More than one hundred delegates and guests who began assembling yesterday at the Eighth Annual Convention and Fourth Annual Avukah Summer School here, today set to work on the conference agenda. This includes the rendering of reports by representatives from the various chapters and a discussion of the means whereby Avukah work can be strengthened in the forty chapters already functioning and also be spread to colleges, campuses and communities where Avukah chapters have not yet been organized.
Also to be discussed are the relationship between Avukah and various other Jewish organizations in America, the relationship of Avukah to the World’s Zionist organization, and the question of sending Avukah delegates to the Zionist congress.
Delegates to the annual Zionist congress in Chicago will be elected at this convention.
The eighth annual convention of Avukah is being held in conjunction with the fourth annual summer school, which is under the direction of Isadore Solkoff, of Columbia and Cornell.
Twelve scholarship students representing twelve different universities are now at summer school, which is also attended by representatives from leading colleges as far west as Chicago.
Lectures have been given at the school thus far by Rabbi Joseph S. Shubow, of Boston, editor of the Brandeis Avukah Annual and director of the New England office of the American Jewish Congress, who spoke on the approaching world Zionist conference; Rabbi Simon Greenberg, of Philadelphia, National President of Avukah, who spoke on “Youth,” and Rabbi Maurice Pekarsky, who discussed Zionism for students.
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