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Sabbath Readings of the Torah.
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Pentateuchal portion — Dent. 32.
Prophetical portion—llos, 14:2-10; Joel 2:15-17
or 27.
Day of Atonement, Monday, Sept. 21, Readings of
the Torah.
Pentateuchal portion—Lev. 16; Num. 29:7.11;
afternoon, Lec. 18.
Prophetical portion—Is, 57:14-58:14; afternoon,
Jonah.
September 1 8, 1931
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The Day of Atonement.
Once again we will observe the most
solemn day on the Jewish calendar on Mon-
day. Another Yom Kippur will find Jews
in all portions of the globe assembled to
pray for forgiveness for themselves and for
the entire people of Israel.
On this solemn day of fasting and prayer,
man's intermediaries with God, who is seen
as the Judge of all beings inscribing individ-
uals for their fates during the new year,
are penitence, prayer and charity.
Jews have much to ask forgiveness for
on this Yom Kippur. National failures to
reconstruct Jewish life at a time when there
was plenty of material goods; failures on
the part of the Jewish people wisely to di-
rect and guide the youth to productive and
constructive pursuits, thus preventing their
being placed in the present economic
plight; constant wrangling and divisions in
our ranks which have prevented united ef-
fort for the good of all Israel—these give
many reasons to lament and to be penitent
for.
Nevertheless, at a time when Jews pray
for forgiveness of their sins and are peni-
tent for the mistakes of the past, it is only
fair to admit that Jews have much to com-
plain about. Our people has been too sorely
tried. The sudden and tragic decline of
American Jewry's economic position may
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Ohio State University at Columbus re-
ports that 50 denominations are represent-
ed in the student body of 15,126, with the
4,511 Methodist Episcopal students rank-
ing first, Presbyterians second with 2,065,
Catholics third with 1,149 and Jews fourth
with 1,093. The percentage of Jewish
students at the university is more than
double the percentage of Jews in the state,
which has been computed at about three
per cent of the total.
Previous studies of percentages at other
colleges have revealed similar ratios. While
on the face of things, they may serve as
arguments against unrestricted admission
of Jewish students in universities in re-
ality they prove nothing at all. The fact
remains that Jews have at all times flocked
to schools of higher learning, and their in-
vasion of the universities is merely in line
with the people's traditions.
The plea that we make at all times is
that cultural freedom demands an open
door policy to all schools. If there are too
many Jews pursuing certain callings, the
graduates themselves will eventually be
meshed through a sieve, with the fittest
surviving an dthe unfit being cast aside.
And if merit is to be a criterion of service,
then ability must be permitted to serve as
the eventual guide to success.
Jews must, of course, in every way pos-
sible seek so to guide the youth not to
flock to professions already overcrowd-
ed, but that in turn is an internal problem
remote and divorced from the principle of
academic freedom.
An observation that is in order at this
time suggests itself apropos the "confession
of faith" of 1,093 Jews at Ohio State Uni-
versity who admitted that they are of the
Jewish persuasion. These have not yet suf-
fered the rebuffs that come to members of
their faith and race because they are Jew-
ish, and they therefore do not hesitate to
name their religious affiliations. But too
many Jews, shortly after graduation, are
compelled to hide their Jewishness, by
changing their names, by trading churches,
for the mere right of securing a job. They
are the saddest group of Marrano Jews in
modern history.
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Tidbits and News of Jew-
ish Personalities.
DRAMA IN A PENNY ARCADE
I was passing an amusement ar- ,
cade on State street, in Chicago.
Walking with a Jewish social work-
er. "There is an interesting story
in there," said the social worker.
"Sometime ago," began the social
worker, "X came into our office,
asking our assistance to get him
employment.
"Ile had been employed in a great
industrial concern, doing clerical
work, and when the depression
came, he was one of the first to lose
his job. The Jewish charities took
care of the family and at the same
time sought to find a job for the
man.
'From time to time, his wife
would also visit the charities. She
was grateful for the assistance of
the charities, but she felt that the
charities in some way should see to
it that her husband himself was
more assiduous in seeking employ-
ment.
