United Synagogue Opens Its Sixteenth Annual Convention in Chicago

(Jewish Daily Balletin)

Special services in the Chicago synagogues last, night were attended by many rabbis and laymen, delegates here for the sixteenth annual national convention of the United Synagogue of American, which opens tomorrow in the Stevens Hotel and continues until Tuesday. A special conference of the Rabbinical Assembly of America will be held tonight at the hotel.

Dr. Chaim Weizmann will be the principal speaker at tomorrow’s session. Monday evening the delegates will be the guests of the Chicago affiliated congregations at a banquet. On Tuesday a luncheon will be given for the delegates of the Woman’s League Convention.

“The wave of materialism which has swept over the world since the world war has affected both the church and synagogue adversely,” said Dr. Cyrus Adler, discussing the problems before the convention. “Jewish life in this country has become so secularized that many of its most important functions are carried on without reference to the synagogue which in earlier days was the very source and center of all Jewish activities. This convention will, I hope, take steps to revitalize the synagogue and integrate it with Jewish life, winning back the prestige it once enjoyed.”

Rabbi Samuel M. Cohen of New York is chairman of the convention.

YIDDISH ART THEATRE TO CONTINUE IN NEW HOME

Maturice Schwartz has taken over the City Theatre on Fourteenth Street, New York, as the home of the Yiddish Art Theatre. With his associate E. A. Relkin, Mr. Schwartz has taken over the theatre for ten years, the new lease becoming effective in September.

The critical financial situation of the Yiddish Art Theatre, after ten years of work, threatened its discontinuance and reports were current that Mr. Schwartz would leave the Yiddish stage to join a Broadway production.