The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-04-26
CALISCH IN MINORITY
SAYS ZIONIST LEADER
Il Not Spok esInau for tho Jews, Most
Of Whom Dream of the Holy
Land.
LOUIS LrPsKY MAKES REPLY
Answers Rabbit OF Beth Ahabah, Who
Declared That Wherever Jews
Dwell There L. Their Zion and
Jerusalem.

The most dangerous foe to Jewish
unity is the theory advocated by Or.
Csitsch" said Louis Iipsky, chairman
OF The American Federation Of Afperi-
can z'onists, last night that wherever
the Jews dwell there is their zion and
their Jerusalem
Or Lipsky. who is Ia Richmond as
tire guest Of the Herzl Zionist club of
th3s city, issued lengthy reply 10 the
criticism OF the Zionist movement re-
Gently made by pr r. \. Calisch, OF
Bath Ahshah Synagogue,
That means disinteRrstion and dis
appearance" said Nj Lipsky
He said that Or Caljsch was not
speaking for majority Of the Jewish
people when he said that there could
be no Jewish idealism unless II was
the Jewish religsous life
Their Nationality.
The Jews he said. are not only
adherents OF Judaism, the religion, but
also memb ers OF the Jewish race and
nationality As evidence OF this there
are many Jews who have no religious
faith and Vet are included as members
OF the Jewish fold
Does Or Calisch believe the bible
20 he the authoritative well Of life?
The Bible regards the Jews as a ma
tion Does DR. Caiisch believe that
the Jewish saEes represented Jewish
ideals The Jewish sages believed in
the restoration Of the Jews In Palestine
Does Dr. CaIiscb believe IN tho Jewish
ritual as an expression of Jewish
ideaiism@ The prayers declared that
Jerusalem would again he q Jewish
center.
ION what authority. therefore, does
Or Calisch declare that the restoration
Of Palestine is unnecessary Did the
sages and the writer's OF the prayers
pray for a thing that IS unnecessary"
There are millions Of Jews today who
repeat these prayers. There are hum
dreds OF thousands of Jews who mako
Zloniam the center of their activities.
There are a large number of Jews who
believe I'm Hebrew as the national Ian
guage
Who Jn Jewish Spokesman
Who speaks for the Jewish people
Certainly not pr CsIisch. Or. Calisch
speaks for a small group Of Jews who
have lost their national consciousness
who have suceumbed to their environ
ment and see no further than their
Jerusalem, which il Washington, and
their Zion. which ia America. They
forget that there are 100000 Jews
in the world. and that only 1000. ooC
Hive in the United states, That OF
these Two million over one million
land half are orthodox Jews. who stil'
pray the old prayers for the restora-
ton Of the Jews in Palestine.
But Zonism is not only "a matter o.
theory The Jews have begun the con.
quest ~ Palestine We have there
forty agricultural colonies. growing
every year, schools, high schools.
Hebrew press and literature; we have
built up cities. and redeemed the desc
lsae land OF our ancestors. These
deeds speak more than words for th'
linvtncihia ambition OF the Jewish
people once more to become recog
niza Bile force in the civilization Of th'
world.
Or Iipsky delivered an address 81
"Zionism" last night to large al
dience in Montefore Synagogue. 4
goodly portion of the auditorium wa
nled and he held the attention q
his hearers for almost an hour. H
wa introduced by Or. l.. karp.