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Menorah Societies of East Hold Conference

November 27, 1927
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(Jewish Daily Bulletin)

Delegates from the Menorah societies of twenty-five colleges are attending the conference of eastern intercollegiate Menorah societies held at Brown University, Friday and Saturday.

The conference was opened yesterday, will be open to the public and will include a debate on which the proposition will be: "Resolved that the division of synagogues into Orthodox Conservative and Reform groups tends to preserve Judaism in America."

The speakers to be heard at the three day sessions are Henry Hurwitz, editor of the Menorah Journal; Harry Starr, president of the Intercollegiate Menorah, Rabbi David G. Licht, and Rabbi Morris Schussheim, of Providence; Prof. James Q. Dealey of Brown University, Prof. Harry Wolfson of Harvard and Judge Max Levy of Newport.

Rabbi Leo Jung is giving a course of lectures on Jewish Ethies (Mussar) at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Yeshiva on Thursday afternoons.

Elihu D. Stone of Dorchester, Mass., prominent as president of the New England Zionist Region and as Assistant U. S. District Attorney, is a candidate for a vacancy on the bench of the Dorchester Court.

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