RABBI MAXWELL L. SACKS, Jewish Communal Center of Flatbush, Avenue I and East Thirteenth street, Brooklyn: “We live in a sick world. The economic crisis is not as bad as the general mental attitude of the populace. Values have changed. After generations of anticipation for material accumulation and physical satisfactions, man has rediscovered himself and is beginning to recognize that these values do not satisfy him, and they are not permanent. However, in his convalescence from these many diseases acquired through and because of the world’s strife, he has been left a moral coward.
“Defeatism has become his living philosophy. No longer is there that attribute which made of our forefathers courageous and never-dying individuals.”
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