Re: Jewish East End of London WWI


<moshes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:2005Aug31.152000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> "Henry Goodman" <henry.goodman@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> <moshes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>>> "Ariadne" <ariadne.mac@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>> > http://www.olamgadol.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/jewishlegion.html
>>> >
>>> I noticed that the Jewish soldiers are serving in "Palestine"!
>>
>> That's what it was called (at least in the UK) before the
>> declaration of the medina in 1948.
>
> That was exactly my point. That the so-called "Palestinians" of today
> stole _our_ name.
>
>> We always had appeals in shul on Kol Nidre night for the "Joint
>> Palestine Appeal". In fact, it was some years after 1948 before
>> it got changed to the "Joint Israel appeal"
>
> I'm too young to remember pre-Medina appeals but I do know that all
> the "old" generation called it Palestine.

The goyim still do!

Chano


>
> Moshe Schorr
> It is a tremendous Mitzvah to always be happy! - Reb Nachman of Breslov
> The home and family are the center of Judaism, *not* the synagogue.
> Disclaimer: Nothing here necessarily reflects the opinion of Hebrew
> University


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