DAYENU Ben Gurion on the 1st Zionist Con.fress (From an Address at the Jerusalem World Zionist Organization Jubilee Celebration, August 17, 1947) Since we went into exile we have had many dates in our calendar which will not be expunged from our memory for decades, and maybe centuries, to come. But the anniversary of the event to commemorate which we have assembled here today does not resemble them. The other anniversaries mark things that happened to us. They are a record of persecution, decrees, expulsions. massacres and destruction. Today's date, however, is the greatest in our history since the destruc- tion of our political independence following the defeat of Bar-Kochha. It has two distinctive features. The first is that it is a date made by ourselves, not by anyone else. The second is that it made us into a nation once more. The first Congress did not make a nation of us out of nothing. There had always been a Jewish nation, even when we were dispersed in exile and the world as a whole did not know of our exist- ence as a nation; but we were only a potential nation. That day, fifty years ago, made us; and on that day we turned ourselves into a nation in reality. The First Zionist Congress. in 1897, saw the genera- tion of a Jewish people conscious of its nationhood and proclaiming its aspiration to become once again a people like other peoples, and to lead an independent existence in its own country. • HOLIDAY GREETINGS May The New Year Bring Health and Happiness To .411 Our Relatives and Friends Edith Eckstat, R.E. and Mr. and Mrs. Herman Band and Family Albert Wolgin, R.E. Hair Removed Forever 1309 3 - 3047 . St..itiLOSt-cL2_11_31-9._2_11_519-2.-9--W-R_ EDER FURNITURE CO. Louis Eder 1 751 FORT DU 1-1940 Lincoln Pork The esirliest known judicial code -as thlt of King Urnammu during the third dynasty of Ur. 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What would be the flag that would adorn the Congress auditorium? What would be its color? We had no flag of our own. The idea plagued me considerably. It would be neces- sary to create a flag. and to choose the colors. Suddenly the idea flashed through my mind: Surely we have a flag — the white-blue flag — the talith in which we wrap our- selves in prayer is our symbol. We will take the talith and unfold it before the eyes of Israel and of the nations. And so I ordered a blue-white flag with a Magen David in its center. This is how our national flae came into being — the flag that fluttered in the Congress audi- torium. It took no one by surprise: no one asked how it came about and where it came from. Likewise the Shekel. When the ••-, of the finance commit- tee discussed the tax that each Zionist was to pay to the Zionist Organization, they could think of name by which to call it In face of this predicament I began thinking hard of a name that might be acceptable to all, and found nothing more suitable than the name "Shekel." I had hardly put forward my suggestion than it was taken up by every speaker in n ittee and when the pro- , posal was tabled for the poll tax payable to the Zionist Organiza- tion, the "Shekel" was on every- one's lips. This is the way with all cre- ations permeated by the spirit of the nation. It is a good sign when no one is aware of their novelty, and the people accepts them as things hallowed by ancient custom and usage. 25879 Greenfield Rd, Apt. 34 . Southfield, Michigan 48075 WO 3 - 0922 David Broderick Tower A Happy and Healthy New Year By DAVID WOLFSOHN (Second President of the World Zionist Organization) I came to Basle in order to "It fell with his second blast!" WO Flag and Shekel BY HENRY LEONARD Holiday Good Wishes CLAWSON CONCRETE COMPANY SUBSIDIARY OF EDW. C. LEVY CO. C C FEDERAL ALLOYS CO. Wishes 2930 DENTON THE JEWISH COMMUNITY A HEALTHY AND HAPPY Holiday Good Cheer ROSH HASHANA—YOM KIPPUR GENERAL STORES CO. A YONTIFF 'WITH SHALOM 5831" West Vcrnor VI 2-8902 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Friday, October 6, 1967-53