Harry Gainsley was elected president of the Minneapolis district Zionist organization. He succeeds Rabbi Albert I. Gordon. Other officers elected were Arnold Karlins, vice-president; Maurice Sher, secretary, and Benjamin Zalkind, treasurer.
Samuel Bar Asher underwent martyrdom in Neuss, Rhenish, Prussia, in the eleventh century.
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