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...last week the completion of "Songs and Prayers of Jewish Worship," to be submitted next month to the Central Conference of American Rabbis, representing 400 Reformed Jewish Congregations. Less "oriental," less burdened with pathos than Orthodox Jewish music,* which Rabbi Wolsey calls "a pretentious attempt to revive the Jewish religious life of Palestine," the new Reformed hymnal aims to reshape oldtime melodies in modern forms without losing their essential Hebraic spirit. From the two previous hymnals, published in 1897 and 1914. the committee has removed 177 hymns written by non-Jewish composers, and substituted some 200 authentic Judaic compositions. Still...
Swede on Palestine. In Stockholm Judge Loefgren, chairman of the League of Nations Wailing Wall Commission, accused Jews of forgetting Britain's promises to the non-Jewish population of Palestine. "It may be," he declared, "that two promises equally valid are simultaneously impossible of fulfillment." (i.e. Britain may have promised both Jews and Arabs more than she can give them both at once...
...double undertaking is involved," said Mr. MacDonald, "to the Jewish people on the one hand and to the non-Jewish people of Palestine on the other. . . . It is the firm resolve of His Majesty's Government . . . to do equal justice to all sections of the population of Palestine. . . . This is an international obligation from which there can be no receding...
...third course is possible. Some people think British officials in Palestine took it last year sub rosa, when they delayed interfering with the massacre of Jews by Arabs. Perhaps massacre is among "the rights of existing non-Jewish communities...
...Government view with favor the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavors to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine...