The Jewish Community here has been exceedingly active in various enterprises, as can be seen from the numerous meetings, cultural endeavors, and philanthropic undertakings sponsored in the city. The community has been a veritable beehive of Jewish enterprises, cultural clubs, temples, brotherhoods, charitable institutions, Hadassah Palestine Campaign, and American Jewish Congress.
A guest of Boston Jewry was Rabbi Solomon Goldman of Chicago, who attended the Hadassah Iuncheon, Monday afternoon last. More than 700 women attended and a substantial sum was realized as Boston Hadassah’s contribution to the national Hadassah fund. Rabbi Goldman discussed anti-Semitism in his discourse, pointing out the ancient character of this mental maladjustment and disease, which he attributed to the natural jungle psychology from which man still suffers. He lauded Hadassah women for their sense of loyalty to the Jewish people and its tradition, particularly the hope of the Jewish national homeland in Palestine. In the evening Rabbi Goldman was a guest of the Kehillath Israel Brotherhood, where he spoke on the recent crisis in Jewish life, pointing out that the crisis was not so much external as internal because of the prevalence of indifference and ignorance. He pleaded for less apologetic and more dynamic and creative Judaism as the safest security against anti-Semitism.
The Zionists of Greater Boston are expecting a regeneration of interests and activity due to the arrival of Bernard Stone as director of the American Palestine Campaign, and also due to the initiative and leadership of the Brooklyn Zionist Organization, under the president, Samuel B. Finkel.
Temple Israel has shown considerable activity along educational lines through its courses in adult education which have become very popular in the community. It has been able to attract as lecturers some of the outstanding leaders and scholars in the community, and in its student body numbering more than 150 there are included college graduates and many in the business and professional world.
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