Intermountain Jewish news., 1926-10-28
DENVER B'NA| BIRTH
HOLDS BIGGEST Meet
+ ING IN ITS HISTORY
$50 Members of |. 0. B. B.
Lodge III Gather at
Cosmopolitan
INITIATION HELD
FOR II CANDIDATES
Remarkable Response to Call of
Wider Scope Committee of
Grand Lodge

its past attendance records at its
meeting in the Cosmopolitan Hotel
Tuesday night, October 26, when $50
local members of the order responded
to the call for the gathering. The
session VISA held under the auspices
Of the Wider Scope Committee of the
Constitutional Grand Lodge, which is
bringing together the national MEM
bership of B'nai Birth to learn of its
extended new program.
Initiation
A class of eleven candidates was
initiated into the lodge under the i'm
pressive ritual of the order. The ini-
ton tea which conducted the service
included William Goldberg, president
of tn elodge; Simon Quiat, monitor;
Charles Rosenbaum, presidents
Arthur Friedman, Simon Heller and
Percy Morris, past presidents.
The candidates received into the
order were: Harry Anton, Meyer Av-
erch, Bernie Cohan, Jack Cohan, Vic
tor Kranz, Max L. Mozer, Samuel L.
Mozer, Samuel Leipziger, Joseph N.
Pixer, Joseph N. Peterman, Milton L.
Schwartz, William Steinberg and j.
H. Topel.
Wider Scope Program
Past District President Arthur
Friedman directed the attention of
the members to the conditions which
the Wider Scope Committee of the
Grand Lodge was formed to remedy.
He pointed to the drift among our
youth, away from religious afflia-
ton. He noted the startling condi-
tio nthat 95.2 per cent of the Jewish
youth of the United States was with
out Sunday school training; that the
college youth was agnostic and tend
ing toward atheism. The synagogs
and temples, like the Christian
churches, have not bee nable to cope
with the youth situation. A new
method of attackingt he problem must
be instituted. That is where the op-
portunity of the B'nai Birth arises.
B'nai Birth realizes its responsibility
to increase its effectiveness as an in
fuence for good among the Jewish
youth of the land. The Wider Scope
Committee has that task before it.
A.U.A.
Recognizing the Importance of
moulding the Jew in his early years,
B'nai Birth has established chapters
of Junior order = the Aleph Zedek
Aleph - for young men under the
age of twenty-one. These chapters
are under the guidance of the leaders
of the senior B'nai Birth lodges in
their respective localities.
Directly concerned with the prob
lem of the college Jew, the Hillel
Foundation has bee nestablished un-
der B'nai Birth auspices to foster the
Jewish spiritual and cultural life in
American centers of learning. He is
to be directed to the religious life,
not by an avoidance of the questions
which youth is asking, but by the
, Educating of the college youth to the
meaning and significance of our re-
ligious and cultural heritage.
Entertainment.
The arrangement for the Contest
| Attendance Meeting" were in the
hands of committee headed by Bro
Tiers M. H. Spiegleman and Ed. Eli
sendrath. Their success in bringing
out so splendid representation was
favorably commented upon. The gath
ering was indicative of q ne wenthi-
siasm in local B'nai Birth.
Warsaw-Twenty-two priests, in
cluding seven bishops of the Catholic
sect, Marjawites, left for Palestine.
The priests, who will spend several