Mizrachi Presents Views on Sabbath Observance Question in Palestine

(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

A delegation of the Mizrachi Organization, the Orthodox wing of the Zionist movement, consisting of Rabbi Ostrowski and Rabbi Landau, was received yesterday by the Attorney General of the Palestine Government.

The delegation presented its views concerning the Sabbath observance issue which has now become acute in Palestine in view of the decision of the Jaffa district court in the case of the Jewish merchant of Tel Aviv, Altschuler, that the Jewish municipality of Tel Aviv cannot enforce Sabbath observance. The court ruled that the municipal ordinance prohibiting Jewish residents of Tel Aviv to trade and work on the Sabbath was contrary to the article of the Palestine mandate guaranteeing to the inhabitants of Palestine freedom of conscience.

SICHER TO HEAD FEDERATION BUSINESS MEN’S COUNCIL

Dudley D. Sicher, president of D. E. Sicher and Company, has liquidated his business and will devote all of his time to philanthropic work. On Wednesday evening, March 21, Mr. Sicher’s entry into full-time social work as a volunteer will be marked at a dinner meeting at which Felix M. Warburg, chairman of the board of the Federation for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies, will install Mr. Sicher as chairman of the Business Men’s Council of the Federation.

As chairman of the Council, Mr. Sicher succeeds Percy S. Straus, who, together with Frederick Brown, will serve as honorary chairman. Justice Joseph M. Proskauer will preside at the dinner. Bernard F. Gimbel is chairman of the committee on arrangements and Frederick Brown is the treasurer. Dr. Julius Klein, director of the Federal Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, will be among the speakers.