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of the Jew by the highest ultimate sanction of the Christian con- relationship between Jesus and Jehovah had originated from
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P1 standing between Jew and Christian could be mutual; but with
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friendship to the Zionist movement.
Ormsby-Gore was Great Britain’s
mental deficiencies, is entitled to a n
tional center, where the spirit of a
is the mediaeval doctrine of the rejection of the Jew by God that
gives sanction to every malevolence perpetrated against the Jew
by Christians. None but ecclesiastics can remedy the evil, and
none but Christian ecclesiastics. In every sphere of human en-
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it. He could only reiterate for the millionth time that the teach-
ings of Jesus of Nazareth are wholly Jewish, that no Christian
had practiced them..more than had the Jew, and that so far as
the christological doctrines that had later on developed among
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pie who were not brought up in the schools of Jehovah.
Without the confines of Judaism, Christianity of a necessity
, Vilna, Dec. 25. (J. T. A.).—A
problem resulting from one of life’s
bitter tragedies, resembling the prob-
lem brought before King Solomon,
Berlin, Dec. 24. (J. T. A.):—In-
teresting figures with regard to the
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DEATH SENTENCE OF JEWISH
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in every other walk of life, the effort at under- . THROPIST LEAVES ENTIRE
ESTATE TO CHARITY
Isaac Meister, Treasurer of the Zion*
ist Organization of America; Meyer
W. Weisgal, Secretary of the Zionist
that the child should be left with its
aunt and not returned to its mother.
In explaining the motive of his ver-
dict, the Rabbi stated, “The mother
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PERCENTAGE OF JEWISH
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through Moses. Moses, then, is great through the Torah, and not
the Torah through Moses. That is the Jewish point of view. It is
not at all necessary to postulate the divinity of Moses in order to ■
adduce from that the divine origin of the Torah. And it is not
necessary to postulate the perfection of Moses in order to make
the Torah perfect. Moses, in fact, was not perfect according to
• the testimony of the Torah itself, and the rabbis of the Talmud
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X even went as far as saying that Moses had died for his own sins,
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can and ought to be mutual, but with reference to this fatal doc-
trine, the Jew is as helpless today as he.has been at the begin-
ning. The Jew today, as of yore, occupies the ultimate position
—God Himself—and one cannot yield the ultimate position. Al-
so this: The Christian theologian speaks of the “Rejection of
e-- reference to this doctrine there is nothing which the Jew could
. do, for it was not formulated with his consent, but rather against.
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Hayesod, and Miss Henrietta Szold,
President of Hadassah. Other mem-
bers of the Committee included Her-
mann Conheim, Treasurer of the
the New Testament might be adduced and fastened upon
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RABBI DAVID GOLDBERG -- - Editorial Contributor
also to be tound in Egypf, la Arabi
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"Is the Jewish race only to be 1
eluded from this greatest ot alth
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: and not for the sins of Israel. But with the early Gentile-Chris-
• tians the case was exactly the other way. Christ had to be per-
J feet, literally the son of God, immaculately conceived, so that
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ORMSBY-GORE MENTIONED FOR
HERBERT SAMUEL’S PLACE
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London, Dec. 27 (J. T. A.)—The
name of Hon. H. G. Ormsby-Gore,*
Rotholz just issued under the title,
“Deutsche Juden in' Zahl uhd
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now under secretary for the colonies
in Baldwin’s’ cabinet, is seriously be-
ing discussed as one of the strongest
candidates for High Commissioner of
Palestine after the retirement of
tine was at least a strong possibility. .
With this proclamation came thabe-
ginning of the real opportunity for
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“only killing Jews.” Only Jews. Li would be beside the point to
prove that the Polish court did not take their plea seriously. The
point is that these murderers did not feel themselves quite guilty
as long as they were out to victimize merely Jews. Stealing from
a thief is a mitigating circumstance. Discriminating against, or
even pillaging and murdering a “rejected” man is not the same
as doing these things to an equal. With this ban upon the being
science, the Church, the wonder is not that there are so many without, and not from within Judaism. One does not reject that
dark pages on the annals of Christendom, but that there are any which one does not admit. The Jew was merely fighting off the
bright pages at all. .
showed extreme egotism. For her
own personal convenience she re-
nounced the cljd, and for her own
convenience she should now reclaim
it, even at the risk of. revealing the
illegitimacy of (he child. The aunt
history repudiated, in the wake of which he had incurred the
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wrath of God. That is misleading. The doctrine of the carnal
course , of justice. His verdict was
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Although begotten by Judaism, Christianity did not inherit Society for the Support of Orphans
g from its mother faith those safeguards against doctrinal impur- were"thebeneficiaries.
