A call to the League of Nationals to intervene on behalf of the persecuted Jews of Roumania, to defend them from the anti-Semitic persecutions which are spreading throughout the country, was sounded today by Luigi Luzzatti, the venerable Italian Jewish statesman, former prime minister of Italy, in a statement issued to the representative of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency here.
The death of the Jewish student David Falik in Czernowitz, the anti-Jewish excesses in Kalarash. Kishineff and in Bucharest calls for action. The Roumanian government is endeavoring only half heartedly to counteract the anti-Semitic agitation, Luzzatti declared.
Speaking of Alexander Cuza, leader of the anti-Semitic movement, the former prime minister declared that if he were to follow the example of many Roumanians who regard Cuza merely as a lunatic, he would Cuza merely as a lunatic, he would be showing the anti-Semitic leader too much tolerance.
BREVITIES
An experiment in religious education was tried in El Paso, Texas. on December 12, when two classes composed of High School boys attending the First Presbyterian Church of which Rev. Floyd Po is the pastor, came over to Temple Mt. Sinai of which Rabbi Martin Zielonka is the rabbi, to join the Bible class of that synagogue for instruction on that Sunday. The Temple was celebrating the tenth anniversary of its dedication.
Dr. Julian Morgenstern, president of the Hebrew Union College, was the guest-speaker for the occasion. The combined classes were turned over to him and he addressed them on the theme “The Religion of an Educated Man.”
A contribution of $2,500 for the Sir William Ramsay Fellowships at University College, London, has been made by Benjamin Stern, former head of Stern Brothers. The gift will provide a fellowship for 1927.
The Anglo-Jewish Playhouse, a group of players affiliated with the Central Jewish Institute, will present three one-act plays on Saturday evening, December 25th and Saturday evening, January 2nd, in the auditorium of the Institute, 125 East 55th Street, New York. The bull will comprise the “Song of Solomon” by Harry Kemp; “His Children” by Ruins Learsi: “The Inventor and the king’s Daughter” by David Pinski. This will be the second season of plays presented by the Anglo-Jewish Playhouse.
The Directors of the Anglo-Jewish Playhouse are William W. Schorr, Stage Director, and Samuel S. Grossman, Formerly connected with the Jewish Art Theater.
The estate of Caroline Siedenbach, who died April 25, 1926, was adjudicated by Judge Thompson in the Orphans’ Court and the $5,000:designated in the will of the testatrix received their awards.
Under the will the Federation of Jewish Charities was bequeathed $35,000; Eagelsville Sanatorium for Consumptives $35,000; Neighborhood Centre. On Bainbridge Street. ### Congregation Rodeph. Shalom $1,000, and the Hebrew Sunday School Society, $200. The remainder of the estate was awarded to relatives named in the will. The entire principal awarded under Judge Thompson’s adjudication amounted to $58,270 and the income $10,800 additional.
A brouse base of Sophie Irene Loeb, child welfare worker, was presented to her home town. McKeesport, Pa., Tuesday night, in tribute to her social service.
Mayer Lysle of McKeesport accepted the statement on behalf of the city. Miss Margaret Woodrow Wilson, daughter of the fate president, headed the group of co-workers who presented the piece.
The bust was fashioned by Bryant Baker, the same sculptor who made a likeness of President Coolidge for the White House and of President Wilson for the Palace at Versailles.
Before the presentation, Miss Loeb spoke at the Temple B’nai Israel in the Temple Club, McKeesport, on “A Home for Every Child.”
Miss Loeb is president of the Child Welfare Committee of America, which includes Col. Herbert H. Lehman, John H. Tennant, August Heckscher, Judge Samuel D. Levy, Margaret Woodrow Wilson, Mrs. Oliver Harriman and Gov. Al Smith. She is also the honorary president of the City Board of Child Welfare.
Representatives of 165 labor bodies in New York, with a membership in excess of 200,000, met in Beethoven Hall Tuesday night and organized a permanent committee to combat efforts of Communists t capture trades unions. Representing another 400,000 were delegates from the trade unions of Boston, Chicago and Philadelphia.
Present as sympathetic observers were Joseph A. Ryan, President, and John P. Coughlan, Secretary, of the Central Trades and Labor Council of Greater New York and Vicinity, with a membership of 600,000. Mr. Ryan said after the meeting his organization will back the movement.
Help also is expected. Abraham I. Shiplacoff, who presided, assured, from the New York Federation of Labor and from the New York office of the American Federation of Labor.
Among the organizations represented by 395 delegates sitting at the meeting were “Big six” Typographical Union, the Hebrew Typographical Union, bakery workers, teamsters, sheet moral workers, carpenters, painters, cigar theatrical employees and actors.
Eli H. Bernheim of New York has subscribed $30,000 to the city of Mobile, Alabama, for a memorial lecture hall in the new $250,000 public library building. The hall will be named after the donor’s deceased wife, Mrs. Beatrice Bernheim, who was a resident of Mobile.
JEWISH COMMUNAL ACTIVITIES
At a meeting of the Ladies’ Auxiliary of the Bronx Hospital held last week, all the old officers were elected and in addition, Mrs. Sam Minskoff was elected Honorary Vice-President and Mrs. Irving Smiley Third Vice-President.
About 1,000 people attended the ball at the Biltmore given by the Ladies’ Auxiliary of the Bronx Hospital Several thousand dollars, which will go toward the $35,000 pledge of the Ladies’ Auxiliary to found a women’s ward in the hospital, was realized from the Ball and the Souvenir Journal Mrs. Alexander Selkin was chairman of the souvenir Journal and Mrs. L. M. Blumstein was chairman of the Ball.
The highest honorary degree permitted on the dispensation of the President of the Independent Order B’nai B’rith, will be conferred on Adolf Kraus, for twenty years President of the Order. by President Alfred M. Cohen. The degree will be confirmed by Rabbi Louis L. Mann.
The presentation, conferred for the first time in the history of the Order, will be made at a banquet on January 5, at the Drake Hotel. Chicago. Two thousand persons are expected to attend.
The ready-to-wear industry contributed $30,000 to the $4,720,000 campaign of the Federation for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies Sunday night at a dinner given at the Hotel Pennsylvania at a testimonial to John Block and Jack Mack, division heads in the campaign. Each of the ### couples present paid $200.
Frederick Brown general chairman of the campaign, announced that $### had been obtained.
The speakers at the dinner were Jacob Sperber, Solomon Lowenstein Felix M. Warburg, Z. D. Bernstein and Henry F. Samstag.
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