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Dr. Lee K. Frankel, of New York, who was a member of the Palestine Survey Commission, was the last speaker.
“I wonder whether you realize that in the last three years alone, Jewry in the United States has spent upwards of $30,000,000 in the erection of new temples and new synagogues,” he said. “Then I come to a group such as this, representing as you do that element in your various population, a group that without effort, with the greatest ease, can raise these fabulous sums for the perpetuation of their religion.
“The Jew has been in the vanguard in every country. If you study this from the standpoint of history, you will see that it is that drop of Jewish idealism which has been prominent in the civilization of every country. It is that thought which I think we must keep in mind when we think of Russia or whether we think of Palestine. Our brothers and sisters are there in the trenches. They are the advance guard doing our work. They are the ones who are helping to establish, as it can be established, this original conception of Israel and of Judaism, and when we are helping them in the trenches, under the conditions that they may live, we are not sacrificing; we are not giving, we are not helping needy and poor necessarily, but we are keeping alive that spirit which has animated us all these generations and throughout the ages. It is that view that I would like you to take with you when you leave here today. Back it up.”
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