178 



.1F.WS. 



were given employment, 1.900 provide*! with 



. .;::-,.' :i ,. ,--, : -,- .../, ;. 



o inUrmenta. 5,071 visit* made by nurses, 

 8.545 physicians' visits. Arnnn^: tl, 

 menu, $18,498 went in month: . *J7,- 



7U HI..H.-V pifts. $lfi.:4 transportation, $14,- 



.ihini; and fuel, $11,765 medical raa- 



i ie convention of the Order of lien ni Bttttfa. 

 ...: i| ; taiad thai it,, iv MM :x: 

 lodfw in tiio fnttd States and Germany, and 

 in the Orient. In the United States, since 1890, 

 4,709 have been initiated, 881 reinstated, 8,965 

 suspended, 1,821 withdrawn. 1,007 died. In 



. *.'.;;;.:.'.: bsj beta expended since 

 1880, of which $389378 was for homes, $814,555 



S $8.160,535 endowment, and $51,- 

 761 other charities. On Jan. 1, 1895, the lodges 

 had on hand $2,818,098. of which $1,860,195 was 

 for endowments, and $657,908 for general |>ur- 

 , . . . .,,., ,, . *.:;>,; 



expense*, $18.488. This is the largest of the 

 Jewish fra : n the r.uted States, and 



numbers about 85,000 members. 



/. College, of Philadelphia, instituted 

 A series of lectures on Jewish and biblical sub- 

 jects. The Atlanta Exposition had an in- 

 teresting exhibit ion of Oriental Jewish objects, 

 arranged by Dr. Cyrus Adler, of the Smithso- 

 nian Institution, temple Knmnu Kl, of New 

 York, celebrated its fiftieth anniversary. On 

 Thanksgiving Day union services were held in 

 lea, in which rabbis participated with 

 :an clergymen in church and synagogue. 

 At the religious congresses in Toronto and Chi- 

 cago Judaism was represented. The project of 

 establishing a Jewish university was advocated 

 at length in "The Jewish Messenger." New 

 Jewish weeklies appeared in Atlanta and San 

 Francisco. 



In In. -rat ure, Miss Josephine Lazarus's "The 

 Siiirit of Judaism," advocating the abolition of 

 all form*, and an approach in spirit to the re- 

 ligion of the founder of Christianity, free from 

 the dogmas and forms of the Church, aroused 

 considerable discussion: Mrs. Frances Hellman 

 issued a translation of Leroy Beaulieu's " Israel 

 among the Nut ions " ; Simon Wolf wrote in vin- 

 dication of the Jew as patriot and soldier : the 

 American Jewish Publication Society issued its 

 regular volumes and announced a competitive 

 prat of $1.000 for the best juvenile story ; Mrs. 

 Harriet Lieber Cohen translated Sach* 

 sodTs - Jewish Mrs. Morris Jastrow 



jmnlisned a translation of some essays by the 

 lat James DarmesU 



Turning from America to Europe, one is dis- 

 appointed at the continued unrest in Russia, ex- 

 pulsion of the Jews and restrict..,,, still 

 matter* of daily recurrence. In Rou mania 

 Jrws are toe objects of exceptional measures 

 and M practically disfranchised, notwithstand- 

 ing the formal Mipulation* of Article XLIVof 

 tiM Berlin Trrmiy of 187& In Turkey Sultan 

 AMtil IUini'1 hiw evinced the customary good 

 wtlj displayed by Ottoman rulers to the Jews, 

 MM he and hi* official* have taken increasing 

 interest in the progrew of education and charity 

 in the Jewish community. The latest report of 

 Israelite Cnivemelle gives thee 

 as to its work: At the close of 1894 it 



had 56 schools in tin- Oimt. :tr> for lu.y-. 

 Kirls. and *J for infants, with a total nui 



schools are open to all denominations, ami 



their pllpl Ills. li.mia: 



Greek Catholics. Armenians, and Mohamn 



f the most iin|iortaiit i> tl, 

 1 in .Jerusalem. The Agricultural 

 at .lafTa shows remarkable results. The 

 c-ipts fnun tin- strictly agricultural dc|uii 



francs. The income of the Alliai, 



was 697,087 francs, which included 



francs subscrij i.-nati<.n 



francs from Haron de I hi 



I he income for : 



francs for education' in Turkey; 560,829 ! 



were expended (or educational purposes. 



<M, Sunday. A 



Berlin Jewish cemetery in memory <>f Ih- 

 soldiers of the 1 'l'an'o-( i ,-nnaii \\ai. 



old soldiers attended, and 



that 12,000 soldiers of the .le\vi>h faith to, 



in the war. 



The income of the Jewish community . 

 lin for all object sduriiiL r the current v 

 3,630,102 marks (about $900,000).' M 

 ( ontributions aggregated 1,188,847 mar) 

 elusive of : rks from seat i 



163,134 marks f n ,m reserved graves). Tl 

 riespfrabl*! etc., reached 1(5" 



Jewish and Talmudic science lost |, V d-a!h 

 Jacob Reifmann, David Kosin. and Joel V 

 The Institute of France celebrated tin 

 nary of its foundation. The Jew Mi eleji 

 dudes Michel I'.real. ll-nri Weil]. itl ,d 

 Opncrt. The first Jew to enter the in-tit. 

 I . 1 1 alevy, composer of "La .luive." d: 

 artists represented at the two exhibit 

 in Paris in October, 68 were Jews and :'.."> Jewesses 

 The chief rabbi of France issued a cin-ulai 

 to the rabbis of the republic, ur^in^ tl 

 organize young people's societies i,.r thcstt^l 

 of Judaism, its literature and In- 

 total income of the London United ^ 

 -rew from 14,880 in is; 

 and the expenses from 8,886 to 16,18:', 

 number of male seat holders rose from 1 



,nd of female fro,,, 778 to l f K ! 

 80 Hungarian rabbis met in Buda-Pesthon 

 and passed a resolution relating to i 

 riages, with respect to wind, tl. 

 with one dissentient only, that while 

 the validity of the civil ceremony, they could 

 not bless such unions either by fhe n .. 

 cereiiK.ny or otln-r rdip:ifuis f<rrn. Th- 



io excesses in Vienna we,. 

 be repressed by the authorities, while the 

 omy of the city was abrogated by th- l-i 

 owing to the election as burpoma 

 -r, an anti-Semitic agitator. 



From the full re|K>rt of the \\\ r *, ), 

 .South America, it appears that bef< 

 there were 563 families established in fou 

 nies on 209,000 acres. During the pi 

 10 groups of about 400 families we 

 the Argentine Republic. The asso' 

 444,780 acres, of which 246.077 are 



It- follJKi. ' 



:;!. I n Kngland, at the recent gener 

 tion among those returned to Parliamen 



