cipation and assimilation has not proved itself to be the vaunted panacea to solve the Jewish problem. The lesson of the moment that we need to stress in all our communal efforts is not Americanization, for that will look after itself, but Judaization. It is the lesson that we must acquire the Zionist's attitude of mind,
and realize that the fundamental duty before us in all lands of exile is not to assimilate to the standards of the land where we may be, but to religionize ourselves to the standards of the Jew. The painful emphasizing of this fact has been the essential teaching of the year that has passed.
THE WAILING PLACE IN JERUSALEM
With heads bowed down, they stand with streaming eyes,Before this ruined wall, whose grimy stonesAre crumbling with the weight of centuries,And read their Mincha-prayer in mournful tones
That spring from hearts that grieve for Judah's fate,For Jacob's seed whose loving memories dwellOn splendors past, and, kneeling, supplicateThat mercy may be shown to Israel.
Their garb proclaims them men of many lands.Those dwell amid the northern snows, and theseHave wandered far from Yemen's burning sands,Or sought their way across the western seas.
Not here alone do wailing figures stand!Not here alone do tears of sorrow flow!In every clime they beat, with clenchéd hand,Against the stones of Israel's wall of woe.
In every land there rises, stern and great,This self-same wail of torment and of fears,Its courses laid with stones of scorn and hate,And bonded with cement of blood and tears.
But Judah should behold that brighter day, For which these kneeling pilgrims hum- bIy plead, And like a star, on Zion’s bosom lay Her beautiful and shining golden head.
Her tatiered robes shall turn to silken sheen, Her shackles shall give way to golden chains, As from her temple-heights she views, serene, The flowers of peace that bloom in her domains.
Where Hermon's snows shine down on Lebanon,Where Jordan breaks the Dead Sea's sullen peace,Where rise the ruined towers of Ascalon,Or Carmel's vines look on the midland seas.