Hygienic Value of Jewish Religious Laws Shown at Dusseldorf Exhibit

(Jewish Telegraphic Agency Mail Service)

The hygienic importance of the Jewish religious laws is demonstrated in the Jewish Pavilion at the International Exhibition of Hygiene and Social Welfare which was opened here.

In the central hall of the Pavilion passages from the Jewish Scriptures dwelling on the importance of hygiene have been inscribed in has-relief. There is on view a room with the table laid for the Friday evening meal. giving an idea of the restfulness of the Jewish home on the Sabbath. There are also many illustrations from Jewish religious practices which possess hygienic significance. Various organizations have their own exhibits illustrating their work in social welfare, health, etc.

In the Palestine section detailed information is provided regarding the Jewish reconstruction work in Palestine and the Jewish social problems connected with it. In another room are data relating to the Jewish population in the various countries.

The Jewish Pavilion is divided as follows: (1) The hygienic effect of the Jewish religious laws, Jewish customs, etc., such as the Sabbath, the laws of purity, the marriage laws, circumcision, the examination of meat (Bedikah), care of the sick, care of the dead, etc. (2) The Jew anthropologically and hiologically–the Jewish type, mixed marriages, figures relating to Jewish birth and death rates, suicides, etc. (3) Jewish philanthropy (Zedakah) with special relation to emigrant welfare. This section comprises both the old and modern forms of social welfare work. including the activity on behalf of the East European Jewish emigrants, the movement towards productive work among the Jews, the establishment of agricultural settlements in Germany, the colonization activity in Palestine, Argentine, Russia, etc., the self-aid activity among the East European Jews, etc. Miniature models are shown of various Jewish welfare institutions in Germany such as orphanages and sanatoriums.

The Central Welfare Office of the German Jews is exhibiting a film giving scenes from the activity of the chief Jewish welfare institutions.

Associated with the Dusseldorf community in the Pavilion are the Labor Welfare Office of the Jewish organizations of Germany, the German Federation of the He’chalutz, the Frankfort Society for Research into Jewish Art Memorials, the German Grand Lodge of the B’nai B’rith, the Hilfsvercin der Deutschen Juden, the League of Jewish Women of Berlin, the Oze World Federation for Preserving the Health of the Jews, the Federation of Jewish Soldiers at the Front, of Berlin, the Society of Friends of the Jewish Book, of Berlin, the Federation of Jewish Women’s Organizations in the Rhinelnad and Westphalia, the Central Welfare Office of the German Jews, the Hadassah Medical Organization of Palestine, the Maccabee World Organization, the Labor Organization of Palestine, and the Health Office of the Zionist Executive in Jerusalem.

EPISCOPALIAN DAUGHTER OF JEWISH BANKER MARRIES FRENCH CATHOLIC COUNT

Miss Pamela Speyer, daughter of Edgar Speyer, banker, and Count Hugo Charles Moy, bond salesman and scion of the French nobility, were married on Thursday. The wedding took place in the rectory of St. Patrick’s Cathedral. Monsignor Michael J. Lavelle, rector of the Cathedral, officiated.

Religious obstacles to the ceremony were removed when the Catholic authorities decided not to recognize Count Moy’s first marriage to Lina Ansel, a Munich cabarer singer and a divorcee. It developed that although Mr. Speyer was a member of a prominent Jewish family, his daughter, like his wife, is an Episcopalian.

The bride’s father was formerly known as Sir Edgar Speyer and her mother Lady Speyer, honors conferred by the late King Edward VII. These they gave up with the English residence when they came to New York in 1915.