"'All day long,' said the wife,
'he does nothing—he sits at the
settlement house and plays check-
ers. And when he gets home it's
checkers again. He'll wear out the
chairs sitting on them playing
checkers. Is that a thing for a
man who has got a wife and three
children?'"
The social worker went down to
see X and found him sure enough
playing checkers. Yet X was not
averse to getting work. He was
willing to take any kind of work,
he said quite sincerely, but untrain-
ed at anything except the most
routine clerical work. The charities
were making a hard and seemingly
futile attempt to locate X.
His wife, meanwhile had become
as aroused at X's checker playing
in the face of their distress, that
one bright day, she smashed the
checker board to bits.
—$—
TRIUMPH OF THE CHECKER
PLAYER
That was about two months
ago. Finally, the charities found
a job that they thought would fit
X. They sent for him.
X's wife came, and was told that
there was a job for her husband.
"You sent for my husband, but I
came instead," said the wife, "be-
cause my husband is working." "Ile
cant take your job. He's got a
good job. tie's making better than
he ever made in his life."
"What is he doing?" queried the
social worker.
He plays checkers," replied the
wife.
And then the story come out that
X had secured employment as a
checker player in a State street
amusement arcade. He plays all
entrants for ten cents a game. He
is a virtually unbeatable player, in
fact, he really never loses, except
when he does so by design, to en-
snare others into the game and
make them believe they have sonic
chance.
And he's gathering in the dimes,
as though these were boom instead
of depression times.
Vital Statistics.
The Vienna correspondent of the Journal
of the American Medical Association, re-
cently quoted sonic interesting figures
pointing to the steady decline in birth rates
and increases in death rates among the
Jews in the Austrian capital. This corre-
spondent pointed out that the Jewish com-
munity of Vienna, numbering 200,000 souls,
is grouped together in one "Kultuge-
meinde," making statistical data reliable
and easy to obtain. lie then proceeded to
give the following interesting figures:
THREE STUBBORN JEWS
In the line of jokes, did you hear
the one about the three
who
were trying to outvie each other in
stories of stubborness.
"I am so stubborn," said Abraham,
"that when my daughter, Reba, was
to he married, and I went to hire a
hall for the wedding s I refused the
hall, when they asked me $100 for
the rental. I said I would give
them $85. They said no—they
wanted $100. Rather than pay that,
I said, I would see Reba single all
her life, and she is single to this
day."
Jews,
pulled out another—
WORKING FOR NOTHING
The scene is the office of one of
the most prominent Jewish lawyers
of the northwest.
Into the office came Goldstone
n (o alo m veio ) usly I cannot tell his real
"I have come," said Goldstone, "to
as k you to take charge of the
legal
ffairs connected with the winding
of my factory. But I must tell
y: u that I have no money to
pay
a e legal fees."
pr The lawyer, one of the highest
iced in his section of the country,
r e plied:
"Mr. Goldstone, that's entirely
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Charles H. Joseph
By JEREMIAH HAGGAI
articles on the subject of Jews and college, read
the contribution in this month's Harper's Magazine
under the caption "Jews Go to College." The
author does not use his real name, for obvious
reasons. He is a leading administrator who has
been associated with colleges in the various parts
of the country. He discusses the entire question
of discrimination against the Jews; he presents the
Christian side and the Jewish side and the college
side, and I roust say that he shows himself emi-
nently fair and tries to give each their proper
use. Ile indicates that there are fundamental
reasons why the Jew cannot adjust himself wholly
to the Christian environment and which creates that
division which brings forth hte charge and
counter-charge that the Jew is clannish and the
Christian is high hat. Ile very frankly presents
facts to show that there is definitely discrimination
against the Jewish student who wishes to enter, but
he, at the same time, endeavors to indicate the
dilemma which such a condition has created for
the college authorities. Here is just one of the
dozens of interesting statements to be found in
this article:
Jews are naturally intelligent and indus-
trious. They can drudge endlessly and put up
with great suffering and privation without
losing their vision of better things.... There
are, of course, lazy Jews and dull Jews, but it
must be remembered that I am not writing of
individuals, but of the race. Taken as a whole,
the Jewish students study the hardest and need
the least prodding of all. Unlike ninny Chris-
tian students, they seldom seem bored with
learning, and their thirst for knowledge is in-
satiable. On the basis of pure scholarship the
Jewish applicant for admission to college can
more than hold his own against the Christian
student; it is the circumstance more than any
other that drove the Christian college admin-
istrators to the various unacademic changes in
admission requirements. It might be expected
that the assiduity of the Jew would arouse the
admiration of his Christian classmates. On
the whole, the opposite is true. Oversee' at
one's books is not regarded by the average
Christian as desirable; to call a college man
a "greasy grind" is to insult him by suggest.
