Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1921-11-21

N the Social Purity Alliance. He
toured the countries of Europe III
an investigation trip as member
!. Of Philadelphia vice COMMISSION
studving social conditions and their
remedies in many lands.
While the Rabbi at Rodeph sholom
was thus enriching the glory OF ms
Alma Mater, at Temple Keneseth
Israel in Philadelphia, too, his col
league, Rabbi Joseph Krauskopf was
engaged in different but equally
fruitful endeavors, directed toward
the identical goal. The young Rabbi
of Keneseth Israel, deemed it his
function to bring the young people to
the synagogue. To popularlze the
temple, he organized a choral So
cietv. circulating library and read.
inc rooms, groups for the study OF
current history and literature, and
the Personal Interest society. 10
acouaint, non-Jews as well as Jews
with Jewish aims and ideals, he pub
lished for free distribution series
of discourses which he was then de-
livering on Sunday afternoons-an
innovation in Philadelphia Judaism,
This was the Seeding from which
the Jewish Publication society TOOK
root and became mighty branch
work, with fourteen thousand mem,
bers and one hundred published
books. including a translation of the
Bible, to it's credit. While he gave
his thought and energy to the jewish
Publication society, the National
Farm School at Doyleston, Pa, may
he accounted Dr.. Krauskopf's great
est individual achievement. TO this
school for the free tuition OF jewish
farmers, he gave twenty-five years
of labor. The idea of organizing
# was first conceived in his mind al
ter a visit to an orphanage farm
school near Odessa. On his return
from this European trip, he directed
his energy towards the duplication OF
the Odessa school in America. The
National Farm school has trained
hundreds of Jewish farmers, prac-
tically and thoroughly, without
charge, and has helped to establish
them on farms, thus contributing
much to the solution of the problem
of the Jew that has been engender-
ed by urban life. This is not, how
ever, Dr.. Krauskopf's only social vel
fare achievement. AS early as 1893,
when he first came to Philadelphia,
he helped to remedy existing social
conditions by taking the lead in the
Model Dwelling association and Model
Kitchen, two ventures for relief of
the poor. In 1897 ne went to Cuba
as chairman of the National Relief
Committee.
+. Rabbi David Philipson's path has
been the scholars way. After four
years in Baltimore, he returned to
Cincinnati in 1888 to become Rabbi OF
Congregation Bene Israel, IN whose
basement class rooms he had studied
during his first years at the Hebrew
Union college. He was instructor IN
rilblc, Arabic, and Assyrology at the
college and later was its professor OF
Homlltics for seventeen years. This
scholar rabbi-whose writings on
Jewish topics, books, magazines and
newspaper articles arc numerous and
notable, was one OF the founders OF
the Central Conference of American
Rabbis, and during his presidency
effected arrangements with the Jew
ish Publication society for a trans
lation of the Bible. He was one OF
the seven men who undertook this
task. He' has served, too, as presi-
dent Of the Jewish Historical society
and was 4 consulting editor OF the
Jewish encyclopaedia. His devotion
to Jewish classics has not diminished
this Rabbits zeal for human welfare.
He was recently selected to arbltrate
the wage controversy in the building
trades, and has been active in the
Associated Charities of Cincinnati,
the Public Health council, the Play
ground and Recreational council and
other welfare organizations.
The Buffalo Jewish community re-
calls with affectionate memory the
quarter century of deroted service
which Rabbi Israel Aaron gave to
Congregation Beth Zion before his
death in 1912-the courage with
which he overcame the obstacles that
confronted the reform minister, the
foresight with which he planned and
built the new temple of his congre-
CATION, the esteem he left behind in
the hearts of his fellowmen of every
faith.
Four adventrers of lsrael--thcsc
were the paths they took. Who shall
say that they left no great monu-
ments along their journeys-or that
the great school from which their
learning and inspiration came was
not repaid manifold? Through
them, and those for whom they pay.
ed the way, the teachings Of the Heb,
rev Union college was spread
throughout the land Greater even
than their geographical Influence IS
that these adventures reached the
hearts of men, who in turn gave and
are giving themselves whole-heart-
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