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Jews in Post Office Must Work Saturdays, Palestine Rabbinate Complains

August 2, 1926
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(Jewish Telegraphic Agency Mail Service)

A complaint against the Postmaster at Haifa, who is alleged to have compelled Jewish officials to work on Saturdays and Jewish holidays was submitted to the Postmaster General by the Jerusalem Chief Rabbinate.

The Postmaster General replied that in accordance with existing conditions it was impossible regularly to release Jews simultaneously from Saturday labor, unless it was the desire of the Rabbinate to have a certain number of Jewish officials replaced by non-Jewish officials for some hours work on Saturday.

The Chief Rabbinate has taken the case to the High Commissioner, it was stated.

A permanent organization of women to enroll subscribers for the ninety-one institutions of the Federation for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies was formed by the Women’s Town Club Committee of the Federation, it was announced, following a meeting at the home of Mrs. Jules C. Leeds, Elberon, New Jersey. More than one hundred women residents of New York living during the summer along the Jersey Coast, attended.

Dr. Louis L. Harris, Commissioner of Health; Sol M. Stroock, President of the Federation; Solomon Lowenstein, Executive Director and Mayor A. J. Bach of Deal New Jersey, were the principal speakers.

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