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PALESTINIAN NEWS
Fifteen Jews Jailed for Year On Charges of Slaying Arabs
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Death 1 oil of 11; Nat- liraan OTino
ional Discipline" Urged MlMO STInS
JERUSALEM (WNS-Palcor Agen- STORM
cy)—Pierce indignation was voiced by _
the Jews of Palestine following a swift police round-up of Jews suspected of connection with the murder of nine Arabs during the past week which resulted in "administrative" sentencing of fifteen young Jews to one year in prison each. Following orders from Jerusalem to throw out a dragnet of all believed linked to the attacks, police arrested numerous youths. Nine young men seized in Hedera, where two Arabs were killed, and six others arrested in Karkur, where two Arabs were slain following the murder of two Jews, were at once brought before the Assistant District Commissioner. Under the powers vested in the Commissioner, he immediately passed judgment on the prisoners. They were at once taken to Acre ^il.
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REVISIONISTS HELD
In protesting against the immediate sentences without trial, Jews declare that no similar action was taken in the past when Arabs were arrested in connection with the murder of Jews. In addition to those sentenced to jail, there was a roundup of Revisionists by the police. Six were arrested in Tel "Aviv and taken 4^Jo^^h|_^ffa^^|E^3^^ seized in Jerusalem. Aiming at the discovery of the Arabs responsible for the murder of two Jews at Kar-■ikiir, police arrested all male inbabi-tants of the Arab village of Khirbe Tabbas, between Karkur and Jenln. The entire male population faces "administrative" trial.
MANIFESTO ISSUED
The Jews of Palestine were called upon in. a rrianifesto issued by the Jewish National Council to maintain nationar discipline and restraint, as resentment among the Jewish populace grew, following the slaying of three Jews and the injuring of several others. In its manifesto the Vaad Leumi urged: "Go on with your regular work. Stand fast in your positions of self-defense. Avoid outbursts or the molestation of innocent people." The document emphasized the laudable restraint of the Jewish community during the disturbances of 1936, "when Jews did not respond to provocation. The Vaad Leumi appeals to the Jews for "national discipline."
The Arab. Higher Committee published a manifesto urging restraint upon the Arabs. "Do not respond to provocation," the document says, recalling the Arabs slain the day before. Jews were not mentioned in the appeal.
Text of Conversation Made Public by State Party Leader
LONDON (WNS) — Disciplinary action against Meier Grossman, leader of the Jewish State Party, is being considered by Dr. Chaim Weiz-mann, president of the World Zionist Organization, because of the disclosure by Grossman of the text of an alleged memorandum in which Dr. Weizmann is purported to have recorded a conversation with V/il-liam G. A. Ormsby-Gore, British Colonial Secretary, in which the latter allegedly agreed to important modifications in the Royal Commission's Palestine partion plan. Dated July 19, 12 days after the publication of the Royal Commission report, the document was made public in the Jewish Chronicle which obtained it from Grossman.
CHANGES DISCUSSED
The highlights of the memorandum credit the Colonial Secretary as agreeing to speedy liquidation of the proposed temporary British mandates over four cities to be included in the Jewish state, to the inclusion of Jt^e_jiew_qua^^^^
the Jewish state," to adjustment of (Continued on Page 4)
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First Chapter of Exhaustive Work Comes Off Press
New Year's Message
From Lilian Freiman, President, Hadassah Organization of Canada
Most peoples greet the New Year in a spirit of gay rejoicing and it is a tinie for hilarious celebrations and much merriment. But such is not the case with the Jews for our way of ushering in the New Year is peculiar-to ourselves. Of course there is a quiet joyousness occasioned by the
Canadian Customs ; Halt Truckload of \ Nazi Propaganda
MONTREAL, (WNS)—A truck iloaded with thousands of copies of ia 92-page anti-Semitic brochure en-,'titled "A Key to the Mystery" was {stopped by Canadian customs offi-<^cials as it was about to cross the Canadian-American border into the iUnited States about 50 miles from
Professor of Hebrew University Creates Startling Theory
NEW YORK (WNS)—Professor S. Sambursky, a hitherto obscure Jewish physicist at the Hebrew University ia Palestine, is being hailed by the v^orid of science as a second Einstein following the publication in the Physical Review of his new theory proving that the whole universe is shrinking, together with everjrthing in it, including the measurable units of energy.
Scientists who have examined the evidence of the 36-year-old German-born physicist believe his theory is as startling as Einstein's theory of relativity. Dr. Sambursky based his theory on discoveries made with the world's largest telescope at Mount Wilson Observatory in California.
characteristic of this holiday is a ^'^^^ Col. E. N. Sanctuary, Am-deep solemnity. It is not a time for jovial parties but a time for grave consideration of oiir own personal problems and those of our people. Our prayers in the Synagogue remind us of our past and admonish us to think of the future. In fact, the whole ritual makes our thoughts turn in upon ourselves and not out
JEWISH SHIP SAIL@ FOR PALESTINE
7,500 Enter Palestine in Last Eight Months
JERUSALEM (WNS-Palcor Agency)—During the past eight months Jewish immigration into Palestine totalled 7,277, in addition to 404 tourists who v/ere authorized to stay permanently, it was disclosed in immigration figures made public by the Jewish Agency.
