In and around the Town

Jun 1 hh. 1929. THE S.A. JEWISH CHRONICLE. ³⁷³

58, Burg Street,

lfB~B.RATION.

^Thursday.

... ow th

ltre ov at the General Elections P litic~r and the sea on of wordy

ll1u.11ai

1 \\·arfare ended, our com- their eaders will once again devote

e:ne .

Pr ;; in rgie to the solution of Illa tag coirununal problems. Fore-

t'U ed tnongst, these is the much dis- J \Vi ·h •

1'chenie of the Federation of

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adjourned ¹ Uti~n.., of the Cape. The t the 01 nieetmg will take place

L Ul:l<l.ay <l Synagogue_. Gardens, on

·ln .. antlne~t .. l?th June, at 10.30 f:roni the di c?s._,1ons will be resumed tnoti₀₁₁ ^f point reached when the

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o far. th ac Jou~nment was carried.

th· r~ t e Chairman has allowed Pa1ii~11e}a le.J latitude to speakers.

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to the

^{Y t 0• t} ~ose who are op-^. 'I'h l'e -prmc1ple of Federation.

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o th no tmw limit laid down Peflch; ·peaker. . nor were the ll.:ndr·r 1. <:onfined to the suhject a11~

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¹ I:,cu...,~ion, Mr. Sio<lel heinrr

th · not . ^C'

· ·ha to lay hi1melf open to 11 _{'UtJ.k ..,.~.} l'rrp of "fl•

f:tl mg a frep and

\\1 _{lPn th} till'1nrr 0 f . m .1nuual views.

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0n, lll1d· , d bate will be re~mned

that ,.· ~J ¹¹¹⁰rninrr it is to be hoped t lln1lar l t·

'l fleak ' a itude will be giYen t _{Udy f} ~·wh 0

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ave made a opecial

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lroll. f l'U Jecl and who are hich ⁰

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netrating the focr with el 0llded Pr th . Ylol ¹⁸ speakers haYe be-, o

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lt ... ''rITDTION.

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akc·r I \'lous that the earlier

~la <t>d lad onlY superficially

<h at :Mr . .

J r :F . 'todeh ~Iemoran-

llt, < ederation and had not

Uh t. n~·elvw acquainted with the

tun

d urther. it can he ;·afelY

ta· that tl ·

ti l ·ed

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^{·o le.} gentlemen who

0llnl i rts of vague constitu- tl\i. . Uf'~ an 1 1 h

ed c· llllpllli ti, c c e ated them in w .to l'f'ad mrthod. haa neglect..:

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lrh dealt the. c:raft Con:-;titution,'

~ lth evil caiefully and mi1111tely

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~ard. ⁰¹¹¹t wh1eh was brought

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~o~ ·. tlnday'. .1 . . of l:l.haliti . · gat icmng contam~

ti our "r e. for the greater \velf are

o "un1n1 · ·

th ¹¹ and f unity an(l its Institu-

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e P ople or, t~" greater welfare of f l'e <!reated" hich the Institutions

t Ot th lh. ~? serve. It is there-

~llua1 \Vo:rkl~lfest

duty of all com- d to foll er..., to attend the meeting

0 ow th di

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to f .

1 e scu ·sion carefully

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id other t ,cons1 er points of ...,., en o:n th·o ones mvn p1·econceived

·•wnt ¹ verv · t

llle · 'l'he J :mpor ant move-

half years. The Congres i no ordinary event, and its meeting at Cape Town for the first time is no accidental occurrence. It has long been realised by our friends in the North that the importance of the Cape Jewish community, its tradi- tions and its influence deserves a greater share of Sou th African com- munal leadership than has hitherto been accorded to it. Cape Town has never held aloof from cheerfully and faithfully bearing its share of the South African Jewish commu- nal burden. But, for reasons which it would serve no useful purpose to recount here. it has not always received that .con ideration and con- sultation which its outstanding posi- tion in South Africa entitles it to.

But <luring the pa~ t year or two a nPw ::-pirit has been aroused, a new de ire for co-operation and consulta- tion created and the old parochial houndaries are in vrocess of being obliterated.

THE XE\Y ~ PIRIT.

