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But
thinking Jews were bound sooner or later to perceive that Reform Judaism
is a half-truth, which like every half-truth, bears within it the germ of
decay, since it cannot withstand logical criticism a single moment. Whom
should Reform Judaism satisfy? The believing Jew? He spurns it from him
with the deepest disgust. The unbelieving? He despises it as hypocrisy and
phrase-mongering. The Jew who actually wishes to break with his people's
past and merge in his Christian environment? This Jew is not contented
with Reform Judaism: he goes a step further, the step that leads to the
baptismal font. Still less is the Jew contented with it who would preserve
Judaism from decay, who would maintain it as an ethnic individuality. For,
to him the express renunciation of all national hope is synonymous with
the self-condemnation to the perhaps slow but sure death of the Jewish
people. Reform Judaism without Zionism, that is to say, without the wish
and the hope of a re-gathering of the Jewish people, has no future. It can
at the most be regarded as a somewhat crooked road that leads over into
Christianity. He who would reach this goal can to-day find shorter and
.more direct roads thither.