New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-02-28
FOR JEWISH STUDY
Gift Of $50, 900 to Promote
Education Here.

Al the meeting Of the represen tatives of
Jewish societies. in session Yesterday AT
their second annual kehillah or community,
il was announced by the Rev DR. Mag
Iges.- of Temple Emanu-El. that a gift of
$4,000 a year for five years had been made
toward the improvement Of Jewish educa
ton in this city.
This sum. the gixer of (which Withheld
MS name. will he applied to the foundatio,
~ 3 bureau Of Jewish education, which will
he accessible to all the Jewish societies i'm
the city II the plans Of the kehillah mat
ure. this bureau viii develop into a board
with considerable influence among the Jew
ish schools and Talmud Torahs
.pr. Mordecai y. kaplan. princiaal of Tho
Hebrew Teachers College. at No. 13c East
111th street, explained the need of :, board
~ this kind lie said that more Than "a
per cent OF the Jewish children in New
York were left without religious training.
while the rest. some fifty thousand. cerived
little value from what they got. DIR Rer
nsrd Cronson said with regard TO this:
If we have an unsanitary hulld;ns for
Protestant school children We soo1 hear a
terrible CRY from the citizens and 20. there
: no protest when Jewish children ,,se
rooms that ought TO be kept for coal bins
u may be that such schools poor as they
are are better than none at all. hut be-
l'eve that the public spirit of Nc,y York
jews Is great enough 10 wipe out this evil"
Nhen Il was announced by DR.. Naenes
that fund OF sa.0e0 would have to be raised
Scr expenses OF administration some of the
delegates suggested an assessment on each
- Constituent society, but Joseph Rarondess
favored The plan Of voluntary contributions
and started with an offer of So. For the
next half hour Rabbi Magnes was kept
busy recording gifts ranging from S. 10
500 In short time 5000 had been raised
The rest VIII be given by the societies Of
the kehiilah.
\ communication was read from the
ZIONIST Council of Greater New York, in
which the community was asked TO CO.
operate in pushing a bin in the Assembly
which makes it lawful for Jews 10 work
On Sunday. The executive committee will
deal with the matter at an early date
The results of the election for the ex-
ecutive and advisory committees viii be
announced this morning. Those nominated
for the first named committee Were Adoph
LeNisohn. DR.. ]. i. Magnes, Professor
Israel Friedlander, William Fischman, DR..
Maurice Harris. Nathan s. Jonas DR. Salo-
mon Neuman- DR.. Z. A. Siegelstein, Cyrus
l. SuIzbereer. User Marcus Wolf Nader
and Bernard Bloch. Nine Of these viii be
elected.
Considerable discussion arose over the
action Of George Neck vice-presidant Of the
American jewish Committee, who appeared
before a Congressional commission on i'm
migration in Washington in December and
urged the commission TO omit the terms
Hebrew and Jew" from official reports
and statistical publications, on the ground
that the Jews were not a race. a resolu-
ZION offered To the kehiiiah expressing
disa uproval Of Meck's plea. and this stirred
up debate that lasted for several hours.
I vas finally agreed TO refer the matter 10
a meeting Of the whole body al a future
date
Louis Marshall. who : d member of the
American Jewish Committee. did not want
his associates condemned without = hearing,
ard said that they were engaged IN much
more important business than the question
under discussion. namely. as 10 whether the
immigration Of Jews was TO be restricted