g hand to the
Menorah movement and has responded generously to repeated calls to
lecture before Menorah Societies. The present article is based upon an
address recently delivered before the Cornell Menorah Society._]

The war in Europe presents problems for the Jews which must be faced
no matter what the consequences may be. These problems are of two
kinds, due to the fact that we are members of a race that is scattered
over the whole earth, and the units of which are to be found in the
four corners of the globe. In this way a double set of duties is
entailed upon us. On the one hand, we have to take our rightful place
as citizens of the different countries in which we live: to accept all
the burdens that go with such citizenship, and to partake of the joys
and sorrows that are its inevitable accompaniment--in a word, to take
the advice of the Rabbis of old and "seek the welfare" of the country
in which we live. But this obligation is so self-evident, and the
problems raised by it solve themselves so naturally, that they need no
further thought. In point of fact, the patriotism of the Jews for the
lands in which they live has been demonstrated on so many occasions
that only blind ignorance or wilful misrepresentation can call it into
question. At the present moment, in all the armies that are at the
front, our brethren are doing service even beyond their numerical
proportion.

_The Toll Paid by the Jew_

It is to the second set of problems that I venture to call
attention--those Jewish problems that concern ourselves in particular,
that deal with our relations to and with our fellow Jews--problems
which I am afraid are not always present in our minds. For one reason
or another, they are apt to be forgotten, to slip into the background
through sheer negligence. Indeed, in many cases we are fain to put
them intentionally into a corner and remove them discreetly from
sight. It has needed a great world event at this time, as it has in
the past, to bring many of us to reason and to a realization of our
duty. The titanic struggle in which so many of the nations of the
world are engaged has come to remind us also of our position as Jews
and to recall to us our relations with the past, our connections with
the present, and our hopes for the future. It is indeed true that none
of the great political movements that have affected the world have
passed by without in some special manner affecting the Jewish people.
As we look