Organization of junior lodges of the Independent Order B’nai Brith was decided upon at the concluding session Monday, of the seventy-fifth annual convention of District No. 1. Junior lodges of the Independent Order of B’nai B’rith, according to Dr. Boris Bogen, executive secretary of the Order, who addressed the convention on the subject, have already been organized in five middle western States. They are known as the Aleph Zadik Aleph, and Jewish young men between the ages of 16 and 21 are eligible. They are intended to bring to all Jewish young men the same cultural opportunities that are afforded to Jewish college and university students by the Hillel Foundations maintained by the Order.
Authority was given to the General Committee of the District to dispose of the Home for the Aged which it maintains in Yonkers. There are only 23 imnates at this time in the institution which is for aged members of the Order and their wives. Provision will be made to house the present inmates of the Yonkers institution elsewhere.
The convention of the women’s auxiliary of the District held simultaneously with the District gathering, elected the following officers of the Council: President, Mrs. Reyna S. Friedman, of New Haven; first vice-president. Mrs. Miriam B. Schneider, of Boston; second vice-president, Mrs. Lillian Smith of New York; third vice-president, Mrs. Eva Mehlman, of Springfield, Mass.; Secretary. Mrs. Augusta Israel, of New York, and treasurer, Mrs. Celia Feldman, of Manchester, N. H.
The women’s auxiliary organized a year ago has a membership of 2,200, who are organized in 25 branches which were represented at the convention by 36 delegates. It will hold a mid-year conference in Boston during the first week of November.
One out of every four Jewish residents of New Rochelle is a member of the Y.M.H.A. of that city. This is the highest rate of membership to be found in any similar organization affiliated with the Metropolitan League of Jewish Community Associations, it was learned this week at the annual meeting of the Board of Directors of the New Rochelle “Y”. Reports of L. K. Goldman, the president of the organization, and other officers, indicated that more than one thousand persons each week make use of the Association’s building.
The following officers were elected: Chas. O. Tobias, honorary president; L. K. Goldman, president; Henry J. Goldberg, vice-president; Julius Guttag, treasurer; A. N. Hackman, financial secretary; Cecelia M. Cohen, recording secretary; Max Feder, executive director.
Board of Directors: Harry Berkowitz, Harry Bloom, Eugene Blumenthal, Louis S. Ehrich, Hiram Hays, Philip Heimlich, Bert Herkimer. Max Kanen. Herbert Katzenberg. Maxwell Katz, Al Klepper, Milton Lachenbruch. David Levy, Ralph Levene. Dr. Jos. Lief, Jos. Lowe, Rudolph Schricber. Morris Schaeffer, Ben Seidenstein. A. S. Shimm. Samuel Spring. Israel Streger, Dr. William I. Wallach. Samuel Weinstein, Sidney Worms. Max J. Finkelstein, Montefiore Selig, Mrs. H. Berkowitz, Mrs. Florence Ehrich. Mrs. Otto Glogau. Mrs. Hiram J. Hays, Mrs. M. J. Lachenbruch, Miss Sophie Smith, and Miss Helen Talner.
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