The awarding of the 33rd annual convention of the Zionist Organization of America, beginning June 29, to Cleveland, the naming of a committee of ten to formulate a new program for Zionism in America which will take into account recent developments in Palestine as well as in the United States and the submission by Meyer W. Weisgal, secretary of the Zionist Organization of America and editor of the official Zionist organ, “New Palestine,” of his resignation from both posts to accept the editorship of the “Toronto Jewish Standard” were the announcements made at the meeting of the National Executive Committee of the Zionist Organization of America, supreme Zionist body in this country, held Sunday afternoon.
In a statement to the National Executive Committee, M. Suprasky, a member of the Jewish National Council of Palestine, declared that “the Jews of Palestine insist that there shall be a Jewish majority in the Jewish National Home.” He also urged that there should be an immigration of Jews from America to Palestine.
After the announcement of Mr. Weisgal’s resignation, the Executive Committee voted to tender him a farewell banquet in New York May 17, in recognition of his 15 years’ service to the Zionist movement in the United States.
The committee named to formulate a new program for Zionism in America as well as to adopt a new form of propaganda in this country and to plan a new form of administration for the Zionist Organization, consists of Rabbi James G. Heller, Cincinnati, chairman, Morris Rothenberg, New York; Judge Bernard Rosenblatt, New York; Deputy Police Commissioner Nelson Ruttenberg, New York; Mrs. Israel Shapiro, Baltimore; Elihu Stone, Boston; Abraham Goldtein, Hartford, Abraham Goldberg, New York; Rabbi Barnett Brickner, Cleveland, and Morris Weinberg, New York.
A report with regard to the negotiations now being carried on to restore a united front in American Zionism, as between the present Zionist administration and the Zionist faction headed by Supreme Court Justice Brandeis and Judge Julian W. Mack, which was removed from power at the last Cleveland convention of the Organization held in 1921, stated that discussions were still in progress but that nothing definite had been arrived at which would permit
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