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The Southern Israelite
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In The Limelight
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A H. HERRMANN, well-knowm
L w i«h philanthropist of Vienna, was
L 8 rded the gold medal for the Aus
trian Republic for the promotion of
Austrian industrial interests in the
Bnited States. Mr. Herrmann was
■l/hly honored by the Jewish com
munity of Vienna for the honor that
Bras bestowed on him.
I MISS HENRIETTA SZOLD, only
% man member of the Palestine Zion-
t Executive and founder of Hadas-
jh, the Women’s Zionist Organization
f America, sailed on the lie He
ranee, for London, where she will
t , n fer with I)r. Chaim Weizmann,
resident of the World Zionist Organ
isation and of the Jewish Agency
^Luncil, before proceeding to Pales-
t le. In Jerusalem Miss Szold will re-
Hume her duties as director of erfuca-
t in and health on the Executive.
HON. ALFRED M. COHEN, Chair-
ian of the Board of Governors of the
lebrew Union College, was presented
ith a gold-mounted plaque by the
Bard and the faculty at a dinner in
honor at the Cincinnati Club in
ncinnati. Mr. Ludwig Vogelstein,
Chairman of the Executive Board of
Union of American Hebrew’ Con
gregations and a member of the Col
lege board, delivered the principal ad-
Iress of the evening.
MAURICE BLOCK, former Presi-
|ent of District No. 1 of the Inde-
•ndent Order of B’nai B’rith, Demo
cratic leader of the New York State
Esembly and high in the councils of
immany Hall, died suddenly in New
irk following an appendicitis opera-
1; m. Mr. Block was long prominent-
identified with Jewish affairs, de
ling most of his time to the B’nai
B’rith.
DR. BERKOWITZ, prominent mem-
r uf the Hadassah’s physicians group
was fired on and seriously wounded
[bile making one of his customary
trips to patients. Dr. Berkowitz acted
ks an unofficial Jewish ambassador to
the remotely removed and primitive
JArab communities, and had given his
Hst years to the healing of the Arabs
Bn those sections.
.CONGRESSMAN DICKSTEIN, of
|NYw ^ork, at the opening of the regu-
Bar session of the 71st Congress, in
troduced five bills representing the
jminimum immigration relief
vhich
CAROL DAVILA, Roumanian Min
ister to the United States, highly
praised the late Maurice Blank, the
Jewish banker of Roumania, w’ho was
generally known as the Rothschild of
Roumania. Mr. Davila declared that
“with the death of Maurice Blank, one
of the greatest personalities of Rou
manian finance and a grand and im
posing figure has disappeared.” ’
NATHAN STRAUS, one of Ameri
ca’s foremost Jews, at the conclusion
of his speech at the convention of the
Organized Jewish Workers in Pales
tine held in New York, received an im
mense ovation from the delegates.
Plans were formulated to raise a fund
of $500,000 by mobilizing 100,000 sub
scribers.
niiiiwgrauon renei wnicn
jshould be adopted by Congress at this
Isession. Two of the bills provide res
pectively for family visas, and an ex-
Itension of the legalization of resi-
I ence for aliens who entered the coun-
| r > unlawfully. The three remaining
I 1 s P r °vided for the granting of non
quota status to husband, wife and par-
pnt.s of American citizens.
PROF. ALBERT EINSTEIN when,
| an b°norary degree was conferred up-
, r m recentl y, declared: “If my the-
° r> r ^lativity is proven successful,
w iB claim me as a German
| ai \ r ranee W’ill declare that I am a
ci- zen of the w’orld. Should my theory
. r ‘” e Un true, France will say that I
arr ‘ a German and Germany will de-
are ^hat I am a Jew.”
LOUIS LIPSKY, President of the
Zionist Organization of America, at
the second annual conference of the
New York Region, voiced encourage
ment to keep alive the ideal of Zion
ism and to forward the work of the
organization by strengthening the
district units in relation to the region
al groups. Mr. Lipsky also urged that
the individual members of the organi
zation keep alive the ideals of ‘‘Pal
estine for the Jews.”
DR. BEN M. SELEKMAN, of Bos
ton, was elected Director of the Fed
erated Jewish Charities of that city
at the conclusion of a recent charity
drive. A great gathering of over 1500
Jews, among them the most prominent
in the community, was present at the
largest charity mass meeting ever
held in Boston to hear the appeal of
the Associated Jewish Philanthropies
on behalf of its $900,000 campaign.
CHARLES L. SANGER, prominent
Dallas business man and civic leader,
died recently. He was the son of the
late Samuel Sanger, a Texas pioneer,
and a founder of the Sanger Bros,
stores in Dallas, Fort Worth, Waco
and Wichita, of which he was for
many years general manager. He was
also the first president of the Kessler
Plan Association, an organization for
civic improvement in Dallas.
MICHAEL, the boy King of Rou
mania, received Nahum Sokolow, the
veteran Zionist leader on a visit there.
Sokolow presented his Majesty with a
book of pictures about Palestine. The
Regent Council of Roumania also re
ceived Sokolow in a half hour audi
ence in which there was a discussion
of Zionism and Palestine.
RABBI JACOB NIETO, for the last
37 year Rabbi of the Shearith Israel
Congregation of San Francisco, was
chosen Rabbi Emeritus by his congre
gation. He will get his full salary all
of next year and an annuity for life.
At the special program arranged to
confer the appointment on the vener
able Rabbi, a resolution was read say
ing that the honor was conferred upon
him as “recognition of true and faith
ful service.”
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