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national and foreign York.— ITie Nazis started an in- dia \ fire under the temporary wooden n in the King»bridge Armory on . nr 0 p ( ning night of the Jewish pageant, jl, f Romance of a People,” Samuel Un- tfrmver. president of the American IratfU' for Defense of Jewish Rights, m ged in a radio address in which he j. dcd the action of Mayor O’Brien in arrim the Nazi celebration of German pav <>n October 29, and denied that the in was in invasion of the right of free ,xech and free assembly. He said it ,0* simply an effort to preserve peace inJ order ‘ against an alien gang who ne operating in this country for the pur- ,,f of making trouble.” Mr. Untermyer lacked Heinz Spanknoebel, Nazi leader this country, asserted that he had en- .red the country illegally and that he ,»is seeking to coerce the German-lan- k. a^e papers into supporting Nazi propa ganda under threat of reprisals. Id Aviv.—Tel Aviv, the only all- Ifwish city in the world, will celebrate -, 25th anniversary by playing host to ;he annual Levant Fair in the spring of 1934. The cornerstone for the fair build ing has just been laid. Work is now pro- reding on the British pavilion, a large irk and an improved bathing beach. W ashington—Congressman Samuel Dickstein, chairman of the House Immi gration Committee, has called upon Presi dent Roosevelt to modify the Hoover ex ecutive order on immigration to make possible the entry to the United States under proper safeguards of German and other refugees suffering religious and po litical persecution.” Mr. Dickstein pointed out that Congress never intended the im migration law to be changed by executive order, as it was by President Hoover in 1929, as a result of which immigration was practically cut off. New ^ ork—An economic system assur ing justice to all is a vital necessity for a successful Jewish civilization. Dr. Sam uel Dinin, research graduate of Columbia l niversity, writes in his survey, “Juda ism in a Changing Civilization," just made public. Pointing out that although the long exile has deprived Jewish civili zation of many elements common to all civilizations and has weakened what re mains of Jewish civilization, he declares there is still enough left to create a full civilization. He urges that the problems of Jewish education be a matter of great concern not only to Jews but to all Amer icans who have the welfare of the United States at heart. Vilna, Poland—Thousands of Jews, imong them scores of rabbis, from all ;irts of Poland and the neighboring entries, gathered in the village of Railin to attend the funeral of Rabbi Is- rarl Meier Cohen, known throughout the .'rthodox Jewish world as the Chofetz Chaim, who died in Radin at the age of I"L Regarded by Orthodox Jews as one f the 36 saints because of whose piety the Lord refrained from destroying the 'oriel, the Chofetz Chaim had been an •bject of veneration for generations. The 'vnagogue, where he had been a rabbi for a long time, was the goal of pilgrim ages by Jews from all sections of the globe seeking his blessing. Modest and humble to the extreme, he served as rabbi ■'ithout compensation. He was a noted Ialmudic scholar and authority on Jew- 'h lore. The name Chofetz Chaim came t" him from a book of the same name published 60 years ago, in which he chron icled the various types of slander which a pious Jew must avoid. New York—A new Jewish back-to-the- •and movement in the United States de- 'igned to establish Jewish cooperative Nrm settlements under the auspices of a national organization to be headed by Jgruultural experts, civic leaders and ^Preventative* of national and labor bod- ,e ' will be launched in the middle ol 'ictn cr at a conference in New York ol re P r < 'entatives of the leading Jewish or- *-*ni ttions. Announcement of this wa< by Benjamin Brown, chairman ol rovisional Commission for the Es- hment of Jewish Farm Settlement! United States, a recently created ization. The Commission aims tc the support of Jewish leaden ghout the country. Dr. Chaim Zhit- . ^ iddish writer, is honorary chair- • the commission. mad the tabli in t °rg„ enlb thro lov* mar ■ —The great $20,000,000 Haifa which will make Palestine the com- al mecca of the Near East, opened r ' tly. High Commissioner Wauchope ; he principal speaker at the opening Cfr onies. Chicago—Under the direction of Max M. Korshak and General John V. Clin- nin, the world-wide boycott against tier- man goods will be launched in Chicago immediately. Mr. Korshak is a member of the administrative committee of IS of the American League for the Defrnsc of Jewish Rights, while General Clinnin is a member of the League's executive com- mitte of 100. Chicago is one of the seven cities designated as district headquarters for the boycott campaign. The others are New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Cleveland, St. Louis and San Francisco. New York—Broadway and the stage world turned out en masse to pay last honors to Martin Herman, brother of A. H. Woods, theatrical producer, who had for years been known as the angel of down and out actors and stage people. Herman, who was a silk merchant, be came his brother's general manager in 1905, when Woods went into the produc ing game independently. For years he was Wood’s closest advisor but he re mained in the background. He was also known as a lightning calculator because of his ability to supply immediate an swers to intricate mathematical problems. Mr. Herman was 61 years old. London—In behalf of England’s 300,- 000 Jews, the Jewish Board of Deputies has forwarded a memorandum to the League of Nations regarding the perse cution of the Jews in Germany. I he memorandum was prepared by Leonard Stein, former political secretary of the World Zionist Organization. Norman Bentwich, former attorney-general of Palestine, and Leonard Montefiore, presi dent of Anglo-Jewish Association, have gone to Geneva to attend the meeting of the League’s Council and to make ef forts to have the plight of the German- Jews discussed. At the last meeting of the Jewish Board of Deputies it was an nounced that Chancellor Dolfuss, of Aus tria, had assured the Board that there was no danger to Jews under his regime. 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