At a meeting of the Executive Committee of the Mizrachi organization of America, held in New York, Rabbi Meyer Berlin, president, reported on the achievements of the Mizrachi in Palestine in respect to religious education, work among the Jewish laborers belonging to the Mizrachi, etc. The meeting after listening to a statement of the activities of the president unanimously resolved to express its full confidence in him.
A number of resolutions were adopted dealing with various problems of the Mizrachi work, chief among them being: (1) To hasten the enteprise of opening the Mizrachi bank in Palestine: (2) to establish a special committee for securing new members and spreading the Mizrachi idea in synagogues and elsewhere; (3) to help the Mizrachi organ “Hathoar” in Jerusalem; (4) to continue the work of cooperating with the Keren Hayesod organization; (5) to demand of the National Council of the Keren Hayesod that in every colony built in Palestine with Keren Hayesod money there be built a synagogue and a “shochet” employed from the funds of the Keren Hayesod; (6) that religious instruction be included in the curriculum of schools subsidized by the Keren Hayesod.
Among those who were present at the meeting were Rabbis Leventhal, Rosenberg, Drachman, Hebert Goldstein, Inselbuch, Tatelbaum, Magnes, and a number of other Mizrachi leaders from New York and other cities.
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