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No. 44. Vienna, 31st October 1902 — 30th Tishri 5663. 6th Year

This number is delayed owing to the inclusion of the report on the Annual Conference. The Editors.

The Annual Conference.

In the course of the Annual Conference held on the 28th, 29th and 30th October of this year, the Inner Actions Committee rendered a detailed report on its activity since the Fifth Congress.

The opening address of the President of the Actions Committee was devoted to the political events of the past administrative year. His remarks convinced the assembly that the Zionist movement has made serious progress. The negotiations in this regard have, it is true, not yet led to any result; but the watchword for the near future can only be: energetic and purposeful striving forward, increase of our financial means, participation in all Jewish affairs that signify the moral, physical and economic elevation of Jewry. Out of the present deliberations, however, must also emerge the line that is now to be taken.

"We are convinced that we are on the right road. Should obstacles here and there place themselves in our way, we shall, as hitherto, endeavour to discover ever new roads, until we have arrived at the goal that stands immovably before our eyes."

The general report of the Actions Committee recorded a mighty spread of the Zionist idea in all the countries of Europe, and the formation of new local groups in Siberia, India, Tunis, Morocco, the Transvaal and Australia, and emphasises the special attention which the fulfilment of cultural tasks within the Zionist groups has received through the establishment of special courses, the founding of model schools, the holding of discussion evenings, and the opening of Toynbee Halls.

The treasurer's report of the Actions Committee for the past administrative year shows the largest receipt of Shekel yet attained, K 121 493.29 having come in up to 30th June 1902. The Annual Conference granted the Actions Committee its discharge upon the report.

The deliberations on the Jewish Colonial Bank, after receipt of the report of the Board of Directors and of the Council, led to the approval of the proposals concerning the Anglo Palestine Company, to the appointment of Dr. Bruck-Homel and Dr. Jacobsohn-Simferopol as members of the Council, and to the adoption of several resolutions in which thanks were tendered to the Board of Directors and to the Council for their laborious work, and at the same time the wish was expressed that the Jewish Colonial Bank should, as far as practicable, support the Zionist loan societies.

The deliberations on the statute of the National Fund could not be brought to a conclusion, since no agreement was reached on the question of the juridical person. In the debate on this point a new proposal arose, to incorporate the National Fund in the Jewish Colonial Bank in the form of a foundation. The Bank, however, was to possess neither the right of administration nor that of disposal. These rights remain reserved to the Congress. This proposal and all the motions put forward in the debate were referred back to the National Fund Commission for renewed deliberation and decision.

A General Picture.

How mighty is the progress that Zionism has made is proved by the very need for Annual Conferences. Because new streams of life flow to the people from the Zionists, driving and lifting, purifying and fructifying the whole Jewish national spirit, ever new arrangements must be made. The differentiation of institutions which we see in Zionism is a picture of incomparable freshness and vitality. An antithesis presents itself of its own accord. The traditional structures of the Golus-Kehilla remain almost untouched by such evolutions. They are simply bulwarks grown rotten, on which nothing grows. There one is at ease; one would bring forward as seldom as possible what unites and orders, would as seldom as possible allow an exchange of opinions or the impulses of public feeling to come into play. With us it is quite otherwise.

When it was resolved at the Fifth Congress to convene Congresses only every two years, it was foreseen that for the chief supervision of and general deliberation on the work accomplished the two-year period might perhaps prove too long