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MS-763: Rabbi Herbert A. Friedman Collection, 1930-2004. Series H: United Jewish Appeal, 1945-1995.
Subseries 1: Sermons, Speeches and Writings, 1949-1982.
Box Folder 22 24
Kansas City, Mo. speech. 18 January 1960.
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WJI ntll»'il llf l'AISAS O[T!, IAIUAR!' 18, 1960 )
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t ehall aUewp\ to auver 70ur qvaUoa ltrlefi7 • .
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el\her fi1eopffH4 •tiora4to coa'-clou eet• of bG.i•tlvalt, or •ll-orepl1f4
c.ntra.»T 41.noW etfor'•.
ta \b9 tln\ ba\uce_. n -.., aesu. 'ha.' •184"4• of a JlO()dl• or aa 1rn•poaa
lbl• 4•-.&aCU 1a oae place were eople4 "aao'ller hoed.l• or erailk la aao\har pl.a•.
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curn1l'11' awepiJI& Uw UnlwrM.
t Ao ao\ know wtch ot •• \Vo hJpotbl••• le eol"Hot, u4 l aa aol alOM. lo•
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t11 Aa\verp, ao•\llinc ba~• 1n S\oekhola, ta S7dzt•1 u4 1B Pbo.nlz, w'9n I ••
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happen.a ta Kauai CltT or ia Dallas or Dal.11.\h oJ" ln Dennr. If n doe1 happen,
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. RABBI FRIEDMAN IN KAUSAS CITY, JAIJ . 18, 1960
:ihen a certain mood haaes over a group, as the cood has obviously come over
you, rrom this simple, as it was described to us1but meaningful presentation. _J
Words follor.i.ng that will seem rather flat.
All of us have been swept up in the incredia:blJ! powerful drama. .mi. of wr.ich
these few scenes merely evoked a memory. And all of us are terribly aware at
the moment that in the wo~b of history there is more drama being created. It
was not ey purpose to talk tomaght, for it 1s not without my purview,function
or competence to make any comments upon or analysis of the weirdJ:nanif estations ().;.d.
of anti- semitism which ~sweeping the world. A
So many of yo~ however have asked what 1 tho~ght or this that I shall take
two minutes to say what I think of i and then dismiss it• to go on to the major
themes which I shotlld like to discuss.
One must look at this in one of two ways. T tseepisod.es are either discon-
nected, sporadic, contagious, one hoOdlum or one irresponsible demagogue in one
place copying that which another111BJ1 does in another place. With no more
meaning than that, namely a crazy quilt pattern popping up in every face on
this globe)or one must view this as a eoordinated organized, planned scheme
eminatillg from one central source backed by f~x funds which enable it to
sweep the globe.
I don ' t know which one of th~ two ~s tbe right answer to give you. .i.
don't think anybody does. There are those who say that these eposides are un-
related and disconnected.. If something happens in AntW&Tp, something happens
in Stockholm and something happens in Sydney)and something happens in Phoenix,
where I was yesterday.
And that all that we must do is reir.ai.n alert and vietknt and make sure that
nothing happens in Kansas City~or~if it does , .or in Dallas or Dulut~ or in
Denver, if it does to call the proper authorities il!!rlediately. /.rid I do know
this , that the Federa~l Bureau of Investigation in the United States of A~erica
has already been called in on more than half a dozen cases and is cooperating ,
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with speed, effectiveness and obvious concern. If it is tbis1 then we hmpe it
will die out as quickly as it flared up. I£1however, it is some organized,
and coord:ilnated scheme, whether it has been suggested eminati'lg from Cair·•
under the sponsorship of tlux a man by the name of il'ehann Vonfeer, and I
should like each of you to remember that name. an ~x-Nazi who 1'1ith 200 others
of his kind are now living in Egypt. If its endnating from that core of
finatics , with money as ha6 been S\!ggested by Dr. Goldmann, which was spirited
out of Germany in 1945 in the last days of. the debacle, then we are obviously
faced with something very much more ser ious then simply dispa.rat'~ and discon
nectec4vents.
We will have to wait for time to tell us what the answer is ft.o either one
of this two propositions. We need not wait however, in order to urge that two
things be done.
No. 1 -- Governments on the face of this earth should quickly and clearly al5boranoe
and cleanly state this wfmxexaama of the~e events as the government of West
Germany has done. I make no apoligies for West GP..l"l'l!alV. This thing started
in Cologne on Christmas Day. It obviously started out of the seeds which
gave rise to the tr~e~ of our generation.
