“The problem before us was to form a body of young Jews who should be on the one hand true Americans, a part of this Republic, with an intense interest in upbuilding American ideals; and yet, on the other hand, be also Jews in love with the best of their own ideals, and not anx¬ ious merely to merge with the rest and disap¬ pear among them.
“That problem confronts Orthodox and Reform Jews alike. It is not merely a religious but a civic problem.”
That is separatism and exclusivism as an educa¬ tional program, and its results cannot help being a cloud of difference such as this article has in part disclosed. The New York Kehillah, through its Bureau of Education, is giving “a purely religious training to 200,000 Jewish children,” the religious training being, of course, not what is generally under¬ stood by that term, but a training in ideas of racial superiority and separateness.
This difference is strikingly illustrated in Jewish fiction recently. To love a Christian maiden is sinful; this is the theme of all sorts of stories, sketches and editorials appearing these days. But James Gibbons Huneker, in a sketch