The Mount Sinai Hospital returned to the Chicago Jewish Charities the sum of $10,000 which it saved from its alloted budget. This, the Charities officials pointed out, was an unusual procedure since hospitals generally are expected to have deficits.
Chief Justice Michael Feinberg of the Circuit Court was installed as Exalted Ruler of the Chicago Lodge of Elks at ceremonies at the club house Friday night.
Martin L. Straus, was elected vice-president of the Chicago Better Business League.
Seeking $30,000 to finance Camp Wooster, where 1,100 boys are given a summer outing each year, the Young Men’s Jewish Charities, with B. F. Stein in charge, has sent out a prospectus telling of the issue of 1,500 shares of “Boys’ Camp 100 per cent accumulative preferred stock” to be sold at $20 a share. Dividends have been paid continuously, the prospectus says, in happiness and service.
An intercollegiate debate by representatives of Hillel Foundations at middle-western universities will be held Sunday evening, April 14, at the Covenant Club. This debate has been arranged by the Central Council of the B’nai B’rith. All members of the local lodges affiliated with the Council will be invited to attend.
The Jewish Institutional Visitors’ Society, which has maintained a Jewish chaplain for institutional inmates in Illinois, has been absorbed by the chaplaincy committee of the Illinois State Conference of Temple Sistershoods, it was announced. Mrs. Samuel Alschuler will serve as chairman of the committee, which seeks to raise $15,000 annually for the support of a Jewish chaplain.
H. L. Meites, editor of the “Chicago Jewish Chronicle,” was awarded the degree of Doctor of Laws by the faculty of the Chicago Law School at a dinner tendered him on the occasion of his fiftieth birthday at the Opera Club. Dr. J. J. Dubois, Chancellor of the school, made the presentation. Deans Eben H. Jayne, Albert O. Olesen, Josephine Turck Baker and Sonsevelo Agnes Upson, Judges Henry Horner, Harry M. Fisher and Joseph B. David, Dr. Otto L. Schmidt, Charles V. Barrett, Philip L. Seman and Rabbi S. Felix Mendelsohn, were the speakers.
The building committee of Congregation Beth-El, Chelsea, Mass., has given out a contract for erection of a new synagogue. Building operations will begin at once.
It is planned to have the building completed and ready for occupancy for the High Holidays next October.
A drive for $250,000, with which to build a new synagogue for Temple Israel, Los Angeles, Cal., will be started soon, according to Dr. Isadore Isaacson, Rabbi of the temple.
Three sites are under consideration by Temple Israel members and a selection will be made soon.
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