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No. 38.

Vienna, 18 September 1903 — 26 Elul 5663.

7th Year.

הננו מברכים את קוראינו בכתיבה וחתימה טובה מערכת „הוועלט“.

…represented as though the prohibition of Zionist meetings, etc., had been issued after Dr. Herzl's reception. We hereby state the facts of the matter once more, in order to make any further "error" impossible.

Communication of the A.-C.

The Greater Actions Committee has unanimously resolved to recommend to those Zionists who are shareholders of the Jewish Colonial Bank that they place the dividend which this Bank has resolved to pay at the disposal of the Actions Committee, for the purpose of covering the costs of the El-Arish expedition, as well as of any further expeditions to Palestine, and also the costs of the Palestine Commission.

Dr. Herzl, Dr. Kahn, Leon Zolotkoff, J. de Haas, Dr. Bodenheimer, J. Moser, Dr. Kokesch, G. Belkowsky, I. Bernstein-Kohan, E. W. Tschlenow, I. S. Goldberg, S. I. Rabinowitz, Wl. Temkin, M. Scheinkin, Dr. Klee, Dr. H. Bruck, Dr. Jacobsohn, Dr. I. Sapir, J. Jasinowski, Dr. Farbstein, Dr. Moses.

The societies are requested to collect the coupons from their members in accordance with these resolutions and to deliver them to the Actions Committee in Vienna.

By Way of Explanation.

In the course of the last two weeks a secret decree of the Russian Ministry of the Interior, directed against the organisation of the Russian Zionists, has been published in many newspapers. Although this decree appears expressly dated the 24th of June, and although, according to the statements made at the Sixth Zionist Congress and the reports of many journals from the period before the Congress, Dr. Herzl did not have his interview with Herr v. Plehwe until a month and a half later, many papers, whether from ignorance or from malice, are now representing the matter

A Chalukah Office.

Amid the many grave matters which the last Congress brought forth, much has remained unsaid that deserves the interest of all Jewry. The East African project came so unexpectedly, and its treatment laid so immense a responsibility upon every delegate, that even questions which in themselves would have merited serious treatment had to stand aside. In particular, the report on charitable institutions could not be discussed at greater length, because the great historic and political moment demanded every energy. And so we must now sum up, within the compass of an article, what we should have had to say.

The heart of the believing Jew is bound up with the institution of which we speak, for it is of the greatest importance to the whole Holy Land. But precisely for that reason it is our duty to enter once more into the oft-censured defects of the Chalukah and to demand a remedy. Whoever has seen the injustice with his own eyes, whoever has studied the corruption on the spot, is in duty bound to speak; for Zion's sake he may not keep silent. It is not the institution of the Chalukah as such that we attack, but the distribution of the moneys, the unheard-of abuses of the administration, and the consequent corruption of the recipients, which threatens even the colonisation itself and which we must repel with the utmost energy. As the Chalukah is organised to-day, only one expression can be used of the committees: they practise negligent charity.

A beautiful idea underlies the Chalukah. In Erez Israel no one shall go hungry. The pious shall be troubled by no want; the aged and the feeble, who wait for death, shall be free from care in their last days. For this beautiful idea poor housewives give their savings, and even starving petty traders and pedlars their laboriously