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JEWISH WESTERN BULLETIN
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B'NAI B'RITH WOMEN Centennial.Chapter 1022 are seen recently presentlngr $269iSlrai8ed4n.t&elr first fund-raiing project for W^odl^ds Scliool for Retarded Clfildren* From left; Mrs. E. Mossv^Fresl-^ dent and Mrs. I. Wasstein, .cliairiiian« 9x6' Standing over a cheque for this amount to pr. ranllne Hufi^hes^ superintendent, and Mrs. Miidri^d Ft^i^k^inr'-^^-^rdinator of l^olunteers. Raising funds for Wood* lands School is one of many service proJects^ that Centettniai Chapter of B*nai B'rith Women sponsor.
Judaism viewed Christmas? ^ lv Whsrtever Chfjstmas w
form Jews may have thought of Christmas JwdChahulcf^^^ lance in the ^ 1360'^ iii^ourlbwh day there is'no dc^t-^P^ fbnxi*SL adherence^^: 1^^^ ;arKi ■ ::xi?jectil6i^^ ^ of ^^Chn^ilttas hiQlidsor f6r / Jews^ 1^ Kohlw," President:^ sponsored Hebreiy llnicm^^
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judicious celebration of what concerns us but distantly." Jews guilty of "such a want of taste,?' he claimed, came only rarefy from "families of education and refinement"; usually, they were "ignorant fathers*' and "mothers whom nature intended to fill positions as honorable house\ndves in the kitchen, but whom fortune, by her freaks, has mi^laced into the parlor." Only those "who know little of Judaism and less of Christianity" would "betray their littleness of mind and their misplacement by fortune^ by playing such a ridiculous part as for a Jew to be aping Christmas."
Though Eckman thought it "quite improper" and even "perverse" for Jews "to ignore their holy days ahd celebrate those of Christians," 'he disclaimed on his part any intention of disparaging Christianity or of denying **the great benefit Christianity has proved to . . . the gentile world." It was simply that a Jew who admitted Christmas trees and Christmas presents into his home v/as committing "an act of denial of identity—an attempt to appear to be what he is not." Such a Jew was playing "the pigmy while he ought to p^ve himself a giant," and "self-^gation" of this sort "must meel with the condemnation of the/ sincere Jew and the contempt of the intelligent Christian." It ^ould also render its
perpetrator "contemptible in the eyes of his children, who, one day, will find out the imbecility of their parents and judge them {accordingly." Dr, Eckman^s adr vice to all his readex^ was: "Drink water from thine own cistern CProverbs 5:15), and do not ape the stranger."
Eckman made no mention m his article of San Francisco's Temple ^ShnanU-El, which he ha4 served briefly during the mid-^ 1850*s, but one cannot help wondering whether he had in mind members of that congregation. Since his departure froni the pulpit of EmanU-El, Reform Judaism had made its appearance there in the person of Dr. Elkah Cohn, a German intellectual who came to America in 1854 and was elected rabbi of Emanu-£1 in 1860. Dr. Cohn had not been in San Francisco very long when, according to a report in The Occident, he made short shrift of Chanukah. "On Sabbath before Hanukkah,^ reported The Occidait, "Dr. Cohn explained the meaning of the festival, and why our ancestors lit lamps in order to celebrate it; but that now we required only the light of religion in bur hearts. In consequence of this edict ex (•athedra no lamps were lighted as usual in the Synagogue." Might not the careful reader of Dr. Eckman's feuilleton have re-caUed Dr. Cohn's "edict" and asked himself how Dr. Cohn viewed Christmas?—indeed, how Reform
from 1903 to 1921,: spoke of Cha-nukah as signalizing '^or the Jew the victory of - truthjcof reason, and humanity over all the powers tending to retard'and to impede the progress of mankind." The "Newly Revised" (1940) version of the Union Prayer Books now standard in Reform ctmgrega-tions, calls on Refbrm Jews tb pray: "On this festival (>fHam]k-< kah, we rededicate ourselves to Thee and Thy serVic^^ kindle the Hanukkah lights in our homes and temples, niiay the light of Thy presence and Thy truth shine forth to dispel all darkness and lead all men unto Thee."'
An extensive coUection of material documenting 'the religious life of Amercian Jews is to be found at the American Jewish Archives whose Director is Professor Jacob Rader Marcus."
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time comes we will settle accounts."
SUMMING UP, the major religious daily, Hatzofeh, implied that in the long run it was a idc-tory for the Israel way of life, for the supreme concern of the community for the welfare of the individual.
"Israel's ability to withstand Arab hostility," it pointed out," is very much determined by the deep sense of a shared fate between soldiers at the front, and between soldier and civilian at the rear." It is this quality, the paper believes, that helps Israel prevail against the numerical superiority of the Ar^b states.
The Jerusalem Post, taking up j the broader aspects of the prob- ! lem of hijacking, added a note of '
warning for the international community "The United Nations and its agencies have failed grievously in organizing action to stop these crimes The Secretary-General, U Thant, does not even claim to have taken any helpful action: perhaps it would have been too embarrassing for him with Syria, who held the men prisoner, due to join the Security Council in a few weeks. Nobody can afford the luxury of letting this new plague take root, for all nations are vulnerable. The trading in human beings which has been forced upon us is an abomination . . . This method may be unavoidable, but it is dangerous.^ The only effective way to prevent having to have recourse to it is the effective imposition of
sufficiently severe penalties for
the hijacking of aircraft."
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