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Orthodox Youth
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Friday, April 4, 1947
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
Youths Rush Colony for Passover
Colonists Arc Aided
to Observe Tradition
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INVESTMENTS URGED.
NEW YORK (JTA) — Invest-
villages.
Through this department, the ments in the economic life of
UPA, with funds raised through Palestine are sound and product-
the United Jewish Appeal, fin- ive of results, Aaron Natanel, head
ances Mizrachi activities includ- of the Palestine and Trade In-
ing aid for the construction and vestment Corporation said, ad-
maintenance of religious schools
and Yeshivot, Talmudic colleges, dressing a meeting of the Pales-
synagogues, ritual baths, kosher tine Economic Corporation. He
kitchens in reception camps and urged Jews in the U. S. to invest
in Palestine industries.
similar undertakings.
aided in the construction or re-
novation of synagogue in 22
HEBRON — With only a few
days remaining before Passover,
there was no time to waste. The
r.
abrupt staccato of a pneumatic
drill shattered the morning air
and mingled with the sharp
sound of pick-axes striking bould-
' ers. Occasionally, through the din
of men working came the hushed
voices of other men praying. In
the distance, the rising sun sil-
houetted the hilltops.
In the Hebron Hills area, on
the slope of one of the rock-
studded hills lying halfway be-
tween Hebron and Jerusalem, a
group of Mizrachi (Orthodox
Zionists) youth were digging the
foundation of their new settle-
ment. The day before they had
Young Mizrachi (orthodox Zionists) work frantically to set up
risen early, eager to get started.
a now colony in Hebron before the Passover holiday begins. They
All morning they had worked
nro aided by the United Palestine Appeal, one of the three agen-
loading the trucks and going
cies which receive their support from the $170,000,000 campaigns
over their plans. Every piece of
of the United Jewish Appeal. In addition to the UPA, the United
equipment had to be checked and
Jewish Appeal supports the life-building programs of the Joint
'assigned to its proper place.
Distribution Committee and the United Service for New Americans.
FUNDS SUPPLIED
The Palestine Foundation Fund in upbuilding the settlements and to provide assistance in religious
had supplied the funds with villages.
activities in orthodox settlements.
which to buy the portable hous-
Among its other duties, the
Throughout
Palestine
there
are
ing sections, the agricultural
department handles the appoint-
tools, livestock, fertilizer, all the 25 orthodox villages erected with ment of rabbis and shochtim for
material necessary for setting up the financial assistance of the the various• settlements; those
and building a settlement. The Keren Hayesod, which up to Sep- which cannot afford to maintain
Jewish National Fund supplied tember, 1946 invested close to religious services of this nature
$2,500,000 in Mizrachi coloniza- are given special assistance. From
the land.
Both .agencies receive their tion alone.
1940 to 1046, the department
American financial support from
The Jewish National Fund sup-
the United Palestine Appeal, plied more than 78,000 dunam
which together with the Joint upon which these settlements are
Passover Greetings
Distribution Committee and the built. In addition, the Jewish
United Service for New Amer- Agency's labor department gives
icans, is included in the $170,- financial assistance to Mizrachi
000,000 campaign of the United labor camps where prospective
Jewish Appeal.
Settlers are trained to learn the
They arrived at their settle- intricate ways of the' soil.
ment point in the pre-dawn dark-
FLOOR COVERING
To link together the orthodox
ness, and by the light of torches rural communities and to service
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CONTRACTORS
and truck headlights they dug those in isolated areas, the Ke-
Rugs
their stakes into the ground to ren Hayesod has constructed a
Carpets
mark the area of their settle- ietwork of roads and plans sim-
Linoleum
ment. They began clearing the lar ones for the future.
rocks from the fields so that the
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The Jewish Agency has a ape-
portable huts and tents could be
•ial department for religious af-
erected.
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'airs, supported entirely out of
TIME FOR PRAYERS
UPA
funds,
whose
main
task
is
When dawn broke, groups of
men left their work, and took
time for their morning prayers.
They recited by rotation in small
PASSOVER GREETINGS
groups in order not to halt the
work, and were led by Ray Ben-
jamin, a veteran of the religious
Morris Katz
Hyman Moore •
Joe Mendlovitz
movement. Those who finished
Offering a Complete Line of
their prayers took up their work
again.
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ly growing tradition which over
the past 10 years has seen Pal-
estine's orthodox Jewry play an
increasingly important part in
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