(Jewish Telegraphic Agency Mail Service)
The Jewish National Club, recently established in North London, was formally opened last night.
Dr. Ch. Weizmann, the President of the Zionist World Organization, sent a message to the gathering in which he said that he was very happy at the opening of the Club and wished it every success in its efforts to centralize Jewish national endeavors in one part of the metropolis. “London,” he wrote, “needs such centres.” He trusted that the Club would be national in the fullest historic sense of the term and would become a valuable centre of Jewish efforts for the home of all Jews, the National Home.
Mr. Nahum Sokolow, the President of the Zionist World Executive, delivered an address in the course of which he said that he was impressed by the fine building of the Club and its library. It was an example for the Jews of other districts and of other countries. They should create a centre for Jews who wanted to meet their fellow Jews to discuss with them the problems of Jewry.
Mr. Leo Kenig said that it was not just to accuse London Jews always of inactivity and spiritual poverty. In every branch of Jewish activity, London Jewry played its part in Zionism. Socialism. Hebrew and Yiddish literature and Press. It was only necessary to co-ordinate all these activities.
Mr. Leibowitz, the President of the Club, said that they wished to create a centre for the Jews of North London, to give the Jewish youth an opportunity to meet in a Jewish atmosphere. He appealed to the Jewish intellectuals, writers and artists in London to assist them.
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