Monday, Aug. 27, 1923
Three Jewish Assemblies
Carlsbad (in Czecho-Slovakia). The World Zionist Conference (the 13th) closed. Vigorous back-to-Palestine agitation was voted. Dr. Chaim Weizmann, after an 8 p. m.5 a. m. session, ousted the present director of activities and seated a new Executive Committee. Several New York; Zionists are now members of the Actions Committee. Having announced the collection of $4,300,000, of which $2,750,000 came from the U. S., the delegates departed from Carlsbad's wooded hills and scattered about the globe.
Vienna (Austria). The conference was opened by Austria's President-- Hainisch. It was heartily greeted by Mgr. Seipel, Catholic prelate who "saved" Austria. Why? Because the conference is spiritual, not nationalistic. Its objective is to reunite Jewry in the ancient faith, under its ancient law. " Not since Imperial Rome destroyed Jerusalem has such a conference been held."
New York. A call to assemble in New York on Oct. 7 " to consider the reinvigoration of Jewish culture and institutions in America" was issued. Better textbooks, more rabbis, are required that the next generations' Jews shall be "worthy of the blessings of this Republic." Signatures to the call included Louis Marshall, Cyrus Adler, Felix Warburg, David A. Brown, Louis Epstein, Sol Rosenbloom.