Although Jerusalem in its present status was not a purely Jewish city, there are features of the Jewish National Home such as the public observance of the sabbath by all Jews, the Hebrew language and the Hebrew educational system, declared Prof. Max L. Margolies of the Drossie College, Philadelphia, temporarily Professor of the American School of Archaeology in Jerusalem, in a lecture which he delivered here last night.
The Professor expressed the hope that Jerusalem would become the center of Jewish and general culture.
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