Delegates of nine national youth organizations yesterday attended a conference sponsored by the Metropolitan Association of Jewish Center Workers in the Young Men’s Hebrew Association building, Lexington evnue and Ninety-second streed, to formulate plans to establish Jewish centers as “the focal point” for comunal activities of yo# people’s groups. The ultimate objective of the plans is the coordination into a centralized body these organizations and the “adoption of their ideology inot the community center programs.”
Delegates outlined the work now being done by their respective organizations. Miriam R. T. Ephriam, president, said that coordination plans will be referred to the wider scope committee of which Matilda Drevfus is chairman. A meeting of the committee will be held to discuss means of overcoming obstacles which stand in the way of the coordination program.
WILL CLEAR OBSTACLES
The next regular meeting of the Association will be held on March 2 at which time the wider scope committee will make its report.
Yesterday’s meeting was in the nature of a routine report of the structure of the various national and metropolitan youth organizations, but Miss Ephriam, also a member of the staff of the Central Jewish Institute, explained that the reason for airing the views of delegates is to determine whether differnces in policy and purpose cannot be ironed out and a united front build up.
Organization represented were the National Council of Jewish Juniors, by Miss Meyeroviyz, Young Israel, Julius Cohen; League of Jewish Youth, Judah Lapson; Young Judea, Mrs. A. H. Vixman; Junior Hadassah, Mrs. S. Schwartz Nardi; Masada, Isaac Imber; Avukah, Al Kohanski, Young Circle League, J. Z. Afros and the Youth Division of the American Jewish Congress E. H. Sonnenreich; the United Staes Maccabi Association, David White and the Poale Zion Zeire Zion.
ANOTHER NAZI PROBE
Mr. Sonnenreich told the delegates that the American Jewish Congress youth division has been conducting as investingation into Nazi propaganda in this country. He said that when the results are made known ther will be “sensational hair raising.” The work now in progress by Representative Samuel Dickstein, of the House Immigration Committee, he said, is “well intentioned but premature.”
Mr. Afros in his report complained that on one occasion the Workmen’s Circle had been denied the use of a community center because it was charged with “radical activities.” He admitted that the sympathy of the organization lies with the Socialist party but disclaimed its connection with political actvities.
Later Herman Jacobs, club director of the Y. M. H. A., repudiated the statement, saying that no community center in the city would deny the use of its facilities to the Young Circle League or any of its affiliates on grounds of so-called “radical activities.”
Other speakers enumerted their work among high school students encouraging them in the study of Hebrew; the publication of various young people’s periodicals; the establishment of speakers’ bureaus; encouraing non-Jewish speakers and writers to discuss Jewish topics for the benefit of non-Jewish readers and listeners; support of the anti-Nazi boycott in the United States; the spread of Jewish culture and education; encouragemnet of Zionist activities among young people and spread of Jewish cultural interests among thousands of Jewish boys and girls who otherise have no direct contact with Jewish affairs.
DR. RAISIN OPENS COURSE IN HEBREW LITERATURE HERE
Dr. Max Raisin, author and leader of Congregation B’nai Jeshurun of Patterson, N. J., formally opened his coures in Hebrew Literature at the School of the Jewish Woman, 251 West 100th street, with a lecture on “The Beginnings of the Haskalah.”
He said that Haskalah, enlightenment, is a movemet which aims at bringing light and enlighenment into the livese of the Jew. “While living in Europe for 1,800 years the Jews regarded themselves and were a need for enlightenment,” he said.
HEART ATTACK KILLS WILLIAM WALLACE KER
William Wallace Ker, one of the poineers in the establishment of laboratory courses in electricity for high school students, died suddenly of a heart attack at his home, 626 Pavonia avenue, Jersey City, early Thursday morning.
Mr. Ker, a teacher of physics and electricity at the Hebrew Technical Institute, was a lecturer on electricity in the Public Scholl Evening Lecture Course for Adults for several years. Mr. Ker, who was 67 years old at the time of his death, came to the Hebrew Technical Institute when he was19 and taught there ever since. Burial took place yesterday at the Machpelah cemetery. He is survived by a daughter, Florence, and a son, Montgonery.
FEDERATION RECEIVES $5,000 FROM WILL
The Federation for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies received $5,000 from the estate of the late Herbert R. Limburg, vice-president of the New York County Lawyers Association, which was appraised yesterday at the office of the State Transfer Tax Department at $311,604 gross and $231,118 net.
Mr. Limburg, who died in Berlin on August 15, 1932, left $10,000 each to his daughters Joan and Rhoda, both of 730 Park avenue. His widow, Mrs. Irma Limburg, also of 730 Park avenue, is executrix and residuary legatee.
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