THE JEWS UNITING A A conference of more than common interest was held in new york in ho beginning of this month the dale gates were representatives of ortho judaism in this country and canasta can afta C among the questions discussed that of zionism and the conferee expressed the view that the heb hebrew are still stilla a nation whose legitimate ma ate pl Vi ration as to restore the holy lantto the nat lopal home of the people bab declaration of principles isas follows I 1 we affirm our belief in the exa eald ot of god his revelation to israel the coming of a personal messiah and the dw future life as set forth in the thirteen principles of Maimon Malmo ldes we declare that the prophets in no way dischun discountenance ceremonial duty but cox condemned it only when the personal lives of those who observed ceremonial law were not spiritual ceremonial law is not it is obligatory we hold bold that the talmud contains the traditional and legal interpretation of the scriptures and that the rabbinical exposition already received is binding that the Abraham lc ceremonial is ir indispensable for the admission of males into judaism and that intermarriage between jews and gentiles cannot be permitted unless the gentile is converted from conviction and complies with the requirements of our existing laws that we axe are still a nation though temporarily without a national home and that the restoration to zion la Is the legitimate aspiration of scattered israel in no way contle conflicting ting with our oui loyalty to the land in which we dwell or may dwell at any time we believe that in our dispersion we are to be united with our brethren of alien faith in a all 11 that devolves upon men as aa citizens but as religiously in rites ceremonies em onies onles ideals and doctrines we are separate and must remain separate in accordance with the divine declara alon leviticus 26 1 I 1 have separated you from the nations to be mine rt it was decided to form a permanent organization under the name of the orthodox jewish congregational union of america with a view of upholding judaism this thia is certainly a step forward w d it is an attempt at uniting a scattered people on the platform of the law and the prophets and the result of t such a union cannot but result in good probably unions of this kind are necessary preliminaries to thel the gathering in palestine