The Denver Jewish news. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1915-1925, 1920-11-24
Where Shall the Vast
Hosts Go?
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any hoOdlum or drunken soldier can
just to be recognized as Il Jew is t.
suffer daily martydromI Aren't you
going to give these unfortunate mil
lions way out? Won't you help to
secure a place of refuge for them
where they will be entirely welcome /;
where they will be at home among
their brothers? -
Il speak as one who is deeply con-
cerned and moved by the terrible
tragic situation of at least one-haf
of the Jewish population of the Old
World; and am urging my people for
this reason to help, generously in the
preparation of Palestine for Jewish
settlement. 1t is imperative for many
obvious reasons that large part of
the stream of Jewish immigration he
diverted. if possible. to Palestine. But
how do we know that there will be n
widespread tendency to settle there?
What power will draw vast multi
tude of homeless Jews to settle in thu
ancient Land of Israel?
The Power of Sentiment.
My friends, Just the power of sell
timent; just that imponderable in-
tluence, which as Bismarck truly said
is stronger than armies and cannon
And this sentiment is not simply the
passionate national sentiment of Zion
lists, it is ii deep-seated religious sen
timent that is especially strong among
our orthodox brethren. 1t is the sen
timent that made our Fathers wish to
lay their heads in their last sleep OH
II bag of earth from the Holy Land !;
it is the sentiment that makes our
orthodox brethren turn their faces to-
ward the East, toward Jerusalem,
when they recite the Eighteen Bcpe
dictions; it is the intense love tia
never quite dies out in the hearts of
pious Jews. for the land that was the
cradle of their race. and the scene of
the most majestic ana sublime events
that have ever glorified the pages of
human history.
''The power of sentiment-Of relig-
ious sentiment-Or pride in great his
toric memories. will certainly draw
vast multitudes of Jews back to the
Land of their Fathess.
Il welcome the thought. also. that
upon their original native soil, and
in favorable environment, once more
rare intellect and Characteristic genilis
WIN arfse among. 0iir- people: poets
like Spinoza and BergsOn. thinking
Gods thoughts after him; and so als'
great Jewish scientists, experimenting
thinkers and statesmen.
.And there will thus he at least
enc spot on earth where the religion
Of the Jew can be restored to its
former complete observance and holy
influence; where the Sabbath of Israel
will no longer conflict with the econ
omic conditions of actual life. and
where our religion can establish and
realize its prophetic ideals Of righte-
BUSINESS and justice in social relations
the reign of pence and good will
among men.
These great ideals are ardcntly cher
ished by all Jews the whole world
over, They have passed entirely out
Of the field of political controversy or
fractional difference. There isn't any
Jew worthy of the saiame that doesn't
want to save the lives of his hound
ed brothers; that Doesn't want to open
The door for them into q fair field
of equal opportunity; that doesn't
want to develop the best and the no
hlest Intellectual possibilities of the
race: and that doesn't want the very
soul and genius of the-Jew, which is
his religion, to become once more a
sublime and Standardization now
crful to mould and fashion the lives
of men.