Color was added to the proceedings when the Sephardic Chief Rabbi in Oriemal garb took the platform to address the gathering in fluent Hebrew with the Sephardic accent. The members of the delegation were given a great ovation by the assembly.
Louis Lipsky, president of the Zionist Organization of America, in greeting the conference on behalf of the American Zionists, declared that the time had arrived when the Zionists will have to draw more and more on the Orthodox element which is the only stable part of the national movement. There is no reason why Jewish national values should be barred from Jewish life in Palestine because they are religious values as well.
A resolution was adopted thanking Baron Edmund de Rothschild for his gift of £18,000 for the Palestine Hebrew schools.
Rabbi Berlin in a lengthy address expressed his conviction in the ultimate triumph of the Orthodox efforts in making Palestine secure for Orthodox Judaism and in enforcing the principle that “the land of Israel will be built in accordance with the Torah of Israel.”
As to the present situation in Palestine. Rabbi Berlin stated that the crists is doe not to the inherent fault of the country but to Jewish desire to see more rapid progress than has been made. The fact is that notwithstanding the difficulties, Palestine is the only country where Jewish life in the real meaning of the term is developing. No devoted Jew having the choice between Palestine and the Diaspors would besitate to choose Palestine. Although sacrifices will be necessary, no sacrifice can be too great for bringing about the realization of our goal he deciared. Rabbi Wolf Gold, formerly of San Francisco, delivered the concluding address.
Max Reinhardt was feted at a dinner given in his honor Sunday night at the Hotel St. Regis by Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Urbs?. Among the seventy-five guests were Mr. and Mrs. William Randolph Hearst. Mr and Mrs Amber Hopkins. Mr. and Mrs. Viadimir Sokoloff. Mr. and Mrs. Otto E. Kahn. Major and Mrs. Anthony J. Drexel Biddle, Jr. Mr. and Anthony J. Drexel Biddle Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Florent Ziegield, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Ziegler. and Mrs. Oscar Eammerstein.
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