The Thirteen Wants.
- We want Judaism to help us overcome temptation, doubt and discouragement.
- We want Judaism to imbue us with a sense of responsibility for the righteous use of the blessings wherewith God endows us.
- We want the Jew so to be trusted that his yea will be taken as yea, and his nay as nay.
- We want to learn how to utilize our leisure to best advantage, physically, intellectually, and spiritually.
- We want the Jewish home to live up to its traditional standards of virtue and piety.
- We want the Jewish upbringing of our children to further their moral and spiritual growth, and to enable them to accept with joy their heritage as Jews.
- We want the synagogue to enable us to worship God in sincerity and in truth.
- We want our religious traditions to be interpreted in terms of understandable experience and to be made relevant to our present-day needs.
- We want to participate in the upbuilding of Eretz Yisrael as a means to the renaissance of the Jewish spirit.
- We want Judaism to find rich, manifold and ever new expression in philosophy, letters and the arts.
- We want all forms of Jewish organization to make for spiritual purpose and ethical endeavor.
- We want the unity of Israel throughout the world to be fostered through mutual help in time of need, and through cooperation in the furtherance of Judaism at all time.
- We want Judaism to function as a potent influence for justice, freedom and peace in the life of men and nations.
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