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29505	Faudel, Henry	Suggestions to the Jews for improvement in reference to their charities, education, and general government			.txt	text/plain	8993	220	42	Yet views of charity and religion, which the Jews entertain in common, and the sympathy that unites them, as it does individuals of every class possessing a similarity of belief or feeling, render it desirable to resort to a plan of centralisation and union, by which not alone the wholesome _regulation_ of _charitable institutions would be effected_, but the _education of the poor_, and the _intellectual advancement_ of the _entire community_, would be accomplished. The phrase, Members of a certain Synagogue, conveys to the mind the only idea to which we can find any corresponding reality; for, in truth, beyond what _it_ implies, the Jews are _not united_ for any definite design or purpose; and while it would have been reasonable to expect, _à priori_, that the votaries of a faith set apart from all others, should have had some common bond of union in their affairs, we are startled by the consideration that there exist at this moment in London alone, a number of distinct Jewish Congregations, _independent_ of each other, with separate wants and interests, having nothing in common but their religion: and all the great and noble advantages to be obtained by numbers, having a unity of purpose, are either unrecognised, or merged and lost in that separation of interests which makes the respective pecuniary benefit of each Congregation the greatest, if not the only object of its existence.	cache/29505.txt	txt/29505.txt
