proximately $13,000,000 toward the total amount, $25,000,000 of which was exclusive of funds expended by the Jewish National Fund for the purchase of land as the inalienable property of the Jewish people.
The $25,000,000 was expended approximately as follows: $8,200,000 for agricultural work and colonization; $4,750,000 for education; $4,500,000 for urban colonization and public works; $2,225,000 for immigration; $500,000 for communal institutions; and the balance for religious purposes and miscellaneous projects.
RESOLUTION ON PLANNING BODY
Alfred M. Cohen presided at the final session. Speakers included Israel B. Brodie, Baruch Zukerman, Leo Herrmann, Morris Rothenberg, Louis Lipsky and Benjamin Evarts.
APPEAL SUPPORT SOUGHT
Another resolution urged support of the United Jewish Appeal, engaged in a nationwide campaign to raise $3,000,000 for relief and rehabilitation of Jews in Germany and other lands and for settlement of Jews in Palestine.
The personnel of the economic planning commission for Palestine, to be made up of American economic experts, was left to the decision of a commission of nine, including Israel B. Brodie, Harry L. Glucksman, Mrs. Edward Jacobs, Morris Rothenberg, Dr. I. M. Rubinow, Abraham Schnur, Morris D. Waldman, David Wertheim and Louis Lipsky.
Speaking at the banquet, Rabbi Wise emphasized the fact that Palestine affords a permanent solution to the problem of those Jews who settle there.
“We have celebrated Palestine Day,” he said. “We have not celebrated—and we do not plan Argentine Republic day, or Syrian Day, or Paraguay Day or Biro-Bidjan Day. These places have their day’ and cease to be. Palestine represents, embodies the Jewish ages, the Jewish centuries have created it, the Jewish millions look forward to it.
“To other lands Jews go—to other lands, whether Argentina, or Central and South American Republics, or Biro-Bidjan—Jews go as refugees, exiles. To Palestine, the Jewish settlers go home. A brilliant young journalist recently declared, and we assent to his thesis, that Biro-Bidjan is not a heaven for all Jews but a haven for some Jews. Eretz Israel is neither heaven nor haven, but home.”
ASCH SEEKS IDEALISM
Sholom Asch, the novelist recently arrived in this country, made the point that “we go back to Palestine not only to build homes and industries, but to recreate the Jewish spirit in the land where was born the word of the prophets, where the idea of Christianity was given to a pagan world.”
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