All Sections of Roumanian Jewry Unite in Appeal to Premier to Reopen Soroca Hebrew High School

All sections of Roumanian Jewry have joined in an appeal to Professor Jorga, the Prime Minister and Minister of Education, to withdraw the order which he issued recently that the Hebrew High School in Soroca, which was closed after the shooting affair there should not be reopened.

Attention is drawn in particular in this connection to the working of the official statement on the subject. It makes no charge against the school itself, does not suggest that it had been found guilty of conducting Communist activity, but says that it is feared that the teachers and the authorities of the school cannot keep the students from coming under the effect of the revolutionary sentiments which dominate the local Jewish population.

A deputation has visited Professor Jorga, consisting of Senator Chief Rabbi Dr. Niemirover, Senator Ezra Berkovitz, Senator W. Dinerman, ex-Deputy Dr. W. Filderman, President of the Union of Roumanian Jews, Deputy Michael Landau, Deputy Dr. S. Singer, and Deputy Dr. Manfred Reifer, members of the Jewish National Party, and Dr. Bauberger, member of the Executive of the Jewish National Party, and has presented a memorandum to him demanding in the name of the Roumanian Jews of all parties that he should order the Soroca Hebrew High School to be reopened.

Senator Ezra Berkovitz, who is a leading member of the Liberal Party and is the publisher of the French daily “Independence Roumaine”, published here, acted as the spokesman of the delegation.

Professor Jorga promised the delegation to have a new investigation made with regard to the position at the Soroca Hebrew High School.