To the Editor of the "Norra-Cama Datty News."
S1r,—Recently the question was ventilated whether a Jew can be a member of the Y. M. C. A. and a young member of the local Jewish community was attacked in this connexion and marked by the "Elders" as a black sheep.
Considering this question from the Jewish point of view, 1 would answer that this is absolutely possible and I do not sew in it anything wrong. For, according to the Bajfour declaration in regard to Palestine, the Jewish question is considered as a national question and not a religious one. Therefore, when we accept the possibility of an. independent Jewish nation and state, we are at the very same moment faced with the -possibility or having in our state citizens of non-Jewish religion.
The Shanghai Jewish commun: ity and especially its elders should bear in mind that what the Jocal community needs most is a moral uplift. They can rest assured that the new and modern—in good sense—generation will not and cannot follow the old religion, which after all is a, product of superior minds living ay that time and stood for the civil and criminal laws and codes of the ancient days. And to make "people obey these Jaws, it was necessary to tell them that they were given by God, who would punish them in such and such a manner if they did not obey His commands.
On the other hand, the fact mains that the elders of the local Jewish community are not giving
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