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Sabbath Portions of the Torah.
Pentateuchal portions—Lev. 10:1-18:30.
Prophetical portion—Ezele. 22:1-19 (or 16), or Amos. 9:7-15.
Rosh Chodesh Reading of the Torah, Friday—Num. 28:1.15.
May 3, 1929
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Mr. Morrison's Gift.
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To the roll of honor of outstanding liberal Jews is
now to be added the name of Isidore D. Morrison, law-
yer, Zionist, a noun possessed of great heart. Two years
ago Mr. Morrison established an $100,000 endowment
fund for Zionist work. Last week he duplicated his
liberal gift of four years ago with a contribution of
$100,000 for the establishment of an ophthalmic in-
stitute in connection with the Hebrew University in
Jerusalem, and to this gift he attached a clause pledg-
ing $10,000 annually for the maintenance of this in-
stitute. More than that. he has informed Dr. Nathan
Ratnoff, chairman of the university hospital commit-
tee, that he has made provisions in his will to extend
the institution.
Mr. Morrison has done it great work for Palestine.
Due to the neglected condition in the land, as well as
to the climate, trachoma and other eye diseases are
among the most dreaded in the Holy Land. Institu-
tions such as Mr. Morrison makes possible help to re-
move disease from the Jewish settlements and to build
for health and physical strength.
I wonder if this is true. The story comes from rather
a reliable source. The dean of a well-known college was
rather peeved, or perhaps to be more accurate, the trus-
tees were the ones whose noses were out of joint because
Jewish athletes had won more than their share of honors
of the college, and Jewish students had won too many
prizes in their studies. So at the beginning of the year
the dean said that the trustees or governors or whatever
the name of the governing body had inquired whether or
not the college was being run for "aliens" or for Ameri-
cans! They could not understand why the aliens were
gaining such a foothold and were carrying off all the
honors, The phraseology may nut, and is probably not
exact, because it has been passed along to me by several
tongues, but the thought is there. I wonder to what
extent heads of colleges look upon Jewish boys as
"aliens?"
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Nisan 23, 5689
Rabbi Ashinsky's Re-Election.
The United Jewish Campaign.
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EVIMI l'INIV1 Rita.
Only a fortnight seperates us from the United Jew-
ish Campaign, and it is well that the Jewish commun-
ity be well prepared to live up nobly to the obligations
that face it.
The coming drive is generally styled "a small cam-
paign" by the leaders backing it, and it is therefore
natural that they should express confidence in its suc-
cess. This drive is labelled a "small" one for reasons
that are very obvious. More than 25 causes are cov-
ered in its budget; one of the finest Hebrew school or-
ganizations in the country is to be financed with its
funds; not only local movements, but national and in-
ternational as well are to be cared for. For such a wide
range of causes, covering so many fields of philan-
thropy in American Jewish life, the sum of $150,000
from a community like ours is a comparative trifle.
The campaign therefore has every reason for ap-
peal to the community at large. It does not offer a
single loophole even to those most lacking in public
spirit by which to evade responsibility to it. Coupled
with the cause of Jewish education in this campaign is
the appeal for continued relief efforts for European
Jewry. With them also are linked the pleas for the
Hias (Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society)
whose good works are spread over stations in Eu-
ropean and South American countries as well as on this
continent; for the Hebrew Free Loan, whose good
works locally are among the most religiously sub-
scribed "mitzvahs" in Israel; and the many other in-
stitutions whose enumeration in the news columns pre-
cludes their repetition here.
By combining all these causes under one banner,
the Jewish Welfare Federation helps to eliminate the
multiplicity of campaigns, and under one banner aids
many appeals. A united community should enroll it-
self under this banner.
Congregation Emanuel has chosen to pay due hon-
ors to its rabbi. At a meeting held early this week,
members of this synagogue re-elected Rabbi Aaron M.
Ashinsky as their spiritual leader and teacher for a
period of Live years and thus not only honored their
rabbi, but earned the right to claim honor for them-
selves by their wise action.
