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The University of Jerusalem

THE DIGEST

By HERBERT SIDEBOTHAM

PubllebW Weekly by The Jewish Chronicle Publishing G.. Inc.

America.
Joseph J. Cummins, President and Editor
o conies
•
(Printed by special arrangement with the New Palestine.)
m a movement perhaps more subtle and
'rote
JUDAH P. BENJAMIN FUND
Jacob H. Schakne,
General
Manager
---- -- less offensive outwardly than the others, but beneath
their instruction is purely formalistic
I
have
been asked to write abut the
—
Y
sae reg as Second-does rustler March 1, 191, at the Postoffice at Detroit,
r he endowment of a fund in ale
it all
ll one can discern the attempt to violate the funds-
i ,
a n d consists in learning by heart pass-
Mkh., under the Act of March 1. 1179. _ —
effects which the foundation of the
h
....
. •
mental hard won freedom of the right to worship as University in the memory of Juda
ages from the Koran. If it were pe s _
new
university
of
Jerusalem
may
have
Philip Benjamin, the prom inent
eral
Offices
and
Publication
Building
slide
to
imagine
mediaeval
Oxford
Gen
loll the world, in particular on the Near
champion of the South during the
one pleases.
•
tilled with its thousands of boy Mu•
850 High Street West
East, Lord Balfour, who is to open
The proponents of religious training in the schools Civil war, does honor to all partici- the
dents learning by rote Barbara Celar-
Cable Address) Chronicle
university, is an elder liritish
9300
pants,"
says
the
Jewish
Morning
Glendale
Telephone:
eat
and
the
tags
of
the
Aristotelian
aching
of
one
religion,
certainly
London Office ,
te
statesman from whom advancing
do not a dt
voca the
e
Journ al in its issue of March 9.
formal logic, we should have II rough
14 Stratford Mose, London, W. 1, England
years have purged all the vice of
not. There are to be Protestant, Catholic and Jewish
tnfry,ttaft ewItf
the
e
t ;s,ta s,,th
parallel to the $loslem universities of
perialism. V is in great measure due
$3.00 Per Year
secretary
t
teachers but in all candor how will it be possible to
which Cairo is the type. Such untie).-
Subscription, in Advance
to him that Palt•stine has been .stab-
the Confederacy and was recognized
have no more influence en teed-
meet the needs of all the hundreds of denominations. as the intellectual leader of that goy- fished as a national center for all .few- sities
this
To Wear. publication, all correepo deuce and net° each week.
ern life than an Oxford such as e.•
ry
and
when
he
opens
the
University
office by Tutted., evening or
Adventist, the Quaker, t t . t.n-
rnment which carried on the cisi
have
imagined
would have on 'teters
Will the Seventh Day
of Jerusalem the least thought in his
North. Ile is con-
sh Chronicle Invitee correspondence on subjects of Interest
against t
England. Indeed, so far from elites.-
The Detroit Jewi
nonite, have a member of his church teach? Hardly, war
. an indorsement of the
Mind Will be that of 'advancing any
sidered one of the great men of
to the Jewieh people, 1,;,d.le:Inapm.s.,,noynsr .ty ,itf:;;
luting
thought
they merely kill, and
selfish imperial design. His is a phil-
and yet to do otherwise would be an interference and
American history and, though we are
for any real instruction in metier!)
mind and it will measurt) the
imposition. There is a more serious objection to relig- not sorry that his side lost, yet we estiphic
Nissan
9,
5685
subjects
the
Moslem
must leave his
importance of the new university not
April 3, 1925
will always remember that he was
own country and come to Europe. I
ions teaching in the schools and that arises not from a
by the degree in which it will advance
known as a Jew and W S often at-
—
am not forgetting the Robert College
but solely
tangible but front a distinctly formless thing. With the tacked as a Jew, and his name is un- this or that secular interest
The Hebrew University.
in Constantinople, an admirable Ain-
the hope that it Will enrich our
erican institution which does excel-
An event which will in a measure determine the fu- insistent emphasis placed upon 100 per cent Protes- doubtedly the most prominent Jewish by
orld-civilization
and
quicken
the
dry
•
name in American history.
