A quota of $30,000 for Michigan during the coming year was adopted and the state was organized into a special region of the national body at the state conference of the Jewish National Fund here yesterday that was attended by over 300 delegates representing 90 Jewish organizations in Detroit and six other Michigan Jewish communities.
The state was organized into a special region in order to conduct fund drives and to direct a systematic educational campaign for Palestine. Of the $30,000 quota adopted, Detroit will raise $22,000. Aaron Kurland, Phillip Slomovite and Rabbi Ashinsky were chairmen of the conference, while Rabbi Ashinsky was named honorary state president of the region and Mr. Kurland, president.
Other officers chosen were Rabbi A. M. Hershman, Mrs. Ralph Davidson, Mrs. Louis Lebster, Mr. and Mrs. Max Hayman, vice-presidents; Rabbi Reuben Hurwitz, treasurer and an administrative board of 35 and a state executive committee of 75.
Resolutions adopted protested against alien registration, invited M. M. Ussishkin, head of the Jewish National Fund, to Detroit, greeted the Allied Jewish Campaign and congratulated Nahum Sokolow on his seventieth birthday. Greetings were received from Dr. Chaim Weizmann, M. M. Ussishkin and Emanuel Neuman, president of the Jewish National Fund.
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