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that we are not Medes and Persians who spoke of the
immutability of their laws. It has proven to intelligent
people that man cannot be made good by a law which
would regulate his appetite. The failure of this sump-
tuary law is paralleled by the numerous laws passed
Palestine and the Arabs.
in England, when the monarch or a fanatical group
thought they could regulate the habits and morals of
The Jewish Daily News discusses
the people through legislation.
the new request of the Arabs, ad-
If men and women are to cease using alcoholic dressed to the League of Nations, that
drink, it shall come about because they are persuaded the latter send a commission to in-
conditions in Palestine, and
that they should not drink and have sufficient control vestigate
shows the absurdity and futility of
over themselves to refuse to indulge. And then, too, such a demand on the part of the
our life must be so enriched that people shall not be Arabs. There is not the slightest
chance for the Arabs to have their
compelled to seek an escape from reality which is any- request granted, the paper argues. It
is clear that should the league appoint
thing but delightful in this post war era.
a commission to investigate things in
The men who shall present themselves as candi- Palestine, that fact alone would be an
dates for Congress at the forthcoming election are no insult to the mandatory power, and
this reason, if for no other, the
doubt making a careful study of the polls. If they are for
new step of the Arabs will be ignored
persuaded that the country wants a new deal on prohi- by the league. Once only was a com-
bition, they will no doubt carry out the wishes of their mission sent to Palestina, and that
was the Wilson Commission. That
constituents and it should be so. We are hopeful that commission had done enough harm.
this vexatious mess shall be cleared up so that the more
"The Arabs ought to understand,"
important questions of American life be given the ear- the News continues, "that whatever
arguments they should not advance,
nest consideration which they merit.
such arguments can never change the
I
Polish Jewish Politics.
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FROM THE HEIGHTS
The Poet Speaks Out of Palestine.
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y
To Insure publicati:
might have come to visit you sooner. assistance of our brethren. We 1,11
b Tuesday
evening
of
each
week
'
If it had been possible for me, I their cries and we do not know
The Detroit Jewlvh Chronicle invitee correspondence on subjects of Interest
would have liked to come here incog- to succor them. Russian Jewry is hall
to the Jewish people, hut dlseleime responsibility for an indorsement of the
dead and is like the dead to us.
nito. I see now, however that you are
views espremed by the writer..
Polish Jewry—you know Its state
Jews of my own kind. While I am
relieved, I realize also that my pre- Strange; I believe the Jewish peopli
Nissan 11, 5686
March 26, 1926
have never known such a fall. Thil
pared speech is now a good deal
spoiled. I was worried by the ques- manifests itself in small facts whirl
show which way the wind blows
tion of how I was to speak to you,
Every day one reads in the papers 0
what key to use for the purpose of
opening your hearts. You are ac- Jews committing suicide as a result u
bankruptcies and the loss of money
customed to receiving many distin-
The Jewish feast of Passover falls on the fifteenth
In the whole course of our history,
guished visitors. They have all at-
position of Palestine in relation to the
day of Nisan, corresponding this year with Tuesday,
cannot recollect another instance of
tempted
one
key
after
another,
as
one
mandate and to the Balfour Declara-
similar
epidemic of suicides owing t
March 30. The celebration begins on the evening of
does in trying to open a lock.
tion. In this connection Lord Plum-
I will say frankly that this is the the loss of money. This only show
March 29 with sundown. The manner of its observance
er's reply to the Arab Executive was
how
empty
the life of Polish liar
first time that I find myself facing
quite clear. And it is not so much
was determined largely by the Biblical ordinances con-
become. They have absorbed thei
Dr. Leon Reich resigned as president of the Club of what the high commissioner said to such a vast throng. Our Sages who has
lives
in
money,
which they ubtaine
cerning this feast. It is to be observed for a period of
have prescribed a benediction for
them, as the tone and the form of his
Heaven alone knows by what mean
seven days. Those who cherish customs that originated Jewish Deputies in the Polish Sejm due to the failure
every phenomenon have prescribed
reply. Ile told them that England is
the war and after. This i
of the Polish Jewish Agreement. Now Deputy Hy- primarily interested in having peace one also for the sight of a great crowd. during
after Bible times will keep the feast eight days.