8. ities which go solely with native temperament. Had Christianity
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Kovrio, Dec. 25. (J. T. A.).—The
sentence of Leib, Bai, a political pri-
soner who was condemned to death
by military court according to mar-
tial law, was commuted to life im-
prisonment byt the president of the
Lithuanian Republic as a result of an
appeal by a Jewish delegation, head-
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“pogromming” a Jewish settlement have pleaded that they were
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sisters secretly concluded ap agree-
. ment six years ago. One of the is-
formation from well informed . . . 7, . . a ...
ters was married, but had no chil-
sources re. dren; the other was unmarried, but
it is understood that Zionist lead- was about to become a mother. Up-
era view with favor the appointment on the suggestion of the married sin- .
of Ormsby-Gore as High Commis- ter a solution to the situation was
sioner of Palestine, in view of his found in an arrangement, whereby' protest againsthe attitude of the on the,Soutn, recompense the woe
the unmarried sister was to register Permanent Mandates Commission of ror the losses ana eurteringa 9t
the'League f Nations with regardgreat war. The recent trnpha
representative who accompanied the the name of her married sister and to Jewish immigration into Palestine the principle of seltidetermlaation
first Zionist Commission to Pales- ' when the child was born, it should was adopted today by thegonferenee also to he found i Brrnt in Arabi
tine in 1919. He was later Great be declared the child of the married of representatives of'the Jewish set-
Britain’s representative to the Perm- sister. ttements and communities in session
anent Mandates Commission and has • After six years, the married sis- in Tel Aviv for the purpose of creat- .
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Jewish race had been dreaming for gn,
more than eighteen centuries. n-gas.Ee
“It was not, however, until a year
• later, that is, only seven years ago, -
that the Balfour Declaration first
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RABBI CONFRONTED WITH , stitute .4 per cent of the popula- aider I____
KING SOLOMON’S PROBLEM tion; in Great Britain 7 percent; mohtme./ourde potor 8
---TAKES OPPOSITE COURSE OF---»» Belgium .9 per cent; in European---------------------
JUSTICE: AUNT, NOT MOTH- Russia 2.8 per cent; in German Aus-
ER, AWARDED CHILD tria 4.5 per cent; in Turkey 4.5 per
which brought him recognition as the
wisest of men, was presented to one
of the Rabbis here. In the village
G_____, in the vicinity of Vilna, two
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. decided to reclaim her child. Her ish immigration into Palestine Air- ;
sister, the widow, refused to return organisation for extending aid to tha '
the child because she had cared for immigrants is being created, accord-
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THE CRUX OF THE MATTER
By David Goldberg
We wish to goon record before the Committeeon Good Will heayal, t our way of thinking, will prove another one. he a
between Christians and Jews operating under the auspices of The Committee on Good. Will between Jews and Christians,
the Federation of Churches of Christ in America, that it is our being an ecclesiastical body, must have the courage to face the
deep-rooted conviction that no real friendship between Christian whole depth of the the crux of the matter, as it were. It
and Jew is -possible, until the doctrine of the rejecton of Israel
by God is rescinded, literally and specifically. This doctrine is
the source of all the evilin the Christian-Jewish relationship.. It
has acted as a reservation upon the Christian conscience in the
treatment of the Jew. Polish brigands recently apprehended for
percentage of the Jewish, popula- the Zionist Organization. in
tion in various countries are con- . "These dates should be carefully re- 7
tained in a new book by Dr. Julius membered: for what the Zionist Or -
ganiatfon haa accomplished in Pales- . •
tine must be judged, first. .of all, with 9
relation to the length of time, which: ’ '
has elapsed sinee their work in Pales- -
t began. Judged from this stand- 1,3
Pard it appears to an unprejudiced out- !
