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THE JEWISH CHRONICLE
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SACRED SCROLLS, HIDDEN
FROM TURKS, BROUGHT
BACK TO JAFFA' CITY
The Government Does Not Restrict
THE DRIVING OF
Best Wishes
Stirring Story From Holy Land Related
by American Newspaper Cor-
respondent.
for a Happy
and
Prosperous
City and Countryside Hold Festival
When Scrolls Are Restored Un-
der Military Guard.
PH I LAM:L1'H IA—The touching
story of how; the sacred Scrolls of the
Law, which were hidden from the
Turkish troops by the pious Jews of
Tel-Aviv and Jaffa, were restored af-
ter the British occupation, is told in
a dispatch from Jerusalem to the
Philadelphia Public I.edger.
Dr. Chaim Weitzman, head of the
Jewish Administrative commission,
took mat in the ceremonies. The
Ledger correspondent gives the ac-
count as follows:
When Djeintl Pasha in his hostility
to the Zionists carried out the tyran-
nical evacuation of the hulk of the
Jewish population of Jaffa in April,
1917, the Jews carried with them these
sacred Torah into exile, lest they
should fall into the rapacious hands
of the Turks. Cases have come to
light where such sacred scrolls have
been seized by the Turks and cut up
to make parchment haversacks.
So far the last year these sacred
scrolls have been carefully guarded by
the Jews at Petach Tikvah and on
Wednesday morning, they were
brought back in solemn procession to
Jaffa. A triumphal arch was erected
at the northern confines of Tel-Aviv,
every house was decorated with flow-
ers and bunting and the whole of the
Jewish population turned out in fete
to meet the return of their sacred
possessions,
Army Heads Attend.
Jews came not merely from Jaffa.
Ent also front Richonde-Zion and the
other neighboring colonies. The young
men and the girls of the Maccabee
Athletic Association, dressed in white
clothes, with blue sashes and ties,
maintained order and kept a pathway
clear for the procession was headed
by the Australian military band and
the ceremony at the triumphal arch
was attended by officers representing
the military governor and by Dr.
Weitzman and the members and offi-
cers of the Zionist Commission.
The Haham Bashi (chief rabbi) of
Jaffa, mounted a small dais near the
triumphal arch and delivered an elo-
quent Hebrew address, in which he
recounted the hardships of the evacua-
tion, laying stress on the fact that
the Jews had not in the hour of peril
deserted the law with which the life
and soul of the Jewish people was so
closely bound up. He then spoke of
the joy with which they welcomed the
return of their sacred scrolls and of
the new era of liberty and progress
which was being entered by the Jews
of Palestine, thanks to the glorious
deliverance by British arms.
Relatives Mourned.
But their joy was not complete;
they could but think with grief and
apprehension of the sad lot of those
of their friends and relatives—many
of them exiles from Jaffa, who were
still behind the Turkish lines waiting
patiently for a further British ad-
vance to enable them to return to
their homes and freedom. He thanked
and invoked blessings upon the Brit-
ish government and the British army
and expressed the hope that success
would crown the efforts of the Zionist
commissioners,
The Jews desired to regenerate and
build up Palestine, not merely for
their own benefit, but for that of all
its inhabitants whose friendship and
help Ile invited. The re-establishment
of the Jewish people in their ancient
home in Palestine would be for the
good of all humanity who had learnt
To be
so much in the past and would, he
HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS
hoped. learn much in the future from
(luring the coming year
the Law of Israel.
deal with the
On the conclusion of the address,
prayers were chanted by a cantor and
a choir. Then the shofar was blown
and the scrolls were carried under
canopies by the chief rabbi, Doctor
Weitzman and others, to the various
synagogues. Further prayers were
t hey have been the means of making
chanted, including one for "Our King
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