I. O. B. B. $300,000 Budget Approved by Executive

(Jewish Daily Bulletin)

A budget of $300,000 for the activities of the Independent Order B’nai Brith during 1928 was approved by the Executive Committee of the Constitution Grand Lodge at a meeting held yesterday.

Plans were made for the organization of a speaker’s bureau. A considerable amount was voted for the Leo N. Levi Memorial Hospital at Hot Springs, Ark, to make it possible for that institution to erect a clinic.

The activities of the I. O. B. B. include the Hillel Foundations, the A Z A Junior Order of the B’nai Brith, the bureau in Mexico and the Anti-Defamation League. The A Z A has sixty-four chapters functioning in the United States.

In recognition of his generosity to French institutions George Blumenthal, New York banker, has been promoted to the rank of Commander of the Legion of Honor, it was announced by the French government.

Mr. Blumenthal was elected to the Legion in 1920. Two years ago he gave 1,000,000 francs to the faculty of Letters and Science at the Sorbonne. Previously he had given 7,000, 000 francs to the Sorbonne. Last year he gave 1,500,000 francs to a Paris clinic for the treatment of children’s’ throat diseases.

Madame Rachel Yenait Ben Zvi, head of the Chaluzah training school in Jerusalem, arrived in the United States on the steamer Berengaria. Madame Ben Zvi has come to the organized women workers in Palestine.

Steps towards unifying the curriculum in the elementary Hebrew Schools and Talmud Torahs in Greater New York, with the view of raising the standards in elementary Jewish education, were taken at the initiative of the Yeshiva, according to an announcement made public by Dr. B. Revel, President of the faculty of the Yeshiva. The first group of five of the leading Talmud Torahs in Greater New York have entered into an arrangement with the Teachers’ Institute of the Yeshiva by which graduates of these schools will be given preference in admittance to the Teachers’ Institute.