■ tear they have accomplished 6s
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Christ” as of a doctrine which the Jew had at any time in his
foresight the corner-stone of the fqun
dation has been made the ownerhlp . ■
ofihe soil of Palestine.
"Perhaps the gretaest- ground tort
confidence of the Zionist organization—
is the knowledge that their work it . & ‘ ,
in complete harmony with the spirit #556
of the age. It is becoming realized,
that, not only as a matter of eimplej 2 2
justice, but also for the benefit of at #548/75
humanity, that each of the peoples o**46
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such doctrines as Incarnation,” for instance, could never have
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| - Jew. How many times before the advent of Jesus had the Jew
■F"’: declared in the name of God: “I am Jehovah, I am He, and none
other!”? By temperament the Jew has always been an extrem-
h ist, and his soul has been gravitating at all times toward the ul-
E? timate. Since God is the goal of worship, there must be no me-
6 diator. Not that the Jew would refuse to recognize the services
x of those who stood nigh unto Jehovah, but that he would not al-
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»• low them to foreshadow Jehovah, nor even the idea of Him.
। If the Jew were at. all temperamentally capable of deifying
zation is one which u cw s
cerned with the laying of, a solid • 28285
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cent; in .Hungary 6.3 per cent; in room erowth. With sreat windomiand
Poland 12.5 per cent. In Siberia
they constitute .5 per cent of the
E,a man “born of a woman”, Moses would have been the man.
fc They fared so badly in Egypt at the time, that they were psy-
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m chologically ready for the intervention of a divinity in their be-
, । half and there were miracles attending the birth of Mobes. Also
5 Mopes had died martyr to the cause, and “no man knows his
E 5 opulcher unto the present day.” That is ascension into heaven,
gifsuratively speaking. What, with the crossing of the Red Sea, on many occasions delivered ad- ter became a widow. ---------- ________________- pgw
b - with the pilars of fire end cloud on the wildernem journey, drensesin behair of Zioniam, plac ing in the meantime been married immieanta gonetsusenesttattomndnes
E528622272 10 . , •' 2 . . ing particular emphasis on Pales* to a wealthy man, revealed her sec- The conference also adopted a AngijAAI,N240
Eanphthsawelnapiring scenery attending the erception of the Ten tencunturafandpirieuaicen- ret t he hubana, he -I— r—>. MWMi.^,1. 2"
Edommanmhcndlas butnotienst, with the beautiful "ser- trtor th. Jewtahpeopi. .aTteho havine h— avdmmed - abquue ag a am au 305
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tor of the Jewish National Fund; the League of Nations regarding prog-
- " ress in Palestine. As I read it my .
thoughts went back to that other e
autumn, only eight years ago,', when.
the realization first began to arise in j
Organization. ‘ . the minds of a handful of enthustas-n-.
Colonel Kisch will devote himself tic Jews, and of a stili smaller Band- -
in this country to the promotion of
- the organization of the American World War was to be the creation lor 522
inadmissible, and his position was that of him who fights Branch of the Jewish Agency and an opportunity/for the actual erection 5 --en
.4 It goes without saying that the task of re-instating the Jew in- wik Lis lack t0 the wal__a fata position will also participate in a number of of a restored Palestine of which the mm
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to the grace of God is,a task for Christians, since the fatal doc- ----- ties
|. trine of the “rejection of Israel by God” had originated- with -TENNX JEWISH PHILAN.
COMMISSIONER
Jerusalem, Dec. 19: (J. T. A.y._
The opinion of the Prince of Walea ' .1
op the importance of recent develop- ; , j
ments in Palestine is contained zin a- .od5
acted with extreme unselfishness in letter from the Prince to Sir Herbert - 1
taking the child and in caring for it. . Samuel, which was made public to- . -1
The child therefore shall belong to day by the Palestine Government. ; j
its aunt” In his letter, which was written - ,,
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---°. , Palestine Pavillion. at the Wembly ."1
COLONEL KISCH ARRIVES IN Exposition, the Prince congratulates aa
AMERICA. k ‘‘Palestine-on the splendid manner i-
builded upon a foundation which was pagan. At all times there - ----- .a
; - Nw York, Dec. 25. (J. T. A.).__ resources of the ocuntry arerepre-,)
were learned Christian divines who. recognized that fact, yet it .2,, , g w v!", ,2.,, sented in the Palestine Pavillion, I ’ j
,1 .. . n, inu-2.: . Colonel Frederick.H: Kisch,. head, of hope the people of Palestine win re- - vl
was only at great pain and effort that Christianity was able to the political department of the Pal- ceive a great practical advantage - I
extricate itself, step by step, from the Greco-Romag mythologi-, estine Zionist Executive, arrived in. from the Wembley Exposition, ram ..
