Article on the August 1903 Meeting of the Agudas HaRabonim in Philadelphia

1903

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From the Cincinnati Enqirer, August 19, 1903, Page 3.


RABBI LESSER,
Of Cincinnati, Elected President of Orthodox Jewish Church.

Philadelphia, August 18 - Owing to the volume of business yet to be transacted by the convention of Orthodox Jewish Rabbis of America the sessions will be prolonged until to-morrow night. To-day Rabbi Shereshevsky, of Boston, introduced the question of Zionism. The matter was referred to a committee with instructions to report at the next convention.

Officers were elected to-night as follows: Rabbi A. J. G. Lesser, Cincinnati, President: Rabbi Phillip Israelite, Chelsea, Mass., Secretary: Rabbi B. Abromovtiz, New York, Treasurer. Executive Committee, Rabbis Leventhal, Philadelphia; Zarchi, Louisville; Bilber, Worcester, Mass.; Zevitz Pittsburg; Rappeport, Springfield, Mass; Ginsburg, Rochester; Rabbiner, Rabbinovitz and Haipinstein, New York. Committee on Training Jewish Children, Rabbis Satitsky, Yonkers, N.Y.; Sulzer, Banger, Me.; Shereshevsky, Boston; Israelite, Chelsea; Franklin, Buffalo.