I can' t spe~or the people in ~est Germa.n,y- or even for their government
.I doJ1t•pri;xy know al;)o11t the chancellor. Mr. Adenau.r is a pious Catholic. Next
to his office in~onn he has a private chapel, each morning he says mass at
7 :00. This is ~ot a !rent, this is not hipocratical, this is serious. honest.
this is the act of a man who at 84 need put on no pose or posture. When the
Cabinet of the West German Republic last Sunday attacked this question , s,tated
its position, it. did so in an obvious effort to try to stamp out in its 0 1wn
eountr,y this manical conduct. Only one other government on the face of this
earth has met as a government, and that was the Government of Israel.
I would suggest very humbly that the Cabinet of t!le United States wc1uld
spend profitably som~ few moments on this question, expressing the shock of
the Government of the United States that these things could take place/
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upon our continental soil. The second thing that I think could be done quickly is r
that all of the great, great church groups of America s~uld emulate the example of
the United Lytheran Church which, a few days ago, met in formal conclave and stated
its position in pristine, simple but moving words, mainly that ~hristi.anity is the need
deritive of Judaism, and when you insult the Father, you insult the Son. It s!mwli
be no more complex than that -- a simple thing that can go deeply into the hearts not should
of people. It should/be only the United Lutheran Church of America that xil:l'. raise
its voice - - it should be every organized Church group in the United Si>ates and al 1
over the world for. that matter, where Christianity at least prevails as the dominant
religion. But the leaders of the ~oral force 0£ mankind should state how they feel
about this . These two things -- governments speaking, and churches speaking -- will
go far to stamp th.is out if rt simply is a group of deliilquents and hoodlums and
gangsters and sensation- seekers: the mania will die out as quickly as did the hula
hoop. It it ' s serious -- then all the more reason that government and. church should
serious -- you and I are faced with a proposition witn which we were not faced in
1933 because we did not understand it in 193J -- and we do understand it in 1960.
And while you and I did very little about this in 1933, we laughed at the one rnan
who walked down Fifth Avenue - - Rabbi Steven Wise, at the head of a group of people ,
in protest -- and we told him that he was doing something wrong and dangerous. We
were slow to awaken then -- we have no right to be slow to awaken today - - if this
is a worldwide coordinated plot. That's all I can tell you, because its all I know.
~ I think each of us need sirtply be alert, cautious . Wild and extravagant
statements are obviously not in order -- and the leaders o:f the major Jewish organ-
izations have been very statesmanlike in not rushing into the press with the first
ideas off the tops of their heads -- hysteria is certainly not called for; there is
no need for panic. What is required is cautious, alert, dilligent attention with
a steely, firm resolve inside every one of us that if this thing niushrooms into
something il'lportant we will act concertedly a.'ld quickly and without hesitation;. and
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with that, we can let it rest.
Now I would like to talk about the things that I am more qualified to tal
Someone said : _ I 'm not sure if it was Ben or s~odJr in ~he introduction - -tne good thing about 1960 is that we stand,perbaps,at a r.ioment of transition in our
approach to our international problems . Transit-ion ill the sense that we have , for
many years now, been operating under the gun -- of crisis after crisis, emergency
after emergency, and that under the impetus a.11i the stimulus of this d.nd of external
event, we 1 ve hardly had time to analyze where we sta.'ld in the long run. In the last
few short years, stop to think of what happened. -- th•a heagv 11.adaYeen raids in
Israel in which the borders were not safe or secure; the constant infiltrations and
the murders th~re which were followed by the retaliatton raids which Israel conducted
against her neighbors; and on .all ttte infJlamed iborders or the world; the Hungarian
thing breaking out, and tha people ilx running across ; I ' ll never forget standing on ,,.....,
that bridge at Andf..r on a cold winter day - - as 1956 let into 1957 -- watching the
wraith-like figures coming thru the #og -- Egypt throHing out her Jews -- I stood
on the dock in Naples bn Jan. 1st, 1957, -and '!!let the first ship that came in -- 1 , 000
people the little~ ~oss flag flying and a-l,t;ench-speaking red cross officiaJ.J
acting as the front .man for us • . bringing one by one the tragiv and UI"oken figures
of ~en who' d lived all their lives and were no~ thrawn out; the war itself in Israel,
the Sinai campaign, standing there as I did. watm.hiilg: the trosps going out on
parachute drops. leaving the country finally, during that week of war on a french
aircraft that brought me back to the United States --· and pei>ple trying to get out
of Morocco, and peojlle trying to get out of Persia, and then the gates of Rumania and coming
opening and then closing, and then Jews pouring from rtussia into Poland/~
out of Poland in streams down thru Vienna over to Maples and thru Trieste and
thru Belgrade and opening camps in Athens and in Piervayes• &ml stood
You thru '.'Tle , your so±rogate , have st3ad in a dc>zen danger places on this inflamed
globe in the last half decade , and you 1ve tried to pick up the pieces of peopa.e who
were put thru crisis and torment and torture and di.fficulty, an1 all the indignities
of psyc'.lological fea.r and deprivation that causes mal'l 'to wonder whether they live on
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a civilized planet or whether they live in a beastly jungle. This is a half decade to m:f which we ' ve come and if werve talked to you about crisis or emetgency or this
pressure, or that pressure, its because we ' ve had no choice. History has dealt us
the cards this way. Now, for this seemingly brief and fleeting mo!Jlent , we have the
eerie sensation of standing in a quiet day. It seems , somehow, as though nowhere.
