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bust community with its roots deeply imbedded in the
soil, If Palestine is conceived only as a solvent for the
Glimpses of American
economic ills of European Jewry, and if the problem is
rea m. wow. tame.. nevus Ai lossubion
Jewish Cornmunities
Published Weeny by rise Jewish Chronicle Publishing G. lea.
basically one of a disproportion of land workers and
President artisans as against traders, merchants and speculators,
JOSEPH J. CUMMINS
Iv.
Heater, American social worker,
Editor then it must be admitted thit little has been done to
(Editor's Note:—Dr. Maurice -
JACOB MARGOLIS
rshipping their ancient faith, achieving notable
s o
finds colonist w
General Manager remedy the evil to date, if less than 10 per cent have
By John J. Smeemenko.
JACOB IL SCHAKNE
success as agriculturists in Crimea.)
gone on the land.
llosood-slaw matter M•rch 3, 1918, st the Postoffic• at Detroit,
mikveh and to make arrangements for
lintorilist a.
I Editor's Note:— This is the
Mice_ under the Act of Much 3. 1879.
Jewishness may be waning in the
Due to this unfortunate condition, Palestine has
a schochett. Dr. Rosen said that
fourth in a• series of sketches of
es of Russa, but it is experienc-
leer would be supplied for the syna-
gone through an acute unemployment crisis, which is
various Jewish communities visit-
General Offices and Publication Building
ing a rethirth on the- land. The build-
Rogue but that the labor would have
ed by Dr. Smertenko on a recent
now resulting in a definite emigration movement, for,
ing of the succah, precedes the dwell-
525 Woodward Avenue
to be given by the colony.
before
the
lecture
tour.)
Cable Address: Chronicle
ing, the synagogue comes
according
to
latest
advices,
il•10
Jews
emigrated
from
Tacephonai Cadillac 1040
"We visited the colony, called Novy
London Office:
school. All work is stopped on the
root (New Way), which will be two
Palestine
in
the
month
of
July.
This
is
the
largest
num-
Copyright,
192(1,
Jewish
Telegraphic
14 Stratford Place, London, W. I, England.
Sabbath, even in the time of harvest,
Agency.
years old this September. It is possi-
cessation of labor may mean
ber
that
has
left
Palestine
in
any
month
in
recent
years.
Per Year
the to tell the age of colonies by not-
Subscription, in Advance .......................
danger to life-, as well as loss of prof-
These are, no doubt, the peop16 mentioned by Weiz-
ing the stage of completion of their
Tri.City Community.
it. These interesting facts are made
Ti insure publication, all correspondence and news matter must reach this
homes,
just as rings connote the age
Hex-
mann in his latest interview. lie stated at that tine that
Two thousand Jews live in Daven-
public in letters of Dr. Maurice Hex-
office by Tuesday evening of each work.
of trees. Here already we noted that
ter,
direttor
of
the
United
Jewish
for
the
port,
Rock
Island
and
Moline,
which
there were many in Palestine who were not
The Detroit Jewish Chronicle invites correspondence on subjects of Interest
the
streets
were lined with trees which
Charities of Boston to David A.
form the Tri-City community. I
disclaims responsibility for an indorsement of tee
to lbs Jewish people, but
country and the country was not for them.
were kept in fine condition; having
Brown, chairman of the United Jew-
doubt whether anywhere in America
views exp ..... d by the writers.
their
lower
portions white-washed;
The budget calls for $5,000,000 for land, agricul- an equal number of Jews has so com- hsh Campaign. Dr. Heater is a na- one also noted
here formal gardens.
Ellul 24, 5686
(tonally known social service worker,
pletely hound up each lift- with that of
September 3, 1926
ture and labor. There are many in Palestine today who its neighbor. This relationship is an having been at one time president of Here wetmet a man who formerly had
been
a
real
(not
Jewish) millionaire,
of
Social
Conference
would be happy to go on the land if they had the where- actual fact and not simply a sentimen- the National
Service. A satanic of his observations
tal impression such as one may get in
having owned the best equipped flour
withal.
The
first
duty
of
the
Zionist
Organization
is
About
Face.
nnll
in
southern
Russia.
