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A PUBLICATION- OF THE ANGLO-JEWISH PERIODICAL PRESS. fob the PROMOTION op the spiritual and general "WELFARE op the jews, by the dissemination of intelligence
ON SUBJECTS AFFECTING THEIR INTERESTS. AND BY THE ADVOCACY AND DEFENCE OF THEIR RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS.
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Yol. IV. No. 111. ] LONDON, 10th OF ELLUL, A.M. 5605.—12th SEPT., 1845. [Price 3d .
CONTENTS.
^nnound-mNnt.—The Future of the Voice of Jacob.
Encouragement of Induatrial Purautts in Paleatine.
The Chief Rabbi'a last Sermon.
MliCELLASBOCS Intblliobncb. — Wetter n Synagogue; Address to the Chief Habhi. —Jem' Orphan Sty torn \ Official Inspection.— Uand-in-Hand Atylom.—Sat, et Halt ; Meeting —Conversion proved to be Perversion.—A Jew indeed.
Foiiion and Colonial Intbllioinci. — Jaataiea; Innovations; Montego Bay; Scientific Lecture;—Ai stbalian CoLONlBS ; Hobart Toten; address to the Chief Rabbi; Sydney; anniversary of the synAgogue.— India; Jewish Magistrate.— Gibraltar ; Habits of the Lower Orders.—The American Jewr^— Miscellanea ; Literary ;—Russian Prise gained by a Jew ;—Jews in China. A Rbyibw.—T he Teachers 1 and Parents' Assistant.
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THE FUTURE OF THE “ VOICE OF JACOB.”
Our readers have been already prepared for the retirement of the present Editor of this paper, from the duties which pertain to that office. In the reflections which were appended to our report of the Rev. Chief Rabbi’s installation, (in No. 107,) the intimation that our jjwn vocation might be deemed accomplished was explicitly made. It is not needful here to recapitulate the considerations which appear to warrant this conclusion, but, ever since our entry upon this career—the responsibilities of which have weighed the more heavily upon us, because our previous pursuits had not prepared us for editorial labours— we have repeatedly expressed the wish and hope, that the task of conducting the Anglo-Jewish Press might pass into hands more fitly trained, and better qualified. Our devotion to the work hitherto, has involved many sacrifices upon the altar of our conscientious convictions,—and, if not in the ordinary sense “ obligatory,” they have at least been free-will offerings. W hat- tver their cost, however, they have been made cheerfully, in the anxious expectation of the period when we might safely transmit our charge to others, who, with a zeal equal to our own in the cause, should uuite qualifications ensuring tne performance Of the duties devolving uppn-ir'National press, in a manner becoming the improved andimproving station occupied by our brethren in this empire. What we have so ardently wished, what we have so long hoped for, will at length be realized ; and we have the satisfaction of announcing to our readers, that in consequence of arrangements already made, the editorship of The Voice of Jacob will, from New Year (nx?n PKl) next, pass into other hands, and, thenceforward, our further relations to the paper will remain solely those of proprietorship.
The Voice of Jacob, from the issue after the next, (No, 113,) will, under the new arrangements continue to strive, in order not only to deserve that patronage which has hitherto been bestowed upon it, but to merit it in a still higher degree, by extending its range of usefulness, and drawing into its sphere new objects of interest and information. The periodical which, nnder the fostering care of a discerning public, has passed its
j infancy,—(it is now entering upon its 5th year,) and has survived - that critical period when it may be said of many such an endeavour, “ In the morning it flourisheth and groieeth up;
1 in the evening it is cast damn anti rcitherelh ,”—will, while gathering years, collect that experience, and acquire those- distinctive features, which are characteristic of maturer age. It will devote more space than heretofore to what is usually considered lighter matter, but which our sages always deemed useful for conveying instruction.* It shall be the endeavour to adapt at least one portion of the paper to the capabilities and tastes of those, who are either not enabled, or not disposed, to appreciate subjects of a purely scientific or doctrinal nature. The rich storehouses of our national literature will furnish materials; and they shall prove as pleasing as they are instructive. But whilst, on the one hand, some may deem the Anglo-Jewish Press somewhat lowered in its standard thereby, care will be j taken, on the other hand, to raise it in more than a corresponding degree, by the introduction of matter of a more scientific and ’ characteristic nature. Researches, connected with Biblical anti- ! quities, with the Hebrew language, or with objects mentioned in \ that sacred volume which is our peculiar inheritance, shall be \ duly noticed and appreciated. In short, whatever tends to elucidate the Book of books, whatever may be calculated to throw light upon subjects connected with Jews and Judaism,
1 shall find an expositor in our columns. Thus have we provided, that not only the Jew, but the Gentile friend of Israel,
■ whether young or old, learned or unlearned, of the sterner or ‘ the gentler sex, shall find amusement, instruction, and edifica- ! tion, in the future columns of The Voice of Jacob.
The recent intimation of our contemplated withdrawal, has, in some quarters, led to the apprehension that our connexion with the work was about to cease altogether. The very earnest appeals addressed to us in consequence, as also the very flattering testimony borne to the value of our humble labours in establishing the Anglo-Jewish Press, and to the spirit in which it has been conducted during the four years’ of its existence, are more gratifying to our feelings than we can hope to express. On the one band, we contemplate the very expressive mark of approbation conferred by our Rev. spiritual chieft—avowedly with
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