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The Southern Israelite
ITALIAN KING AND MEMBERS
OF ROYALTY VISIT
SYNAGOGUE
Rome (J. T. A.)—King Victor
Emmanuel accompanied members of
the Royal Family on a visit to Rodic
where he inspected the Jewish quarter
and the Synagogue Chalon. The King
received a Jewish deputation and ex
pressed his admiration for the Rab
binical College as an important cen
ter of Jewish culture.
SOVIET GOVERNMENT PLANS
METAL INDUSTRY CENTER
IN HOMEL
Jewish Workers to Benefit From Pro
ject Involving 54,000,000 Rouble
Investment in Five A ears
CATHOLICS, PROTESTANTS AND
JEWS JOIN IN WORK FOR
PEACE IN GERMANY
Berlin (J. T. A.)—Catholics, Prot
estants and Jews in Germany joined
hands to work for world peace with
the establishment there of a German
branch of the Federation for W’orld
Peace through the churches.
The appeal issued by the German
branch bears the signatures of Pro
fessor Albert Einstein, Oscar Wasser-
mann, and Rabbi Leo Bneek, head of
the B’nai B’rith in Germany, repre
senting German Jewry and the signa
tures of Protestant and Catholic
leaders.
Moscow—(J. T. A.)—New oppor
tunities for employing Jewish work
ers are expected to result from the
establishment in Homel of a metal
industry center, if the plans of the
Soviet Government, just approved, are
carried into operation.
According to the project, 54,000,000
roubles are to be invested during the
next five years for the erection in
Homel of 28 new factories. Eleven
thousand workers would be employed.
One of the factories is to be a trac
tor plant. Other plants are to manu
facture glass, matches and paper. It
is stated that like in Kirch, the Jew
ish workers in White Russia are to be
aided in entering the industry.
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to trade at the A&P where
fresh foods are always
assured!
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UNITED SYNAGOGUE CLOSES
CONVENTION WITH ELEC
TION OF OFFICERS
Adopts Resolutions Welcoming Agency; Favoring
Hebrew in High Schools
New York—-(J. T. A.)—With the
installation by Dr. Elias L. Solomon
of Nathan Levy of New York as presi
dent to succeed S. Herbert Golden, the
seventeenth annual convention of the
United Synagogue of America ended
yesterday at the Astor Hotel. The
convention began Sunday with joint
sessions of the United Synagogue of
America, the Women’s League and the
Young People’s League. Approximate
ly 800 delegates were present from
synagogues and communities through
out the country.
Other officers re-elected were Dr.
Elias L. Solomon, Honorary Presi
dent; Professor Louis Ginsberg, Dr.
C. E. Hillel Kauver, Dr. Jacob Kohn
and Hon. II. P. Koppleman, vice-pres
idents; Sol. Mutterperl, recording sec
retary; Rabbi Charles I. Hoffman, cor
responding secretary and Rabbi
Samuel M. Cohen, executive director.
An executive council was chosen for
one year.
The Women’s League of the United
Synagogue conducted its sessions sim
ultaneously with those of the parent
organization. At the close of the ses
sions yesterday afternoon, the New
York Branch of the Women’s League
was host to the visiting delegates at
a luncheon given at the Manhattan
Square Hotel under the chairmanship
of Mrs. Eva Levy, president of the
New York Branch.
Resolutions expressing gratification
on the consummation of the Jewish
Agency to bring a unified effort to
the rebuilding of the Jewish Homeland
in Palestine were adopted at the clos
ing session of the main body. Other
resolutions adopted were those oppos
ing any calendar reform involving a
“wandering” Sabbath; endorsing the
program of the Jewish Committee cn
Scouting; offering co-operation with
national and international organiza
tions engaged in safeguarding the tra
ditional Sabbath; expressing a desire
to co-operate actively with all other
organizations seeking to educate Jew
ish children; voting appreciation to
the National Broadcasting Company
for courtesies extended to the United
Synagogue and the Women’s League
in the broadcasting of weekly pro
grams through its stations and ex
pressing appreciation to the Anglo-
Jewish, Yiddish and metropolitan
press for assistance in spreading in
formation about the work of the Unit
ed Synagogue.
The convention also adopted a reso
lution favoring steps to promote the
introduction of Hebrew as a choice
of language in the high schools of the
United States and favoring recogni
tion of Hebrew by various college en
try boards and boards of regents. The
resolution also voted to co-operate
with all organizations working in this
direction.
One of the most important decisions
of the convention was to organize a
National United Synagogues Member
ship to be formed on an individual
basis. No effort has heretofore been
made to organize an individual mem
bership on a national basis among
the members of the 250 synagogues
which are affiliated with the
zation.
Another outstanding feature of the
convention was the organization of *
National Session of Men’s Clubs to
co-ordinate the religious, social, cul
tural and recreational activities of the
various affiliated men’s clubs. The
first session of this new body was held
Monday afternoon and the following
officers were chosen for the ensuing
year: Edward C. Weinrib, president,
and Jesse Bienfeld and Abraham j'
Jellinoff, vice-presidents. Those
named to the executive council were
Abraham Hackman, Rabbi Lichten
stein, Samuel Goodfriend, Isaac Gold
berg, Irving Waldman, Louis Soli,
Abraham Reback, Rabbi Alexander
Basell, Rabbi Joseph Miller, A. A.
Leonard, A. J. Wasserman, William
Schimmel, Rabbi L. J. Haas, Lewis
Goldberg and Louis Katz.
Among the other speakers at the
Monday afternoon session were Rabbi
Charles I. Hoffman, of Newark, who
dwelt on the United Synagogue Re
corder and other publications of the
organization; Rabbi Jesse Bienenfeld,
of Syracuse, who discussed the rela
tionship Of the United Synagogue and
the individual synagogue and Rabbi
Simon Greenberg, of Philadelphia,
who spoke on the subject of the Unit
ed Synagogue and its district
branches.
In accepting the office of president,
Mr. Levy called upon enthusiastic co
operation of all members in carrying
out the enlarged program of the or
ganization and in raising the balance
of the $500,000 needed to carry out
the expansion program for the next
three years. He commended S. Her
bert Golden upon his guidance for the
past tw r o years and said he hoped to
be able to continue the good work of
his predecessor.
HUNGARIAN JEWISH WHO’S WHO
CAUSES INSULT TO MANY NOTA
BLES DENYING JEWISH ORIGIN
Affected Personages to File
Libel Suits
Budapest (J. T. A.)—Much conster
nation and indignation were display
in the upper stratum of Hungarian
society, as well as in some Jewish yr
cles, because of the publication o
first edition of an Hungarian Je* 1
encyclopedia, a sort of “Who s W 0
Hungarian Jewry.”
The editors committed the
tion of including in these encyclop*”
not only the Hungarian Jews
openly profess their Judaism bu
those who are prominent in s( * .
and are in the habit of denying
faith or origin. Thus, th * 'Li
eludes many prominent b>
personages, some of whom be on
the nobility.
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Some of these personages ie .
promised” by the disclosure o
Jewish origin, are issuing cen ’‘ a Y n fS
threaten to institute court PJ oce 1 ^
for the withdrawal of the editio
first to file a suit of libel " aS
orgam-
Weszley of the University ° ^
pest. He demanded satisfaction ^
editors, since he is, he asser s,
way of Jewish origin.