The Denver Jewish news., 1920-01-21
The Late Carmen Sylvia and
the Jews
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lie has discarded, and one soon becomes
disappointed.
Everything which should be held
high and lofty has become materiaiiz-
cd, and the world wvnders why
thoughtful persons lose their faith and
withdraw from religious affairs.
The Jews have preserved their re-
They have never adopted the ways of
other religions. They simply did not
need them, because the Jewish relig-
ion never made any propaganda, and
never sought to spread itself. In spite
! of all sorts of expressions which the
Jews have had to endure in the course
of hundreds OF years, they have not
forsaken their faith The oppression
OF the Jews has not been u religious
uuestion-they never attempted to
make others adept their religion-but
it is race problem. Nations do not
want to have i'm their midst a people
whom they feel to be stronger than
themselves. The matter is quite sim
pie
"The Christians excuse their hatred
of the Jews, and justify their oppres-
sion of this people, which deserves the
greatest admiration. with the declara-
tiOn that the Jews crucified Jesus.
Let us be honest with ourselves. What
would the Christians of today do with
Jesus, If he were alive now? 1 fear
that they would not sing hymns for
him They would surely label him
dangerous Socialist. and perhaps they
would even lock him up in an insane
asylum. Tolstoy wanted to live ac-
cording to the teachings of Christian
/ ity. l may say that he was morally
| crucified. when he disclosed the false
hoods which surrounded Christianity.
'The Jews are the only people which
does not degenerate. fhey have re-
NAMED strong and full of vitality.
United among themselves. they help
each other in time of suffering. They
are healthy, have high birth rate
and are vigorous. For all this they
have one man to tlank-the greatest
ruler the world has ever had-the king
of kings-the ablest physician. and the
kcenest psychologist and psychologist
A., who ever lived: Moses.
"Who can sit on a royat throne, and
not bend the knee to Moses. He was
the first ruler to create nation for
himself. and to so create il, that it
| yspt ha nj, tn with nd nII sfn
and hurricanes.
.'If the world had adopted the laws
of Moses. it would now know nothing
Of tuberculosis. cancer. diptheria and
ether diseases. and epidemics which
destroy SO many persons. Now they
talk of tuberculosis baccilli in animals
and of the trichina-worms in pigs, but
long before the meteorological insti-
tutes found out all these bacilli, Moses
spared his people all these ills by his
laws concerning food and hygiene. And
was Noses the poorer general, be-
cause he was Il great physician? When
Gid the Jews have their greatest vic
| tories! They had true heroes and dis
played marvels of heroism when they
believed that God fought with them
and for them; it was only when the
Jews sinned, and did not want to rec
ognizS and follow their laws, that
| their guilty conscience made them
feel fear. They became scattered thru
out the world, and underwent all sorts
Of prosecutions and then they came
back to their old faith. If they had
prOspered, that would have been the
greatest misfortune to humanity. For
| then, the only people which believe
II n single God would have disappear
ed-and what an irrcmediablc loss that
would have been for humanity. In
stead of prosecuting the Jews. it would
| profit us more to learn from them. We
ought to make Use of the Jewish peo-
pic. Their vitality would imlJlIc the
other peoples with vitality With
their great intelligence, they could be
the guides. because their spirit is much
more alive. their soul frecr. for fheir
sufferipgs have given t.lem a conccp-
tion of proportion ana moderation
Sometimes we forget that we live .
and maintain ourselves from the Bible