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But look—look at those who line the sort for both, they would soon estab- a mutuality of interest is established
walks. Look at those Jewish young lish communication, contact. They all barriers break down between Jew
men who are not of that flood of joy would find that, notwithstanding they and Jew. We have seen this process,
pouring down the road. Look at the seem so remote from one another, they a slow but sure process, in this coml.
youth of Jerusalem who stand and are closer than they weaned. After try. That process ought to
By A. H. FROMENSON
gaze upon this scene. Look into their all, Jews are Jews, and as such they sible, more quickly, in Palestine
A great factor, perhaps the most
eyes. There is longing there, wistful- have very much in common. Only,
They have been on my mind ever in interest as if they lived in two dif- ness. They would, if they could, be sometimes, as is the case in this in- important factor in this country in
i since I saw them on the streets of ferent worlds. But these two differ-
(Continued on next page.)
stance, they are not aware of it. Once
part
of
that
flood.
But,
how?
ent worlds must be brought together,
Jerusalem.
I cast no blame upon anyone. Per-
They add to the bizarreness of the must be fused for the common task. haps, it could not have been helped.
city — scampish, impudent - featured As things stand today, except the few But I regard it as a great blunder
youngsters with their little, unkempt who may inherit a store or a stand, that somehow no way was found, no
corkscrew curls standing out like ques- there is no future for them in Pales- way has yet been found to draw these
tion marks interrogating the future; tine, not even as rabbis for the colon- young men into the new life of Pales-
writes though, as Dr. Spiegel
the solemn•visaged youths, (many of 'es.
rites in the letter from which I have tine. They would be that much added
them married at 16) in kapotas and
to the reconstruction forces, to the re-
wide-brimmed streimlach, from under- ust quoted, there is a strong desire builders of Zion. But they would
neath which protrude long, shoulder- for religious life for opportunities of bring more than mere numbers. They
religious expression, by a large num-
carefully trained peyoth.
I Many tourists, including American ber of the Chalutzim in the Emek for would bring a Jewish leaven where
Iiut they will not accept as I the Jewish leavening is needed. Or,
Jews, are amused. "How queer, how example.
a rabbi one who is not also, to a cer- I call it a religious leaven. The years
picturesque!" I was disturbed. They
spent in the drill of the Talmud
made me uneasy somehow. That un- fain extent, a tiller of the soil. Vis- they
utilizing a Beth Hamedrash in the has given them that "plus" which is
easiness has persisted.
the Jewish "plus." It has given them
Emek,
Dr.
Spiegel
says:
"A
vegetable
Sometimes, as I think of them, and
a certain self-possession, a certain
I think of them very often, I argue garden should surround it, and the power of self-discipline which some of
with myself: What's wrong with these rabbi should busy himself with it, as the exuberant Chalutzim lack. As it
young fellows? Suppose their garb, well as with teaching the Law—A is now, they are alienated, apart.
their hirsute adornment would not be young and intelligent rabbi of culture,
They must not remain apart. We
approved by the sartorial savant who who loves field work would have it in dare not permit it. For if they remain
pundits in the theater programs about his power to develop religion and Jew- apart, who knows the consequences!
"What the Men Will Wear?" Well, ish tradition in the entire Emek—He They must be fused into the flood of
what of it? Youthful faces, that nev- would be able to perform miracles in new, joyous, creative Jewish life.
er experienced the beatitude of a keen- the field of religion."
They, too, must become Chalutzim.
It is to be doubted that these youth Why wait for Poland to send its 'T-
edged blade, young faces framed in
earlocks are conventional in Jerusa- will remain content with their present
youth to Palestine to influence
lem. They are accepted as kilts are mode of existence. It is inconceivable s ir life? Ilere are some thousands al-
accepted in Scotland, as knickers on that the impact of the new life in Pal.
- ready in the land whose potentialities
the golf course, and I daresay that if estine will not stir their souls with are vast if we only find a way to util-
new desires, new ambitions. Of course, I ize them, to blend them into that life.
one stays in Jerusalem long enough new
he becomes accustomed to them, as one there will remain that irreducible min- i I The Chalutz must come to know them.
becomes accustomed to the Arab imam who, whether because of any
Chalutz.
one of several reasons, will cleave fast They
come of know
the to com-
Ahayah and Kefiyah.
Each must
has something,
much,
Nevertheless they disturbed me, to the old way, will go through life as musicale, to give to the other. And
still disturb me. Possibly it is because did their sires and their grandsires; the task ahead calls for the united ef-
I ventured to look beyond the eater- who will never be able or willing to
nals. Possibly, it is because I caught I recognize the great changes, spiritual • The question is how?
