The Linas Hacedek, Jewish hospital society, which was evicted from the building it had converted into a hospital at a cost of 3,000,000 Latvian roubles, was presented with a site on which to erect a new building by the Riga municipality. The hospital society after being evicted on a court order obtained by a Protestant church which had sold the building but rented the site, was unable to find suitable premises. The plot has now been given it by the municipality and a building is to be erected at a cost of $40,000. Half of this sum is to be a mortgage, the rest is hoped to be secured in Riga.
Mrs. Estelle M. Sternberger of New York City, Executive Secretary of the National Council of Jewish Women, at the invitation of Rabbi Marius Ranson, delivered the sermon at the Yom Kippur afternoon service of the American Synagogue, New York. Mrs. Sternberger is a trustee of the American Synagogue.
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