lent work, but this is after all an al-
lure history of world Jewry is the opening of the He- tantism, how many Catholic or Jewish children in a
bones of learning in the East. I have
"Benjamin, as the defender of the
•
i o n institution which is in but not of
reason to know how real is the
brew University on Mount Scopus on April 1. The predominately Protestant school would enjoy being South and of slavery, knew no limits some
the
country. The new University of
philosophic detachment with which he
scholars, statesmen, poets and scientists who will attend placed in an inferior category? There would be a nat• in his fanaticism. Ile was supported has approached this great problem of Jerusalem will be modern but it will
by the Know-Nothings who helped to
definitely Oriental and not a mere
the dedication ceremonies are an earnest that it will Oral tendency to break clown his or her religious atlilia- elect him as the United State Senator Jewish nationalism from the hist. be
•1,',
Despite
importation front abroad.
For when, in my ardour of commend-
be so impressive that, if nothing else, it will be mernor- tion and join with the majority dominant groups.
of Louisiana. He believed that an
the
temporary artificial estrangement
ing Zionism to the favor of English
American citizen of the North should
from the Jew that is fostered by aisi-
petiole,
I
hate
stressed
the
identity
of
It
is
not
accidental
that
Jews
and
Catholics
every-
able occasion for what they say.
have no right to vote in the South,
tabors, the Arab has no difficulty in
The outstanding features of the university as con- where are suspicious of the move. The conference of and he favored many other things Jewish /tell British interests in the reelIgnizing his racial affinity. The f•
Near East, the suggestion has been
with
which
even
the
South
did
not
Jew has been a long time away from
cawed by the founders consist in the fact that the Ian- Reform Rabbis unqualifiedly opposed the religious
conveyed to mu from quarters that I
All these wrongs and foolish
the East and has acquired great ex -
have little doubt reflected Lord Bal-
guage used will be liebreW; it shall be open to all races
teaching in public schools, insisting that the time agree.
notions, however, are forgotten. The
perience and knowledge and a knowl
four's
opinion
that
the
argument
could
and creeds; the curriculum will include every branch of schedules be reduced so as to afford an opportunity for great University of New England is be pushed too for and that Zionism edge of Western arts, science, and
s
willing now to honor the great rebel
ways•, but in the East he is an Orien-
- the children to attend religious schools connected with
was a world movement which must not
human knowledge and inquiry.
eN
tal. what is more, he has a long his-
which is as it should be. The man
be made to revolve in the orbit of any
A Hebrew University in Jerusalem strikes the imag
t;
the synagogue and church,
who furnished the funds did not want
tory of friendship with the Arabs
single nation. Let me therefore in
ination with an unforgettable impact. The renascence
The odious feature
of all this activity is the com- to make his name public. It is., per- this article try to catch some of the when they were at the zenith of their
eat
permissable to hazed the guess
greatness. In medicine, philosophy, ?,";
of Hebrew learning in the Holy Land is a wish fulfil-
spirit of Lord Balfour's philosophic
pulsion factor. We thought that religious freedom w as haps,
that he is a Jew, though we would
and statecraft this Arab civilization
implied re-
detachment.
For
in
the
ment cherished by generations of scholars since the guaranteed, but not as long as the present conformity
*1',
be more phased if we knew that a
was largely Jewish, so close was the
buke of Lord Balfour for maintaining
Diaspora. This achievement, conspicuous as it is, may
attitude continues will this freedom be assured. Too Gentile has given the generous con- the identity of the British and Zion- co-operation between Arab and Jew e, 1,
•
at
this
time.
If
these
old
relatiens
tribution
to
honor
a
Jewish
name."
ist interests holds god in the domain
be discounted by moderns as a pale glory, but the is- much bitterness has been engendered in the history of
could be renewed, Jews would ask
of mere politics, how much more per-
q
settler is silenced by the announcement that modern
western humanity because of difference of opinion on
for nothing better, and of all the
tinent is its application to the domain
JABOTINSKY ON THE YIDDISH
means that could be devised to that
science, philosophy and literature are to be adequately the Bible, its interpretation, whether it should be read
of intellect of which a university is
.,
end, none is so hopeful as the emits
LANGUAGE
represented by men eminently qualified in their re- by all or a group. We cannot but endorse whole heart-
the capital?
lishm•nt of the new university.
