With 400 delegates and guests from more than thirty Jewish communities attending, the Seaboard Zionist Region today brought to a close its two-day thirteenth annual convention here.
At the opening session yesterday the delegates voted to raise ### proximately $50,000 in Zone 3 for the Jewish National Fund’s campaign of Palestine land redemption.
In the keynote message to the conference, Rabbi Edward I. Israel of Baltimore, Md., who presided, declared that the Jewish National Fund is “the supreme answer” to the dangers now besetting Palestine. Those dangers were defined by Rabbi Israel as “the increasing dominance of certain enormous Palestine interests by foreign capital and the acquiring of land for speculative purposes.”
Other speakers at the convention’s opening were Mrs. Edward Jacob, national president of Hadassah, and Milton Taylor of Masada. Maurice Margulies, national Zionist secretary, spoke on the forth coming Zionist Congress. Rabbi Irving Miller of New York reminded delegates that redemption of the land ultimately means redemption to the people of the land.
Mendel Fisher, national director of the J. N. F., was another speaker. He urged immediate action on the Fund campaign by all the communities, each of which enthusiastically accepted its quota.
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