Yesterday’s sessions of the 16th Mizrachi convention here at the Hotel Statler were devoted largely to the election of the various committees.
Sessions were suspended over the Sabbath and will be resumed this evening.
Rabbi Judah Levenberg of Cleveland presided. Addresses were delivered by Rabbi A. M. Ashinsky of Pittsburgh and Harry Karp, vice president of the Mizrachi Youth Movement. Max Nadler, treasurer, submitted the financial report.
Rabbi Ashinsky who was elected chairman of the Resolutions Committee stressed the duty of the Mizrachi in the Diaspora and urged the organization to prepare a curriculum for Hebrew Schools in the United States, based on the Mizrachi system in Palestine.
Mr. Nadler pointed out that the receipts of the Mizrachi appeals this year enabled the organization to cover its previous deficits.
The convention officers are Rabbi Wolf Gold, chairman; Rabbi Israel Porath, Rabbi I. Greenwald, and Isadore Epstein, president of the Mizrachi Youth Organization, vice-chairmen; S. Cohen-Margolies and Seymour M. Zambrowsky, executive director of the Mizrachi Youth, secretaries.
Among those who participated in the discussions were : Rabbis Saul Silber of Chicago; I. M. Kowalsky of Brooklyn; S. Sadowsky of Rochester; M. Kurtz, Rochester; Israel Porath, Cleveland; S. Zambrowsky, Syracuse; Messrs. Max Fagin of Buffalo, William Weintraub of Toronto and D. Meyers of Baltimore.
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