It is, "Blessed be, he who understands symptomatic. Polish Jewry is empt
the country, and that naturally im-
and shallow; its thoughts, its vet
The ceremonials are such as are calculated to bring polinary Hartglass is chosen after a spirited election in
the
mystery,"
for
there
is
a
great
mys-
plies that no agitation or propaganda
tery in the manner in which individ- existence, its honor are attached I
home the historical event which the feast commemor- and upon a platform of repudiation of the agreement.
would be tolerated in Palestine which
uals forming a throng, each dominat- their wretched money.
at inciting one part of the popu-
ates, namely, the new horn freedom vouchsafed to The vagaries of Polish politics are beyond us, but aims
I spent four years amongst Germs
ed by different views and sentiments
lation against another. From this
Jews, who have also written a vet
become coalesced into a unit. Such is
Israel after the long period of oppression endured yet it did not require much acuteness to realize the un-
alone the Arabs might have inferred
fine page in our history. The Oath,
the mystery also of the synthesis of
that they cannot expect the govern-
under Egyptian tyranny. The eating of unleavened substantial and one may say unenforceable character
tion, discipline, culture of Central K
ment to enter upon a discussion of all the heterogenous elements that ropean Jews made them the pride
bread is enjoined a number of times in the Biblical of the pact entered into by Polish -Jewry and the gov- their unfounded complaints. So much comprise the great American Jew-
Jewry. In gazing upon German Jew'
ry, for you do show evidence of unity.
have the Arabs of Palestine gained
regulations touching the observance of the Passover ernment. The agreement had the stigmata of Machi-
one observes its falling lower and lot
You have established great institu-
the British administration that
feast. Unleavened bread is characterized as the "bread vellian intrigue, inasmuch as Skyrzynski asked the from
tions. You are dominated by a com- er as the years go by. It had merit
complaints on their part are simply
nobly of Jewish science. Its coot]
mon purpose.
of affliction," and is also referred to in the Bible as the Jewish press to be tolerant and sympathetic at a time absurd."
butions to our science had been of u
I did not find it easy to tear myself
The Jewish Record of St. Louis
bread that was unleavened because of the enforced when he was seeking an American loan and while
told value. And now—it is rapid
away from the work which I was
points
out
the
significance
of
the
fact
decaying. Where are the Zunzes, t
hasty departure from Egypt. In post-Biblical times Polish anti-Semites were showing by their actions that
quietly pursuing in Eretz Israel. Geigers, the Graetzes? The leads
that, while ignoring the Arab com-
the earnest desire to keep the injunctions most scrupu- there was no intention on their part of carrying out the plaints against the Balfour Declara- After living through so many hard of German Jewry are distressed. Th
and anxious years of wandering, I
tion, Lord Plumer has at the same
see that there is no one to take thi
lously led the teachers of Israel to enact laws, such as economic terms of the agreement.
believed that it might be vouchsafed
time enumerated all the reforms which
places once they go. It is clear th
Subsequent
events
have
justified
the
skepticism
of
to me to stay quietly at my desk and German Jewry is in the brink of
the government intends to carry out
the use of special dishes that had been guarded from
work, and to aid with all my humble abysmal fall, from which it will I
in
the
nearest
future,
such
as
the
contact with leaven and reserved only for the Passover the Jewish press. This skepticism was not a captious
strength in the efforts of my brethren
of the old Turkish land law
so rapidly recover.
thing, nor was it based upon a disinclination to liqui- abolition
in Palestine. I believed that the great-
and the encouraging of local indus-
And further, there are some lox
season.
treasures of a nation are not the Jews who are living suspended in
A charming and effective feature in the celebration date the age old problem of Polish anti-Semitism. How tries. This last reform, while it was est
achievements of the individual as
announced for the Arabs, is very im-
who trek from country to eot
of the feast is the special Seder service around the fes- could one accept the promises and commitments of a portant for us. A great change must such, but his work together with his air,
try, go backwards and forwards, lo,
people, for his people. To me, to live
tive family board on the first evening of the feast, to people which had striven for self-determination and
be made in the tariff laws of the coun-
ing for a way to earn a living, in
have
I
in Palestine was happiness.
try, in order to create more favorable
rush about aimlessly, themselves
which the Orthodox add a second evening. At this minority rights for centuries, and as soon as it became
not yet been there long enough. I knowing why and wherefore.
conditions for the development of in-
family service a special ritual known as the "Hag- an independent nation was first in the denial of minor- dustries."
have not warmed myself sufficiently
It seems as if Jewry were a disna
in the sun of Palestine. The chill o
beret body, torn to pieces, the pie
gadah" is read. This ritual contains the story of the ity rights to all other groups in the country.
