THE DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE PAGE TWO Progressive IT orld 0 Struggle of the Jews Harry W. Watson Co. For Civil Equalily The Season's Greetings SAMUEL L. KAVANAU ANNOUNCES THE OPENING OF A SALES ROOM i By William Howard Taft Wholesale Cigars WITHIN the limits of this article one can hope to give only the merest sketch of the history which the subject of the Jews , the Temple destroyed. In the year 135 it was taken again by Hadrian's generals and the city destroyed. Thousands Sent in Bondage to Spain. involves. I need not pause to emphasize the remarkable character of the Jewish , people. 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Brennan, Fitzgerald & Sinks 1111001111101111111011111111111111111111011111111111111011101(3111111111111111111111011111111111111111*" WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT. Basement Majestic Building otters were sent to Spain, where they found the Jewish communities which 54 Lafayette 12% 2 Michigan had nfoved on from Rome. After the expulsion from Jerusalem 250 Griswold 60 Michigan the scribes and Pharisees established 7 Monroe a school and Sanhedrin at Jamnia, in Palestine, and somewhat later the cen- ter of church authority became Tiber- Bakeries, 137 Rivard ias, on the Sea of Galilee, and for two hundred years an autonomous Farm 7 Mile and Northrop Roads patriarchate under the Roman Em- pire flourished there. Here the insti- tutions of learning in which the rabbis codified the traditions called the Oral Law into the Palestinian Talmud. The written law was the law of Moses, contained in the Pentateuch and known as the "Torah." The re- mainder of the Old Testament was divided into the "Prophets" and the The Dispersion of the Jews Begins. "Writing," so called. During the three hundred years be- Without Home or Country. Christ, the Jews were under Greek control and influence. Jerusa- In the laws of Moses and the Tal- lem was attacked many times and mud seas to he found a collection of sacked, with the consequent disper- rules of conduct—physical, social, po- sion into other countries of many of litical, religious, moral, and philo- its people. They migrated into Syria, sophical—a strict and literal compli- into Arabia, into Egypt. and became ance with which became the life of numerous and prominent in Alexan- the Jew. They offered a field for his dria. Indeed, there were, it is said, as study and mental occupation and dis- many as a million Jews in Egypt be- cussion with his brethren which never fore the Christian era. ended. Ilis duties thus prescribed When the Roman and the I'arthian were to be performed in the borne empires constituted the world Jews and in the synagogue and in the were to be found in every commer- academy. and these centers supplied cial center, and in each there was a to him what the fatherland was to Jewish community and synagogue others more fortunately situated. and a relationship maintained wn The Torah and the Talmud estab- Jerusalem. lished a direct relation to God on the The Jews flocked to Rome. Tiber- part of each individual and an ac- ius issued an order excluding them, countability for every minute of his but it was only enforced for a short waking hours that absorbed his atten- tt time and they returned in great num- tion and his interest. With no borne, ZrEfErEEFGE10/012.1EIEIEINEKNERJEEMIETar bers. Although the Emperor Claud- no country, no kindly sympathy from ius announced his intention of ban- any one but his own kind, he found ishing them again, they were so many his happiness within his own circle that he gave it up. and in the refuge front sorrow which In the first and second centuries 0 after Christ, Nero. Vespasian, Titus. his life within the law gave him. Their great historian says of the 0 Trajan, and Hadrian found Jews of Jews: U Palestine unruly and undisposed to "In the vicissitudes of their fate for yield to their authority and campaigns a great many centuries they were 0 it were waged against them. Jerusalem (('ontinued On Page Four.) was taken in the year 70 by Titus and equality of opportunity for them, forged their way ahead into positions of prominence, influence, and power in business, professions, in philos- ophy, in art, in literature, and in gov- ernment. They have at the same time made loyal subjects of citizens of the coun- tries in which they have lived when- ever they have been accorded any reasonable protection of civil rights. No other people has ever been sub- jected to such continuous persecution in denial of opportunity to make a living and pursuit of happiness, in humiliating restriction upon their lib- erty, in exclusion from education, and indeed in actual physical cruelty and massacre. Wm. P. Ternes Co. LUMBER COAL Quality—Service : . GAyET Y THEATRE J. M. WARD, Mgr. Cadillac Square and Bates Street 3199 12th St. at D. T. R. R. Phone Hemlock 4034 vo tcoxo•o g ogogogoxogoltoitaKo , magomoxogoitatioxo•cotox 0 i l l Higher Grade 11 BURLESQUE l a go•ori Don't Wait Until f?, Your Roof Leaks g 0 0 0 g 0 ■ k% This is the best time of the season to have your roof looked over and necessary repairs made. We will cheerfully send an expert to inspect your roof and report exact condition to you. 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