Los Angeles Herald, Volume 34, Number 192, 11 April 1907 — MRS. BARUCH SPEAKS ON "MODERN JUDAISM" [ARTICLE]

MRS. BARUCH SPEAKS ON "MODERN JUDAISM"

Mrs. Bertha Hirsch Baruch spoke last night at the Gamut auditorium on "Modern Judaism," with Hebrew musical illustrations by the choir of the B'nal B'rith temple. Mrs. Baruch divided her lecture into four parts, introductory, retrospect, modern era and prospect. The musical program illustrated the ancient Hebrew, European and modern chants.

Mrs. Baruch spoke of the original plan of the Hebrew religion, saying that if the original were preserved it would form a strange contrast with the fundamental truths and sayings of the religions that had divided the human family into hostilo factions and misunderstandings through the world's history, turning man against man. The speaker alluded to the nobility of the Hebrewrance and its tenacity on its life, although persecuted through the various countries and all the ages. She spoke of America as the free home for the Jew, where he Is given the rights of citizenship and of the broader field to be taken by Jew and Christian in uniting the races.