The Denver Jewish news., 1920-02-11
Special Weekly Letter
from New York
CONVENTION OF THE ROUMAN-
IAN JEWS-THREE DRIVES"
AT THE SAME TIME-SCHlFF
FOR A JEWISH HOME AND
AGAINST A, JEWISH STATE. AT
THE JEWISH THEATRE.
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Roumanian Jews in America peace
which has been declared officially by
the Convention which took place Sun
day. February LIST, in New York.
Up to now the Roumanian Jews in
America have been divided into two
camps-the Federation of Roumaninn
Jews, and the American Union of Ron
manian Jews.
The recent trend of events in Rou-
mania. and especially sale struggle
there for Jewish rights, has served
to draw both these Jewish national
organizations closer together. until
their leaders began to see what out
side observers Had long realized,
namely, that fundamentally the objeca
toward which each is wor'iing was the
same-how best to help, economically
and politically, their brothers on the
other side of the Atlantic. A short
time ago, conference of delegatts
from both organizations was hell at
Philadelphia, at which all details were
worked out for a consolidation ana
now the national convention of both
bodies has approved this consolidation.
which clears the way FOR practical and
substantial work.
Jus1 how necessary such work is
was made evident to the Convention it.
self by means of documents received
from Paris. and by the statements
made by Louis Marshall in his address
before the Convention. The Rouman-
ian government EOiight to smuggle
The treaty thru the Supreme Council.
and to circumvent the question of Jew
ish rights by repetition OF the old
Article ~ of the Berlin Treaty of
1875; and now that shc has been
obliged to yield and allow the inser-
zion in her treaty of point which
binds her to admit all her Jews to
complete citizenship without any
further formality, she fs carrying on
Il campaign in the French press which
clearly threatens the iouinanian Jews
with pOgroms, unless the treaty Is
altered. The Roumanian Jews in Rou-
mania itself are powerless TO carry
nn their own struggle against their
own government. without the help and
the influence of American Jewry. The
American peace delegates helped much
II having the new point concerning
Jewish rights inserted in the Rouman-
ian Treaty. and unless Jewish public
| opinion i'm America is laggard in the
matter. there is every outlook that
Jewish rights in Roumania will not
continue to be dead letter.
The New York Federation of Chari-
ties is now conducting a double drive"
in addition to which the Zionist drive
Tor the Ten Million Restoration Fund
is now in full swing. Nor has New
York completed the Ten Million Dollar
Building Fund" which the Federation
of Jewish Charities wants in order
to erect new buildings and reconstruct
the present homes of many Jewish i'll
stitutions which are now in bad condi-
ton In Brooklyn, a new drive has
started for million dollars needed
for local charitable institutions.
Brooklyn is n borough of New York
and considers itself politically part
of Greater New York. but the New
York Charities Federation does not
support Brooklyn institutions; and be-
sides, Brooklyn has n considerable
number of Jewish philanthropists, and
il is not more than just that they
tt,,f
The Zionist Organization gave
banquet in honor of Secretary of the
Navy Daniels, who is member of dhc
Advisory Board of the Ten Million Dol
lar Fund
He praised the Jews as citizens
;rophecied big future for them in
Palestine and expressed disapproval OF
the persecution of the Reds. etc. Jacob
Schiff, al the same banquet, took care
to assert that the Jews must create
Homeland in Palestine, but not II
nation" In other words, that means
that Jews must remain always under
the sovereignty of England, rather
than to seek to have their own political
administration there. In another place,
Tammany Hall Jewish judge poured
fire and birthstone on the Jews of the
East Side, declaring tnat they were
an anti-American element destruc-
tive element and what not.
If it were not that prohibition is
in force, we should not feel impelled
to wonder at the worthy judge; but
now, when people are getting sober.
when they are even waking from their
Red-intoxication, such assertions on