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Rosh Hashonah Greetings
The Jewish Field of Honor
By DR. BENJAMIN JABLONS
Nrokl■INVAIMMIN
Jacob Konisky of Arkansas and ,
Moses Saletzki of Easton, Pa s recent.
arrivals in Palettine, whose a:uteri-I
enees, were I a writer, would make,
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a choice theme for a great twat
epic.
Epic of Struggle.
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In Palestine the Jew k finding his remarkable phenomenon -. -remark-I
soul and regaining his self-respect. able to one familiar with the count.. Komsky has a splendid farm, He
That is the outstanding fact that less divisions found among our peo-! has been in Palestine but seven
I carried away with me from my Fie throughout the rliaspora- —has t months, yet nownere in the country
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three weeks' visit to the Holy Land. been acemnItlished by the Hebrew did
1 see such well kept fields, such
That looms biggest to me as I Fit language which one hears spoken , scientific farm management and such
down to give, briefly, my impressions everywhere. It is the unifying influ.! excellent crops. Komsky made good,
of this tremendous, herculean effort ence which has welded together this ' yet seven months age he was a store.
which Jewish manhood and Jewish Babel of tongues and diverse person- I keeper in a small town in Arkansas,
in
womanhood are rising to supreme alities which com' to Palestine from i who did some fanning on the side.
heights. all the countries of the world. To ' But how he has struggled during
country, yet it give just one example of the miracles those Months! It Was no easy task.
is difficult
Palestine to is speak
U small
coherently of what 0 1, 1e, family accomplishing—there was I wondered at the overalls he was
of German Jews from wearing. They were made from t he
fl
, in which his sepl s were shipped
is going on there. There so
are
tt
!‘" }lambing, whom I met near Tel Aviv, :opts.
many conflicting opinions, inh it n!!!-: where they. had settled. In four I from America. That's Komsky for
cross-currents of life, so itaa months they had learned Hebrew and' you! And his neighbor Saletskil Sa• '
letzki sold his dry eopis store and
Banda; but unifying these divers`''' !poke and wrote nothing else.
.
swirling streams of life stands out , It is • difficult
! to set d own the pow- came to But fouria with his seven chit-
Palestine
dren.
lie has been there five months.
that
t his overwhelming, superhuman et- d •rf ul
unpresivon
tort by small groups Of determine r makes upon one, how it thrills and For a while fie family was forced to :
Men and women, carried on under
murmur and
from one
of them,
not not
even' a
almost impossible conditions — this live on bread
tea.
But
from the smallest tot. Nowt things
' effort to make the Jewish people live
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s rigt s for him. Kantaky,
are
breaking
again.
knowing mom about the busineas of
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fanning, helped his neig hbor through
It has fallen to my lot to live in
the hard. bitter, early days. Ile built
II management of the Ilroad way-Strand
, most of the countries of the world
Between Gladstone and Hazelwood.
him a barn and also a playground for
welcomes the opportunity to greet the
er except in America,
' and now he,
the Saletzki childless They haven't
The most modern delicatessen store in De-
' have I eve r seen such stalwart, sure,
Jewish people of Detroit on the occasion of
forgotten how to play despite their
courageous Jews as tae chaluzim in
troit, carrying a complete line of delicatessens.
struggles.
their Rosh Ilashonah.
' Palestine. These young men and
r
.mss
Medical
Work.
P •
women walk along the streets and
('leanliness, tastiness and generous values are the
We are deeply conscious of the significance
The Jewish nandcal work in Pales-
I roads ,f t'l• cities and colonies with
mottos upon which this store was founded.
tine is absolutely above praise. Na
of sentiment and tradition in the lives of at
• head: erect, with proud swinging
first
time
in
steps. "Bide for the fi
country in the world has anything
people.
our lives we feel at home," they Tel
that excels it and I make this state-
meet as a physician who has exam-
I • you . None of t he cining, vvhining
Within our province falls the privilege to
types that one encounters in the
ifinedmedical work in practically
will be glad to deliver at any time of the
cater to all that is noble in sentiment and tradi-
work
Ilailassah's
ghettos of Europe, that one raw in
country.
and
every
important
day or evening. No order too large or too small.
Palestine before these young men
tion. On the dawn of a New Year we pledge
stands as one of the
l'ales-
and women began coming to build up
accomplishments
There is no extra charge for this service.
ourselves to the sancity of that privilege.
i s h
their homeland. They are self-re-
tine. And this marvelous J ew
s.
liant, strong and swift. The Arabs
medical work, which treats all the
respect them, really fear them, where
population, irrespective of creed, hits
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they had nothing but contempt for
been one of the most important fan- tatu
the
other
generations
of
Palestinian
tors
in
pacifying
the
Arabs.
in
Ile-
n
—
lye a a. a. oell!C∎r,
over
leas. For one who has seensJewish
brain II adassah absolutely won over
communities throughout the world,
the Arabs. So great trust have the
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this changed viewpoint was thrilling,
Arabs in the Jewish doctors that they
DR. AND MRS. BENJ. JABLONS, no longer go to the Christian mission
inspiring.
