Change in Communities Reorganization Bill Promised by Roumanian Premier

(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Prime Minister Bratianu and Minister of Education Lapedatu promised Dr. William Filderman, president of the Union of Roumanian Jews, and Senator Bercovici to introduce into the Government bill for the reorganization of the Jewish communities such changes as would meet with the demands of the Jewish deputies and senators.

In a special audience granted the Jewish representatives the Government leaders undertook to insert into the bill provisions for recognizing a united kehillah with the understanding, however, that the autonomous administration of the Sephardic communities in Old Roumania and of the Orthodox communities in Transylvania remain unimpaired.

The Jewish deputies and senators strongly criticized the Government bill as aiming to split the Jewish population in Roumania into various factions and sects.

The Roumanian senator, Birbo Vitianu, the rapporteur on the Government bill, in his report to the Senate expressed his opinion that it was impossible to establish a unified kehillah in the Roumanian towns, just as it was impossible to establish a supreme kehillah council in Bucharest. The reorganization along the lines demanded by the Jewish senators was impossible, he stated, because of the fact that the Kehillahs have never been organized until now and that the differences between the various groups are altogether too great.