From: Daniel Sutherland As I watch the limited coverage of the Grief in Israel, I am saddened.  But, I am also reminded of another day when happiness abounded...   It was an event that was quoted from the Holy Scriptures by the New York Times.  "Surely" they wrote, "This is a stirring of the dry bones of Israel as recorded in Ezekiel 37:1-14."
 

THE NATIONAL REBIRTH On April 1, 1925, the Hebrew University was opened by LORD BALFOUR in the presence of a most distinguished gathering. "The University has a splendid site on Mount Scopus, which is the Northern extension of the Mount of Olives.  The outlook eastward is over the Jordan valley and the north half of the Dead Sea, with the hills of Moab beyond.  Westward lie the city and suburbs of Jerusalem" (Current History Magazine, May 1925). New York Americans expressed the view that to the Jews, this was "An event of historical significance comparable only to the rebuilding of the Jewish Temple, destroyed by the Roman legions nearly two thousand years ago." Rev. Dr. Jacon Katz said of the event, "this dedication marked the Rebirth of Israel......." Gedaliah Bublick, editor for the Jewish Daily News, wrote his feelings about this event, and said, "I stood on the top of Mount Scopus, gazing down on Jerusalem.  My mind went back 1, 850 years.  Here on this eminence Titus once stood, directing his legions in their work of destruction of the Jewish Capital.  From this height he watched the Jewish heroes being led away as prisoners of war, to be devoured by the beasts of the Roman Arena.  The Roman Conqueror was convinced, no doubt, that he had brought the life of the Jewish nation to and end. "I thought of the Romans who had vanished long-long ago from the face of the earth;  I thought of the broken columns of the Forum Romanum, the gravestone of the mighty nation that was bent on blotting out the Jewish name. "And then I looked to my right.  Before my eyes, on the very spot where Titus had stood, there was being erected the Hebrew University, a living sign of the rebirth of the Jewish Nation which was arises and builds its national home on the Sacred Jewish soil. "My heart burned.  Tears of Happiness and joy rolled down my cheeks, and my lips murmured fervently: " ' Jerusalem, our Jerusalem, cannot be destroyed.  The Jew cannot be conquered.  Ours is an eternal people because ours is an eternal God."