Plans for San Francisco’s 1929 campaign for the Jewish National Welfare Fund will be formulated at a meeting of the organization’s board of directors which has been called for Monday, May 6, in the Mills Building headquarters of the Fund.
At this meeting officers of the Fund organization for the current year will be elected.
According to officers of the organization, a total of $206,247.25 has been disbursed to date to constituent agencies of the Jewish National Welfare Fund. It is announced that among the new constituents of the Fund are the American Society for Jewish Farm Settlements in Russia, Inc., and the Jewish Consumptive Relief Society of Denver.
The Board of Rabbis of Northern California, at its last meeting, voted to support the general opposition that is being voiced throughout the country against blue laws.
This action was taken when a delegation from the Seventh Day Adventist Church appeared before the board and explained that it was organizing opposition throughout the United States against blue laws such as are being proposed in Washington, D. C.
Men and women prominent in local Jewish activities are among the 36 communal leaders recently elected directors of the San Francisco Community Chest.
Among those are Sidney M. Ehrman, Mrs. Tadini Bacigalupi, Mrs. Milton H. Esberg, Mortimer Fleishhacker, Morgan A. Gunst, Samuel Kahn, F. L. Lipman and Miss Hilda Steinhart.
The San Francisco Big Brother Society has been organized here.
The society was formed at a recent conference of local workers, meeting with representatives of practically every Jewish organization and congregation in the city.
The officers elected are: Gustave Schwartz, president; L. N. Riffin, vice-president; Manuel P. Ostrow, executive director.
Ernest Bloch’s “America” will be conducted by it scomposer for the first time this Summer at the symphony concerts being arranged in California.
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