The Constitution Grand Lodge of the B’nai Brith has spent $364,000 on its eight Hillel Foundations during the past five years. These Foundations are located at Ohio State University, Cornell, Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, Texas, California and West Virginia universities.
Altogether the Constitution Grand Lodge spent during the period 1925-29 the sum of $728,000, or 54.6% of its total expenditures, on cultural activities, according to charts which have just been issued showing the distribution of receipts and expenditures of $1,322,000 during that period.
Included also in the cultural activities are the work of the Anti-Defamation League; the subvention to the budget of the Aleph Zadek Aleph, junior B’nai B’rith Order; and various educational activities including the publication and distribution of the B’nai Brith Manual and the publication of the B’nai B’rith Magazine. Philanthropies of the Order include appropriations to hospitals; the work of the Mexican Bureau, organized in 1924 to aid recent Jewish immigrants to Mexico; payment for the maintenance of some 600 war orphans in various European countries; and various appropriations for emergencies.
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