Local Zionists will pay tribute to Menachem Ussishkin, veteran Zionist leader and world president of the Jewish National Fund, on the occasion of his seventieth birthday, at a dinner to be held Wednesday, May 2, at the Astor.
According to an announcement by Dr. Israel Goldstein, J.N.F. head in this country, the affair will conclude a city wide effort to raise the sum of $100,000 which is to be used to establish the Kfar Ussishkin, a colony in Palestine.
As a means of raising the sum, donors of seventy cents will have their names inscribed on the Ussishkin Tribute roll. The latter will include a list of founders of the colony.
Couples attending the dinner will pay $50, the price of a dunam of Palestinian land. Donors will be presented with a certificate to the effect that they have “redeemed one dunam for the Kfar Ussishkin.” The affair will take place in the grand ballroom of the Astor.
ARRANGEMENTS COMMITTEE
Plans for the dinner are under the auspices of a dinner committee head by Louis P. Rocker, banker.
Honorary chairmen include Rabbi Wolf Gold, president of Mizrachi; Mrs. Rose L. Halprin, Hadassah president; Joseph Kramer, Nasi of the Order Sons of Zion; Morris Margulies, secretary of the Zionist Organization of America; David Wertheim, secretary of the Poale Zion-Zeire Zion.
Abraham F. Wechsler is honorary treasurer and Mr. Louis Rimsky, treasurer. Dr. Goldstein also announced the acceptance of U. S. Senator Robert F. Wagner, Federal Judge Julian W. Mack, Dr. Stephen S. Wise, Mrs. Rebekah Kohut, Rev. Dr. John Haynes Holmes and Charles Edward Russell, of the invitation of the committee to serve as honorary chairmen. The Citizens Sponsors committee for the dinner is now being formed.
Governor Herbert H. Lehman and Joseph J. Baker, president of the Jewish Hospital of Brooklyn, will serve as members of the committee, of which Nelson Ruttenberg is chairman.
GUY HICKOK SPEAKS
Guy Hickok, former newspaper correspondent in Paris for a metropolitan daily, was guest speaker Friday night at Union Temple, 17 Eastern parkway, Brooklyn. He spoke on “The Present Political Situation in Europe.”
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