American Zionists are celebrating their twenty-first annual Palestine Flower Day today.
The day, marked as an occasion for enlisting the support of the Jewish people for the land redemption program in Palestine, will be observed in New York and 400 Jewish communities throughout the country.
Twelve thousand students at The new schools, Talmud Torahs, Yiddish language schools and Sunday schools have volunteered their services for the sale of flowers to benefit the Jewish National Fund. In addition 2,000 volunteers recruited from fifteen national Jewish youth organizations will aid in the drive.
During the week-end a special committee of women volunteers, headed by Mrs. Israel Goldstein, chairman of the Jewish National Fund Committee on cooperation with Women’s Organizations, will call on Jewish leaders to present the “Zion Flower” to them.
Mrs. Samuel W. Halprin, president of Hadassah, who recently returned from Palestine, will speak at 5 p.m. this afternoon over a nation-wide hook-up of the Columbia Broadcasting System, and Palestinian songs will be presented by sixty singers of the Jewish Choral Society of the Young Men’s Hebrew Association, directed by A.W. Binder.
Another program will be presented this morning at 9:30 o’clock over Station WINS, with Rabbi Wolf Gold as guest speaker, and Jewish melodies played by Hugo Ferraro, Vladimir Heifetz and Roe Malawista.
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