In and around the peninsula

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THE

5.A.

JEW ISH CHRONICLE.

In and Around the Peninsula.

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Talmud Torah Boys' Minyan.

The Hall of Prayer in the Hop Street Talmud Torah wa. crowded Lo its utmo t capatit ' ith youngsters on the occasion of the celebration of the Fifth Anniver ary of the Iinyan Joseph, the Talmud Torah Boy · Minyan.

o\\ing Lo the absence of the Chairman, Mr. E. Kupowitz. the Vice-Cha1rman, Mr. I.

'udat, conducted the service.

Before the Reading of the Law by Rr '.

Hoffman, ~horl congratulatory ~P eches ,-.,ere drlivered Ly Ir. A. 13. Levin, Principal of th~

Talmud Torah, and by Mr. Aron on, both sp aker emphasising the 11red of a 1inyan for the youth.

Mr. SudaL, in a

fow

but \\ell chosen word , paid homage Lo the lat Mr. Joseph Ho mu.

found r of the Minyan. He e pr s ed hi:

appreciation of Lh ervices rendered by Jr.

Levin a. well a of th intere l displa)ed

hy

the ldrr vit:ilors lo th Minyan. Final! .• th iee-Chairrnan exp rcf.:-:ed hi, hope i hat among his youthful audience ther \\ ould lw found LhP future torC"h-bC'arcni of Lhe Minyan, which undrr their ffU idan ·e \\ ould go from

trcn~>Lh Lo strength.

l the <·on! lu. ion of the sen ice r frc•;h-

llH'lll · "ert> served.

Address by Mr. Alexander.

lJuder the au~·pi<·<'~ of the J\J uizt>rdwrg

Yo111J<r Israel ::)ocil'ly. Adv. ~I. Ale a11d1·r.

I .C .• "ill <h·liH•r a public lf'dure in Llw Muizcnlw1 g Synagorrn' on Sunday. 27th July, al g p.m .~harp. '1 lte l<·c·Lun·r \\ill =-peal on '" Je\\i.h Law and CwLom n·gardinf?: Child- n•11. A 11 are \\dc·011H'.

A Herzl Evening.

On Thursday eH·ning, 17th instant, thP- Cape Town Hebrew irdc solemni..:ecl the anni-.:er.;;ary of

I-I

rzr· death.

Jr. Lev~in. the Pre ident. r .. f rred to the dark. p ¹riud which brought our gTeal lt>adcr into e ·isl nee and lamented his early death.

comparing him ' ith Mose , who died with-

out S" ing his peop] reinstated in the pro-

mis d land. Like many a rrreat leader hi~

t aching bore little fruit till after his death when his work v a continued and its \alu appreciated.

l\Ir. 1\1. Wolozin ky poke of th many difficultie overcome by II rzl and cm- phasi'-'ed the fact that ven though Herzl's Zionit-m may have be n th oulcom of anti- cemili m, at the turning-point he took th forward and not the backward tep.

Although H rzl wa nol the actual f under of Zioni m, he wa the fi rsl to consider a practical m ans toward the solution of tL

J "

ish problem.

Afler Mr. Rubik had ref rred to Dr.

Herzl a not o mu h a Zioni t leader as the personifi alion of Zionism iL elf, Mr.

''J1TJTTJJITTTITJ

"" ""'""~

~ atas went on to how that Herzl cliff red from th Lhcori:-;t in that he inaugurated a prcpaganda of action. H pointed out that in a tim of de pair uch as the pre ·ent hi.

teaching that more n·lianc was to he pla ed on the powers inherent in the Jewish p opl than on diplomatic action, wa - most valuable.

After Mr. Tata· had. read Jacob Cohen':

''He is 'Jead' and omr extracts from IlPrzl'· biography, the meeting closed \\ith the s1113- ing of the Hatikvah.

A New " Chevra Sh as."

An enthusiastic inaugural meeting for the formation of a lzeira has al the Wuo<l- 8tock and Salt Hebre' Congregation und r RaLbi Soloman GrnYitsky was held on the 17th inst., at 8 p.m. A repre~enlativc gathering a~8embled an l the Rabbi completed the fird PPrek. At the iywn refreshment \\ere WPre serv cl and the election of officer~ and

t omrnitte "as then pro::·ecded with. the fnllo\\ ing being elect cl f c~r the en~uing }'ear:

i l1'S'L. I. Mordut'hovitz, chairman; I. onc11, sch r, vice-chairman; i L Drrrnan, treasurer;

S. Stone, secretary. Committ<>f': i 'les~rs. P.

Gordon. D. Re ... nid·. 1 L Singrr, P. 1\lorducl10-

\ ill. T. Lllerttcin. L llun itz. D. ~illll'l'lnan,

~l. Bahin, :M. (_,-lie!. A.

