The participation of German non-Zionists in the extended Jewish Agency for Palestine may come up for discussion and decision at the fifth annual session of the Federation of Jewish Communities in Prussia which opened here yesterday. Heinrich Stern, leader of German Liberal Jews, is presiding over the sessions.
Kammergerichtsrat Wolff submitted a draft of a bill on Jewish rights similar to the one prepared by the National Federation of German Jews and recommended its adoption for submission to the authorities. He also recommended the issuance of a one million mark loan for the support of the small communities and the establishment of institutes for the training of Jewish religious teachers.
Georg Kareski, newly elected president of the Berlin Kehillah, reported on this year’s budget of the Kehillah, which will involve an expenditure of over one million marks.
During the general discussion which developed at the first session, the Liberal leader Lilienthal objected to the inclusion in the budget of an item for the support of Chaluzim, Palestine pioneers. Political questions ought to be eliminated, he stated.
The establishment by German Jewry of a body similar to the Joint Foreign Committee of Anglo-Jewry was advocated by Kurt Blumenfeld, Zionist.
The meeting then discussed the proposal that the Prussian Federation of Communities be recognized by the government as a public legal body. Representatives of the People’s Party objected, during the discussion, to the demand of government experts that the right of franchise within the Federation be given only to German Jews. Dr. Ismar Freund explained later that the government had finally withdrawn this demand.
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