“Our whole civilization is in danger of becoming one huge DP camp, “Rabbi Joseph H. Lookstein, member of the chaplaincy commission of the National Jewish Welfare Board, warned today in an address here before a convention of the New Jersey Section of the JWB. “We need the inspiration of timeless traditions,” said Dr. Lookstein, declaring that “whoever has his roots in such a culture as ours, has his roots in eternity.”
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