Jan<'

and o-.pno\ ·- sky.

~<"' Pral ~·pcuk<'r~ addres.;;ed tlw 1rn'eti11µ-, ' lfr·h •·und ucl<'d \\ ith lwarly ,.,, islw,.; for tlw ('C,nlimwd progn•ss

or

^tht Chevra.

Jewish Scout Dance.

yery ~U<T<'~ ·ful danct• \\ab held ],y the T~meL of the }<'\.\ i 'h

Be. .

coub al the Cape 1 o\vn High • • hool la ·L Saturday nit?-ht.

Some 01w hundred and fi ft_~ pen;ons \H~rc: pn·-

"l'lll. The ommiUcP. r £ponsihle cont:'isLC'cl of

Jisse. J\last r and

J.

Aikin, and

MP

^re:. f.

Opland and .

J

acolis.

fr.

Freedman \\as th conv nor.

Zionism and Socialism.

There \\a a gathering of some i.·ty per- sons al the Zionist H illl last aturday night when th Inter-\' ar~ily Debate ( referrPd Lo in th se column~ la ·t week) took plac . The debate was held uncl r the auspices of the

Iaccah an Guild, '\.ho. chafrman, l r.

ell, pre id d.

\Ir. Pin u , econdf'd hy fr. D. Epstein, moved on behalf of the Witwater rand

.J

.A., '"Thal Zioni m and So ·ialism ar ln ·om- pa ible." vlr. Pincus argued that rnce Socialism aimed eventually al intPrna- tionah 'ffi and ince Zioni 'Il1 wa es entially a nationali ·tic ideal, these hvo were oppo d Lo e<:1ch other. AL:o, the Jewi h g ncy meant that rale tin would be run on a capitali tic ha i .

A far a Britain wa concerned, her in- t<'rest · in Pale Line wer imperiali Lie- she had in mind the idea of th cveulh dominion. Imp rialism was one of the

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stumbling blocks in the way of oeialism ana int rnationali~m .

.Mr. D. 'Ch rire, for the local S.J .A ..

opposed the motion. He quoted the name of many well-known Sociali8t who were Zionfr.ts viz., Tom Mann. ltamsay la·- Donald, Edward Bernstein.

Zionic:m was based on the princjple of humanity and was not oppo ed to Sociali m.

i\Ir. Ep~t in. in econding the motion, pointed lo the fact that in Palestine there

\Vas a dominant cla s of capitalist . Socialism aimed at p lacjn~ the wealth of the tale in the hands of the ' orkers, and Zionism wa op1 o:--ed to that. It encouraged, on the other hand. private enterprise.

\lr. H. Snitcher, seconded the oppos1t10n.

The Balfour Declaration, he said, was the offi .. jal document on which pre ent-day political Zioni8m wa based, and staled that nothing was to bt> done by the Jews to pre- j udic the ri~hts of the Arabs. Zionism could onlv succeed through a SocialiHic policy.

Th~re ,. a a ~trong minority to-day seeking

Lo dire t the mo' ement on th al basi . The debate was th n thrown out for dis- cu ion and the follo,ving poke: M rs.

Dirmerk, ~. Kahn, Rosenblit, T. Gordon and P. Kaplan.

Both Mr. Epstein and Mr. Schrire umrned up, after whirh the motion was pul to the yote and c:arriecl hy a fairly larg' maj rily.

Miss Camilla Wedgwood.

We take this opportunity of Wl lt oming to South Af ril'a Mi~::: amilla Wedgwood, who arri ed on Tue .. <lay mornin!?; hy the '· Asnmiu-.." ~[i~s \Vedg-.rnod i_ the daughter of Colonel and \fr~. Josiah Wedp\Cwcl dw came to South f rica at the lw!!innin!.! of thi..: v<'ar ill the inter Ls of the Kett ¹¹ Ilaye- ."oJ .. ;nd \\ho. \ are certain, ll!' d no intro-

<l11ction to 'trnth frican

k"

r. . ~'he ha~

c otrw out lw1 e Lo le<"LurP on anthropolo~-W al

the Cap<' Tth\11 Uni\Pr:ity Lill th<' l¹11cl ol tlw

\1'1.H. during tlw ahs1 nc of Ir. .

J.

II.

(~oorl\\ in.

Oneg Shabbos.

