The B'nai B'rith magazine · 1927-06-01 · 9 (6.1927) · p. Seite 394

394 B'NAI B'RITH MAGAZINE A N OPEN meeting held by Mason City (la.) Lodge recently, attracted two hundred persons, who came to hear an interesting program of music and dramatic recitations. The program was in charge of Louis Kitsis. * * * \yiSITORS came from six states to pay their respects to Joseph A. Wilner at a testimonial dinner held in Washington, D. C, recently, in honor of his election to the presidency of District No. 5. Speakers were Henry A. Alexander, of Atlanta, who told of the B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundation, Marcus Endel, of Jacksonville, Fla., Nathan Sabolof, of Baltimore, Sidney Stearn, of Greensboro, N. C., and M. D. Rosenberg, of Washington. * * * D ABBI BENJAMIN M. FRANKEL, National Director of the B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundation, and his bride, who was Miss Florence Koenigsberg, of Chicago, are enjoying their honeymoon in Europe. Their travels will include a visit to Palestine. T SRAEL LODGE, Portland, Me., gave a testimonial dinner last month for Judge Max L. Pinansky in honor of his appointment to the municipal court bench and his election to the presidency of the Lodge. The Judge heard himself praised by the chief executive of the State, Ralph 0. Brewster, who sent a telegram for the occasion. * * * JEWISH youth of Denver were free to speak their minds on any idea that struck their fancy, in an oratorical contest conducted last month by Denver Lodge No. 171. No restriction was placed on subject matter. p\IGNITARIES of Zion Lodge, Columbus, Ohio, turned minstrels for the Annual B'nai B'rith Show held in that city last month. Nothing amateur about them, was the criticism of the audience that filled the Hartman Theatre. * * * ]~^\ES MOINES will be the mecca for members of the Aleph Zadik Aleph during the national convention of that junior order of B'nai B'rith in the Iowa capital, June 29th-July 1st. The convention is expected to assemble more than three hundred and fifty boys representing fifty chapters in forty-eight cities. Des Moines chapter has prepared to entertain the guests lavishly with dances, banquets, auto tours and sports. Governor J. Hammill of Iowa will address one of the sessions. * * * T^HE memory of departed members of Amos Lodge and Auxiliary, of Boston, Mass., was honored at a service held by the two organizations May 23rd. The goodness of the late Rabbi M. M. Eichler was recalled at a special service. * * * T^HE ideal of the B'nai B'rith Wider Scope Committee—to vitalize the significance of Judaism in the lives of American youth—was symbolized in gifts presented by Argo Lodge, Washington, D. C, to sons of members on the occasion of their Bar Mitzvoth. One gift was presented to the son of Barney Robbins before three hundred persons at a formal gathering. The presentation of the other gift was made at the Jewish Old Age Home of Washington before an audience of two hundred persons. * * * HTHE first B'nai B'rith Lodge in the Republic of Panama and the Canal Zone was installed on May 10th. Eleven members were initiated. Angel de Castro was elected president and Abraham A. Sasso, secretary and treasurer. Officers of District No. II Ben M. Achtenberg (upper left) was elected president, and Isadore Feibleman (upper right) first vice-president of District II at its convention in Toledo, May 29th-31st. Leonard Freiberg, secretary (lower left), and William Ornstein, treasurer (lower right), were re-elected unanimously. President Cohen Addresses Institute Graduates C PEAKING at the second annual commencement exercises of the Jewish Institute of Religion, New York, May 25th, Alfred M. Cohen, president of the B'nai B'rith, directed "the attention of the young men just entering upon their sacred calling to some attributes which lay-folks wish their spiritual leader to possess, and to some other manifestations which they prefer not to discover in one to whom they look for light. ..." After conveying the greetings of the Hebrew Union College as the chairman of its Board of Governors, President Cohen said: "The man in the pulpit . . . must be the best possible exemplifier of his ideals. ... Of course all ministers preach the duty of obeying the law of the land. But there are some who are silent witnesses of its violations. For instance, prohibition is written into the Constitution of the United States. . . . Violation of this law is encouraged by a minister when he functions at affairs where such violations occur and holds his peace. "Do your utmost to remove a too generally prevailing impression that liberal Judaism is reserved as the possession of the rich. It would be a fine accomplishment if every synagogue were free—free not only for the man in the pulpit, but for the man and the woman in the pew also. . . . "The Rabbi should always bear in mind that he can never dissociate himself or his utterances from his calling as a leader of his people. Nothing that he says or does fails to reflect upon or redound to the credit of the Jew. . . . "Perhaps no act of a Rabbi so affects him as does his choice of a life companion ... to the Rabbi it is of utmost seriousness because in his contacts she is frequently at his side, and she meets in every relation the people who look up to him as their guide. . . . I advise a prospective Rabbi not to marry during his student years, especially if he be away from his home. Sheer lonesomeness frequently attracts a young man to a young girl, who though thoroughly worthy, may be lacking in temperamental qualifications essential to a minister's wife. . . . "The preacher should not carry his pulpit with him. . . . The layman wishes to feel that his rabbi ... is not a perpetual preacher. . . .