Temple Union and Sisterhoods Open Joint Convention Friday

A joint convention of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, the National Federation of Temple Sisterhoods, and the National Federation of Temple Brotherhoods, will open here Friday at the Willard Hotel. More than 1,500 leading Jews of the United States will attend.

The convention, which is scheduled to continue through March 25, will consider problems confronting American Jews and their organizations. Separate sessions will be held each day by the different groups, and large general assemblies will be held each evening.

BANQUET MARCH 25

The four-day meeting will be climaxed by a banquet at the hotel March 25, at which Right Rev. James E. Freeman, Bishop of Washington, Judge Irving Lehman of the New York Court of Appeals, Mrs. Max Sloss and Rabbi Louis Wolsey will speak. The theme of the banquet will be “The Future of Judaism in America.”

Subjects to be considered by the separate group meetings are: “Financial Security for the Synagogue,” “Building the Membership of the Temple,” “What Constitutes an Adequate Synagogue Program?” and “Synagogue and Social Justice.” The brotherhood meetings will discuss the furtherance of good-will among Jews and between Jews and non-Jews.

A reception and dance will follow the first general assembly on March 23 in the Hotel Washington. Speakers will include Jacob W. Mack, chairman of the executive board of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, Mrs. Henry Nathan and Samuel F. Finckel, presidents of the sisterhood and brotherhood units.

Special services will be held at the Washington Hebrew Congregation on Friday. Rabbi Julius Gordon of St. Louis will officiate At the services on the following morning, the sermon will be delivered by Dr. Joseph L. Fink of Buffalo.

The union has not met in Washington for forty-three years.

Delegates to the sisterhood convention have been invited to a reception at the White House on the afternoon of March 23.