Rabbi Ashinsky has built for himself a position of
unquestioned leadership both by his learning and by
the fine public spirit he displays toward all Jewish
causes, For his learning he has become known
throughout the land as one of our leading Talmidei
Chachamim, as one of our most informed teachers. By
his activities in the cause of Palestine, Jewish educa-
tion, relief and whatever worthy movements have
called to him, he has earned a reputation as an out-
standing leader among Orthodox rabbis.
We congratulate Rabbi Ashinsky on his re-elec-
tion, and his congregation on its vision. It is a pleas-
ure to know that Jewry in Detroit is to continue to de-
rive benefits from Rabbi Ashinsky's residence among
US.
The Sabbath, Fusion and Confusion
Dr. S. Felix Mendelsohn, writing in the Chicago
Sentinel, predicts that within two decades "the Amer-
ican born and bred Jew will realize that while theoret-
ically there may be differences between Reform and
Orthodox Jews, practically there are no such differ-
ences. Both eat trefah and both violate the Sabbath—
why, then, assume the burden of maintaining separate
congregations when the two can work peacefully to-
gether?"
As if to strengthen this idea, Dr. Alexander Lyons
of Brooklyn, N. Y., another Reform rabbi, writing in
his excellent monthly magazine, The Supplement, on
the Sabbath question, states:
Some of the rabbis of New York City are greatly dis-
turbed over a proposed change of the calendar. They claim
that it will result in what they term "a wandering Sab-
bath." In my judgment they had better center their solici-
tude upon wandering Jews. There are so many Jews in
America who are indifferent to the Sabbath as it is that it
makes no difference to them whether it wanders or not.
They are the real problem, not the Sabbath. They are a
dangerous influence. Their example is infectious.
Personally, I am in favor of any day maintained as the
Sabbath as long as it is seriously observed and not as a
mere pious pretence. It would be a great gain for them-
selves and for America generally if its Jewish citizenship
resolved to sublimate Sunday, the national day of rest,
into a sacred institution. In no doing they would furnish
an object lesson, badly needed, to multitudes of so-called
Christiana. A Sabbath Day of Rest, Recuperation and
Spiritual Stimulus is a necessity to the individual and to
his nation.
I am for a traditional Day of Rest when it can be
observed properly by sufficient numbers to maintain its
influence for good. It loses its appeal and becomes dan-
gerous when for unavoidable reason it deteriorates into a
mere theory without practical compulsion.
Any day sacredly observed is more of a Sabbath tome
than a Sabbath Day preserved merely as a sanctimonious
superstition.
A Sign of Growing Unity.
The decision reached by representatives from Jew-
ish communities in England, Wales, Scotland and Ire-
land to join the extended Jewish Agency for the up-
building of Palestine marks another step in the direc-
tion of unity in the ranks of world Jewry for the most
important task facing our people. At an historic Lon-
don meeting which, if we judge aright from the news-
paper reports, matched in importance the great meet-
ing held in New York last fall to take the initial steps
for the Agency movement, British Jewry has followed
the example of American Israel and has, by such de-
cision, linked both meetings with a cord of great his-
toric importance.
In London, as in New York, it was Lord Melchett
who delivered the keynote address, and at least one of
his exclamations, followed by a question directed at his
audience, is worthy of emphatic quotation. Said Lord
Melchett who has himself given large sums for Pales-
tine's reconstruction and who is investing sums which
may run into the millions for the development of indus-
tries in the Jewish Homeland:
"It is foolish to ask, after cities have been estab-
lished, colonies replaced malarious swamps, the Jor-
dan harnessed and cheap power produced, whether
this thing is going to be a success? It is a success! Are
you going to participate in the success, or are you going
to allow other people to take up the benefit after you
yourself made the success?"
This is a statement important both for the devotion
of the speaker to the Zionist ideal, and for the warning
it contains. "Are you going to allow other people to
take up the benefit after you yourself made the suc-
cess?" he asked, and the implications are self-evident.
