Responding to the appeal of David A. Brown, the national chairman of the Palestine Emergency Relief Committee. Omaha Jewry forwarded the sum of $4,000 as its first installment to the relief fund. A large protest mass meeting held here last night at the Jewish Community Center was addressed by Judge Irvin Stalmaster, Rabbi Abraham Bengis and Rabbi Frederick Cohn.
A committee to collect the relief funds was named, including William Helzman, chairman; Harry Wolf, vice-chairman; Dr. Philip Sher, treasurer, and J. J. Friedman, secretary.
Ten thousand members of fifteen Jewish youth organizations in New York gathered at a mass meeting Thursday evening, at Ansche Chesed Temple, 110th Street and West End Avenue, to take steps toward the amelioration of the conditions in Palestine and to initiate a city-wide movement to include all of the Jewish youth. Addresses were delivered by Emanuel Neumann, President of the Jewish National Fund, Mrs. Frieda Silbert Ullian, Honorary President of Junior Hadassah, Dr. Israel Goldstein, President of Young Judea, Dr. Sho lom Spiegel, representing the Palestine Pioneer Youth movement, and Samuel Blumenfield, National President of Avukah, the American Student Zionist Federation.
James Waterman Wise was chairman of the meeting. Abraham Binder, leader of the Free Synagogue Choir, was in charge of the musical part of the program.
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