Atlanta, Ga., will launch its campaign for the United Palestine Appeal on March 20. The campaign will last for 10 days. I. J. Paradies is chairman of the campaign.
The quota assigned to Atlanta is $40,000.
The United Palestine Appeal in Savannah, Ga., will begin on March 27. Sir Wyndham Deedes and Mrs. Archibald Silverman will speak at the opening banquet. Savannah’s quota is $15,000. Morris Bernstein is Chairman and Colonel Isaac Gazan, Co-Chairman of the campaign.
Birmingham, Ala., will launch its United Palestine Appeal on March 29. The quota is $25,000. Isaac Abelson is Chairman of the drive.
The United Palestine Appeal drive in Pensacola, Fla., will open with a banquet on March 22. Rabbi Beryl Cohen is Chairman of the drive. The quota is $10,000.
DR. DAVID LVOVITCH FETED AT LUNCHEON
Dr. David Lvovitch was the guest of honor at a reception given him by the American Ort. Dr. Henry Moscowitz presided at the reception which was held Wednesday night at the Hotel Pennsylvania.
Dr. Lvovitch described the Jewish situation in Russia which he recently visited, and explained the benefits to be derived from the plan to aid Jews in Eastern Europe by their American relatives supplying them with tools through the Ort.
Judge Jacob Pankan and Abraham Tuvim also addressed the gathering.
The western speaking tour of Mrs. Irma L. Lindheim, national president of Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America, which was interrupted in St. Paul. Minn., by the sudden death there of Mrs. Bertha Guggenheimer, of Lynchburg. Va., who was accompanying her, will be resumed according to schedule.
Mrs. Lindheim left Tuesday for the Pacific coast to continue her addresses on the United Palestine Appeal and Hadassah. Her itinerary includes Portland, Ore., San Francisco and Los Angeles, Cal., Salt Lake City, Utah, Denver and Pueblo, Col., Omaha, Neb., and Kansas City, Mo.
Rev. Ralph B. Hershon, who recently resigned as rabbi of Temple Beth Shalom, Wilmington, Del., will leave in a few days for Indianapolis, Ind., where he will become rabbi of a congregation which is completing the erection of a new temple and center, which he will dedicate early in April.
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