A. J. Freiman of Ottawa was for the tenth time elected president of the Canadian Zionist Organization, meeting here for its twenty-second convention.. Louis Fitch of Montreal, M. Gelber of Toronto, and M. Heppner of Winnipeg, were chosen vice-presidents, and Joseph Fineberg, Montreal, treasurer.
Resolutions adopted by the convention called upon the Canadian Zionists to encourage trade between Canada and Palestine; expressed sorrow at the plight of the Russian Jews, and protested against the suppression of religious life, the Hebrew language and the danger of the extinction of Russian Jewry’s cultural and spiritual resources; agreed to accept the principle of granting land to Palestinian legionnaires; viewed with favor creation of the Chalutzim (pioneers) movement in Canada.
A provisional committee of ten leading members of the various Canadian Jewish communities was named by 30 representative Jews, following an address by Bernard G. Richards, executive secretary of the American Jewish Congress, to plan the organization of a representative body to concern itself with the protection of Jewish minorities abroad and also to cooperate with other similar bodies.
In his address, Mr. Richards called Dr. Magnes the "Jewish play-boy of the Western world and the spoiled child of millionaire patrons who had previously embarrassed Jewish communities."
The ten men named as the provisional committee are A. J. Freiman of Ottawa, D. Dunkelman and A. Rhinewine of Toronto, H. E. Wilder and M. Heppner of Winnipeg, H. M. Caiserman, Dr. Abramowitz, Louis Fitch, Samuel Hart Robinson and H. Wolofsky, all of Montreal.
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