to visit on Passover is the little
group of Samaritan Jews. These
Jews, allegedly a relic of ancient
Israel, still celebrate the Passover
in the ancient Biblical fashion,
with the sacrifice of a lamb.
For many centuries the Samari-
tans, who observe only the scrip-
tural injunctions, minus Talmudic
additions, were not regarded in
too friendly a vein by the other
Jews, but today this feeling has
disappeared. While the Samari-
tans still maintain their own in-
of the turtle-dove which is heard tegrity, the geneality of Jews in
in the land. The voice of the Palestine views them with a very
Jews, too, breaks out among those friendly eye.
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that walk.
One starts up singing: Anno
banu arzh, livnot o lehibanoth ba. RITES WITNESSED
EVERY JEW in Palestine at
And other groups passing by
smile and take up the song. An- one time or another goes to see
other favorite song is the one the sacrifice of the Paschal Iamb
about Elijahu Ha-Navi. Elijahu by the Samaritans. But there are
Ha-Navi occupies a unique place so many things to see in Palestine.
among the Palestinian Jews on That is one of the reasons why
Passover. If one may compare walking in Palestine is something
different religions, one might say of a sport, like golf in other
that he is to the Jewish children countries.
Palestine is a small country and
of Palestine what Santa Claus is
almost everywhere there is some
to the Christian child.
One of the most favored places thing to see. Many visit the Tomt
Passover in Palestine
Is Festival of Outdoors
Everyone Goes Out for Weeks to See
the Sights in Cities and Countryside
THE LYRIC WORDS of the
Song of Songs best describes
Passover in Palestine. "For now
the time of the singing of birds
has come and the voice of the
turtle-dove is heard in the land."
The winter rainy season is over.
The hills and valleys are covered
with little flowers. The birds be-
gin to sing. Nature displays a
gladsome panorama.
The synagogues of Palestine are
filled for the services on Passover,
yet essentially Passover is an out-
door festival.
Three times a year, Scripture
commanded, all the Jews were to
go up to the Temple in Jerusalem
— and Passover is one of them.
And. today many thousands of
Jews from all over Palestine jour-
ney to Jerusalem and, certainly,
on their first visit they will not
fail to see what is left of the
ancient Temple.
Going to Jerusalem from other
parts of Palestine today, one may
travel by train, car or bus. The
great majority travel by bus.
The view as one approaches Jer-
usalem makes it less difficult to
understand how the people here
were saturated with such a strong
God-consciousness, for Nature pre-
sents a striking phenomenon. Jer-
usalem stands on a high hill, yet
close by is the Dead Sea valley,
the lowest spot on the globe.
As one mounts in the bus the
narrow ribbon of incline to Jeru-
salem the sight of the deeps be-
low emphasizes the majesty of the
contrast.
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for the tee-ool, but it is the time
to visit all of your friends. That
is another important aspect of the
holiday.
And after you have walked, and
seen the sights and visited one
another, there is still another
thing for many adjourn to the
cafes, which in Palestine serve
as club houses. Many of the cafes
are out in the open and this, as
you may guess, helps to make
it more pleasant.
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OUT FOR A WALK
FIRST, THE PASSOVER visi-
tor is sure to make his way to the
Old City. With its high walls and
streets and with steps which sug-
gest a gigantic building rather
than a city as we know it. It is
ancient and picturesque.
Today, the majority of the Jews
have moved out of the Old City
to the more commodious and mod-
ern town erected outside of the
walls, but still a considerable ele-
ment of more ancient Jewish set-
tlers maintain their homes in the
Old City.
But Jerusalem and its environs
has many historic points of inter-
est and the Jews of Palestine on
Passover are all walking. The
term for the walk in Hebrew is
"tee-ool." It is a word which is
on everyone's lips on Passover.
Everyone is out on a tee-ool to
see the sights, and perhaps the
oddest part about it is that the
sight which is interesting above
all is the people themselves.
We are such a many-aspected
people and nowhere do we realize
this so much as in Palestine. Bu-
kowinian Jews with Jews from
Poland, Jews from Yemen and
Morocco, Jews from Persia and
from Austria, from New York and
California, are all to be seen walk-
ing beside each other, differently
dressed, looking different, often
differently colored, yet all Jews.
One gets a kind of pleasure on
these Passover walks which per-
haps may be compared to a man
just seeing brothers and sisters
whom he had not seen since child-
hood.
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Yes, everybody is out on his
"tee-ool" on Passover. The time
of the "singing of birds" has
come but it is not only the voice
of Rachel, on the road to Beth-
lehem, and many others continue
on to see Bethlehem itself.
Today, a favored spot for the
tee-ool is Mt. Scopus, where the
Hebrew University is located. It
was, as a matter of fact, during
the Passover week that the exer-
cises first opening the Hebrew
University were held with Gen.
Allenby, Lord Balfour and Dr.
Weizmann present.
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