(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Dr. Gregorius Itelsohn, well known Jewish mathematician and scientist, was attacked last night on Kurfuerstendammstrasse by Baron Engelhardt, German anti-Semitic leader.
Baron Engelhardt shouted as he beat Dr. Itelsohn, “Knock down the Jew. Kill him!” Leaving Dr. Itelsohn unconscious and covered with blood, the Baron tried to escape, but a taxi driver prevented him and handed him over to the police.
Dr. Itelsohn, a Russian Jew, settled in Berlin in 1885 and is well known in scientific and social circles.
HADASSAH VOTES TO RETAIN DR. WISE
Hadassah, the American Women’s Zionist Organization, one of the five organizations affiliated in the United Palestine Appeal, at its Mid-Winter Conference just concluded in New York, adopted a resolution opposing the resignation of Dr. Stephen S. Wise as Chairman of the United Palestine Appeal.
The resolution read as follows: “We, the Mid-Winter Conference of Hadassah, the American Women’s Zionist Organization, recommend to the Executive Committee of the United Palestine Appeal not to accept the resignation of Dr. Stephen S. Wise from the chairmanship of the United Palestine Appeal.”
ZIONIST LABOR PARTY PROTESTS AGAINST ORTHODOX RABBIS’ STAND
The Zionist Labor Party “Hitachduth” held a protest-meeting Saturday evening at the Stuyvesant High School, New York City.
Speakers at the meeting protested against the attitude of some of the Orthodox Rabbis in the Dr. Wise controversy and demanded the rejection of the resignation of Dr. Wise as chairman of the Palestine Fund.
Mr. Chaim Greenberg, Dr. Rabelsky, Secretary of the Hitachduth Party and Rabbi Dr. M. Raisin were among the speakers. Ezekiel Rabinowitz,
Rabbi Jacob Tarshish was elected president of the Jewish Religious Education Association of Ohio in Columbus, Ohio.
Miss Ethel Lauterbach, Cincinnati, was elected vice-president; Morris A. Skop, Columbus, Secretary; Dora Schlang, Cleveland, Treasurer. Rabbi David Alexander was the president during the past year.
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