Twenty Jews of Mulhouse, Upper Rhine, have petitioned B’nai B’rith for a charter to found a Lodge, it was revealed here. It will be B’nai B’rith’s second group in France. The Paris Lodge is only a few months old.
S. Abravanel, president of the Paris Lodge, has written that the formation of a third lodge in Colmar is now contemplated, and of a fourth at Strassbourg, and that it is hoped that other lodges may soon be formed in the French colonies and in the countries of the protectorate.
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