Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-11-30
JEWS WILL ACT
ON PALESTINE
Big Meeting Will be Held To-
morrow Night at Beth
Mordecai

A meeting of the members of the
local Keren Hayesod palestine
Foundation FUND.- Committee and
others interested in the development
of a Jewish Palestine will be held
tomorrow evening in the vestry room
of the congregation Beth Mordecai.
to make plans for further work in
the interest of the fund. Up to the
present moment Perth Amboy has
been able to send to the central Of
flee of the fund in New York over
$4,000 in cash and there are out
standing pledges of more than S1O,-
900 which will be collected in the
course of the year. These sums were
raised with relatively little effort as
a result of appeals made in the syn
agogues on Rosh Hashanah, and the
committee expects to increase the
amount greatly when it's plans for
the more permanent organization OF
the work can be effected.
The local committee in charge OF
the work vas represented at a ma
tional conference of Keren Hayesod
workers which met recently in New
York by Rabbi Eugene Cohen and
Mr.. Philip Levine and tomorrows
meeting will be devoted largely to
action on their reports. This confer
ence was made notable by the at
tendance of a delegation of Zionist
leaders from Europe who are visit
ing this country in the interest OF
the fund. The head of this delega-
ton is Mr.. Nahum Sokolow, chair
man of the executive committee OF
the World Zionist Organization, who
- f4 Mr. lInNF1n
Weitzman, it's president, in all the
diplomatic negotiations leading to
the recognition of the right of the
Jewish people to a national home in
Palestine, the comforting of h man
date over Palestine upon Great Brit
tain, the first of the powers to rec
ognize this right, the OF
Jewish claims in the treaty with
Turkey and in the British mandate,
and the appointment of a Jew, Sir
Herbert Samuel as high commission
err in Palestine. Others of the dele
CATION are Professor Otto Warburg:
of Germany. a former president OF
the World Zionist Organization, DIR.
Alexander Goldstein, a leading
spokesman of the Jews of Russia at
the last Zionist congress. and Vladi-
mir Jabotinsky, noted as the origi-
nator of the Jewish Legion. in which
he fought under General Allenby in
the Palestine campaign and as the
organizer'of the Jewish self-defense
against Arab aggression. He paruc-
ularly endeared himself to the jew
ish people in the latter connection
as his activities in defense of the
Jews aroused enmity in certain cir
cles which led to his false Gus
ton and condemnation to nfteen
years Imprisonment by the then MIL
itary government. However, when a
civil government took place OF mill
tary rule, his innocence was vindi-
Gated and he was released to con-
tinue his activities as the intrepid
protagonist of the Jewish cause.
The main accomplishment of the
national conference in New York
was the adoption of a system of self
taxation on the basis of income as
the method of raising the 100000
which it is proposed to raise in
America for the period from Sep
TENDER 1921 to January 1, 1928.
The plans conform, as nearly as
conditions permit, to the ancient In
stitution of ma'aser or 1.-THE accord--
ing to which Jews gave one-tenth of
their possessions and income as a
tax for the maintenance of their
communal and philanthropic insti-
tutions. Great enthusiasm was evok-
ed by the adoption of this plan be-
cause of it's clear implication that
the support of the effort to build a
national home for the Jewish people
in Palestine is not merely an act of
philanthropy but a clear obligation
upon every Jew who would main
tain his afiliation with the Jewish
people.
The interest of the Jews of Perth
Aruboy in this conference and in the
message of the delegation of leading
Zionists has led the local committee
10 extend a general invitation to all
who may be interested to attend to-
morrow's meeting and participate
in the discussion.