The Daily Jewish Courier writes:
the Galuth had not got out of my thrown to the four winds and c
It is true that the Polish constitution guarantees "In the way of civil and religious li- l it n t sel n Yjoruwqknhonwre wh.haal lionxrinterso woef vied away; and the pieces canto' ca
redemption from servitude, certain reflections inspired
berty, there is no crawlin Palestine Il
together again into their former s ■
by the memories of old and certain psalms. This is fol- broad rights to all people without distinction but in t, i i iitth b r as
e g
ha rd dtriimr rens blance and form one body.
ar ef t e e r rnwt, rygrar s‘,;, and
mp se l,a ci to n hn tel
a tot ec u Etoitch r e rlFt
lowed by the festal meal after which grace is recited. practice discrimination and denial are accepted facts.
were
hen
There remains to us one const
Arabs are ana t re a ted
a niong
o w non udre rcountry
tfrom
The service concludes with the reading of additional A rampant chauvinism, the product of insecurity be-
tins and one hope, and that is c
of i other
tre n e r
given to
siderationB that
a Vraw nTrriel l : l 11 terml in the Jewry of America. I
ion of prayers and the singing of cause of the proximity of both Russia anti Germany
t it i s is
h
hoped to continue
in Pales tine t e
t
* psalms, the recita
American Jewry is not yet crys
the dutyy power, to
the
g in the lined, and we do not know what sh
time-honored hymns. To this home service stranger can explain the blatant nati alism of the Poles. This iti r nit on n En., he as eta
work which I had been doin
shnt of h Jew-
s
aid
in
t
Galuth, and I had thought that in
can
also
explain
their
anti-Semitism.
it will assume. A fear was in
chauvinism
be
an
Homli
and homeless are cordially invited. On the table in
ison
h Nati al
Palestine it would prove more useful
hearts of many people that your
it pos-
d to make
hetlpecreate
A crazy quilt state like Poland furnishes many such conditions as' me will
and richer in results. .In the Galuth
front of him who presides over the meal are placed ob-
tablishment here meant a separal
e
to
develop
Bible Jt for the Jewish people
e
Talmud
'
a
td
th
from the rest of Jewry. You will
—
jests reminiscent of the ancient service and servitude, amusing as well as tragic contradictions. At the time
n. (pai ,
ion r a olm lims
tfho er ie,rwisAh rat,atto
cr iesn sn' ga: call that when in the days of Jos
ruts
:t Xu —
lite great
such as bitter herbs, reminder of the bitter lot of those the Polish Jewish Agreement was proclaimed the
s just the the three and a half tribes that v
one
sows;
in
Palestine
it
i
of Jews inpt o Palestine, or
re iss.being settled on the other side of the Jor
.Irew s w o arnkd tfhoerjew
e. The
who toiled in Egypt; a roast bone, calling to mind the noisiest anti-Semites insisted that the constitution guar- migration
P itm
of the recognition of the Hebrew Ian- odonnoosa
built themselves an altar, fear was
ancient paschal lamb; a roasted egg, memorial of the anteed equal rights to Polish citizens and inasmuch as
in
e nation, the achievements
g
a
But,
for
pressed that that altar was a syn
t
i
s
r
a
n
-
n r n s t t i a n:ds ICon t l 'i d n igte i rs
elf:r, n u PVee
theia
F ne of secession. And a deputation v
t oa r
free will offering that was brought in addition to the the Jews h a d entered in t o a special agreement they i7la
. inditvidnut ail atfter p o
tion
and
authority
may
be
made
effec-
of
the
and
privileges
under
the
from the tribes on this sidle of
m
r
M
n d th etsspeakss itLnt outzes rtta h in e
paschal l mb ; parsley and the bowl of salt water, sym- were not entitled to the
nonng is own people. a I
din vidul al panm
Jordan, asking them the meaning
bolizing the hyssop and its use in the first Passover fundamental law. Strictly speaking they were correct, terms
wanted to give what is left of me of
their separate altar. And they
Arabs adjust themselves
life and strength to the nation and
observed in Egypt, and a confection of nuts and apples and we here in America would certainly admit that Palestinian
swered: This altar is for a sign
to the methods of negotiation adopted
to the land, to pour them out in Pales-
children that they belong with
to represent the clay which Israel worked into bricks, any group which sought to make a special agreement by civilized groups, they will be pre- tine to the last drop, in order that not our
who are on the other side. Wh i
iudicing whatever just cause they may
with
the
government
would
find
itself
outside
the
pale.
