Page Sixteen Orthodox Youth Given'UJA .Help Friday, April 4, 1947 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle Youths Rush Colony for Passover Colonists Arc Aided to Observe Tradition • 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 • 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 TOWNSEND 8.2470 The Jewish Agency has a ape- portable huts and tents could be •ial department for religious af- erected. DEXTER BLVD. 9910 '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. 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