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THE JEWISH HERALD
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March 3 1879
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epondence on subjects of interest to
tho Jewish people but disclaims re
Bponsibility for or indorsement of the
views expressed by tho writers
JEWISH CALENDAR
5670 A M 1910
3habuoth Feast of Weeks
Monday June 13
Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
Friday July 8
Rosh Chodesh AbSunday August G
Fast of Ab Sunday August 14
Rosh Chodesh Ellul Monday Sept 5
New Years Eve 5G71
Monday Oct 3
PEACE AT ANY COST
By Ben Bli Shem
It Is no trifling matter for even pri-
vate members of a Jewish community
to become involved in a public quarrel
The adjustment of such disagreements
in the courts of the land have invari-
ably called down the unstinted con-
demnation and contempt of our non
Jewjsh neighbors Jews under all
conditions and circumstances must
ponder well and deeply before laying
themselves and their coreligionists
open to a chilul lShem but when
two particular members of a Jewish
community such as an officer and an
exofficer become involved it falls to
the duty of every well wisher of Ju-
daism to interfere to the end that
there should be no public disgrace
The Christian clergy as well as the
laity lose no opportunity of enlarging
on the quarrels that occur among the
Jews harking even as far back as to
the acts of the Apostles to cite as
an example the trouble we had with
Stephen his trial and their consequent
execution of judgment on him as nar-
rated in Acts Ch V and VI Foi a
Goy to jump from the time of Jesus
and his Apostles to the present day
in order to have a fling at tho Jews
is no remarkable feat Therefore it
behooves the honorable president and
worthy expresident of Adath Yeshur
un Congregation of this city claiming
to be staunch Orthodox Jehudim as
they do and occupying positions close
to the Ark In the Synagogue so that
their eyes be directed and guided by
tho Torab before resorting to courts
for the adjustment df their quarrels
to consult an authority on Jew-
ish law who undoubtedly will r f r
them to tho Schulchan Aruch Chosen
en MIshpat 120a It is forbidden to
seek judgment before tho judges of
the Gentiles Whoever seeks judg-
ment at their hands is a Rosho and
is deemed as great a sinner as If ho
had blasphemed and uttered Impious
words and rebelled against the law of
Moses
By Mrs B Lurle
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS IN RUS-
SIA
Once more tho integrity of this
news disseminator Is called into ques-
tion Vienna reports dated July 10
Berlin and London letters bearing date
of July 12 do not reach their proper
channels through the Associated Press
till July 19th and later
What positions do the Russian rep-
resentatives of the Press hold under
the Russian Bureaucracy anyhow
Even the Christians living under
this brutal government are revolted by
the ferocity of the expulsions but the
Press representatives are careful to
make no mention of this
Outside reports pile horror on hor-
ror
ECHOES FROM THE CONFERENCE
The Rabbinical Conference held this
summer at Charlevoix Mich will go
down in history as the Monteflore
Conference Incomplete contrast to
the gatherings of past years was the
decorum maintained throughout This
was due it is asserted to the presence
full of sweetness and light of the
English patrician A very high com-
pliment indeed but undoubtedly a
deserved one
in spite of all this it seems that the
foreign visitors iifluence was not suf-
ficient to restrain the head of the He-
brew Union College Dr Kohler hono-
rary president of the meeting from
making several ugly breaks The dis-
tinguished Englishmen will no doubt
be unable to forget the storm raised
by Dr Kohler s unmistakableslurring
allusion to Dr Raisins Russian birth
This ungentlemanly jib was hurled at
the young rabbi in the course of a
discussion of his scholarly paper on
Reform before Gelger
Dr Kohler continued to create one
commotion after another Many re-
sented his designation of the Bar Mitz-
vah as a farce his reference to tho
wedding benediction as an outrage to
our sense of decency His11 statement
that the Bible was not the word of
God but man made was Instantly fatt-
en up and later when he endeavored
T
to put the Book ont the same plane
with the ordinary book Dr Enelow
protested most vigorously
To Mr Monteflore all these incidents
must have conveyed much Probably
his favorable opinion of the noblo
stand taken by Dr Enolow is In great
measure responsible for his choice of
Undistinguished rabbi to occupy the
first Reform pulpit in England
THE JEWISH HERALD
BAPTISTS IN ITALY
A very unusual situation has arisen
in Italy Tho country has ever been
regarded as tho very stronghold of
Catholicism For Protestants to
dream of successfully proselytizing
there amounts virtually to bearding
the lion in his den The Pope of
Rome had forever branded the forefa-
thers of the Protestant movement as
enemies of tho Cross of Jesus and
his successors have been careful that
their Catholic subjects should bear
this in mindalso But In the Incident
under consideration the descendants
of these first rebels thought fit to ig-
nore the attitude of the Roman Church
and make a trial winning a few Cath-
olic souls to the glory of the Baptist
creed This met with disastrous re-
sults much more so than similar at-
tempts ever received at tho hands of
offended and unoffending Jews
The Catholic natives soon demon-
strated to the missionaries that they
were all unready to exchangethe old
love for the new to swap Catholicism
for Protestantism And this so forci-
bly that it became necessary after
several attacks on the Board of Bap-
tist Mission to invoke the militia to
protect the poor missionaries from
further injury and violence
Now comes in the most interesting
feature It falls to the lot of a Jew
by virtue of his exalted position to
act as mediator between the incensed
Catholics and the whipped Baptists
Luigi Lussati the Premier of Italy
himself a member of the race that for
19 centuries have been the target or
Christianity is now given the oppor-
tunity of showing these self same
Christians how religious differences
should be adjusted His ability and
commonsense are too well known for
any doubt to be expresses but that
he will improve the opportunity to the
