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" September 23, 1938
ONE MORE COLONY RISES
Wishing All Our Jewish Friends and Patrons a
Happy and Prosperous New Year
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Top: General view of construction as Maaleh Ha'Chamisha, ■
new agricultural settlement in tribute to the memory of the five
heroes who lost their lives sin months ago, rises in the mountains of
Judaea.
Below: Among those present: Abraham Harsfelt, well-known
Palestinian labor leader, under whose guidance the establishment of
Maaleh Ha'Ch•misha proceeded, Joseph Berets of Degania, Mrs.
Rose Halpern, former president of Hadassah, the Women's Zionist
Organisation of America, the settlers, ghaffirim, journalists.
THE JEWISH PEOPLE NEED A HOME
ROSH HASHONAH
GREETINGS .. .
DEATHS IN 5698
Death took its usually heavy toll in the ranks of the
Jewish great during 5698. Below are listed some of the
more prominent Jewish figures who passed away during the
last 12 months:
Supreme Court Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo, 68; Dr.
Claude G. Montefiore, father of Reform Judaism in England,
80; Fischel Rottenstreich, member of the Jewish Agency
Executive, 56; Felix M. Warburg, banker and philanthropist,
67; Otto Bauer, leader of Australian Socialists, 57; Raoul
Auernheimer, Austrian playwright, 59; August Stein, former
president of Prague kehillab, 82; Harry Moses, theatrical
producer, 64; Sir Albert Levy, British philanthropist, 73; Dr.
Morris Geiger, educator, 57; Edward Filene, merchant and
philanthropist, 77; Frank Darnrosch, musician, 78; Rabbi Hen-
ry Pereira Mendes, dean of American rabbis, 85; George
Peixotto, painter. 78; Isaac Goldberg, critic and biographer,
50; Wilhelm Cohnstaedt, former editor Frankfurter Zeitung,
57; Allesandro Lustig, member of Italian senate, 80; David
Yellin, Palestine educator, 38; Sir Samuel Instone. British
industrialist, 59; Goodrich Leon, mountain climber, 26; Alfred
Solman, song writer, 69; Dr. Sigmund I'ollitzer, dermatologist,
78; Eir Edward Samuel, Austrlian industrialist, 75; Suzanne
Deutsch de la Meurthe, French aviation patroness. 48; Dr.
l.ouis Film English mathematician, 62; Joseph Lurie, Pales-
tinian educator, 66; Ernest Lissauer, author of German war
song, 47; Dr. Alfred Bender, former chief rabbi of South
Africa, 74; Leon Rabinowitz, former editor of Ilamelitz, 76;
lierthold Feiwal, Zionist pioneer, 62; Henri Bodenheitner, '
President of the World ORT, 72; Jacob Zeitlin, college pro-
fessor, 64; Baron Anthony de Worms, English banker. 89;
Isadore Konti, sculptor, 75; Allie S. Freed, industrialist, 46;
Mme. Leon Blum, wife of former Premier Blum, 45; Giuseppe
Toeplitz, Italian industrialist, 73; Albert Ottinger, former
New York attorney-general, 59; Otto Warburg, former presi-
dent of World Zionist Organization, 78; Mrs. Cyrus L. Sulz-
berger, civic leader, 71; Joseph B. David, chief justice of
Chicago Superior Court, 74; Prof. Emanuel Loewy, Austrian
archoelogist, 81; Isaac Starkmeth, director of ICA colonies
in the Argentine, 70; Col. Noble B. Judah, former ambassa-
dor to Cuba, 53; William N. Cohen, former New York Supreme
Court Justice, 80; Nathan Gordon, leader of Canadian Jewry,
55; Shalom Schwartzbard, avenger of Petlura. pogroms, 69;
Regina Bloch, English poetess, 49; Aaron Waldheim, philan-
thropist, 74; Joseph Picciotto Bey, leader of Egyptian Jewry,
66; Mrs. Rebecca Schweitzer, philanthropist, 57; Meyer Bloom-
field, economist, 60; Dr. Louis W. Stern, psychologist, 66;
Rabbi Oshea Rabinowitz, dean of Chassidic rabbis, 78; Sir
Leonard Cohen, former president of ICA, 79; Joseph Strauss,
bridge builder, 67; Ben Altheimer, father of Flag Day, 88;
Martin Vogel, former assistant treasurer of U. S., 60; Moses
P. Ginzberg, publisher of Chicago Daily Jewish Courier, 75;
Louis Zangwill, English author, 68; David Elias Samson,
Indian philanthropist; Dr. Philip Reinhardt, former adviser to
German Kaiser, 60; Harry L. Glucksman, executive director,
Jewish Welfare Board, 48.
(copyright, 1936, by 1.4,11Arle I, ealtne S)nlicate)
A New Year's Message to the Jews of America
By DR. ABBA HILLEL SILVER
National Chairman, United Palestine Appeal
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(re wish all our friends and
patrons and all the Jewish
people—a year of health,
happiness and prosperity.
