New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-06
JERUSALEM NOT JEWISH
Rabbi Wise Tells of Conditions
of Life There.
MISSIONARIES CRITICISED
Unashamed and Ruthless in
Work Among Poverty
Stricken, He Says.

THAT everything worth while IL cast
out Of the hands OF Israel is but another
Illustration of the lifelong tragedy of Is
rael; It gives OF its best. and is at last
denied its own" said Rabbi Stephen 5.
Wise yesterday. In his sermon on The
Tragedy Of Jewish Exile Within Pales-
tine" before large audience in Carne-
gle Hall. DR. Wise recently returned
from trip to the Holy Land. and has
planned a series OF addresses.
Israel is exiled.' he said. mot only
from Palestine. but within Palestine The
exile Of Israel should end at the gateway
of Palestine. but 1t does not the back
ground alone being changed. Despite the
large Jewish population in Jerusalem
and the considerable Jewish population
throughout the rest OF Palestine the
really pervasive and dominant influences
within Palestine are not Jewish, but
Christian on the one hand and Mahomet-
an on the other.
The status Of things Jewish in Pales-
tine may be summed up in the words
everything was Jewish; little or nothing
is Jewish. Not only Is II true that the
places Of Jewish historic interest are in
the hands Of every people but the Jewish
people, but, in addition. there are few. II
any, truly impressive and significant
monuments of Jewish life in Palestine to-
day.
with two or three exceptions, the Jew
ish institutional life OF Palestine is far
from inspiring. far even from being salts
flying Christians and Mahometans, Ro-
mans and Greek Christians. vie with one
another in rearing noble monuments,
meanngful and serviceable within Pales-
tine but the Jew seems not yet to have
learned how TO think and feel in world
wide spirit.
I'm a sense. It is true, that the Jew Is
in political exile in Palestine, as long as
Il becomes necessary for the foreign Jew
to exchange his passport for a red ticket
as long as he sojourns In the Holy Land.
Turkey, which has been more fair and
Just to Israel than almost any Christian
power, ought TO remedy this of Its own
accord.
There Is in Jerusalem, rather than
throughout Palestine. an unutteraoie
measure of poverty and wretchedness ana
misery-though, be 1t noted, | deliberately
refrain from the use of the term pauper-
ism. Viewing the dire poverty Whicn oD-
tains. the want of food and shelter for
thousands, there is an Unexpectedly Inn
tied measure Of pauperization.
/ zone notes with Joy that there Is little
| OF beggary in the Western sense OF that
! term. even among the poorest. Not oniy
are the people poor. many Of them hVihs
under conditions In comparison WIN
which our Stun jewellers are palatiahy
housed. but the institutions Of relief are
sadly and woefully lacking the means
wherewith TO care for the needy
THE poverty of Jerusalem is not ehis
followed by the inevitable sequence Oh
enfeeblement and disease-the diseases VI
Jerusalem are the diseases OF poverty
but the moral and spiritual results are
almost as dire. Thus, the poor jews Vi
Jerusalem are unduly exposed 10 '"e
ruthless invasion of the WRONG KIM u
missionary effort.
! .Io,,s . "a ueaned away from Judaism
49,. .hoy ore not so much converted 70
Christian churches as they are sldr'o.
and sickened into the acceptance u
christianity. Much Of the missionary G.
fort within Jerusalem is unashamed anu
ruthless. as II inspired by the maxim
And We shall tear the hearts of the iatn- -
ers from the children. and we shai' yea
,hs hearts Of the children from the la'h-
!