon those who have mocked
Him, whereas malicious reprisal is
forbidden (0. g., Leviticus 19-18)•
There are numerous expressions in
Jewish traditional literature which
make even plainer this passage in the
Bible which is attacked.
to the situation. The press of eco-
nomic life has driven the thought of
the family away from religion to ma-
terialism. The desire for social pres-
tige, the mad dash for pleasure, the
raze for sports, fashion and enter-
tainment, are crowded so tightly into
our lives that religron is simply crowd-
ed out. There is no time for it and
there is no need felt for it.
"Thinking people are viewing this
situation with alarm. They tee afhd
understand that such a state of af-
fairs is unwholesome. A people steep-
ed in materialism and pleasure annot
for long retain a strong moral fibre.
"What can the Jewish home con-
tribute to the preservation of Juda-
ism? What can we do to meet thia on-
rush of hanging thought and life?
"Judaism‘has the unique distinc-
tion of being the oldest living faith
today. The reasons for its existence
are clear to the student of religion
who denow that religions live only se
long as they meet the life interests
of V e people. Judaism ia a way of
life. The ways of * life change with
| the years. Judaism with its roots
TEN JEWISH STUDENTS GET
YALE FELLOWSHIPS AND
SCHOLARSHOPS OUT OF It*
New Haven, Conn. — JTA^-Thj
Jewish students from the Graduste
School" of. Yale University have re-
ceived fellowships and scholarships
out of 179 awards for the acadamtc
year 1930-Jl. Eight of the students
have received fellowships and tw*
have received the university scholar-
ships.
Ml
i,fri_ n „ ,,,, . „ deep in the life of its people has
The Gnostic.,’’ »r "Masonites”, ^ the yea„. Life today
regarded the “Demiurge," the second u changing-more swiftly than at any
Hardly a Jewish paper in the coun
try has not had some mention of
James N. Rosenberg in the last few
weeks. Rosenberg, now'busy adding
to his fame as chairman of the New
York campaign of the Allied Jewish
Campaign, has had a distinguished
and varied career. In the last few
years he has devoted himself zeal-
ously to the relief of the declassed
Jews of Russia. As European head of
the Joint Distribution Committee and
chairman of the Agro-Joint this quiet
unassuming man who is p lawyer,
painter, plkywright and poet ia al-
ready known to Americah Jewry.
Now he is tackling the job of raising
$2,"600.000 as Naw York’s quota of
the Allied Jewiah Campaign. If past
achievements mean anything New
York will go over the top and the
fame of James N. Rosenberg will go
even higher.—Copyright 1980 by the
Jewish Telegraphic Agency, lBC.r
and subordinate manifestation of
higher God of love, as a God of re:
venge. Thia doctrine of the Gnostics
which waa fought by the Chriatian
time in the history of man. Judaism
must meet these changes.
How Home May Help
"Judaism as a way of life must
PWPBMW I enter the home. There It must meet
enemies of Judaism and was adopted ^ needa 0f the growing youth, there
it must make it appeal to the yuuth
that is experiencing the full weight
as a slogan against Judaism, for the
purpose of demonstrating the superi-
ority of Christianity to it.”
Thus we see that Donath’a efforta
to revise the Christian idea that the
God of our ancient Hebrew fore-
fathers was a God of revenge ia not
without some foundation. Let ua
therefore hope that Donath will be
successful in hia efforts and that a
revised Christian conception of the
forceftf modern thought.
“The home must show all reverence
and ’respect and veneration for the
the youth that its task for the future
traditions and ideals of our past, but
more than that, it must point out to
ia joit as vital, just as necessary »»
was that of its forbears. The home
cen help educate the youth In the
problem that it must face, and ex-
plain that the nSw generation must
Hebrew God will help lessen anti- meet these proMetns in the best ways
Semitic hatred towards our people in
Europe and elsewhere. — Copyright
1980 by the Jewish Telegraphic Ag-
ency, Inc.
fitted to this day and age.
“Our youth must be tanght to
weave into the patterns of their lives
the ideals of right, of kindness, of
justice, of joy. The home can teach
the youth that there are no true re-
ligious values apart from the values
of all life. The home can so educate
the youth as to make him conscious
of the greatcultural heritage that
has been created for him out of the
toil and sacrifice and life ef the
past, ahd to know that his is the
great task of bringing to the world
a finer thought, a better solution of
the world’s problems, a higher ideal-
ism than ever before attained.”
In conclusion, Mrs. Kaplan said:
“The home is still the corner stone
of our nation, and tho Jewish home to
still the corner stone of our religion.
The Jewish youth of today need more
than anything elae, the closer, the
more active interests of their,]_
in the pursuits of their daily life, I
the thinking out of their prebit
They need the guidance and
pathy and affection that only j
can adequately give, the Je
home may have lost much
course of years when It gav/e up i
use of ceremony and symbol,
not give up also that without
no family can exist—affection,
j-salty, understanding, love—thcaa 1
of close intimacy between parent <
child that no institution, no
no school can supply. *"■
“What can the hom^ do,
preserve Judaism for the
It can, nay, it most, keep i
the hearts of parents and
the breath of love, affe
timacy, the ideals of v
ity and of family
taht have been ot
past and open wh
our future m
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