, . , , New York Wednesday on the Olym- sure that the people, of England will .—6
cal net in which it was caught when first invading non-Jewish for an leftended visitto this court- benefit from learning of the indus-
premises. The Reformation of four centuries ago is a definite try in the interest of the Jewish which is identified With the peg f
milestone in that effort at extrication, while the present-day up- Agency. , . ‘ civilization,’’ the .letter concludes.
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REBUILDING PALESTINE IS IN)
the Zionist Organization of America • HARMONY WITH THE SPIRIT
and the Keren Hayesod headed by OP THE AGE
THE TEXAS JEWISH HERALD
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3 mon on the mount” running throughout the book of Deuteron-
• omy, could one desire more of a son of God? Yet, Moses was
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• neither deified nor sanctified, in the Christian sense of the word, it and loved it. Both the mother ing to a decision of the conference.
] although the Torah of Moses abided with the Jew almost as the and the aunt decided to submit the A Central Bureau, with local com-
: last word in the divine will. Tb*t i» became the Tcrah in reality case.to aRadbt „ mitteesin the various towns and ± __________
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: is not the Torah of Moses, but rather the Torah of God given precedent the famous judgment of resolution adopted by the conference J® 1822655
King Solomon, after carefully con- urges the Zionist Organization to as- 78982
sidering, decided to take an opposite sure s fund for the purpose of build- ’ 991258
ing cheap houses to accommodate 202985
the new arrivals. I r
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PALESTINE IS IDENTIFIER WITH 1
RISE OF CIVILIZATION, PRINCE ,9
OF WALES WRITES TO HIGH 1
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JEWISH CONFERENCE PRO-
TESTS AGAINST- MANDI ATES .. race can And its free self-ezpresmt
COMMISSION REPORT . "The nine new countries which e
———- tend in a solid block across Euro
Jerusalem, Dec. 18. (J. T. A.).—A from the White and Baltic Seas on it
north to the Black and Adriatic Sei
awakened the great masses, both Jew* "s
BY GERMAN STATISTICIAN ish and non-Jewish, <o the tact that 5
■ • i' - _i.- ' * - a restored Jewish homeland in Pales-
Vienna, Dec. 24. (J. T. A.).—A
sum’ranging from fifteen to twenty
billion kronen (Approximately $300,-
000) constituting the entire estate
of the late Jewish leather manufac-
turer, Albert Katscher, who died re-
cently at the age of 87, was left for
Jewish welfare purposes.
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the Zionist organization, acting as the
Jewish agency, to the Permanent -1
... Mandates €ommiton of the League I
Secretary of the Keren Hayesod; , of Nations was made in a statement
Solomon J. Weinstein, President of of Albert H. Putney, former Chief of
the American Zion Commonwealth; the Near Eastern Division of the De-
Moe Turman, President of Young partment. of State, and Dean of he
T . ' v . a -i ik. School of Diplomacy and 'Jurispru-
Judaea; Mrs. Richard Gottheil, Pres- dence of the American University,
ident Keren Hayesod Women’s Lea- “I read with great interest the first
gue; Senior Abel, Managing Direc- r * ~ ’ *
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K . : The Jevjsh Herald invites correspondence on subjects of
■ • interest-o the Jewish people, but disclaims responsibility
L. ; for or indorsement of the views expressed by the writers.
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population, in Syria 1 per cent; in
Palestine 11 per. cent; in Argentine
1.2 per cent; in the United States
3 per cent; Algiers 1.3 p?r cent; in
Morocco 3 per cent; in Australia .3
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