It was most
on
conditions
among
Jews
in
Mexico
Turn
a great many other places. I have
to those already there. When all who can be absorbed found that through the efforts of the is just off the press. He WAS recently embarrassing to have this man tell
The intransgient Albert Johnson, chairman of the on the land are cared for, then the doors should be Jewish Community Office, whose appointed special investigator of Jew- me to carry back from him sincere
thanks to his American colleagues,
isle conditions in Eastern Europe.
founder and moving spirit is Rabbi
House Immigration Committee, now predicts that the
opened to those who are especially fitted to work the Joseph
thanks for what had been here offered
Dr. Better has completed a tour of
I.. Baron, every family in these
him. I shall never forget the pa.
national origins law, introduced by Senator David A. land, develop industries and establish sound commer- cities has somehow gone on record and the Jewish agricultural colonies in the to
thus in his eyes as he told me this.
Ukraine and Crimea, where under the
has been made to participate ill the
This settlement is composed entirely
Reed of Pennsylvania, and championed by himself, will cial enterprises.
direction of the Joint Distribution
Jewish life of the community. Rabbi
American Jewry will be called upon to contribute Baron has not only inspired the rich Committee, with funds subscribed by of men who had been traders. The
never be put into effect.
structure of the village. makes it pos-
Ainerican Jewry through the $25,000,-
$7,500,000 during the coming year. American Jewry members of his congregation to turn 000
United Jewish Campaign, an en- -ail& to till certain garden field col-
The change of mind is due entirely to the fair that
their attention to the charitable ac-
should
and
will
give
generously,
but
American
Jewry
lectively and yet have ownership in-
deavor is being made to restore the
tions,
but
he
has
been
able
to
bring
he may be defeated in the forthcoming election. Ile
should use a little of the practical business sense and forth an interest and a desire for Jew- economic independence of a destitute di y id„ n o y.
discovered that the Steuben Society, as well as the Rail-
people,
through
a
"back
to
the
soil"
"We passed a Jewish colony which
every type.
acumen in this matter that it uses in the pfosecution of ish activities of astounding
movement. On rich acreage made
is more than 100 years old, and is
amount of
road Brotherhoods, is determined to hasten his retire-
'fherc
available to Jewish ghetto dwellers
called Yon-Mnueho (Day of Rest),
its
own
business
undertakings.
work done by the Jewish clubs, both
ment from public life—therefore, his discomfiture and
and famine refugees by the Russian
and shortly afterward reached the
adults and ed. the younger mem-
The all important thing is to build up Palestine, not of
government, former tradesmen. schol-
panic. In approved Daugherty style, he would becloud
border e ef t he old Jewish agricultural
bers of the community, and the pro-
and artisans, with seeds, tools and
district which has been in existence
the issue. He blames the Reds for the present opposi- merely to talk about how many went there. We talk grams of these clubs include every- ars
instruction
provided
by
American
gen-
generations.
t fur
r our gene
that fosters the development of
tion, because, as he says, "he is determined to rid the so much about bigness that we think bigness is thing
en City, are achieving their simple, pa•
ilIi•
their members as citizens and as in-
3
"It is interesting to note this fact
synonymous
with
excellence.
We
talk
about
expansion
thetic
dream
of
peace
and
bread,
and
telligent and conscious Jews. By
Uriited States of the Red menace." Of all the red her-
in connection with the question: Will
are building altars as Well as home
in
such
laudatory
terms
that
we
confuse
expansion
with
means
of
these
dubs
the
community
the
Jews
remain
on
the
suit
if
the
rings in the noisome barrel of red herrings, this is the
fires. Dr. Heater's travels helve taken
is able to keep in close tooth with all
economic stage is altered? The agro-
him to every part of the agricultural
worst that has been dragged across the ground in a soundness.
the Jews and to help the affluent as
tome, who is of the third generation
colonies, and he has interviewed the
well as the needy in all matters per-
Palestine
needs
$10,000,000
next
year.
American
on the soil, was very generous in an-
decade.
colonists, their neighbors, the agricul-
taining
tie
a
well-rounded
life.
swering some pointed questions, as is
Examination of the facts will show that under the Jewry is able to give its share, amounting to $7,500,-
nual experts (who are called agro-
1 should suggest to all of the
every one. In the older colonies he
norm's) who help to start the cotes-
000.
