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substituting for it instead the Old Testament; (2) the denial that the Messiah would lead them<br />

back to Jerusalem; (3) temple service was to be conducted in the vernacular; (4) women could<br />

now be allowed to sit beside men in the synagogue, instead <strong>of</strong> being segregated, as had always<br />

been required by Orthodox Judaism. Reform Judaism launched a number <strong>of</strong> programs besides<br />

Zionism; ecumenism, that is, active cooperation with leaders and congregations <strong>of</strong> other faiths;<br />

feminism, equality <strong>of</strong> the sexes; but their most important concept, that the Messiah would never<br />

appear on earth to lead them back to Jerusalem, opened the door for the seeking <strong>of</strong> this goal by<br />

political activism, that is, Zionism. <strong>The</strong> initial program <strong>of</strong> Political Zionism was first broached<br />

by Rabbi Hirsch Kalisher, a close associate <strong>of</strong> Mayer Amschel Rothschild in Frankfurt. Sir Moses<br />

Montefiore and Adolphe Cremieux, founder <strong>of</strong> the Alliance Israelite Universelle, gave added<br />

impetus to the new movement. Its goals were greatly publicized by the work <strong>of</strong> Moses Hess, a<br />

close friend <strong>of</strong> Karl Marx. This is ironic, in view <strong>of</strong> the fact that the present Soviet Government<br />

pr<strong>of</strong>esses to be ideologically opposed to Zionism. Moses Hess became known as "the father <strong>of</strong><br />

Zionism." A journalist who was greatly influenced by his writings, <strong>The</strong>odor Herzl, was converted<br />

to activism, and he is now known as "the founder <strong>of</strong> the Zionist State." <strong>The</strong> Encyclopaedia Judaica<br />

says that Moses Hess was a Jewish Socialist and nationalist who led the Reform Movement,<br />

calling for the colonization <strong>of</strong> Palestine. His principal work, "Rome and Jerusalem," which<br />

received wide circulation, was the book which had great impact on <strong>The</strong>odor Herzl.<br />

In 1860, Rabbi Kalisher hosted a secret meeting at his home in Thoru to recap the lessons which<br />

had been learned from the Revolution <strong>of</strong> 1848. This revolution had been intended to topple all<br />

the governments <strong>of</strong> Europe and replace them with Communist governments. It succeeded in only<br />

a few isolated instances, such as Venice, where Daniel Manini set up a Communist government.<br />

From the Thoru meeting came Kalisher's book, "Drishal Zion," in 1861, and later, Moses Hess'<br />

"Rome and Jerusalem." <strong>The</strong>se two works were largely responsible for converting the Jews <strong>of</strong><br />

Europe to the Zionist program, the political goal <strong>of</strong> restoring Palestine to the Jewish people.<br />

One <strong>of</strong> the conspirators present at this 1860 meeting leaked the record <strong>of</strong> the proceedings to a<br />

writer named Maurice Joly. <strong>The</strong> culprit is reputed to have been one E. Laharane, a confidant <strong>of</strong><br />

Adolphe Cremieux, head <strong>of</strong> the influential Alliance lsraelite Universelle. A power in French<br />

politics, Cremieux had obtained for Laharane the post <strong>of</strong> private secretary to Napoleon III. Joly<br />

later published the proceedings under the litle, "Dialogue aux Enfers entre Machiavelli et<br />

Montesquieu," the earliest version <strong>of</strong> the book now circulated under t he title, "Protocols <strong>of</strong> Zion."<br />

<strong>The</strong> material paralleled much <strong>of</strong> the text <strong>of</strong> Kallisher's book, "Drishal Zion," and with the Rabbi's<br />

Speech delivered by Goedsche in 1868. It also coincided with the proceedings <strong>of</strong> the Jewish<br />

Synod <strong>of</strong> Leipzig <strong>of</strong> 1869. <strong>The</strong> Kattowitz Conference <strong>of</strong> Hoveve Zion 1884 also Joincides with<br />

the first set <strong>of</strong> documents which appeared as the Protocols <strong>of</strong> Zion; the Kattowitz papers had<br />

been extracted from the Mizraim Lodge <strong>of</strong> Paris by one Joseph Schorst-Shapiro. He sold them<br />

to a Mlle. Justine de Glinka, who forwarded them to the Russian Ministry <strong>of</strong> the Interior, where<br />

they were received by a Gen. Orgewsky. Shortly afterward, Schorst-Shapiro was murdered in<br />

Egypt. <strong>The</strong> Odessa Conference <strong>of</strong> Hoveve Zion and B'Nai Moshe, led by Ashed Ginsberg (Ahad<br />

Ha-am), and his subsequent stay in Paris In 1894, were followed by the appearance <strong>of</strong> the<br />

Protocols Iii they are now known; they were published by Philip Stepw<strong>of</strong>f in Moscow. This<br />

essentially was the same set <strong>of</strong> documents later published by Sergei Nilus in 1905. Extracts <strong>of</strong><br />

lectures read at B'Nai B'Rith lodges in <strong>New</strong> York at secret meetings were also extracted and put<br />

in the hands <strong>of</strong> the Russian Consul General in <strong>New</strong> York. <strong>The</strong>se extracts coincided on all points<br />

with the 1895 version <strong>of</strong> the Protocols and those extracted from the First Basle Congress in 1897.<br />

<strong>The</strong>y were also published by B. Butmi in 1901. It was because I' these well-established<br />

antecedents that the Protocols were denounced as "forgeries,” that is, as unauthorized copies.<br />

Because <strong>of</strong> its well-advertised revolutionary program, Freemasonry has been repeatedly banned<br />

by European government-but never in the United States, where it has exercised political power<br />

since 1776. It has been repeatedly denounced by the papacy. Holland banned Freemasonry in<br />

1735; Germany in 1738; Zurich in 1740; Berne in 1745. Russia first banned Freemasonry in<br />

1792, again in 1822, and by the Soviet Government in 1922. On Apri128, 1738, Pope Clement<br />

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