Fifty thousand dollars toward the United Palestine Appeal quota of $125,000 for the city of Detroit has been raised, according to an announcement of Morris Friedberg, chairman of the Appeal here.
By a decision of the Detroit City Common Council, the city will be decorated with flags tomorrow in honor of Chaim Nachum Bialik, Dr. Schmarya Levin and Dr. Stephen S. Wise who will arrive here to launch the drive in this city.
Vladimir Jabotinsky. leader of the Zionist Revisionists, addressed a large audience at the Repertory Theatre in Roxbury, Mass. The meeting was arranged by the Boston Avukah Society, the student Zionist organization. Mr. Jabotinsky presented the program of the Zionist Revisionists.
Joseph Shubow presided at the meeting.
Jewish students of the University of Chicago. Northwestern University, Crane College and many of the professional schools of the city, comprising the Chicago Chapter of the Avukah Society held their first meeting at the Congress Hotel on Sunday.
Prof. Keubin Freedman of the John Marshall Law School, addressed the meeting on “A Student’s View of Zionism.”
$200,000 was left to the Jewish Institute of Religion and $23,000 to the Free Synagogue by the will of Mrs. Hannah Heyman, according to an announcement made by the Jewish Institute of Religion.
Until six months before her death, the announcement stated, Mrs. Heyman was in modest circumstances, and while taking an active interest in communal affairs was never able to make large contributions. When her brother, Jacob Semel, died she was left almost $1,000,000.
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