(Jewish Daily Bulletin)
The $2,000,000 campaign of the B’nai Brith Wider Scope Committee was launched in the Middle West at a banquet held Sunday night at the Jefferson Hotel.
Despite miserable weather conditions and impassible roads over 200 attended the banquet. Subscriptions of $21,000 and pledges of $7,000 were announced.
Rabbi Louis L. Mann, State Chairman for Illinois, delivered the principal address. Rabbi Benjamin Frankel, executive director of the Hillel Foundation, presided.
A Hebrew school for the accommodation of 1,500 boys and girls, to be erected on Crown Street, between New York and Nostrand Avenues in Brooklyn, N. Y., at a cost approximately $200,000, is planned by members of the Talmud Torah of Crown Heights.
A campaign to raise the funds required was officially opened with a banquet at the Brooklyn Jewish Center. Judge Algernon I. Nova, Dr. Israel H. Levinthal, Rabbi Aaron D. Burack, Rabbi Daniel Shapiro, and Samuel Rottenberg were the speakers.
On January 9th the United Jewish Aid Societies of Brooklyn will dedicate its building which it has acquired for the work of the organization. A special fund of $40,000 was raised under the directorship of Ralph Jonas and David M. Kahn and the Laura Batterman Memorial Building.
Congressman Emanuel Celler, president of the Aid Society, yesterday announced that the building is now being completely renovated and remodelled to suit the requirements of the Aid Society.
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