Issue of March 5, 1921.
“Jewish Rights” Clash With American Rights TT IS well that the public should understand that the -®- present 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 in¬ jected by the Jews themselves. And it is injected in three ways: First, in their allegation that any study of the Jews is “religious persecution”; second, by their own records of what their activities in the United States consist of; third, by the impression which is very misleading if not corrected, that the Jews are the Old Testament people of the Old Testament religion which is so highly regarded in the Christian world. The Jews are not the Old Testament people, and the Old Testament, their Bible, can be found among them only with difficulty. They are a Talmudical people who have preferred the volumes of rabbinical specu¬ lation to the words of their ancient Prophets.
The note of religion does not enter this discussion until the Jews place it there. In this series of