The Denver Jewish news., 1919-04-17
The Central Conference
Of American Rabbis
REPORT OF THE CONCLUDING
DAYS OF MEETING AND GRAD
UATION OF RABBIS FROM II.
u. C.

The report OF the Conference of
last week concluded with DIR. Fried
rnan's address. Thursday at the grave
of Isaac NJ. Wise.
Thursday evening tho annual ban
Quet of the Alumni Association of
the Hebrew Union College was held
at Wise Center
On Friday evening Rabbi Jonah Il.
Wise, of Portland. Oregon, son of DIR.
Isaac NJ Wise, delivered the CON
ference lecture in the Reading Road
Temple, in which he plead eloquently
tor the widening Of Jewish endeayor
beyond the spiritual ghetto, which now
threatens to hem it in.
On Saturday morning the confer
rnce sermon was preached in the Plum
Street Temple by Rabbi Louis VOL
scy, of Cleveland. Ohio, where joint
services were held by the three con
grcgatiOns, the Plum street, the Rock.
dale Avenue and the Reading Road
Temples. The opening prayer was
yiven by Rabbi Jacob Tarshish, Allen
town, Pa; reading of services, Rabbi
Marius hanson, Paterson, y. j.; read
ing from the Torah, Rabbi Samuel S.
Cohon. Chicago. Ill. Rabbi Abram
Hirschherg. of Chicago. gave the ben
Cdiction. @ ~.
nnh 2
paid, of Buffalo. delivered an address
before the City Club at the Hotel Sih-
ton. The subject of the address was
Action and Reaction. and was
strong plea for the stern suppression
of Bolshevism and the establishment
Of League of Nations. At the same
time Rabbi Jonah H. Wise. of Port
land. Ore, delivered an address be.
fore the woman's City Club at their
rooms. on the methods of theT Social
Hygiene Organizations OF Oregon. III
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On. saturday aiisfhoSa the grsdass
ton exercises of the Hebrew Union
College took place. DIR. Martin y.
Meyer of San Francisco. delivered the
baccalaureate sermon aud Albert G.
Minda was the yaledictorlan. The
graduates who We're ordained us rab.
his by President DIR. kaufman kohlcr
were: Garry }. August. A. L.. Bar.
nett X. Brickner, A.. A.. Abraham
Fcinstein. ". A.. Joseph Fink. NJ. A..
Edward. L.. Israel. II. A., Max kpuf-
man. Is. a. Albert O. Minua, u. A.,
Meyer. .Safkovef, b. A., Ira +. Sanders.
A touching Incident OF the gradua-
tion exercises was the presentation .oi
the graduation diploma of The late
Joseph Il. Sales, who died during the
year. to his parents, the diploma being
tied with black ribbon. instead OF
the customary white.
Announcement Of prizes and of sub
jects for prize essays for the coming
year Was made Ms follows: e.,
Oscar A. Berlnan Prize. for highest
excellence thruout the collegiate COURSE
awarded to Meyer salkover. Kaufman
Kohler Prize OF 500 for the best es
say on the origin and History of thu
.S Bendictions" awarded to Joseph l..
Baron of the junior class.
The following prize essay subject"
were announced for the next scholas-
tic year: Kaufman Kohler Prize OF
500; subject: Patriotism In Law
and Practice as Found in Talmudic-
Rubbinlc Sources" Ella II. Philip
son Prize Of $50; subject: Historical
Tendencies OF the Book of Chron-
irles." Joseph L. Sales Prize Of $75;
subject: "Rabbinicul Assemblies in
the Talmud" Jacob II. Kuplun Prize
of $50; subject. "Disputations in the
Tulmud" Selma straus Prize OF $50;
, subject: Humane Concepts OF Wnr
In the Talmud.'
The Joseph +. Sales Prize TO be an
nuully awarded was established this
year by the senior students in mem
ory OF their classmate, Joseph L.
Sales, who died few months ago.
In view of the fact that the work
of Joseph Z. Sales was of such high
cha racter and because of his lnvins
| completed most of the essentials FOR
the degree OF rabbi, the faculty and
the board of governors decided to be-
stow upon him this degree pos'hu'
u,ously.
The Selma nt,Sus frize wss 60
dowed by bss coo, Sergeaot-Matos
Robert Lee susus, : student Of the
college.
The Invocation ~ss delivered by