The Maccabaean

TO THE READERS OF THE MACCABAEAN.

You have already been invited to join a large number of University societies, clubs and circles and to attend an even larger number of lectures, meetings and debates.

Our purpose is to introduce to you the the most unique and most important society which you will have the privilege of joining.

We refer to the University Zionist So- sietv.

Our society is unique because our appeal is unique. We appeal to you as a Jew. It is most important because it inspires a noble ideal;—the renaissance of a great Jewish people; it is a philosophy both satisfying and informative, and provides a cause for our enthusiasm.

If you avow yourself a Zionist or Jewish Nationalist, we would urge that you show it in loyalty to the idea we in common confess by joining our Society. A well organized University Society will avail more than the sporadic activity of individuals.

If you get your Zionism from the Bible or post-Talmudic literature, from Hess or Herzl, from Pinsker or Smolenski, from Achad Ha'am or Nordau, from Wolfsohn or Weizman, from Rabbi Reines, or Professor Warburg, from your own home or yourself, you will be welcome in our Society and we will extend to you a warm Sholem Alechem.

If you are keen about Judaism you will be joining a society which by aiming to establish a Jewish home in Palestine not only encourages and makes possible the proper observance of the Shabos and the Jewish Festivals, but by quickening the Jewish spirit will help us in the Diaspora to solve religious problems.

If you are concerned about Jewish education then our society will enable you to encourage in Palestine the growth of an educational system—kindergartens, elementary schools, Art and Crafts schools,

technical schools, a University, Nursing and Medical centers, Agricultural schools and Museums. Moreover, the miracles of the Hebrew language, as the basis of the new educational system and the New Settlement will prove to you the “vital powers” of Hebrew and of the Jews.

If you are a student of the many curious and complex social phenomena in process around you, you will be joining a society that is essentially concerned with the religious, social political and economic life of the Jews, looks at them with a judicial and disillusioned eye. It is noteworthy to remark how largely the criticisms and challenges of Zionists have altered the attitude of the Jewish Organizations of Non-Jews toward Jewish Questions. We have demonstrated that Jews are not parasites on other people, that they are skillful farmers, and that the Jewish Nation has still many life-yielding elements which are quickened on the soil of Isaiah and the Maccabees, of Ezra and Nehemiah.

If you are a Socialist with a burning indignation against the present distribution of wealth come and help to build up a more just and human system in Palestine. Experiments along co-operative lines are being conducted in Palestine by the great Socialist leader Professor Oppenheimer. Moreover all the undertakings of our organization in Palestine are for the whole Jewish people and not for a few. Our Movement has a large following of Socialist Zionists, known as the Poale Zionists.

If you are a woman you will find in the University Zionist Society an atmosphere of comradeship and equality. You will have full rights and great responsibility. Side by side with your fellow members, men or women, you will have access to the problems and ideas, social and economic, philosophical and religious, of the Jews of the present day.

If you are a full-blooded, self-conscious Jew or Jewess, anxious to make the brother-