A national all-Jewish American Conference for Palestine on January 20, 1935, will culminate the three-month Zionist roll call which has just been announced by Morris Rothenberg, president of the Zionist Organization of America, in an effort to mobilize the strength and influence of American Jewry to accelerate the building of the Jewish national home in Palestine.
The roll call will attempt to register a minimum of 250,000 Jews as adherents of the movement to build a national home. Those registering will be required to pay a fee of one dollar, of which fifty cents will be used to purchase the Zionist shekel indicating affiliation with the World Zionist movement and entitling the holder to vote for delegates to the world Zionist
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