Agudas Israel Convention to Discuss Problems of Orthodox Jewry

The third annual four-day convention of the Agudas Israel of America will open here tomorrow in the B’rith Sholom Hall. World leaders of Orthodox Jewry will participate in the proceedings. Greetings will be extended to the convention by the Mayor of Baltimore, representatives of the Vead HaRobinim and outstanding Jewish organizations of the city. For the third consecutive year Rabbi Eliezer Silver will give the opening address in his capacity as national president.

Many prominent leaders of orthodox Jewry will address the convention on various subjects such as the problem of Jewish education in America, especially the traditional upbringing of the Jewish women in this country; the strengthening of the orthodox position in Palestine; the problem of the newly-created Jewish communities in all the Americas; the relief work for European Jewry; the salvation of the centuries-old centers of Jewish learning in Europe and their transplanting to the new world.

Mr. Jacob Rosenheim, world president of the Agudas Israel, who arrived recently in New York from London where he conferred with prominent statesmen, will deliver the main address, in which he will discuss the problem of post-war Europe and its relation to orthodox Jewry interests. The most important leaders of rabbinical Torah institutions in Europe, such as the Yeshivoth presidents from Poland and Lithuania, who are now residing in this country, will address this session.