“The non-Jewish world may learn the futility of anti-Semitism from the story of Purim,” declared Rabbi Louis I. Newman at Congregation Rodeph Sholom, 7 West 83rd street. “The failure of Haman in ancient Persia is an index of the failure of anti-Semites in every age of history. For persecution must collapse by its own folly and inhumanity. Fortunately there are decent impulses in the most savage breast, and these must reassert themselves when the hysteria has spent itself. It Esther, queen of Persia, were alive today, she would be in the vanguard of Jewish women, eager to organize them for the great work of self-defense. If Mordecai, her uncle, were alive, he would be one of the chieftains of the Jewish program of helpfulness for his stricken brethren in every land of oppression.”
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