The
money
can
be
well
and
intelligently
spent,
who
are
deplor-
f11111
Writers
tells nie there is practically no inter-
national origins bill there is a palpable discrimination
speakers
nies, and relief organizations and goo-
younger
ing the obvious loss of ourhh
marriage and the colonies have re-
and
American
Jewry,
prodigal
to
a
fault
at
times,
can
in favor of Britain and against Germans. Then, too,
ernment officials.
generation from the Jewis eld a
mained deeply . religious and in MAN:
the American Federation of Labor, as well as the Broth- insist that it be so spent.
Describing the agricultural colonies,
trip to Davenport in order to see ow
instances nationalistic. There has
effectively,
although
unostentatiously
Dr.
Heater
said:
been no urban movement among these
erhoods, has gone on record against registration of
Rabbi Baron and his helpers have been
settlers before the war and, of course,
"The number of families settled to-
aliens, as an undemocratic and unjustifiable piece of
able to perpetuate the
best elements
there
has
none
gather, been
is from GO to 100.
This is not since. In most
Unseemly
Conduct.
of
Jewishness
among
a
thoroughly'
eases there is no Sabbath work at all,
an
arbitrary
number.
but
rather
con-
discrimination.
American population. The task con-
ditioned on the number necessary to
even during harvest time.
The adamant Albert Johnson, who never neglected
Special agreements made by Jews of Europe seem fronting them was probably greater make the group self-centered. One of
oWhen the news of our presence
an opportunity to prove the superiority of noble Nor- to be boomerangs. The ill-fated Polish-Jewish agree- than that which is faced in larger the first buildings erected is a succah. spread through the village, there
cities, because tel their limited men-
gradually
assembled a large crowd of
Almost
without
exception
each
colony
dicism, seems to have discovered that he possibly made
all the men as there was no one work-
., and also because' this Jewish
brought with it, together with the
a mistake. Perhaps the country will not go to ruin if a ment brought no end of the trouble and no substantial leers
community is totally surrounded by
ing since it was the Sabbath (and this
household goods, a torah. In three
larger number of Eastern and Southeastern Europeans benefit to Polish Jewry. It is now hinted that the brave an old and uniform population which colonies where we stopped, Dr. Rosen the height of the harvest season when
easily have resented an alien
le v may mean—not alone dollars—
(Dr. Joseph A. Rosen, director of the
are admitted. But the change synchronizes curiously pronouncement of Ilungarian Jewry anent the repudia- might
n
culture. But quite the contrary is
Joint Distribution Committee s ag-
6 lilt! o
with the discovery that he may not be re-elected. That tion of Anglo-Jewish Joint Foreign Committee in the true. Gentile civic and religious o r- cultural work) was petitioned for , as-
Among the group was a patriarchal
as well as the political
looking man who turned out to tee
sistance in building a synagogue.'
to him would be a calamity, for then we would not have matter of the numerus clausus before the League of ganizations,
bodies, have come to realize- that the
i of the thi d generat on of the old col.
Ile emphasized the opinion
r that
one who would at all times be on guard against the ad-
.lewish Community Office is the heart
any. I learned that in his 45 years in
Jewishness will not survive en present
Nations was inspired by the Hungarian government.
of this Jewish community and that
his settlement the-re had been but two
mission of those undesirables who are not of the supe-
° Rusts in the cities, but that it will
it can do no better than encourage
According
to
recent
advices
only
190
Jewish
stu-
intermarriage's, and that there Was a
n the land.
rior and pure Nordic blood.
the work as a profitable effort to in-
spontaniety
of
the
movement
piety in the settlements.
universities during telligent Americanization—profitable is important," he declares!, pointing profound
In his headlong crusade to exclude all that did not dents will be admitted to Hungarian
"We stopped for luncheon at a set-
0 1:
evoked a strong protest both for the Jews and for the rest out the fact that several colonies we're dement
.
the
coming
year.
