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congregation facing it at every turn, to
kiss its passing robe. Or the majestic
taste—-curious I had never remarked it
before—of chanting the 29th Psalm, as
it swayed in the pride of its march.
For I could not keep my eyes from the
lamps. I have traveled somewhat in
Jewish lands, and 1 thought I knew
something of their ritual hardware; but
such lamps as these I had never seen,
nothing more or less than vast water-
tumblers, clamped in metal bands and
hung from the ceiling by long chains.
They were each filled with several quarts
of vegetable oil which kept afloat a
bobbing and spluttering wick. Later I
found similar lamps burning in the far
thest synagogues of Morocco, in forbid
den cities of the Rif and hamlets of the
Atlas; and it was difficult to believe they
were not an antique device—as ancient
as their prototypes in the gold-illuminated
manuscripts of Spain. Plain glasses, cut
glasses, I saw them; inscribed glasses,
colored glasses, glasses inset with metal
and strange stones, a drinking set for
archangels, the service for a divine toast.
Yet British-made and modern enough.
The jews of Gibraltar offer the same
seduction and deception as their lamps.
Clinging to their timeless rock, brother
to the Phoenician, they ply the antique
trade of their race. Not a family of
them but bears the print of battle, flight
and unquenchable adventure across the
sea that separates them from their olden
home. Yet to walk or talk with them,
they were born yesterday and bred in
Manchester. Is it beyond the bounds of
a Sabbath’s journey for one of them to
climb above the Monkeys Alameda to
St. George’s Tower and look east across
the blue?
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NO GAIN WITHOUT ADVEN
TURE
(Continued from page 7)
For this young man holds that strength
grows only through effort and power is
achieved only through action. Abba
Achamair is the young man who led the
Tel Aviv demonstration against Or.
Shiels on the occasion of that M. P.’s
kind visit after the 1929 pogroms. Abba
Achamair is the young man whom the
police arrested and beat up in Allenby
Street, Tel Aviv, after the anti-census
demonstration. Abba Achamair sits in
prison at the moment because of his part
in the “adventure” staged in honor of
Mr. Norman Bentwich. All hail to Abba
Achamair!
Palestine today has only a few others
like him; but their numbers will grow.
So will their activities grow in force and
significance. For it is impossible that the
entire Yishub, the quintessence of three
generations of national enthusiasm, should
submit forever to a pack of aliens whose
sovereignty in Palestine is based solely
on their breaking their word of honor and
who make life there very uncomfortable
for us. It is only logical that there will
arise in Palestine Jews who will make
things uncomfortable for them, too. At
first they will be only a small group of
young men, and the Yishub itself will
revile them as rogues and adventurers;
but by and by others will join them, will
experience for themselves the taste of
jails and the Acco prison camp—for re
fusing to pay taxes, for active protesting
against alien police in Tel Aviv, for
hooting at a Jew-baiting visitor who is
so kind as to visit them while a White
Paper is already being hatched in his
mind, or even for preventing the traitors
in their own ranks from voting for an
anti-Zionist parliament or from preach
ing in favor of an anti-Zionist regime in
a university classroom.
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• • JUDAH MAGNES • •
{Continued from page 4)
the Jewish Palestine and that the word
of God might come from the Rabbi but
must first be sanctioned by the Board of
Directors. He was through with con
gregations for all time.
The World War lifted Magnes out
of the restricted sphere of Jewish life
and produced a valiant champion of hu
man rights, a foe of reaction, hysterical
nationalism, blood lust and world mad
ness. Superficially, he ceased to be a Jew
and became a citizen of the world. Ac
tually he was never more Jewish. In all
his speeches he interpreted the real Jew
and preached the message of Zion to the
peoples of the world. He shares honors
with the outstanding liberal minds in
America on the lists of the proscribed
issued by the patriotic societies. The safe
and sane among the Jews grumbled and
openly fulminated against this enfant
terrible as a troublemaker who was com
promising the good name of the Jew and
casting doubt upon Jewish loyalty.
The war, however, provided Israel
with the unexpected boon of Palestine
as a restored homeland and incidentally
afforded Magnes the opportunity of rea
lizing himself fully in this old new land.
Characteristically, the first institution
which the Jew planned and perfected was
the Hebrew University in Jerusalem on
Mount Scopus, and immediately after
the war Magnes withdrew to Palestine.
When the seat of learning was dedicated
by Balfour in April 1924, Magnes be
came its chancellor.
Far from being buried in the university
and thus being rendered harmless as
some fondly hoped would happen his in
fluence has grown. During the Arab-
Jewish conflict he came in for well-nigh
universal abuse because he counselled
peace with the Arabs as against depend
ence on British imperial force or inter
ference from any government, be it Con
servative, Liberal or Labor. In view of
the occurrences of the following months,
even this stand must now be viewed as
both prophetic and sound. Magnes, the
Jew, can never forget that he also is the
humanitarian.
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ABRAHAM LEVY’S REVENGE
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that Abraham had left. One chap bought
his tool box, a fine piece of workmanship
that the dead man had brought from Aus
tria. Another purchased his tools. A
thiid bought his clothes. Then there was
the customary collection. And everything
that was realized was cabled to the griev
ing family on the other side. Isaac was
very philosophical about the entire mat
ter. 1 hat s how they go,” he told his
wife. “You can't fight what is to be. I
certainly did all I could for Abraham. I
even gave him a job against my better
judgment." His wife agreed, “it’s just
like Mrs. Katz says, she stated. “You’re
a \\underfill man. ’ . , ^ Some six
months after Abraham’s death, Isaac had
occasion to go out and inspect one of the
jobs he was constructing. Something had
gone wrong on the eighth floor of the
building, and his men couldn’t seem to
locate the trouble.
He cursed them fluently and went look
ing about on his own account. Isaac
never did learn the exact nature of the
trouble. And for an excellent reason.
He was so intent upon his mission that
he didn t see an object on the scaffolding
right at his feet. He stumbled over it.
His arms and legs shot out. And he fell
the eight stories to an immediate death.
Surely, somewhere, the gods must have
been laughing. For the object over which
Uaac had tripped was Abraham’s tool
box! . . .
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