ESTABLISHED
MANUFACTURERS 0 F
DOUBLE•MELLOW OLD GOLD CIGARETTES
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Seminary Offers
Special Courses
"Quotorah," New Bible
envisaged or evaluated in terms
Game
A hard year is closing for our of separate moments of check or
people, a year of bitter attack on
progress. Nor can our work in
many fronts. The disaster of Aus- Palestine be stopped or postponed
CINCINNATI (WNS) —
Courses for ministers, rabbis,
trian Jewry was added to the because of any temporary unfav-
Whether the hot controversy
disaster of German Jewry. Re- orable condition. We are engag- students, and laymen interested
of bingo in the synagogue had
ed long
in an
historic calling
enterprise
of in the history of the Bible and
cession was the experience of our
duration,
for wide
anything to do with it or not,
religion are being offered for the
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hasn't been divulged, but "Quo-
people throughout
and
Central
Europe. In Eastern
Italy the
ra- perspectives and long-range plan- first time by the Jewish Theologi-
torah", the new children's
cist propaganda which is the in- ning, demanding patience and cal Seminary of America in New
game just published by the
evitable forerunner of political resoluteness and above all unfail- York on Monday evenings, from
— AND —
Union of American Hebrew
disfranchisement and economic ing and generous offering of sub- Oct. 24 through Jan. 30, from
Congregations, seems to be the
8 to 10 p. m.
ruin has been officially launched. stance and man-power.
ultimate synthesis of bingo and
In Palestine too, struggle and
The four courses will be deliv-
If a fraction of the life, labor
religion. Attractively printed
and love which some Jewish com- ered by three seminary professors,
and boxed, and sub-titled "The
munities had invested in other Dr. Alexander Marx, Dr. Louis
Bible Quotation Game." "Quo-
lands from which they are now Finkelstein and Dr. Alexander
torah" was devised by Mabel
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being driven had been invested Sperber, and a visiting lecturer
H. Meyer and is suitable for
by us in Palestine in recent years from Yale University, Prof. Ed-
playtime in the religious school
National .11Anneland win -L.-Goodenough. The titles
or home. The only similarity
the.,Jesalah.
TYler
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Clairmount
Near
would not be a reality. Had there are: History of the Second Jewish
between this new game and
been a greater outpouring of vis- Commonwealth, Jewish Life under
bingo is that both are played
ion, men and means, and greater the Law, Introduction to Philo,
on a card which is covered with
co-operation on the part of the and the Septuagint in its relation
smaller pasterboards by the
Mandatory Government, we could to the New Testament.
player. Instead of dull num-
have built much faster and with
bers, h o w e v e r, "Quotorah"
The classes will be held in the
much less difficulty. But we were buildings of the Seminary at
uses tiny pasteboards bearing
A Happy New Year to the Jewish Community
unprepared when the great mo- Broadway and 122nd St.. New
half a verse from the Bible.
ment arrived in 1918. Our forces York City. The registration fee
The other half appears on one
Were not adequate and the gov-
of the cards held by the play-
of $1 will be waived for students
ernment of Palestine was often recommended by their universities
ers.
either a negative or an obstruc- or seminaries.
tional factor. We must now move
This is probably the first Insti-
along the harder way, the longer tute of Interdenominational Stud-
OUR EXHILARCH
way. But move we must—towards
COAL and ICE
Jewish insti-
ies to be offered in
the goal of national rehabilitation
tution of higher learning. It is A Tribute to Dr. Cyrus Adler
in our historic home.
For Quality and Price See Us
intended to acquaint theologians,
Events have demonstrated con- and interested laymen, with the Sharon. when Rome plowed up your
elusively what the seers of our Jewish background of Christian-
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And fruitful fields and banned for aye
movement had foreseen unerring- ity.
DR. ABBA HILLEL SILVER
your king.
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ly. Our people as a people needs
Thee rone the steel.. State 'newth
Syrian wing.
conflict have been the lot of our a national status and a national
To me, Cyrus, it appears more
The itt.: n ell state whom. honor was Its
brothers during the past year. home land. In adversity we re- difficult to find a man that bears
Our people have been forced to membered it, in prosperity we fre- prosperity well, than one that
men of will end wiedom did not
defend with their lives what they quently forgot it- Today we are bears adversity well; for pros-
Mete fell
have builded with the sweat of being most tragically reminded of pe. ay creates presumption in
To lend their exiled folk, inepirlting
Thor live. aim hate to ma a fairer
their
brows
and
souls.
Jewish
it
again.