'rhe choice of Cape Town as the venue for the forthcoming Congress is one of the tangible results of the new harmonious spirit. And the Congres · itself will be an eAira- ordinarv one. Since the la t one was heid at Johannesbmg in .July, 1927, the Borird ha greatly bToad- ened. its activities. The South Afriean Jewish Information Bureau, the Routh Africnn Jewish Land Nettlement Committee and other new important aYenucs of work will i·e- eei Ye attention by Congress. There

is

^{another matt~r which will call}

for attention and which can lw rec- tified by a slight change in the Board's Constitution. Subsequent to the amalgamation of the old Cape Board with the Board of the Trans- Yaal arnl Natal in 1912 .. ther existed for a period of about tluee years a Pw-dncial Executiw nt the Cnpe.

Much u~eful work was clone b:r thi:;

body. During the \Vorld \Yar, the Prn~incial Executive ceased to func- tion, and was later abolished: The time is no\,. ripe for the revival of this important branch of ~he Board's work. The growth of this conn1m~­

itv and the new activities make tlus

~ imperative necessity. It i to _be hoped that the Board's Execuh_ve will frame an amendment to its Constitution to make provision for this at the forthcoming Congress.

DR. HIJ.JDESHEIMER VISITS THE ORPHANAGE.

t" l1i; • Pi-e .· lneehng should com-

1 tl (lO.o~)ely at the time adver- An interesting and p~easant little do 'ene:ru) cl' and should result in function took place at the Orphan-

uht Wh.i h earance of the fog of age on Tuesday afternoon, when 'l 1₁₁ • e becloud the subject. members of the Committee were at

_. • ·A JR\ home to the distinguished German

l)l~PD'i'I~

NI H BOARD OF visitor Dr. Meier Hildesheim.er. .

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1h~r tnat~

^{· .} !frs. Stod.el welcomed Dr. Rildes-

(1 l\' att : er which will now heimer in a few cordial words on on ^r %hon . th

) gre · f ls e forthcoming behalf of the lady membe1·s of the

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the • outh African Committee. M:r. J. Carasov, the a b oard f D

('a. ll arr ⁰ eputie.·, which Acting President, said that they

• llP 'i'o\\·n an~ed to take place at were honoured to have so prominent ]j on at

~uriug

^{the Cape holiday} a visitor showing his interest in the

~Nllti fro~e 1 ~nd

of thi: year. Orphanage. The Organising Secre- (' · a · ('111hl a over South Africa. tary spoke on behalf of Mrs. Schrire, '\\i'llvle th R(lre at Cape To\\'n to re- "the youngest member of the Com-

~ iort of th B

eovr.r a . · e oard~ which mittee," and referred to the wide- Penod of h\'O and a ~pread fame of thi great scholar,

while Mr. :iiicheh;;on, speaking in Yiddish, said that in Dr. Hildes- heimer was to be found a rare com- bination of orthodoxy and secular knowledge.

FRIENDSHIP AND KINDNESS.

Dr. Hildesheimer rose amid ap- plause. He said that he had met so much friendship and kindness here that he considered himself for- tunate indeed to have come to this country. In Europe a very wrong impression was entertained concern- ing the Jewish people of South Africa. He could honestly say that when he undertook this journey he had not expected to find such warm Judaism and such a truly Jewish life. Referring to the " youngest member" present, he said that he had onlv known Mrs. Schrire for ten min~tes but she had made him feel perfectly at home.

THE ORPHANAGE.

Dr. Hildesheimer expressed him- self as being amazed at the size and scope of the Orphanage, which was larcrer than that possessed by any Ge;man town of equal size. ''Out of thr month~ of babi<'S and suc·kliug~

hast thou ordained strength/' he quoted. Only in such a place co~1ld one really appreciate the meanmg of the. e words. The future of the Youncr was always hidden, but with

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a religious grounding such as they got here the might of God would be on their t'<ide. If children were told, nothing of

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od and if nothing were done to show them the beauty of Jewish life .. they could never attain

to that beauh. He concluded by calling God); l;le 'Sing upon the com- munity_, the city and all the .Tew~

of this country.

The follo\\·ing ladies and gentl - men were present :-Mrs. Stadel

(Chairlady). the )fesdames Schrire) SchapiTo, her. Hamburg. 'V"ein- reicb. Gronifskv. the Mis.e Blume-· nan. Pur,ritf'k\:. Yan Gelderen. an1l :Me~srs. J. Ca1:a.0Y, I. M. Goodman, Rev. S. H. Michelson~ Mr. Berezi11- sk~'· the Princi11al.

