The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-12-08

! the various cities they visited, between l New York and the Pacific coast. The | Central Committee has just issued a novel pocket dime savings bank. In l scribed on these little banks will be the ever reminding appeal 1.-The Jews Look to America for Help
 The initiative in raising a special fund from the Jews of America for the aIleviation of the suffering that the war would bring upon their brethren i in the war zone and in Palestine, was made by the Union of Orthodox Jew ish Congregations of America A telegram was sent to all the constitu- ent synagogues of the Union, suggest ing that collections snould be made
 during the Yom Kippur services. On Oct. l, a meeting was held which was
 attended by Rev. pr. Bernard Drach- man, president of the union, Rev. Dr.
 Philip Klein, president of the Mizrachi
 Rabbi M S. Margo1ies, president of
 the Agudas Harabonims Rabbis H.
 Pereira Mendes and Moses Hyamson
 together with the seceretaries.
 The appeal met with an imm ediate
 and Hearty response and $5,0oO was
 almost immediately sent to Austro-
 Hungary and 900 to Palestine. In
 the very beginning of the war the
 Russian armies carried fire and ord
 through GaliciA and the borders of
 Hungary, leaving behind hundreds of
 thousands of helpless Jews. The sit
 |
 Jews in that country have, largely de-
 pended upon the travelling public; and
 especially upon the American visitors
 to the Holy. Land. twill be remeIn-
 bered how difficult it was for. those
 who had gone abroad seeking rest and
 recreation. to find means to bring them
 back safely. Besides. this loss of trade
 the institutions in Palestine, of which the Jews of Europe have maintained d
 a. very large number, found them selves penniIess, through the inabil- ity of their. supporters to continue their assistance. It. will be noticed that the Central committee has re-
 c9ived and paid $67.07S. .45t to sdesig- hated .zinstituti ons in Palestine, this
 money having bean sent to it by vari- of1s contributors throughout the country for that purpose. The $4OO,OO0 collected by the Gen. traf committee has been received from 12 99 sources and entails a most vol
 luminous correspondence. NotW1th-
 standing this the expenses have been kept down vrey largely through the self sacrifice of the honorary Secre- taries, Morris Enge1man and Albert Lucas, and the Treasurer Harry FTschel,4 who have devoted almost the whole of their time to this work. Rabbi TeIteIbaum has, also rendered Invaluable assistance to the Commit tee.
 The executive officers of the com mittea are. Leon Afnaiky, chairman; Rabbis SRosenburg and Meyer Berlin,
 Vice Chairman, Harry Fischel, treas
 urer, Albert Lucas and Morris En- geIman, Secretaries and Stanley Bero is the Manager. M Much has been written of the con ditions of the Jews Europe and Asia since.lthe beginning of the war.
 Thee tales of horror thaS have reached
 us from the war zones of Central B
 rope have, vied in gruesomeness with those from Asia Minor and the Holy Land The Jews have fought bravely
 fer each of the nations that has claim ed them as subjects They are pit
 ted. against one another on all the
 baft1efieIds of Europe and Asia
 The Jews of batt1e-ridden Europe
 and Asia. look to American. Jews for E.help Contributions should be ad-
 dressed to Harry Ffsche1, Treasurer | Central Committee for the Relief of Jews Suffering, Through the War, 6S
 Park Row, New York City