Lord Balfour To Deliver Address At Zionist Union
Dr Chaim Weizmann sails on the Olympice for London after a three week New York visit where Zionist unity talks between Zionists and non Zionists toward rebuilding Palestine were completed. Weizmann lauds American Jewry and Louis Marshall for leadership in affiliating with the Jewish Agency, shaping the future of the Jewish Homeland. Dr Mordecai Kaplan accompanies as American Zionist representative for Hebrew University dedication in Jerusalem then London to join Lord Balfour for the Jerusalem trip.
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Chaim Weizmann
World Zionist Organization
London
New York
Union of Zionists and
Non Zionists
Palestine
Dr. Weismann
Weizmann
Lewis Marshall
Jewish Agency
England
Italy
Germany
Holland
America
Amer
Old World
Europe
Jewish Agency For Palestine
United States
Louis Marshall
Israel
Yeshiva Raises First Million Dollars
New York reports the Yeshiva College Building Fund has secured its first million toward a second million to fund a new Orthodox Jewish higher education institution. Ground breaking is set for April 26 at Amsterdam Avenue and 186th to 188th streets with five buildings to follow, aiming to house several thousand students and expand Jewish research.
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New York
Yeshiva College Building Fund
Amsterdam Avenue
Is6th
Issth Streets
Samuel Levy
Generos
America
Mar. Levy
Americdoor
Harry Fischel
Nathan Lamport
He Erecoss
On Jews
Organi
New York Jews Rally Behind Weizmann Campaign for Palestine
New York donors push Keren Hayesod toward 1 million dollars with gifts including 50 000 from Felix Warburgs family. Massive crowds attend Weizmann visits at Carnegie Hall and Brownsville. Bronx dinner raises near 400 guests at 100 per head as Zionist support grows among American Jewry. A Talmudic quote closes the report.
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New York
Keren
Palestine
Felix M Warburg
Chaim Weizmann
Carnegie Hall
Great Auditorium
Dr. Weimann
Brownsville
Dr. Weizmann
Bronx
Keren Hagesod F
Jewish Homeland Movement
Leon Bramson European Delegate of Art and Activist
Leon Bramson a European delegate of Art and a Denver visitor led Jewish reform efforts in Russia and Eastern Europe. He helped found the Jewish Colonization Association promoted trades agriculture and vocational schools and pressed for minority rights and legal reforms after the 1917 revolution. Bramson held multiple political roles and published works on Jewish law and education while resisting Czarist repression.
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Leon Janson
Europe
Tie
Kovne
Moscow University
St. Petersburg
Jewish Colonization Association
Mussia
Jsos- 1
Ile
Russia
Leon Bramson
Troude
Leon Wramkow
Kerensky
Victor
Bramson
Council of Farmers and Workers
Leeuw Bremson
Ore Soeciety
Ort
Leen Bramson
David Lycevitch
Russian Constituent Assembly
Ort Reconstruction Fund Aims To Aid Eastern Europe
Brateon presented a memorandum to the American Joint Distribution Committee detailing Ort Association relief. Eleven countries founded Ort societies and sixty city committees backed a Berlin convention. The effort builds schools, tools for artisans, and farms for agriculture, seeking one million dollars to promote technical trades and agriculture in Eastern Europe.
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Mose
Brateon
Ort
Berlin
Ciation
Aaron Singaloesky
The
Ort Association
America
Dle
Ort Reconstruction Fund
Europe
Jewish Section Advocated in Sesqui Centennial
Colonel David Collier director general of the Sesqui Centennial Celebration advocates a Jewish section in the Philadelphia event to showcase Jewish achievements and support nation building in Palestine. He says the exhibit would be helpful and instructive to visitors and asks cooperation from all.
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Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Philadelphia
United States
Tees
David
Collier
Col
Palestine
Lord Allenby resigns as High Commissioner of Egypt
London dispatch reports Lord Allenby, famed conqueror of Jerusalem and for six years High Commissioner of Egypt, has resigned from his post. The Morning Post cites the move as a significant political shakeup amid ongoing regional tensions.
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London
Viscount Allenby
Jerusalem
Egypt
London “Morning Post
Stranded Refugees Barred From U S Admission Says Sec Davis
Secretary of Labor Davis said in a letter to Lady Swathling that President Coolidge cannot act to admit Jewish refugees stranded in England because Congress opposes admission. A joint committee met with Sir Joynson-Hicks to discuss evacuation, with plans to relocate refugees to Palestine, Argentina, or back to Russia though no U S entry is expected.
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London
Pauly Swathling
Coolidge
United States
England
Labor
Davis
Lady Swathling
Congress
Mr. Kahn
Mar. Unger
Sea
Mer. Lehiff
Anglo Jewish Association
Orday
Sir Joynson-Hicks
Bagh
The
Ten
J. 20. Cy
Palestine
Argentina
Russia
New Jewish publishing house plans expanded program
Bernard G Richards Company, a new publishing firm at 414 Madison Ave near 48th, aims to publish Judaica and translations. It releases Dr Joseph Jacobs Life of Jesus with preface by Cambridge professor Abrahams and Harvard Wolfson essay on Jesus. The firm also lists works by Stephen Eweng Leon Kobrin and Korolenko, and plans broader publishing while spotlighting Jewish literature.
