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[ 5 ] Sunday as a day of rest unto Israel, instead of the Decalogue Sabbath. Recently, Dr. Voorsanger created a sensation in orthodox Jewish circles by announcing his conversion to the Mosaic dietary law. It so happened that he was delivering a drosohodrasha [sic] according to orthodox style on the second day of the New Year, before a conservative congregation at San Francisco, in the course of which he, "ed against the Shochotim, of his country who refused to be examined or to show their knives to the Rabbis. This refusal the preacher stigmatized as Chilul Hashem, just like many other reprovable acts which he enumerated. Then towards the end of his discourse Dr. Voorsanger said that it would naturally be expected that he should practice what he preached, and therefore he announced his resolve not to turn tail on his own utterances" This piece of news, wittingly declared a Jewish journalist may be greeted with the Psalmist's words, Let the heavens rejoice and let the earth be glad. To my mind, most of the reform rabbis in America are woefully deficient in the knowledge of true Judaism. They know very little of Hebrew; they ignore the laws of Schulhan Aruch and most of them never care to study them. Once a question was put to one of them, whether according to the Jewish law, a deer was prohibited or not, when he, who was not less ignorant than the majority of his congregtioncongregation [sic], answered in the affirmative. Therefore most of the so-called rabbis hailing from this camp, hardly deserve the title affixed to their names. Amongst them may be found the Chutzpah or Shegets rabbi, and preferentially represented by tho "half-baked" product. He derides the Talmud (of which he is densely ignorant); sneers at Jewish customs and observances, mocks at every attempt to retain the ancient form of Jewish worship. On Sabbaths, at the conclusion of the services, he lights a cigar in the vestibule of the