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HAS FAITH IN ISRAEL'S FUTURE
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1932
Greetings and Best
Wishes for a New
Year of Health,
Happiness and
Prosperity
L'Shono
A Happy
New Year
to
Everybody
Tovo
Tikocevu
SAM GRANADIER
We invite the gentleman who demands
correct clothes at a moderate expenditure
to visit our shop this season
He will observe the same quality woolens
and high standard of workmanship ... but
the prices now range from $65.00 up.
Sam Granadier
AMERICAN RADIATOR BUILDING
Suite 402-403-404
1346 Broadway
Above is a picture of the veteran Zionist leader who recently observed a half century of his Zionist
work, sitting at his desk in the Keren Kayemeth headquarters in Jerusalem and signing a certificate
of entry into the Golden Book of the Keren Kayemeth.
Deeper faith in the future of Israel and in the development of the land of Israel, through continuing
and extending the land redemption program, is the gist of the New Year's message of Menahem Ussishkin.
international president of the Jewish National Fund, sent from Jerusalem to the Jews of America.
USSISHKIN
An Appreciation of Fifty
(Continued from Page One.)
Years of Labor for the
tries
from which the most stirring
People and the Land.
events of Jewish life are being
constantly reported.
Dr. Leo N. Franklin Is offering
new course in Bible study. The
Editor'. Note. In the past Jewish year
many Important Zionist •nniversaries course will have the title, "The
were celebrated. centering •round the
completion of 50 years of ''llibath Zion,. Poetry and Philosophy of the
the movement to repopulate Palestine as Bible" and will
• Jewish land. Menachirn Ussishkin deal particularly
ids, completed In 6692 fifty years of
Zionist service. having begun as • youth with the Books of
of If and never ceased to be •ctive Psalms, Proverbs,
from then. Now he is the president of
lob and Ecclesias-
the Jewish National Fund. In the fol-
lowing sketch the Hebrew poet FIchman tes.
describes the character of this vigorous
Another new
figure.
course being of-
fered is "The Ori-
The personality of a leader is gin and Evolution
not the outgrowth of spiritual of Religion" to be
strength and idealism alone. These given by Seymour
qualities are Indeed essential in Tilchin, a gradu-
the make-up of the character of a set of the School
leader, but of greater importance of Oriental Stud-
is that something which cannot ies of the Univer-
be analysed, an indefinable force sity of Michigan.
in the nature of a man which
The college will
nothing can overcome. Leader- repeat se ver a I Dr. Franklin
ship is recognized by a magnetic courses that have
power and influence over man and become favorites and which at-
events, without which pure ideal- tract many new students each year.
Among these are: "Jewish Cus-
ism is of no avail.
Those who have never come into toms and Ceremonies" given by Dr.
personal contact with Ussishkin F'ranklin; "Comparative Religion"
and have never felt the physical and "Modern Religious Cults" giv-
power exerted by his presence will en by Rabbi Bernard Zeiger of
not be able to understand the re- Flint; "Talmudic Literature" to be
markable influence he has exer- given this year by Walter Farber;
cised over the Jewish people for "An Introduction in the Bible" to
so long. It is true that the force be given this year by Mr. Tilchin;
of his unswerving loyalty, his "Methods of Jewish Teaching" by
steadfast strength of will and his Rabbi Fram; "Methods of Club
unfailing optimism have made Leadership" to be given by Mrs.
themselves felt from a distance. l'hilip Houtz, and the courses in
But only those who have been near Hebrew to be given by Miss Rose
to him can comprehend how Us-
Al l courses are given Monday
sishkin, by the force of his per- Pike
night with the exception of two
sonality alone, can dominate over courses which are offered by Dr.
the scattered race of Israel, far Franklin and Rabbi Fram op Mon-
and near.
day mornings. These will be an-
Leadership draws its strength nounced later. The registration fee
not only from the conception of is $2 per course.
ideas, but from the fundamenta
natural power in the person of the
leader, his simple dauntless faith, torn up, not from the top down. But
and his utter devotion to the cause though he begins at the bottom, he
he has undertaken. The ascendency never loses sight of the ultimate
of an Individual over others does goal.
not lie only in that he is able to
Ile is the wise husbandman, the
see what other people do not, but lover of order and methodical ar-
that he is able not to see what rangement, the builder of sound
other people do. Ile has wilfully foundations. That is why he has
to overlook many aspects of his remained one of the very few in
ideal, so that he may maintain his whom we unfalteringly place • our
own vision and uphold the falter- confidence. In these modern times,
ing faith of a people.
when the world moves so quickly
In Ussishkin's personality these that yesterday's heroes are forgot-
two faculties, of vision and wilful ten to-day, a man who has been
blindness, are effectively blended. before the public eye for 50 years,
Keen as is his intellect to compre- whose record is as well known and
hend the essentials of ideas and honored to-day as it ever was, must
ideals and to turn them to the best he a man of unusual abilities.
account, so unerring is his instinct
As a natural consequence of his
to ignore the aspects that may be activities, Ussishkin's name has
become intimately bound up with
harmful.