The Jewish pioneers, Jewish brain and Jewish brawn,
have built the foundation for the Homeland. In the land
whose sap has been drained by centuries of neglect
there is now developing new strength, new industrial
power, a new race of sturdy Jews who arc promising
great things from Zion. If the Jewish people does not
"participate in the success" begun by the pioneers,
other nations will.
The Jewish Agency spells Jewish participation in
Palestine's reconstruction, in Jewry's great success in
Zion. The Jewish Agency, therefore. must be made
the greatest single united Jewish undertaking in all
our history.
At the Sign of the Cross.
In the township of Deliatyn, Galicia, over the bar-
racks where fourteen Jewish families are housed, un-
known mischief makers affixed two crosses which were
naturally removed by the Jewish inhabitants. The
cry thereupon arose that Jews had "violated the cruci-
fix common to all Christians," with the result that it be-
came necessary for troops to be dispatched to prevent
dire results from the agitation. A guard of Zionist
youths had to be organized to keep vigil over the bar-
racks against their being placed on fire.
Thus, in this Galician community, whatever good
will and amity may have existed between Jew and
Christian, was wiped out at the sign of the cross. Me-
dievalism, it seems, still rules a religiously bigoted
Europe, and at the sign of the cross Israel must suffer.
Now, that is a perfectly fine sentiment for a gen-
eral day of rest which was, in a sense, forced upon the
non-Jewish world by the original idea of the Jewish
Sabbath, Also, Dr. Mendelsohn is correct when he
speaks of both Reform and Orthodox eating trefah
and violating the Sabbath. But if we may offer advice
to the Jewish gentlemen of the cloth, we would sug-
gest that not to observe the Sabbath and at the same
time legally to rule it out of existence is something
much more dangerous than the condition, albeit hypo-
critical on the part of some, as it exists today. For, in
all ages we had breakers of the law. But from age to
age we retained the law. So long as we always boast-
ed of a remnant (Shearith Israel) that remained loyal,
the people was destined to live. Without the law we
might not have had this remnant. As Achad lIa-Am
has said: "More than the Jew has kept the Sabbath,
has the Sabbath kept the Jew."
Yes, we need the law, and we need the differences
that enliven Jewish existence. and when Dr. Mendel-
sohn suggests fusion he only creates confusion.
Two Opinions on Palestine.
The opinion of the Rev. John Haynes Holmes on
the relation of the British Government to the Jewish
settlers in Palestine, published in an earlier issue, and
quoted at length in our news as well as "Random
Thoughts" columns, is interesting in view of the very
friendly attitude toward Zionism by the pastor of the
New York Community Church. To contradict it in part,
however, comes the statement of the former Acting
High Commissioner of Palestine, H. C. Luke, to a cor-
respondent of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency at
Trieste. that "Palestine Jewry is now deeply rooted in
the country," and that "the Palestine government is
willing to do its utmost to fulfill the duties it assumed
under the Mandate."
In the long run, there is one power that counts in
the Palestine enterprise: the will of the Jewish people.
\Vithout this will all our efforts are wasted ; with it we
are in position to accomplish wonders. It is the will
of the people that brought the pledge of Great Britain;
failure to retain this will and to translate it into action
on Palestine soil will weaken the pledge. There still
rules the admonition of the late Dr. Theodor Herz!:
"Wenn ihr willt ist es kein maerchen,"—"If you will
it, it is no dream."
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Well, the Daughters of the American Revolution is
probably the most reactionary organization in American
life. Last year it wrote itself down as stupid and as
reactionary as the Ku Klux Klan when it broadcasted a
blacklist that was a disgrace to itself. This year it could
not again face the wave of ridicule so the Daughters con-
tented themselves by asserting that some school teachers
are planting the seeds of communism in the country, that
every teacher should be forced to take the oath of allegi-
ance, that more criminals should be deported—of course,
aliens. But I haven't yet seen anything condemnatory of
the oil scandals and other such incidental trifles. The
D. A. R. may take itself seriously but thank God the rest
of the country does not. Those estimable ladies who
undoubtedly mean well should really resume their house-
hold duties. I am afraid that the weight of dignity they
carry with them because they are the daughters of some
plain, old-fashioned Americans is turning their heads.