First, then, let us consider the in-
It
is
not
a
purely
Jewish
institution
edly
the
downright
opposition
to
any
attempt
to
teach
spective fields.
"Speaking of Zionis and the lan-
fluence which the new university will
and its doors will be open to all alike
The building of the university is but a repetition of
guage problem," says B. Albin in the
religion in the public schools.
have in Jewry outside l'alestine. The
who wish to avail themselves of tip-
Day of March 7, "it is interesting M
Jew is an international. Ile absorbs
an ancient practice in Israel, for in the most terrible
s
new learning. One of the hopes of to
read the opinion of Vladimir Jabotin-
the
culture
of
the
country
in
which
he
establishment would be disappointed
days when annihilation was all but complete the schol-
sky, the well known leader and Mere-
Congress Adjourns.
lives and in return makes most power-
if Arabs from Palestine and elsewhere
ar builded anew the schools from which learning went
ful contributions to it but always, I
, r, about Yiddish. In one of the
do not attend its courses. If they de,
Recently Senator David A. Reed of Pennsylvania tuisu
recent issues of the Russian Zionist
should say, there is no distinguishing
forth. But the present university differs from all pre- informed its that our immigration problem was
the foundation of the university Dilly
w settled
Razsveit, Mr. Jabotinsky
characteristic of the Jewish genius.
date the beginning of a great revival
vious attempts in university construction, not in the for the first time in 75 years. The air of finality which sa ys :
His is it deductive mind; that is to say,
of learning in the East comparable
material aspects alone but in the quality of the scholar-
os 'Yiddish is in many ways a re- it tends to reason from one general with thet of the Renaissance. The
characterizes his speech upon the subject left little
principle to it further general prin•
markable language. It was taken for
ship in the faculty. In past efforts the university came
cycle of history would come full cycle
room for doubt than in the mind of the senator he had
in the past that it is not a
•iple. The English and ths American
round if, just as the rapture of Cen-
out of the surplus of the land and only after the schol- done a difficult work in a most thoroughgoing and granted
mind is on the contrary inductive;
I
language but a dialect. This is ab-
stantinople by the Turks brought Eu-
that is to say, it discovers its genet--
ars had sprung from the midst of the hurly burly of
solutely wrong. Linguistically it is
rope its great Renaissance and the be-
workmanlike•manner.
al principles shyly and tardily from a
Kinnings of modern scholarship and
A language and a very original lan-
thriving communities. It is rather inconceivable, in
e s
Despite the assurances of the senator we learn that
great number of particular instances.
ere a e irth few languages
science, the expulsion of the Turk,
terms of past experience, to picture a university with his co-worker, Albert Johnson, in a recent debate with gunge. , There
Matthew Arnold, in a celebrated pass-
with
pete
ncom rt
from Palestine and the establishment ,
th
f
age, has contrasted the Ilebraism of
ate an d tbe poetry o
matured savants, modern buildings and latest scientific
The
literur
athisesrae att)re tthee thJit wFt:tvt.istsre it o . tertatithytoillet,titts-
Judge Jacob Panken admitted that the law needed
t d e-
the
Jews
and
the
Ilelleism
of
the
language
are
valuable
to
a
grea
equipment in a pioneer community and yet this is the
t. hi Tel
Greek. The Jew is the man who in-
some changes. Perhaps the time will come when Sen- grcte
much tIhnatth ehaeaat t r‘ ipti.thz tI ctt:I
of such a Renaissance would not be
at
vented the sense of sin and refers en-
actual prospect.