ing that he does nothing but plug at the
printed symbols of the textbook page and be-
come, as a result, uncompanionable and nar-
row-minded. All Jews are "greasy grinds,"
said a Christian junior to me the other day,
"and who wants to be like them?"
The writer says that one of the most annoying
things that college administrators have to deal with
is the persistent meddling of Jewish parents with
the lives of their children. But it is only by reading
the article that you can gain a true understanding
of the term "meddling" and you will likely be
forced to agree that the college's attitude toward
this nuisance is the correct one. At any rate you
will be well repaid by a perusal of this most instruc-
tive analysis of the entire situation.
doesn't seem to be much of a silver lining
T HERE
to clouds these days, even though the price of
silver has become so depreciated. But somebody
somewhere has some money, for witness the drive
about to begin in New York Jewry, for over five
million dollars for the Federation of that city.
Some three million are already pledged as annual
contributions but in addition over two millions
more are to be raised as special contributions.
Sounds like a lot of money these long-face gloomy
days, but it is heartening to know that there is
such a spirit of optimism and helpfulness present.
Paul Block, the publisher of some seven news-
papers, is to head the drive and if he takes up that
job with the same energy he invests in his news-
paper enterprises, there need be no doubt as to the
outcome. Ile is a human dynamo and a wonderful
inspirer. These qualities combined with unusual
executive ability, make him the ideal head of such
a campaign. And that he is fortunate in having
as his chief lieutentnt, Lieutenant-Governor Her-
bert Lehman, who is also SOME leader!
SOLOMON FREEHOF philosophizes in the Amer-
ican Israelite on the subject of the depression.
He fears it will lead to a "spiritual depression"
that may be difficult for us to emerge from. We
are paralyzed by the fear of the Uncertain. So we
conserve our incomes until it hurts. We cut down
here and reduce there for spiritual or philanthropic
causes. We make up our minds that we are going
to cut where the cutting will resolve itself into the
least possible inconvenience to ourselves. Which,
of course, is human and quite understandable. But
as I interpret it, Dr. Freehof is fearful that this
attitude will eventually result in a callous indiffer-
ence to causes spiritual and that we may become
spiritually as well as financially, bankrupt. The
milk of human kindness may dry up. Our sympa-
thies with others through troubles of our own, may
become "frozen." Yet I wonder how many think
of the fact that all through the years of good times
and in had times, the poor, living in the congested
districts of our cities, have become, just by reason
of their own lot in life, sympathetic, helpful and
neighborly to the degree of always giving some-
thing from the little they have. It's because
THEIR GIVING IS ALL HEART, while through
our mechanized campaigns we have developed me-
chanical giving with MORE MIND than heart in it.
It is a SOCIAL DUTY. The poor give because
they FEEL the other's dire need. So it is quite
natural that when dividends begin to take wings
and fly, many rich feel comparatively poor and
reduce their giving to an irreducible minimum.
But the poor keep right on giving of their mite to
someone who hasn't even a mite.
"That's nothing," began Isaac.
"You call that stubborness. Listen
to my story. One time, I was out
walking far into the country. It
was a dark and wintry night. The
snow was coming down like water
at Niagara, and the winds were
howling terribly. Every minute I
thought 1 ould turn into a cake of
Eskimo pie. In the distance, I saw
a little country house, with the
smoke issuing from the chimney.
