Boston Rally Brings $15,000 for Refugees

Stirring speeches on the German situation at a rally of workers in the campaign to raise $100,000 for the settlement of German Jewish refugees in Palestine brought $15,000 in cash donations at last night’s opening of the drive at the Hotel Staler. Jews in the United States are expected to contribute $2,000,000 of the world quota of $10,000,000.

The campaign in Greater Boston is under the immediate direction of Judge Francis Wyner of Brookline, Dr. Leon S. Medalia, also of Brookline, and Jacob Rubenowitz, chain store executive. Elihu D. Stone, vice-president of the Zionist Organization of America, was one of the principal speakers. He said in part:

“The time has come when the Jew must become the master of his own destiny. This can be done by the establishment of a strong, energized and cultured national Jewish homeland in Palestine. In the struggle of mankind for preservation the Jewish people under present conditions will always be the scapegoat for sins not of their commission. Only a Jewish Palestine can remove that abnormality.”

SAMUEL SPEAKS

Maurice Samuel, traveler and lecturer, who has been in this country about two weeks, coming from Palestine, declared that “the world-wide attack taking place at this time on the position of Jews is due in part to the shrinkage in economic activity of the world, which has attempted to push the Jew out from the intellectual and industrial place he has earned in the course of the last century.”

Members of the professions and trades will be canvassed for contributions. The women’s division, led by Mrs. Ely Feibelman, has started work among the homes in Greater Boston.