The closing session of B’nai B’rith’s fifteenth triennial convention yesterday instructed its executive committee to evolve a plan for establishment of a $500,000 emergency budget to fight anti-Semitism and anti-Americanism through the Anti-Defamation League. A budget of $100,000 was voted for the Hillel Foundations in colleges and universities.
B’nai B’rith’s newly-elected executive committee today appropriated $10,000 for the Youth Aliyah movement, to care for 28 children from countries of persecution in Palestine, after Mrs. David de Sola Pool, vice-president of Hadassah, and Mrs. David Greenberg, chairman of Hadassah’s Youth Aliyah Committee, had appeared before the executive committee. An appropriation was also made to purchase kosher meat for Jewish philanthropic institutions in Germany after the committee had heard Rabbi Jacob Hoffman, former Chief Rabbi of Frankfort-am-Main, representing the Kosher Meat Fund for Jewish Institutions in Germany.
Alfred M. Cohen, retiring president, was elected honorary president. District representatives in the executive committee elected are: District I, Louis Fabricant, New York; 2, Sidney G. Kusworm, Dayton, 0.; 3, Judge Joseph L. Kun, Philadelphia; 4, George I.M. Golden, San Francisco; 5, Sidney Stern, Greensboro, N.C.; 6, Benjamin Samuels, Chicago; 7, Archibald Marx, New Orleans.
The Anti-Defamation league Commission includes Judge A.K. Cohen, Boston; Samuel I. Sievers, St. Louis; Abraham Berkowitz, Philadelphia; Mr. Golden; Louis Ottenberg, Washington; Sigmund Livingston, Chicago, and A.B. Freyer, Shreveport, La. The Chief Justice of the B’na B’rith Court of Appeals is Harry K. Wolff, San Francisco.
An anti-Communism resolution was adopted as follows: "The great masses of the Jewish people are faithful to the religious teachings of their fathers. Judaism is a part of their life. In it they find consolation and hope. They believe in its precepts and prophecies. Russian Communism has fought unremittingly against the religious faith of the Jew. The Communist who is a Jew is now an apostate. Communism would destroy religious faith. If Communism were to rule, it would destroy both Judaism and Christianity. There are some Communists who were born Jews, just as there are some Communists who were born Protestants and Catholics, but it is unjust for this reason to accuse either one of these religious sections of responsibility for Communism."
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