The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-27
A MEETING OF RABBIS
SOCIETY MAY BE ORGANIZED IN MONTGOMERY.
Circular Letter Received Here Calls for Expressions of Opinion and Vote as to Place of
 Assembling.

1t Is probable a meeting of Jewish rabbis Of the Southern States will be held in Montgomery on March 1s for the purpose of organizing Southern Rab. binicaI Society.
 A circular letter signed by Rabbi Moses F. Jacobson of Shreveport, La, tempo rary chairman of the movement, has been received In Montgomery. It calls for an expression of opinion from South ern rabbis. They are also asked to vote upon the place where the meeting shall be held. If 1t is deemed best to extend the society to the Atlantic Coast Stats, Montgomery will be selected as the meet ing place. If the society is to be confined to the States covered by District No. 2. Independent Order of Bnai B'rith, Shreveport, La, will be chosen as the place of meeting This matter is to be decided by the votes of those who pledge themselves to attend.
 Of the proposed meeting the circular letter says:
 'SThe public program of the meeting March IS will consist simply of an open ing service the first night and a closing service the last. Each service will con- sist of the regular ritual, a special prayer. a sermon limited to twenty minutes and a benediction. Any recommendations you may desire to make as to the selection of those to perform these offices the Presi- dent will be sincerely thankful for and will regard with. the confidence that the honof on private correspondence presup- poses and exaets. It is the desire of the President pro tenn. to have this meeting of organization so thoroughly representa- tive of the Southern rabbinical sentiment, good will and brotherhood as 1t possibly can be made and he asks you by the promptness and the candor of your re- plies to help him make 1t so."
 The circular letter referring to the pur- pose of the society, says:
 The name Southern RabbinIcal Society has been selected to emphasize the fact that this organization is not schismatic in purpose nor sectional in its considera- ton of Judaism. The organization pro- posed Is to be in no way antagonistic to or in competition with any other ex- istent rabbinical association in American Judaism. Were there even the slightest danger of it's success inJuring. by indi- rection even, any more inclusive rabini- cal association American Judaism not one of us who have now taken this step at organization would have lent his name to the movement.
 ''The purposes of the Southern Rabbini- cal Society as contemplated by us who have called this initial meeting are wholly uiMerent rom those or every other mln- isterial body in American Israel, and membership in this society, so far from initiating with, will rather encourage and stimulate afiiliation by our members with any and every other more genera | rabbinical organization now existent. Il | is the object of our society, at least so faI as the expressions of all composing tn, meeting of organization indicated to havt all our sessions as far as possible strictly executive. The purpose of this is to make our discussions practical instead of aca. demic and to bring them down to definite ! issues.
 "The society is formed to meet loca needs and emergencies merely. and mol | for oratorical indulgence or theoretica consideration of the large problems ir | Judaism which effect their own solution wholly apart from rabbinic debate,''