scriptions made before and at the Convention. You must know, however, that we expect of each society $25 at least (for 5 shares), even though its subscription was for a less amount, or though there was no subscription at all.
The preliminary work for the weekly planned has already begun, and if we will hear shortly from you, comrades, you will also shortly hear from us, for our plans will be ready.
Fellow Zionists! We expect soon to hear of good results of your work.
With Zion’s greetings,
THE YIDDISH PUBLICATION COMMITTEE.
P. S.—All remittances are to be sent to the office of the Federation. All correspondence is to be directed to our committee, per address, S. Abel, 309-311 East 22nd St., New York City.
QUESTIONS FOR RABBI KRAUSKOPF
Should We Have a Judaism Limited?
The following letter was recently addressed by Mr. Bernard G. Richards to the Editor of the Public Ledger, Philadelphia:
"As a Jew who is interested in the welfare of his people, I beg to appeal through your columns to the learned Rev. Dr. Joseph Krauskopf to enlighten me still further on his views of Zionism, which have recently been outlined in the report of a sermon published in your paper. It may be due to my lack of comprehension, but the utterances of this sermon left me in a peculiar and painful state of doubtfulness, confusion and astonishment, and I ask for relief from him whose business it is to minister to the souls of men.
"To begin with, why this anxiety to confine our Jewishness and Judaism, strictly to the synagogue? This anxiety found expression in a prominent portion of the sermon. If it is worth while being a Jew, if our Judaism furnishes us with a moral code and a view of life in keeping with our highest spiritual capabilities, then I should think it our duty to carry our religious guidance into every act and relation of life. If Judaism is the motive force of our higher life, of our better selves, then our Jewishness must enter especially into our relation to this, our adopted country, into our Americanism. We must carry our Jewish ideals into American life, into American politics. If it is worth while being a Jew at all, then it is worth while being a Jew all the way through. It is not a
question merely of following certain peculiar customs and observing certain ceremonies Oriental or Occidental for in so far as any ceremonials are carried out here by any sect, denomination or nationality, it is confined to the homes and the places of worship of the people. In so far as the outward parapherna lia of religion is concerned, the Jew has ever left that behind him in the synagogue, even as the Gentile has left it behind him in the church. What then can be the drift of this plea to restrict our religion? Is there any danger that it will extend too far? Is it the part of pride and courage to counsel conceal ment, restriction, confinement, retreat? I want to know. I recall a saying of the fa mous Hebrew essayist, Achad Haam: 'Be a man in your home, but be a Jew outside of it,' which seems to convey the idea that Judaism can be of especial value in shaping our intercourse with our fellow-men in the larger world of human activity, but this is obviously at variance with the dictum of Rab bi Krauskopf, and I am very much puzzled.
"What is the proposition to create a Judaism, Limited?
"I quote from the report in the Public Ledger:
"'Zionism was referred to by Dr. Krauskopf as a fertile source of prejudice against the Jew. To our mind, then, nothing would better stamp the Jew as an alien in the mind of the non-Jew than this unfortunate