Evening Star Newspaper, September 30, 1923, Page 26

NEWS OF THE JEWISH WORLD BY RABBI JACOB S. MINKIN Egypt must always continue to hold a place of supreme interest In the life of the Jewish people. It was not only the cradle country of | Moses and the Exodus, but an un- broken series of other events have forever endeared that country to the heart of the Jewish people. But of Egypt to Jews the most Interesting city is Cairo. Probably no other city in the world, perhaps not even Jeru- salem, can boast of so uninterrupted 2 continuity of Jewish residence, a continuity not broken by adverse for- |ago tune and eclrcumstances, as Cafro. The Exodus did not remove the last Jew from Egypt, and a Jewish com- ity continued to flourish Moscs led the Heb and the desert. of the Jewish Chronicle England, Irma Kraft give: e! ing account Jewish community of Cairo. are 40,000 Jew today, it c in Cairo. They are wealthy +ducated nd charitable. The pro fessions are filled with a large per centage of Jewish doc lawyer adve in C -’:_1 ’“ 5 ok roprietors o he theate; Spera. One motable fact says the writer, is 3 isiness 13 In th hands of th a good percentage and muech of the ownership of news- papers and periodicals. Prominent Jews are welcome in There _are and b who are similar to Englis! lords and earls, d there has been remarkable inc of Jews in Eov- nment_officials. King of igypt is sald to be particularly in- terested In the progress of the Jew- ish people s of Egypt are n d for of their family lifa h great e granted only i 3 here a v respect through E home life. are seldom involved in palitical im-{ broglio or nationalist plots, content . and_grateful for the Egyptian government. bt the sun of tolerance shines upon the Jew and ' his Egyptian brother. Tolerance for Jews in China. Mention has b made in these col- umns of the comparatively favorable position of the Jews in China. Monroe ‘Tang, College in Pekin, g, the Natlonal Peo- held in_Detroit, w granted to representativ legraphic Agency ‘hat_there is no race prejudice in Chin one, native or foreigner, is placed on an equal footing there. Dr. Tang sald that the numbe: of Jews in China is uncertain, but undoubtedly small. The: communities in Peking, S perhaps in two or three Most of them are trader: chants_and thefr Chinese compatriots. That intermarriage 1S i COMu M 6o currence among the Jews of (fiaa 1s| :|the cables_ of the Jewish Telegraphic | . | Agency. Mme. Schmolz, one of the the belief of Dr. Tang. The OChing know no Tang, which the total = China. The Yiddish Art Theater. ductions arts theaters, 1 Andreuev, 3 Hirshbein, y, Shakespear eichem and Tolst hich incluces Levick number dramas than w o the pl: goer anywhere in America at any other | single theater during that period of With proper support, the writer Jewish Art Theater can SAVE #5002 to #2,000% By Our Ready Cut System. 2 P4 $2,189%% a4 *2 520 *4 8% .| Monthly Payments. Apply Rent Money on Your Own Home. HIGH GRADE HOMES FOR CITY OR SUBURB Consisting of lumber, lath, shingles, mill work, medicine Casé, Foning bea flooring, & paper. eav trough, down spout, sash weights. hard- ware apd painting matenial. 100 Other Designs Ranging . | tries it was quite impo be made to become one of the givacst art centers in this country. President Coolldge Extols Jewish Citizen: P | _According to all indications President | Coolidge ~ intends to continue fn t | policy of religious tolerance and broa mindedness established by his prede- cessor in the White House, the late President Harding. Like his predeces- sor, President Calvin Coolidge trans- mifted for publication to the editors of he Jewish Forum a New Year's mes- sage addressed to the Jews of America. Herman Conheim, national treasurer | of the Palestine Foundation Fund, gave | out the text of a letter written a year ago by President, then Vice Presiden: Coolldge, indorsing the Jewish mo | ment for the rebullding of the Jewis | national homeland. The full text of the | letter is as follows: “I have read with much Interest what you tell me of the efforts made to raise Philadelphia’s share of the Palestine { Foundation Fund. ¥ | “Throughout thousands of years the | Jewlish people have preserved a sense | of nationality amid disintegrating influ- | ences and a fine scholarship peculiarly | their own. They have contributed to | the economic success of every country of which they have been a part and at |all times they have been earnest sup- porters of the cause of liberty. 'he proposed plan furnished to the Jewish people an opportunity to devote | these great qualities to the rebuilding and preservation of their own homeland | and in their own sphere, and I feel sure | that the people of Phlladelphia will not | fail to give that earnest and substantial |ald which will be necessary If It is to | meet with a full measure of succes: | Congrexs of Orthodox Jews Sends Blessings to President Coolldge. Agudath Israel, a world organiza- tion of orthodox Jews, recently in con- gress in Vienna, Austria, adoped a resolution conveying its blessings and hope of a successful administration to | President Coolldge. While expressing | gratitude over the fact that America ' has served as a refuge for a large num- | ber of Jews, the congress also asked the | ident of the United States to use nfluence for a liberalization of the immigration law The assembly also protested the per- secution of the Jewish religion in Rus- sia, adopting a resolution urging the its attitude on the Isoviet to modi subject A" comm rabbis of world-wide Was ed to be {sent to the «d States for the pur- pose of strengthening of the Jewish religlon among such sections of the Jews in this country where it had been weakend. Zangwill to Address Jewish Congress. | It is now definitely established that Israel Zangwill, novelist, playwright and Jewish patriot, will be the chief speaker at the American Jewish Congress, to assemble in Boston October 14. The American Jewish Congress, for which preparations have been made for some months past, will convene for the purpose of d ing on the world situation of the Jewish people. ~The appearance of Israel Zangwill will add further attractlon to the sessions of the congress. No greater authority than Israel Zangwlill on the Jewish question is there anywhere to be found, and his m 3 » is awalted with the greatest on the part of thousands of country. ism of Celebrated 1 Dancer. 3 The story of how a love affair was z=ponsible for the reconversion to SZ8s.am of a celebrated Polish dancer and distinguished musiclan is told in | most prominent of Polish dancers, who Schmolz, E y - married to Bronislaw Shutk, well known in the Polish musical worid and | former director of the Warsaw opera, why 0 AS an apost ._ Shutk, it is sald, will embrace the Jewish faith, which he had renounced some years ago. The reconversion on the part of the two Polish artists to the faith they had formerly renounced is not at all sur- prising to those who are at all familiar th the pre ‘ar conditions which ob- ned in Russia and Poland. Under the {old political dispensation in those coun- sible for a Jew { persisting in his Jewishnes# to aim for in the artistic world. 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