October 8 was designated as the day of protest against the interference with Jewish worshippers at the Wailing Wall. in a proclamation issued by the Mizrachi Orthodox Zionist Organization of Poland, containing a call to pious Jews to gather at protest meetings on that day.
The meetings are to be held in synagogues throughout the Republic of Poland with the participation of the rabbis and community leaders.
The Executive Committee of the Zionist Organization of Poland also announced that it will summon its members to participate in protest meetings. At a conference of Zionist students of Eastern Galicia held today in Lemberg a resolution of protest against the incident at the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem was unanimously adopted.
A cabled protest against the action of the Jerusalem police at the Wailing Wall on Yom Kippur was despatched to Acting High Commissioner of Palestine, H. C. Luke, by Rabbi Israel Rosenberg, president of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the United States and Canada. The cablegram read:
“We learned with profound sorrow about the scandalous disturbance at the Western Wall on the Day of Atonement by the Jerusalem police, and we protest emphatically against such outrageous offenses to the Jews at our most sacred place. We demand that the Palestine Government and the Mandatory Power take proper steps to secure the Jews’ rights over the space before the Western Wall.”
Dr. Nathan Krass of Temple Emanu-El, New York, delivered the consecration oration at the presentation of the Warner Memorial Gymnasium, the gift of Harry M., Albert, Jack L. and Dave Warner, to the Hebrew Orphan Asylum of New York. The Bulletin regrets the omission from yesterday’s issue of the report of Dr. Krass’s address, dedicating the new building.
A fund to erect a synagogue in Dillon, S. C., where there is a small Jewish community, was launched at the recent holiday services held in the home of Max Fass, president of the Theresa Witconer Fass Congregation. A site for the temple was donated by I. Rlum.
The Jews of Dillon have always been liberal contributors to local church building funds and it is expected that Dillon eitizens, inrespective of denomination, will contribute to the temple fund.
Rabbi Jacob S. Rousin of Charleston. S.C. visits the Dillon congregation once a month.
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