full and teach both churches and state
a much needed lesson in statesman-
ship and tolerant noninterference in
religious matters
FRENCH WOMEN TO MINYAN
That all is not well in French Jew-
ish circles is easily gathered from the
following At the late conference of
French Rabbis held in Paris resolu-
tions were adopted that in case of
need women can be counted to our
traditional Minyan Whether these
leaders of French Jewry had in mind
the precedent set by American Reform
iifty years ago is of course not easi-
ly ascertained But the result shows
that the Rabbis must bo In pretty
tight straits for masculine worshippers
when they can feel a warrant for de-
molishing the requirements of tradi-
tional Judaism For France to set tho
rest of Europe the very stronghold of
our faith such an invertebrate exam-
ple waB veryvpoor policy onpart of
the meeting and should have required
a great many more conferences be-
fore a definite stand was taken in tho
matter The supposition arises now
that the next step In the process of
disintegration will be to count not
alone the Jewess but her Gentilo hus-
band the honorary Jew as well
This feat has been performed In tho
United States where women to Min
yan are now a matter of course In
Reform circles But here even this
innovation fails to draw tho men
France may fare better
A CASE OF NICK AND BILL
Jews may find some satisfaction and
comfort in the fact that the Russian
policy of Russia for the Russians is
likely to involve the Great Dear in a
complicated mixup with Germany
The Russian Government is prohibit-
ing German fanners and other
strangers from acquiring or holding
land in the southwestern part of Rus-
sia The edict will affect not alone
this region but goes so far as to de-
clare that all Poles and Germans in
the northwest portion must be ousted
and their holdings given to the native
Russians
That for over 200 years these Ger-
man settlers have here conducted mod-
el farms evidencing every token of
thrift intelligent agricultural methods
and the most careful husbandry is of
no consquence in the government poli-
cy of expulsion
If in the course of the enforcement
of this edict one fraction of the atroci-
ties perpetrated on the poor Jews will
be inflicted on the Germans some
lively times are ahead
Unfortunately the Jew cannot
stand aside and say neutrally Fight
dog fight bear my dog aint there
How long O Lord will the Jew con-
tinue a prey to the fangs of the Bear
Real victory can only be won for
the right The triumph of justice is
the only peace
He who forces his belief on another
is no freeman Ho is a slave who
wishes to enslave another He who
attacks tho right of another in the
end assaults himself
The great Chazan Slrotn the Jew-
ish Caruso is credited with many
places of residence One exchange de-
scribes his homo to Wilna another
to Odessa still another to Warsaw
That he Is not rich enough to main-
tain establishments in all throe cities
Is well understood Now where idoes
tho great singer live
If a subscription to the JewlBh Liter-
ary Society Building Fund is a most un-
selfish act just look at the list of do-
nors and see how many of your friendB
are possessed of this unselfish quality
and are guilty of such an unselfish act
THE JEW REMAINS
It is a great race this which has
persisted so long under circumstances
often so adverse Slight wonder that
Mark Twain wrote Tho Egyptian
the Babylonian the Persian rose fill-
ed the planet with sound and splen-
dor then faded to dream stuff and
passed away The Greek and Roman
followed and made a vast noise and
they are gone other people have
sprung up and held their torch high
for a time but it burned out and they
sit in twilight now or have vanished
The Jew saw them and he is now
what he always was exhibiting no de-
cadence no infirmities of age no
weakening of his powers no slowing
of his energies no dulling of his alert
and aggressive mind All forces pass
but he remains What Is the secret of
his t immortality Henry Barreet
Chamberlain in Chicago RecordHer
ald
A GREAT MEDICAL DISCOVERY
Medical circles in Germany are
agog over a discovery by Professor
Pain Ehrlien of Frankfort It will
be remembered that two years ago
Professor Ehrlich was awarded the
Nobel Prize for his work in tho do-
main of bacteriology At the time at-
tention was called to the fact that
Ehrlich was a Jew and for this rea-
son had been unable to obtain any
professional post in Berlin hence his
withdrawal to Frankfort
He has now discovered a specific
for syphilis which after tuberculo-
sis is the greatest enemy of mankind
His preparation which has been test-
ed with success by a great numDer
of physicians destroys the germs
without harming the organism
< Professor Ehrlich comes from an
old Jewish family and Is a brother
inlaw of the celebrated gynaecolog
ist Professor Landau of Berlin who
does valuable work on behalf of Jew-
ish philanthropic movements
A REMARKABLE HEBREW MANU-
SCRIPT
M Philippe Berger has reported to
the Academy of Inscriptions and Bel
lesLettres France that among tho
rich collection of documents which has
been discovered in a Turkestan tem-
ple after having been hidden for ten
centuries is contained the leaf of a
manuscript which appears to be one
of the most ancient specimens of He-
brew writing in existence
The text consists of a paper com-
posed of passages drawn from the
Psalms and Prophets and is written
in beautiful square Hebrew characters
pointed with a somewhat elementary
system of vowels The leaf was fold-
ed up and appears to have been car-
ried as an amulet by its owner
M Berger has studied it carefully
in conjunction with M Moise Schwab
Both are of opinion that the manu-
script dates from the eighth or ninth
century Their conclusions are sup-
ported by the great authority M Eu
lin It bears a strong resemblance to
the HebrewPersian manuscript which
M Stein has brought from Turkestan
which also dates back to the same pe-
riod
The document offers other peculi-
arities which deserves careful study
M Clermont Ganneau raises the ques-
tion whether the prayer which prob-
ably belonged to a Jewish merchant
who had migrated to Turkestan from
Arabia was not actually copied in
China This theory Is strengthened
by the fact that the paper on which
it is written is ofChinese manufact-
ure and waa at theHime unknown in
Arabia
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