The Denver Jewish news., 1923-01-17

WoEh tiiS tHe
esta blishment of Summer services for
Jewish adults and children during the
vacation season. Rabbis resident at
such points or else sent there by the
Union have conducted such religious
services in the past season, fifty-eight
rabbis volunteering for this work.
Members of the Jewish faith liv-
ing isolated or in small communities
in the country districts constitute n
Jewish problem to Judaism itself, ex-
cluded as they are from regular re.
ligious instruction and communal wOr-
ship. Last Spring the Union sent rab-
bis from the nearest centres to visit
these scattered co-religionists to con-
duct religious services among them
and to insure that they would get the
literature sent out by the Unions bu-
reau of religious publications.
This bureau distributes G5,OOO copies
of the Union Bulletin. containing ar
:icles on Jewish history, the Jewish
religion and kindred subjects, and
5000 copies of Young Israel n month
ly publication for jewish children, to
instruct them in the principles thnt
underlie the living of their lives as
good Jews. In addition, some 10000
prominent nOn-Jews throughout the
country are kept Informed by means Of
facts issued by the union as to what
Jews are trying to be and do.
Our problem of organization" says
one of the unions publications, ''is to
create a demOncratic Jewis!, Church
| without hierarchy, having bene-
| icient central organization. but with
out the power of heresy hunters bring
ing together group of learned men
whose combined opinion shall represent
the living wellspring Of Jewish tradi-
ton"
The Union of American Hebrey Con-
gregations maintains also Board of
Delegates on Civil Rights. which aims
to realize and preserve In practice the
liberties guaranteed in the Constitution
| of the United States; the keeping sep
arate of Church and Stntes by elimin-
ating the teachings of sectarianism In
the public schools: the prevention Of
class legislation. and keeping open Of
the gates of the country to worthy i'm
migrants.
SisterifoOds and Mems Clubs
All these various activities are to
come up for discussion and develop
ment ut the. convention at the Hotel
Astor when the Union. together with
its affiliated National Federation of
Temple SisterhoOds and the Federation
Of Temple Brotherhoods tthis latter to
b. organized ut, the cOpventiOn) hold
simultaneous sessions there. The Fed
feration Of Temple Sisterhoods at pres
ent includes 243 sisterhoOds. with 40,-
600 women members. As many as
sevcnty-five Jewish Mems Clubs will
send delegates to the convention, where
steps will be taken to organize them
into Federation OF Temple Brother
hoods. to standardize their activities
and stimulate the organization Of fur
ther units aiming to attract young men
to the temple and synagogue.
Two great religious services are to
be conducted on the evening of the con
vention on January ID: Ono. ut Car
ncgie Hall, where addresses will be de-
livered by Supreme Court Justice Irv.
ing Lehman and by Rabbi Abba Hillel
Silver of Cleveland: the other at the
Eighth Avenue Temple in Brooklyn
where the Rev. DIR. Leon Hnriis ison OF
st. Louis and prominent lay speaker
will make addresses.
An Evening of Jewish Music
ON January 23rd. President Julien
Morgenstern of the Hebrew Union Col
lege will speak on Jewish Education
in America in the Last Fifty Years =
In the evening there will be an impos'
ing concert of Jewish melodies at the
Century Theatre, where Jewish musi'
cal classics will be rcndere by artists
of national renown. including members
of the Metropolitan and Chicago Opera
Companies.
On January "a papers Will be read
followed by discussiOn.- on Fifty Years
of Jewish Progress in America and
Jewish Contributions to American
Idcalism.'' 1t is on this evening that
the banquet mt the Hotel Astor Will
take place. at which leading personnges
In American public life will speak. en-
dorsing the aims and work of the
Union of American Hebrew Congresa
tions.
ON January 2J. is reserved for q
joint meeting of the delegates of The
Union of American Hebrew Consrcsa
tions. the National Federation of Tenn
lple Sistcrhoods and the National Fed