we t
confined to Palestine alone but would
ator Reed may debate the question and discover to his
erything to the terms of his morality
press,
Yiddish, both in its ideas and
One may have serious doubts as to the future of
spread throughout the East. Its 14-
s,
amazement that he has not said the last word upon this
whereas the standards of the Greek,
aspects, is far above the for-
tunas on the East would be great 'dike
Palestine its a Jewish homeland. It may be only a plan- much controverted question. That the whole matter literary
alike in morals and in art, are purely
language press of the same
in the material and in the moral
tation colonization experiment ; it may be but a colony
aesthetic. The natural Jew . is always
all, it is, in A
sphere. Education in the East would
has not been ended was conclusively proven by the sus - countries, and above
a moralist first, an artist second; the
world Ian wage If
bring back its ancient glories and Ito
r eran
for idealists who choose to end their days in the de-
Greek mind on the other hand sees,
an Englishman is proud of being able
put the argument on its lowest
lightful climate; or it may be the center of Jewish life tamed and acrimonious debate in the House of Repro-
-
art0he e lltectf ant(s1 o ft; nar
to travel the whole world without any
tsi etahse trS
e
v
er
s
et
sentatives
on
the
refugee
emergency
and
the
deporta
d might tasdade ra o n ataheemwd.ni1,t ht h a tf
art.
radiating warmth and light to the rest of 'world Jew -
rmoral
knowledge of
Je a foreign language, the e
he
world
violent clash in ' which
to
I
II
Ashkenazic
w
can
with
not
a
lesse
antithesis
came
the
discovery and development
ry. It may surpass even the prophetic visions of the tion bills.
it
the struggle between the Maccabees
Congressmen Sabath anti Perlman were compelled
of the American brought.
lovers of Zion, but come what may of all these plans
a ge .' and the Greek Syrian rulers. But al-
sblangu
ttatrkia
rae
Pref„
ely
undoubtedly
fu
i
ebatt
to filibuster when they learned that the committee had
ways there was an affinity between
and expectations, the university in Palestine can cer-
"T he question , then ar ises sho uld
adroitly put a clause in the refugee bill which would
.. ,,,.., REBECCA GRATZ
the Jew and the Greek in purely in-
is th e Ian.
a language
tainly be depended upon to take the same dominating
m t l e tresi u c, -
hd
purchased
their
own
such
, le: snesn . t .B:tdhlie are
t. tre
, d crtiti „ u I...n po r
guage
of
the
majority
of
the
Jewish
airs that characterized the great have admitted only those whoa
facts
as
o
ve
easoers;
bth
regard
aff
Born March 4, 1781; died Aug. 27.
position in world
transportation. If this had passed only a thousand of people at the present .Ones be perse- li
of
the t
/317 .
cuted
universities of Lurot e since
the ten thousand stranded ones would have been ad-
theory.
In the city of Philadelphia in an
The University of Jerusalem at the cross-roads of
i grave yard, protected by a h gh
This mental tendencey in the Jew
old
the Orient and Occident must of necessity attract the milted to this country.
has been encouraged by the fact that iron fence, rests the remains of a be-
WILL SAMUEL RESIGN?
The
discussion
in
the
house
and
the
Johnson-Pank-
of the
th whole world .
ughterof our people. On
he belonged to every country but pos.
tta
dflits[(t
lovede
,
scholars, scientists an d philosophers
-
en debate reveal a state of affairs not too pleasant to
Geerat nz
een : her
s J‘sa s t ed t none,. te Aaltways in his specula-
The international character of the Diaspora Jew as-
!maentleatihesthisi!inbe
his
caption
the
Day
in
its
read, Reis(
tosU utt e i t rcI Tio ef . .
nhiet ihjith ob:.,enn
Contemplate. The lit-es of thousands of unhappy ones
Fareomtlime
sures a welcome to all, for in those bitter experiences
he
memorial
to
her
also can be found
tlteangneT;ht
ahatthwet'anSY
ry
e
escribable mis
d Rebecca Gratz
stranded,
wretched,
hopeless;
the
in
o
been
the
basilee
hia,
"The
says:
us"
reach
e
as,
in
politics,
been
Phileeltp;
e r el p f eoerft 9 Ur
of the Galuth the Jew has developed a catholicity of
mrmoel
e f
those in the concentration camp at E
from London and at other ' times
to say, never the owner of what ' so;
o
i
view, a broadness of vision and a tolerance which en-
ti
in a gfin je the
it vsitth. th I can
o
erusalem, that High C omm ssi one f r
to
was
flinreont 'er arlirls'i" lho d R ebecca Gratz
Eng-
a nd, are but pawns moved about by men astleigh,
o ewry
e
ables hint to evaluate things which are calculated to
showed In interest o in the wf lfrefi
, Samuel is about to re
ing
lop
deve university
e expediency is of infinitely greater importance.
