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Roumanian Government Party Concludes Agreement with Zionist Groups

November 22, 1928
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(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Six Zionist candidates are almost sure of election to the new Roumanian parliament as the result of an election pact concluded between the National Peasant Party, now the government party of Roumania, with the Zionist groups of Transylvania and Bukowina.

An announcement concerning the conclusion of the election pact was made today.

DR. DAVID YELLIN HERE FROM JERUSALEM

Industry in Palestine is improving, declared Dr. David Yellin, former vice-mayor of Jerusalem and president of the Hebrew Teachers’ college there on his arrival in New York on the Olympic Wednesday morning.

“There is no unemployment problem in Palestine at the present time,” Dr. Yellin stated. “On the contrary, the Zionist Organization is trying to obtain from the government new certificates of admission because there is a shortage of labor.”

“The Arab-agitation on the Wailing Wall issue,” Dr. Yellin said, “is an artificial one and is conducted mainly by a group of anti-Zionist Arab leaders. However, this group does not represent the feeling of the Moslem masses with regard to the Jewish question in Palestine.”

Dr. Yellin came to the United States for the purpose of raising funds for the completion of the building of the Hebrew Teachers College in Jerusalem.

On the Olympic was also Rabbi Judah Leib Tversky, Chassidic rabbi of Hornostapol, who was met at the pier by a number of Orthodox rabbis.

A luncheon will be tendered to Doctor and Mrs. Cyrus Adler at the Hotel Astor, New York, on Tuesday, December 11th, by the New York Branch of the Women’s League of the United Synagogue. A committee, headed by Mrs. Joseph Horowitz, President of the Women’s Club of Brooklyn Jewish Centre, is in charge of arrangements. About 1000 guests are expected to attend. Mrs. Joseph Horowitz will be chairman.

Thousands of volunteers will take part in the Fifteenth Annual Maccabean Day which has been set for Sunday, December 9, according to an announcement issued by Isaac H. Rubin. Secretary of the Jewish National Fund.

The day is known as Maccabean Day because it occurs during the festival of Chanukah.

During the past fourteen years, Maccabean Day has constituted a source of income for the Jewish National Fund. The slogan for the December 9 occasion is, “How Can There be A Jewish Homeland without Land?”

The quota for New Jersey Jewry in the $500,000 drive of the United Synagogue of America will be $50,000. This was set at the New Jersey State Conference of the United Synagogue, held in Newark.

The committee is headed by Jacob Fabian, Paterson, honorary chairman; Rabbi Charles I. Hoffman, Newark, chairman.

Personal expenditures by Attorney General Albert Ottinger in his campaign on the Republican ticket for Governor amounted to $10,000, he reported to the Secretary of State at Albany, Mr. Ottinger said ##

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