Dr. Cyrus Adler, President of the American Jewish Committee and Chairman of the Administrative Committee of the Jewish Agency, Mr. Felix M. Warburg, Mr. Herbert H. Lehman, Lieut. -Governor of New York State, Mr. James Marshall, son of the late Louis Marshall, Mr. Nathan Strauss, Junior, Judge Julian W. Mack, Honorary Chairman of the Zionist Organisation of America, and Rabbi Dr. Stephen S. Wise are among the signatories to the invitations which have been sent out for the National Conference to be held in New York on January 17th, to consider ways and means of continuing the Palestine reconstruction work and raising the necessary funds for 1932 (reported in the J.T.A. Bulletin of the 28th. inst.).
The joint campaign will include the Zionist Organisation of America, the non-Zionist Section of the Jewish Agency in America, the American Zionist Women’s Organisation Hadassah, and the Jewish National Fund.
The invitations have been sent to every leader of the Jewish Communities in every part of America.
Mr. Nahum Sokolov, the President of the Zionist World Organisation and the Jewish Agency, who left London on Wednesday on his way to New York, will be the chief speaker at the Conference.
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