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The Year in Palestine I , " -"."'.-" , II J II Page Three I,: Thursday, October 28, 1943 Thursday, October ,28,1943 THE JEWISH POST ,'i' --~~~~~------------------~~- -~~------------------------ :~ ,, THE JEWISH POST i i Page Two Inquart follows: I' ; I I • uAfter many happenings -in the ,:1 I years of occupation which have ,·NEWSY I B.ackground Of A caused the Christian churches of the » , Netherlands to feel forced to com- « 01ES , Palestine plain to Your Excellency, notably aILlI ..IltIUIlIIUlnIIlIIIIUI .. I ..I .. IIIIlII ..1 ,ranlnlltlll'lIltIIlfl!!II"'" The Oldest AngI<>-Jewlsh Weekly in WesternOanado. l' The Year In !'. (lE:illled weekly in the interests of Jewish Com.munity activitiefl regarding the question of Jewish By BORIS SMOLAR i in Winnipeg and Western Cnnada) Jewish Philosopher I (Poles, Czechs, Greeks, and Fighting French) citizens, there now occurs something (Copyright, 1943, JTA) , By ABRAHAM REVUSKY g-arrisoned in the East. These figures include so terrible that we cannot desist DELEGATION-With religion again fully recoguized in Soviet Russia, " Published every Thursrlay By ROSELLE ROSS book of which Thomas Mann has by about 2,000 PATS (Palestinian Women's Terri­ from addressing these words to Your don't be surprised if you read soan in the press that a religious delegation HE year 5703 will be marked as. a year of said: "So colorful and brilliant a Excellency in the name of the will shortly proceed from Moscow to Palestine.... This will not exactly EMPIRE PRESS LTD. torial Service), but do not include the 7,300 Settle­ A true cosmopolite of Russian­ salvation in the history of Palestme J ewr.y. collection of aphorisms has not been Lord. be a Jewish delegation, although representatives of the Moscow Jewish Printers and Publishers T ment police now receiving regular military train­ Polish - Gennan - Swiss and now While the political future of the country. IS published since Nietzsche." "We have already complained religious community may also be included in it... '. The delegation will ( BEN M, COHEN, Business Mana.ger ing. Palestinian Jewish volunteers now number American background is Jacob Klatz­ ; still in doubt, and the application of the WhIte Even as a small ,boy, Jacob Klatz­ about several acts on the part of the be headed by the Russian Patriarch Bergius.••. The Jewish members n kin, noted European philosopher of Phone 54400 Evenings 54 345 Paper restrictions causes much apprehenslO , the 22,000 kin knew that he would be a writer occupying power which clash with of the delegation are expected to visit the Wailing Wall, Jewish colonies In line with its general attitude toward the our time. Yishuv was tremendously relieved when General and a philosopher - nothing else. the spiritual principles of our people, and the Rabbinate.... The Christian members will make a pilgrimage to Head Office: 213 Selkirk Ave., Winnipeg, Canado. Jews of Palestine the British Government rejected Dr. Klatzkin was born in Russia Entered as Second Class Mail Matter at Ottawa Montgomery turned back Marshal ~?mm~l's And throughout his life he has which has at least attempted, since Jerusalem, Nazareth and Bethlehem... , . At the same time that the the new army offer. It decreed, however, as a in 1882 in what is now the Polish ,Afrika Korps and the danger of a NaZI mvaslOn worked unswervingly to that end. its hirth, to live with its government Palestine Government was asked to grant visas to the delegation, it was Thursday, October 28, 1943 slight deviation from its previous policy, the for­ district Grodno. But he studied and He served as editor of various pub­ Vol. XIX-No. 43 was definitely over. in accordance with God's word. also requested to permit the visit of five Soviet cameramen and eight press I mation of a Palestinian "regiment" with Jewish lectured at German and Swiss uni­ lications. In 1908 he visited Amer­ " While the Yishuv showed much bravery and IINow beginning has been made representatives.... While on the subject of Palestine, it is interesting to ! cool headed efficiency even in the worst of and Arab battalions. The size of the regiment was versities-living for 20 years in Ger­ ica as representative of the Hebrew I d~ys with the sterilization of members of know that the Iraquian Military Attache in Washington has published an I not specified, and the impression was given that many, -20 years in Switzerland. Sillce Immigrant Aid Society in Europe to ~ Declaration and a Paper Rommel's break-through in Egypt, t~e endmg. of so-called mixed marriages. But God, article in the A.merican press emphasizing that Hwhatever happens in there would be no obi ection if it would actually 1941 he has made his home in the study inunigration conditions in this i the imminent Nazi threat doubled Its energIes who created heaven and earth and Palestine has the strongest repercussions in