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The Southern Israelite
srael at the IVailing JVall
By STEPHEN S. WISE, Ph D., LL.D.,
f the Free Synagogue, Nciv York', X. Y. President of the Jewish
Institute of Religion.
began, as it ends, for Israel
jjlinp Wall! We seem to have
.udiout the year at the Wailing
v , a r which began under the
and ends with but little light.
years that go down in our
.. years of hurt; others as years
still others as years of doubt.
; alxtut to end has been for us
.jeep and tragic confusion.
;\ ninety began, as it ended, amid
,,f battle waged by misguided
■ups, with the tacit or spoken
English governmental offi-
Palestine, against our people,
,■ pioneers. When warred upon,
;ended themselves with a valor
Rabbi Stephen S. Wise
"t their cause and country. There
! m n<> higher praise.
of the evil and even horror of
mo against the Jewish resettlers of
' might have been overcome, if
i idi government, by its Palestine
Natives, had been equal to its tra
it has been guilty of what its
might choose to name blunder
'binder. The Parliamentary In-
"inmission, save for its Labour
. was less than a whitewashing
' was deeply hurtful to the cause
'tine peace. Since its report, we
n act upon act, including the nam-
I uke as England’s representative
W ailing Wall Commission, which
have been one of the saddest
nments in all the centuries of
t"ry. For we trusted England,
ibl still trust England, despite this
ear, if England would but choose
it possible that we renew our
elf-trust is more important still,
mportant, if as a people we are
to the proud centuries of our
'iich years as shall not be full
As long as we imagined that
depended for good or evil on
' kase, so long were we undone,
as we imagine that the Jewish
lent of Palestine depends upon
my British government, we are
x r much Eastern and Central
i government did in the past
■•ur yoke heavier, however little
Britisth governments may in the future
do to effectuate the Mandate and all
that went before, Jewish self-trust is the
final arbiter of the Jewish fate.
From this truth, such Jews as are
vulgarly and noisomely indifferent to the
plight of our people, will timidly dissent.
Jews, who so occupy themselves with the
divisive minutiae of Orthodoxy and Re
form as to be unable to envisage the
majesty of the whole Jewish picture, will
not understand. But Jews, worthy of the
name and heritage of their people, will
share the faith that makes us unconquer
able, that nothing less than high, unafraid,
creative self-trust can bring us, as a peo
ple, nearer to our heart’s desire. And
that desire,—to go forward as a people in
the land where God dwelt in the aspira
tions and purposes and deeds of a death
less people! And to go forward, in the
name of the divine bidding, to widen the
domains of justice, to deepen the foun
dations of peace, to strengthen the will
to the truth of self-conquest.
The Wailing Wall, to which our fathers
and mothers pilgrimmed, has performed
the tragic miracle, throughout the passing
year, of pilgrimming with us,—in many
lands of exile. Once again is Russia a
land of desolation, for neither acres nor
bread, even when not illusory, can undo
the hunger of the Jewish soul, which is
asked to satisfy itself with the stone of
compulsory irreligion. It has happened,—
it may happen again.—that the Wailing
Wall stands long after they have passed,
who made of every dwelling place of
Israel walls of wailing and desolation.
May the New Year—5691—lead us
from the Wailing Wall to the heights
whence we shall, with the help of the
spirit of holiness and mercy, behold
justice for our brethren and peace for all
men.
Reports 40,000 Jews In
Brazil
New York, N. Y.—There are now
40,000 Jews in Brazil, according to Dr.
I. Raffalovitch, chief rabbi of that
country, who arrived in the United
States last - week to confer with Hias
officials regarding immigration possi
bilities for Jews in Eastern Europe.
Dr. Raffalovitch reported that 6,025
Jews arrived in Brazil last year. ‘ Bra
zil offers a splendid field for the
colonization of our race and particu
larly for those from Eastern Europe,”
he declared. Of the 40,000 Jews in Bra
zil half that number arrived in the last
five years.
120 Jewish Children Home
less as Kishinev Orphan
age Closes
Bucharest.—One hundred and twenty
Jewish children are now homeless m
Kishinev as a result of the closing of the
orphan home by the Jewish community
there for lack of funds.
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