• — -
I see where the worthy Cardinal O'Donnell has
attacked Einstein. It seems that the cardinal doesn't
think much of Einstein or his theory and he says so in
a very nasty way. Which, to say the very, very least, is
unbecoming in a cardinal. I never knew that Cardinal
O'Donnell as such an eminent scientist as he gives one to
believe and thus far I have not discovered any new evi-
dence to make me change my opinion. But what puzzles
me is, why the attack? Surely, a prince of the Church
would not attack the discovery that has created a sensa-
tion in the world of science, just because the new theory
was presented by a Jew? Yet it seems no strange that he
talks in a rambling sort of way about this new theory
as being atheistic, and that in some queer way it threat-
ens Christianity? I scarcely believe that the prince of
the church need worry about the Einstein theory threat-
ening anyone or anything because thus far no one seems
to understand it, least of all the cardinal himself. Strange,
isn't it, how some churchmen will insist on discussing
things they know so little of? But I am sure the dear old
cardinal can sleep comfortably. He need have no fear
that the amiable and kindly disposed Einstein is hatching
another international menace against the Catholic church.
It is interesting to get the following reaction from a
non-Jewish source to Cardinal O'Connell's attack on Ein-
stein. It appears in the current issue of the Nation:
William Cardinal O'Connell, dean of the Ro-
man Catholic hierarchy in the United States, be-
lieves that behind the Einsteinian speculation on
space and time there lurks the "ghastly apparition
of atheism"—thus reads an Associated Press dis-
patch. After condemning "petty, befogged pro-
fessors" who have set up new standards in order
"to attract attention to themselves," the cardinal,
it appears, declared: "I mean that while I do not
wish to accuse Einstein at present of deliberately
wishing to destroy the Christian faith and the
Christian basis of life, I half suspect that If we
wait a little longer he unquestionably will reveal
himself in this attitude." Many people have con-
fessed their inability to understand what it is that
Einstein is driving at. Cardinal O'Connell appar-
ently not only knows exactly what Einstein has
put on paper, but also, by mere intuition, what it
is that Einstein has in the back of his mind. In
this the Cardinal is merely running true to form
both his own and that of his church. Somebody
might remind him, however, that a similar attitude
toward the great philosopher Giordano Bruno re-
sulted in his church's burning that martyr on Feb.
17, 1600, a victim to the Inquisition, Today a
statue of him stands on the place of his execu-
tion in recognition of his greatness and the cor-
rectness of his views. Then there was a certain
Galileo, still one of the imperishable lights in
the astronomical world. Cardinal O'Connell's
church also condemned this man as "Vehemently
suspected of heresy," yet its teachers today admit
that the science of motion began with Galileo.
Freemasonry has always been an interesting subject
to the Jews, and I ant sure that the following letter sent
to me by Charles Kahn, an attorney in Chicago, will be
very interesting:
On the subject of Jewish past masters referred
to in Random Thoughts.
On page 341 of "The Evolution of Free ma-
sonry," by Delmar D. Darrah, Past Grand Master
of Illinois (19201, is a picture of Israel Israel,
grand master of Masons in Pennsylvania in 1805,
who issued the dispensation for the formation of
the first Masonic lodge in Illinois. This indicates
that Jews played a great part in the establishment
of Masonry in America during and following the
Revolutionary War, as they did in the business
and financial management of Washington's cam-
paigns, though the uninformed would have us be-
lieve that Masonry is an organization founded
solely by Gentiles.
It is unfortunate that in this world men are
regarded by the religious label rather than by their
works. This accounts for their separation into
groups commonly referred to as "Jewish lodges"
and "Gentile lodges" among men who should
know better.
It's strange that some Jews don't care to go to Pales-
tine though they are willing to go everywhere else in the
world. This short message to the Survey Graphic from
Rev. Dr. John Haynes Holmes might change their minds.
