Installation of the Rev. Nathan Drazin to the rabbinical ranks of Baltimore and the visit here of Mrs. Archibald Silverman featured the communal activities during the past week.
Rabbi Drazin became the spiritual leader of the Shaarei Tfiloh Congregation at formal ceremonies last Sunday afternoon which were followed by a banquet.
At the installation addresses were delivered by Dr. Bernard Revel, president of the Yeshiva College, New York; Rabbi Joseph H. Look stein, New York; Samuel L. Sar, registrar of the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, of which Rabbi Drazin is a graduate, and Rabbi Samuel Levy, of Perth Amboy, N. J.
Rabbi Drazin has the bachelor of science and master of arts degrees at Columbia University, his major subjects being in the realm of psychology, with emphasis in the graduate fields of education and philosophy. Rabbi William Drazin is his brother.
1,000 HEAR MRS. SILVERMAN
About 1,000 persons, the maority affiliated with some Zionist organization, gathered at the Beth Tfiloh Synagogue last Monday evening to bear Mrs. Silverman speak on conditions in Palestine, where she expects to return January 31.
The meeting was sponsored jointly by the senior and junior hadassah chapters of Baltimore, the Baltimore Zionist District and the Herzlian Zionist Youth League. Reports were submitted on the Zionist campaign for new members now being carried on here. The figures, officials said, indicated “splendid” progress.
Citing the increase in Palestine’s population from about 60,000 before the World War to about 270,000 at present, Mrs. Silverman painted an optimistic picture of the land, given new impetus by the influx of German Jews, and facing anything but an unemployment problem.
A week’s campaign to collect $5,000 for Jewish pioneers and workingmen’s organizations in Palestine was opened last Sunday by a joint committee of the United Labor party, the Women’s Pioneer Organization, the Jewish Workers’ Allianze branches, the Gordonia Organization, the Queen Esther Lodge and the Hashomer Zion Society.
A series of mass meetings were held. A banquet Sunday night, with Joseph Sprinzak, of Palestine, as the principal speaker, brought the campaign to a close.
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