Chanukah

The modest little flame of the Chanukah candles has always spelt hope and encouragement to those Jews who believe in the upbuilding of Palestine, the Jewish National Home. In the hours of darkest oppression, the Jews all over the world have for over two thousand years lighted the Chanukah candles as a symbol of rededication.

This symbol now shines brighter than ever before the eyes of world Jewry. Just as Judah Maccabee rededicated the Temple at Jerusalem after its pagan pollution in the year 165 B. C., the Jews of the world are trying to rededicate Palestine now; however, not through war but through constructive upbuilding.

The fight of the Maccabees for the restoration of Palestine as a Jewish land is being continued. The modest flame lighted by Judah Maccabee in the Temple over two thousand years ago is today a great sacred fire. This fire embraces the hearts of millions of Jews who are striving for Palestine and whose only desire is to reclaim Palestine for the Jews, just as the Maccabees reclaimed the Temple in the time of the Syrian king Antiochus Epiphanus.

A HINT FOR GERMANY

The hint which the British statesmen, Stanley Baldwin, David Lloyd George and Sir John Simon, have given to Nazi Germany from the platform of the British Parliament, to “reconcile with the external and internal friends,” is something which, many expect, will be taken seriously by Hitler.

Lloyd George, being more outspoken, preferred not to be diplomatic about the meaning of the words “internal friends.” He said plainly that Germany must reconcile with its Jewish citizens and must also not antagonize the Jews of the world.

Lloyd George is friendly disposed towards the present Germany. He advocates international equality for Germany, even under Hitler. However, he summed up his attitude very well when he said recently that: “A nation of sixty million people seeking justice must also deal justly with its six hundred thousand Jews.”