A dinner in honor of Zwi Hirsh Masliansky, was given last night by the Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS), at its headquarters, 425 Lafayette street, New York City, prior to his departure for Palestine where he and Mrs. Masilansky will settle permanently.
Mr. Masliansky has been a member of the HIAS board of directors for more than thirty years.
Tributes to Mr. Masliansky were paid by the following speakers: John L. Bernstein, former president of the Society; Harry Fischel, treasurer; Jacob Massel, chairman of the executive committee; Jacob Fishman, managing editor of the Jewish Morning Journal and Dr. Jacob Bosniak, rabbi of the Ocean Parkway Jewish Center.
Plans for mass meetings in unorganized Jewish communities in this locality were formulated at a conference in Schenectady of the New York State Capital Region branch of the United Synagogue of America, according to an announcement yesterday by Dr. Harry Miller, president. Rabbi Joel S. Geffen of Troy has been appointed chairman of the committee on organization and extension, in charge of the project.
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