The triennial convention of B’nai B’rith today voted an appropriation of $100,000 to establish a Palestine colony in the name of its president, Henry Monsky, adjoining the existing settlement named for Past-President Alfred M. Cohen.
The resolution, offered by Judge I.N. Golden of San Francisco, vice-president of B’nai B’rith, and adopted unanimously by a raising private, provides that a large tract of Jewish National Fund land be acquired for the colony and that preference in settlement be given to refugees who were members of B’nai B’rith and their children.
The resolution cited the fact that Palestine has absorbed 250,000 refugees in recent years. The Cohen settlement, established in 1936, now has 100 refugee settlers.
The convention also voted $5,000 to enlarge the Bogen-Rubinow forest in Palestine established in 1938 in memory of Boris Bogen and I.M. Rubinow. Other appropriations were $2,000 for the University in Exile in New York $500 for the B’nai B’rith Refugee Child Care Committee in England, which has previously received $5,000, and $500 for the Haifa Nautical School.
During today’s session, Sigmund Livingston, chairman of B’nai B’rith’s Anti-Defamation League, urged a nation-wide campaign against anti-Semitism as a “holy cause,” asserting that 100 Christian leaders with zeal and organization could prevent anti-Semitism from gaining a foothold in this country.
Livingston asserted that Germany was spending $36,000,000 to conquer America. Germany need not attack America’s shores if she succeeds in establishing anti-Semitism in the public mind here, Livingston said.
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