A record budget of $2,750,000 for 1953 was approved here last night at the closing session of the annual convention of the Mizrachi Organization of America. The budget provides a $1,000,000 allocation for the Mizrachi-sponsored Bar-llan University in Israel, a similar amount for immigrant housing and Mizrachi educational programs in Israel, $500,000 for the Jewish National Fund, $200,000 for Jewish educational work in the United States, and $50,000 for administrative expenses.
Rabbi Max Kirshblum of New York was elected president of the organization. He announced that he was leaving tomorrow for Israel and while there would discuss Mizrachi interests with Premier David Ben Gurion.
“I will certainly bespeak the conviction of American religious Zionism,” the new Mizrachi president declared, “when I will convey to the Prime Minister the proposition that the best way to encourage Zionism in America is for the Premier, whom American Zionists of all groups deeply admire, to stop his ‘cold war’ with American Zionism.”
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