Ah, how delightful that looked. It
was an oasis in the desert, so to
speak. I would go in there, and
warm myself by its bright fires. I
finally made my way through the
steeps of snow to the little house.
I knocked on the door.
"Who is there?" asked a gentle
voice from within. I did not ans-
wer.
RABBI WOHL of Cincinnati says that the only
"Who is there?" again came the
hope for the Jew in Russia is mass emigration.
query softly. Again, I would not
I can't agree. It is more hopeless for the Russian
answer. I froze my leg off rather
Jew to indulge himself in such a dream than it is
than answer.
for him to have his salvation worked out in Russia.
"You fellows," joined in Jacob,
Where can the Jews go even if the Soviets were
"think you were stubborn, but fie ,
content to let them go? It is all well and good to
e, wait, until you hear my story
talk
about Europe and America making a humani-
One day, I had a toothache, and
tarian gesture and taking hundreds of thousands of
went to the dentist, to extract the
Jews to their bosoms. But that sort of thing isn't
bothersome molar.
happening in real life these days, nor is it likely
The dentist asked me which tooth
to happen for many, many days to come. I think
pained me. "Tref" (guess) I said.
that the hope of the Russian Jew is in Russia. We
So he pulled nut one. It was the
know that it is extremely difficult for a great many
wrong one.
to adjust themselves to the new conditions, but
"Which tooth hurts you," he con-
since they can't possibly go anywhere else, every
tinued.
possible effort should be made to improve their
"Tref", I replied again. He's a
position where they are.
dentist. It's his business to find
and
a o ga
ull i ' n i 'ethe wrong one."
And so it went on—he pulled out
all of my teeth except one--and do
you know, I still have the toothache.
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The Hashomer Hatzair Zionist
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When we read, therefore, reported sta-
tistics of the numbers of Jews at universi-
ties, we are affected by mingled emotions of
pity for the youth who will before long be
faced by serious economic trials in a pre-
judiced world, and of hope that these con-
ditions will be eliminated, preventing the
rise of a new group of Marranos.
prove the unwisdom of a people tradition-
ally looked upon as shrewd in business. But
it is a cruel affliction of Providence that
such punishment of American Jewry should
react to the continued torture of European
Jewry which must look to this continent for
aid in its tragic plights.
And what about European and Asiatic
Jewries? Have they not suffered enough
miseries and massacres that they must be
subjected to additional cruelties? Cer-
tainly the stream of pogroms and indigni-
Some time ago, the figures on deaths and
ties heaped upon the Jewries of the world
births were published. From 1921 to 1928,
in the past twelve months are enough to
one observes a constant and steady decline of
arouse Heavenly as well as earthly powers
the birth rite. The respective totals for this
in behalf of our people.
eight-year period are 3,080, 2,966, 2,721,
2,557, 2,190, 1,752, 1,497 and 1,216. The
Must our people continue to be chosen to
official figures for 1929 have not yet been pub-
suffer? Is this the attribute of a Chosen
lished. but the total is said to be below 1,000.
The death totals for the same eight-year
People, that it must suffer and struggle and
period are respectively, 2,868, 2,966, 2,659,
submit to ugly persecutions for the sake of
2,597, 2,496, 2,621, 2,729 and 2,864. A dis-
the uncertain right of being "a nation of
tinct upward trend in recent years will be ob-
served, no that the Jewish congregation, since
priests and a holy people?"
there is no influx from without, is threatened
Is this blasphemy? Then we ask in re-
with annihilation.
turn, is suffering a criterion of justice?
