Rabbi Joseph S. Kornfeld of Columbus, Ohio, United States Minister to Persia, was presented by the representatives of the Persian Jews with a silver plate inscribed with the Ten Commandments. The plate was given as a token of gratitude for Dr. Kronfeld's intervention on their behalf in anti-Semitic disorders of last year.
President Cohensedegh of the Congress of Persian Zionists, who made the presentation, said that anti-Jewish disorders had reached such a state that at last an appeal was made to the American Minister, who persuaded the Persian Government to give Jews...
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