The establishment of a new colony which will increase land settling opportunities for refugees in Palestine will be the objective of a conference of representatives of Zionist groups scheduled at Philadelphia on February 18 in the Benjamin Franklin Hotel.
The conference will pay special tribute to Menahem Ussishkin, veteran Zionist leader; whose seventieth birthday is being celebrated throughout the world. The proposed colony will be called Kfar Ussishkin.
Scheduled addresses will include speeches by Dr. Israel Godstein, recently elected president of the Jewish National Fund; Louis Lipsky, American member of the World Zionist Executive; Morris Rothenberg, president of the Zionist Organization of America; Rabbi Wolf Gold, president of the Mizrachi; Chaim Greenberg representing the Poale Zeire Zion and the Rev. Dr. John Haynes Holmes, of the Community Church.
Dr. Goldstein issued a statement which follows:
“This conference will initiate the Kfar Ussishkin action, a project to establish on Jewish National Fund land in Palestine a village to bear the name of our great leader, who has given fifty years of service to the cause of Palestine’s upbuilding and who will go down in Jewish history as the Redeemer of the Emek, that calley of hope whose possibilities his vision foresaw, whose acquisition, his courage made possible and whose development his enterprise stimulated.
NEW JEWISH NUCLEUS
“This tribute is world-wide, sponsored by the World Zionist Congress at Prague last summer and initiated already by Jewries of twenty countries. Even the stricken Jewry of Germany has raised the sum of $20,000 for Kfar Ussishkin. This village will be a new nucleus for Jewish labor, Jewish idealism, Jewish culture and Jewish creativeness. I am confident that out of the Philadelphia conference will come a plan for the Ussishkin tribute which will be worthy of Ussishkin and worthy of American Israel. I am hopeful also that the conference will result in a stengthening of the ranks of our workers throughout the country.
“We are engaged in an enterprise which at this particular time of emergency for German Jewry has a special place in the program of salvation for the vitims of twentieth century medievalism. Among the new influx to Palestine are many who have not the means for establishing themselves economically. Some of them are accommodated in colonies already established on Jewish National Fund land. Others will form the Jewish National Fund is now designating land for settlement. We are engaged in an enterprise which is the foundation of a great ideal whose overtones will reach out as a blessing for all humanity, for when that ideal will be realized Palestine will be a microcosm of peace between race and race, of social justice between man and man, and of high spiritual self-expression by a people who on that soil created the Book of Books.”
CHECK BOYCOTT VIOLATIONS
Joseph V. Shostax was elected captain of the Bronx Vigilance Committee at a meeting of the Bronx division of the Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League to Champion Human Rights. Other members on the committee are Joseph Mayerson, Arthur Rosen and Emanuel Keer. Miss Emma Levin was named secretary. The purpose of the Vigilance Committee is to check up alleged violations of the anti-German boycott. A meeting will be held on Thursday at Hunts Point Palace, 163 street and Southern boulevard.
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