The number of deaths of children under 1
year
of age has been materially reduced,
This Yom Kippur, perhaps above all
although some of the reduction can be account-
others, the Jews have reason to intermingle
ed for by the decrease in the number of births;
the total number of infant deaths in 1921 was
their penitence with complaint, and are jus-
201 and in the last year reported it wa.s only
tified in raising their voices in pleas that an
48. Likewise, the stillbirths dropped from
end be placed to their sad plight throughout
106 to 35.
the world, and that the Judge of all humans
These figures are important for various
should command the beginning of the rule
reasons. The decline in the birthrate as
of justice and righteousness, with the Jew-
well as the increased death rates are with-
ish people sharing in the bliss which should
out doubt attributable to economic condi-
become the lot of all peoples everywhere.
tions. The increase in anti-Semitism cer-
tainly does not help the situation any and if
The Mushroom Synagogue.
anything is in great measure responsible
In a recent issue of the New York Times for the increase in suicides and for the gen-
appeared an advertisement of one of the erally despondent conditions among Jews
three-day-a-year synagogues, which have in most of the capitals of Europe.
become known as "mushroom synagogues"
With this situation ruling the (lay in lead-
by virtue of their disappearance after Yom
ing Jewish centers in Europe, the need in-
Kippur and reappearance on the eve of
creases for serious consideration of possible
Rosh Ifashonah. Not only do individuals
solutions of the tragedies that followed the
brazenly organize such synagogues for per-
war. Perhaps the desired solution will be
sonal profit on the occasion of the High
found in the settlement of large numbers
Holy Days, but this advertisement was even
of Jews on farms. Or perhaps there is need
placed under the classification of "amuse-
for a new migration movement to some un-
ments."
It is natural that synagogue and rabbini- cultivated portions of Europe. From both
of which, of course, must not be excluded
cal organizations should resent the spread
the ever-existing dangers of that hatred of
of such houses of worship. And it is natural
our people which does not even afford Jews
that they should conduct a country-wide
an opportunity to possess forms. But the
propaganda campaign against them. All
need remains for some radical action to
Jews owe their support to such a movement
solve the existing problems. Thus far, how-
against these synagogues, and to counter-
act their influence should respond to calls ever, the present generation has not pro-
duced the Moses who should lead the Jews
only from organized congregations. But
we again take this means of reminding our out of this wilderness of despair.
congregations that they will never defeat
J. L. D. is Irish and Catholic, yet the Jew-
the "mushroom synagogue" so long as they
ish New Year season is always on his eaten-
themselves are honored and consecrated on
only three days in the year. Let them make dar as a time for remembering his Jewish
friends with a customary greeting card.
synagogue life throb with life and learn-
Such good will, simply and sincerely ex-
ing, and the chances for survival of the
pressed, is proof that mutual friendship is
"mushroom" houses of worship will become
possible without the injection of the prose-
nil.
lytizing element.
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JAMES WATERMAN WISE, son of Dr. Stephen
Wise (though this designation is becoming in-
creasingly unnecessary as "Jimmie" is rapidly es-
tablishing his own reputation), has written an
anthology of the works of Ludwig Lewisohn which,
I understand, is to appear this month. Mr. Wise
has selected vital, significant excerpts from the
writings of Lewisohn which relate to the many
phases of Jewish life. And by means of this anthol-
ogy one can easily gather Lewisohn's attitude to
many questions that are annoyingly present with
most of
peoplemost of our people. Through his
writings he has given us his opinions of anti-Semi-
our
tism, Zionism, and other such questions. James
Wise is exceptionally qualified to make such a di-
gest of Lewisohn's books and I am sure that it will
prove to be an interesting and instructive volume.
Both Wise and Lewisohn are advanced thinkers
and while both are inclined to awing to an extreme,
they surely provoke thinking our part, and are
responsible sometimes for influencing us to modify
some of our hard and fast ideas, that may (dare we
whisper it?), be out-of-date. At least you may be
sure that when you get a group of Ludwig Lewi-
sohn's ideas flavored with those of "Jimmie" Wise's
you are goin
go ng
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ohave
some interesting reading.
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IEtlitor's Note: Jeremiah lisice•i, son
of Mr.
ill M,X. Joseph Haggai of thM
city. w h o toe prominent in local Ile-
braist •nd Zionist cirrleo, is • promising
Young leader uf the Zionist youth move-
ment. The following well-written arti-
cle ably explains the Zionist Scout move-
ment).
The problem of rallying Jewish
youth to the Zionist standard is a
perennial one that Zionist conven-
tions in all countries aneually face
and dispose of with one or two stir-
ring resolutions and little else.
