(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
“All to the Seder” is the slogan of an appeal issued by the Minsk rabbis in opposition to the anti-Passover campaign which is now being conducted by the Jewish communists in White Russia.
The Yiddish communist daily, “Ok-tyabr”, complains that the pro-Passover campaign has even influenced the Jewish youth in White Russia, including members of the communist youth organizations. The workmen’s cooperatives in Borissoff and in Mozir are selling Matzoth in large quantities. The paper demands that the anti-Passover campaign be intensified.
“Der Stern,” Yiddish communist paper of Charkoff, reports that the condition of the Jewish artisans is growing worse. Hundreds of artisans are without work because of the increasing number of cooperatives. Immediate steps for the improvement of their condition are demanded by the paper.
Mount Sinal Hospital has under consideration the remodeling of one of its buildings to provide additional service for persons of moderate means, according to an announcement by Maurice Frankfort, actifig president at the seventy-fifth annual meeting of the institution in the Blumenthal Auditorium of the hospital.
Expenditures of the hospital, including the School of Nursing, the Social Service Department and the Ladies’ Auxiliary Society, in 1927 amounted to $1,692,272.03. Receipts included an allotment of $437,291.25 from the Federation for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies. The United Hospital Fund contributed $51,080.67, the largest sum received from this source by any general hospital. Another contribution of $45,558 was received from the City of New York. Total receipts applicable to current expenditures aggregated $1,583,545.47, leaving a deficit for the year 1927 of $106,726.56.
During 1927 the hospital cared for 12,089 patients, of whom 2,465 were in the Guggenheim private pavilion. The number of hospital days spent by patients in the institution was 192,492 and the number of consultations in the Lehman Dispensary was 200,737.
Leo Armstein, Maurice Frankfort, Hugo Blumenthal. Ernst. Rosenfeld and James Speyer were elected members of the board of trustees to fill vacancies for the term ending March 1934. The following trustees were elected to fill vacancies; Louis Abrons, for the term ending in 1930; Leonard A. Hockstader, 1931: Edwin M. Berolzheimer, 1931; and Fred H. Greenebaum, 1933.
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