This
news
called
Judenort The- people
meet with his requirements, Mr. Johnson was carried
of the community. The non.lews in
settled spontaneously by squatter cal-
have been here 10 months; during
just a little too far. He did not realize that there may from Alexander Lederer, president of the Jewish com- Tri-Cities have come to find that enlists before American aid was aver - that time one man returned to the
be those who are in favor of restrictive immigration, munity of Budapest 'and of the Union of Jewish com- through the Jewish community they able "The movement expresses a be- city of origin and after three weeks
enabled tie enjoy another culture
came back to Judenort. The settle-
havior which is quite independent of
which is non-discriminatory, but they can hardly accept munities in Hungary. He is keenly disappointed over are
„„,„ t is composed of „9 fam ilies.
than their own and the large Gentile
artificial stimulus and is the expres-
his Klan attitude toward all those who may not become the failure of the Betheln government to carry out the following that the Jewish activities site of a hope of a large proportion About 07 already have all their fam-
promises given by Count Klebelsberg to the League of find in this community testified elo- of Russian Jewry who are gradually ily resident here anti 75 houses have
100 per cent American white Protestants.
being 'squeezed to the wall' by the
been completed for residences. In
Nations, that an honest effort would be made to abolish quently tee this fact.
• .
Now Mr. Johnson finds himself in a predicament
The Tri-Cities have served not only
economic policy of the government. I
.1 udenort the Agrosloint has an am-
the odious numerus clausus.
as an example and an inspiration but
was told by Dr. Rosen that this spring
bulatoria, dentist, and a school has
which he never anticipated. When he was in full tilt,
If it is true that the strongly worded rebuke given also as an active fierce in establishing there was a recession in e number already been established. The settlers
talking expansively upon the wisdom of exclusion and
Jewish communal life in the smaller
of applicants for tracts who were rag-
say that the adjoining nun-Jewish
the
Anglo
Jewish
Joint
Foreign
Committee
was
at
the
h
cities of Iowa and Illinois. Zionist or-
colonies have absolutely no prejudice
of the, g but
ti that months the approach
the national origins, he little dreamed that he would
charity federations and
eod er
that they have noted; they even come
be faced with the prospect of retirement from Congress. instigation of the Hungarian government, it but proves ganizations,
now exceeds
Talmud Torahs have been established
welled
to the medical center for aid and ad-
again sW
' • the '
-
First he appeals to his colleagues to save him from the --that mendacity and duplicity are not confined to the in these small towns through the help same
vice which is cheerfully rendered. The
period . last year. '
"The success of the enterprise con-
e.esm hl e(.1 riseh
. a e h a,,ssuarntaiersrnsil , established
colony
ai a already
attacks of the Reds. He discovers that the Red menace petty, but can be found among those who occupy the and the initiative of Tri-City.
,• .
Here is one of the few important
end
si, t.' in ■ capacity for infinite detail
places
of
the
mighty.
is a pure fiction. but the Steuben Society, Scandinavians
',..ch no one unless he has seen the
instances in our country where a Keh- which
el
Here
Ilungarian Jewry was used as the cat's paw to pull illah has been effective and successful fw,:ri-, , 1 4ciatnr, a w p pornrei : ar t f eu..1 T , he . young gees 1 jpt t i i s e,:n
and organized labor are realities which must be met.
e n)n i u eI , t x a . i nd which the
tett atet l t: b eia l r a o ilsin n v,bti.,it h .e,:in
io r yth:r e a ne . d nwrt;:i esfenn hrh,
The
the highest sense. The community
t
He can no longer urge his national origins legislation the chestnuts out of the fire, for when Count Klebels- in
is unanimous in attributing this
e
e if5etdart, h
i ,c. ee p :
ti nrrialg(,•.,-iT n i ns ilTr) y. n hp ie.
chalea:cter ' of the ' serva-Pe (I lheye 'render,
berg
appeared
before
the
League
of
Nations
in
behalf
because of the opposition evoked, and in true states-
unique example of concentrates' and
the spirit in and with which it is of-
of Hungarian minorities, he had a very uncomfortable intelligent activities to the efforts of feted to settlers as well as the nature
man-like style he now oracularly announces that the na-
sn it
time. This happened almost simultaneously with the Rabbi Baron; other cities, too, are sec- of the work they to is attested by the
tional origins law may never be enforced—for he will
tegnizing the unusual thoroughness
sincere friendliness with which they
:itni
pia,s
n ), rn:t.,0
yrukn
orn:il :n
d
h:
ganfiew
n.