Ile says:
Go to Palestine: See a land inscribed in every
nook and corner with Bible history. Get acquaint-
ed with an international situation of thrilling and
momentous interest. And study at first hand the
development of the bravest social ventures in the
world today. Go to Palestine!
BRITISH JEWRY FOLLOWS AMERICA'S
LEAD AND DECIDES UNANIMOUSLY TO
JOIN JEWISH AGENCY FOR PALESTINE
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have been established, colonies re-
placed malarious swamps, the Jor-
dan harnessed and cheap power
produced, whether this thing is go-
ing to be a success." Lord Mel-
chett exclaimed. "It is a success!
Are you going to participate in the
success?" he asked. "Or are you
going to allow other people to take
up the benefit after you yourself
made the success?"
The first resolution, which was
unanimously carried, declares that
"the conference of appointed rep-
resentatives of the Jewish congre-
gations and institutions in the
British Isles would welcome the
representation of the Ang,loshowish
community on the enlarged Jewish
Agency and its participation in the
discharge of the duties assigned to
the Agency by the mandate in-
trust to his majesty's government
by the League of Nations."
The resolution further pledges
Anglo-Jewry to "do its utmost to
support the government in giving
effect to the mandate and use its
best endeavors to promote the
Jewish work of reconstructi , n in
Palestine."
The second resolution, moved
by Sir Matthew Nathan, Colonial
administrator, former governor of
Queensland, Australia, and sec-
onded by Miss Nettie Adler, repre-
senting the Union of Jewish Wo-
men, declared that the conference
"authorizes the Board of Jewish
Deputies to appoint six persons to
represent the Anglo-Jewish com-
munity on the Jewish Agency for
a period which the board shall de-
termine." The resolution was
unanimously adopted.
Create Special Committee.
The third resolution, moved by
Lord Walter Rothschild, and car-
ried unanimously, requested the
Board of Jewish Deputies to set alt
a Palestine committee, which shall
include the Anglo-Jewish represen-
tatives on the Jewish Agency, to
deal with Palestine matters. The
proceedings of this Palestine com-
mittee are to be submitted to the
Board of Jewish Deputies. This
resolution was seconded by Na-
than Laski.
Mr. D'Avigdor Goldsmid, in wel-
coming the delegates, made an ap-
peal for the sinking of minor dif-
ferences so that a united Jewish
front, making possible a united
Jewish effort for Palestine, may
be created.
"The Zionist Organization has
loyally fulfilled the duties required
of it in the Palestine mandate,
both as the acting Jewish Agency
and as the initiator of the move-
ment to enlarge the Jewish
Agency," he stated. "The Zionist
Organization has addressed an in-
vitation to the Jewish community
of the United States to join the
Agency. The American Jewish
Community, under the enlightened
leadership of Louis Marshall, the
great defender of Jewish rights,
passed a resolution proving its
readiness to bear a part of the re-
sponsibility. The essence of the
problem facing this conference is:
what is our duty as members of
the Anglo-Jewish community and
as British citizens?" he asked,
stating in reply, "Letters of lead-
ers of the community who are best
qualified to judge because they
have themselves administered ter-
ritories under the Crown, show
clearly what our duty should be.
"Impartial persons cannot nesp
but admire the zeal, the sacrifice
and the devotion of the Zionists. It
is therefore the duty of those who
have so far looked on while to take
a hand in the I'alestine work. The
questioning fact which many oth-
ers have noticed while visiting Pal-
estine is the feeling of I'alestine
Jews that they are in Palestine by
right and not by sufferance, which
makes all the difference in their at-
titudes in daily life. The work
done in Palestine is very remark-
able in itself. It has proved de-
votion and enthusiasm, but the re-
port of the Joint l'alestine Survey
Commission shows what still re-
mains to be done, which requires
more money.
"There is no use shirking the
facts," he stated. "Palestine is
an expensive country to develop.
