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...Sunday afternoon, April 29, at 3 o'clock, the Harvard Zionist Society will sponsor a reception and tea at the Commander Hotel on Garden Street, at which Rabbi Stephen S. Wise of New York City and Professor Kirsopp Lake will be the speakers. Rabbi Wise will discuss the general Zionistic situation, and Professor Lake will speak on some aspects of the Hebrew University in Palestine...
...Zionist Organization of America, whose purpose is to secure the rehabilitation of Palestine by Jews, was jarred last week by the resignation of one of the members of its Administrative and Executive Committee...
This was Dr. Stephen Samuel Wise, Rabbi of the Free Synagogue (Manhattan) and ardent Zionist, who had had a disagreement with British Dr. Chaim Weizmann, president of the World Zionist Organization. The cause of the crack was to be found, at least partially, in Dr. Wise's eagerness to hurry the establishment of the Jewish Colony in Palestine as opposed to Dr. Weizmann's desire for less precipitous procedure. Dr. Weizmann is now in the U. S. to aid in securing...
Nathan Straus, philanthropist, Zionist, last half of Abraham & Straus (famed Brooklyn department store), became 80 years old, in Mamaroneck, N. Y. He gave another $100,000 for reconstruction work in Palestine (making a total of $1,500,000). His wife lit a candle on a monster birthday cake and kissed him. Letters of congratulation showered upon him from the clergy, from financiers, from almost all State governors, from the Cabinet, from President Coolidge, who remarked how well beloved is Nathan Straus and said: "Such a reward is beyond price." Mr. Straus repeated his motto: "Give while you live...
...said two Jewish scientists connected with Hebrew University, Jerusalem-Dr. Fritz Bodenheimer of the Zionist Experimental Agricultural Station and Oskar Theodor of the University's microbiological institute. They had spent July in the Sinai Desert; had found, as had the old marching Israelites, the white pellets of manna on the ground under tamarisk shrubs, varying in size from a pinhead to a pea. They looked closer and saw the little pills forming as yellow, sulphur-like drops on the tamarisk twigs. Other scientists, before, had noted that phenomenon and had decided that the drops oozed from tiny punctures...