The Sentinel, v.066 no. 05, 1927

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Judaism in Modern Christianity
By DAVID STARR JORDAN
President Emeritus of Leland Stanford University, Palo Alto, Calif.
Rabbi Newman of our Temple
Enxanu-El in San Francisco in his
massive and learned -work on "Jewish
Influence on Christian Reform" has
opened up a line of scholarship which
is truly monumental in its scope. We
are told that the present work of seven
hundred pages is only a beginning or
first chapter in the study of the re-lations
of Jewish scholarship and Jew-ish
opinions in the development of
Christianity.
It took a long time and much effort
to bring the Old Testament, with its
Jewish history, poetry, tradition and
symbolism into the recognized Bible,
and once accomplished, the inability of
the "Nordic" mind to discriminate
among these types of oriental litera-ture
has been the source of much dis-cord
and heart burning. When this
absorption was finally accomplished,
the Hebrew conception of the Deity
became an integral part of Calvinism
and largely of American Puritanism.
Says Rabbi Newman: "It was the
unique contribution of Puritanism, not
only to maintain the supremacy of the
'Law of Nature' but to link up the
'Law of God' with the Spiritual Word.
To the Puritan the Decalogue was the
divine confirmation and interpretation
of Natural Law."
In regard to the work of Luther, it
is interesting to note that his first
great ambition was "to convert Jews
en masse to Christianity, and not by
what he called the cruel and blunt
methods of the papists, but by kind-ness
and argument." To this end he
wrote (1523) a work proving "That
Jesus Christ was a born Jew." Later
when "the stiff-necked generation" of
Hebrews refused to follow he lost all
patience though not all tolerance.
"'The famous remark that Lutheran-anism
led to Calvinism, Calvinism to
Unitarianism, Unitarianism to Sab-batarianism
and Sabbatarianism to
Judaism," has some basis of truth, and
represented a fear that the Reforma-tion
would finally develop into a Jew-
PASSOVER PREPARATIONS IN
RUSSIA INVOKE ANGER OF
COMMUNIST PRESS
RIGA (J. T. A.)-The extensive.
preparations of the Jewish communi-ties
in Soviet Russia for the celebra-tion
this year of the Passover festival
has attracted the attention of the
Communist press.
M. Lwein, a Communist, writing in,
the "Emes," urges the Jewish sectione
of the Communist party to exercise
greater control over the work of the
Kehillath in view of the fact that these
organizations develop an extensive re-ligious
activity.
The "Emes" reports that even the
state co-operatives are advertising the
sale of Passover articles. The Mos-cow
co-operative has ordered the im-portation
from Poland of Haggadeth
in red covers.
The Invalids' Co-operative has of-fered
for sale a supply of Passover
dishes and has distributed to its cus-tomers
directions for arranging the
Passover service.
ITALIAN CO-OPERATIVES TO
ERECT LUZZATTI MONUMENT
ROME (J. T. A.)-The memory of
Luigi Luzzatti, late Italian Jewish
statesman, will be honored by the
erection of a monument.
The Federation of Italian Co-opera-tives
decided to erect a monument to
Luzzatti in the city of Venice, Luz-zatti's
birthplace.
It is probable that Henry Glicen-stein,
famous Polish Jewish sculptor,
will be commissioned to design the
monument.
ish revival. "But in each case the
national element triumphed. Paul's
movement became Roman; Moham-med's,
Arabic-Semitic; Luther's, Ger-man-
Teutonic; Judaism remained un-deviatingly
Jewish."
Out of the multitude of dissenting
groups in the history of Christianity,
Dr. Newman selects especially some
eight or ten of the most important,
showing in each case its relation to
Jewish teachers or prophets. In read-ing
these ancient records, one is im-pressed
by the degree to which
Hebrew tradition an dopinion has en-tered
into the warp and woof of ortho-doxy,
as well as into that of the vari-ous
religious reforms, called heresies,
which have sprung from it. This fact
is clearly set forth in a short chapter
on the scope of Jewish influence on
Christendom. After an enumeration
of various evidences of this our author
asserts:
"In the growth of political-religious
liberalism and law, Jewish elements
have been present; thus, the Mosaic
legal system has played a part in the
growth of republican government in
England and America, and in the evo-lution
of international law; moreover
Old Testament teachings and the par-ticipation
of individual Jews have con-tributed
to the rise and spread of
many modern movements of political-economic
and social reform. Finally
Judaism and individual Jews have been
influential in the growth of modern
rationalism and free thought, making
for the convergence of the ideals of
what is styled "Liberal Christianity"
and "Liberal Judaism." There is no
sphere of the thought-life of Western
Christendom in which Jewish influence,
either literary or personal, cannot be
found."
This large volume, compact with re-sults
of Biblical scholarship, and
everywhere actuated by the most com-plete
tolerance, is to be most highly
commended to all interested in his-torical
and religious truth.
ANTI-PASSOVER CAMPAIGN "IN-DOOR
SPORT" OF JEWISH
COMMUNISTS IN RUSSIA
MOSCOW (J. T. A.)-An intensive
anti-Passover campaign was carried
on by the Jewish section of the Com-munist
party, in accordance with a
decision taken by the last Yevsektzia
conference to strengthen the fight
against clericalism.
The anti-Passover campaign this
year is different from the previous
anti-religious campaigns in that it was
carried on indoors. In all schools, two
days were devoted to explaining the
Passover legends. For the Seder
nights, lectures of an anti-religious
nature were arranged and films of
revolutionary holidays were exhibited.
The lecturers presented what they
claimed to be an outline of the Tal-mudic
intentions of the clergy and
urged the formation of permanent
atheist circles. The Trade Unions
gave financial aid to the anti-religious
meetings in the workmen's clubs.
OPEN SECOND LIBERAL SYNA-GOGUE
IN LONDON
LONDON (J. T. A.)-The second
Liberal Jewish Synagogue in London
was opened this Passover.
The synagogue is located on Bel-fast
Road. Rabbi Mattuck officiated
at the services and Claude G. Monte-fiore
and Miss Lily Montagu delivered
addresses, welcoming the opening of
the Second Liberal Synagogue as an
indication of the further development
of Liberal Judaism in England.
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