Immigration for the month of August was 1,040, including 81 capitalists and 92 dependents, 261 laborers, and 160 dependents, and 313 relatives of residents.
CAMP BENEFIT MOVIE
Camp Committee .of Council of ^Jewish Women Is sponsoring a private screening of a moving picture at the Stanley Theatre on SuBday evening, Octolier 3.
Tile picture will be a very interesting one and all are Invited io attend. Funds will -be donated to Council Camp.
Phone Mro. J. J. Diamond for i«servatlons.
ROME (WNS)—The Jewish marine training ship, the S.S. Tel Hai, which has been used to drill Jewish seamen, has sailed for Palestine on a trial trip. The entire crew is Jewish.
LILIAN FREIMAN
NEGOTIATIONS NOW UNDER WAY
LONDON (WNS) — Negotiations between the political commission appointed by the Zionist Congress and the Jewish Agency and the British Colonial Office on the partition of Palestine will get under way during the middle of September, immediate-Ij' after the Jewish High Holidays.
Memorial To Hero
01 Riots Unveiled
JERUSALEM (VvT^S)-The unveiling of a tombstone over the grave of the late EphraJm Chizik, heroic young chalutz who was slain while defending the colony of Hulda during the Arab riots of 1929, was made the occasion for a solemn pledge by thousands of Jews from all parts of iPalestine never to surrender "a single inch of. Palestine soil sanctified by Jewish blood." The stone was unveiled on the spot where Chiznik died.
upon the world.
As we enter this New Year our problems are extremely serious. In many lands of the dispersion our people are suffering a living death. Each year their lot has become more and more hopeless. There is so little that we can do to ameliorate their condition where they are at present existing. And even in the country of refuge, Eretz Israel, our people are faced with a grave crisis.
It is this last problem that makes our situation more critical than ever before in our long history. Always before there have been free lands where our afflicted brethren could find shelter but now, Palestine, the last left open to us, is threatened. It is the security of this haven—of our own National Home—^which is causing us anxiety. The question of partition is many sided and the leaders of the World Zionist Organization are attempting to seek the best solution of this serious dilemma. Let us hope that just as Moses lead his people from the desert into the Promised Land at the end of forty years, so our leaders, as they conclude forty years of political Zionism will guide us out of this wilderness.
On the eve of Rosh Hashonah, I extend to each one of you, my dear Hadassah members, a personal mes-
erican anti-Semite, at 156 Fifth Avenue, New York City.
Investigation by the Canadian Jewish Congress has established that the Canadian Nazis are trying to make Montreal the clearing house for the distribution of Nazi propaganda. To cover up their activities they have organized the French-Canadian Women's League to combat Communism, which is functioning as an export agency for Nazi propaganda.
Heading the league are Miss Arc-and, a sister of Adrien Arcand, Montreal Jew-baiter, and Mrs. J. J. Lambert, wife of Dr. J. J. Lambert, who is said to be the real Nazi fuehrer in Canada. Millions of copies of the brochure, printed in French and English, are understood to have been sent to him for distribution.
Babbi J. L. Zlotnik
Word has just been received by Rabbi J. L. ZlotnJk from Jerusalem, Palestine, that the first part of his voluininous work, '^drash Ha'SHi-zah Ha'Ivrith" has already come off the press. A de-luxe edition of 200 copies is now being printed and should reach Vancouver before very long.
This work which is the first study of its kind, deals in a most minute and detailed manner with Hebrew idiomatic expressions and phrases.
The first part of the book deals wholly with the first word in the Bible, viz., "Breshith," and the phrases to which this word" has given birth in Rabbinic, Kabbalistic and later Hebraic literature. Thus, it can be clearly seen what the size of the complete work will be if completed on the all-embracing and exhaustive scale conceived by Rabbi Zlotnik.
Mr. Harry Evans of our community is named at the end of the book as the man whose munificence made ItfrpuBlTettiSh^f-tE^^ sible.
PLAIN TALK
By AL SEGAL
Mr. 0 Observes Yom Kippur
I call him Mr. O because he is like a cypher in his house. This is no disparagement of him. How many men are robust integers in their own houses? There are millions upon millions of Mr. O's in the world and I count myself one of them.
It is, indeed, quite a convenience to be nothing but a Mr. O in one's own house. Mr. O is relieved of the painful necessity of thinking for himself in the matters of his household. In the business world Mr. O is an obstinate thinker who generally says No. but at home he says Yes.
So when, long ago, his wife said, "Ralston, don't you think we ought to become members of the temple?" Mr. O made no argument, Mr. O nodded his head with acquiescence, though she was tearing his heart out.
To leave the orthodox synagogue and take up the temple instead was like high-hatting his father and mother (olav hasholom). Not that Mr. O was faithful in the synagogue every Saturday or even on the lesser holidays. He used to promise himself that when he retired from business, he would be in the synagogue every Saturday.