P
a
estine
but
Sh e ws
a one o the rst
w ill re s ign, , must. resign or has
improve the qualtiy of humanity.
her P en h e ze
by a joker in almost
d a (Jiff( t rent habit h of
b whom
exposed
There was even
all over the world
to e recognize
the e ne e of an institu•
resigned
e
The opening of any university is a day of rejoicing The inwardness of the situation
i
will
never
lose
{ his and
mind
. The Jew
pessimistic . some talk o s suc cessor. thi t
bill f ois
th k ind ma key one decidedly
tt
readiness in the uptake of a new
ids.: lion
for
in lears of It heJPhi il ,a-
te)frptit af otAind
ae orphans
and a university dedicated to humanity, born in such a bll
Lets hoin
"A report comes again
henew
ionf
th
o
isnog
itiip
in:
y
i;;Iiiii.
,
i
ttty
v,th:,
iii
nunn
an
e
Can men become so calloused that they can play with from Jerusalem, f rom . Asi
rabim
travail, after centuries of patient waiting, is indeed a
a
w
t I; I ae rn
mn Arabic newspaper in
h e Female
F j ter Home and t • sY
human lives as though they were j ust so many cattle?
m)a. enricist(t)rhYe
Benevolent Society. She was also n
day never to be forgotten.
t he
ak
A
that is distinetrdP may
r
c
e
ine
Palest
?
must
accept
this
as
a
l'act,
though
unpalatable•
and
st7-
a
of
the
world.
But
1
(
Vue
sgn
e
ie
i
r
t
i
e
l
r
Wil
zealous
promoter
of
religious
political
es
theorive
and
We are more than happy to join in the memorbale
tion that Samuel
ten-
of the matter persuaded us that the whole month and that together with him s at the same time his c onserva beaten-
educational institutions and founded
vi
he
)arr view
event and hope that the completion of the undertaking
A man the Ilebrew Sunday School, of which
be strengthened.. dealing
Hess episode is but a further manifestation of the General Storrs, the Governor of J es !Ionics th still
shall proceed as rapidly as the founders' hope.
rusalem, will also retire. Store's post, more careful when Need
h (h. i she was superintendent for many
with his own, and
ever grow v i n t ■ s i on between superiors and in feriors, according to that Arabic pap er , w i
years.
din a Jew -
Today the world is interested in a
Wel nroblem t)f . foun ding
We cannot repress the feeling that this would not be be given to an Arab.
p ractical
g
- - - ' t - civilization, he will
that this is mere Ara
national
have
recent edition of "Ivanhoe," by Sir
Religious Education.
"It
is
door
iii.
done to Nordics.
motive
to
acquire
the
gift
bic
propaganda.
The
question,
how-
a
every
Walter
Scott. How many Jews know
The matter of religious education in the public
I
1.7
and of adapting
compromi
s
Congres adjourned and the refugees are left in ever, remains why this, continuous po
it ca T compromise
hat Rebecca Gratz was the original
her with the reading of the Bible i s
stubborn
talk
of
Sir
Herbert
s
means
to
ends.
These
are
not
mere
that
Th
Rebecca"
of the famous novel?
sehook
precarious
state.
and
their most unfortunate and
whch
i
generalities, for the great value of a
Miss Rebecca had been the friend
interf erence
resignation? What are the reasons
of the physical Another
i
ter
afh
tur l togetmat
Reeds and Johnson:: and Nordics may exclude thee
eition to his administra-
from childhood of Matilda Hoffman,
u niversity is not in the facts that it
f the
ngre dient
chr acterize d the Ku Klux Klan.
teaches but in the subtle influences of
beloved and betrothed of Washington
Whole sorry mess by simple ignoring it or by insisting
tion? We are often told that the high
interference
mania
which
seems
to
pervade
the
its
philosophy.
