(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
The meetings in the city council of Krementchug will be conducted in Yiddish as well as in Ukrainian, according to a decision of the district executive committee. This rule also applies to the city councils, committees and sub-committees.
In the militia, the financial and other departments of the city government, a special Jewish sub-department is to be established, according to the decision.
The Seventeenth Annual Meeting of the Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society of America (Hias), will take place at Public School No. 62. Hester, Essex and Norfolk Streets, New York, on April 11.
Mr. John L. Bernstein, President of the Society, will report on its activities during the past year, and its plans for the coming year.
Among those to address the meeting will be Commissioner General of Immigration, Hon. Harry E. Hull, Rev. Hirsh Masliansky, the Hon. Joseph Barondess and Mr. B. C. Vladeck.
The Treasurer’s report and the report of the Membership Committee will be rendered by Mr. Harry Fischel and Mr. Albert Rosenblatt respectively.
Rabbi Louis Binstock of Charlestown, West Virginia, was elected rabbi of Temple Sinai, New Orleans, La.
Rabbi Max Heller, the present rabbi, will next March complete his forty years as head of the congregation, and will retire from active service.
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