COUSIN HELEN AND HER FRIEND.

Messrs. l\1aske"· Miller have su h- mitted two little books in a series of pleasant stories for young reu~ers.

"Donkerpoort" and "'l'w·o Little Strano-ers ~Ieet" by Helena Hers- man

(cou~ in

Helen) and

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Lily Guinsbcrg, both well known m .cape Town. The little books are illus- trated by vet another young South African; Gladie :McKay. imply written and full

or

that local colour which makes the stories real to the child of thi country. they are s_uit- able reading for the child of eight or nine. T .·honlcl lik<> to ~ <' the.<·

two young author1' attempting ~ome­

thing more ambitiouf' than the.:;e iwo very slender volume:-:.

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THE S.A. JEWISH CHRONICLE.

381 number of director hips i hel<l

jointly by ir Robert Waley Cohen and Sir Henri Drtercling, botli of whom "it on the Board of no lei:::' than fifty-nine companies. In t.heir ca es the c are ubsidiaries of the Royal Dutch hell Group.

Third on the list is Viscount Bearsted, whilst another co-religion- ist, Mr .. '' olly" Joel, is well up on the Ii t with twenty-eight directorships. It can well be imagined how mueh time is spent in the board room by these commer- cial and industrial gfants.

THE LATE LORD RO EBERY.

The Earl of Ro ebery,, former Prime Minister of England, who died la t month, a fortnight after he had celebrated his eighty- econd birthday, married, in 187 , Hannah de Roth child: the only daughter and heire..,s of Baron Meyer de Roth child. The Counte s of Rose- bery who died in 1 90, and i

buri~d

in the Willesden Jewish Cemetery, remained a Jewess, was a member of the Central ynagogue in London, and took a deep intere t in the concerns of the J ewi h com- munity. he founded the Club for Jewish \'for king Girl in White- cha pel. he left two on and two daughter . The elde t son, Lord Dalmeny, who succeeds to the title, was born in January, 1882. The second son, the Hon. Neil Primrose, was, like his cou in, the Hon.

Evelyn de Roth child,, killed in action in Pale tine in 1917. The two daughters are Lady ybil Grant and the ~farchione.: of Crewe.

THO"-=E l\.fI IONARIE~'.

I have often had much to ·ay here with regard to the activitie of missionary societies who cea elessly ply their calling among Jews, with a view to their conversion to Christianity. There alway appear to be an abundance of money arnilable to help them in their

que~t-money as it ha. often been pointed out. could be employed to much better objects. I learn now that the Church ML ions to Jews -the world-wide Church of Eng- land organi. ation-is faced with a defieit of £9,950. I wonder ·whe- ther this is owing to a great fall in the contribution~. or whether the

l\li~sion' emi"'sarie' arc over-

When Pre~idrnt WiL·on of the United States o.f America went oYer to Europe toward. the end of the Great War and carried with him fourteen principles which were to be laid before the great European Power" \rith the view of inducing them to conclude peace .• a certain American Yiddi. h

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it front page a picture depidiug- Mo. e holding the two tablet with the Ten Commandments facinrr Pre ident Wi1 on with hi two tal~

let._, containing the fourteen princi- ples. l\Io.,e with his hand raised warned WiLon that hi mission wa useless and that it would bear no fruit. For, eeing that the world ha not yet accepted the Ten Com- mandments~ what hope could Wilson have that hi fourteen "Comrnand- rnents " would be accepted ? If the world would but reali e the great ignificance of hevuoth a '' Zeman Matan Hatorah," "the eason of the giving of the Law," hevuoth might be celebrated by the whole ciYili eel world, a. the day on which the foun- dation of ciYilisation and ethic~ wa laid. Thu we read in chapter 20,

Exo<l.us, Yer.;:e 1 , "And the people .aw the thunderings, and the lightninrr', ancl the noi~e of the trumpet, and the mountain smok- ing. ~' The Hebrew word

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m an , <'cing the present, bnt al. o the di 'tant future. They saw tlw calamitic~. the groaning~ and ¹ he fire that would befall the world if t hcv did not rrcorni.sc the g-r0at need for. observing- ihe Ten ·ommand.- ments. The Jew, after so man~·

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