In
time
the
influence
commisioners
health,
his
desire
to
Irving. Miss H offman contras e,
in this
that it is non-existent because it is settled, but despite
of the university at Jerusalem may ra-
withdraw
from
administrative
activi-
consumption, and through the last six
whole country can be readily traced to the theory of
all this hypocrisy we know they are marooned, desti- i
of her life was tenderly
ties and return to politeal work in a di te to the ends of the earth and
prohibition, which grew out of the psychology of war tute, hopeless victims of Europe's debacle and Ameri- London as one of the leading Lib- sensibly affect both the Jewish and the months
nursed by Rebecca Gratz. After her
Gentile
philosophy
of
life
and
politics.
regimentation. When a whole country is gripped by
death,
Washington
Irving, heart-
erals--but these and similar asser-
ca's exclusionist attitude.
broken, went to England, where he
tions are not convincing.
The effect of the new university lit
fear it is quite natural that individual initiative and self-
If for any reason President Coolidge should call a
"Difficult as the office of the high
met Sir Walter Scott, to whom he
Jewish life in Palestine will be more
expression will give W ay to control, especially when
told the story of his beloved's death
l'wo faculties which are
special session of Congress we hope he recommends commissioner is, it is so tempting, of
that control holds forth the promise of safety, security immediate consideration of this most pressing problem such historic significance, that it is to be founded at once are one of Semi• and of her friend who so faithfully
comforted her in her last days. so
difficult to believe that any man, par-
tic studies and a second of Eastern
anti success. But the transference of the natural func- of the stranded refugees. This is a humanitarian work
ticularly a Jew, would be ready to
when we read "Ivanhoe" and see the
diseases. The choice is typical of the
tion of the individual to authority temporarily. does by of salvage on it parity with the catastrophes which have
sacrifice all of his other ambitions to
picture of the character of the Jewish
directions in which the minds of its
retain the office, particularly when
heroine, we see again all the beauty
founder are working. Zionism in Pal-
no means signify that authority will relinquish its hold from time to time visited our planet. We have always
the task that Sir Herbert has under-
and nobility of the woman who
estine without a university might run
its soon as the particular crisis which gave it power is
d NI With a generosity. bespeaking a latent social taken has not been accomplished as to seed in several ways. It might be- worked so untiringly for the better
res
past. If we no longer must curtail our food. light and attitude in keeping with the finest traditions of Am- yet.
menu of her people.
come wholly absorbed in the purely
"The work of the high commission-
material week of developing a long
heat; if we no longer are persuaded with a flavor of
erica.
er consisted in leading Palestine nut
neglected estate and make of Pales-
SADIE AM RICAN
coercion to purchase bonds. contribute to war service
of the chaotic war conditions and es-
tine a plantation run by Jews,
- tablishing economic and political con-
agencies, and if the young men are no longer cin;i•ript-
but
only
in
the
sense
in
which
Spain
dem
Was
influence
of
responsibility
The sobering
Jeaarry ien ,ts
Born March 3, 1862, at ('ho lees
ran its South American colonies. Or
ed for service, yet these forms of coercion are trans- onstrated in a manner decidedly pleasing to the oppon- =5' that ;0n:17)k:tot:tree
Sadie American is still with as t) sec
again it might beceme an unpractical
kl-
formed into new agencies of compulsion and regimen-
the
fruit of her labors. Miss Ant ri•
sible.
This
virtually
means
that
enthusiastic
idealise,
neglecting
the
ents of racial discrimination by the last session of the
can has been connected with mans
estine should become a land of Jews
duty that is on colonizers of subduing
tation.
Indiana State Legislature. It was expected after the
philanthropic
movements and ha,
the resources of
One of the bitter fruits of the compulsion mania was noise and confusion raised by the Klan in the recent an 'i:Itt°:tsjne7s''to reason that this his- nature and developing The
main duty of been prominently identified with th,
the land they 111V(..
prohibition. and no one with any regard for the facts election that the alleged Klan legislature would pass toric responsibility was often dill's. the new university will be to held the Council of Jewish Women since it•
to play t he part balance even between the practical organization, having always been she it
can hold a brief for it. Then came the Ku Klux Klan. legislation making that state a sorry spectacle of un- cult. It is ttifficV
n itemne.sppae t
secretary. In fact
A
.;t ain 0 , A tt a th,etrt al
and the ideal. The school of I:astern
No longer was the theory of compulsion and conform- reasoning prejudice anti infantile aberration, but con- :, f ile ,et
with Hannah Solomon, was one of th,
tirsn'l a sJb li
Diseaers is evidence of the realism
abs.