as we look at the horizen, is there a fire burning, and With this precious moment
of respite, this breathing spell, we must work very quickly to analyze where we sta..11d,
because I can promise you as sure as you and I are together iin this beautiful room
that before 1960 is gone and away in the past, you and I •'"ill be talking again about
great and burning cr isis which will flare up, I pro!Ui.se you that.
Therefore, grab t his moment with me, and let ' s see where we stand, as it looks
relatively quiet. lWhat have we ·oeen tr~ng to do, exactly? In a moment of quiet ,
you can cast your eyes back and you ca."l get a new prospective. What we ' ve tried •
to do is a two-fold job, quite simply. We 1 ve tried to rescue the peopie of Israel
wherever t~ey were in trobble, and we ' ve t r ied to bu~ld the land of Isr ael so it
coUld receive the people . This is the unbr eakable link between the land and people.
ife 1re living thru a century of migration. Your parents and mine came to these shor es
at the beginning of the 20th century. Our children may leave these shores in space
ships long before the end of the 20th century. I ' m firmly convinced they will .
This is one of the most incred.iole,hundred-year periods that the whole mankind and
the whole Jewish people has ever lived thrU. 3, 000, 000 of us gushed out of eastern
Europe: Poland, Russia, Hungary, Rumania, I call them all the same , came here.In a.
short 40 or 50 years five and a half million of us live in this country, in circum-
stances of a golden age , under the most b enevolent democracy that man has ever
cr eated. Probably both the fate of America and our own fate linked with. building
And in the middle of that same period of fruition and growth and/accumulation
of money and power and freedom and. ease and education and health -- inside in the
middle of that , 6. 000, 000 of us was done to £aath. And after all those ashes sett.led•
and the smoke evaporated, a frantic period pf running, run.itl.ng, running, running o
on the !ace of the globe continued of which this Cyprus thing is a speck. I was i.n
Cyprus. I was in~, ~as., all the camps where we had the people. It
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wasn't only Cyprus> it was 65 camps in Germany and Austria in which I served for ~-·~c
two years. It was 20 camps in Italy. It was ca.:nps on the Latei:J.e of the Mediterrian
and North Africa, it was Ca.'!Ips and camps and people moving and we have liv~ on ~
trainf) .. and planes and boats and ox carts .
,EQ:r- a decade ard. a h~ 'this has b9en a century of migration. Your
parents and mine migrated freely. Your contempories and mine have migrated not
freely but under duress and compulsion. 0£
But a migration must come to an end. The rescuing tim the people wherever
they are and can.."lot live either as a human -b'!ings or as Jews J1111st and will come / _J
to an end when we have f inaily t<}..'l{en all those Who ant to or have to leave the!ft.. I I~~ ..
place~pf residence"ft&W to t;h3 new land or pesettlement. I '
The new land of .Jll!'Settlement has been in the main Israel. I must say with
th~ monies you ' ve given, many hundl"eds of thousands hav~ be~ re~settled in other .,~ -f ---
free lands, Canada, AustraJJia; Souto America, united States~;;.:,e taken almost
one million people into Israe~ 11 and a half years. We ' ll be 12 years old the-ii-~
next May. In these first 11 and a half years we ' ve taken i:ll almost 1 million
people
What a
, ri;., rru and we've taken elsewhere on the faca of the free globe another ~oe,ooo.