T lor e‘krIton::0: tt:ihikhinsiya,, same
ask the next session of Congress to pass other legisla- bad press given the Hungarian representatives to the with which he' has organized his Cum• are universally greeted.
'Everywhere 'se inquired of the
Inter-Parliamentary Union, held in Washington. All munity and brought to bear a scien-
The
tion, less offensive to the elements antagonized.
status between the Jewish and non-
titlemethod in dealing with Jewish
Dr.
}[ere,
We are pleased to find these groups aligned with these happenings conspired to help Hungarian Jewry in problems.
Jewish peasants. There was but one
'
in 1 'I I
its
struggle
to
abolish
the
absurd
numerus
clausus.
Hun-
who said that the non-Jewish peas-
St.
Loots.
and
synagogue.
In connection with
the non-discriminatory elements, but yet we are by no
ants envies' the Jewish peasants (as
the latter it should be noted that a
garian
Jewry
chose
to
rely
upon
the
promises
of
men
cause Jews of St. Louis . have had good
means satisfied with the abrogation of the national
well they may because one can tell
year.
this
social venter is usuall • connected in
for jubilation
T
from a far distance when one is cum-
origins law. We are just as unalterably opposed to the who acquit anti Semitic murderers and practically ac
addition to a place of wershiP
Through the efforts of Rabbi Ste
band
of
counterfeiters
because
they
are
chauvi
ing
to
a
Jewish
or
a
non-Jewish
vii-
"On our way to the next colony we
Wise and Mrs. Irm a Lindheiin, the
present quota law which is almost as discriminatory (Init. a
lags. After a hit I learned even to
with
fi
C f f y e
lame across
barrier
has
been
broken
which
has
against Eastern and Southeastern Europeans as is the nista and reactionaries.
distinguish
the
fields
themselves
by into
itaful minority
a fine and po wer
their appearance.) My informant
No doubt the Hungarian leaders were faced with a kept
f
i
'e
l
s
eh
ll
til'p
e:lellini
',:
when
-
rtel'i
i
t
s
bricks
a
l
l:
would
rag
nellni'l
le
n
n.1l
-
lrea
national origins law. Mr. Johnson has discovered that
og
the
most
vlln
.
fe
fv,rle.
falv,vray
could nut tell of any distinct instances
Incidental l
a (inky-eh h 'IThe. :se institutions are as
he cannot ride rough shod over large sections of the not too pleasant dilemma. They are living in Hungary
and when pressed said that it might
t e
in the city,
cointe As will
la et,lra.
llit Jnited Palettastini
aiy ig o f e r..eals
o w rk e;:enrmg etY
1,7
,Fratl
and intend to remain there. It was no simple matter tee their
be only his personal feelings. It is
population
without
jeopardizing
his
chances
of
re-elec-
readily conceded when one sees the
Appeal, these two representatives of
4
definite that at least this gen-
severity
e spoke t
tion. The whole matter of immigration; however, is tell the authorities that they were not trustworthy or Zionism were able to bring to that quite
eration will remain on the land, and,
'man of 14 Stit.IW .e
r
cause and to a closer co-operation with
not the question of success or failure, Mr. Johnson. It honest, especially when representations were made that the
the experience of the older settlements
lol
had
An nIndian. li nli sf
tpito.tg
:rroallnn.,dli motherhh
r m
.a'onvtil
Jewish masses in St. Louis a group
—elating back to 1807—indicates that
the
abuses
would
be
corrected.
is in fact a question which seriously affects the eco-
him
killed
the pogrom
even
then a very large proportion re-
even
r
1
frerin
a
legacy
ot
toe
brothers
a
and
sisters.
sa
t
e
yrean .
l
y
t
t
ono
v7;t
tue
ling
is
now
exposed.
It
redounds
st
j
•
te
L
R:it Z mei t a
nomic and social fabric of the whole country.
