The B'nai B'rith magazine · 1927-07-01 · 10 (7.1927) · p. Seite 410

A Cross*Section of Jewish Life Religion '"THE Relation of the Synagogue to ■*■ Mental and Physical Healing" was one of the chief topics discussed at the thirty-eighth convention of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, held at Cape May, N. J., last month. Rabbi Louis Witt, of St. Louis, presented a paper on the subject, while the physician's point of view was set forth by Dr. Bernard Glueck. * * * PERMISSION for holding the first conference of Jewish religious representatives in the Union of Socialist Soviet Republic was granted last month by the Soviet government. The conference, which will convene in Leningrad on October 21, will be attended by 179 delegates representing 110 different Kehillahs. Questions to be discussed at the conference include printing of religious books, the founding of Yeshivas, and the establishment of Mikvehs, ritual baths. * * * ABRAM I. ELKUS completed ten years of service as president of the Free Synagog of New York and was unanimously elected Honorary President, of the Congregation. Charles E. Bloch, one of the founders of the Congregation, was elected to succeed Mr. Elkus in the presidency. Other officers elected were: Walter S. Hilborn and F. Julius Fohs, vice-presidents; Samuel Samuel, treasurer; and Joseph M. Levine, honorary secretary. * * * '"THE Rabbinical Assembly of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America met at Asbury Park, N. J., early this month for its twenty-seventh annual convention. One of the most important questions scheduled for discussion was "The Training of the Rabbi in the Seminary and After." A paper on this subject was read by Dr. Cyrus Adler, president of the Jewish Theological Seminary. Religious and educational conditions in Palestine were described by Prof. Israel Davidson, who recently visited Palestine as a lecturer at the Hebrew University. "D ELIGIOUS and welfare activities carried on among Jewish students at colleges and universities will receive consideration by a national organization established in New York at a recent meeting of representatives of thirteen national Jewish societies. The new organization, which will be known as the Conference on Jewish Activities at Universities, is headed by Dr. David Philipson, of Cincinnati. * * * T MPRESSIVE ceremonies marked the laying of the corner-stone last month of the Julius and Bertha Ochs Memorial Temple being constructed for Mizpah Congregation, Chattanooga, Tenn. The temple, which will cost $250,000, is being erected by Adolph S. Ochs, publisher of the New York Times, in memory of his parents. Social Welfare TTIE Hospital for Joint Diseases, *■ New York City, was willed $180,000 by Leo L. Doblin, who died May 17th last, it has been announced by Frederick Brown, president of the institution. According to the terms of the will, the hospital will receive $100,000 in trust for the erection of a building where children will be treated free; $60,000 in trust for the building of a dormitory and training school for nurses; $10,000 outright for maintenance and operation of a motion picture machine presented to the hospital by Dr. Doblin; and $10,000 outright for the endowment of two beds for the parents of the deceased. * * * CEVEN thousand and thirty-three women and children who were destined to pass the hot summer in the slums of sweltering cities, are to be given vacations this summer in twenty-one camps operated by affiliated agencies of the New York Federation for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies. T_J UMANIZING of the United States Immigration laws so as to permit husbands, wives, and minor unmarried children of American citizens and declarants to be admitted to the country as non-quota immigrants, formed the basis of a resolution adopted by the Independent Order B'rith Abraham at its forty-first annual convention last month. The resolution was addressed to President Coolidge and Congress and asked that action be taken on the subject at the next session of Congress. Resolutions praising the bravery and skill of Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, Clarence D. Chamberlin, and Charles A. Levine, trans-Atlantic flyers, also were adopted. * * * "ORIVATE diplomacy is never effective so far as the Jews are concerned," declared Rabbi Stephen S» Wise in reference to the action taken by the American Jewish Congress in protesting against the treatment of the Jews in Roumania. Dr. Wise's address was delivered at a farewell dinner tendered last month to the delegates of the Congress who will attend the Conference on Jewish Rights at Zurich in August. "The more decent treatment accorded to Jews in Roumania the last six months has been due to the straight forward protests of the American Jewish Congress," Rabbi Wise said. * * * JEWISH farm movement in Russia is to be furthered by the Jewish Colonization Association, it was decided at a recent meeting of the Council of Administration of the Association. Previous to this decision the ICA had limited itself to settling one thousand Jewish families on the land in Russia. Under the new plans, a great many more will be aided. The new Jewish colonists will be established in the districts of Mariupol and Zaporoszje and in various districts of the Ukraine. PLEVEN women and ten men, representing nine different States of the Union, are enrolled in the new course of the Training School for Jewish Social Work, New York, which starts this month. The course is of fifteen months' duration. 410