WOMEN IN THE SYNAGOGUE.
" The solitary feature which attracts attention in the synagogue elections," says the Jewish Chronicle, "is tho renewed attempt to enfranchise the lady seatholders. We have before now expressed our complete concurrence in this proposal. The exclusion of women from any share in the administration of the synagogue is contrary to logic and against public policy. If it be right that women should be allowed to take part in the government of our leading philanthropic institutions, it must be equally reasonable to admit them to synagogal office. The refusal so to do is also "contrary to the communal interests for the reason tliat all available aid should be enlisted in the fight against present'day religious apathy. It cannot bo doubted that so far as synago^uo«goers are concerned the best recruiting-ser-genn^ is the mother of the houee."
"We English are sensible at bottom (writes K.H.C. in the New Age) ; and good sense is our proper starting-place. Tlence, when, as now, we find ourselves floundering, we ought to return to our base in common-sense and resume fiom there. Common-sense mellowed and experienced is wisdom ; and wisdom in its ripeness is beauty. Young men, I say, lirat learn to write common-sense ; then study to bo wise, and beauty will afterwards bo addtd to ycu.' 1 -
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 151, 27 June 1914, Page 12
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