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COMMENTARIES
By Rajbbi Han? J. Stwn, of Montreal Atfocsat* Contributing
HFAR YE,  CHRISTIAN1ZERS!
Arthur Brisbane, most eminent American columnist, wrote the following paragraph of advice to would-be missionaries: "Dr. Herring, Chairman of the National Conference of Jews and Christiana, says it's wrong to Christianize Jews. He especially objects to evangelization hidden under the guise of ice-cream parties. Considering that we borrowed our religion from the Jews, fixing it up our own way, it is rather impertinent to demand they take our version of it. However, there is little danger of successful evangelizing. If fire, torture and religious hatred spread over nearly two thousand years couldn't do it, ice-cream parties won't do it."
Will some reader of Commentaries mail Brisbane's striking comment .tfo those few divines in our city who still entertain the naive notion that the Jew can be converted to Christianity? It is futile! History has proven it! It's about time that these divines get busy and Christianize the Christians.
"GAONUNCULUS"
In the last issue of "The Reflex," Rabbi Goldman contributes an excellent article bearing the above title. It deals with the Amerisan orthodox rabbis who claim to be "Gaonim," but who failed up to the present hour to cope with Jewish life in the new environment. Speaking about the orthodox rabbinical assembly known as the Agudath Harabonim, Goldman asks: "What has been their individual or collective contribution? What is the work or works of merit with which they benefited American Israel? Is there a single treatise in the field of Jewish scholarship produced by one or all of them that will survive a decade? Is there a movement sponsored by them that is vigorous and effective? Is there an institution which they called into being that is beyond its present stage?" These are mighty good questions and off-hand very difficult to answer. The orthodox rat> binate deserves harsh criticism. It is busy potiring brimstone on Liberal Judaism, but, meanwhile, it fails to plant orthodoxy in the western hemisphere. And while condemning reform, these Rabonim send their own sons to the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati and often to the conservative school, the Seminary in New York. And is it not sad when we reflect upon the orthodox rabbinate in Montreal and find that in this community of over sixty thousand Jews there is not a single "Rov" who wields a dynamic and tremendous spiritual influence? In fact most of the shuls in this city are without Rabbonim, The largest orthodox synagogue, the Bnai Jacob, has dispensed with the services of 3 rov. The "cantor" is the important personality. In communal matters we know of no active participation on the part
of the Rabbonim. It seems to us that the shuls of Montreal ought to have a dynamic orthodox leadership. Much that Goldman writes about the American orthodox rabbinate in general is applicable to the Rabonim in Montreal. The presence of the Rabonim is ineffective. Why? \Ve wonder.
A SPLENDID GESTURE OF FELLOWSHIP        ___
The Jewish Daily Bulletin reports that Horace Chevrier, a Roman Catholic, and one of the leading merchants of Winnipeg, offered to contribute fifty dollare-and raise all money necessary to save a synagogue from being sold at auction in Nyirbator, {iimgary. This is a splendid gesture of fellowship on the part of our Catholic friend. It merits praise and seems to be symboljc of the genuine friendship which is rapidly flcrweri/ig forth between all creeds in every nook and corner of the universe. Winnipeg happens to be thousands of miles away from Hungary but the electric spark of brotherhood can be flashed even across seas and continents, providing human beings deal in terras of human kindliness.
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COLUMBUS FORUM
Columbus Forum closed its 1927-28 season Sunday, April 8,-when David Goldstein, of Boston, spoke on "What is Wrong with the Family?" L. I. McMahon presided. Alex. Hamilton was the soloist, and the Glee Club in charge of Prof. J. J. McCaffrey, entertained.
first of a home and home series, the return game to take place here a week later. Y.M.H .A.�Goldberg, 8; Silver, 7; SikofiVO; Berinsky, 5; Campbell, 16; Sepinwall, 0; Stein, 0; Wiseman, 0; Selttfr, 0; Cudler, 0; Benitsky, 0; Rudner, 0.
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HABONIM TO PRESENT SPEAKER
Leonard H. Stein, political secretary of the World Zionist Organization, of London, England, who will be in town Sunday and Monday, April 15 and 16, will be the guest of the Zionist Order of Habonim at an informal reception for men and women, Monday, at 8.30 p.m., at the Mount Royal Hotel. Reception committee: B. M. Weiner, M. M. Schachter, Dr. M. Ratner, Louis Miller, H. L. Sourkes, A. H. Rabin, A. Rabinovitch, H, Shapiro, M. Fromson, Bernard Cohen, N. Gaisin, A, Malkinaon and Rabbi J. L. Zkrtnik. Leonard Stein will speak.
CAPTURES JUNIOR BASKETBALL CHAMPIONSHIP
Tom Moore, president of Trades and Labour Con Federation of Canada, spokt on "Advertising Canada Abroad," Wednesday, April H, at the Mpunt Royal Hotel] at 12,30, under the auspices of the Advertising Club of Montreal.
Y.M.H.A. won the junior basketball championship of the province when it defeated Alpha Omega team, of Sher-brooke, 36-29, in the return game of the home and home series in St. Urbain Street, Saturday, April 7. By their victory, Y^M.H-A. won the round, 65-50, and the right to meet Gtet>e Collegiate, Ottawa, district winners in the eastern Canada* pJay-dowa�,x Y, will play in Ottawa oo Saturday, tbe
Dr. ^ S. W. Roaenbach, of Phili-delphia paid $$,750 for a very rare and beautiful first edition of Miltoni "Lycidas/' dated 163$. This was the highest price paid for any item in toe Holford Library sale held recently � London. He made another notal~ purchase of a copy of the ,Songs aod Sonnets of Henry Howard, Earl � Surrey. The copy, dated 1559, ooce belonged to Horace Walpole whose book-plate it carries,
W. I. fciastein, a Russian, rece?!jj dexno&strated in Loodon his rneialixeu cloth, whkh, it is declared, will revo-lutkxiize the coastnictioo of aeropUoci and diri�b4es, Tbe fabric for aircrart by this process wx�kl lighten "* weight of tbe msrfimr by more hall, it is said. Loodoa tailors nroch cooceraed whea toW tbe ma would net wear <�, d�os making � far a SMA to wear only ose
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