Such an attitude must not be too
severely condemned, for one should
not lose sight of the great respon-
sibility which Zionist leaders uni-
versally bear for the immediate
and practical problems of the move-
ment, such as campaigns and ad-
ministrations, pressing problems,
whose need for solution takes pre-
cedence even over so significant a
question as the training and guid-
ance of a new generation to carry
on with the actual realization of
the ideal in the Homeland. A sorry
plight, indeed, is that of those Zion-
ist youth organizations which find
themselves directly dependent for
support and supervision on some
senior body.
The Zionist Scout Organization
"Ilashomer Ilatzair" is an indepen-
dent world movement that points
with somewhat justifiable pride to a
membership of 40,000 young Jews
and Jewesses in many countries. It
is primarily an educational move-
ment. It seeks to rear a young
generation of Jews and Jewesses,
sound both in body and mind, and
fired with the ideal of a Jewish Na-
tional Revival in a restored Jewish
National Homeland in l'alestine on
healthy foundations of social jus-
tice. To the attainment of this end
it applies the boy scout system of
education, conceived by the British
General, Sir Robert Baden-Powell,
and evolved through practical ex-
perience in most civilized countries
of Europe and North America. As
developed by Ilashomer Hatzair,
this method seeks to embrace all
phases of the young Jewish per-
son's life. Through a well organized
program of sports and other out-
door activities, it seeks to develop
his body, to co-ordinate its func-
tions well through proper training
in hygienic methods, making of
him, thereby, a healthier, happier
individual; in this manner, it aims
to acquaint him more closely with
nature, not only to understand and
love, and to apply the values de-
rived from it to his own life, but
also to meet the hardships it im-
poses under less civilized conditions,
to become thereby a sturdier, more
hardened and reliable person. Cam-
ping, woodcraft, and similar activi-
ties occupy an important place on a
well planned Shomer program.
Each Kvutzah Has Sichah.
Obviously, however, the activities
of Ilashomer Hatzair cannot stop
here. It is, after all, chiefly inter-
ested in its young charges as Jews
and as active members of an ideal
society. Consequently a consider-
able portion of its work centers
around the Sichah. Siehah means
discussion. Each Kvutzah (patrol)
arranges a series or several series
of such sichot for the entire year.
These sichot may be classified into
two major divisions. The one deals
specifically with Jewish topics and
with Zionism. The sichot in this
group revolve about Jewish history,
Jewish customs, literature, move-
ments and Palestine. The second
division is no less important. Un-
der it are taken up problems of
universal scope, problems, perhaps,
that are of more vital interest and
concern to young people during the
years of adolesecence• Science,
literature, art, music, handicraft—
these are only some of the phases of
cultural life which the movement
Ilashomer Hatzair seeks to render
accessible to the young Jew without
involving him in the danger of sac-
rificing the slightest element of his
Jewishness in the effort to obtain
them. woe strive above everything
else to create in our Clam (club-
room) such an asmosphere of ideal-
ism and comradeship that what-
ever his inmost need may be, the
young shower will naturally turn
to the organization for its fulfill-
ment or solution.
It should also be stated, at
this
point, that our educational program
does not ignore the fact that the
best means of making our Shorn-
rizn and
Shomrot Palestine-con-
scious is to enlist them in the prac-
tical work for Palestine. Conse-
quentl y, the Jewish Naal Fund
ti
th Gewerkshaften
and e
Campaign
occupy a recognized and important
place i
n our educational activity.
Not only do we send out Shomrin
and Shomrit on collection days, liu
(and what is more important) en
t
tire series of sichot are set asid
for the thorough study of thest
"k'ranot," for the further elucitla
tion of their purposes and signifi
cance in the work of reconstruct'.
in Palestine. Jewish National Fun,
sermon of flag-days in Easter'
Europe and in other American cit
ies testify amply as to the faithful
ness with which this phase of our
work is carried on.
