Ica to Take More Active Part in Russian Jewish Colonization Work

(Jewish Telegraphic Agency Mail Service)

The Council of Administration of the Jewish Colonization Association decided at its meeting held here this week to take a more active part in the new Jewish colonization work in Russia. Up to now, the Ica had limited its assistance at the outset to the establishment of only 300 families and increasing the figure a year later to 1,000 families.

The Ica will now considerably increase the measure of its assistance to the Jewish families who desire to establish themselves by its aid on the land in Russia. The method of the Ica is to provide the new settlers with agricultural implements and live stock, and to pay the cost of the planting of vineyards, the installation of cheesemaking machinery, and the construction of school buildings and buildings for the use of the cooperatives.

A number of the new Jewish settlers will probably be established by the Ica in the districts of Mariupol and Zaporoszje, where the Ica settled its first colonists. Other settlers will be settled in various districts in the Ukraine.

M. Mirkin, a member of the Board of Directors of the Ica, has just left for Russia, where after concluding an agreement with the authorities he will proceed with the work of settling the new colonists.

RABBINCAL ASSEMBLY WILL MEET ON JULY 5

The twenty-seventh annual convention of the Rabbinical Assembly of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America will be held July 5 to 7, at the Clarendon-Brunswick Hotel, Asbury Park. N. J.

Doctor Cyrus Adler, President of the Jewish Theological Seminary, will read a paper on “The Training of the Rabbi in the Seminary and After.” Professor Louis Ginzberg will discuss the “Basic Conception of Jewish Civil Law,” and Professor Israel Davidson will tell of religious and educational conditions in Palestine as he saw them on his visit there as lecturer at the Hebrew University.

Dr. Julius Greenstone will lead a round-table discussion on the “Place of Religion in Jewish Education.” A paper on the possibility of adapting Jewish civil law to modern Palestine by Norman Bentwich, the Attorney General of Palestine, will be read.

Among others who will read papers are Professor Mordecal M. Kaplan, Rabbi Israel Goldstein of Congregation B’nai Jeshurun, New York, Dr. Jacob Kohn of Congregation Ansche Hesed of New York, and Rabbi Louis Levitsky, of Wilkes-Barre, Pa. The officers of the Rabbinical Assembly are: Rabbi Max Drob. President; Dr. Louis Finkelstein, Vice-President; Rabbi Max Arizt, Treasurer, and Rabbis Abraham Burstein and Max Davidson, Secretaries.

Rabbi Abraham L. Feinberg of Temple Israel, New York, sailed yesterday on the Homeric. Rabbi Feinberg plans to visit Palestine and Poland.