[4] He left the Hebrew Technical Institute due to his objections to its pure Americanism emphasis, and when he joined the Bar de Hirsch Agricultural School he hoped he'd be able to help young Jews leave the sweatshop and become farmers.

[5] While working there, he persuaded the state legislature to establish a municipal government in Woodbine and make people in the local Jewish farm colony more conscious of their citizenship.

During World War I, he was director-general of the Joint Distribution Committee and, via his base of operations in Holland, sent a continuous supply of relief across Germany to suffering Jews in Poland and western Russia.

He then went to Poland as an agent of the committee, and while there he travelled with the Hoover mission and organized the distribution of funds American Jews contributed for relief.

[9] Over a thousand people attended his funeral at B’nai Brith Hall in Los Angeles, including prominent leaders of the Pacific Coast's Jewish community.

Rabbi Herman Lissaner of Temple Emanu-El, Wider Scope Committee chairman Henry Monsky, the Constitution Grand Lodge vice-president Lucius Solomons, and I. Irving Lipsitch of the local Federation of Jewish Welfare Organizations and the National Conference of Jewish Social Service delivered eulogies.