_Associate Editor_ I. LEO SHARFMAN _Managing Editor_ H. ASKOWITH _Business Manager_ B. S. POUZZNER _Board of Consulting Editors_ DR. CYRUS ADLER LOUIS D. BRANDEIS DR. LEE K. FRANKEL PROF. FELIX FRANKFURTER PROF. ISRAEL FRIEDLAENDER PROF. RICHARD GOTTHEIL DR. MAX HELLER DR. JOSEPH JACOBS DR. KAUFMANN KOHLER JUSTICE IRVING LEHMAN JUDGE JULIAN W. MACK DR. J. L. MAGNES PROF. MAX L. MARGOLIS DR. H. PEREIRA MENDES DR. MARTIN A. MEYER DR. DAVID PHILIPSON DR. SOLOMON SCHECHTER HON. OSCAR S. STRAUS SAMUEL STRAUSS JUDGE MAYER SULZBERGER MISS HENRIETTA SZOLD FELIX M. WARBURG DR. STEPHEN S. WISE * * * * * VOLUME I DECEMBER, 1915 NUMBER 5 =CONTENTS= PAGE _Frontispiece_: THEODOR HERZL _From an Etching by Hermann Struck_ THE MENORAH _Theodor Herzl_ 261 _Translation by Bessie London Pouzzner_ THE PRESENT CRISIS IN AMERICAN JEWRY _Israel Friedlaender_ 265 OUR SPIRITUAL INHERITANCE _Irving Lehman_ 277 ADAM PROMETHEUS, and OTHER LYRICS _Louis K. Anspacher_ 282 SHOLOM ASCH: THE JEWISH MAUPASSANT _Percy B. Shostac_ 285 _A Menorah Prize Essay_ LIBERALISM AND THE JEWS _Joseph Jacobs_ 298 WHAT IS JUDAISM? _Second Paper_ _Mordecai M. Kaplan_ 309 UNIVERSITY MENORAH ADDRESSES 319 INTERCOLLEGIATE MENORAH NOTES 322 ACTIVITIES OF MENORAH SOCIETIES 324 INDEX _to Volume I of THE MENORAH JOURNAL_ 333 * * * * * 25 cents a copy. Subscription, $1.00 a year; in Canada, $1.25; abroad, $1.50 _Copyright, 1915, by The Intercollegiate Menorah Association. All rights reserved Entered as second class matter January 6, 1915, at the New York Post Office, under the Act of March 3, 1879_ [Illustration] =DIEGES & CLUST= =20 JOHN STREET= =NEW YORK CITY, N. Y.= * * * * * =Manufacturing Jewelers for the Leading Colleges Schools and Associations= _=Class, Fraternity, Club and Society Pins, Medals and Badges, Loving Cups, Plaques and Trophies of All Descriptions, Diamonds, Watches, Jewelry, Silverware.=_ * * * * * =FOR= =KOHUT SCHOOL= =BOYS= =254th St. & Independence Ave. Phone 367 Kingsbridge= =Riverdale-on-Hudson New York City= _An Ideal Boarding and Day School_ ALL DAY IN THE COUNTRY