J.N.F. Head Urges Redoubled Efforts During High Holidays

Although the political situation of the Jewish work for the rebuilding of Palestine under the terms of the Mandate entrusted to Great Britain by the League of Nations is at present admittedly difficult, as the result of last year’s Arab riots in the Holy Land, a new era of peace and prosperity and further expansion of the Jewish National Home in Palestine is sure to come.

This is the burden of an appeal issued by Emanuel Neumann, president of the Jewish National Fund of America on the occasion of the forthcoming Jewish New Year, 5691, September 23, in a circular addressed to Jewish National Fund committees in 750 towns and cities in the United States. American Jews may, with the approach of the New Year, “confidently look forward to the arrival of a new epoch of peace and prosperity, of security and progress, of energetic prosecution of the constructive tasks that lie ahead of us in Palestine, and of an awakened international Jewish public opinion that will whole-heartedly and liberally support our plans of peace and reconstruction, without injury or injustice to the Arab residents of Palestine,” says the message of Mr. Neumann.

The president of the Jewish National Fund urges the various branches and committees throughout the United States to redouble their efforts during the coming high holidays for increasing the income of the Jewish National Fund, which is the Zionist agency for the acquisition of land in Palestine as the property of the Jewish people. In a number of communities throughout the country, the Jewish National Fund committees have succeeded in persuading the synagogues to levy a tax on their admission tickets of from five to ten percent for the benefit of the Fund.