The double de
mained. It is very important to note
h li : :coa,,,n. ni cht ,:h
He
here
.ee:r( to pr r,o.v.,.iud I:. , , y .
wealth, but justly deserve their p
the eugenic value of a generation, two
We hope that the rude awakening of Mr. Johnson neither to the sagacity and courage of Hungarian
1,f for
th
%, ouons t :n hem.
hs; 1 nhv.
,
haaalitruel a l , l
h ayk:m
daa rh
eo,:ff
through emIture and
m three (in case thee should even-
tion in St. Louis
element has entered
sisters
Thin element
will have the effect of making a thorough-going study Jewry nor to the decency and honesty of the Hungarian character.
tually all return), on the open fields
the
Zionist
ranks
as
workers,
most
of immigration based upon the facts and not the preju- rulers. The whole question of the numerus clausus is notably through a special chapter of for the people who were urban' &di- w hiff same settlement we meted
rrss will be
for years. This process
made
-tj
what
roio field
like
dices and fancies of men who appeal to the racial and in the status quo of last year when the League of Na- the Hadassah, which is emphasizing era
aided materially by the development
I t learned that this oelony
F.
religious passions of the most chauvinist and reaction- lions rebuked Klebelsberg, and covertly intimated that the cultural aspects a Zionism but of the medical work already inaugur-
fhdrhing
its
first
fy
,
e
ua
dr
ai
i
?
a
nly
t
which is in no way neglecting finan-
is t-
sled for the colonies by the Agro-
the wrong must be corrected.
ruins"oefl
home
ary elements in the country.
cial support to Zionist activity.
Joint. Dr. Rosen contemplates Dm-
lord..:Jilin!, s and
na had keen
from
Another form of unification of the
The members of the Anglo Jewish Joint Foreign community
The turn about face of Mr. Johnson may have a
has come through the fact porting if necessary) a visiting house-
ofth
limf:ce(sl.li
Committee are no doubt just as ready to perform the that for the first time Russian Jews keeper who uld teach proper meth- trhuein, had wo been i used
• •• .t
sobering effect upon the other alien haters and racial Committee
thoroughly cleaned
ads to the mothers, a oeurse which is
discriminators who have given a nightmarish tinge to same service for Hungarian Jew** as they were before have been invited to co-operate in -the AS necessary here as elsewhere-. It of stones that not a single trace re-
a
rare
e
(
Federation of Jewish Charities and
the gratuitous insult was given. The men on the con
may he possible to feahh this now more
political thinking since the end of the war.
here.
al'
lyei T hiSs l' is fo
fortunate
is rllt u na; el from
)
Jewish citizens are thus
readily as most of the tnothers have
mittee know the tortuous paths, the back door methods the older
ricultural standpoint but not from
1,e,rr ght
the into
ma more intimate contact
been taught the wis om of orderliness
that
at
and alley approaches of certain types of European dip-
ority of the community.
home-making. These Jewish
j
h
in their agricultural work (most of
t es arose phoenix like from the
toasts. They know, too, the mood of European Jewry These encouraging signs must not be them assist on the fields) and there Ashes
Stock Taking.
in of a mil-
°I former feudal barons, who
may be a carry-over of metentialitv."
a badgered, maligned. intimidated and coerced interpreted as the coming „,i
deal o f
ponsible for so much of their
Traveling through a part of year,
the
The Palestine budget for 1927 was fixed at £2,000,- Jewry. A people living under constant threat of ells
thle ' one hind
!offering. Justice, I found myself ask-
l
Isl'hnoltuelL Tinheraet ile7Z:etl I onR
Krivoy Rog section, where a few
iniF, is it not?
ediendeldP intolerance cen the (ether,
000 in London at the meetings of the Actions
Commit- , ermination
and violence learns to smile told grovel; and
ago
draught,
civil
war
oriel
revolution
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. • : • Keep the two groups
..... tar.,
ne cannot, he concluded, w un-
had resulted in terrible famine, Dr.
tee. The sum allocated are land. £500.000; agricultural to become the sychophant and cat's paw. Who among Which
pleb. unity and endeavor. Moreover,
met having seen the magnitude of the
!letter found a revival of commercial
settlements and labor, £500.000; credits, industrial and us can pillory them? When have we been face to face each of the groups has re .1 been able activity
enterprise,
secure an adequate idea of
about formerly deserted rail-
commercial, £300.000; the balance is to be used for en- with such conditions? How many of us dared to oppose to held all of its own fact , les 'nether, way stations. One of these was near what Dr. Rosen has accomplishes'. The
the Reform element losing many of
details
are
re-ally infinite and infinite
a colony, Novy Zhizn (New Life), of
gineering enterprises, health and hospital building, edu- a majority ill time of crises?
