Members in constituent Zionist groups throughout the nation are needed even more than money in order to hasten the rebuilding of Palestine as a Jewish homeland, former Senator Nathan Straus, Jr. declared here last night. He addressed an audience of nearly three hundred, meeting under the auspices of the Newark Zionist District, in the social center auditorium of Temple B’nai Abraham.
Mr. Straus, the son of the late distinguished philanthropist and chairman of the American Palestine Campaign for Greater New York, asserted that an enrollment of 100,000 members in the Zionist districts would be a great impetus toward Jewish development of Palestine.
He further declared that the future of Judaism insofar as the growing youth of this country is concerned, lay, in his opinion, in the spread of the Zionist ideal.
Morris Margulies, secretary of the Zionist Organization of America, also spoke of the need for increasing affiliated membership.
Rabbi Julius Silberfeld, in a brief talk, lauded the guest speaker “as perpetuating the mission of Nathan Straus—leadership in the rebuilding of Palestine.”
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