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No. 40. Vienna, 2 October 1902 — 1 Tishri 5663. 6th Year.

New Year 5663.

And once again a new year has come, and once again millions of Jews pray for mercy and forgiveness, for freedom and for happiness. Many bright hopes flash forth, many ardent wishes tremble, while the trumpet sounds thrice, now "long sustained, now briefly broken off, now blaring, now drawn out . . ."

Like calls of destiny are these notes. They recall the past, when the people shone in the splendour of its greatness; they shake the present, which is steeped in hatred and in envy of another's bread; and they conjure up the future, the golden land of longing . . .

And again and again one seems to hear the question: מתי תמלוך בציון? — When wilt Thou reign again in Zion . . .? And again and again the wish flickers up: והביאנו לציון עירך ברנה ולירושלים בית מקדשך — Bring us to Zion in jubilation, and to Jeruscholajim, Thy holy Temple, in everlasting joy . . .!

Millions of Jews pray to-day for the fulfilment of this petition. Poor and rich, sick and strong, mothers, fathers and children. All are united by the high festival, by the sublime earnestness of the idea of God, by the strong roots of Jewish national vitality. Do they all feel, one wonders, that their prayer is, as it were, an oath to hold together in good faith and loyalty? Will they all go on feeling it when the festivals have passed away and the workaday world calls them back to labour . . .? Many still fail to hear that question to-day. One day he will have to hear it . . .

The Zionist Central Office in South Africa as a Substitute for a Consulate.

We receive from Cape Town a gratifying piece of news, which bears honourable witness to the altogether extraordinary confidence that our tried and trusted comrades in the cause there have won with the Government, and which can hardly fail to attract attention throughout the whole world. We would recall that our South African Central Office has many thousands of members and comes before the public at frequent meetings with Zionist demonstrations of unfailing fervour and with self-sacrificing contributions to our great cause.

Mr. S. Stern, President of the Zionist Central Office in Cape Town (Hope Street 27), informs us on behalf of the Central Office:

"Under the martial laws introduced here, no one whatever may travel to the Transvaal or the Orange without a pass issued by the Permit Office, and that neither in nor out. To obtain these passes everyone must apply to his consulate, which alone procures the pass after a very searching investigation. With this valuable and honourable office the South African Zionist Central Office has been entrusted by H. E. the High Commissioner Lord Alfred Milner for the whole Jewish population of South Africa. Every Jew, therefore, who wishes to travel to or from the said regions must submit his application to the President of the S. A. Zionist Federation, Mr. A. Goldreich in Johannesburg."

The recognition of the Zionist Central Office as the representative body of Jewry is a fact of far-reaching significance.

In connection with this we are further informed that at a Zionist mass meeting held in Johannesburg on 7 September the President read a letter from Lord Milner, in which the latter declared that his best friends are strictly religious Jews, and requested that this be brought to general notice.