. J geourous rescue from the jaws of death.
There are if you exclude the Jews of the Soviet' Union , concerning whom I "
could talk to you for many ho~rs , but concern\ng whom I have nothllilg good to sa:r---
'tJreir fut11re is indeed dark and blac~ide of that category of the shadow;;
there are on the face of the whole globe as we calculated Jews in areas of __, danger of difficulty or oppression or spiritual suffication no more than 600,000.
You can see how far we ' ve come alon,,. the path of solving this question. And I
include in that all of North Africa, Morocco, runisia, Algeria, all of Asia1
Persia, Yemen, Syria, Lebanon, Kabul, all the queer corners of the exotic
plac~s of this earth; Wh~re there are little remnants of Jews who yearn to
go to one place where they'll be free. And I include in this all of the Jews
living in satilite countriesbehind the Iron Curtain, Poland, Hungry, Roumania,
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Czechoslava..W:ia • ~ All told. 600, 000 people and if everyone of them were able to leave ,
if everyone of them wanted to leave . if everyone of them co'.lld leave and not
everyone of them is able to or wants to or can , we would have a maximum prob~~
on our hands of 600 . oOO...a&Pe people.
In this great century of migration, and we've already handled a million three . firm
So we ' re two thirds of the way home. And you and I ;~st have a clear anii/determination
whether there is a crisis o~ whether there is no crisis. whether so~ething burns
mn the headlines or whether nothing burns and its quiet. You and I must have
burned into our hearts and so•.Usthe fact that if we have taken so far a million
three hundred thou.sand of our brethren • these 600, 000 still left and waiting, And
are no less worthY. iiiJ7 any :man "'-no ti!'es when tlie job is stili only two-
thirds done is an ignoble son of 'his people.
There is no doubt in ey mind, ;r am thoroughly -convinced, I know yo•.l well
in all your multi t.udes of Jllillions around this A..T!lerica for I see you in every
city. I know yo11 well , you. witl not tire.You will go with this to the d.ay
-when I will co~e to you a.~d say eYery Jew is .at peace and rest , there is no
.more mig_ration to be done. And. we will have finished with that one i tl:!m on
the agenda.
The second item on out agenda witn which I think we will also be finished
in not too ~.any years to come. Ahd. thats the ite~ of bringing help and succor
and assistance to Jews in countries from hich they cannot move or will not
move.
Harry, I thina it was somP,body read in his paper abou.t the boy in Morocco
its now 5: 00 in the norning there, who will awake in a few hours and will go
to school and get his one hot lunch. We feed J0, 000 children in Moroccio. the
only meal they eat during the di:$. 30, 000 children, we are 500 in this room.
Every day of every month of every year, for ten years now, for ten mor~ if we
have to. 25 countries on the face of this earth receive administring care
and help thro1lgh the JDC of the monies that your pour into the treasury.
And we shall not stop this until there is no Jew anywhere who is in ne•ed of
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anything.
Well , I think that will come to an end too because as the process of migration
works it way out, the process of providing relie~ and help in a given country alse
works it way out.
The third, the big thing on the agenda, is the building of the land. '.'lhen
I said that we are obligated to resuce every son of Israel and also obligated to
build the land of Israel to receive them.
The building of the land of Israel is the thing which takes the most gigantic
vision and the most incrediable strength and the greatest patience. For this re-
quires o~ constant on- going love anri affection and intellectual comprehsnsion
until that day comes also when I 'Will come j e you and say 8 she 1 s needs nothing af t~r
any more . 11 Even xkD. that happens by the way, we Will conduct one last ca.rnpaign,
namely to pay off all the banks. Secretar-3 of the
Thats the day that Mr. Eshkol, the/Tres1J.r¥J: of Israel calls ~essah plus one
1~t is the problem exactly in this Israel , are we two- thirds of the way home.
there, one third of the way, half the way, no way. Well here we are with this.
A million people. We have a simple criterion by which we judge when a man no
longer needs help, and when he's on his Olm feet. I think you ' ll agree with
this. When he doesn't need any more money from the relief rolls but ~hen he
begins to pay his own taxes in Israel, that means he 1 s one his own feet to the
extent that he ' s ma.king his own living. ~nd when he switches from the relief
roll to the tax roll , we 1 re through with him. We want that quickly and so does
he.
