Judaism’s Drift Toward Rationalism

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Feb 11, 1889

Judaism’s Drift Toward Rationalism

Baron Hirsch, the eminent Jewish philanthropist, who recently gave $40,000,000 for unsectarian education in Russia and elsewhere, has advised his co-religionists to abandon their exclusiveness and merge themselves in other nations, and religions, especially the Christian. The suggestion is not, however, received with much favor by Jews generally. Judaism has been modified much of late years, but not in the direction of real Christianity; its trend seems to be toward infidelity, or rationalism, so-called. The synagogue graduates more skeptics than Christians.