Somehow Colonel

Nobody—at any rate, no layman— knows what Zionism is. There is political Zionism and spiritual Zionism. There is Zionism as a commercial enterprise, Zionism as a metaphysical philanthropy, and every manner and degree of combination of all of them.

Last week came to the U. S. a funny-looking little man with a beard, named Abraham Isaac Kook. His visit may bring forth, for the benefit of the American Jew, as well as for the American Gentile, a more coherent account of this figure of speech, Zionism.

Col. Kook (for...

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