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Diaspora and Zion Not Rival Objectives, Says Lipsky

One of the principal speakers at the afternoon session was Louis Lipsky, president of the Zionist Organization of America. In his address, in which he pledged again the complete cooperation of that body with the Allied Jewish Campaign, he dealt with the rivalries between the movements for the rebuilding of Palestine and for the regeneration […]

March 11, 1930
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One of the principal speakers at the afternoon session was Louis Lipsky, president of the Zionist Organization of America. In his address, in which he pledged again the complete cooperation of that body with the Allied Jewish Campaign, he dealt with the rivalries between the movements for the rebuilding of Palestine and for the regeneration of the Jews of Eastern Europe.

“The two-fold task which is the concern of this conference,” said Mr. Lipsky, “may be regarded as the strengthening of Jewish life in the lands of the Diaspora, in which unusual economic handicaps have been developed as a result of prejudiced social and political conditions imposed upon Jews; and the further development in Palestine of the Jewish National Home. There was a time when among many Zionists there prevailed an idea that Diaspora and Zion represented two rival objectives. Diaspora

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