All Cincinnati Zionist organizations are joining in preparations for welcoming the twenty-sixth annual convention of Young Judea to this city from July 6 to 9. This marks the first holding of a national convention of this organization west of the Atlantic seaboard.
Besides the local Young Judea organization, which includes twenty chapters, the following groups are cooperating: Cincinnati Hadassah, Junior Hadassah, Poale Zion, Zionist Organization local unit, Chalutzoth, Jewish National Fund, Avukah, League for Labor Palestine, Young Poale Zion, and Young Israel.
Rabbi David Polish, recent graduate of Hebrew Union College, is the convention’s general chairman.
Among those who will attend are Mrs. A. H. Vixman, executive director; David Levine, national president; Dr. Emanuel Gamoran, director of Synagogue and School Extension of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations; Rabbi Samuel Blumenfeld, director of Jewish Youth Activities in Chicago; Miss Dinah Rausen, of Chattanooga, Southern Region vice-president; Dr. Jacob Golub, director of the local Bureau of Jewish Education, and Rabbi Samuel Wohl, of the League for Labor Palestine.
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