THE JEWISH CHRONICLE

NEW YORK KEHILLAH FOR
JEWISH STATE AFTER WAR.

Convention for Jewish Schools Wants
Conscripts to Observe Sabbath
and Dietary Laws--Sends
Greetings to Russia.

NEW YORK.—The Kehillah of New
York City assembled for its eighth an-
nual convention last Sunday, asserted its
faith in the speedy restoration of Pales-
tine to the Jewish nation. More than
300 delegates, representing a million
and a half Jews, cheered and sang for
the establishment of a Jewish republic
in the Holy Land.
As read by Professor Israel Fried-
lander, Chairman of the committee, a
resolution dealing with the cause of
Zionism, met with opposition from a
certain number of delegates, because
they thought it was not strong enough.
Instead of a mere expression of confi-
dence in the restoration of Palestine to
the Jewish people, they desired to make
the resolution voice a demand for a
"publicly recognized and legally secured
home in Palestine."
A controversy ensued over the phras-
ing of the resolution. Joseph Barondess,
author of the original resolution, ac-
cepted the amendment, but Professor
Friedlander opposed any change in the
document, because, he said, he thought
such. a change would make the resolu-
tion objectionable to Jews who were not
so radically inclined toward Zionism.
Ile referred to the interest that Jacob
Schiff and Louis Marshall had taken in
the convention of the Kehillah, and
urged the delegates not to alienate the
friendship of two such prominent sup-
porters of the Kehillah by passing a
resolution which might not meet with
their approval if it was worded in the
form of a political and partisan de-
mand.
The original resolution was therefore
reconsidered, amended and finally adopt-
ed in the following form:
Whereas, Our country is now at war
fighting with the democracies of the
world for the triumph of freedom and
justice and for the protection of the
rights of smaller nationalities; be it i
Resolved, That we, the delegates of
the Jewish community of .New York, in
convention assembled, affirm our faith
in the triumph of the cause for which
this country now stands, and has always
stood, and that we reaffirm our faith in
the speedy redemption of Zion. %N . e
express our full confidence that the
i allies,
United States, together with its
will use efforts toward the realization
of the hope and aspiration of the Jew-
ish people for the re-establishment of
a free and publicly recognized home-
land in Palestine.

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AT TEMPLE BETH EL
SUNDAY.

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Rabbi Nathan Krass of Brooklyn,
recognized as one of the strongest
men in the ministry of. Greater New

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York, has accepted Rabbi Franklin's
invitation to occupy the pulpit of
Temple Beth El, next Sunday morn-
ing.
Rabbi Nrass is an eloquent orator,
as well as a writer of force, He is re-
garded as a leading factor in Amer-
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to address the faculties and student
bodies of various eastern universities,
llis subject Sunday morning will
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invited to hear Rabbi Krass.

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For Jewish Education.

Rabbi J. L. Magnes, Chairman of the
convention, announced that a Campaign
Committee of from 400 to 500 persons,
with Judge Otto Rosalsky as Chairman.
would be organized by the Kehillah to
raise a fund of $250,000 for the support
of the Jewish schools in the city. Dr.
Magnes made a plea for a stronger or-
ganization among the Jewish schools,
many of which were languishing, he
said, because of the want of funds and
general indifference on the part of the
Jewish community to the cause of re-
ligious education.
Among the resolutions passed by the
Kehillah yesterday was one requesting
the Board of Education to make pro-
visions that Jewish High SchoOl boys
who were drafted for farm work should
he placed on farms where they could
observe their Sabbath and Jewish die-
tary laws. .\ resolution was passed also
urging the Jewish farmers of the State
of New York to do their utmost to de-
velop the agricultural resources of their
lands.
The Russian revolution was commem-
orated in the following resolution:
"Resolved, That this convention send
greetings to the free Russian democ-
racy. together with the hope that all
nationalities within the Russian State
may he accorded full freedom to de-
velop their national 'life."
The following were elected members
of the Executive. Committee of the
Kehillah of New York City: Isaac Al-
len, S. Benderly, L. Borgenicht, Harry
Fischel, William Fischman, S, I. Hy-
man, Jacob Kohn, David Kornblueh,
Louis Marshall, S. Nembann, S. Rotten-
berg, Leon Sanders, Jacob H. Schiff.
Joseph Silverman, I. M. Stettenheim and
Cyrus L. Sulzberger.

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RUSSIAN JEWS TO HOLD CON-
GRESS.

A cable dispatch from London to the
Yiddish daily, "Warheit," is the author-
ity for the news that a strong move-
ment is now on foot among the Jews
of Russia to organize their forces and
to secure for themselves not only indi-
vidual liberty, but also national inde-
pendence. A preliminary conference
held recently in Petrograd, in which
representatives of the various parties
and shades of thought took part, de-
cided to call a meeting of delegates of
all the Jews of Russia for the near
future. A congress committee has been

appointed and the work is progressing
satisfactorily. It is certain that the de-
mand for the restoration of Palestine
to the Jewish people will form one of
the planks in the program of the con-
gress, although the bund is opposed to
the Zionist idea.
The Poale Zion, the Socialist-Zionist
organization, held their first conference
in Moscow. Under' the old regime in
Russia the members of this party were
particularly persecuted by the police.
The first congress of the hund, the Jew-
ish Socialist Party in Russia, took up
the question of the position of the Jews
in Finland.

