American Jewry will be asked to contribute $100,000 toward the establishment of Kfar Ussiskin in honor of the seventieth birthday of the veteran Zionist leader, this sum ot be outside the regular quota of the Jewish National Fond in the United States. The regular quota of the Jewish National Fund in the United States. The regular quota for the coming year was set at $400,000, making a total quota of $500,000 for the coming year The decision to ask for this sum was reached today at the Jewish National Fund conferecne now in session here and attended by more than 400 delegates from all oven the United States.
Arthur Greenstein greeted the conferece in the name of the local National Fund Council, while Judge William Jewis spoke in the name of the Philadelphia Jewish community. Greetings were received from Ussishin and from Dr. Chaim Weizmann, former president of the World Zionish Organization.
The principal speaker was Dr Israel Goldstein, recently elected president of the Jewish National Fund of America, rabbi in Temple B’nai Jeshurun in New York City. He delvered the annual report. In his address Dr. Goldstein paid tribute to Ussishkin and pleaded for funds of the colony.
TRIBUTE TO USSISHKIN
”The project to establish Kafar Ussishkin as a seventieth anniversary tribute to our grat leader is sponsored by the Eigheenth.
Dr. Goldstein emphasizes! the fact that the Jewish National Fund “is still the most popular of all Zionist funds.” He pointed out that it has the unified support of all Zionist bodies, and has during1 the last thirty-two years realized more than $16,000,000 from appeals to Jews in every country. American Jews have given $5,000,000, The fund has succeeded in purchasing 90,000 acres of land in Palestine which was drained, irrigated and re-afforested.
The president o. the National Fund pointed to the irony of fate, stating that in 1896, when Dr. Herzl wag seeking for a city to hold the first Zionist Congress, he singled out Munich, but the executive committee of the Jewish community there would not peiv mit the holding of the conference there as they did not want the city contaminated with Zionism. Today, Dr. Goldstein declared, “the sons and daughters of these German Jews are seeking refuge in that Palestine which their parents scorned.”
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