\ \cry enjo~able Oneg Shahbos waf'. held al thP- Zionist Hall on ,,,atur<lay afternoon la::;L and \ a~ all< nded I y a fair! large

~alhcrinµ;. During Lhf:' course of the afternoon an e f cllPnl address on "

The I

^·resent

Pc •:ition of Zioni m ' 'wa delivered by Mr.

B. Rubik. LLB.

.\monp; those preRPnt \\·as Ir. D. Jierow- sky. who in the cour::- of hi ~P" ~ch al the Her7l comnwmoralion evPning on Sunday night. ref rred in very glowing terms to lhe Oneg Shabbos.

Mr. Harry Gurland.

Al a meetinp; of the Iuizenh rg and Kalk Bay Rat payers· A. -:ociation, held at M uizen- herg on Wedne~da'' ni~ht, Mr. Harry Gur- land was elect d the official candidate of the A~--ociation to contest the Municipal Election in Ward _'I\. to h held in eplemh r.

M r. Ken tri dge Ove rsea s.

We are indeed plea ed to learn of the acllnt1e~ oversea of Mr. Morri Kenttidge, l.P., news of which ha been reaching u . Mr. Kentridge i- being cordially welcomed everywher hy Jew and Gentile alike. We were pecially plea ed to not hi remark

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&) CAPE TOWN

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foly 25th. 19:-rn.

IN AND AROUND THE TOWN

<Continued from Pretriou Pagel.

\\Ith regard lo outh f rican frwry at a lun!'hcon ~iYrn m London bv the Executivr of th<~ ^Zioni^L ro-anisation. in honour of

~oulh

A fri

·an Zioni L, over whi

h

Ir.

\ahurn okol,rn pre id

d.

South Africans.

h said, contributed becau e th f lt that iL

\\'a their dtuy. They were more d t rmined thnn ever Lo ('arry on the work upon which they had Pmbarked.

1\1r.

Kentridgc has also attended thr Int r·

Parliatnf'nlarv Conferencf' in London.

Wilna Jewish Society.

A

concert arranged by a new ociety

in Cape

TO\rn, the Wilna Jewi h orietv. i:-:

hring held to-morro'" eY ning (26th imt.) at the ZionLt Hall. The proce ds are to go toward· providing reli f

for

the poor and need mm her& of th ociety.

Maccabean Guild.

Th

l\Tu

ical and Oramatic C\enin!!' ht>ld al the Zionist Hall on WednP:-da. Hning under the auspic of Lhe l\Ia · abean Guild

\\as a mo'<t elljoyabl affair.

1 he fi r~l half of the programme \\1.ls de ·olcd to il ms

hy

the l\IacC"ahean Guild OrdH ~tra. all of whi('h \\ 'r \\.ell r cei\'cd Ii a fairlv larcre a11clirn<'P. Th ~ccond ha! f C'on~i ... tl'd

;Jf

two plap. "liich \\-'r :--lap;c>d li the Dramatic Section of tlw :--~o('iation.

'fht:-e pla~. '\f'rP "A :::-:i:-;lt>r lo A::.i

t'<r:'

in 'hi<'li l\lt·~ ^!'!". F. \\ einlwrg and .. bra1¹l pa ti1·ipalt'd, and th1 1•1·otHl •• 'f lw la~t1 L

nf lht• llou ...

t·:·

ⁱⁿ ^{\\hie h}^parlf'^{\H rt'}tak<'n II\

Liu Ii!"~e~

E.

Hi('hman and l.

vi

altlH'\\ ~-and

Mc'""r:-. . G. Hartf'. \I. \lei med and F.

v;,

c i11- lw1 f!· Both p layf' \\ re H'ry well produced and actf'd and much credit i:- d111' lo Ir.

Dm id LC'n, lhf' protl1wer, lo \\ hom llw ::=tH'l'PS:- of tlw e\ ninf! C'an he larµely atlri- h11Led.

Paarl Activities.

On unday, 13th inst.. a Literary Trial on

" Bontze chv.eig ., look place under the auspice~ of the Paarl

Hae·

hover Y oulh Sorif'ly. Tlw Talmud Torah Hall was filll"cl to it~ utm ~l ·apacity. l\1i arah Rabino-

\\ itt. hairladv of the . ociPLY,

formallv

v.

1

- t'Olllcd the aucliencP. an<l a~ke.d ::\1.r. M. Laza1 to speak on the aims and objects of th trial.

\lrs. . Haiman very ahly read thf' tory o~

''Bonte ch wig.,. Thf' ~ ':'ion of the court

11 as then opPn d.

The follo inp: parlicipated: le r . C10s (a Tused). E. Horwitz ( jud~e),

\1.

