The United Palestine Appeal in Canada will be formally launched here a week from today with a banquet at the King Edward Hotel, at which Dr. A. L. Sachar, professor at the University of Illinois, and Archibald J. Freiman of Ottawa, president of the Zionist Organization of Canada, will deliver the chief address.
On the eve of its annual campaign to obtain funds for the furtherance of colonization in Palestine and to facilitate the rebuilding of the Jewish national homeland, every city, town, village and hamlet where Jews are congregated is taking up the slogan of “Jewish Soil for Jewish Toil.”
Of particular interest to Canadian Jewry has been the announcement by the Keren Hayesod that 500 Jewish families will be colonized this year on Emek Hepher.
Directly this announcement was made, application for settlement in the Emek was filed by 8,000 Jews in all parts of the world, and Canadian Jewry, since it participated in the purchase of the Emek is particularly desirous of furthering the colonization of this beautiful stretch of land.
Dr. Sachar is going to speak in a number of Canadian Jewish communities.
In the early sixteenth century, Catherine Zelazowska, following the example of a daughter of Nicholas Radziwill, embraced Judaism and was burned at the stake at the age of eighty.
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