' and physical, that have come into the
a fleeting glimpse of their souls.
I believe if a common meeting
It is a wonderful thing, that in this land and the lessons they teach. But ground, a Jewish meeting ground
flamboyant, student era of arrogantly I am convinced from what I saw in could be established, a place which
rebellious youth, from which Palestine Palestine, from various talks I had would gradually become a favorite re-
is by no means immune, there should with these young men and with others,
still exist a Jewish youth devoted to that ultimately many of them break
the study of the ancient Jewish lore, away. The younger fellows especially.
the Gemorrah, the Talmud; a youth
In which direction will this break
whose lives are lived within the frame- lead them? Will it lead them into new
work of the Torah, the Shulchan life in Erez Yisroel? Or, will the break
Aruch; whose calendar is the calendar lead them away from everything Jew-
of Jewish fasts and feasts, whose days ish? The revolt against repression, es-
should be divided into Chtzoss, Shach-lpecially self-repression is, in too many
arith, Mincha, Maariv and Krieth, cases, fraught with ugly consequences.
Shema. It is a wonderful thing that I The "Bundist" movement in Russia.
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we should still possess a youth whose I the irreligious youth in America, how
ambitions express themselves in terms I have they been recruited? What is
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ies, a shield and buckler for the Jew. phenomena of Jewish life in Jerusa-
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Before the war their lives were se-
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Pulleys—Belting—Hangers
must always remain one of the major very, very poor were lured from the
obligations of the Jew. That is my straight and narrow path by the "goy-
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profound conviction.
ish" schools of the Alliance and the
Drills and Reamers
But
the
study
of
the
Law
for
its
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own sake, as a :natter of mature, sea-
Ica. (The
by these
I schools
is havoc
a long wrought
story.) Suddenly
soned, deliberate choice. Not out of a there came into the land the forces of
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blind following in ancestral footsteps. reconstruction. Suddenly came Jews
Not as an act of life forced upon one who scorned the easy way, who dug
— THE —
by external pressure, and above all, at the rocks with their fingers, who
not with the motive of gaining the make a religion of work and who sing
right to Chaluka.
as they labor in the broiling sun. Jews
It is the Chaluka background of with unbearded faces, Jewesses with
these young fellows that disturbs me. bobbed, uncovered hair. The impact
Co.
To be sure, not all of the particular of this new Jewish life has bewildered
class under discussion subsists on them.
149 E. LARNED ST.
Between High and 'Duffield
Chaluka. A considerable number ob-
Before them this new life spreads,
tain a livelihood from some form or a life in which they have no part.
194 EAST LARNED ST.
other of merchandising. But, even Jews conic to admire and rejoice and
those have the same psychology, the encourage. The youth of Jerusalem
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same background, the same outlook.
are hardly noticed, and then mainly in
Let me say this: For the old, the ; a half-pitying, half-contemptuous
middle-aged man who, years ago and way, they who had been led to believe
even recently, made pious pilgrimage that they were the chosen, the precious
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to Jerusalem to study Torah, "yom of Israel. The blouse and cap are hon-
v'lyloh" I have a feeling of veneration, ored. The kapota, the shtreimel look-
of love. I would not deprive them of ed upon with something akin to deris-
that pious joy. But like most Zionists ion. Something is wrong. But what?
I cannot contemplate with equanimity It is a hard life, but a joyous life, this
the prospect of the Chaluka, or the new life that is unfolding and matur-
Chaluka psychology, becoming a fam- ing before their bewildered eyes. The
ily heirloom, a legacy to be handed Chalutzim know how to laugh, the
down by the generation that is going Chalutzim know how to sing. And in
on to enjoy its merited portion of le- this joyous life these ear-locked youths
viathan, to the generation that is have no part. It is Jewish life, that
growing to manhood in Jerusalem. It they realize.
Jewish life, youthful
seems such a terrible waste of mater- Jewish life of which they never dream-
ial that should be utilized for the AiI ed. They wonder
building of the land. Perhaps, if on y
Come let us go for a walk. Let us
a few hundred were involved it would go for a walk along Jaffa Road on
:
not matter much, either way. But as Shabbos afternoon, when the sun casts
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many!
long, oblique shadows and the cool eve-
I know how strong is the feeling of ning breeze sweeping down from the
every Jew that the study of the Law hills make living a delight. It is a
should be encouraged. Need I say that spectacle to thrill the soul of any Jew,
I share that feeling? But surely it the living, electric flood of youth pour-
must be realized by everybody that ing, in either direction, along this his-1
Palestine cannot afford the luxury of toric roadway in the long, sweet Sab- I
several thousand "orem bocherim." At bath twilight. Even the Arabs and the
least not at the present Juncture. Christian tourists pause to watch and
Fifty years hence it may be able to in- to delight in the spectacle. Look at I
dulge itself in that Jewish luxury, but them, these fortunate sons and daugh-
not now.
ters of Israel as they troop along in
This is the era of reconstruction in armlocked twains or joyous groups.
