The government ordinances prohibiting Jews from travelling in the interior of Turkey have been abolished, reports in the Turkish press state today.
Consolidating into one body under the name of the Congregation of Beth-El. members of the Jewish Center of Long Isand City and the First Hebrew School of Astoria will open a drive to erect a synagogue.
The building, it is estimated will cost $250,000. Ground will be broken in November, and it is expected that the structure will be completed early next year.
Benjamin Moss is president of the new congregation: Louis Sneider, vice-president: H. Levitt, secretary, and F. Klein, treasurer.
The will of Rabbi Rudolph Grossman, for thirty years rabbi of the Congregation Rodeph Sholom, who died last Friday, was filed for probate in the Surrogate’s Court. The will leaves the bulk of his $5,000 estate to his widow.
Dr. Grossman left his library to his congregation, with instructions that it be put to the best possible use, perhaps as a gift to some college or Jewish library. The will provides that Mrs. Grossman give certain books to each of their three daughters before the library is turned over to the Rodeph Sholom Congregation.
Isidore Ziferstein, one of the nine winners of the Pulitzer scholarships to Columbia, ranked highest in both the college entrance examinations and the intelligence test given to candidates for admission to Columbia University, making 90.67 per cent in the examinations and 108 in the psychological test. He is eighteen years old and has been in America seven years, following his father here from the Ukraine In 1916.
Three of the scholarship winners are foreign born. Oscar Keller was born in Eperjes, Hungary, in 1905, and came here four years ago with a record of scholarships won in his native land. He rated $2.9 percent in examination and scored $7 in intelligence.
The third of the foreign born winners was Leslie D. Taggart who was born in Glasgow, Scotland.
The scholarships, established in 1889 by the late Joseph Pulitzer, carry an annual stipend of $250 and free tuition in Columbia University or in the School of Mines. Engineering and Chemistry Architecture or Journalism of the university.
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