The official announcement of the appointment of Dr. Isaac Max Rubinow to the post of Executive Director of the Zionist Organization of America and the United Palestine Appeal, was made yesterday.
As a result of a comprehensive program to reorganize the affairs of the Zionist Organization of America and to increase the effectiveness of the work of the United Palestine Appeal, the adinterim Zionist Administrative Committee, acting for the summer on behalf of the entire Committee of forty, offered the post of Executive Director of the Zionist Organization of America and the United Palestine Appeal to Dr. Rubinow, which offer carried with it full authority to direct the administrative affairs of both bodies, the announcement states.
Dr. Rubinow, heretofore Director of the Jewish Welfare Society of Philadelphia, will assume his duties the first week in September.
In making the announcement of Dr. Rubinow’s appointment, Morris Rothenberg, Vice-President of the Zionist Organization of America, and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the United Palestine Appeal said: “I am gratified to be able to announce that Dr. Rubinow has accepted our offer to head the administrative force of the Zionist Organization and the United Palestine Appeal During the last few years, Zionist administrative affairs have grown to such an extent that they require the continuous attention of a personality whose training and experiencec in social and administrative problems make him preeminently fit for the responsible position which he is to occupy. I have every reason to believe that the Zionists of the country, and the large body of contributors to the United Palestine Appeal will greet with favor the acceptance by Dr. Rubinow of the post which has been offered him.”
Informed by cable of Dr. Rubinow’s accepance of the post of Executive Director, Louis Lipsky, President of the Zionist. Organization of America, now in Europe, who was kept informed of negotiations with Dr. Rubinow, sent a cable to Mr. Rothenberg saying that he was highly gratified with Dr. Rubinow’s decision to accept the offer made to him.
Dr. Rubinow, commenting on his acceptance of the post said: “It was not easy for me to take this very important step which involves to a large degree the divorcing of myself from those social-economic activities to which I have given the better part of my career as a public man. I have accepted the position offered to me by the leaders of the Zionist Organization only after I had convinced myself of the possibility of doing some constructive work for the Zionist movement and for Palestine. The rebuilding of Palestine as the Jewish National Homeland has become the concern of every Jew and offers a field of activity for all those who see in the Jewish National rebirth a brighter future for the Jewish people everywhere.
“I shall never forget my obligation to Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America, for having given me the opportunity of spending four years of my life in Palestine, and thus contributing to the upbuilding of Palestine, Iconceive my present appointment as an even greater opportunity. I am sure I shall, as Executive Director, enjoy the full cooperation, not only of the governing bodies and department heads of the Zionist Organization and the United Palestine Appeal, but of all Zionists. I hope that my experience in the field of social endeavor in this and other countries will be of some value, both to the Zionist Organization and the United Palestine Appeal.”
Upon receipt of the news of Dr. Rubinow’s appointment a cable was sent to him from the Jerusalem Hadassah office staff, congratulating him.
The formation of the Sinai Community center of Glendale, California, was effected at a recent community meeting.
The Center building will be opened on September 16.
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