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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

June 30, 1944
and two acres of dry land, per
for millions of harassed Euro- dan. This figure inclii81((;
capita. The total absorptive ca-
Jews who would be enabled ent population of 1 0 the p r
pacity of mandated Palestine, to work out their own salvation allows room for the
,000 and
im
without importation of foods, and win their place among the of a conservative
migratio n
Published by Rabbinical Council of America
nupoi
lo
bv
would thus be close to 3,014,750, peoples
e
Besid t ht the e earth.
e
r
d
b
million refugees from Eur obf yf o;
(208 pages; to be had through Rabbinical Council of America,
while that of Transpordan would
Besides these benefits,
ope.
efits, the JVA
The plan for a
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come to over 1,274,000, on the would so coordinate grazing and Authority
has been Jordan Valley
basis of 58,000 acres of irri-
as to harmonize those pert investigation to be practie.
Reviewed by Rabbi Selig Auerbach, Port Huron, Mich.
gable land 2,000,000 rain-watered farming
two economies, the antagonism able. It is the answer to the Ion s•
acres,
and
10,000,000
acres
of
For the first time the Rab-
Calling attention to these ser-
and conflict. between which have ings and prayers of
grazing grounds.
a homele
binical Council of America, the mons does not mean, of course, nomadic
Soil conservation, irrigation, cursed the Holy Lands for sev- people through the ce nturies
an
organization of American-ortho- that the reader can pass over the and scientific farming would thus eral thousand years. In this, as the solution to one f
e ost
in other respects, the JVA could
dox rabbis, has undertaken to other addresses in the Manual. make it possible for Palestine, be made to demonstrate to the trying and serious problemsm of
He would rob himself of many
publish a Sermon Manual, as has beautiful fruits in the orchard of without importation of foodstuffs, Arab lands how this vast region, war and postwar refugees con.
fronting the United Nations. The
been done by the Central Con- homiletics, if he did so. One thing to support more than twice its now in a state of decline, misuse, Jordan Valley Authority puts the
present total population of 1,- and under-use, may be restored
ference of American Rabbis since all the sermons in the Manual 500,000. But there are, as has
principle of conscrvation—the
to its possibilities in population, full and safe use of the earth'
many years. The Manual is have in common is their great been pointed out above, other prosperity, and progress.
love of and interest in modern
resources—to work in solving
thought as a source of material Palestine, and the effort made to factors besides the fertility of
Under the JVA all the factors the problems of adjusting human
for rabbis as well as a help for arouse the people for a modern the land base itself, which must necessary to the development of populations to the earth. It d
em.
congregations without a spiritual conception of traditional Judaism. be taken into consideration when maximum economic absorptive t ohnest rbaat
fhe
or ti tana n (n:i ar roil/g1 v,p,ehakche
the total economic absorptive ca- capacity would be present. The
leader, where a layman may have
basis t
pacity of any geographic area is need for ample raw materials
to read a sermon.
among nations may he establish.
estimated.
would be provided by the vast eel. The objections of temporizing
On the outset it should be said
These will be considered in the amount of minerals in the Dead
that the Manual represents a fine
e a n t interests
in co In
course of this paper, and, like the Sea and by Palestine's strategic and
(Continued from page 5)
piece of work. Not that every
insignificant
11::il rllisoilnwaYwiat
full
utilization
of
Palestine's
land
sermon would meet with the ap-
base,
, a rc conditional upon the location on the sea, rail, and air the far-reaching and constructive
proval of every congregation, or r- terraces, and replanting of
lines connecting three continents. approach to world problems
ocky hills are carried out, sur- execution of the Jordan Valley Cheap power for the activation
set
even every orthodox congrega- prising
g a and gratifying results uthority project which I have of industry would be supplied by forth in the Jordan Valley Au.
tion, in the United States. In
fact, it seems to the reviewer take place, as Jewish efforts dur- Proposed, and which, it seems to the great power project of the thority for Greater Palestine.
th
l
the last
sixty years have nle' the logic of geography and Jordan Valley. The requirement
that some of the sermons were p
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g.
conservation dictate. In the man- of nearness to a potential food- tECKKECHN:14:14:
":":8:14:11XHXKlo
written for just the individual inroyed
n of the TVA in the United
'I he land base in Palestine nor
needs of the congregation of the
growing area is well satisfied in
an area of 10,400 States, the JVA would make full Iraq, only a few hundred miles
preacher, and could hardly be s comprises
q uar e miles,
mes, or 6,650,000 acres use of the unique land and water away, where lies one of the po- •
delivered somewhere else. But
— about the size of the State of and topographic features of the
tential great irrigation projects •
as
a whole,
the book
a Vermont.
According to the soil Jordan Valley and the adjacent of the world. The fifth factor—
wealth
of thoughts
and offers
material
1
maritime
slope.
The
JVA
calls
to everyone who is called upon to survey made by Dr. Strahorn in
a people with the genius and
ere are 1,150,000 acres for full development of sweet skill to make the most of the •
expound the Scripture, and to 926 there
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bring the message of religion to of land suited to farm corps, waters for irrigation by diverting unique features and resources of •
other people. The editor, Rabbi 750,000 acres of which he con- much of the Jordan Valley wa- the Jordan Vae
MADE TO ORDER
ority —is • •
Bernard L. Berzon, and his asso- seders irrigable. Dr. Strahorn's ters to irrigate lands in the Emek abundantly satisfied in the abili-
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survey
does
not
take
into
account
and the Negeb, and on the valley ties, skills, and devotion Jewish •
ciates, Rabbis Emanual Marcus
and Akiba Predrnesky, deserve the 5,500,000 acres of hill lands slopes and valley floor of the refugees have demonstratedin •
LINOLEUM
all our thanks for the selection which may be devoted to inten- Jordan depression. The flow of the redemption of the "Promised •
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they have made. sive use for grazing and browse, the Jordan River into the Dead Land."
