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contains many a virtue that may well be emulated by
our brethren across the sea. There is no doubt about
it, Liberalism is a healthy sign. & It this is the very key note of
modern times, the pride of the century. But as I
recently said in my lecture at the CCAR just as heartly
& sincerely as we can advocate a liberalism that is upbuilding
[ ] like that of Geiger Zung Einhorn & one beloved pioneer of
American Reform Isaac M. Wise of Blessed memory, a
liberalism with a profound reverence for the rich ethical &
spiritual legacy of the ages, in like manner should we
condemn with all the strength of which we are capable that
kind of liberalism that seems amuck & destroys everything
the sacred as well as the profane. This is the danger
that besets attendant upon the liberalism of the modern American Jew.
A general school or academic education will never tend
to make the Jew proud of his Jewish origin & ancestry stop the Jew in his unthinking, ruthless destruction
of many of the most inspiring elements of our Faith
-- nothing will produce the highest type of Jew but a
knowledge of what the Jews has done for the benefit of
mankind -- an exceedingly important part of every man's | Page 8[fol. viii.]
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contains many a virtue that may well be emulated by
our brethren across the sea. There is no doubt about
it, Liberalism is a healthy sign. & It this is the very key note of
modern times, the pride of the century. But as I
recently said in my lecture at the CCAR just as heartly
& sincerely as we can advocate a liberalism that is upbuilding
[ ] like that of Geiger Zung Einhorn & one beloved pioneer of
American Reform Isaac M. Wise of Blessed memory, a
liberalism with a profound reverence for the rich ethical &
spiritual legacy of the ages, in like manner should we
[ ]demn with all the strength of which we are capable that
kind of liberalism that seems amuck & destroys everything
the sacred as well as the profane. This is the danger
that besets attendant upon the liberalism of the modern American Jew.
A general school or academic education will never tend
to make the Jew proud of his Jewish origin & ancestry stop the Jew in his unthinking, ruthless destruction
of many of the most inspiring elements of our Faith
-- nothing will produce the highest type of Jew but a
knowledge of what the Jews has done for the benefit of
mankind -- an exceedingly important part of every man's |
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