Mr. O felt particularly that he was treading holy ground on the days of Jahrzeit when he went to the syna-
Shanghai Jews Appeal for Aid
LITHUANIAN COURT O.K.'S YIDDISH
KOVNO (WNS)—Briefs for plaintiffs in the Lithuanian courts who cannot speak Lithuanian may be written in Yiddish, according to a ruling by the Supreme Court. Hitherto such plaintiffs were at a disadvantage.
The director of the Lithuanian State Broadcasting Station has agreed to include Jewish news in its programs and to set aside time on future programs for Jewish music.
Trains Don't Stop
Here on Saturday
PREGUE (WNS)—Railroad passengers bound for the town of Sod-ina, Carpatho-Russia, will have to re-arrange their schedules so as not to arrive on Saturday for hereafter no trains will stop there on Saturday. AH trains passing Sodina will omit that stop because the ministry of railways has appointed Meyer Lefkowitz, a pious, streimel-wearing Chassid, as station-master. In order not to force Lefkowitz to violate the Jewish Sabbath, the railway officials agrreed to keep the station closed on Saturday.
sage. From the bottom of my heart I extend best wishes for a happy year. May God grant that you will find health and joy in the coming season and may you continue in the future to serve our people in the devoted way in which you have done in the past.
Jewish Defense Corps Organized to Cope with Emergency
SHANGHAI, China (WNS)—While a hastily-organized Jewish regiment of the emergency Shanghai Volunteers Corps stood guard in the Jewish quarter of this war-ravaged metropolis of China, local rabbis issued an appeal to world Jewry to provide immediate relief for Shanghai's 5,000 Jews. Destruction of homes and property by fires, looters and bombardment has left 500 Jews here destitute. The bulk of the relief work is being carried .on by the Kadoorie Center and the Zionist Organization but both organizations cannot cope with the disaster.
Reports from Tientsin, in North China, where the Japanese have taken over complete control, tell of a similar Jewish defense corps organized to prevent anti-Jewish disturbances organized by Russian White Guardists. The Jewish volunteers were disbanded after the' immediate danger of trouble had passed but a widespread campaign of anti-Semitism has been launched throughout North China.
NAZI CONSUL AIDS JEWISH REFUGEES
SHANGHAI (WNS)—The unbelievable fact that German-Jewish refugees tr?.ppcci in war - stricken Shanghai are being aided by the German consulate here was revealed by Rabbi Jacob M. Alkow, formerly of San Diego, Calif,, who is serAring as the representative of Jewish organizations in behalf of Jewish refugees in China.
Addressing a Rotary Club meeting, Rabbi Alkow said that the German consulate had assisted a Rabbi Wild-man and seven other Jewish refugees to get to Manila. The consulate is paying the expenses of refugees fleeing from the war area, Rabbi Alkow declared.
Do not infer from your own shortcomings upon your neighbor's character.—Talmud.
He who engages in evil talk about his neighbor will have no share in the World-to-come.—Talmud.
gogue's basement for the services. He was conscious of the hands of his father and mother leading him back to the house of Israel. Oh, he used to say, the feet of a Jew stray far from the holy things but once a year his parents bring him back.
heart had its best time in the synagogue. Even when toward evening the old place grew stuffy, Mr. O's nostrils felt they were taking ineffable aroma. The thick air smelled, sentimentally, exactly jis did the old synagogue of his boyhood in Slob-otka toward evening. Mr. O was always regretful when dusk fell on Yom Kippur.
At no time (even when he was wearing his tuxedo dinner coat) did IMt. O feel so well dressed as when he was wrapped in his talith on Yom Kippur in the synagogue.
And now he must leave the synagogue and go to the temple instead. She might as well have asked him to disown the graves of his parents, to walk past their graves and give obeisance rather to Mr, Oppenstraus who abided in the marble mausoleum closeby.
Yes, he thought, the old synagogrue isn't fashionable enough for her any more. She must move to the temple, just as she insisted on moving to the $25,000 house in the more fashionable neighborhood; just as she demanded the Cadillac in place of the-. Buick. It was, indeed, mused Mr. O,. of the same vanity which prompted, her to say time and again, "RalstQn„ don't you think we ought to try to get into the Minehaha Country Club."
To none of these thoughts Mr. O gave voice; he had almost burst with their rankling insistence to be heard . . . "Speak to her! Be a mensch!" . . . But Mr. O nodded his head in acquiescence and by non-resistance became a member of Temple K.K. Anshe Giborim.
Mr. O felt the reproachful presence of the ghosts of his parents at the door of the synagogue as he passed by on the morning of Yom Kippur . . . "Oh, our Raphael doesn't know us anymore!" , . , Raphel was his name until his wife made him Ralston, Mr, O was on the way to the temple,
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Mr. O sat desolated in the temple. It seemed no place for the old God, and if God were here it was a shame to sit before Him on Yom Kippur naked without a talith and with no hat on. Mr. O felt abashed, like some new nudist suddenly thrust for the first time into the sunlight.
Mr, O considered his shortcomings. In the old synagogue on Yom Kippur his shortcomings seemed to fall away from him, as he recited the familiar ritual; in the synagogue Mr. O spoke to God with his own (Continued on Page 2)
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