U. S. Has Such Movement.
We believe that eight years of
such activity should serve to fire a
healthy minded young Jew or Jew-
esses with a burning desire and de-
termination to go to Eretz Yisrael
and live there the Jewish pioneer's
glorious life of self-realization in
the outposts of a new' Jewish so-
ciety. One thousand organized
Shomrim and Shomrit from many
countries already are working in
Palestine. Five times that number
are awaiting the raising of the ban
on pioneer immigration into the
Homeland.
America, too, has such a youth
movement. After years of dynam-
ic development, Hashomer Hatzair
crossed the Atlantic, and contrary
to all pessimistic prophecies and
analyses concerning the apathy of
American Jewish youth, struck
firm rout in the soil of America.
In New York, in Boston, in Mon-
treal, in Toronto, there exist excel-
lent Kinim (nests). The movement
in this country is now approaching
its first thousand and at the pres-
ent rate of development will soon
exceed that number. Every year
it maintains two summer moshavot
(camps) for a period of four weeks,
one in Canada, one in New York.
Organized as one large K'vutzah,
the Shomrim enjoy during this
month all the pleasures of scout life
in a typically l'alestinean asmos-
phere of brotherhood, idealism and
work. It was my pleasure, as a
Shomer, to spend the month of Au-
gust in our national organization's
summer Moshavah near Highland
Mills, New York. The Nloshavah
is an event, which once experienced
is indelibly engraved upon one's
memory in years to come as one of
the deepest, intensest, and most
fruitful of all spiritual experien-
ces.
s•st
is=
was
' The formal opening itself
an
impressive spectacle. At sundown,
the bugle was blown, commands in
Hebrew issued, and 150 Shomrim
and Shomrot drew up around a
campfire in formal array for the of-
ficial cledicaiton of their annual
Moshavah. Solemn addresses
delivered on the significance of the
Moshavah, on the general mission
of our movement in the world, in
l'alestine, in America. Formal
greetings followed by representa-
tives of the Jewish National Fund
of America. of Avukah, of Young
Judaea, of the Zionist labor parties,
of the Peale Zion Youth.
were
Hashomer Hatzair in America
also maintains a farm (hava) near
Planefield, N. J., for those Shom-
rim who are actually preparing to
go to Eretz Yisrael. America has
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already sent its
first group of
Shornrim. More will follow from
the Haves in the near future.
Palestine Sends Delegate.
Last month the Ilanhagah Elyon-
ah (world executive) sent Mordecai
Bentov, a Palestinean Shomer and
leader in the world movement, t
the United States. He will remain
here for more than a year, organ-
izing new pionts in cities not yet
reached. American Jewry may joy-
fully look forward to an unparal-
lelled development, to the growth
of a mass Zionist Youth Movement
in this country.
Hashomer Hatzair has existed in
Detroit for more than a year. All
beginnings are admittedly difficult;
but now the hour has struck when
in Detroit, too, we must take our
place at the head of the Zionist
Youth Movement of this city. In
our movement, the person who
bears the greatest responsibity,
whose task is the most difficult, is
the Menahel, the leader. For he is
the one whose duty it is to lead the
k'vutsah, supervise its activities,
and instill in his young charges
those specific qualities and values
developed by our movements which,
in Hebrew, we term Shomriut. De-
needs leaders. The Ken must
expand. We fell that all sincere.
earnest Jewish young men and
troit who s acr oep un ffi nedi ently
impres-
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For the Day of Memorial
From the Hebrew of Jehudah Halevi.
The seer of good shall acceptance find
From the God whose glory is boundless,
f he turn unto Him with repentant mind,
And sackcloth on both of his shoulders bind
By way of memorial.
So come and return to our God on high
Who fashioned the uttermost of heavens,
Let your songs of praise to His footstool fly
And seek Him tonight in choral cry
By way of memorial.
0 King of the Kingdom that hails Thy name
Since first to the void Thou spakest,
Evoking the light that from darkness came,
Accept this plea to expunge my shame
As a rite of memorial.
Prepare, 0 Israel, to meet Thy God,
Let every man seek to find ransom,
Remove the veil at which ye nod,
Cleanse ye and wash ye and dread His rod
This day of memorial.
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