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THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
A Magazine Perpetuating Jewish Ideals
Volume 3
FRIDAY, APRIL 11, 1930
Number 11
he Palestine Inquiry Commission
I he Triumph of Jewish Brotherhood
The Palestine Inquiry Commission report, which was made
last week, confirmed all the rumors and surpassed the
i of Zionist misgivings, inasmuch as the report does not re-
i merely recommends. It is concerned with the safety of
Arabs much more than with Jewish rights. While it is ad-
im 1 that the Arabs have assaulted the Jews and are to blame
the [Rigroms that horrified all civilized nations last August,
n port does not condemn the Arabs nor does it contain one
Mtence that qualifies the Arab attacks as a crime.
After admitting that the Arabs killed innocent Jews, the re-
siiggests that Jews should not be permitted to enter Pales-
i great numbers. The Inquiry Commission ignores the fact
a* the Balfour Declaration was issued to the Jews and not to
Arabs and overlooks the British pledge to facilitate the estab-
meiit of a Jewish national home in Palestine. The reduction
Jewish immigration, the decrease of Jewish land purchases
the non-participation of Zionists in the Palestine administra-
i are the essence of the recommendation made by the Shaw
lAmmission to the British Government.
The reason for such action to Jews the world over can only
nterpreted by them as an insinuation that the Arabs might
■ provoked into doing some more pogroming, and of course that
1 >uA1 be too bad for the poor Arabs!
Among other queer observations is the statement that the
\rab riots were not at all directed against the British or Pales-
Government—that the Arabs are openly attacking the Brit-
Mandate is merely a sidelight. The Commission insists that
p Arabs meant the Jews; and if the Arabs had to shoot through
t Hritish uniform to get at a Jew, that does not concern British
Ago. And so it is hinted that Britain is receiving knocks
• mm the Arabs, but only by mistake.
The Jewish world is beginning to doubt British fair play and
ice, for the victim, not the murderer, is being condemned. And
’hough Prime Minister Ramsay McDonald stated in Parliament
t the Balfour Declaration was accepted by Britain as a pledge,
•if seems to be emphasis placed upon the safeguarding of non-
i rights equal to the stress placed upon the historical rights
‘h<* Jews to Palestine without encroaching upon the existing
leges of other races or creeds—all of which foreshadows that
'• Government will heed the recommendations of the Committee.
I hr situation is no laughing matter
the comment of the epigrammatic
'ephrn S. Wise on the report comes
1 s mind: “The Balfour Declara-
does not need interpretation—it
-'■’"l- fulfillment.”
The Festival of Freedom, called in Hebrew “Pesach”—Pass-
over, though one of the oldest of Jewish festivals, has been of
marked significance both to the Jewish people and the world at
large throughout generations. Originating as a Spring festival
to celebrate the approach of favorable weather for the tiller of
the soil, in later years a more profound symbolism was associated
with Passover. It came to be the anniversary of the liberation of
the Children of Israel from the yoke of Egyptian bondage, and
as such wielded influence upon the career of the Jewish people.
The central ceremonies bound up with this thought were the
Korban Pesach, the Paschal offering, and the Matzoth, the Un
leavened Bread. The former in its original form ceased with the
destruction of the Temple, but the Matzoth is still used in almost
its original form. Jews had to have Matzoth wherever they were
under all circumstances and conditions, and it has accompanied
them on their age-long travel from land to land.
When the Jews settled in America, they of course took care
to have Matzoth for Passover, and so within the past few de
cade's there has grown up in the* United States the largest Matzoth
factory in the world, carrying on the symbol of Jewish life and
Jewish traditions. Along with the expansion of commerce and
industry, the Matzoth manufactured in our country may be
found in all parts of the world where there are Jews, strength
ening that feeling of Jewish brotherhood, of Jewish nationality,
of Jewish emancipation which Pesach so strikingly illustrated.
With the historic background of the Festival signifying libera
tion from physical oppression and hatred, and liberation from
spiritual bondage, it is indeed a Festival of Freedom of the Jewish
people and of humanity in general. And the example of the
American Matzoth being used universally points to the contribu
tion of the American Jew to the continued oneness of the Jewish
people, the triumph of the spirit of the Brotherhood of the Jew.
CONTENTS
A Great German
■rmanv is celebrating the twenty-
anniversary of her theatrical
■ Max Reinhardt. His first pro-
i was Shakespeare’s “Midsummer
Dream.” It was he, also who
iueed Shalom Asch’s masterpiece,
1 Vengeance,” to the world some
ago. The German plays he has
are comparatively few. He
ow n a predilection for English,
• and, recently, American drama,
v-inhardt is being acclaimed these
the greatest German producer
ime. On the night of the Rein-
nniversary in Berlin a statue of
Rathenau was found defaced
"arred. A strange way of cele-
n ratln £ the
Keinhardt!
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THE FESTIVAL OF PASSOVER
By Florence llothrhield
JUDAISM AND PROHIBITION . . .
Hy Rabbi Leon Spitz
SOUTHEAST REFORM JEWRY ORGANIZES
FEATURES OF LOCAL INTEREST
SOCIETY AND PERSONALS
IN THE LIMELIGHT
NATIONAL NEWS
FOREIGN NEWS
SCANNING THE JEWISH HORIZON
By David Schwartz
THE CHILDREN’S CORNER . . .
By Sister Miram
QUEEN OF A GARDEN CITY . .
Ry Robbie Lazarms Axelrod
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M. Stephen Sc hi ft ek. Managing Editor
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Established 1925.
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A Shipping Item
The amalgamation of the two German shipping concerns, the
North German Lloyd and the Hamburg-American Line, is one of
the great events of the Commercial world. That two Jewish finan
ciers, Max Warburg and Jacob Goldschmid, were the two master
minds that made this gigantic merger
possible has come to light, and it has
deeply impressed German public opin
ion. Germany’s sore spot since the war
was the crippling of her merchant ma
rine, which the Versailles Peace Treaty
reduced to a minimum of tonnage. The
merging of these two concerns restores
Germany to the position of a tremen
dous factor in trans-Atlantic passenger
service. Credit is due to two co-relig
ionists of Walter Rathenau. The Ger
man press has taken the occasion to
remind the German public that the
builder of the Hamburg-American Line
and unquestionably Germany’s most
astute shipping wizard was another
Jew, Albert Ballin, who committed sui
cide when he heard of the aKiser’s
flight to Holland. This bit of shipping
news does not belong merely on the
shipping page. It spells great improve
ment in the relations between Jew and
Gentile in Germany.
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