Palestine. Every hand that displaces Gaze, gaze and thrill until there is a
WOODWARD
a rock, or turns a wheel is an asset to clutch in your throat, an overbrim-
the land. The greater the number of ming of your eyes, upon this Shabbos
hands engaged in productive, creative parade of Jewish youth, bronzed, lithe,
labor, the wider open swings the por- muscular, with head erect and radiant
tat to the land, the greater the sum- eyes. Hearken to their laughter! Have
bar who may an to displace rocks, you ever heard Jews laugh like that
wield plows, turn wheels. And here anywhere else in the world? It is the
we have these thousands of young men laughter of which only those mortals
who alibeit they do not respond to the are capable whose souls are free,
metaphor of "lilies in the field." yet whose dreams have been realized, for
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neither toil nor spin, even though whom life is a glorious, creative ad
some of them may tend a store or a venture.
Depressed by intestinal disorders, akin and
stand. In the eyes of many, they are
imvovawavoix,wcs
a deterrent factor. I am willing to
stomach troubles, lowered vitality, thou-
share that view. But I count it as a
Rosh
Hashonah Greetings.
sands of people have found relief in one
exe-
thousand pities that the Zionist
cutive in Palestine has not concerned
simple food.
a
way
itself with them; has not found
to recruit them into the forces that are
"Four years ago I was physically 'all in.' I was
making Eretz Yisroel bloom like the
rose.
greatly troubled with indigestion and constipation—
Palestine needs a religious Jewish
was a general nervous wreck. I started to eat three
youth, but a productive youth, earn- 0
ing its bread by the sweat of its brow.
cakes of Fleischmann's Yeast a day. Gradually I
In another place I have discussed the'
began to feel better, until today am in 'tip top shape.'
new Jewish youth of Palestine, and
the tendencies of some. No need to go
This year I have been driving a big five-ton truck
into that now, except to say that my
for the Express Company and I am still doing a good
view of the math r is strongly fortified!
by • letter which I have been privi-
day's work, along with men young enough to be my
207 Women's City Club
leged to read, written by Dr. Sholom
Building
sons.
Spiegel, a Chalutz of the finest type,
Imports
Exclusively—Personal-
"LOUIS GARIEPY, Denver, Colo."
who was in this country recently in
ly Selected
the interest of Chalutnioth, the Jew.
ETCHINGS by celebrated Eu-
ish youth movement.
"The most urgent proposition for
ropean Artists.
the establishment of religious life in
GLASS— Venetian and Bo
Not a "cure-all," not a medicine
Palestine is the immigration of the re-
hernias.
in any sense—Fleischmann's Yeast
ligious Jewish youth to Palestine," he
POTTERY — Italian Quimper,
writes. "It is indeed hard to overes-
is simply a remarkable fresh food
Austrian and Dutch.
timate the power and influence of
that builds health in a natural
FLORENTINE JEWELRY —
such a religious group should it sue-
way. Eaten regularly it relieves
Hand wrought ; Sterling Sil-
reed in obtaining a foothold in the
constipation, stomach disorders
ver.
land."
in Jerusalem there is ready to
and akin troubles. Order it from
LEATHER — Hand-tooled and
hand a religious Jewish youth who
illuminated Book End s,
your grocer and for your health
could, who should be added, somehow,
Portfolios, Picture Frames,
eat two to three cakes daily.
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to the productive forces of Palestine,
Bill Folds.
Clean, safer heat, for home or garage.
At all grocers.
but not of Palestine. As it is now,
REPRODUCTIONS of Antique
Portable, Inexpensive, Automatic.
to your tank. No bother, No trouble.
they are in Palestine, but not of Pal-
Statues in Bronze and
Not expensive. Automatic.
estine. No one reckons with them.
Marble.
Spring and Fall cheaper than coal.
The Chalutz does not understand
$37.50
up. Complete outfit $85.50.
Attach
to
base
plug.
PARISIAN
STATIONERY
have
no
them. They and the Chalutz
intercommunication. Their lives do AsS
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not meet at any point. They have
nothing in common, are as far apart

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