10. Bonds Honor 'First Ladies' Christian Aliyah to the Holy Land Told in Hadoar teacher and a doctor and den- by the disastrous failure of the tist. Ages ranged from 17 to Jaffa colony, went to England to seek new adherents for an- Few events in the history of 50. the magnetic appeal of the Holy After a rough 42-day voyage, other colony in Palestine. Fail- Land to Biblically-steeped the settlers were brought to ing to achieve any results, he Americans can match the story Jaffa with the tools, equipment returned to the United States of the first and probably the and cash they had assembled. to become a preacher in a Phila- only American Christian settle- The total value of their belong- delphia Church. He died in ob- scurity. ment in pre-state Palestine. ings was less than $43,000. Before the last settlers de- This unusual bit of Ameri- Food and water shortages be- parted, they disposed of their cana is told in the 35th ii- gan to take their toll of the versary volume of Hadoar, the inexperienced colonists. In Oc- colony to a group of German only Hebrew weekly published tober, seven died and in No- Knights of Templar, ivhiph re- To pay tribute to several women, prominent in the fields anywhere in the world outside vember, six more. Perhaps the mained at the spot until World War II when the British closed of business, civic and communal affairs, for their efforts in of Israel. worst blow was the death soon it had become behalf of Israel's economic development, more than 400 persons In 1862 a Christian- sect, afterward of their one phy- it down becalise called the "Church of the sician, who died of a tropical a Nazi center. attended a special "First Ladies" Luncheon for State of Israel Bonds. Among the "First Ladies" honored at the luncheon, Messiah," was founded by an disease about which he knew were (left to right) Mrs. Abba Eban, wife of Israel's Ambas- itinerant New England nothing. . preacher, George Jones Ad- sador, "First Lady of Israel in the United States"; Dorothy Lacking money to buy land, ams, a scion of the famous Schiff, the publisher of the New York Post, "First Lady of American family which has they had to lease it. The local Journalism"; Mrs. Averell Harriman, wife . of New York State's Governor, "First Lady of the State of New York"; Mrs. Eleanor figured so prominently in Arabs were polite and friendly Roosevelt, "First Lady of the World"; Mrs. Robert F. Wagner, American politics and litera- but cheated and robbed the Americans at every opportun- wife of New York's Mayor, "First Lady of the City of New . ture. According to Dr. Shlomo Eid- ity. Turkish authorities, fearing York," and Mrs. David Wohl, chairman of sponsors and a elberg, the preacher spread the the group had come to establish "First Lady for Israel Bonds in New York," who presided. doctrine that the "end of days" a beachhead in the crumbling A TRADITION as near, the Messiah would Ottoman empire, harassed the Soviet Union, Poland - soon IN JEWISH come and it would be a colonists still further. At the end of 1866, they sent good idea to hasten to the Holy Back Israeli Request Land and there await the great word to U.S. Secretary of State HOMES TEL AVIV, (JTA)—The rare day. Jones proposed the estab- Seward that several colonists occurrence of the Soviet Union lishment of a farm colony in were giving up and wanted to SINCE 1837 and Poland supporting Israel at an international conference Palestine, where the settlers return to the United States. The could live with peace of mind American republic, recovering Yes, there's Yom Tov spirit in •ELLIOTT y _ t o Israelis was rep i dire til the arrival of the Messiah. from the Civil War, was in until this fine tea ..."flavor crushed" Dr. Y. Kott and Y. Penn, who CONDUCTED returned here from New A practical man in some straits and Seward was n o t for fullest Strength and stim u- anxious to send financial help AIR TOURS Delhi, where they acted as this ways, the preacher predicted lation ... richer taste and pleas. country's observers at the con- that the Jews would soon return abroad. of the Sunny Under pressure from' Ameri- nre with your fleishigs and 'Terence of International Red to the Holy Land, that