Alime Palliere, Assistant Rabbi of the Union Isrealite Liberale Temple of Paris, arrived in the United States Friday on the steamer “Aquitania.”
M. Palliere became a convert to Judaism while a student at the Jesuit Seminary.
He is in the United States at the invitation of the Free Synagogue and Jewish Institute of Religion and will deliver a series of lectures in a number of cities.
His first lecture will be delivered Sunday morning at the Free Synagogue. The subjects of his lectures will be: “How I Found My Way to Judaism,” “What I Found Judaism to Be,” and “Why I Am a Zionist.”
M. Palliere has taken an active part in Jewish affairs and is an ardent Zionist. He is the president of the Universal Union of Jewish Youth.
He will remain in this country until the middle of January.
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