Lazar ( couns 1 for def enc ) . L. Roup ( Clerl 1lf the' Courl), B. Field ( on~table). Ph.

Katz. l\I. Grel"n ( witne"se for th d f enc ) . L. Rabinowitz ( witnrss for the Cr°'' n).

\lfr. :: S. Haiman (pro Pcutor), . Rabino- 1\itz (foreman of the jury), L. Handler ( \\il- ness for the defence), E 'acks, R. Gro~s

(for

the Crm\'n). The foreman of th jury cledared th ac ·u ed not µ;uiiity and the ca e end

d.

On Sunda . 20th in t.. the L maan Zion 'ociety comm mo rated the Y ahrzeit of Dr.

Herzl -in the Talmud Torah Hall. Mr. ~1.

Lazar, l·residf'nt of the Soci ty, occupied the chair, and at the out. el explained the i~ni

fican ·e of the Yahrzeit.

Th '\tli R. Geffen and

:\1.

Klitzner render d two r citaUon in Y iddU1. Th Rev. Mr. H. Strelitz and Mr. Pogrund th n addre sed the meelin{l' on th act1v1t1e , lifo and influence of our late lead r. The addre es were Yery impre" fre and w re Ii t n d to with ~reat attention. Th meeting tnminated with the incriag of the Hatib ah.

THE S.A. JEWISH CHRONICLE.

"Epistolatory Blackmail."

To th Editor.

'.A.

I

ewi h Chronicle.

~ir.- ~'e have rei·Pnlly heen inundated with i l'('U l ar letter enclo ing ticket. for balL clan e • raffle c m:ert

~nd

^whatnots,

than] ing u~ for our acceptance and desiring the remittane of a cheque at our P.arliest C'OlWrniencr. (for we haw cea ed to find it conP ni nt to make the remittanc . ) I think l am xprPs ing the opinion of man~

$ilent sufforers \\hen 1 av that it L time for lhii:, mild form of epistolatory blackmail lo ·ome lo an nd. The I tt r app al was originall~ r ~orted lo I . a few of our major in Litution . like

tlw

. rphanag . Board of Guardian~ and ational Fund. Re lrict

d

Lo major in titution~

th,

thing "ould he pardon- able: ewryonc re ·o~ni~f'S th· merit of th app al. and praclit·tdly all Lhe lell r-donor::;

\\ otdcl contribute in a1n C\'ent.

It

freed the alrPncly m Pn orked ommill< from thP arduou. task of \\alking the slrPeL for \\C'<

h

nn end :-Pllin~ tiC'kf'ls.

But "h t rif!,hl ha\ c• im•Lilutinns in the tll'ill 1·011t1try lo\\ 11.... to t-Pnd llwir Jc.itt r .ltlpeal. lo Cap1 'In\\ll? Bc•«nll~ "'' ha\C r-c1·Pi\t•d t'all. l'ro111 a rn1mlwr of \\'1·:-ll'rn

Prm

illl't' \ illa!.!:<'t-. Whv?

The ref

u~al of

Lhe ap1wnl is not u plea.;nnt ta k and one>

"hi1·h fc' of us c·arc lo as..,umc ~ \\ c BH'<'kl~

allo\\ f.tlf'·rhe"' to hP .. lila1 kmailed •· into :-rnchng a l'hcque \ ith t\w third nr f nmth reminder. If Pampornfonll'in "ants a "'' JHl·

µoguP lel its inh[lhitanl..; huild one: if il

\\ants a charily· ha II IN its inhn.hilanl: pay for it. \\ e have enough lo look after in ape Town \\ ithout having lo upport Pam- pornf ontein 's c mmunal acti\ itics. LT. ually Llw thing i~ don thi · way: \., in Pampocn- rontcin. deal~ with Y in Cape Town. A nm piano i:-; 1eriuir d for the Communal Hall.

~o srnds Y thre ticket in a raffie. For ht1~in ss or social or e n pnsonal reasons Y ~ends hi. cheque and the " blackmail .. ha~

,aved the citizen~ of Pamp nfontein from payinµ for their mm piano.

t\ number of minor in-titution in apr

To\\ll ha\e also r entlv C"ornmenc d ]pltrr·

l.e~~inµ artivitir~. There r.an ·urelv h no l'Xu1se for junior ocietiei;; lo r sort to this.

