Excerpt from Views on the Synod
At the meeting of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, held at Louisville, Ky., in June, 1904, the committee to whom was referred the suggestion in the president's report to convene a Synod presented a majority and minority report. Because of the differences of opinion in the committee and among the members of the conference at large the signers of the majority report recommended that the executive committee be instructed to issue a pamphlet containing opinions pro and con on the subject, this pamphlet to be distributed among the people with the purpose of forming and educating public opinion on this vital question. The executive committee entrusted the preparation of the pamphlet to a committee consisting of David Philipson, chairman; H. G. Enelow, Morris M. Feuerlicht, Adolf Guttmacher, and Wm. Rosenau. The committee has compiled opinions on the Synod voiced by leaders of Jewish thought during the past sixty years. The committee has attempted to maintain a purely objective attitude and has included opinions favorable and unfavorable to the project. It has carefully excluded, as far as possible, all articles of a personal nature and also those of a purely polemical abusive character. The material has been drawn for the most part from the files of Jewish newspapers and magazines. The committee has not aimed to reproduce everything that has been published on this theme, but merely to present a number of statements which, in its judgment, discuss the subject from various points of view.
The committee is indebted to Dr. E. Schreiber, of Chicago, for having placed at its disposal some material in his possession; the articles which he has compiled and translated are subscribed with his initial.
In accordance with the instructions of the Conference the papers and reports read at its meetings touching the subject of the Synod have been included.
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