Volume II, No. 12, March 1845

CONTENTS
Preface to Volume II of The Occident
Spiritual Authority
The Essence of Our Religion, by J. K. G.
Prayers for Schools
Intermarrying With Gentiles, by Simeon Abrahams
	Note by the Editor
Hungarian Synod
Dias' Letters, Letter 12
Conflagration of the Synagogue at Cleveland, Ohio
Editorial Correspondence
	Letter from Rev. A. Rice
Literary Notices
	Discourse on the Restoration of the Jews, by M. M. Noah
	History of the Jewish Physicians
News Items
	Third Annual Charity Ball of Philadelphia
	Second Annual Examination of Talmud Torah, N. Y.
	Second Anniversary Dinner of Hebrew Beneficial Society of St. Louis
	Order Restored at Mogador
	The Mogador Calamity
	Mitigation of the Russo-Polish Conscription
	Dr. Adler, Chief Rabbi of England
	Hamburgh
	The Charleston Appeal
Third List of Subscribers to the Occident