The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1919-06-21
By MARION wEINsTErE.
Article VII.

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firm foundations Tor = Jewish com.
monweaith In Palestine u must solve
the most pressing human problem
there today. the breach between tho
Orthodox majority Of the Holy Lands
hundred thousand Jews and the New
Settlement. II must solve this prob
lem not only in the Interests % peace
but ccaus the Orthodox have an Inn
poFtant contribution to make % the
new Judea. a contribution not general
~ appreciated.
a bitter misunderstanding exists be-
tween Orthodox JeNry ~ Palestine
aud the New settlement. the group
upon which Llonista throughout the
world center their hopes for the new
nation. Up To a month ago. botween
b Orthodox and the Zionist commits.
sion there was n deep resentment that
amounted almost to n feud.
Ib>astanc to Commission
The commission, with the help OF
b New Settlement, has been trying
10 rEanlxe palestinian IeWry In city
councils OF com munitiea. In the Holy
cities. Jerusalem. Safed. TtherlaH. ~
met with strenuous resistance. Tiher-
las and kafed finally "capltulated.
Jerusalem, however, a. late az April,
remained unyisidlnr A rouncil Of
Naad Hair, formed by tho commits.
ENA - ~ ANHM . 80 wv w. So
the sephardim or oriental Jews and
some Of the AshkennHlm or Occi-
dental Jews wis funct.oninE hut
the great body OF Ashkonaklm Of
Jerusalem was sili obdurate. In a
separate council ~ IT, own.
M chief issue b. a religious one.
The Orthodox Jews resent the New
Settlements attempts To reform them
ana Their children. their Taimud
Torahs or Hebrew schools. their
ferhiboth or seminaries. They object.
too. 60 h use of the Holy Hebrew
~ an every day language ana a. q
medium Of instruction They speak
81 the New settlement a. "taission-
aries" trying Co defect them from
their ancient faith.
' Have Iteli Gffr,amcc
The merits of the ease cannot be
Dudgcd fairly by q newspaper reporter
making q few months general inventl-
cation % The whole country. u was
able. however, 20 see that the ortho-
% N-sttr ncckci. stubborn uncuul-
promising have beneath their ac-
cusations exaggerated Ia their hit
, tsrness, q real grievance.
ORTHODOX Hebrew rachors Ion the
employ Of d Zionis commission told
mc that the system ~ Hebrew educa-
ton n L. conducting b. not abovo
legitimate criticism from The Ortho-
! duN point OF view I kuuw too, thu.
|. q former chairman 81 the Zionist
Education committee mas more than
once expressed himself iu u manner
hostile TO TIE orthodox, ~ a ruVra
Jewish convention In Jsffs he made
a statement a. the effect
"if the Orthodox continue 90 hinder
our progress We shall have 10 cal
with thcm az the French did with the
Jrsuits"
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No ~ eau deny there u logic In
tho orthodox parents plea. Can .
entrust MY child's education 10 q man
with such AN attitude toward me p"
The Zionist commission. after eN-
haustinE a vain attempts to rin the
coopeuatiIn of the orthodox Jews OF
Jerusalem gave up the task as hope
less. until DR.. frledcnwald, its new
acting head, tool The problem up
again recently. In an official state
ment, given 90 me BY the head OF
the Zionist relief distribution bureau
In the Holy city last winter, the atti.
tude Of the commission toward the
orthodox Jews was thus expressed.
Jtutiktn JuSry Accused
our work has suffered from tho
insidious opposition of u small sec
ton Of determined .bigotH 10 tho old
rhalukah tduic aystsml type, who
have used ala means. fair and foul. ID
hamper the commission In the re.
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report also speaks Of "a degraded,
degenerate Jerusalem" Dr. chain
Meixmann. head u the Zionist com.
h,iHaiOn, In a speech In London last
November charged Jerusalem JewrN
with beEgary. drunkenness and pros.
tuition.
These chargss are NJ exaggerated "a
the accusations OF inquiaition made by
the Orthodox against the Commission
such car~leas criticisms from head,
quarters are not conducive 10 better
relations. Moreover, they react de.
.Hructiveiy upon he British In I'aies,
tine. who. unfamiliar with the Ortho.
doN Jew IN hts queer Jerusalem
Tuisc havc come 90 regard him us q
lazy. worthless. begging relic OF th'
Introducing New Spirit.
nr Friedcnwaid IN introducing 3
new spirit toward the orthodox In IN,
Zionist Commission. But they SHOULD
have q Representative CRITICALLY or IN
OFFICIALLY connected with the Commits
sion, an Orthodox American jew wh'
can he depended upon to deal trml,
with them M well ~ alphabetically
They have never had a ghance 4
plead their cause. right ~ wrong
last winter, when there were frequen
diatRrcementa bstwoen ulcm and IN
relief head OF the Commission, part
cularly IN the ease Of the Hungarian
community, their letters 10 their Jew
iah countrymen In Europe and Ameri
ca were held mp by the onsor. Whel
they tool their grievances 20 the Brit
iah authorities they found they hhi
TO deal AZ the Military Governorat
with n Zionist official. recommends
by the Commission. honest AZ q
course out Of place ~ an arhitcr
Americans Io Not Understand.
In America, too, there ~ a prevail
Ing misunderstanding Of tho Orthodo
Jews in Jerusalem. American Jew
has grown from reports 10 believe tina
they are "a crowd of hopeless fanatic
and beEgars. materialists clinginF
the huaka OF the Jewish law. tn
New settlement has been pictured a
the sole hope In Palestine, the Orthr
dox as a necessary evil who must b
endured until time remove them, a
their children are weaned away ffoI
their parents folly.
left New York with the impre'
Slen that Jerusalem was 4 soT, OF "a