The evening world., 1922-04-19
Every Jew Asked TO Give Tithe
In Drive for $4,000, 900 Fund TO
Upbuild Homeland i'm Palestine
5000 Volunteers Will Canvass 100000 Jews
Here for Contributions During Jerusalem
for the Jews Campaign
BY Sophie Irene Loeb.

The first week or the Zion drive,
the big drive that II is hoped will
finally secure sufficient funds to start
the rebuilding of Palestine, is Great.
aing city-wde interest despite the fact
! that the people have been giving
''until it hurts"
The outstanding features of the
new drive are:
/. The campaign for the Keren
Hayesod, or Palestine Foundation
Fund, began Sunday, April 1G, and
.Awill continue TO May Z.
?. Three million dollars is the goal
of the campaign.
3. The city is divided into sixteen
sections for the purposes OF the cam
paign.
q 1. About 5000 volunteers will can
vass ot least 100, zoo Jews.
6. Among the volunteers are 900
women, headed by Mrs. Richard
Gottheil.
6. The officers OF the campaign are;
Samuel lintormyer. Honorary Chair.
man; Judge Henry !. Di,nnenbaum.
Chairman: Norris Rothcnberg. Asso.
ciatc Chairman; Herman Conheim,
Treasurer.
T. Tho Palestine Foundation Fund,
which is the national treasury of the
Jewish people. is the financial instru-
ment for the upbuildinE of Palestine
as the Jewish National Homeland. Its
purpose is to bring about the settle.
ment of Palestine by Jews on a well
ordered plan and in steadily increas-
ing numbers: to enable immigration
TO proceed without delay, and to pro.
vide for the economic DEVELOPMENT of
the country to tho advantage of the
Jewish and non-JGwish inhabitants
alike.
Perhaps one OF the most picturesque
figures in the Zion movement is the
Christian, Col. ]. II. Patterson. an
Englishman and former comma uder
of the Jewish Legion in Palestine. He
said to-day:
y Great Britain will do her part to
make Palestine a Jewish Homeland
IL the Jews will do their part. If
You Jews fail in building Palestine"
he said. you will be disgraced in
the eyes Of all the world, Jews and
Gentiles alike. The Gentiles do not
understand your divisions. They do
not understand that some are Reform,
Orthodox, Sfardi. Ashkenazie. They
do not know anything about the
Zionists and Anti-X.Onists, and il you
tail in the great task that has been
put before your people. you will fail
very badly. II | were a jew I should
be ashamed to face the. Gentle world
because you have been saying,
L'shonch haboh b'yerushelayim' tNc1t
year JerusalemD all your life"
Every jew is asked to give his
"masser.' which in common parlance
10 "hs bit" Judge Dannenbaum eX-
plains 'mass'r'' - follows:
"History repeats itself, especially
for the jewish people. To- day the
Jewish people are confronted with the
bame task that faced Ezra ana Ne
hemiah, whcn thcy led the Jewish
people out Of the Babylonian exile
back to their homeland.
"ThC Jewish people have again
been given the opportunity to rebuild
the homeland in Palestine. In the
process of building the jewish people
long history and adopted tho same
III cthods that have guided their efforts
IN a previous similar experience.
"Tithc. or 'masscr,' az ~" term
is known in Hebrew. is a jewish ira
dition, ancient as the Jewish people
itself. TithC is a tax upon ones cap
ital and income. II is by this means
Of taxation that the Jews have un-
dertaken to raise the Palestine Foun-
dation Fund, the financial instrument
which will build up Palestine. The
Zionist Congress, the highest legis-
lative body among the Jewish peo-
pie, proclaimed anew the principle OF
1.-THE, and called upon Jews the world
over to tax themselves so that the
Holy Land might be rebuilt.
THE tradition of tithe goes back TO
prehistoric tmeS--to the primitive
patriarChal figure with whom the AL
mighty made the first covenant con-
cerninS Erctz Israel and who was the
first immigrant Jew to enter the coun-
try. Abraham gave 1.-THE of everys
thing TO Melchizedek, King-ot Jeru-
salem. The 'tithe of everything is
.fere mentioned for the first time in
W3e Bible not as something new, but
As II it were already an ancient prac-
tice. traditional even in that carly
period.
In the long, black nights of the
Middle Ages, with its Crusades, Jew,
rich or poor, pad a tenth OF his capt
tai and income to the communal treas
ury for public purposes-vi2,, the
maintenance of its institutions, the
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