pecial prominence is that the Gymnasium has been fortunate enough to escape the laying on of the Cherem; and you are doubtless aware that from Frankl’s establishment of the Lämmel-schule to the inoffensive Kindergarten, no modern school ae haan ahla +1 aysranla tha ( haram
"Indeed, we can, with a clear conscience, declare, on the one hand, that any intention of exerting religious influences is very far from us; and that, on the other, Palestine Jewry is very sympathetically inclined toward us. Our only and constant endeavor is to create a school which, in addition to affording the customary modern instruction, shall rear its pupils as conscious and Jewish Jews. Simple and obvious as this essentially nationalistic program may appear, its realization presents plenty of difficulty. For its fulfillment, even in a
slight degree, the cheerful and whole-souled surrender of our teachers to their task is imperative; and they have thus neither the time nor the inclination to promulgate irreligious ideas.
"We are aware that the origin of these rumors is due to a none too reliable source, which we do not care to mention here. It is possible, too, that certain Chaluka circles are not favorably inclined towards us from motives of their own. These are the very same elements that find something irreligious in every ordinary Maccabean celebration, but we shall never be able to justify ourselves with these people."
DR. CH. BOGRATSCHOFF, DR. L. METMAN, M. SCHEINKIN, Board of Directors.
HERR WOLFFSOHN IN LONDON
Herr David Wolffsohn visited England recently, and on Sunday, April 3, addressed a large mass-meeting which was held in London. The Rev. Dr. M. Gaster presided, and other speakers of the occasion were Mr. Percy Baker and Mr. Herbert Bentwich.
Herr Wolffsohn, who on his appearance in the hall was given, an ovation, delivered an address in German. He said that the fundamental principle of Zionism was that only in Palestine could the Jewish question be solved; that in no other land could the Judennot be ended. The migration of oppressed Jews from one country to another was of no avail for anti-Semitism followed them and settled with them in every land. This idea was the starting point of Herzl's Judenstaat, of the first Congress and the Basle program.
Ten or twelve years ago the founders of Zionism had expected that all that was alive in Jewry, every warm Jewish heart, every humanitarian, every thinking and intelligent Jew, would respond to their call for help. But it had not been so. The great Jewish organizations said that the problem could be solved in the countries where the Jews were free—in England and America; and so they began to
direct immigration to those countries. But soon the ancient cry of Pharaoh’s advisers was heard again—“They shall not multiply.” Not only the 'enemies of the Jews, but also their own leaders, feared that the Jews in London and New York were becoming too numerous; hence a change of policy. The philanthropic organizations turned their attention to improving the condition of the Jews in such countries as Russia and Roumania by founding schools and creating industrie. But it was not long before the Roumanian Jews be- ban to emigrate in still larger numbers, and renewed Russian persecutions made the condition of the Jews in that country worse than ever. So there was a reversion to the old-policy, but with a slight difference; the stream of emigration was directed no longer to New York, but to new territory, such as Galveston.
And now again there were signs that the philanthropic organizations were beginning once more to devote their energies to the improvement of the condition of the Jews in the countries in which they lived. They were like the man who replaced a broken pane at one end of his window by taking out a pane from