a
single
drop
might
be
wasted
in
a
am
certain your answer will be
The Passover falling at the beginning of spring, had
have for grievances, if there be any
strange land. I found it even more
lar, we must not lose sight of the
But yet in Poland the exigencies of the situation
. . . The time has come, we believe,
originally a pastoral and agricultural character, which
difficult to tear myself away from the
that
in the course of our history I7
reasonable Palestinian Arabs
root of my house. One sees marvellous
signs and acts which were inte r
in time was overshadowed by the historical event as- were such that one could hardly blame those who to
for asser
the t themselves," the paper con-
things
from
a
Palestine
roof.
With
to
be
forces for cohesion turned
sociated later with the feast. Freedom and its obliga- sought to procure something which they in theory had eludes.
my own eyes I saw miracles every
to be forces of destruction. Such
In another editorial the same paper
saw
the
desolate
desert,
stretch-
tion is the keynote of the celebration. The Reform but did not have as a matter of fact.
instance, was the translation of
day. I
be-
Bible into Greek in the days of
We were unconvinced at the time and urged that says: "Jews in Palestine often feel ing . endlessly beyond the I horizon,
synagogues hold special services only on the first and
saw young great Alexandrian Jewish cone
that the Balfour Declaration imposes
coming transformed.
this
barter
would
be
both
profitless
and
unavailing.
A
seventh days, while the Orthodox observe also the sec-
upon the British Government greater
people, arriving from somewhere, put- ity. Such also, to a large extent ,
people may sometime gain an advantage by compro- duties in relation to Jews, coming to ting up tents, swallowing tracts of been the Yiddish literature that
ond day and an additional eighth day.
sand. Houses spring up in the night.
up the country than the Pales-
developed in late times. Let
mise on a detail, but on a basic principle, which in- build
You see desert sands before going to deputations come to us. Let
tine government is willing to admit.
volved equality and freedom of action, such a com- And yet, the very utmost that can be bed, and you arise to look upon sites come to you. Soon you will we'
promise would only mean disaster, not to mention the said against the government is that it of new buildings. You see the waste back into your midst one of the
desert covered with stones, covered
is too cautious lest it give the Arabs
sengers that you have sent to u
ridicule which their outspoken enemies would heap cause for the slightest aggravation. with excrescences, being healed by the am referring to the great Ilc
In January, 1920, the Eighteenth Amendment went
pickaxe
and
the
hammer
wielded
by
But
no
one
has
any
doubt
that
it
seeks
writer, Reuben Brainin. You wil
into effect. There was much rejoicing among those upon them.
Jewish hands. Such sights, seen daily,
to be just to all. Proof of this was
him rejuvenated. He will bring
The
economic
condition
of
the
Jew
of
Poland
is
are
indescribably
heartening.
These
given
by
the
recent
replies
of
the
gev-
to you part of that inspiration
who would eliminate strong drink from the United
are pictures that sink into the mind
ernment to the representations of the
he has received from his contact
probably
worse
than
it
has
ever
been
in
the
history
of
States. These enthusiasts, among them fanatics as
the new Palestine. Eternally thus
Vaad
Leumi,
in
the
matter
of
smaller
and
cannot
be
forgotten.
I believe there is not a place in the
tinuing this interchange of maser
well as socially conscious men and women of good will, Europe. All the promises held forth were not kept. subsidies to Hebrew schools than to
Unemployment
due
to
the
industrial
breakdown,
as
wide
world
where
people
build
as
they
Arab
schools,
in
the
question
of
dis-
we maintain a perpetual hand-
were certain that the weight of a constitutional amend-
do in Palestine. Every brick is laid
between your great Jewry an
tribution of crown land, of permitting
well
as
the
extension
of
state
monopolies,
has
affected
ment would put an end to the liquor traffic. Some be-
song.
