Preparations are being made for the fourteenth annual convention of the Mizrachi Organization of America, scheduled in this city May 12, 13 and 14. Sessions will be held in the Hotel Schenley as well as in the Adath-Jeshurum Synagogue, according to a decision reached Saturday at a joint meeting of the Dorshay-Zion Mizrachi, Adath-Jeshurum Mizrachi, and the Sisters-of-Zion Mizrachi. Announcement was also made that meals will be served for visiting delegates.
With delegates from Cleveland, Akron, New York, Detroit, and Pittsburgh present the third regional conference of the Zeire-Zion Hitachduth was held here. Problems concerning the organization in America and Canada were discussed and it was decided that the future of the organization lies in the youth of the country. A campaign will be started to recruit young men into the body.
Monroe Fruchthandler, McKees Rocks, Pa., a member of the Pittsburgh unit, has been appointed general chairman of the third annual convention of the Aleph Zadek Aleph, international junior group of the Independent Order of B’nai B’rith, to be held in this city this July. Preliminary preparations are already under way and committee heads will be appointed this week. Over 500 visitors from chapters throughout the United States and Canada as well as senior advisers will attend the sessions of the convention.
Aiming to enroll 2,000 new members, the Young Men’s and Women’s Hebrew Association of Pittsburgh has initiated a membership campaign. J. D. Wolf is general chairman of the drive which was launched with a big mass meeting at which the status of the organization and its financial and membership problems were outlined.
Fifty-four charter members have organized a Jewish Day Nursery in Pittsburgh according to announcement made at a meeting held in the Lando Theatre at which Robert Davidson. Homestead, presided, and at which President of City Council James F. Malone, Rabbi Sol B. Friedman, of Poale Zedeck Congregation, and Attorney Maurice A. Nernberg spoke. The charter has been secured and the foundations of the organization laid by Mrs. Ida M. Rabinowitz, who in 1913 founded the Jewish Home for Babies and Children. Over 100 new members have joined and preparations are being made to locate the nursery in a convenient section of the city.
Dr. I. H. Levinthal of the Brooklyn Jewish Center, will be the principal speaker at a banquet Sunday evening, April 14, which opens the twenty-fifth anniversary celebration week of the B’nai Israel Congregation, East End.
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Max Azen is general chairman of the silver jubilee week.
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