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Classified advertisement in the New York Herald-Tribune: If you are socially eligible, and have $500, you can have your 'home' built and pay like rent in exclusive American community. Northern New Jersey, half hour out. Architect, P.O. Box 912, City Hall Station."
What does that mean .... "socially eligible," and just wrhat is an exclusive "American community"? Perhaps the answer is similar to the question what you have to be to move into Oriole Gardens, Toronto, and why Jews can't rent on Brunswick, north of Bloor.
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Cincinnati, for nearly seventy-five years the centre of Reform Judaism in America, has a new Orthodox synagogue right in the midst of the Reform community, which can point an example to other synagogues, whether Reform or Orthodox. This new synagogue, Keneseth Israel, only one block away from the Reform Temple, Bene Israel, is probably the most orthodox of the new synagogues. It has a bimah (reading pulpit) in the middle of the synagogue proper, and of course, has a gallery for women. Where it departs from usual custom, both Orthodox and Reform, is in its failure to provide seats of honour for president, vice-president and other props of the synagogue. This departure means that the heaviest contributors to the edifice and the men most influential in its management are more retiring, modest and self-effacing than is usually the case in any sort of synagogue. For any man or men to be removed from the common assembly and placed above it during synagogue service, is a gesture ridiculously pompous. Keneseth Israel, by abolishing this custom, creates a more democratic atmosphere at its services, and sets an example worth following to Jewish houses of worship everywhere.
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From a review of "The Mongol in Our Midst," F. G. Crook-shank, M.D., F.R.C.P., by Burton Rascoe, in The New York Herald-Tribune :
"But what really tickled me about Dr. Crookshank's book is what it does to the inventors of the 'Nordic' anthropological myth. Himself a 'Nordic,' he is so convinced that the Semitic race is the purest 'white' stock, that he frequently employs the word Semitic to indicate one of the three great divisions of mankind instead of the usual terms, 'Indo-Aryan,' 'Caucasian' or 'white.' The physiological, morphological and psychological characteristics the Messrs. Grant and Stoddard ascribe to the 'Nordics' are the characteristics Dr. Crookshank ascribes to imbeciles and FCuropean Mongoloids possessing atavistic traits revealing a yellow' ancestry.
"I don't know that all this means anything in particular, or would alter the human race one w:ay or the other even if Dr. Crook-shank's hypothesis should prove to be correct. But I hate to see men with scientific degrees, honours and titles, but without the scientific mind or spirit, using their position for the fomentation of racial prejudices and hatreds. Henry Ford is at least honest in his anti-Semitism; the 'Nordic' myth-makers, it seems to me, have neither his honesty nor his courage; they recite a lot of anthropological mumbo-humbo, and lo! a lot of simple-minded people, who have a facility for arranging words which will get published, crystallize their dislike for certain Jews they have met, into solemn, windy articles about 'Nordic superiority,' all to no purpose except to revive a mild form of Jew-baiting. If I were as deficient in common sense as these people, I would be flattered by their nonsense, because I am a Scotch-Irish-Briton in descent, with such ascendant names as Burton, Bellew, Davis, Benson and Winsett.' But something tells me that I am not by that token superior to Einstein in intelligence, and that Anatole France and Georg Brandes are not my racial inferiors. It must be a great solace to little minds to fancy themselves racially superior to these men."
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