A lot of sentiment has been ex-
Standing on cornerdone of main al.)/ hospitals. Their beds are always,
pended on the chaluzim. They de-
building of Hebrew University. empty, but the Jewish hospitals al
serve better. Nowhere have people
ways have a waiting list. In the
gone through such experiences, such fires. As I was going through the Arab villages the Jewish doctors are
suffering, such trying ordeals. They land, viewing the remarkable exploits sought after, always get the prefer-
have slept on the ground until they of the Jewish settlers, seeing how the ence over native doctors. The noes:
got mattresses; they have slept un- country affected their lives, I felt ing--most of the noes s are native
der the skies until they got tents; more than once like the Jewish chap. Jewish girls, graduates of the Ila-
they have slept in tents until they lain who came over with Allenby. dassah Nurses' School—is the peer
got houses. They starved and they When he first set foot on the snail of of any in the world. Malaria, al.' .
suffered from fevers. But always; Kretz Israel, he threw himself on though it is still found in some of
they carried on. It is not a happy the ground, kissed the soil and re- the colonies, has been practicaly con-
sight to see these young men and peated the famous blessing, "She- tittered, as a result of tiffs superb
women struggling, though always heehionu."
Jewish medical service and the drain- I
winning; against these insurmount-
Soil Will Produce Anything.
ing of the swamps.
able odds. But never a word of com-
It is my opinion, after surveying
If it wern't for the Effentlies and
plaint do you hear. "Why, we're thewhole of the country--and this t e imopag Biala flay spread, the
happy to be here, happy to have a opinion is borne out by the dirt farm- Arabs would get along splendidly
We have been serving the public for years, giv-
part in the rebuilding of Eretz Is- ere of Palestine—that the soil will with the Jews. The Arabs are very
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when you accost them on the roads worked. There is nothing that can't you with "Shalom" as you walk along
I be grown on the soil of Palestine, as the street. They realize that the corn-
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or at their work in the colonies.
shall never forget the young .school the' Jewish colonists have actually fag of the Jews means increase pros-
our policies.
teacher I met in Prague, who had re. proved. But these colonists must be perity and better living conditions for
turned from Palestine to visit her fortified in their work if the cultiva- the and, but for the attempts of
parents. Cultured, educated, she had tion of the land is to be extended. the EtTendis to stir up bad feeling,
left behind wealth and social position More machinery is needed and for everything would be harmonious. The
to serve as one of the builders of greater funds must be made available aggressive attitude of the chaluzim,
Palestine. She had married one of for long-time loans. The Keren who remind one of our own western
the young colonists, serving in a low- Ilayesod is doing splendid work. I pioneers, has had considerable to du
ly position in the Jewish settlement, saw concrete examples of it on every with this changed attitude.
Yours, As Ever
but every position is a position of banal as I went through the country,
Tel Avis, Miracle City.
honor in Palestine. "I could never but not only must its work be eictend-
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remain here in Prague, even with all ed, but it should be supplemented by
springing up around the old cities and
its comforts," she told me. "The at. private capital, which would exert a
in the colonies the houses reflett a
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mosphere fairly stifles nie. In Pales. great force in building up the coun-
modern influence. Tel Aviv, that
tine we are free, we are in our own try and which, incidentally, would in
miracle city, reminded me at once of
land, we are building for ourselves, a short time bring in substantial re-
a Long Island town. It is all bustle
for our children, for our people. I turns to the investor. There are
anal speed. Anal what a thrill one
can not imagine my child growing up 100,000 Jews* in Poland who would
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thing is Jewish, even to the police-
believe there is no room for them men who direct traffic at the busy
tine."
Hebrew Language Unifies.
there. That is absurd; there is plenty
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Industrial life is not keep-
The Jews of Palestine are a com- of room for hundreds anal hundreds corners.
ing pace with the agricultural, natur-
pact, unified people, and this striking, of thousands. Every colonist I tallied
ally, for Palestine is essentially an
to told me the country had hardly
agricultural country and the efforts
been touched. But it would he folly
of the Karen Ilayesod and other
to permit these great masses to en-
agencies are directed more toward
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ter the country until mare machinery
the agricultural development of the
land
the
was available to develop
country. But many industries arc
Given more machinery, more land
thriving. There is, for example, a
would b' open for colonization, and
really impressive brick factory at Tel
more pioneers could enter. It all
made Aviv, which supplies most of the
comes bark to the resources,
available for the building up of the I brick and roofing for the building,
operations there. This factory em-
country.
ploys about '70 nien---all former urn—
When I visited the Valley of Jez-
students, who, the superin-
reel, where the Keren Hayes sl has retail),
tendent states, are the best mechanics
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he
has
ever employed --and turns out
if I had suddenly been transplanted about 145,000 bricks daily, in addition
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from the Orient to the Occident.
to asbestos plates used for shingles
Speci•Ity
Ilene nature smiled amid green grass,
and boards for barracks. In addition !
cultivated fields, orderly farm houses,
to supplying local needs, it is now ex-
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porting to Egypt and Syria. The ce-
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And also in Jezreel one setts what arc no "schnorrers; they so along
American Jews can do as farmers in on their own and reject charity.
'alestine. For here the American There is little begging now in Pales-
tine; the Chalukah is fast dwindling
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I came upon two American Jews,
there. And the Palestinian Jews,
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