A bitter attack on the Histadruth and other “left parties” within the Zionist movement was made by Rabbi Wolf Gold, president of the Mizrachi in America, at a reception tendered him and Dr. Mordecai Nurok, president of the Mizrachi in Latvia, at the Hotel Pennsylvania Sunday night.
Rabbi Gold charged that the Histadruth is attempting to imbue Palestinian culture with radical tendencies. He declared that in “Davar,” Histadruth organ in Palestine, almost daily articles against religion appear.
He stressed the importance of enlisting the Jewish workers of Palestine under the Mizrachi fold. “The working class is the most important element of the Jewish people,” he said, “and if the working class forgets its religion and Jewish culture we are seriously affected.”
The function of the Mizrachi is the education and religious training of Palestine, he told the assembled guests.
POINTS OUT DISCRIMINATIONS
An extremely gloomy picture of European Jewry was painted by Rabbi Nurok. “The situation of the Jews in Europe is nothing less than catastrophic,” he declared.
He described how Jewish doctors are forced from hospitals in most East European countries and how Jewish advocates are unceremoniously dismissed. “They are robbing us not only of our political rights but also of our economic rights,” he said.
He urged a more concentrated effort for enlarging the Mizrachi organization. This, he asserted, “is the only ray of hope in the midst of a dark picture.
“The twelfth hour has been reached. European Jews are on the brink of disaster. Something must be done quickly,” Dr. Nurok concluded.
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