Will Seek to Raise $1,000,000 for Deborah Sanitorium

(Jewish Daily Bulletin)

A decision to conduct a drive for $1,000,000, the sum necessary to erect a new sanitorium building at Lake Hopatcong, N. J. on a 100 acre site donated by Milton Unger of Newark, was taken at the annual conference of the Deborah Consumptive Relief Society, held at Temple B’nai Abraham yesterday.

It was announced that $160,000 was already available for the new building and that the construction work would be started immediately.

Two hundred and twenty delegates from the eastern states were present at the three sessions of the conference. Joseph Barondess, chairman of the Board of Directors, and Louis C. Schwartz, Commissioner of Education of the City of Newark were the principal speakers. Mrs. D. Shapiro, president, submitted a report of the work done by the society during the past year.

Louis A. Fast of Newark, Philip Shatned and Abraham Berkovitch of Philadelphia, presided over the three sessions. An advisory committee of sixty members was elected at the conclusion of the conference.

I.O.B.B. WILL OBSERVE ‘HILLEL NIGHT’ IN NEW YORK APRIL 15

Dr. Edward Chauncey Baldwin, professor of English literature at the University of Illinois, will be one of the principal speakers at the Hotel Astor on Sunday evening, April 15th, when the Independent Order B’nai Brith will observe “Hillel night.” Alfred M. Cohen, of Cincinnati, president of the I.O.B.B., and Rabbi Nathan Krass, of Temple Emanu-El, will also speak.

The purpose of “Hillel Night,” Maurice P. Davidson, chairman of the B’nai Brith Wider League Committee in New York, declared, is to interest the Jews of this city in the Hillel Foundations which the Wider Scope Committee has established at the universities of Michigan, Illinois, Ohio, Wisconsin and California. The foundations were brought into being through the suggestion of Prof. Baldwin, Mr. Davidson said.

Appeals for support of the work of the Hillel Foundation were made before their congregations by Rabbi Maurice H. Harris, of Temple Israel, and Rabbi Leo Jung, president of the Rabbinical Council of the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America and rabbi of the Jewish Center on West 86th street.

Under the auspices of the New York Wider Scope Committee a campaign will be launched shortly to raise $500,000 as New York’s quota towards the $2,000,000 fund which the Order is seeking to raise.