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The Southern Israelite
National News
Buffalo.—The first session of the
16th annual convention of Hadassah,
the Women’s Zionist Organization of
America took place recently in the
Main Ball Room of the Hotel Statler,
Buffalo. The meeting was addressed
by Mrs. Robert Szold, National Presi
dent. Among the very vital points
which she brought home to the gather
ing of 3(X) delegates representing
50,000 Zionists from all parts of the
country, was the following:
“The answer that the Jewish people
must make to Great Britain is further
work. Nothing can stop us. Hadassah
recognizes as it never did before that
the strength of our movement lies in
ourselves. Upon us rests the responsi
bility and the obligation to continue
with the ideals for which we have
stood for these years—to make of
Palestine the Jewish national homeland
that our ideals have made of it for the
last 2000 years and that the inner will
to live of the Jewish people will foster
and go despite all the dark clouds,
despite Great Britain, despite every
thing.
“We must ourselves find strength,
the resources. All the assets which
make up a real people must go into our
efforts to rebuild in Palestine the new
est national home. It is because such
a spirit animates Hadassah that we are
gathered here together as a group of
Zionist women ready to do what we
can to further that ideal.”
live in Brooklyn rather
hattan and the Bronx
charity organization sh<,
the philanthropy in all i
Last year the New York
raised about $5,0(X),(XX) and
lyn Federation about
Man-
unified
Sl1 per vise
'"roughs,
•-‘deration
e Brook-
->! IIIX
though there are more Jew, i» . .
ter territory.
Cincinnati.—The full executive hoard
of the Central Conference of Ameri
can Rabbis met here and fixed I,,,,*
24, 1931, for the 1931
conference, hut
failed to decide definitely on the J,
other than it will be in the Mid,:
West. Madison, Wise., Mackinac
Island, Mich., Cambridge Springs, Pa
were mentioned. The place was left to
Rabbi David Lefkowitz, president ami
the secretary and treasurer.
Committees for the year were named,
the regular subventions to literary,
publishing, and other organizatiuii
voted. Lucius Littauer, of New York,
sent his usual gift of $5,000 for tin
subvention fund. A page in the forth
coming conference yearbook will In-
dedicated to a memorial honoring di
late Louis Marshall.
Representatives named to the World
Body for Progressive Judaism included
Rabbis Lefkowitz, David Philipsot
Morris Newfield, Edward N. Calisch
and I. E. Marcuson, conference secre
tary. A study of group insurance for
rabbis was reported on partially by a
committee which was instructed t
continue its work.
New York, N. Y.—There is no need
for the Jews of Germany to have a
fear as long as the present govern-
New York.—A fund which will make
it possible for Prof. Albert Einstein to
maintain a competent collaborator in
his scientific research was voted on
Wednesday by the directors of the
Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation at a meet
ing in the home of Dave Hennen
Morris, chairman of the hoard. The
foundation, for which an initial endow
ment of $5,000,000 was left by Mrs.
Walter Graeme Ladd of Far Hills, N. J.
was created last April for the purpose
of furthering the study of biology,
sociology and other sciences.
Last summer while on a visit to Ger
many, Mr. Morris spent two hours
with Dr. Einstein, who told hint of the
difficulty of financing tHe research in
which he was engaged. The exact
sum that was voted by the board for
this purpose on Wednesday was not
disclosed.
Omaha, Nebr.—With the anticipa
tion of breaking last year’s attendance
record of 40,(XX) the chapters of Alph
Zadik Aleph of the B'nai B’rith are
commencing preparation for 5th Inter
national A. Z. A. Day to he observed
this year on December 21st., according
to an announcement made this week
hv the Supreme Advisory Council.
Out of town speakers, most of whom
are prominent Ben B’riths, are furn
ished for each local program by inter
national headquarters. At present,
arrangements are being made for over
one hundred speakers.
New York, N. Y.—After a series of
negotations which have lasted for al
most a year the contemplated merger
between the Brooklyn and New York
Federations of Jewish Charities has
been dropped. The reasons for the
failure were not disclosed. Last year
Ralph Jonas, Brooklyn millionaire,
offered to give $1,(XX),000 if the merger
were effected. It has been generally
ment is in existence, according t-*
Baron Friedrich Wilhelm von Pritt-
witz, German Ambassador to thr
United States, in a statement issued
upon his arrival here from a visit t->
his fatherland. He characterized tin
Fascist gains in the elections a<
temparary expression of discontent
which was rapidly evaporating. I he
German Government would not toler
ate any continuation of the rasem
tactics against the Jews, he said.
Cleveland, Ohio.—The latest BritiT
White Paper is the inevitable re01
of the distastrous policy that lias been
pursued by Zionists during the pa>t
few decades, was the declaration nun-
by Rabbi Louis Wolsev of Philade
phia during a brief stay here, where -
was formerly an occupant of one ot
the pulpits. Rabbi Wolsev said that
by stressing nationalism the Zionist'
themselves had violated the Ba '*'u-
Declaration and had jeopardized ,u
religious rights of Jews all o\er u
world. They should therefore not
surprised at the British action, he a
serted. Wolsey also took occasion u
attack the Zionist for what he tenno-
the false interpretation they 1
placed on Judaism during j
years in which they have earn
their movement.
Washington, D. C.— I he p
iction bv the House ot U
situation that has been
issuance of the latest Br
ier is being discussed
les here. Such action i>
view of the Lodge-Fisn
.922 and the British Pale-
; Convention in l l U4.
o act it is understood th;>
- will introduce any resolu
; be considered. This is 1
be a more effective step
r were to offer the motu
ssibility
:ress in
-ted by
1 White
official
.ssible
dilution
r Man*
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