(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Deputy Isaac Gruenbaum, former president of the Club of Jewish Deputies and Zionist leader. left today for the United States. He will sail on the S.S. Mauretania.
Prior to his departure a farewell reception was tendered in honor of Mr. Gruenbaum, at which addresses were delivered by Dr. Schmarya Levin, Leon Levite and Dr. Joshua Gotlieb.
Y. M. H. A. OF MANHATTAN TO ASK FOR $1,500,000 FOR ERECTING NEW BUILDING
A fund of $1,500,000 will be sought by the Young Men’s Hebrew Association of Manhattan for the erection of a new building. according to an announcement made Sunday night at the annual meeting of the Association, by Judge Joseph M. Proskauer, its president. The building will be erected on a site directly adjoining the present building at 92nd Street and Lexington Avenue, on land recently purchased by Mr. Felix M. Warburg, a former president of the institution.
The building will occupy a plat 118x 100, and will be eleven stories in height. The new building will add to the present facilities of the organization, dormitory space, swimming pool, gymnasium, club rooms, and space for general social and educational activities
In his report Judge Proskauer pointed out that the most important need for the institution was increased facilities for its large program of activity. The present structure, he said, has scant space for dormitory room. Thousands of Jewish young men are turned away, because of this lack, and many of them have applied to the Y. M. C. A. for sleeping accommodations. His report reviewed the growth of the institution which was founded 53 years ago.
A feature of the annual meeting was the presentation of engrossed resolutions to Mr. Simon Gottschall, first vice-president of the Association who has just completed thirty years of service as a member of the Board of Trustees.
Others who spoke were Louis Marshall, I. Edwin Goldwasser, Walter T. Diack, the General Secretary of Y. M. C. A.’s in New York City, Ernest Katz, representing the “Old Timers” and Max Rubin, representing the active members of the “Y.”
Among those present were: Judge Irving Lehman of the Court of Appeals, Sol M. Stroock, president of the Federation of Jewish Societies, Colonel Herbert H. Lehman, Frederick Brown, Eli Bernheim, I. Gainsburg, Judge Albert Cohn. Assemblyman Samuel H. Hofstadter, Judge Samson Lachman, Judge Bernard L. Shientag, Mark Hyman, Jonah J. Goldstein, Edgar J. Nathan, Jr., Maurice Goodman, Dr. Joseph J. Klein, and Hon. M. Maldwin Fertig.
Four religious schools held their graduation exercises yesterday at the Ezra Hebrew School. 1745 Washington Avenue. Bronx. The schools which participated in these exercises were Ezra, Emanu-El, B’nai Zion, and Beth-El. institutions maintained under the auspices of the New York School Extension Committee of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations. Twenty-eight children were graduated. Among those who made addresses were Mr. Vogelstein. chairman of the Executive Board of the Union; Mr. Henry M. Toch, chairman of the Committee for School Extension in New York; Dr. Alexander Lyons. of Brooklyn, and Rabbi Jacob Pollak.
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