(J. T. A. Mail Service)
A resolution which demands a strengthening of the control exercised over the foreign organizations which are working in the Ukraine to assist the Jewish colonization movement was adopted at a meeting of the Central Committee of National Minorities at the All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee.
The resolution urges that the representatives of the Government Commission for Jewish Land Settlement, Comzet, should in future control the activity of these foreign organizations, should demand frequent reports from them and should arrange for closer relations between the agricultural experts of these organizations and the agricultural experts of the local settlements.
In the last three years, it was reported to the meeting, 140 Jewish settlements have been established in the Ukraine with 3,000 houses inhabited by nearly 35,000 people.
COMMUNICATION TO THE EDITOR
Sir:
I have been informed that a Rabbi Jerome Widisky, of Chelsea, Mass., has made unauthorized use of my name in connection with what he claims to be a translation of the Talmud. May I state through your columns that I have no connection whatsoever with this man or with any venture promoted by him.
The writer is co-author with his father, Mr. Abraham W. Steinbach, and with his brother Dr. Reuben Steinbaeh, in an English annotation and punctuation of the first chapter of Baba Mezia, but is in no way associated with Rabbi Widisky or with any of his projects.
Very truly yours, Rabbi Alexander Alan Steinbaeh.
Norfolk, Va., May 23, 1923.
Improvement of health conditions on the east side and the advantage of modern methods in combating disease are outlined in the annual report of the Henry Street Settlement issued by Lillian D. Wald.
Among its activities the settlement conducts a Visiting Nurse Service in which 200 graduate nurses are employed.
Edgar Goldberg, founder and editor and publisher of the Texas Jewish Herald for the past twenty-one years, will be honored at a testimonial dinner to be given by the Jewish community of Houston on June 14. The dinner is being sponsored by the local B’nai B’rith lodges.
The dedication of the new synagogue of Congregation Beth Israel of Borough Park, Brooklyn, N.Y., was held on Sunday, Meyer Goldman. State Senator Philip Kleinfeld and former Magistrate Joseph Goldstein were the speakers.
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