Word: zionistic
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...Suez Canal to Palestine, land of two religions: Judaism, Christianity.* Lord Balfour went to Jerusalem, direct to Government House on the Mount of Olives. On a spur of the Mount of Olives, known as Mt. Scopus, stands the Hebrew Univer- sity which he had come to open?which all Zionist Jewry considers of the utmost importance in the growth of what may be called modern Is- rael. He arrived several days before the opening ceremony, was met en- thusiastically by the Jewish communities and by the Arabs with a parade of mourning and the silence of grief, a protest against...
...contained many notables. Field Marshal Viscount Allenby, High Commissioner for Egypt, was there. He had been specially invited, as it was he who led the "ninth" or last crusade that delivered the Holy Land from its centuries-old Turkish domination. Others were: Dr. Chaim Weizmann, President of the World Zionist Organization; Grand Rabbis Dr. Hertz of Britain, Dr. Levy of France, Dr. Abraham Kuk, head of the Ashkenazic sect, Dr. Jacob Mead, head of the Sephardic sect. Behind, were professors of the University; to one side, were the consular representatives of foreign countries...
...President Arthur was inaugurating a new steamship line and carrying the flag of Judea (six-pointed star of David) on the high seas for the first time in 2,000 years. Men and women wept from emotion and when they were not weeping they were singing Hatikvah, Zionist anthem, or The Star Spangled Banner...
...been exceptionally popular with the Jewish people of Europe. There has been a great influx of the Jewish population of all these countries to Palestine and they have succeeded in establishing a colony, run on such a basis that it is entirely supporting within itself. The purpose of the Zionist Society in the United States is to foster American interest and cooperation in the movement...
...young Jews of America", said Mr. Lipsky, who has just been making a study of the conditions of the society in Europe, "are not nearly so elert or willing to help the cause as those of other countries. I have seen a Zionist meeting in Berlin at which fully 500 Jews must have been present. In the back of the room were about 200 students who, when the officers of the society entered, arose and saluted, so anxious were they to be of any possible help. In America I find not nearly so much cooperation, either among the students...