Iraq" .... He insists that "the reach and even exceed the size of an average United States. country. He has taught and lectured and helped to accelerate the tempo of its creative 'Whose commandment applies to all extreme propaganda of ,certain Zionists can only have a detrimental effect Twenty-six years ago this corning Tuesday brigade. ' Long known as a writer of works in various Wliversities. But he i:; I activities. men and to Whom Your Excellency i on the good relations that have always existed among ChristianJ Moslem I, Lord Lionel Walter Rothschild received a letter on philosopjly and psychology pub­ chiefly known for his great work. , Most of Palestine's Jewish volunteers are not ll Their own homes now safe again, the Jews of also must give account one day, told and Jewish Arabs • , •• Well, we never knew that there was such a ,I ' from Arthur James (later Lord) Balfour that Palestine were extremely distressed by the whole­ serving with this Palestinian "regiment" which lished in Gennall, Hebrew, Russian as editor-in-chief of the Encyclo­ and French Dr. Klatzkin's first book men, 'Be fruitful and multiply'. thing ,as a HJewish Arab" .... Needless to say, he considers Palestine a marked the beginning of an epoch in Jewish his­ remains within the country, but in various units J paedia Judaica, and for his books on ,, ", sale Jewish massacres in Nazi dominated Europe. "Sterilization con.stitutes physical country which belongs to the Arabs and believes that the Arabs, in any 'I ' tory for which Jewry had dreamed and longed for in English has just been published. philosophyJ ethics, aesthetics, and Nowhere did a Jewish community react in a on the African and Mediterranean fronts. Many i,l over two thousand years. The letter, later to It is uIn Praise of Wisdom" - the and spiritual mutilation directly at of their territories, will never accept what he calls I'overlordship from , stronger or more imposing way. Strikes, mass of them were commanded by a fellow Palestinian, metaphysics. H become known as the historic Balfour Declaration, Fully aware of the rising evil of variance with the divine command- a1i.en Zionists' in any form .... demonstrations and fasts were proclaimed and Brigadier General Frederick Kisch, the former ment that we shall not dishonor, TERRITORY-Dr. I. Steinberg, the ICfather" of the project to settle :,'I stated briefly that "His Majesty's Government scrupulously observed. Th~ most hardened ~bse!­ political representative in Jerusalem of the Jewish J.T.A. News - Twenty Hitler influence, Dr. Klatzkin left views with favor the establishment in Palestine his Munich home for good just be­ hate, wound or kill our neighbors. Jews in the Kimberley section of Australia, tells us the curious fact that , vel'S were touched at the Sight of a commumty 111 Agency, who was killed in Tunisia. Kisch was the Years Ago This Week Sterilization constitutes a violence the entire "area, which is larger than Belgium, belongs to one family ... .­ of a national horne for the Jewish people.... " chief engineer of Montgomery's Eighth Army and, (Copyright, 1943, J.T.A.) fore Hitler came to power. ~e was : deep mourning and in bitter, although helpless of divine commandment as well ~s This family, named Chaduck, now resides in England and' is willing to One of the greatest epics of achievement has protest. At the same time carne practical sugges­ after his death, it became known that much of the 'Jerusalem - Complete freedom invIted to this country from Swit­ been witnessed in these 26 years when through for all the Arab countries and the zerlandby a college in Chicago of human rights. lease the land for Jewish mass-colonization providing the Australian ! tions that the gates of Palestine and of the lands engineering and pioneering work of the victorious "It is the last consequence of an Government approves the deal. In this h~ge territory ther~ are, at il Jewish toil, determination, ingenuity, aspirations of the United Nations, wherever pos&ible, be desert army was done by Palestinian units which early establishment of an Arab where he lectured for some time. and money the barren plains and hills of ancient Federation to include all the Arab Later on, he came to New York to anti.:.Christian racial doctrine which- present, no more than forty white families and a few hundred colored opened wide to as many potential victims of Hitler had performed their extremely dangerous' tasks states, were urged in two resolu­ Judaea were turned into a flowering oasis. The spend all his time preparing books destroys nations and of a self- people.... It is amazing to think that OI'J.e family possesses so much land, as could be saved. with great efficiency and unusual bravery. tions adopted by the Pan-AJab progress made in Eretz Israel in reclaiming it as in English on philosophy, social exaltation without bounds.
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