One thousand delegates and visitors, representing 157 religious organizations in the states of New England, New York and New Jersey, will attend the second annual convention of the North East Religious Union on Sunday, December 4, in the Community House of the Congregation Emanu-El, in New York City, according to an announcement issued by Roger W. Straus, the Chairman of the Union.
Mr. Straus points to this as a sign of the growing interest in religious activities in the north eastern part of the country, as the first convention, held a year ago, had an attendance of less than five hundred.
Members of the North East Religious Union include fifty congregations, sixty temple sisterhoods, forty-three temple brotherhoods, and four state religious federations.
At the coming convention special consideration will be given to the question of strengthening the work of existing Congregations in this time of difficulty, to the problem of the three hundred small, unorganized Jewish communities in the region, and the amplification of religious facilities for Jewish students in the colleges and universities of the region.
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