of
a
certain
group
o
founders
of
the
council, which grey
ity a state function; it became the prerogative of the trary to all the expectations of bigots and night shirt sition of Ar
with which Zionists are attackine
Englishmen and also of sent). Jews -
out of the Jewish Women's Congres
Palestine is a small
group which thought that it WitS divinely chosen to fanatics not a single Klan measure was enacted. A We can understand the disappoint- their problems.
1593.
in
at Chicago
Country anti if it is to become a state
compel all the lesser breeds to do as they dictated and
ments of Sir Herbert Samuel. The
She has frequent ly been invited t.
capable of standing atone it
only
few more Klan victories like this and the Klan shall
Jew, have not furnished the proper le! by intensive culture. There must occupy pulpits and has delivered ad
not satisfied with playing lord over the lesser breeds
be undone.
and expected assistance. The work of
dresses in many places on social, re
be
no
part
of
it
unfit
for
habitation
they insisted upon cleansing the morals of their own.
colonization was not carried on as
ligious and educational topics. Sh
Ity reason of disease; by extirpating
In the wake of this came more prohibitory legislation.
strenuously as was expected. But.
malaria you could in elect add large' is also editor of the publication o
after all. all beginnings are difficult.
the Council of Jewish Women, be
areas to the country that are now der-
more exclusion law making and a host of movements
The first few year, are very hard, and
sites contributing to other Jesvis
elict; and !science alone must show the
which regulate, coerce, prohibit and in general de-
it is noticeable even now that Pales-
publications.
way to the completest economic t•ffi-
t e
Strayed
in
mid-youth.
rouse
up,
nor
sleep,
for
lo!
aei a a to i th
baton
reconstruction
is
assuming
oerfk has traveled
prive the individual from any expression or choice.
ruin-p. Al the Ram( time the univer-
larger proportions and is being car-
smoke
will
pass.
the
of
fouilreeeogronfedrsw
sity
mast
keep
alive
the
ideal.
The
The
days
of
youth
like
clouds
The country is inundated with the mad desire to
rim' on more energetically than here-
hope
in
the
future
to
hear
much
mor
fact that the new university will have
Ere evening falls, thou shalt be withered grass.
interfere with every human activity. to make it con-
The real work begins just
interesting news of her activities.
to
no religious tests and will be in no
Though morning saw thee like a lily blow.
now; and it is at this time that a
form to the petty concepts of the bigot. the ignoramus
sense sectarian makes it the more im-
man of Sir Herbert Samuel's caliber.
Mrs. :mime Bloomfield Zeisler r
portant
that
side
by
side
with
the
new
and the tyrant. In this bodge podge of cribbing and
A tactful statesman and devoted Jew,
scientific faculties there should be
Chicago recently celebrated the gm ,
Why W a st e on ancestors a heated breath,
is so necessary at the head of the studies in the Hebrew classic kultur.
fitting things into moulds art. literature, science anti
en jubilee of her debut in the mueic!
Palestine administration. It is his
Or note which progeny was Abraham's?
world. Mrs. Zeisler is an artist
drama have felt the cold hard hands of intolerance
The new' university will be the only
duty to remain, and it is the duty of genuine
high intellect who has steadfast:
Whether his food be herbs or liashan rams,
university in the East. The
anti banality. Evolution has been put on the taboo list
Jewish
public opinion to demand of
•
stood for all that is the best in mus
so-called
',linden'
universities
in
Cairo,
England that Sir Herbert's resigns-
by legislatures, play juries and clean hooks' laws Man. wretched it fight. is on his way to death.
and a woman who has been active )
example, are very little more than
for
hld
not
be
accepted.
Pales-
lion s ou
SOLOMON MN GABIROL
communal affairs.
elementary schools, and wore, still,
spring up like mushrooms everywhere. If we were a
tine needs him."
nation of tender children we would not have a larger
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