The Denver Jewish news., 1920-11-10

opened Sunday evening at Temple
Emanuel. The building was crowded
to capacity long before the hour of
opening the meeting. and wave Of
enthusiasm swept over the large audi,
once even before the opening prayer.
The strong. stirring addresses left
n profound impression upon those
fortunate enough to gain admission
into the Temple, of the Councils
nobility of purpose and the fine work
1t is doing to achieve it.
The opening number of the program
was an organ solo. The president.
Mrs. Nathaniel Harris. presided.
DIR. VIM. 3. Friedman welcomed thc
Council in the name of Temple Em:n-
uel and gave the Invocation
DIR. Friedman's greeting was in part
ms follows:
1t is highly fitting that Congregation
Emanuel should enjoy the rare priv
ilege of bidding heartfelt welcome to
tue Trienaial of the National Council
of Jewish Women. When the call for
National Council of Jewish Women
was first sounded twenty-seven years
ago, the women of Congregation
Emanuel were foremost to respond
and an enthusiastic little army was
Mt once mustered into the sacred
cause. Since those early days your
organization has steadily grown in
strength and service until today the
National Council of Jewish Women is
household name in religion. educa-
tion and philanthropy. Boruch Haboh
l:eshem Adonai Berachn,lchem Mibcs
AdOnah, blessed are you who
come in the name of the
lord; we bless you from the
house of God" You have come to
us from every section of our land at
the sacrifice of time and treasure and
energy, bearing the banaer of the
ideal, calling upon us all to worship
the finer and nobler things of life
We welcome you to the Queen City of
the Rockies and as we behold this
magnificent gathering. we are moved
tu exclnim "How beautiful upon the
Inountai,is are the feet of the mes
srngev.~ that lniAg good fidina-., timt'
publish peace.'
1T Is just two years ago since
Aimistlce Day was declared. Many
fondly believed that national hatred.
iacial distrust and religious fanatic.
ism hud been consumed in the fires
of War and that henceforth peace a.Il
brotherhood would unite into one low
ing family the children of men. 10.
day the glowing tints of this ardent
dream have faded. if they have not
altogether vanished The allied ma
lions are uisputing over the spOils of
War. the bonds of the victors are
strained to the breaking point and the
yanUuished chnfc under the penalties
If defeat. Central and Eas tern Eu
rope are still aflnme with the horrors
Of War. while the people of every
nntion are restless and discontented
and menace the stability of consti-
tuted authority. This sad world con
diitiOn would in itself call for study
on the part of the T'riennial of Ma
tlOIlll tOuIlClI VI 'ItNlSl "oI bul II
is given particular emphasis because
the Jew as such is again compelled
to verify Jchudah Halevi's pathetic
observation Israel is the heart of the
nations and sympathetically suffers
for their wrong doings." 1t is "a
tragic fact that whenever misery.
death and disaster have fallen upon
a nation there have always appeared
mcn.-oftcn the very men who have
precipitated catastrophes-whO have
and to single ont the Jew as the
cause of misfortunes.
We face this condition today. All
over the world there is an organized
make of him an object of suspicion,
of fear and of hatred. The cid mi
crobes Matched in the might of ignor-
ance. superstition and fanaticism are
gcrminatcd today. multiplied and seem
to have infected modern civilization.
The Jew is denounced us n peril. n
menace to morality, an enemy of
Christianity. II nation within II nation,
whose ambition is to form supernn-
tion to dominate and conquer the
world. In Eastern Europe. in the
states recently carved out of the erst-
while Russian Empire by the peace
treaty-in Poland. Ukraine. CZecho-
SlOvakia. he is truthlessIy plundered,
starved and mussacred In Roumania.
Austria, Hungary and Germany. he
is denied human fellowship and is
often excluded from civil rights and
responsibilities. The plague of Jew
atrel Inns nynn inYnlrl Eraucn and