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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
October 1, 1943
Our Task In the New Era
By DR. ISRAEL GOLDSTEIN
President, Jewish National Fund of America
22 New Palestine Settlements on J. N. F. Land
National Fund. Since the out-
break of the war, twenty-two
The year 5704 of the Hebrew Lice to the Jewish people as well. new colonies have been built on
alendar which we are ushering For it is clear now that victory the land that
the Fund provided
develo p-
uninterrupted
, will be memorable in world on the field of battle and the in the e its reclamation progra m
in
Approaching closer to the conclusion
hi n tory.
phase of the World War in solve the great and grave prob. that truly creates a pattern
of
In ish living s and ed soci a l
fil 'sal
hich the conclusive victory of lems of Jewish homelessness and modernn
Jew the
uca-
of
progs.
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Jewish Palestine, aided by the tion and industry the Jewish Na-
ti le United Nations will be scored, suffering.
weaves si-
ti he march of events
ttern of o-
Jewish comunities in the ree tional Hoe has grown ready
p
iultaneously a pa
n ti itions which may well determine spiration of the Zionist move- now to open its gates to om
those
s the
of
daughter
ons and for
wh
d
gui da nce an d di- surviving sJewry
he internationa l design ons o ment, gives
Eretz
European
tifor litv. rection along us th is road .
ng for many genera
Israel has kept aloft the torch very least that can be done is to
ome.
of faith, perserverance and con- give them the consolation and
and as Jews, we
As Americans
joice
n the geat strategic and structive effort in the darkest healing that only Jewish Palestine
change that has come in moments of the war which has can give. If upon the conclusion
nilitaryi
r
favor
of the United
Nations, and now, it seems, come to a close of the war a million more Jews
in the prospect of victory that insofar as the Near East and are to be brought from Europe
looms on the horizon. As Jews Palestine are concerned. Jewish to Palestine in the shortest pos-
i 1 t it was to bear Palestine has not only made a sible time,
task —
U i d our
Nations
may whatever
decide to
whose bitter o
the heavy losses and sorrows of valiant contribution t the war the United
5703 and whose kin and kith are effort, but has deepened and ex- do — will be one of great mag-
still awaiting rescue from the tended the foundation upon which nitude. If we are to merit the
e built the future struct u re of Jewish luster of Israel's historic con-
chanel-houses
that Hitlr
r their destruction,
we greet salvation — the Jewish Corn- tinuity, of its martyrdom and
of
its power of survi5704, e must,
for
onwealthto be erected.
val,
wdedicate
r
with
the advent of e New Yea m Scores of thousands of new on the advent of
g
grave
solemnity
and with
a firm
resolve
to persevere
in our
strug- dunams of land have been re- all our thouht,
energy and de-
.
1 ul reclaimed thanks to votion to this supreme and chal-
deeme
t o
h
gle
that
the
victory
whic
come shall bring peace and jus- the rapid progress of the Jewish longing task.
The above scene. in the vicinity of Metzudath Ussishkin,
h perseve at r-
Dafne and Dan, Upper Galilee, tells the epic of JeJewi
wissh National
ance and new progress in the upbuiiding of the
Home since the outbreak of the war. Here we see e the product of
modern industry—the tractor—rigging up for th first time in
many centuries—the ancient and long-untilled soil of Galilee after
it was purchased and reclaimed by the Jewish National Fund in
artime "Land for Freedom" program.
pursuance of its w
In the first four years of the war, 24 new agricultural colonies
established in Eretz Israel, and of these 22 were founded on
ye aro stricken, ye will return were
the land acquired by the Jewish National Fund. The
new settlements
unto your God." It has been our
colonies to 166, are located
Rosh Hashonah Message from
total
been
described as
peculiar role to call the world which bring up the land which in the Bible has
in all parts of the
Jewry's part in the
The Synagogue Council of America
t
en- to repentance, but we must firs stretching "From Dan to Beersheba .Amer
repent ourselves. This is the mes- world income of the land reclaiming instrument provided during
Our Penitential season begin• need the fortitude and hope g
the past year the lion's share of the new financial resources y that
the
ning with Rosh Hashonah (New crated by deep faith. Particular sage of our Penitential season.
Because the conscience of en- were required. 180,000 dunams of land have been added b
Year) and culminating in Yom ly do we Jews stand in need of it g tene democracies has at last Koren Kayemeth to the national possession of the Jewish people
lightened
Kippur (Day of Atonement) is now, for our share of the sacri- been awakened, Israel, the first since the outbreak of the war, with the total of its land holdings
flee
is
beyond
comparison.
Our
the most solemn in the Jewish
and greatest sufferer at the hands now standing at the 650,000 dunam level.
calendar fraught with the high- casualties have been essentially - of Nazidorn, is encouraged on
est
spiritual
aspirations
and the of civilians amounting to nearly this day to look more hopefully to
deepest
insights
to the human
soul. Its major themes are — re- three-quarters of the European the emergence of know
a new justice
era,
pentence, atonement, salvation — Jewish population, who have been and
when
the
Jew
will
he
dwells,
equity wherever
the hope for human improvement, exterminated by planned torture, and when out of Zion a Jewish
both individual and universal.
murder, starvation. disease and community dwelling in its an-
ning with Rosh Hashanah (New deportation. The remnants still cestral home in peace and secur-
repeatedly emphasized in its lit- alive have been completely de- ity, may, as of old, radiate moral
urgy is "Today a world is at spoiled and are faced with the inspiration to all mankind. We
season
birth." In Jewish tradition this continuance of merciless de- pray that this Penitential its
day marks the birth of a new struction. may find us responsive to
world, the rebirth not alone of
the concept of the Rabbis peal and that all men in all na-
the (Ram's horn) sounds Lions may strive unitedly and
the little world of individual man the In Shofar
Upon this important occasion
but also of the larger world of
"Mend your earnestly to build a world order
the entire human race. It be- the admonii ,
we express our felicitations to
speaks one of the central themes ways." It bids men reexamine founded on freedom and justice.
of the message of Israel — the and correct their thoughts, their
the entire community. May
hope of regeneration, enlighten- deeds, their attitudes and their
Le
Shono
Tovo
Tikosevu
you all be blessed with an
ment and redemption of the in- conduct. Never in history was its
dividual man and of all human- exhortation so desperately needed
abundance of good health, hap-
ity. Its a heartening message for as it is today, when the whole
his-
world
is
suffering
the
consequen-
' our erring and stricken world.
piness, comfort and security
In this bitterest struggle in h .is- ces of its prolonged moral apathy
tory whose cost in human life in the face of growing restless-
and treasure is staggering, we ness and tyranny.
Our historical lessons have
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