Th-thirds of these million people we brought into Israel in the last
Israel in the last 11t years are on the tax rolls, good, eh. One third of the
way to go. Without talking about new immigration. If there ·were to be no new
immigration to Israel, and there will be because I told you there are six hundred
thousand more people waiting up to a maximum, without dussia and nobody knows what
that will bring. But if for the moment we ~ere to stop the clock and say there
would be no more immigration to Israel, what will our proble~ be at the moment.
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It would be one or about. 350, 000 people there, whom we have brought . Now never forget
this . We brought them. We 1re responsible for them, nobody else. Israel has
been our dWllping-ground for our Jewish conscience . Israel could very well have
said no. Bigger countries said no. Equally humanitarian countries have said no.
The United States has said no, ' You can1t come 1nto the United States i£ you have
Tuberculosis, present or past.' Israel has never said no to anybody -- sick, one TB,
leg, no legs, siEk , trachoma., blind, epileptic, 82 , 2 months, it doesn' t make
any difference : Israel sajs very sirlply ' Gentlemen and la.dies of the Jewish world.,
If you want to help rescue and save and if you YTa.nt to use our facilities, the
country for which 600, 000 of us fought , (hebr ew wor d) please do. Our door is open.
Exploit us. Dump your ref.use into us , take Hungarian Jews iibo don ' t want to come
here -- and after they sit ana they wait for two or three years in camps in fhenna.
and no one else will t ake them on t he face of t he earth -- if they want to come here, we
we ;tlll take them even though i:KJQ: are only their fourth chiice or their fifth
choice.
I stress this because you and I are morally r esponsible :for br inging immigrants
into Israel. They have operated with a heroic grandeur of the ancient Jewish
· tradition of loving sons arid lov.J..ng neighbors by saying ' Our door~ is open. 1 But we
have been the initiators - - we have been the activists -- ue have been the committor s ,
ii'e ' ve conmti. tted. bx
Now we ' ve told these 350, 000 people that they could go to Israel. and we would
take them, we ' d support them, we would help them. And these 350 , 000 people are
living in Israelt t oclay, either ~ithout houses, or without jobs. Or without farms ,
or without schoolrooms for the kids , or without the requisite number of hospital beds
per thousand of population. Or without without without without. Nou I ' ve given you
a picture of contr ast. We have ~ done a magnificent job in ll&:t years of taking
care of people in 25 countries , of taking care of the crisis and the emergency, and
even of managing to settle in Israel 2 out of every ) refugees. The inadequacy of
the job has been that our absorption process has lagged by this 1 out of 3. We
want to givd these people houses:. A house is j 240 square feet . That ' s what we
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do . How big is your kitchen? We put six people in the 240 square feet . A little red
tile roof and white slab, and that ' s better than living in a tent or a tin hut or a
canvas shack. We 1~e got 60 ,000 people living in impossible conditions for 6,7,8, 9
years. 'Theyt ve waited long enough. If we 1ve got 3};!is breathigg spell then we 1ve
got to build houses for them. And we ' ve put people on farms and they didn•t want to If
go on fanus -- let ' s not kid ourselves -- yoa wouldn ' t either. /Jou got thrown out
of Kansas City and you wound up somewhere in some strange part of the earth all you
know how to do is live on the city. You don ' t know how to zo out and dig cotton and
plant potatoes a."ld neither do I. And neither do they, those Jews frou Warsaw and fro 111
Berlin and from Vienna. And When they ' re out ~here on those bloody, blistering hot
farms, and they ' re williqg to do it, and we don 1 t provide the cow or the tractor or
the irrigation or the electric power or the somethng or the something to make that
farm wotk - we are inadequate. for us
I don 1 t think th.at it 1 s necessary/ to say (hebreW' word) more than this. We 1 re
not inadequate because we want to be. l think when we "Understand a problem we rive
to it. And I think if you understa.rid this pr oblem you ' ll rise to this campaign in
)960 and 61 and 62 and 6J -- and slowly but surely we will clean out tnese pockets of
slums and backward fanns and breeding places of vice and juvenile delinquency, none
of which we want to see in tha:t blessed land. A:nd if 'We go at this with dilligence
and with understanding and with heart and with nead -- then in 2, .3 4 years we ' ll
clean up this whole backlog of the unabsorbed one-third of the present ra£ugee pop-
ulation -- and we will at the same time try to keep up with the new refugee influx,
as it will inevitably occur, and not fall behind again. There ' s one danger in the
course of these next few years I should like to poil'lt out. to you - - because I am
appealing now very 111Uch to your intellectual comprehension of the whole picture.
