A representative gathering of Jewish leaders from all parts of the country participated in the celebration here of the 50th birthday of Rabbi Meer Berlin, president of the World Mizrachi, Orthodox Zionists. Sixteen speakers, among them Rabbi Fischman, Arthur Ruppin, M. M. Ussishkin and Leib Jaffe, all praised Rabbi Berlin’s broad views and his career as a devoted leader and his firmness in defending Zionist aspirations. His name was inscribed in the Golden Book.
Greetings were received from Dr. Chaim Weizmann, Mizrachi organizations all over the world, American rabbis’ organizations, Chief Rabbi Hertz of England, yeshivas, Chief Rabbi Hayim Nahum of Egypt and the various Jewish colonies.
In New York Rabbi Berlin’s fiftieth jubilee was celebrated at the Hotel Pennsylvania by the Mizrachi Hatzair of America, the young Mizrachi. The celebration was under the chairmanship of Harry Karp, president of the Mizrachi Hatzair. Among those who spoke were Rabbi Aaron Teitelbaum, Rabbi Jacob Levinson. Dr. J. Bluestone, Emanuel Neuman, Simon Bernstein, Dr. P. Churgin and Ephraim Caplan.
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