The Maccabaean

the days of Chanukah. The gallant sons of the Jewish colonists, the teachers and students of the Jaffa Gymnasia and pupils of other schools make their annual pilgrimage here on horseback. The young Maccabees receive an inspiring lesson on the graves of the old ones. Modin is the Palestinian amusement

place during Chanukah. The heroism of the Maccabees is being symbolized by the young Judeans through athletic games and other open-air amusements, and Maccabean societies are being organized by Jews of all lands with the one object in view of bringing back the Maccabean spirit to modern Jewry.

Or a new face of it, rather. The chameleon of Jewish movements, which changes its colors "to order" according to climes and conditions, has shown itself in a new countenance "especially put up for Hungary." There would, perhaps, be nothing noteworthy in this alone, for the Ito, has never laid much stress on consistency as a political virtue, but has instead, for some reason or none, favored the tactic of fickleness. No wonder then, that the founding of the Ito was the foundering of Territorialism. The proud vessel, that sailed out so majestically under the national colors from the Seventh Congress couldn't reach its goal. Accelerating towards its aim it took the seemingly shorter road, went off the right path, and thanks to the unskilled leadership of its guide, got lost in the Sea of Circumstances. Trying to find the way out, it has gone deeper and deeper into the open sea of Philantrophy, ever at the mercy of the charitable winds of Jewish plutocracy. It became obvious then, that the ship could not resist the mighty waves. One blow after another struck the stern bow of Territorialism, until it submerged and sank, only some remnants of it, hurriedly patched up into a raft and named Ito float now upon the surface of the waters.

From the time that Zangwill, who considered himself, and wanted to be looked upon as the anointed heir and only legitimate successor to Herzlian thought entered into alliance with Lucien Wolf, an arch enemy of Political Zionism, the Ito's record is but one continuous blunder. For, standing for the establishment of a Jewish state in the full political sense of the term and taking up petty philanthropy; advocating Jewish nationalism in its extremity and placing in the front, as leaders, avowed Assimilationists, cannot be regarded otherwise than as a peerless example

of inconsistency,—most consistently carried out. There has never been any denial as to the Ito's success along this particular line, — but its present Hungarian venture certainly sets its "Crown of Glory" on all its similar achievements.

It is one of the mysteries of History that are not worth while looking into, how it came to pass that Hungary, the "beautiful Isle of Somewhere" of Jewery, which so carefully surrounded itself with airtight compartments of indolence, that the hue and cry of the sorrow and misery of Jewish life could not penetrate, has of a sudden, as by witchcraft, opened hearing ears and seeing eyes, manifesting such a profound interest in a movement of general Jewish importance. And while the Jews of Hungary deserve to be congratulated upon their first endeavor to appear in the arena of universal Jewish affairs, it is doubtful whether this can be placed as an item on the creditside of the account of Territorialism; for the Hungarian Ito. rather discredits it, openly defying all the principles that led to the secession at the seventh Congress.

It was only last year, right after the Vienna Convention, that the Ito like lightning from the cloudless sky, came down to Hungary. Totally unknown, never heard or even dreamed of before, it came and "Conquered." Truly, it had reaped the fruit, before the seed was sown. During the brief period of six months the Hungarian Ito, has recuited 5,000 members, a figure not only unequaled by any other Jewish movement in Hungary, but excelling that of Ito's following in all its existence and all over the world. But even more remarkable than its sudden appearance and large following, was to see as the leader and propagator of the movement Mr.Szabolcsi, editor of the "Egyenloseg" (Equality)