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Jesus
Joseph Cobs
Perdinand Lassalle
Georg Brandes
Vladimir G. Koroslenko
Bernard G. Richards
Phew
Richards
Madison Avenue
48Th Street
Jacobs
Abrahams
Cambridge
Wolfson
Harvard University
Zangwill
Dr. Jacobs
Klausner
Schechter
Bernard G. Richards Company
Stephen Ewerg
Leon Kobrin
Korolenko
United States
Jewish Women in State Conference New York City
National Council of Jewish Women announces state and interstate conferences across March and April in various locations. Leaders discuss school bill reading, immigrant aid, farm and rural work, federal legislation, and new council initiatives with emphasis on family life, immigration, and war care. Conferences list Connecticut Rhode Island New Jersey New York North Eastern region Maryland Virginia Delaware District of Columbia Southern Interstate Texas with appointed presidents and locations.
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Council
Aan
National Council of Jewish Women
Victor Greenebaum
Cincinnati
Edwin Zagsmith
Pittsburgh
Sydney M. Cone
Baltimore
Leo H. Herz
New York City
Department of Farm and Rural Work
Matilda Dreyfus
Rann Work
Mraneis
Capitman
Bridgeport
Connecticut
Elmer Eckhouse
Newark
New Jersey
Florina Lasker
New York
Council Department of Immigrant Aid
Rose Brenner
Brooklyn
New York State
William DD. Sporberg
Port Chester
N.Y
Alexander Wolf
Washington
Maryland
Virginia
Delaware
District of Columbia
Estelle Mo Sternberger
Norfolk
Rhode Island
Robert B. Hyman
Southern Interstate
Reuben Mills
Firmingham
Ala
Texas
Maurice Goldman
Houston
Polish clergy blame Jews and Masons for women’s fashions
In Warsaw an unsigned Catholic clergy appeal decries short sleeves and low necklines as immoral. The message claims Jews and Masons introduced these fashions to Poland to undermine Polish morals and calls for a fight against the trend.
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Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Warsaw
Poland
Palestine Tobacco Enters American Market
Three hundred eighty bales of Palestine grown tobacco arrived aboard the S S Thuringia as the first Palestinian tobacco shipment to reach America. Samuel Lubliner, a German tobacco industrialist, funds Palestine cultivation and aims to open a New York cigarette plant using Palestinian tobacco for high grade cigarettes to be sold soon.
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Palestine
S.S. Thuringia
America
Samuel Lubliner
Tobacco Industralist
Germany
Lubliner
New York
Yakub Ibn Killis Founding Cairo University and Library
Documents show Yakub Ibn Killis, an Egyptian Jewish founder, established Cairo University and its famed library. The Azhar’s destruction policy by a caliph is noted, with Fatimid era records found by Zaki Pasha. Further documents reveal Jewish cultural life in Fatimid Egypt.
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Yakub Ibn Killis
Cairo University
Cairo
Azhar
Egypt
Oregon protest against Bible reading bill by delegations
A Salem delegation from the Porthind Maal Brrth Lodge led by Rabbi Jonah B Wise with Ben Selling Dave Robinson and Alexander Weinstein testified before Oregon House judiciary committee against Senate Bill 56 proposing Bible readings in public schools The bill sets reading passages chosen by a commission including Catholic Jew Christian Scientist and other Protestants Ex Governor West and Ben Selling vow constitutional challenges.
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Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Salem
Ore
Porthind Maal Brrth Lodge
Jonah B. Wise
Ben Selling
Dave Robinson
Alexer Weinstein
Judiciary
Ssutte House of Representatives
Senate
State Superintendent of Public Instruction
Selling
West
Oregon
Oze Delegation Arrives in New York on Berengaria
Dr Gran Dr Rosenthal and Dr Gergel of the Oze delegation reach New York aboard the Berengaria. They state the Jewish Health Society organized in Russia in 1912 has built facilities to curb disease spread among Jews and ran ambulatory services and hospitals serving 600000 patients during and after the war.
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New York
M. Gran
A Rosenthal
G. Gergel
Oxze
United States
Berengaria
Gran
Ose
Jewish Health Society
Russia
Oze
Nina Davis Anglo Jewish Poetess Dies at 49
Nina Davis a noted Anglo Jewish poetess died at forty nine in London. She was the daughter of Arthur Davis a Hebrew scholar and published several volumes of poems and translations of service prayers. Davis was married to Dr Redcliffe Salamain and was active in Jewish women's groups in England including the Women s Zionist Organization and the Union of Jewish Women.
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London
Nina Davis
Arthur Davis
Redcliffe Salamain
England
Women's Zionist Organization
The
Union of Jewish Women
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