A statement signed by eight Zionist leaders today called upon Zionist members to designate delegates to the forthcoming convention of the Zionist Organization of America who will “adopt such resolutions and elect such officers as will assure the revitalization of the Zionist movement” in this country. The convention will be held in Pittsburgh from June 29 to July 2.
The statement, bearing the title “For a Progressive Zionist Organization of America,” states: “American Zionists, concerned with the future of the Zionist Organization of America, are anxious that the policy and plans proposed by Dr. Solomon Goldman and concurred in by the Executive Committee, the Administrative Council and the 1939 convention shall not be stymied, but that they shall be carried through.”
The signers of the statement are Rabbi Barnett R. Brickner, Cleveland; Dr. Harry Friedenwald, Baltimore; Rabbi James G. Heller, Cincinnati; Rabbi Edward L. Israel, Baltimore; Judge Iouis E. Levinthal, Philadelphia; Louis P. Rocker, New York; Robert Szold, New York, and State Senator Jacob Weiss, Indianapolis.
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