Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-11-10
COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN
Sessions to Be Held in New Yorl
City.
Objects of the OrgnnizntiO an,
Something About the Program
and the Speakers.

September Z, 1893, the organization of the
National Council of Jewish Women was
effected. the working machinery of which
is adjusted and regulated by a national
committee on religion and committee @:
philanthropy.
The National Council of Jewish womer
convenes for the first time in New York
city next Sunday, and delegates from II,
various "section:" which have been organ
lied Throughout the United States will b,
present 10 bring reports of work. max.
addresses and arrange plans for the f.
ture work Of the council
The purposes of The organization .
stated i'm the constitution are:
TO bring about closer relation anon,
Jewish women:
To furnish by an organized union a ne
dunn of communication and means g
prosecuting work Of common: interest:
To work in behalf of Judaism;
And to advance social reform
10 accomplish these aims it is the int n
ton OF these Jewish women to make p
thorough study of Jewish ethics his. DRY
and lite nature. No: that the study of re
minds of the Jewish women: il is also tn.
aim of the council to help the fatherless 10
Shield the oppressed and to walk upright,
In every department of life
The officers Of the National Council =.
jewish Women are: President, Mrs Ha.-
nah G. Soicrnon, who was elected IN ~ b.
reclamation: Mrs: Emanuel Mandel. vice
president; Mrs Harry ]. SelZ, treasurer:
Mrs. T. J. Wolf. recording secretary. auG
Miss Sadie America, corresponding secre-
tary.
Besides the essential work of the council
"h1ch involves the reading of reports. the
erection or officers and the discussion of
important business, the meetings will he
iooresSed and stimulated To further acticl
by such brilliant women workers as:
wv a's, NARY Lowe Dickinson. president of
United States; Mrs. Ellen NJ. Heorotin
IRE ldent of the Federation of Women's
Clubs; Miss Rose Sommerfield. who will
spt . on the Organization of Charities"
ara oopne AMMAN. whose subject VIII be
children, the Hope of the World"
After this thorough discussion OF the fiel
OF philanthropy, papers will be furnished
On 1ntx me rel gious work of the council by
Eiizsbath Hershfield, Henrietta G. Frank
cara Black and Mrs. Henry Hahn
rive days will be given up to the work
o. the council which will open witt. the
!ol call each morning at $50, and. wit,
the exception of the Necessary adjournment
Tor luncheon and dinner extend through
out the day and the evening until a pro-
posed adjournment meets the aDprob, tin,
of the majority.
AT present the council numbers fifty sao
ions in the various cities and town in the
united States. and the work of organizing
these branches is being conducted with
that fervor of enthusiasm which is the sec
ond nature Of every oriental nation on re!i-
g.ouS questions
brief biographical sketch of some of
the most active workers in the counc.l may
convey an idea of how unconsc:ously in
their daily lives many of these women have
been preparing themselves for this new
departure into broader field of acton.
Mrs. Solomon, the president of the Ma
tional Council and one of its founders at
Chicago, drafted the skeleton constitution
of the council and laid the foundation for
the uniform plan of work.
Size Is Contributor to the various Jewish
papers on subjects relating to Jewish eth
ics and philosophy, ard is especially inter-
ested in the work Oh cago Jewish women
are doing in employing children in sewing
rooms and giving each one a two weeks
outing in the country.
See IS an enthus -astic club woman; vice
president of the State Federation of Clubs
in Illinois; chairman of the Federation of
Jewish WomenS Charitable Organ cations:
member of the philanthropic COMMITTEES
of the Civic Federation of Chicago, which
Is engaged in creating permanent bureau
or charities in that city; is an active MEM
her OF the board of work room for Jewish
women and member of the philosophy
and science department of the Womans
Club of Chicago.
National Council, also a Chicago woman,
has given time and large sums of money
toward the charities in which she is most
actively interested, among others: The Jew
ish Training School, of which she is vice
presid ent; the Maxwell street settlement,
which is almost entirely supported by her
donations, and the Lying-in D;spensary,
which she helped to organize, and to which
she has always been a generous contrib
utor.