Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-10-18
Y. NJ. H. A. PLANS
To AID DRIVE
For Jewish Endowment Fund
Meeting Held Last Night
to Plan Campaign

At a conference held at the Y.
M. II. A. last night for the purpose
of discussing plans OF the Perth
Amboy Jews participating in the
| National Campaign of the Jewish
Theological Seminary Endowment
fund for $1,000, 900, a local commit
tee was organized, plans for the
local campaign decided upon and
speeches given by Rabbi Nathan H.
| Colish of Temple Beth Mordecai. and
| Rabbi David Matt, of Minneapolis,
Mimi, who is giving one month of
his time in assisting the campaign
Throughout the country.
Rabbi Nathan Colish in his in
spring talk last night declared:
religion is the cornerstone of
civilization, and it is III of the
strong bulwarks of the Republic"
| said Rabbi Colish. "A Goddess peo-
pie is a people without a future,
without a hope. Upon this all right
thinking, forward-looking men are
| agreed. And they r agreed also
that every effort that tends to
| strengthen the hold of religion on
our young people, as well as upon
their parents, strengthens the ties
hat bind them to their home, their
city, their country. N
The strengthening of religion, is
therefore, one of the prime requisi-
tons for assuring America of a flu
ture worthy of its glorious past, and
to this end, both Jews and Christians
must strive. The Jewish Theologi-
cal Seminary has nearly forty years
striven to develop and educate Rab-
| binate for the American synagogue
and to train teachers qualified to
teach in and conduct Jewish re-
ligious schools. During all these
years it has been maintained by a
small group of loyal Jews for
whom the financial burden of this
institution has at last become en-
tirely too heavy.
"The all-important work Of this
institution must be the deep concern
of every Jew in this country, of
every jew in this city both as a Jew
and as an American, and they must
view with alarm the possibility that
now confronts 1t of greatly ~curtailing
its work and even of closing its doors
altogether unless it Is sufficiently en-
dowed not only to conduct its pres
ent activities, but greatly to increase
them in order to meet the ever
I growing demand that is being made
upon it by the Jews of this country
for spiritual leadership and guild
ance.
ITO avoid the danger confronting
! the Jewish Theological Seminary a
nationwide effort is being made to
raise for it an endowment fund of
81, 900, 900 to increase its faculty. to
receive a larger number of students
in both its rabbinical and teachers
departments, properly house its
great liberty, the largest and most
important in the history of the Jew
ish people, and to stimulate the eff
forts of its allied institutions such
as the United Synagogue, to bring
the message OF Judaism to the Jews
of America.
1.-THE Jewish citizens of Perth AM
boy have been asked to raise from
$4,000 to $4,000 as their quota of the
million dollar fund. 1 appeal to my
fellow-Jews to perform their duty as
BELTS good Jews and good Americans
by contributing literally TO this
fund"
Rabbi Matt In his interesting talk
discussed in detail the great work
of tho Jewish Theological Seminary
and stated that upon visiting the
cOfnInltteeS or the East ne round Q
revival of interest among the Jew
ish people in things spiritual and
felt that the Jewish citizens OF
Perth Amboy would perform their
obligation in a fitting
The following committee was
formed last night to assist in raising
the money in this city: Isaac Alpern,
chairman; Rabbi Nathan Colish and
Rev. q. Chain, honorary vice chair
men; Charles Safran of South Am
boy. Philip Siskind. James Rauch-
Imam of Woodbridge, Mrs. M. Leicht-
man and Mrs. Jacob Joselson vice
chairmen; Albert Leon, treasurer;
Louis Braines, financial secretary;
Joseph Levy, recording secretary
and Harry Medinets.
Plans are now under way by the
committee to hold a dinner on Sun
day, October 26. at the Y. M. Fl. A..
when the purpose OF the campaign
viii be presented. Those present last
night were:
Isaac Alpern. Harry Medinets,