For many centuries they have been scattered far and wide. Their children
learn to speak the language of the country where they happen to be born. They
play the games and dress in the fashion of that country.
What is it that keeps them Jews? It is their religion, and their religion
alone. It binds them as closely together now as it did in the days when they
worshipped in the great temple at Jerusalem, two thousand years ago.
These Jewish cousins would say to us, "Our people have suffered greatly. Yet
they do not lose courage. Our parents tell us stories of the glorious past,
over and over again. They will not let us forget it, and they teach us to hope
for the time when Jerusalem will again be ours, and a new temple, in which we
shall be free to worship, will stand upon the spot where the old one was
destroyed."
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