Ce Certain sources of income that we have will dJ'y up in the next few years. The
reparations that the German government has been paying a~ the rate of'f57, 000 ,000
per year. will cease in three more years. This nil leave a big gap. State of fsra.el
Bonds which have been sold and which are extant in the hands of purchasers to the tune
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of$400, 000 ,000 - - everybody in this room holds them - - will come due the first ones in bone
1963. Or, if there are any 10-yea.r/purchasers here, in 1961 -- next year. It hardly
seems possible that Israel began floating her bonds lO years ago - - sold her first
ones in 1951. She ' s got to start paying them back in 1961, or, if they're 12 year bonds.
in 1963, and each year now, with the prudence~ that ' s become her - - for she
is deten::ined to ~eet her every obligation to the last dollar of principl e and interest,
even putting aside reserves. When you put aside r eserves to meet your debts , you don ' t
have opera.ting money now - - her _credit must be kept intact. Of this there is no doubt ,
not a person in this room would disagree. Anybody in this room want to see her
defiault? Therefore, she will put these reserves aside -- She will pay these obligations,
her name will remain br ight and sl'iiny:, as i~ is with the Wor ld Bank and the Exium Bank
and the fhrTDxd Agricultural. Bank, so that she can borrow again and her credit will
be ever good - - but to pick up the gap of the when the 01!rman reparations cease coming
in and when the bond repayments have to start being made, and when the dollar gap
between exports and imports needs to be shrunk continually, and that dollar gap is now
300, 000, 000 per year. t
It 1 s quite clear that unless you and T want to cneck out of this whole picture,
you and I must maintain our standards of giving, vigilance, belief, conviction,
dedication, and patience for the next -- now don ' t pin me down - - for the next , well,
w~ 1 ve been at it for 11 and t years since Israel ' s been born -- we ' ve been at it 22
years , this is the 22nd campaign of the U:JA - Tor 10 years before Israe1 was born.
Let me make you this ,?romise - - it won ' t be 22 more years. That I pro!lli.se you.
Will it be 21, will it be 1.8, will it be 7 -- I don't know -- I ju.st i<now this - -
in the midst of a worl.d which has seemed so cruel sometimes, and so purposeless , quoting
George Kemmon - - so stupid and so sill y , so filled with killing and blood and pain --
and a ~ world in which man sometimes seems so frantically eager to §ry to run
away fro::. the planet of his birth - - to !'ind more peaceful l ife , maybe, out among the
stars In a world in which we seem torn, and twisted, and r idden and beaten by all
kinds of pressures and influences on us -- in this fun.1y, crazy, cockeyed world, you
and I can have this much quiet pleasure. People are a.live who wouldn ' t be except for
us. Israel is here, and it wouldn ' t be except for our help . The future lies in our
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own hands , and it wasn ' t 20 years ago , others slew us and we had notning to say
about it. They can ' t any more .
In a crazy word don ' t these things seem to be priceless diamonds -which we
carved out for ourselves. By God, what we ' ve done. We ' ve taken Jewish destiny
into our own hands. We ' ve said they shall build a state there that shall be
a model for mankind and the young nations of Asia and Africa go there to learn •
At the Hebrew University every day there are hundreds of people from Guineau ,
and GaDJlf, Nigra, Libera, Burma, Zudan. The little people, the disinfranchised,
the week, the newly ema.nicipated nations go to Israel for they have some how the
feeling and the instinct in their fingers .hat the old words of the Bible are
true, that iorah, Torah meahs science and 1:earning and knowledge a.11d morality.
Torah comes from Zion.
~While they ~ never have read the Bible , while they may never
have heard that phrase , deep down in the heart of man he yearns for something
better en this earth, its the knowlege that he can go to certain places on the as
face of the globe and find that better. nd that look to Israel , tirxtsxthe
source of that better. What's it worbh? It ' s worth all the money that we ' ve
ever given or will give a.rid all we need.do is take that no:ne with us in the
midst of all this - Take him l>7i. th us in the midst of all this
booming, the.silent thought , when,.man is capable of creating goodness, he makes angel . you'll
himself like an~. That you ' ve ".lone. That you can do. That -,:mi. continue
to do. Year after year and as you do your children and mine will come to us
some day and say "okay"good, Pop you did a good job in your life. " What ' s that
verth.
Than..~ you very r.r~ch.
