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facing the danger of annihilation as the result of the despotic and merciless poli cies of the communists. The statement also attacks severely Mr. Reuben Brainin of New York for undertaking a world wide tour on behalf of the cause of Jew ish colonization in Russia. Palestine supplies Great Britain with seventeen per cent of its total importa tion of oranges. —o— An endowment fund of approximately £15,000 was created by an anonymous donor, a Zionist residing in England, for the establishment of a Chair for Inter national Peace at the Hebrew University on Mt. Scopus. —o— The formation of an American commit tee for science and technology at the He brew University in Jerusalem and the launching of a campaign for $25,000 to cover the budget of the University’s sci entific department, were announced by F. Julius Fohs, oil geologist, chairman of the committee. —o— The completion of the Hebrew edition of Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary by the Dvir Publishers was celebrated last week by a number of authors and scholars. Excavations by the Archeological De partment of the Hebrew University at Beth Alpha, near the foothills of Gilboa, have brought to light the floor of an an cient Jewish synagogue 28x14 meters. In the prayer hall is a mosaic of the signs of the Zodiac set in brilliant and. beautiful colors of twenty-two different shades. In scriptions here are both in Hebrew and in Greek, and in a marvelous state of preservation. Dr. Sukenik believes that this discovery is the touchstone by which scholarship may ascertain the date of all antiquities. He appears to the present writer, however, to be over-sanguine. —o— According to press dispatches, | Jews are now, for the first time since the days of Ferdinand and Isabella, free to enter Spain without legal embarrassment. —o— Recently an unnamed donor gave $200,- 000 for the erection of a Jewish university in this country upon the condition that an additional $300,000 should be raised for the same purpose. The question as to the necessity of a Jewish university in Amer ica is being very vigorously debated. Many of the outstanding Jews see a ne cessity for such an institution because of disadvantages under which Jewish stu dents labor in our universities. Many outstanding Jewish leaders are staunch advocates of the proposed Jewish univer sity. —o—
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i»d^tes» News Notes The application of the Zionist Execu tive for the issuance of an additional 300 labor certificates for the admission of 300 Chalutzim to the country, was refused by the government, states a Jewish Tele graphic Agency dispatch from Jerusalem. The 300 certificates were the balance re maining of the total of the half-year quota. —o— A Roentgen X-Ray Institute was opened in Jerusalem in the government hospital, on April 25, states a Jewish Telegraphic Agency dispatch. The High Commissioner, who delivered an address at the exercises, praised the generosity of Mr. Loesch of Chicago, who donated the amount needed for the institute. The equipment amounts to $10,000. —o— Workers engaged on the Rockefeller Museum in Jerusalem went on strike on May 3 as a protest against the govern ment cutting their wages and because of long hours, states a Jewish Telegraphic Agency report. The workers, 75 Arabs and 25 Jews, were paid 3 shillings per day and were required to work nine and a half hours. —o— Sir Ronald Storrs, former governor of Jerusalem, sent a Passover greeting to the Jews of Jerusalem from Cape Town, South Africa. The message was in Hebrew. — o — According to the American Hebrew, over sixty Brooklyn clergymen, of va rious denominations, at a meeting held some weeks ago, expressed their sym pathy and agreement with the purposes of the League for the Fixity of the Sab bath, which opposes any calendar reform which would disturb the fixity of the week. — o — From England comes the news that “a unique collection of Jewish ritual orna ments, formed by 600 years of effort by the Saloman family, and having an esti mated value of $3,000,000, is to be placed in the custodianship of the British nation by S. M. Saloman, present head of the family.” —o— A plan to create a world federation of Jewish artisans was approved and the framework of the organization laid, at what was termed a world conference of Jewish artisans just concluded at Beuthen, Upper Silesia. Wilhelm Marcus, of Ber lin, was chosen president . . . Catholics, Protestants and Jews in Germany joined hands to work for world peace with the establishment in Berlin of a German branch of the Federation for World Peace through the churches. Official statistics on the number of Jews studying in the Hungarian univer sities during 1927-28 have just been pub lished. The figures reveal that 15,490 Jews were enrolled in 38 Hungarian uni versities, forming 8.3 per cent of the total student body. — o— It is indeed refreshing to hear that Rabbi Hillel Silver, of the Temple, Cleve land, according to the American Hebrew, has, lifted his voice against the resort to worldly amusements in Connection with his synagogue in order to hold the young people of the community. He is reported to have declared that “the young people cannot be induced into the spiritual place ‘through the bait of amusement.’ ” He did not condemn altogether the activities but insisted upon placing the emphasis upon the spiritual functions of the syna gogue. Continuing, the writer in the American Hebrew quotes him as follows: “The Temple should in the future devote itself exclusively to the role which it alone can perform in a community,— namely, as a House of Prayer and a House of Religious Study.” This writer, continuing, says: “Here is a courageous Rabbi, pleading for ‘the essential genius of the Synagogue,’ which ought to be not a social club and place of amusement, but ‘a place of worship, religious inspiration, and religious education.’ ” — o — Palestine now has 513 industrial es tablishments, employing 5,000 workers, with more than a million and a half pounds invested in these establishments, states a report from Jerusalem to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. These fig ures are the result of a statistical survey made by the Davar, Hebrew Labor daily, and does not include the 700 workers em ployed on the Rutenberg works. The agricultural development of Pales tine gives great promise for the future. Every conceivable means and device known to modern life is being utilized to the advancement of the upbuilding of the homeland. An important step in this di rection is reported in the New Palestine in the appointment of Professor Prasso- lov to make a general survey of Pales tine : “The International Soil Experts Congress, which met in Danzig recently, commissioned Professor Prassolov of the Leningrad Academy of Science to un dertake a survey of the Palestine col onization system and submit his report to next year’s session. The resolution was proposed by Dr. Hissing, Director of the Dutch Agricultural College.” A group of Hebrew authors and com munal workers in Palestine, led by Chaim Nachman Bialik, Hebrew poet, issued a statement drawing attention of the Jew ish public opinion throughout the world to the “truth about Russia.” It was de clared that millions of Russian Jews are The cornerstone has just been laid for the erection of the home of The Jewish National Fund Headquarters Building in Jerusalem.
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