His appeal is to our deepest in- the Jewish National Fund, the
stincts. Thus it comes about that basic institution in the national re-
we sometimes oppose him with our demption. It was to this institu-
minds, while our hearts are with tion he turned as his vehicle for
him. It is the response of the the call to instant succor in his
blood of the heart of the nation it- cause at a time of crisis. With
self unheeding the voice of cold every dunam he acquired he strove
not only to bind the people more
reason.
There was a time when we could closely to the soil, but also to dem-
not forgive his faculty of looking onstrate to the world our strength
over us of seeing beyond our gen- of will and fixity of purpose in the
eration. We accused him of belt g upbuilding of the National Home.
unanalytical. But in reality he By concentrating on each dunam of
shared our difficulties and burdens. land he endeavored to make Zion-
lie was at one time with us in our ism a healthy movement, to cleanse
groping for understanding of the it from the pollutions to which
problems confronting us. But we every cause is subject. For him
did not realize how close he was the acquisition of another root in
the soil, another spring of hope
to us.
and courage for the nation. And
It is true that we often resent if to-day, when the cloud of de-
his attitude because it is already pression has cast a shadow over the
fixed and unchangeable before he world, bringing construction and
approaches us. But it is our good development almost to a standstill,
fortune that at least one among we in 'Palestine still have a reserve
us is beyond the power of being of land upon which to settle thous-
moved from the relentless logic of ands of families, it is thanks to the
his position. It is this indomitable Jewish National Fund, which had
quality of his faith that has drawn the foresight to concentrate on the
thousands of supporters to his acquisition of land, the first es-
standard.
sential of the national renaissance.
To endure 50 years of single-
Ussishkin never fed us on illus-
minded struggle in a cause, in con- ions. lie brought his pressure to
stant conflict with strangers and bear upon the necessity of grasp-.
colleagues (not less difficult), is an ing realities. Ile was the first
achievement, but due to stubborn- leader in generations of Zionism,
ness alone. It requires a rigidity not as the expounder of abstract
of faith which is not given many theories, but as one who pointed
to possess. Only the deepest the way to the need for daily en-
springs are exhuastless.
deavor, one who was never satis-
The most beautiful quality in fied with little, yet utilized each
Ussishkin's character lies in the little for the larger plan, one who
fact that his old truths never be- never allowed himself a moment's
come time-worn. On his lips they neglect or relaxation from the
are ever renewed. They are not task he hid undertaken, who
outworn because they are never di- thought of the day and the mor-
vorced from the common soil. They row, the present generation and
never degenerate into the abstract. the generation to come.
No one has fully embodied Lilien-
blum's realism, Ahad Ila'am's Weiemann in Madrid; Recei•ed by
spiritual conceptions, and Ilerzl's
Minister of Education.
practicality, as he. All his methods
MADRID.— ( J. T. A.) — Dr.
are directed towards the one pur- Chaim Weizmann, former head of
pose of building. There are no the world Zionist organization, ar-
contradictions, no cross-purposes. rived in Madrid.
His efforts are connected and re-
Dr. Weizmann was received by
lated.
the Spanish Minister of Educa-
It is this healthy, normal out- tion, Fernando de los Rios, with
look which holds such a fascination whom he discussed Palestine ques-
for us. He is eminently practical,
at length.
and his course of action follows the tions
The Minister of Education is
obvious train of his thought. He known to be sympathetic toward
is one of the few who fully realize
that we must build Irma the bot- the 'Jews.
By JACOB FICHMAN
Raymond A. Rosenberg
• and
Julius Rubiner
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Jewish Socialists
BETH EL COLLEGE
Form French Party
WILL OPEN OCT. 17
PARIS.—(J. T. A.)—For the
first time in the history of the
Jews in France, a Jewish Social-
ist Party has been created and
already has several hundred
members.
The new party bears the name
of The Jewish Socialist Union
in France," and according to its
constitution has the "same aims
and progress as the French sec-
tion of the Worker's Interna-
tional."
The Jewish Union, it is point-
ed out, has in addition, a distinct
field of work and that is to con-
duct Social i at propaganda
among the Jewish immigrant
workers; to watch oyer their eco-
nomic, cultural, and political in-
terests. Among the members of
the new party is the well-known
Yiddish poet, David Einhorn.
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