A campaign to raise $10,000 in Paterson, N. J. for the Deborah Sanitorium at Brown’s Mills. N. J. was organized this week, it was learned yesterday. Filbert L. Rosenstein was elected chairman of the campaign committee.
The Deborah Jewish Consumptive Relief Society of which Mrs. Dora Schapiro is the founder and president is now seeking $250,000 for the erection of a new building on grounds recently acquired adjacent to the present sanitorium.
Plans for the campaign were discussed last week at a dinner given at Weinberzer’s restaurant. New York, in honor of Mrs. Schapiro on her return from a trip abroad, Joseph Barondess, chairman of the Board of Directors of the sanitorium, presided.
The Deborah Sanitorium which was founded four years ago has at present a large number of Jewish patients and is the only Jewish institution for tubercular cases in the east where the Jewish dietary laws are observed.
Rabbi Elijah D. Stampper was installed as rabbi of the Baron Hirsh Congregation, Memphis. Tenn. Rabbi Stampper, who was born in Petach Tikveh Palestine, came to the United States in 1923. He served as rabbi in Madison, Wis and Evansville, Ind. and was for a time instructor at the Hebrew Theological College. Chicago.
The Baron Hirsh Congregation is now conducting a drive for funds to erect a community center.
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