Large
communities
in
A HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR
g yring
men,
brings Al
blood has now sanctified the soil Israel, long established in their most
—Xenophon.
sobriety
to but
all. adversity
n xe nlinelling them In calm and gale.
which Jewish labor redeemed. Po- native homes, cultured, integrated
The
exhIlarch,
the people called such
litical uncertainty and the failure in a thousand ways within the
Wukle,
of the Mandatory Government to life of those countries, have been ter year for our people. May • it
Scholar and ad.:irate to plead their
amie;
maintain law and order in the Compeleld, suddenly and cruelly, witness the lifting of the dark
holar-stateemsn le our Adler
Su:
country have hung like a pall over to taste the bitter taste of exile clouds fro mover the lives of
too.
the Yishuv and have intercepted and homelessness. The Jewish those who are at present in tribu- Ile is our exhilarch, eagarlotte. tried.
Devoted, faithful, courting no ap-
its economic progress and develop- people—and not merely individ- lation and suffering. For Pales-
ual Jews—needs a home! Let us tine may it be a year of redemp-
ment.
Oled but to serve. • leader Maunch
and true .
Nevertheless, though the year never again lose sight of this in- tion, progress, and peace.
A LT CH A BELSON,
has been an extremely trying and escapable
eif t
f ct of our existence.
Woodbine. N. J.
difficult one and the immediate The Jew
eople needs a home!
Let them shout for joy, and be
prospects are not bright, the re- Across t e dark curtain of hate, glad, that favour my righteous
Peace is the daughter of war.
markable courage, faith and ten , persecution and exile, spread cause: yea, let them say con-
acity of our people in Palestine, across the face of two-thirds of tinually, Let the Lord be magni-
Main Office
The shortest follies are the best.
which in recent years accomplish- Europe today, there is written fied, which hath pleasure in the
ed such seemingly impossible large in letters of fire and blood prosperity of his servants
From an age without hope
tasks and wrested so many glor- this legend which our people must
—Psalms 35:27 springs an age without fear.
ious victories, is continuing to read and, reading, resolutely act:
stand them in good stead. Their The Jewish people needs a home!
morale has been splendid. They To be sure there are other im-
have not yielded to violence and portant tasks which we must per-
terror. They have proceeded to form at the present time to help
Rosh Hashonah Greetings and Best Wishes
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build new colonies and settlements our fellow Jews throughout the
in the very zone of battle and wolrd. There is political work to
have defended them valiantly. be done. Relief funds are des-
first Winhes for a Happy New Year
These Jews of Palestine who are perately needed at this hour to
our chosen vanguard have been help our people in Central and
carrying on the hard and sacri- Eastern Europe, and no Jew will
finial labor of land and nation want to Flick this compelling ob-
building with a courage and a ligation in this crucial hour. There
dignity which might. Well fill us are the continiuiinig itasks of
THEATERS
with deep and justifiable pride. maintaining our communay life
Though the remarkable rate of everywhere, our religious, philan-
W1THERELL AND ELIZABETH STS.
progress which Palestine exper- thropic and education institutions.
ienced
in recent
years, which
in Palestine does not and must not
less
than
two decades
brought
claim any exclusive allegiance or
300,000 Jews in to the country, devotion. But Palestine does
has for the time being slowed claim priority. Palestine is not
down, the country nevertheless is just another worthy project in
continuing to develop. New set- Jewish life. In the profoundest
Rosh Ilashonah Greetings and Best Wishes
tiers are arriving, among them sense, it is the most vital and cru-
hundreds of children rescued from cial pled of our people at this
the horror-pits of Austria and time and at all times.
ROSH IIASIIONAH GREETINGS TO ALL
Germany. New areas are being
Fellow Jews! On the threshold
opened for settlement and culti-
of the New Year I transmit to you
vation. Palestinian' exports have
the appeal of the Yishuv in Pal-
Intelli-
increased.
substantially
estine for a brotherly strengthen-
gent effoit is being applied to-
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of their hands and hearts, for
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ward the strengthening of indus- ing
reassurance for a just sharing in
try and the solution of the un-
employment problem which the sacrifice and for tools and meter-
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ials with which to build the tem-
enforced curtailment of immigra-
ple of our national life and of
lion and the disturbances in the
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our imperishable ideals.
country have aggravated.
Jewish communities in the Uni-
Palestine Jewry for the time
SINCEREST NEW YEAR GREETINGS!
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being is holding and defending ted States which have npt yet
the political and economic posi- organized their efforts for the
urg-
are
lions already won, waiting for United Palestine Appeal,
' the hour of release from uncer- ed to do so at once. Those which
ROSH HASHONAH GREETINGS AND BEST WISHES
tainty and insecurity to,make an- have had their campaigns during
other decisive advance towards the year and are conscious that
growth and expansion, Ito it has they have not met their full re-
done so often in the last 20 years snonsibility in the present situa-
following brief periods of eco- Lion, are urged to supplement
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their funds. Individual Jews who
nomic relapse.
Fellow Jewsl Our task of build- cannot be reached by organized
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communal effort, are urged to
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