The forty-third annual meeting of the Central Conference of American Rabbis will open here tomorrow, continuing through Sunday, November 6th.
The opening of the Conference will be preceded by an all-day meeting of the Executive Board today. Headquarters have been established at the Sinton Hotel, where the majority of the sessions will be held.
The feature of the program will be the celebration of the Washington Bi-centennial by the reading of a paper on the subject, “The American Principle of the Separation of Church and State in its Application to Modern Life,” by Rabbi David Lefkowitz, of Dallas, Texas. Rabbi Lefkowitz is the immediate past-president of the Central Conference of American Rabbis.
An important Jewish event will be celebrated on its hundredth anniversary by a paper, “The Beginning of Modern Jewish Scholarship,” by Rabbi Bernard Bamberger, of Albany, N. Y., commemorating the centennial of the publication of Leopold Zunz’s “Gottesdienstle Vortraege der Juden,” which has been called by critics “the most important Jewish work published in the nineteenth century,” and which was the most important influence in the shaping of the principles of Reform Judaism and the modernizing of the liturgy.
A subject that received nation-wide discussion during the year, and still excites interest in Jewish circles, namely, whether the Synagogue or the Community Organization should be paramount in American Jewish Life, will be treated in a round table on “The Organization of Jewish Communal Life” which will be led by Rabbis Mordecai M. Kaplan and Sidney E. Goldstein, of New York City. This will feature the program for Thursday evening, November 3rd.
The annual message of the President, Rabbi Morris Newfield, of Birmingham, Alabama, will occupy the program on Wednesday night. Reports of the Officers and Committees will be read during the opening Session, Wednesday morning. A report and recommendations of the Social Justice Commission, of which Rabbi Edward L. Israel, Baltimore, Md., is Chairman. and of the Committee on International Peace, Rabbi Max C. Currick, Erie, Pa., Chairman, will be rendered.
Friday evening services will be held at the Plum Street Temple, at which Dr. Stephen S. Wise, New York, will present the Conference Lecture. Sabbath morning services will be held at the Rockdale Avenue Temple, at which Rabbi Barnett R. Brickner, Cleveland,
Ohio, will preach the Conference Sermon.
Other papers will be presented by Prof. Z. Diesendruck, of the Hebrew Union College: “The Ideal Social Order as Expressed or Implied in Jewish Ethical Thinking”; “Personal Piety in Modern Jewish Life” by Rabbi Julius Gordon, St. Louis; and by Dr. Jacob Z. Lauterbach, of the Hebrew Union College on folk-customs in the naming of Jewish Children.
The sessions will be presided over by Rabbi Newfield. The other officers of the Conferences are: Vice-President, Rabbi Samuel H. Goldenson, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Treasurer, Rabbi Felix A. Levy, Chicago, Ill.; Recording Secretary, Rabbi Isaac E. Marcuson, Macon, Ga.; Corresponding Secretary, Rabbi Harry S. Margolis, St. Paul, Minn.
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