Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-06-28
D RETURN TO
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 sacred mission of securing the re ua of the Jews to the Holy Land a,
 object, nearly POO delgates gath ksy gre today to attend the tenth an. Il congress of the American Fed ti6n of Zionists. The day was de ted to religious services and an ad. kss by the president, Harry Fried Rald of Baltimore. The Rev. Dr
 onon Schecter of New York, the Y. Dr. H. P. Mendos af New York
 Rev Dr. Joseph Friedlander o Rumont, Tex, and other distinguish.
 Hebrew clergymen participated in opening exercises.
 Tomorrow will be spent as a day o!
 1, and the real business of the con- htion will begin on Sunday, with ] reading of reports by President edenWald and Secretary Magnus 6 the reports of committees. A ban. et will be rendered the visitors on )nday evening and the congress will tend to Wednesday evening, whe ! [cers for the ensuing year will be |cted It is expected that both the fsident and secretary will be re- he'd.
 tany important problems confront the Zionists of the country are up consideration and the session is H yto be the most important in it's
 ever held. It is expected that
 Ngress will take some action 9ng to the presentation of resOlu- ps to the next International Zion Convention, to be held at The Hague e ill August. The Hague was select las the gathering place for the Zion |hosts in the hope of eXerting inau- ce on the treatment of the Jewish eston by the peace congress. The eston of Jewish nationalism will presented before the peace con ess in such manner as to bring lne expression of opinion from the legates.
 A considerable portion of the time the present convention will be given to questions of organization and me action will likely be taken in ply to the attacks that have recently en made by reform Jewish rabbis the Zionist movement. These diff 'ences of opinion were recently ought to a climax by the enforced 'lgnation of three professors from 'Drew Union College, Cincinnati, the nlnary for training reform rabbis, cause Of their Zionist sympathies. Ill addition to the delegates, hun gas Of additional Hebrews are here,
 village in the Catskills having be- NJ "a center of Jewish summer resi-
 All of the sessions of the con
 Will be held in the Hotel Fair } t, one of the largest hostelries sne mountains, with a fine auditor T. All of the delegates are lodges thls hotel and held a number of 'nierences before the opening of congress.
 The American Zionist movement had origin in New York ten years ago, federation completing it's organ 'tlon a few months before the com- 'tlon ot the international organiza- Il, which held it's first congress at Sic, with Dr. Theodore Herzi, pre- Ang a short time thereafter. Profes- Richard Gottholl of Columbia uni 'slty was the first president. Begin. lg With few loosely organized so. tles the federation has grown con ntiy and now has 300 branches, n total membership of over 12,- The federation has accomplished a at work in the upbuilding of the wish Colonial Trust company, the ancial agency by means of which
 Zionists hope eventually to ac- re homes in Palestine. The soci- has also collected immense sums the Jewish international fund, in ded for the purchase of land in the ly Land. This fund has been se- ed mainly in pennies from the Jew
 masses and now aggregates over 0,000. The larger portion of the in national fund is from Russia, where ltinual oppression has created a ong longing for a return to Pales- e.