The New York herald., 1922-04-16
JEWISH HOMELAND
CAMPAIGN BEGINS
At Carnegie Hall Tonight
Demonstration Will Open
S3,000,000 Drive.

Coincident with the celebration OF
Passover. the national Jewish holiday OF
liberation, the Jews of New York city
begin to-day the campaign to raise
s.: 900 900 for the rebuilding of Pales-
tine as the Jewish national homeland.
The campaign will start with demon
stration tonight at Carnegie Hall and
will continue until May z. Samuel Un-
termyer honorary chairman Of the cam
paign, will preside. The meeting will be
opened by Morris Rothenberg. associate
chairman in charge of the campaign, and
speakers will include Nahum Sokolow,
chairman OF Worlds Zionist Executive
Committee; Vladimir Jabotinsky, hero OF
the. Jewish Legion that fought in Pales-
tine and COL J. H. Paterson, irish COM
mander of the Jewish Legion, who Is
now propagating the building of Pales-
tine as the Jewish homeland. Mrs. Rich
ard Gottheil. wife of Prof. Gottheil OF
Columbia University. will speak on be-
half of the Women's Division OF the
Campaign.
The city has been divided into six
teen sections, each of which will be
covered by a group of volunteers. who
will canvass the Jewish population In
that territory for contributions. APP
Eroximately five thousand volunteers
will 60 out. beginning to-day. to carry
the message of Palestine and the Pass.
over of Liberation to about a hundred
thousand Jews in the city.
The funds to be raised in this cam
paign are to be administered by the
Keren Hayesod, or Palestine Foundation
Fund. A committee of 900 is in charge
of the campaign, and the members in
cude Adolph Lewisohn. Judge otto a.
Rosalsky, DR.. Judah J.. Magnesi DR.. D.
Benderly, Herman Bernstin, pustice
Harry e. Lewis, Rabbi Herbert s. Gold
stein, Justice e. Lazansky. Judge A. H.
Geismar. Judge L. D. Gibbs. Samuel
Lamport, DR.. Mordechai M. kaplan,
Judge Aaron J. Levy, Rabbi M. u. Mar
golis. Judge Leon Sanders. Rabbi Maui
rice H. Harris. Congressman Isaac
Siegel and Mr.. Joseph Barondess.
THE opportunity to the Jewish people
for building Palestine is nothing short
O: a miracle" Mr.. Rothenberg said
| yesterday "Out of the very war with
| it's attendant destruction rose the pos
sibility of Jewish Palestine. The his
! torical claim of the Jewish people to
Palestine was recognized by the nations
Of the world Under the British man
date Palestine is to be transformed
| into Jewish homeland
From every corner OF Europe, but
mostly from the lands OF pogroms and
persecution, the Jewish men and women
| are moving toward Palestine. anxious
to forget the horrors of their past In the
| labor OF building happier future. I'm
patiently. feverishly. they wait to set
foot in the Land of Promise But the
essential question is still to be answered
Will American Jews make it possible for
the hope Of centuries to be. converted
into reality? Are those who are willing
to labor and build Palestine to be given
A. xvvt&, 1ut ~ yv1a lxo "a
ready for larger numbers OF Jews to
follow?
with the generous aid OF the Ameri-
can Jews, the historic home Of the Jew
ish people may. after the lapse Of cen
turtles. be made home for all those
Jews who seek free expression OF
Jewish life and OF Jewish ideals"