Additional contributions of $93,000 were announced Sunday night as the result of two meetings in the interest of the United Palestine Appeal, which is raising $1,500,000 of its $5,000,000 Palestine colonization and immigration fund among the Jews of New York.
At the $100 dinner given by the Borough Park section of the campaign at the Hotel Commodore, Isaac Ipp, Chairman of the committee, who presided, announced that $53,000 had been raised toward the section’s $90,000 quota. The largest contributors were Morris Bergman and Morris Kulok, each giving $5,000.
Morris Bienstock, member of the Temple Beth-El, contributed $1,000. The Congregation Anshe S’fard has raised $8,000. Members of the Temple Emanu-El have contributed $7,000 and the Congregation Shomre Emunah have raised $6,000. The B’nai Zion Mizrachi have pledged a minimum of $1,000 to the Shomre Emunah. Three thousand dollars in pledges were secured through the Hadassah group under the leadership of Mrs. Jacob Louria.
Speakers at the dinner included Judge Julian W. Mack, Rabbi Meyer Berlin, President of the Mizrachi Organization of America; Dr. Joseph Silverman, Rabbi Emeritus of Temple Emanu-EI, and the Rev. H. Masliansky.
At a mass meeting of the Williamsburg section at the Congregation Glory of Israel, Brooklyn, Max Blumberg, Chairman of the Williamsburg Committee and Treasurer of the New York campaign, announced that $40,000 of the $75,000 quota had been contributed. Nahum Sokolow, President of the Executive Committee of the World Zionist Organization; Congressman Emanuel Celler, Rabbi A. D. Burack and Dr. Nathan Balber addressed the meeting.
LEADERS’ CONFERENCE SEEKS COOPERATION OF JEWISH RELIGIOUS BODIES IN UNITED STATES
Representatives of the Joint. Conference of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, Central Conference of American Rabbis, United Synagogues, Union of Orthodox Rabbis and Congregations met yesterday at the Harmonie Club for the purpose of considering a program of cooperation in religious endeavors among Jews in the United States.
Rabbi Abram Simon of Washington, former president of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, presided at the Conference.
A resolution was adopted that all pronouncements of the Joint Conference will have the approval of the constituent organization as expressed through a majority of each delegation.
Dr. Abraham Burstein, Rabbi Solomon Foster, Rabbi Jacob Kohn, Rabbi Elias Solomon, Morris Engelman, Rabbi Louis Wolsey, Capt N. Taylor Philips, Rabbi Herbert S. Goldstein, Rabbi Samuel Schulman, Jacob J. Poltack, Ben Altheimer and the Chairman Dr. Simon, were representatives at the Conference.
The conference will meet again on March 8.
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