Inlaid and Battleship
It is not our duty to pass judg- or on which forests may be sea will thereby be reduced to
Rugs and Furniture
On the basis of all these fac- '
ment on every single sermon. But planted to increase the intake of little or none. To replace evap- tors, it is safe to estimate that •
VENETIAN BLINDS
reading one or the other of them, ram into the soil and to grow oration from the Dead Sea in its within a short time Palestinian •
the reviewer could not help badly needed fuel and timber furnace-like valley, sea water industry would produce sufficient •
Drapery Hardware
thinking that to listen to a ser- products. The salty soils in the from the Mediterranean is to be exportable products, above the
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mon is one thing, and to read it Jordan Valley, some of which brought in through a canal and needs of the local population, to •
h
Free Estimates Furnished
may be another one. I am sure have
already been farmed in a tunnel and let drop fully 1,200 support at least a million and a
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that some of the sermons while successful experiment were also feet into the great rift of the half people above the 4,288,750
not arousing the reader, may omitted from Dr. Strahorn's sum- Jordan River. The energy thus whom agriculture alone can main-
CALL
TYLER 5.1230
released will be converted into
have stirred the listeners through illation of possible farm lands.
i Palestine and Transjor-
Because of Palestine's long, electric power in hydro-electric rain in
their delivery.
Another thing which is quite dry summer seasons and the va- power plants. This power, plus
noticeable is the difference in riability of its rainfall, most de- that which may be developed in
approach used by rabbis in the pendable intensive farming re- other drops of water of the en-
East, and rabbis in other parts quires irrigation. But, as in Cali- larged irrigation plan, will equal
of the country. It seems that fornia, the extent of the areas about one-fifth of the present
orthodox congregations in the that can be irrigated is limited power at Boulder Dam—an
East still prefer the old method, by the quantity of water avail- amount adequate to serve many
starting a sermon with the quo- able. In order, therefore, to ar- purposes, from the extraction of
tation of a lengthy Midrash i n rive at the total irrigable area of magnesium from Dead Sea wa-
CHIROPODIST, FOOT ORTHOPEDICS,
full, and then expounding it, Palestine, we must take an in- ters to the pumping of irrigation
whereas congregations in the ventory of the irrigation water water from underground sources,
PHYSIOTHERAPY
West and in the South prefer a that may be developed by con- and the manufacturing of a great
servation,
storage,
and
diversion
variety
of
products.
sermon to be started with some-
The cost of the project has
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thing closer and more familiar, —on the altogether reasonable
and therefore of greater interest assumption that water in Pales- been estimated by competent en-
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to them and their lives. It is tine will be developed as thor- gineers as not exceeding $150,-
good for every rabbi to be aware oughly, economically, and effec- 000,000 for both the irrigation
of this difference when approach- tively as in Southern California. and power installations. The cost
At present 115,000 acres are is not in excess of those of simi-
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ing a congregation with his ser-
irrigated b'r water diverted from lar works in California. The pro-
mon.
Though the reviewer does not springs and pumped from ground ject is both feasible and reason-
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want to speak about each and waters in the coastal plain. No able in cost. If carried out under
every sermon, there are some so less than 460,900 acres can be the sponsorship of the United
outstanding that they should be irrigated by full development of Nations in this strategic region,
MEMBER WAYNE COUNTY CHIROPODY SOCIETY
mentioned. First of all there is the estimated annual stream flow it would not only be self-sup-
AND NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CHIROPODISTS
the sermon for Rosh Hashonah, of 1,843,710,000 cubic meters ( on porting but would create a refuge ■ ,
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The Call of the Shofar, by Rab- acre basis that water one meter
P4,0t2t—cduebeipe over an
mi M. Lewittes of Cong. Beth El
r
meters).
in Dorchester, Mass. Then an-
other Rosh Hashonah sermon, The Thirty thousand more acres may
Shofar Sounds, by Rabbi Israel be irrigated by additional pump-
us a total of 605,900 E.
Gerstein of Cong. Bnai Zion in ing
Chattanooga, Tenn. (not Cong. irrigable acres in Palestine , ex-
Beth El in Dorchester, as the c1 usive of Transjordan but includ-
book mistakenly says). Further in g the Jordan Valley. 2,394,100
mentioning should be made of ac res of rain-water crop land
the sermons The Individual in w ould bring the intensive food-
the Crisis, by Rabbi Walter Tr owing areas to 3,000,000 acres. F-f--
Wuerzburger of a New York con- 3 hese would be supplemented by
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gregation (not named in the ,,' 650,000 used for browse, pas-
re, and forest plantations, but
Manual), and Shattered Dreams,
Hospitality and Enter-
and Country Club
by Rabbi Philip Barash of Cong. n° t credited with the support of
ad
ditional
people.
Etz Chaim in Flatbush, L. I.
tainment
The carrying capacity of this
choke orthe
til
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la nd area under such intensive g_
ii:;;--we must
on
is
an d efficient use as can be ex-
Lig %VAR BONDS until vie- Pe cted from the present perform-
Available now to families and children. Children's playground and outdoor
tory is won. Keep on BACK - an ce of the Jewish villages should
be
pool supervised by competent governesses. Transportation no problem.
computed on the basis of one-
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