Final Installment
Final
he Passover Story
WITH PHARAOH'S ARMY CLOSE AT THEIR
HEELS, THE JEWS FOUND A NEW OBSTACLE
IN THEIR PATH TO FREEDOM ... THE IMPASS-
IBLE ow SEA ....1
THEN ANOTHER MIRACLE ALLOWED THE
ISRAELITES TO PASS THROIASH SAFELY....
THE SEA WAS DIVIDED.—
W
T AS PHARAOH'S ARMY CAME DOWN
AND THE ISRAELITES FREE OF THE
HE EMBANKMENT THERE WAS NO LONGER THREAT OF *LAVERN/ TRAVELED ON
A PATH AND THE RUSHING WATERS COVER, TO MT. SINAI, WHERE MOSES WAS
ED THE ENEMY COMPLETELY.—
•IVEN THE OECALOGUE (TEN COM..
MANDMENTS)....
Galician Jew Devised JNF
Blue and White Box in 1902
thousands of Jewish homes,
shops, offices and schoolrooms.
In the year 1902. the editorial
office of Die Welt. the official It was seen by the hundreds in
organ of the World Zionist Or- the streets of large cities on the
ganization, received a registered traditional JNF collection days
letter from a Mr. Kleinman of
Flag Day. Tag Day and Flower
Nodvorna, a small town in East- Day. A concrete symbol of the
ern Galicia, which read:
great ideal of land redemption,
By A. SCHREIBER
"After reading the decision
of the Zionist Congress to
establish the Keren Kayemeth
Leisrael, I decided to do some-
thing practical to carry out
the idea of redeeming t h e
land with 'penny after penny'.
I made a special box with the
name 'National Fund' on it,
and set it up in a prominent
place in my office. The results
so far have been very encour-
aging. I would therefore sug-
gest that others collect contri-
butions for the Keren Kaye-
meth in this way . . ."
This was the first of a stream
of similar suggestions that
flowed into the editorial offices
of Die Welt.
Zionists of that day actually
created the Jewish National
Fund's most popular collection
device—the—famous blue-and-
white Box. In Galicia, Mr.
Kleinman constructed a box. In
Heidelberg, Prof. Hermann Sha-
pira had a box made to order,
even before the Fifth Zionist
In place of their usual
greetings, the under-
signed bring you this
important message.
the Blue-and-White Box. more
than any other Zionist hall-
mark, found its way into remote
parts of the world where it
served as the only attachment
between a tiny or isolated Jew-
ish community and the land of
Israel.
From the foundation of the
Fund until the First World War.
the Blue-and-White Box found
its place of honor in many
homes, particularly in Greater
Russia, Germany and Austria,
the well-springs of the Zionist
movement andat that time the
centers of Jewry. In Czarist
Russia 17. was widely displayed.
though at considerable risk.
There the Box was considered
illegal and had to be smuggled
over the border. The work of
the Keren Kayemeth in distrib-
uting the boxes was something
like that of an underground or-
ganization.
After the October Revolution,
when Russian Jewry was vir-
Congress sanctioned his idea of a tually life
paralyzed,
of
shifted the
to center
Poland,
Jewish National Fund. In a ' Lithuania, La t vi
Romania,
Russian village. in an Austrian Czechoslovakia, and to a certain
township, in fact wherever there extent, to Western Europe.
was a Jewish community, boxes
After the destruction of
these Jewish communities in the
.wake of Hitler, the Blue-and-
White Box, together with the
focal point of Judaism abroad,
moved to the Anglo-Saxon coun-
tries—the United States. Great
Britain. Canada, South Africa,
Australia, etc. JNF Box activity
Alive today
...like so many other Americans who
went to their doctors at the first sign
of one of cancer's danger signals.
By showing Americans bow to pro-
tect themselves against cancer, the
American Cancer Society is saving
thousands of lives today. By sup-
porting science and medicine in the
search for the causes and cures of
cancer, the Society hopes to save
countless more lives tomorrow.
Know the seven common danger sig-
nals that itrwy mean cancer: (1) any
more that does not heal (t) a lump or
thickening, in the breast or else-
where (3) unusual bleeding or dis-
charge (4) any change in a wart or
mole (5) persistent indigestion or
difficulty in swallowing (6) persist-
ent hoarseness or cough (7) any
change in normal bowel habits.
ro guard yourself and your family
against cancer call the nearest office
of the American Cancer Society or
write to "Cancer" in care of your
local Post Office.
in Latin America reached pro-
portions hitherto un k n own
THE JNF BOX
were made for the small contri-
butions towards the redemption!
of land in Eretz Israel, i
In 1904. seeing the great pop-
ularity of this collecting device
among the Jewish people every-
where. Johann Krcmentzky. who
was appointed by the Fifth
Zionist Congress to organize the
practical activities of the JNF. •
ordered the first design of the
blue and white box. As soon as
these official boxes appeared.
Theodor Herzl took one and
placed it on the desk in his E-
brary. That same box can be
seen. in its traditional spot on
the memento-crowded desk. in
the Herz.] Room =of the Head
Office in JerusaleM.
In the years that followed. the
Blue-and-White Box became a
/amiliar fixture it hundreds of
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Friday, .41,1iF 11, 1952
there.
Since the first official Blue-
and-White Box was produced,
more than 510.000,000 was gath-
ered, penny by penny. But the
Box is not only a feature of
centers of Jewish settlement: it
also serves as the single link
between the people and the
Land of Israel in far-flung and
forgot ten Jewish communities.
Zionist emissaries from Israel
tell of finding a JNF Box in a
home in the capital of Iceland.
in Rhodesian jungles, near the
tomb of Queen Esther at Shu-
shan, the ancient capital of Per-
sia. and in a village of Jewfsh
Indians in Mexico.
There are regular Blue-and-
White collections in Singapore.
int Gibraltar, in Japan. -and
Hong Kong, in Indonesia and
the Philippines.
Society
American Cancer Societe-
ma
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