(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Denial of reports that Elkind, former leader of the labor groups in the colony Tel Yossef in the Emek Jezreel, is taking the members of the colony to Soviet Russia were made in a statement issued by the colony.
The statement declares that only 40 members of the colony out of a total of 240 intend to leave Palestine and settle in the Crimea.
Mr. Elkind, the former leader of the group has abandoned his Zionist faith and for a long time has been carrying on a fight with the majority of the colony. His followers number in all 65. These demanded at first that the colony should be divided up, but finally forty of them decided to leave. The negotiations which Mr. Elkind is now conducting with the Soviet authorities in Moscow, relate to these. It is not certain how many of the forty will actually proceed to the Crimea. The colony as a whole continues its existence and work.
The $500,000 campaign in New Jersey for the completion of the Yeshiva College was launched at a conference of Jewish leaders in Atlantic City held last Sunday at the Esplanade Hotel.
The conference adopted a quota of $30,000 to be raised in Atlantic City towards the Yeshiva College Building Fund. The campaign in Atlantic City will be inaugurated the second week in January, it was stated.
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