One hundred years Isaac D'Israeli, thè father of the great statesman, declared: "In Judaism everything is ancient and nothing obsolete." His words are true of the details of the religious life of the Jew, as of the whole of the Jewish history. Every now att then the most indifferent among us is amazed at the vay, in which Israel's hoary past illumines Israel's living present; and of the astounding manner in which calumnies and calamities that are the products of racial or sectarian hysteria in our own day, had passed over Israel in far away lands and distant ages.
The memory of Israel's redemption from slavery is recalled in the Passover Festival. It is the harbinger of y's final triumph oyer all s and tyrants, Liberty was theme of the first Passover Liberty was the cry of Moses. Liberty has ever been one of the fundamental truths in support of Which we Jews have been instructed to observe this ancient and time-honoured Festival—the season of our freedom, Liberty began its struggle for existence on the banks of the Nile, and until this day, it has continued to give good account of itsd The battle is still being ruthless! waged, but the forces of liberty have never been known to surrender.
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