The B'nai B'rith magazine · 1927-06-01 · 9 (6.1927) · p. Seite 371

T N EVERY country, Jews have been among the contributors of the largest sums of money for public education. Now comes Baron Edmond De Rothschild bearing a gift of 30,000,000 francs for the establishment of a French Institute of biology, chemistry and physics. The Institute will be modeled after the Rockefeller Institute in America. A SEMINARY for the training of cantors will be the newest institution of religious education in America. The Jewish Ministers' Cantors Association of the United States and Canada, at a recent convention, decided to launch a campaign this month for $100,000 with which to build a school for synagogue singers. HP H E dismissal of New York public schools an hour earlier one day each week to permit children to receive religious instruction in the institutions of their respective faiths, has been held valid by the New York Court of Appeals. * * * D ELIGIOUS education is to be the subject of principal importance when the Central Conference of American Rabbis convenes at Cape May, N. J., this month for its annual session. Four of the country's leading rabbis will present papers on this subject. * * * jpiFTEEN rabbis will deliver lectures on Jewish subjects at universities through the country this summer, according to a plan adopted by the Board of Directors of the Jewish Chautauqua Society at a recent meeting. Twenty-four colleges will be visited by the lecturers. Social Welfare PROTECTION of Jewish emigrants from European countries is the purpose of the "Hicem," a new organization which includes* the Hias, the lea and the Emigdirekt. Their combined resources will be used to teach prospective emigrants the languages and trades of the countries to which they intend to go, and to spare them needless discomfiture and expense. A CROSS-SECTION OF JEWISH LIFE AMERICAN Jews will be asked to make further investments in the Jewish colonization movement in Russia, according to an interview with Felix Warburg, chairman of the Joint Distribution Committee, which comes via the Jewish Telegraphic Agency from Moscow. Mr. Warburg, in Moscow after a tour of the Jewish farm colonies, was so impressed by the health, happiness and productivity of the Jewish peasants, that on his return to America he . will issue an appeal for funds to carry on the work. * * * HP HE personnel of the non-partisan commission which is to make an investigation of Palestine for the Jewish Agency, was completed last month. Sir Alfred Mond, Dr. Lee K. Frankel and Felix M. Warburg were chosen to head the commission while a group of ten experts were appointed to aid them. These are Professor Elwood Mead, Professor Jacob G. Lipman, Professor Frank Adams, Knowles Ryerson, A. T. Strahorn, C. C. Henriques, Victor Mosseri, Professor Milton J. Rosenau, Dr. Charles F. Wilansky and Dr. Ernst Kahn. The commission is the result of the peaceful negotiations between American Zionists and non-Zionists wherein representatives of all wings of the nation's Jewry agreed to co-operate in, the rehabilitation of Palestine. A /TORE of a celebration than a con- ■Lvl vention was the twenty-third annual meeting of three hundred delegates representing contributors to the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society of Denver, which was held in Atlantic City late last month. The delegates rejoiced in the reports of the officers which told of the Society's marvelous work. HP WENTY-FIVE American Jews will journey to Geneva, Switzerland, this summer as delegates of the American Jewish Congress to the World Conference on Jewish Rights. The delegation will be headed by Judge Julian W. Mack. The Conference is scheduled to convene on August 18th. HPO HELP the Jews of Eastern Europe to help themselves is the purpose of a financial agency announced by the American Ort at its reconstruction dinner in New York last month. American relatives of Jewish sufferers in Europe will be asked to invest in a fund which will be lent io the foreign kin at a small rate of interest to enable them to purchase tools. 371 Foreign T IFE in Palestine 5,000 years ago has been visualized as the result of recent archaeological investigations at Tel El Nispeh, seven miles north of Jerusalem. Excavations disclosed a gigantic city wall which was built about 3,100 years ago, and pottery which showed that Palestine was inhabited 3,000 years before the Christian era. The discoveries were made by an expedition working under the direction of Professor William Bade, of the Pacific School of Religion. * # * "TOURING the recent warfare in China, the. Jewish community of Shanghai covered itself with glory. General Duncan, commander of the British defense in China, publicly expressed his "appreciation for the generous way in which the Jewish community assisted the Shanghai defense forces," and declared that "the help of the Jews, which was given often at great personal sacrifice, would never be forgotten." Many Jews were forced to emigrate because of the unrest following the warfare. *„ jk* * HPO INSURE perfect construction and equipment, the new hospital planned for the Hebrew University at Jerusalem will be built from plans submitted separately by specialists in each department of medicine. At the medical school, of which the hospital is to be the center, students will be received not only from Palestine but from surrounding countries as well. Both institutions will be non-sectarian. * * * HPHERE were only twenty Jews among the four hundred and fifty members elected to the Central Executive Committee of the People's Commissars at the recent Soviet Congress in Moscow. However, not one of the eleven members elected to the Council of People's Commissars was Jewish.