However, no territory which is be-
ing administered by the Crown has
ever had so much enthusiasm, zeal
or capital lavished on it. It is for
that reason that we claim from
the British government that the
terms of the mandate be loyally
adhered to."
Referring to the exercises at the
opening of the Ilebrew University
four years aago, Mr. D'Avigilor
Goldsmid stated that none can
deny that the foundation and the
development of the Ilebrew Uni-
versity are proof of the highest
form of idealism. "Our duty is to
assist in the development of the
country whose capital city will be
a great center of knowledge and
research and of influence through.
out the world," he said.
Mess•ges From Reading, Samuel
I just can't get over those thickheads down in Georgia
who refused to permit four Jews living in one of the
illiterate counties of that state to serve on a jury. The
case was finally decided against the fanatics by the
supreme court. It was charged that religious prejudice
was at the bottom of the incident. One would imagine
that the day of such bigotry had passed in this country,
but it seems that sonic of these jerk-water minds have
not yet emerged from the Dark Ages.
The Marquis of Reading and Sir
Reading's Message.
The Marquis of Reading in his
message to the chairman stated
that he was in full sympathy with
the proposed resolutions, which he
would support if he were able to
attend. "It is obviously the duty
of the Anglo-Jewish community to
give assistance to the Agency to
the best of its powers in discharge
of the duties of the mandate en-
trusted to the British govern-
ment," the marquis wrote.
Sir Robert Waley Cohen, man-
aging director of the Shell Trans-
port and Trailing Company and of
the Angles-Saxon Petroleum Com-
pany, vice-president of the United
Synagogue, in his address before
the conference stated that the up.
building of I'alestine was the ex-
pression of world Jewry. "Re-
building a home for Judaism
means for the Jews in the realm
of religion what the League of Na-
tions means for all nations in the
realm of politics. We need not be
alarmed that the religious life of
the Jewish settlers in Palestine is
not in accord with the conception
of many people regarding Jewish
traditions, because the settlers are
intensely devoted to the idea l of
upbuilding the Jewish home. The
spiritual regeneration of Palestine
will be accomplished if the Coup-
try is materially regenerated, re-
quiring that good government and
the peaceful enjoyment of the ne-
cessities of life be secured."
Chief Rabbi Dr. J. IL Ilertz re-
ferred to the Zionist developments
and the struggle of the movement
since the days of Herz!. "I fun
glad that Zionism has ceased to be
an affair of a handful of leaders
and n partisan question and has
become the affair of united Anglo•
Jewry."
Lord Melchett's Address
Lord Melchett, in his capacity
as president of the English Zionist
Federation, read messages from
Nahum Sokolow and Dr. Chaim
Weizmann. He then referred to
the non-Zionist conference in New
York under the leadership of
Louis Marshall which, he stated,
unanimously and enthusiastically
joined hands in order to come into
the Jewish agency. That meeting
was a memorable one, he said, and
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Gems From Jewish Literature
Selected by Rabbi Leon Fran,.
We hear a lot of bosh about the Jews demoralizing
the theater, so it's interesting on the occasion of the
tenth anniversary of the famous Theater Guild of New
York to recall that Jews were instrumental in making
this extraordinary drama-group possible in America. My
memory nosy be at fault but I think that one of the
Lewisohn girls and Maurice Wertheim were most respon-
sible for the Theater Guild. Others, of course, are to be
given credit because it required a band of faithful
devotees to the highest interests of the drama to bring
such a movement to a successful fruition. Elsie Fergu-
son, who has the habit of saying nasty things about Jews
and the drama, might take notice.
MEDIAEVAL WISDOM
"Take care to honor every man,
that ye may thereby be honored, as
it is written: 'For them that honor
Me I will honor.' Some people
asked a wise man: 'flow is it that
we always see thee honor every
man?' lie replied: 'I have not
seen a man in whom I do not dis-
cover an advantage over me for
which I should honor him. If he
is old, I say: 'This man performed
more good deeds than I.' If he is
rich , I say: 'This man gave more
alms than I.' If he is young, I say:
'I committed more sins than he.' If
he is poor, I say: 'This man suf-
fered pain.'"
