Conn. Jewish Farmers Hold Annual Meeting

(Jewish Daily Bulletin)

The annual meeting of the Jewish Farmers of Connecticut was held Sunday in North Haven. The degates visited five of the leading farm in Connecticut.

At a luncheon at the farm of Bernard Sinoway, Gabriel Davidson, general manager of the Jewish Agricultural Society; David M. Mossesolm publisher of the Jewish Tribune; Miss Anna C. Brenner, director of the Farm and Rural department of the National Council of Jewish Women; Benjamin C. Stone, editor of the Jewish Farmer and director of the extension department of the Jewish Agricultural Society; and Elliott Platt, secretary to Commissioner of Agriculture Phill T. Platt were the speakers.

Mr. Davidson sketched the grown of the communities of Jewish farmers in the state, beginning with three families from New York which got a start on farms in 1891 through the Baron de Hirsch fund, and carrying the story to the present time when there are 1,00 families of Jewish farmers numbering 5.000 persons.

The work of the National Council of Jewish Women in Connecticut and other states among the rural farm women was told by Miss Brenner. Mr. Stone presided over the meeting.

The group visited the vegetable farm of G. E. Kooper in Clintonville; the poultry farm of Harry Neleber in North Haven. Louis Charnes’s dairy farm in East Haven, and the vegetable and poultry farm of Harry Engle in the same town.

RABBI M. S. MARGOLIES RETURNS FROM PALESTINE

Rabbi M. S. Margolies, Senior Rabbi of the Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun, one of the oldest rabbis in the Orthodox Rabbinate, returned on the steamer Leviathan from a six weeks visit to Palestine. Rabbi Margolies was in Jerusalem during the earthquake.

The Rabbi was greeted at the pier by prominent New York Orthodox Jews headed by David Kass, president of the Congregation.

Rabbi Margolies expressed his satisfacton with the state of affairs in Palestine. He was greatly impressed by the Jewish colonies and by the development of Jewish life in Palestine cities.