Word: jaffa
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...visited Jaffa (the Joppa of Biblical note), motored to its suburb Tel-Aviv, a purely Jewish town where, it is said, everybody lives by doing some one's else washing. He also went to Richon L'Zion, one of the oldest modern settlements of Jews, to Dilber and other more re- cent Jewish settlements. Everywhere the veteran Earl was received in manifest goodwill. Arabs vowed he must be a Jew to receive such welcomes and to delight in receiving them...
...Kook (for he is somehow colonel) is Chief Rabbi of Palestine. He is the most venerable figure in contemporary Judaism. Born in northern Russia, his early ambition was to go someday to Palestine. For this purpose he studied Hebrew clandestinely. Twenty years ago he was offered the Rabbinate of Jaffa, and, giving up a well-paying position as rabbi of Busk, Russia, he went. Today the Jewish world regards him as its philosopher-saint. His landing on American soil was greeted by 300 rabbis and thousands of aged patriarchs, standing in the windy cold. Why did he come...