(Jewish Daily Bulletin)
Orthodox Jewish tradition lost here in cou### battle with mother love when Superior Judge John Frater dismissed the suit of Herzl Congregation for an injun###tion to prevent removal from its cemetery of the remains of Rubin Robinson Jewish war veteran.
The congregation sought to restrain the boy’s father and mother from morning the body to the family plot in Bikur Cholim cemetery. It was contended that Orthodox Jewish tradition hold that a cemetery is consecrated ground and as such must not be reopened after the sepulchre has received a body.
The parents declared that the body was buried in the congregation’s ceme###tery by mistake.
Mr. William Rosenwald, son of Julius Roseswald of Chicago, and Prof. Samuel Cahan of### Syracuse University are among the members of the first unofficial American commission composed of capitalists, educators, clergymen and writers who were admitted to Soviet Russia where they have undertaken to study the political-economic-social conditions of the Soviet Republics with a view of placing them findings before the American people and perhaps recommending a new policy toward Russia.
This became known yesterday when the Soviet Embassy in Berlin, acting on authority from Moscow, granted the Americans permission to enter Russia.
Bernard M. Baruch was the purchaser of Sir William Orpen’s portrait of Woodrow Wilson, recently sold at Christie’s, in London. as well as a portrait of General Smuts, of South Africa, it was learned today. Both portraits were painted during the Peace Conference, which Mr. Baruch attended as out of the war President’s closest advisers. The price paid for the Wilson portrait was $13,000.
William J. Perlman reports that he is it possession of a biographical drama based on the life of the late Israel Zangwill. It was inspired, states Mr. Perlman, through his interviews as a reporter on a London newspaper, with Mr. Zangwill. He adds that the lose British novelist approved the play and that there was a chance of its being produced this season.
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