These
are
not
laborers
the Jewish Agency to control the Jew-
new Palestine.
with a
working for an employer. These are
If you look at history from it
ish immigration. These replies may
lieved that the law would have the magical power of the Jew to a greater degree than any other "part of the
people building houses for themselves
ginning of time to our days, yo'
not satisfy us, but we have no reason
population.
destroying the appetite and desire for whiskey, beer
and their fathers and mothers. Thus
find that Jewish centers, ever
for accusing the government of being
With the election of Deputy Hartglass to the presi-
long ago Jews built in the desert. Thus
we began our wanderings, have
insincere, and this is of more impor-
and wine.
a people again conquers a land from
ished despite their wealth, db
tance than anything else."
In their jubilation, they . forgot many facts or if dency of the Club of Jewish Deputies, the agreement
which it has been separated. To see
their power and greatness, and
The
Jewish
Daily
News
discusses
they did not forget them they blinked at them and is repudiated and the understanding to vote with the the importance of adequate Jewish this is the greatest happiness, and it ing has remained of them. The p
of Alexandria were great and
was very difficult to leave it behind.
participation in the gendarmerie and
tried to make themselves believe that they were non government is no longer binding.
ful and rich in spirit, and yet
But I have left everything, and have
Polish Jewry is again at the same place it was police of Palestine, in connection with
existent. In the first place, there were the millions
come with my dearest comrade and
lost all; their language went fir ,
the news that Colonel Wedgwood and
everything followed, and now
before
all
the
furore
of
agreements
was
broached
and
then Ramsay MacDonald questioned friend, Schmarya Levin.
who had opposed prohibition. There were the work-
very name is lost in the dust of
Some years ago I left Russia and
the British Colonial Minister in the
ing people who felt that they were being deprived of what is more these devises and instrumentalities can-
I Take the Jewries of Africa,
travelled
through
Europe,
where
Parliament on this point.
observed Arabia, Italy, Spain, France, all
I
few
years.
a
their beer, while the well-to-do classes would still drink not solve the problems of Polish Jewry. A chauvinistic
remained
for
The News quotes from a letter of
events that affected Jews.
ing played an enormous part
as they had heretofore. The very feeling that drink state with an agrarian policy under the tutelage of a the Ha'olam correspondent where the closely I the
history—all have perished. I fel
Later went to Palestine, and there
l
eighteen
a
r
eigh
was prohibited was no inconsiderable reason for the op- France frightened by Germany on one hand ; and on circumstances are described which led witnessed Th
n
en
toimes
American Jewry, in spite of its
the
f sevelsrofs
a diminishing of the number of
—I do not believe in it. We c
e
se
t
.
position to the Eighteenth Amendment and the Vol- the other hand the spectre of Bolshevism makes the to
in
m
Jsenwss itntiothpezeorliceltorfse pooUtIleestae.
a
sum-
raw
n
up
ril'a
bind our future to the Galuth,
en to some extent to
t
natural industrial development unwanted. Between
stead Act.
luth spells destruction for the .1
same conditions prevail in the mart' of Jewish life. I am convinced
rt rhur ruegdh na -r people. There has been a strue
are living
i
noww
After the law went into effect, there were two these two millstones non agrarian Polish Jewry is being they
gendarmerie service as in thetuonlicteo
emphasis as between Galuth
never
s
sae
ue
ch
sw
t
;
'i71
groups whose activities were bound to undermine pro- ground to death. The least it can do is to leave itself peazie.e.nyWoepinair on
e nol ionn ra op:: i i
history. We must let this penetrate
and Palestine. It would seem
before
American Jews had been asked
irto our consciousness. If we think
hibition. The large army of bootleggers, motivated by free to resist in the Sejm the extension and continua- s we know the facts. At any rate,
the
praise the relative importance
question of Jews in the gendarmerie ef what has happened in Jewry since
large profits, proved conclusively that prohibition was tion of the chauvinist, agrarian policy.
the outbreak of the war, we stand
two. They have set $5,000,00 fo
With the election of Deputy Hartglass the prospect and the police force of Palestine is
unworkable. As long as the returns are attractive
estine and $15,000,000 for the C
very important, and much attention aghast.