JUDAH B. ASIIER
I hear that Morris Gest is going to produce the Pas-
sion Play in this country next fall. Maybe I am mis-
taken but I think his father-in-law, David Belasco, is also
interested in the same enterprise. If this be true some
kind Jewish friends who are more acquainted with the
character of the Passion Play than these eminent show-
men should point out to them the mistake they are mak-
ing. We have more than sufficient non-Jews to create
prejudice without Jews doing it. Sometimes I wonder
what these Jews are thinking of. Belasco produced the
"Merchant of Venice," another medium for keeping
alive anti-Semitism. If Gest does produce the Passion
Play he will have a headache by the time the Jewish
press gets through with him.
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Herbert Samuel, two of the out-
standing British Jews in active
the affairs of the liritish empire,
expressed their concurrence in the
resolution of the Anglo-Jewish
community to join the extended
Jewish Agency fur Palestine in
messages they addressed to 0. E.
D'.Avigolor Goldsmid, president of
the Board of Jewish Deputies, who
presided at the conference Sun-
day.
Both expressed their regret at
their inability to attend. Sir Her-
b•rt is now in WHIPS, where he is
campaigning for the Liberal party
on the eve of the parliamentary
elections, delivering live speeches
a day. "I ant in entire agreement
with the objects of the confer-
ence," declared Sir Herbert in his
message. "I always regarded it as
it matter of the first importance
that the efforts of the whole Jew-
ish people and not one section be
focussed upon the upbuilding of
the Jewish national home in Pal-
estine. There will always be dif-
ferences of opinion concerning
matters of the speed of the work
and the shape it may take in the
future. Those differences are nat-
ural and their expression is heal-
thy. They need not cause per-
turbation. But underlying them
there is a large common measure
of agreement which the Jewish
Agency is intended to evoke and
(o express.
"It is necessary to remember,"
Sir Herbert continues, "that the
Palestine mandate forms the foun-
dation on which the whole move-
ment rests. The mandate, while
recognizing the Zionist Organiza-
tion as the Jewish Agency, re-
quired it to take steps to secure
wider Jewish co-operation.
"The Zionist Organization has
borne the chief burden for many
long years past. The Zionist Or-
ganization, under the wise and
farseeing leadership of Dr. Chaim
Weizniann, accomplished great re-
sults. Acting in this matter in 3
broad and self-sacrificing spirit, it
is now proposing a half of the
seats on the new authority to be
filled by organizations which are
now for the first time definitely
participating in the work. I trust
definitely that the present oppor-
tunity will be seized for creating a
fully representative body, power-
ful in personnel and resources,
which will be a visible embodiment
and effective instrument of all that
Judaism stands for in relation to
l'alestine," Sir Ilerbert wrote.
Quoting Edmund Burke that
"the state includes the past, the
present and the future genera-
tions," Sir Ilerbert concludes by
saying "We have the responsibility
to all those who have gone and all
who are yet to come. Let us rise
to the height of our duty."
TO A C1111.13
Th. •rta. • tender Anweret,
50 pent], and pure. and fair:
I glue on thee. and s•dneuis
Comes over me unaware.
4. 7
I feel, •. though I should Hot. ' , e'er
My hands on thy head with a
pny
That God may keep thee, my darling.
Ac gentle. and pure, and fair .
HEINRICH HEINE
EPIGRAMS FROM THE
TALMUD
One Rabbi asked, "Why is the
word of God compared to water?"
To this question the following ans-
wer Wan returned: "As water runs
down from the mountains and rests
in the sea, not the law, emanating
from Heaven, can remain in the
possession of those only who are
humble in spirit."
Another Rabbi inquired, "Where-
fore has the Word of God been
likened to wine and milk?" The
reply was made, "As these fluids
cannot be preserved in golden ves-
sels, but only in those of earthen-
ware, so those minds will he the
best receptacles of learning which
are found in homely bodies."