real . can consuls in the Near East milchigs and between meal Cross Societies. estate prices would skyrocket •dh CARIBBEAN and it would be wise for the and several New 'England Gov- Israel requested that the Americans to get there first. ernors, Seward agreed that the refreshment 15 DAYS (Feb. 11-25) "Mogen Dovid Adorn" (Red Finding a reSponse; he orga- colony had to be ended and he Shield of David), the Israeli nized the Palestine Immigration sent money to enable the pen- Pueito Rico, Haiti, Jamaica equivalent of the Red Cross, Association and in 1865 he and niless colonists to return. SERVED and Cuba—$723.14 be permitted to use its own six- a member of the new sect went In the summer of 1867, only IN A GLASS point Star of David symbol in to Palestine to scout out the 87 of the colonists' were still 7 DAYS (Feb. 17-24) connection with Red Cross land. Pleased with what' they in Palestine. A few months OR A CUP work. The request will be on found, Jones decided to estab- later, shortly after the first Jamaica only—$467.21 the agenda of the next Red lish a colony at Jaffa. anniversary of their arrival, • All deluxe hotels Cross international conference. another 40 sailed for-home on On Aug. 11, 1866, the S.S. • Special receptions At New Delhi, the Israeli re- Nellie Chapin sailed f r o m the S.S. Quaker City. By the quest was supported by El Jonesport, Me., with 157 men, • Latin dance lessons spring of 1868, the rest of the Salvador, the Soviet Union and women and children. With settlers hid returned to the • Nightclub tour Poland. Israel is a signatory the exception of several fami- United States. • Cocktail party to the Red Cross convention lies from New Jersey and one Adams, hardly disheartened • Glass bottom boat trip but, up to now, its own symbol from San Francisco, all were • has not been officially recog- New Englanders. In the group • nized. were laborers, farmers, car- ELLIOTT ESCORTED penters, a mason, a cobbler, a tailor, a shipbuilder, a mil- SKI TOURS Yemenite ler, several mariners, a music . IN By BEN GALLOB (Copyright, 1957, JTA, Inc.) TETIElf EA '($1= ‘ ' . 17 DAYS to Perform in Detroit EUROPE Feb. 28-March 16 Via Swissair and KLM Airlines St. Moritz and Davos, Switzer- land and Kitzbuhel, Austria Complete for $784 • WEEK ENDS AT THE AU SABLE RANCH & SKI CLUB Travel by chartered bus. Total Cost — $33.00 Departure Dates: Jan. 10, Jan. 24, Feb. 7 and 21, Mar. 14 ELLIOTT TRAVEL SERVICE Northland Center;-- Detroit (35) EL 6-2345 or VE 8-0030 Eastland Center, Detroit (36) DR 1-370g 18657 Livernois, Detroit (21) UN 2-7555 Inbal, known as the dance theater of Israel, will appear in• Detroit this spring as part of a nationwide tour to demon- strate Israeli choreography to the American public. The tour, under management of S. Hurok and sponsorship of the America-Israel Cultural Foundation, will perform here in mid-March. The Inbal corps is composed of Yemenite singers and danc- ers, , directed by Sara Levi- Tanai. The group has appeared in Holland and the British Isles, among other locations. • Biblically inspired composi- tions included in the Inbal rep- ti ertoire will be "The Song of Deborah", based on the fifth chapter of Judges; "The Queen of Sheba", from a poem by Yaacov Cohen; and "Woman of Valor", using the text of Pro- verbs. The group has been noted for its production of "Ye- menite Wedding", drawn from Yemenite life and folk-lore. JERUSALEM (JTA) — The first and possibly the only Christian who has been con- verted • to Judaism • in Russia since the Bolshevik revolution has arrived in Israel. Daniel Zagayski, the convert, is a 70-year-old white-bearded man who has spent most of his time since his arrival in -a Jerusalem synagogue, recit- ing the Psalms in gratitude for being in the Holy City. Zagayski, who came to Israel from Umman, where he was a shoemaker, said he converted to Judaism under the impact of the teachings of the Bres- law Rebbe, whose tomb is lo- cated in Umman. The convert said that before World War II, an entire village of - Ukrainians near. Umman converted to Judaism and that all of the converts were ex- terminated by the Nazis. 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