The Denver Jewish news., 1925-06-11
The Digest
Lord Miner

csts,' says the Jewish Daily News, In
an editorial Of May 10, eulogizing the
late Lord Miner, who died on May 10.
"He was friend Of the Jews in the
best sense Of the term. He was not
one Of those who are given to praise
Jews in the old-fashioned stereotyped
manner known in many lands. He
viewed Jews with the same friendship
as other people and he did all he could
to help them secure their rights wher-
ever his influence counted. His per
sonal friendships with Jews as Chief
Rabbi Hertz, for instance, with whom
he became a great friend in Africa,
was genuine and whole hearted.
Lord Milner was particularly
known as Zionist. He understood
Zionism in all Of its various aspects,
political cultural and economic. There
are many Gentle friends Of Zionism
whose sympathies for the national
Jewish movement are connected with
Christian motives. This was not the
case with Miner He felt genuinely
that the Jewish people are entitled to
their old home and that they have de-
served it because Of all the suffering
which they have endured. He consid-
cred it duty of the peoples of the
world to repay the Jews for their suf-
ferings by returning to them the land
that they were driven from. Political
Zionism, therefore, captured the heart
and the Imagination of this British
statesman, and he became one of its
supporters as soon as Herzl came out
with his program, and DR.. Herzl
wrote in his diaries very often about
Miner, who was one Of the first in the
whole wide world. to support his ideas
an this respect Lord Miner was a
forerunner of Balfour, and he contrib
uted greatly towards influencing Eng
land in all that that country had done
later regarding Zionism. He lived to
see the results of his work in Pales-
tine when he visited that country a
few years ago and was greeted with
enthusiasm by the whole Jewish pop
ulation.'
The Five Hundred Thousand Dollars
Rosalsky Fund for Jewish EDUCATION
"The fine compliment that the Jews
of New York paid Judge Otto A. Ros-
alsky on his fiftieth birthday was we'll
deserved" says the Jewish Morning
Journal in an editorial on May IA. For
many years he is known as a devoted
worker in Jewish communal affairs Of
New York, particularly interested in
problems of Jewish education. The
fund for this purpose that was turned
over to him recently, marks an i'm
portant event in the history of our
great community. That such sums as
half million dollars should be raised
raised so easily without noise for such
a purpose is something new; and it
is particularly rare occurrance that
such a fund should be raised in honor
of any individual.
Judge Rosalsky is product Of Jew
ish New York, a born East-sider, a
son of Eastern European immigrants
He personifies the Americanization OF
the immigrants of the last half cen
tury and his personality proves our
complete adoption to conditions of the
new world and our ability to serve the
country, the state, the city, and the
Jewish community at the same time
Not all of us are gifted with such a
character, an abundance of energy
and a talent to preach and lend as
this magnetic man; but the Jewish
youth has risen with him. His ex.
ample arOuses the best hopes and calls
forth the greatest effort towards the
solution Of the many problems that
this wonderful metropolis, with it,
greatest Jewish community in the his.
tory Of the world, presents to US.
every few people have the oppor,
tunity, the ability and are so deserv,
ing Of prominence in this huge Jew.
ish community. Otto A. Rosalsky is
one of them and we congratulate him
on the threshold of his middle age
with his spiritual maturity and expert,
ence that he gained in public life
which enabled him to do his best. The
7 popular judge of New York country
is active among us more than most
prominent Jews, are, and we expect
many good things from him in the ca.
rcer that will we hope, be long and
prosperous.
The New Jewish immigration in
Mexico
I Under this caption, Mr. Ben Zior
discusses in the Jewish Daily ForwarC
of May u the conditions Of the recent
! Jewish immigrations in Mexico. Mr.