Greater cooperation is necessary for the upbuilding of Palestine, declared Rabbi Leo Jung Monday night before the meeting of the Mizrachi Women’s Organization of America at the Jewish Center, 131 West 86th Street.
More than a hundred women representing the chapters of Greater New York listened to Dr. Jung’s plea: “What we need is union among the orthodox, organization, teamwork and the consciousness of the potentialities of a united non-political orthodoxy in the Holy Land.” He deplored the sacrifice of orthodox Judaism for political shelter. “Where as Palestine is a source of strength to Jews trying to escape the miseries and complexes of galuth” he said, “it offers no satisfaction at the present time to orthodox Jews desirous of seeing Judaism translated in the light of the new Yishuv.”
What Palestine needs above all, stressed the RaRbbi, “is the combination of utmost loyalty to the Torah with utmost modernity of method.”
Other speakers of the evening were Mrs. A. Shapiro, national president of the Mizrachi, and Mrs. Fradelle Haskell, chairman of the Palestine committee.
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