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1. To alleviate the consequences of persecution wherever they may

occur, and to afford relief from calamities affecting the Jews.

It is an exclusively Jewish program. The Charter of the Kehillah

empowered it, among other things to establish an educational bureau, to

adjust differences between Jewish residents or organizations by

arbitration or by means of boards of mediation or conciliation: while the

Constitution announces the purpose to be:

"To further the cause of Judaism in New York City and to represent

the Jews in this ciry with respect to all local matters of Jewish

interest."

Where the American Jewish Committee and the Kehillah join forces is

shown as follows:

"Furthermore, inasmuch as the American Jewish Committee was a

national organization the Jewish Community (Kehillah), of New

York City, if combined with it, would have a voice in shaping the

policy of Jewry throughout the land. It is expressly understood that

the American Jewish Committee shall have exclusive jurisdiction

over, all questions of a national or international character affecting

the Jews generally."

It will be seen, therefore, that the Kehillah and the American Jewish

Committee are one. The capital of the United States, in Jewish affairs, is

New York. Perhaps that may throw a sidelight on the efforts which are

constantly made to exalt New York as the spring and source of all the

thoughts of the day [and now the seat of the United Nations system of

world government!-Ed .]. New York, the Jewish capital of the United

States, has been made the financial center, the art center, the political

center of the country. But its art is oriental sensuousness, its politics

those of a Judaized Tammany. It is the home of anti-American

propaganda, of pro-Jewish hysteria, a mad confusion of mind that now

passes all over the world as the true picture of America.

The doctrine with which so large a mass as the citizens of America

have been inoculated is making havoc with the whole American program

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today. It is "broadening" America out of all semblance to its distinctive

self and blurring out of recognition those determining ideals and ideas on

which American institutions were based.

"JEWISH RIGHTS" CLASH WITH

AMERICAN RIGHTS

This study of the Jewish Question in the United States is not based

· upon religious differences. The religious element does not enter

except when it is injected by the Je~s themselves; they persistently inject

it in three ways: Firstin their allegation that any study of the Jews is

"religious persecution~; second, by their .own records of what their

activities in the United State consist of; third, by the impression which is

very misleading, if not corrected, that the Jews are the Old Testament

people. The Jews are not the Old Testament people and the Old

Testament can be found among them only with difficulty. They are a

Talmudical people who have preferred the volumes of rabbinical

speculation to the words of the ancient prophets.

In _this series of articles we have set aside every non-Jewish

statement on this religious question, and have accepted only that which

proceeds from recognized Jewish sources. It has been most illuminating,

in studying the proceedings of the New York Kehillah and the American

Jewish Committee, and their activities throughout the country, to find

how large a part of these activities .-have a religi_ous bearing, as being

directly and combatively anti-Christian.

That is to say, when the Jews set forth in the public charters and

constitutions of their organizations that their only purpose is to "Protect

Jewish rights," and when the public a.sks what are these "Jewish rights"

which need protection in this free country, the answer can be found only

in the actions which the Jews take to secure that "protection."

Thus interpreted "Jewish rights " seem to be summed up in th e

"right" to banish everything from their sight and hearing that suggests

Christianity or its Founder. It is just there, from the Jewish side, that

religious intolerance makes its appearance.