Ti k<>b for Young I rael com ert ~houl d br rnld personally

l1y

member· of Young Israel Socif'Lir:. [t is part of their job. [f

ih

Youn~ I~raelite hat- not p;ot sufficient rnn~y lo come and sell me his ticl-el then I haw not o-ot ~ufficienl inter st in his solif'l! to buy one. The ucce or failure of a Young Lrael r ven a Maccabean Guild con ·ert or dance i not of 13uch far-reaching importanl'e lo j usti [ y th" organii:;ers in sending tickPts throughout the length and breadth of Lhe Ft:>ninsula. asking for remittance:;..

ff the practice i~ allo\\ed lo conlinuP un·

tlnpped and without discrimination therr will he only one re ult: no appeal will be rcplie]

lo. It mu t be understood that what i, sauc' I or thf' Orphanage and the 'ational Fund i~

nol sauce for Parnpoenfontein and the Junio1 Zionist ocietie . Our inlere t in the last

t\\ o is not th ~ame a in the first, and our dutie are a ·ordingly not the ~ame.-I am.

le ..

FED- P.

435

A Question for the Community.

The New Synagogue.

To thr Editor,

.A .

.f

ewi h Chronicle.

Sir.-To build a n w synagogu , to r cl , Ile\\ difi<"e in which to wor hip Almi<Yhl) God

L

~urely a mit::.valz. It i till a gr aler mit:::i.ah ''

h

n you

do

not have to pay

for

il

~ourself hut, in~t ad get the wher withal from penplP "ho mi<Yht otherwi:,e pend il plaving bluff or i ty- j · or even olo.

W'haL dof's it matter that there ar ~e\f'ral nthe r s~ naaogue in the place?

All

the

J

el\~

\\ho go to Fhool on habbo including the 11romne Yiden of pp r Buitenkant Street ''ould not

fill

the Roeland tre t hooL

Jet

alone thr Garden'~ . ynagogue.

What do , it matt r that '"e are in the lhroe5 of a t rrihle finan ·ial depr s ·ion which L makino- the queue in front of the Board of 7Uardian~ offices gro\\ longer each week?

\loney '" hieh might giYe the poor bread to eal mu~t h' ~pent on hri ·k for a synaO'ogue ht•c<ntse a fe" reli~ious g ntlemen haw dt>- 1·idcd to l crform a 1nil::.vah.

.'om \H'eks ago )Oii said in one of your lt>acfpr:-; that tht> hui

!<ling

of a synagogue -\\a:--

.i riuestion for the ('omrnunity not for a ^fc\\

indi\ iduals. The c·ommunity ,..,

ill hme

to pay fur llu· hool in };per Built•nka11l

~ltc'f'l a it did for thf' , ea f>ojut Shoo!.

~llrt'I) tht \ \\ho !Hl) ltmt' a right lo h !'Oil·

'-L1lt1

cl.

Bul it ma

lw

thul

\Ir.

Lon~tein ·rnd

Iii friend..., an p.oing tn build 1!Jj._

llou~''

11(

( ~od 011l of pmc her11•fi1 e11<·e. If the\ a1t·.

~·ou ha' P no rip:ht lo grumhl<'. But a..; a µ< -.LllrC' of !.!O<>d failh \\ill l\h. Lo11~tt>i11 re\ eal tn Cape 'l\rn n ]Pl\ rv th< name..; of th~ !!nod uwn of l1ppf r BuitenkanL Str el who~ an·

;-!Ollltr to

h

..;uch \\111Hl<·1ful h·ncfac.:tors'?

[ nm. C'lc., "

1\I.B.

A Debatable Problem.

To the Editor.

.A . .fetci1z Chronicle.

:-;ir.- . incf' I ::im in ape Tcnrn I not·

Lhat among~t our youlh, some good Zioni~b like cl hatinp: lo sud1 a point that \erv oftPn I hey ~peak against their conviction . -Doing :-;o may he an e cellent pra tice for Lbo. <>

\\ho \\ant to b enn1 advocat , hut to do E>O

in puhli and on such a topic as Zioni nr

;111d it: Yariou. problem~ seems lo me most dantrcrou:-;.

... 'inccrit~ ^Ic;. tlw

Gr

l condition of thl"

~ ucc " of any lPadt:>r. and on the other hand.

Lhe spoken \rnrd ha::- an -influence which one

~mnetimes can scarcely realisP. If our youth I 'c·ome a' ·uHomcd to '-J'<'C1ki11g for or agajnst honii::m merf'lv for th _• !-iak of dehatin<Y _I:'" l

;1m afraid lhal their Zi nist W eltantschauing '\ i I I he iucleed a poor one.

If. in organi.: ing a de hate, one can fear that no oppo ition will come from thC' lwarf'r.:, lC'l youth not wa ·te it time ht!t t·1C"kl !'Om further subject.-! am, etc.,

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