Basil L. Q. Henriques Arrives in U.S. Today

(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Basil L. Q. Henriques, one of the outstanding figures in Liberal Judaism in England, sailed on the Olympic for the United States.

It was stated that the purpose of Mr. Henriques’ journey to the United States is to address public gatherings, particularly academic youth, at Harvard University, Yale, Columbia and the University of Pennsylvania. He will also address the Free Synagogue in New York.

The Olympic is expected to arrive in New York on Tuesday.

Mr. Henriques is manager of seven elementary schools and one central school, and is a Governor of a secondary school. He is a member of the Jewish Board of Guardians, and Vice-Chairman of the Apprenticing Committee of the Jews’ Hospital and Orphan Asylum.

He was made a Justice of the Peace for the County of London in 1923, and sits in the Children’s Court. He has been appointed a Prison Visitor for the Boys’ Prison at Wandsworth, is on the Board of Management of the Jewish Reformatory at Hayes, and a member of the House Committee of the London Hospital.

In March, 1914, he founded, under the auspices of the West London and Liberal Jewish Synagogues, the Oxford and St. George’s Jewish Lads’ Club, which has grown into the St. George’s Jewish Settlement. This is the only Jewish Settlement in England.

Commencing with a congregation, founded on Reform principles, of about 10 or 20 members in 1918, he has built up a Reform Movement in East London with a weekly congregation on Friday nights of 500.

He is the son of David Q. Henriques, and grandson of Jacob Q. Henriques, one of the founders of, and afterward President of the first Reform Synagogue in England, the West London Synagogue. His mother was a grand-niece of Sir Moses Montefiore.

JEWISH COMMUNAL ACTIVITIES

The Thirty-fourth Annual Meeting of the American Jewish Historical Society will be held in Philadelphia, in connection with the Sesquicentennial Exposition during October, 1926. The meeting will consider the participation of Jews in the American Revolution and their connection with the events of the period culminating therein.

Ground was broken and work started on the Beth-El synagogue, Birmingham, Ala. The building will cost $150,000 and is to be completed by Sept. 1.

The main auditorium of the synagogue will have a seating capacity of 900. In addition to the main auditorium, there will be a rabbi’s study, trustees’ room, library, lecture hall, and in the basement, class rooms, kitchen and dining rooms.

Dr. Solomon Katz is rabbi of the congregation and Louis Pizitz is president.

A synagogue in the Byzantine style is being erected by the congregation of the Beth Hamedrish Hagodeil, Albany Park, a suburb of Chicago, Ill. The building when completed, together with the furnishings, will cost about $300,000.

The structure is to be of brick. It will also contain the necessary facilities for a social center.

The main auditorium will have a seating capacity of 3,000.

The Pennsylvania Federation of Temple Sisterhoods held its third blennial conference in Harrisburg. The sessions, which continued for three days, were held at the Ohev Sholom Temple. The Pennsylvania State Federation of Temple Sisterhoods is one of the oldest State Federations affiliated with the National Federation of Temple Sisterhoods. It has a membership of 3,600 women.

Plans for an $80,000 addition to the Orthodox Old Folks Home in Cleveland have been announced by J. Wolpaw, president. At the annual meeting of the board he declared that the addition will care for fifty more people. At present the institution cares for ninety-four aged men and women.

The new Temple Emanu-El, San Francisco, Cal., will be dedicated shortly, according to announcement of the directors. The structure is declared to be one of the most magnificent of its kind in the United States.