I consider this estimate an instil
There
was
a
Jewry
in
Russia,
which
of united Jewish action in Poland is much better. The should be given to it."
large numbers of men will engage in a business even
sides, Palestine does not ackno'
was the greatest reservoir of our
though it is illicit and this is especially true when the solution of the problem is beyond them, inasmuch as all
Jewish Eagle of Canada in
the authority of any Jewry in II
national energy, of our spirit. It
T
a ysing this problem thinks that
of Poland is sick and shall remain so until its policy analysing
was our greatest treasure. The Jewry spect. There can be no distincti
illicit business has the sanction of a large section of the
"the problem of protection, insofar as
tween Palestine and the Gala
of
Russia,
in
fact,
nourished
spirit-
respectable community. The other group comprised is revised in consonance with modern industrial trends.
the Jews are concerned, reaches much
cause Palestine is being built r
:rally the whole of the Jewish people.
farther than the Palestine adminis-
those who are law abiding, but do not believe in the
In the last thirty or forty years pre- cause of, but for, the Galuth.
tration could provide at best. The
even being built for the Galuth
ceding the war, at the time of the
immutability of any law. They urged the reconsidera-
problem is to provide for an adequate
Ica. A day may come when it
greatest restrictions, Russian Jewry
tion of the law because they had seen the workings
and effective watch around the col-
attained a degree of strength sarnd the sole refuge for all Jewry.
onies,
as
that
in
case
of
a
recurrence
o
ss
tes.
d
pw
e
erd
The survey is a sad one. A
of the existing one. The churches were among the
power
ov w utocharite haaccl unLvt
of the events of a few years ago, the
i h the . moment there appears in the
Those
first to recognize the unworkability of Volsteadism and
I n ' of Russian g Jewr know that
hooligans should he met in a proper
but one thread of light which gi
t
t
Asleep
in
the
bosom
of
youth,
how
long
wilt
thou
rest?
'
way even before they have time to
saw the grave consequences which flowed from its
hope that Jewry may still be
e before had Jewry Yreached such
' nearer
approach any single colony. As long
although we stand on the thi
s lendor as it did in Russia. You
enactment. It is true that the fanatics condemned Know that boyhood is shaken off like tow.
as there were Jews in the gender-
that
our
Renascence
'movement
of annihilation—and that is
Are
the
days
of
dawn
forever?
Rise,
go
forth—
n.ow
.
kp
those who had the courage to condemn, but yet they
merie, we could perhaps ignore the
tine. Palestine is the only •a
originated in Russia, that the Jews of
See,
the
angels
of
old
age
do
chasten
thee
betimes.
revisionist demand for a self-defense.
ta
ide
os
n
t
khnem
I have seen the work in Er
gave
yu
were determined that the country should know the re-
g
that
Then shake thyself from temporal things, as birds
Now, however, the situation is such
reel, and I saw a few people
linrevival
.
national
sults of their investigations and research.
that
we
should
give
serious
thought
to
l
t
in
fae
e
ht
i
noto
f
a
g
a
in
ca
me
ing
under the huge burden of
Hebrew language
That shake themselves from the drops of the night.
Jabotinsky's demand."
among Russian Jews, that Hebrew lit-
After six years of failure the question of changing Dart like a swallow to find release from thy trespass,
ing the Jewish future. Fear
me
on
seeing how great is
erature
had
never
flourished
anywhere
the law is receiving serious consideration. The New And from the happenings of the day which rage like
ec
and how few the people who hi
SS it did there. In spite of persu-
He must be a good speaker who
York World and Hearst papers are taking a poll
voted
themselves
to it, and ho,
lion, restrictions, rigid exclusion, Jews
the ocean.
can do better than the one who is
penetrated into the very renter of the the help they get from outside
of the whole country. Millions of people have .voted Pursue
silent.
after thy King in the intimate company
Thousands
shows
that
Jews
do
not yet k
Russian spiritual life.
and to date with over two million votes in the over- Of souls that flow unto the goodness of the Lord.
important the work is to then
gh uninednr epd r !nose( d tthhoruornagnhd sth of f r rope y!
a.
whelming majority is in favor of modification or
pressed
Love and hate are exactly alike;
young
Russian m
ices and entered the greatest (Turn
JEHUDAII HALEVI,
only, the one is a positive proposition,
abrogation of the Volstead Act.
next page.)
Universities — Petersburg, Moscow, that Jews in the to
Galuth
do not
the other negative.
(Jewish Publication Society.)
Passover.
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