Representative Jews of Ontario at a conference held in the Primrose Club decided to raise $100,000 as Ontario’s quota in the United Jewish Campaign. Dr. Henry Moscowitz addressed the gathering.
BREVITIES
Ten thousand orphans and crippled children from homes and hospitals of Philadelphia attended the opening performance of the Ringling Brothers-Barnum and Bailey Circus in Philadelphia, as the guests of Ellis A. Gimbel of the department store firm of Gimbel Brothers of New York and Philadelphia.
Mr. Gimbel started the custom twelve years ago, when 200 children weer taken to the circus.
Hugo Rosenberg, retired Pittsburgh manufacturer, died on Monday in New York. He was much interested in philanthropic work. He was 72 years old. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Pauline Hanauer Rosenberg, former President of the National Council of Jewish Women, and three sisters.
The building and site of Temple Emanu-El, Fifth Avenue and Forty-third Street, passed back into the hands of Benjamin Winter, real estate operator, it was learned yesterday.
The site was purchased in January by William B. Ward, head of the Ward Baking Corporation at a price reported to have been $6,500,000. Mr. Ward decided to withdraw from the deal at a loss of $450,000.
JTA has documented Jewish history in real-time for over a century. Keep our journalism strong by joining us in supporting independent, award-winning reporting.
The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.
