Chief Rabbi David Prato, a Zionist and traditionalist, and
who brought about the elevation of Zolli to the "Chief
Rabbinate," are comparable to the members of the group
in the United States known as the "American Council for
Judaism." This group, in addition to attacking Zionists as
lacking in patriotism, parrots unwittingly the same slogans
and espouses the same philosophy as its predecessors, the
"Fascists of the Jewish Religion." (See Theodore N. Lewis
on "Anti-Semitic Jews" in Opinion, July, 1945, p. 14.) It
is with sorrow that these words are written, but the situa-
tion in Jewish life is so critical that the truth must be told
regarding any persons who place needless stumbling-blocks
in the pathway of those who are striving for the rehabilita-
tion of Jewish communities, shattered by persecution and
war. It is my earnest hope that American Jewry will take to
heart the lessons to be found in Zolli's betrayal of his peo-
ple and his faith; and that, like Rome Jewry, other Jewries
of the Diaspora, in cooperation with sympathetic and un-
derstanding non-Jews, will go forward, chastened and re-
pentant, to the immense labors ahead.

LOUIS I. NEWMAN

NEW YORK, July, 1945.

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