the amateur Gentiles, while the Con-
pains have been taken."
which Dr. !letter writes:
servatives are drifting farther apart
cation and educational building, religious work, build-
"Upon arriving at the Novy Zhizn
Polish anti Hungarian Jews have learned much in
David WAS taunted by his enemies
the unchanging Orthodox groups.
ing operations anti contingent and administrative pur- the last few years of the sinister and devious methods from
(New Life) colony we saw the men
Nevertheless. a tremendous amount of
who claimed that he was not of pure
rutting marvellous wheat. It was a
poses.
of reactionaries. Roumanian Jewry will yet learn the energy has been released to the ad- sight to se -et a young girl about 17 Israelite descent, and thus was ineligi-
of Jewish activities and es-
ble for kingship, (because he was a
hind together the sheaves. She had
It will be seen from the foregoing that £1,000,000 same bitter lessons before there is a change for the bet- vantage
penally to the development of Zion-
descendant of Ruth the Moabitess, as
volunteered from another neighboring
are to be used for land anti agricultural settlements and ter in that country.
ist work through the steps toward uri-
stated in Book cf Ruth iv, 18-22), he
colony to help in the work. She told
firation that have already been taken.
did not punish his enemies, but prayed
come
alone
from
a
me
that
she
had
labor.
Fortunately for the Jews of Hungary. there is an
It is my hasty judgment that in St.
for them. (Ruth R. viii.) Samuel the
near Klee and had been ac-
This fact is emphasized because M. Palagios, in his international spirit awake in Europe today. The Hun- Louis the work of reconciliation and village
prophet decided that David WAS eligi-
cepted by the colony. She was work-
co-operation
will
come
through
the
his
811(1
ble., as the male Meabites, and net the
report to the Permanent Mandate Commission, recom- gary, which coerced or cajoled Mr. Lederer
ing so that shortly her family might
activities of the women rather than
females, were meant in the Law.
join
her.
Here
we
saw
a
man
who
mended that immigration be regulated in proportion to confreres to do a questionable piece of work will again through the efforts of the men. Among
(Yeb. 76b-77a ).
was a soapmaker 18 months ago, do-
the country's power of absorption 'on land. All prudent come to the League of Nations for favor; It will learn the former I have found an unusual ing the heavy work of pitching the
spirit of detachment from the custo-
Man should live by the law, and
cut wheat off the cutter to prevent it
•and honest Zionists are agreed that the mere dumping that it cannot blow hot and cold with i unity.
mary social cliques in the desire to
not die through it; hence all things
from clogging-
of Jews into Palestine is not the purpose of the Zionist
Out of the travail and broken agreements. there achieve • truly worthwhile result in
necessary for the saving of life, should
"We next moved to the settlement,
movement. They are equally unanimous in their dis- will emerge a freer spirit in Hungary, which shall break their Zionist work. It is, of course, called Novy Zaria (Ne• Star). Here be done on Sabbath. (Ab. z. 27b. 54a.)
in heir power to bring about a com-
satisfaction over the fact that of the 100,000 who have down those silly barriers of race and religion. In the plete understanding between these the settlers were harvesting their
first crop of winter wheat and it was
"We are already grieved with many
entered since the Balfour Declaration, less than 10 per meantime Hungarian leaders will examine the offers groups through the educational and beautiful
in its golden sheen. Here
existing controversies," said Ben At-
cent have settled on the land. The Permanent Man- made to them with greater care. Even gift horses may social activities that lie in their hands. in this colony we also were impor- zai to R. Akiba; "do not add any more
tuned to grant ■ synaogue, school,
to them." (H. B. 35a.)
(Continued on next ma)
dates Commission is very friendly to the plan of a Jew- be looked in the mouth in this day of the automobile.
ish Homeland in Palestine, but they want a healthy, ro-

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