(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
The votes of the Club of Jewish Deputies in the Polish parliament were cast against the ratification of a Polish-Roumanian commercial treaty because of the mistreatment of the Jews in Roumania.
The Senate yesterday ratified the text of the commercial treaty between Poland and Roumania. Senator Michael Ringel on behalf of the Club declared that it voted against the ratificaion because of Roumania’s mistreatment of the Jews.
The “Gazeta Warszawska,” the organ of the anti-Semitic National Democratic Party, published an editorial today attacking the new Polish Conservative Party formed under the leadership of Polish noblemen, headed by Prince Janusz Radziwill.
“The Jews are satisfied with the new party for economic reasons and because the nobility, which is opposed to the national democracy, trades with the Jews,” the paper declares. “The satisfaction of the Jews, however, is premature,” the paper states. “The influence of the nobility is no longer effective.”
A check for the sum of $160,000, a bequest from Harry A. Jeitles, who died in Atlantic City a year ago, was received by the Philadelphia Federation of Jewish Charities.
When M. Jeitles died, he bequeathed a considerable portion of his estate to the Federation of Jewish Charities. At that time it was thought the amount would not exceed $100,000. An inventory of the estate showed that the amount for the Federation, according to the terms of the will is close to $200,000. Of this amount, a check in the amount of $160,000 was received last week.
It is planned by the Federation to devote a portion of this money to establishing a memorial to Mrs. Deborah Jeitles, who participated ### philanthropic activities in Philadelphia.
The bequest is one of the largest ever received by the Federation.
With the slogan, “Who is for God come forward unto Me”, the United Synagogue of America will begin its drive for 10,000 new members in New York City and the metropolitan area with special services in synagogues in every campaign district.
These services, which are called “services of rededication and consecration” will be participated in by nearly a thousand men and women who have enlisted as workers in the drive. Most of them will be held on the night of December 1st.
BREVITIES
Bernhard Lichtenstein, sole owner of Lichtenstein Brothers, a leaf tobacco firm that has been at 117 Maiden Lane, New York City for fifty one years, died in Mt. Sinai Hospital in his seventy-seventh year. Mr. Lichtenstein was the oldest member of the Leaf Tobacco Board of Trade.
He was a native of Germany and came to this country in 1871. Four years later he established the business at Maiden Lane.
Among the contributions announced by the United Hospital Fund were $1,000 from Mrs. Felix M. Warburg, $250 from Robert J. F. Schwarzenbach, Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Stern, $1,000, and C. Altschul, $250.
The highest price ever paid for a picture in an auction room, $388,500, was paid in the sale of the late Lord Michelham’s collection in London. Sir Thomas Lawrence’s portrait of Miss Mary Moulton Barrett, known as “Pinkie,” was acquired by Sir Joseph Duveeu for that figure after two minutes’ bidding.
Thanksgiving Day services throughout New York City were made notable in many instances by the removal of interdenominational lines and joint services held by Jews and non-Jews.
The congregation of the Riverdale Synagogue joined with the congregations of Grace Methodist and the West End Presbyterian Churches, of New York City under the auspices of America’s Good-Will Union in a Thanksgiving service in the Presbyterian church, 105th Street and Amsterdam Avenue. Rabbi Edward Lissman of the Riverdale Synagogue preached on “The Spirit of Gratefulness.”
“It is a most remarkable event in the history of the City of New York,” he said, “to find that under the auspices of America’s Good-Will Union three congregations of different beliefs can unite in a laudable and pious attitude to tender gratitude to God for the benefactions He has given to the people of a great democracy in the year of 1926.
“What a significant fact it is that the members of different religions can come to a sacred edifice of worship, to pour out their feelings of gratefulness and demonstrate thereby that the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man are thoroughly exemplified by precept and example, and when the devotions are over can leave the sanctuary better Presbyterians, better Methodists and better Jews,” Rabbi Lissman declared.
An interdenominational community service, in Carnegie Hall, was attended by more than two thousand persons. The speakers were Dr. Alexander Meikiejohn, former President of Amherst and now Professor at the University of Wisconsin; Rabbi Maurice H. Harris, of Temple Israel; Dr. Frank Oliver Hall, of the Church of the Divine Paternity; Dr. John Haynes Holmes, of the Community Church, and Rabbi Jonah B. Wise, of the Central Synagogue.
The Baltimore Hebrew Congregation, the Har Sinai and the Oheb Shalom congregations, the only three reform congregations in Baltimore, Md., held a Union Thanksgiving service Thanksgiving Day morning at the Har Sinai Temple. Rabbi Marvin Nathan, of Philadelphia, delivered the sermon.
For the first time in the history of Rochester, N. Y., the Jewish congregations united in a Thanksgiving service. The congregation of Temple Berith Kodesh met on Thursday morning in Temple Beth-el. Rabbis Jacob S. Minkin, Horace J. Wolf and Philip S. Bernstein spoke at the joint service.
Among the institutions benefiting from the will of the late Judge Gottfried Krueger of Newark, N. J., are the Beth Israel Hospital and the Hebrew Orphan Asylum, both of that city. The former institution was willed $2,000 and the latter $1,000. Judge Krueger was a Protestant.
Dr. Samuel J. Druskin, President of the Eastern Medical Society, died on Tuesday at his residence in New York City.
Dr. Druskin was a specialist in obstetrics, and in that capacity was affiliated with several hospitals, among them the Sydenham, Jewish Memorial, Beth-David and Jewish Maternity. He graduated from the Cornell Medical School in 1902 and was a member of the American Medical Association and the Academy of Medicine.
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