Central Conference of American Rabbis Will Meet in June

The annual session of the Central Conference of American Rabbis will be held at the Congress Hotel, Cape May, N.J., June 23rd to June 28th.

“Religious Education Day” will be observed by the conference on June 26. Dr. David Philipson of Cincinnati, Dr. Louis Mann of Chicago, Rabbi William Rosenblum of Washington and Rabbi H. G. Enelow will present papers on the subject of religious education.

Professor Moses Buttenwieser of the Hebrew Union College, of Cincinnati, will present a paper on “Israel’s Prophets and Nationalism,” the discussion will be led by Rabbi Barnett A. Elzas of New York City. “Is Spinozism Compatible with Judaism?” will be the subject of a paper by Rabbi Bernard Heller, of Scranton. Pa. Rabbi L. A. Mischkind, of Wilmington, Delaware, will lead the discussion.

A Round Table discussion on the subject of “The Relation of the Synagogue to Physical and Mental Healing,” will be held Sunday evening at which time there will be a report of the Chairman, Rabbi Louis Witt, who has made a study of this question; a presentation from the physician’s point of view by Dr. Bernard Glueck, of Washington, D. C.; and a statement by Rabbi Clifton H. Levy of New York City.

Monday afternoon, Rabbi Abram Simon, of Washington, D. C., will preside at a Round Table discussion on the subject of “The Curriculum of a Liberal Rabbinical Seminary.” Discussion will be led by Rabbi Jacob Tarshish of Colurnbia, Ohio, and Rabbi Benjamin Friedman of Syracuse, N. Y.

Monday evening June 27th, is to be devoted to the affairs of the Alumni of the Hebrew Union College.

Rabbi Louis Wolsey, president of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, will deliver the annual message.

The Conference lecture will be delivered at Sabbath Services, by Dr. Israel I. Mattuck, of the Liberal Jewish Synagogue, of London.

LATE DR. KOPLIK LEFT $25,000 FOR RESEARCH

Under the will of Dr. Henry Koplik, specialist in children’s diseases and discoverer of the bacillus of whooping cough, which was filed in the Surrogates’ office Wednesday, Columbia University will receive $15,000 and Mount Sinai Hospital $10,000. Dr. Koplik died on April 30, at the age of 69.

The Columbia bequest is to be used for the establishment of a scholarship for the study of children’s diseases. The income of the $10,000 to Mount Sinai Hospital is to be used by the social service department for the care of children whose parents cannot afford to pay the usual ward fees.

Dr. Koplik was the discoverer of an early diagnostic sign in measles since accepted by the medical profession as “Koplik’s spots”. He was attending physician at the Good Samaritan Dispensary and St. John’s Guild and consulting pediatrist at Mount Sinai Hospital, the Hebrew Orphan Asylum, the Hospital for Deformities and the Jewish Maternity Hospital.

By the terms of the Columbia bequest the net income of the $15,000 is “to be paid every second year to the physician under thirty years old who shall be selected by a committee appointed by the faculty of the College of Physicians and Surgeons for having shown special aptitude for original work in the investigation of the diseases of children.” The recipient is to use this for the further study of said diseases, the will stipulates. The legacy was made in memory of Dr. Koplik’s wife, Stephanie Koplik, and will be known as the “Koplik Children’s Scholarship.”

ADOLPH S. OCHS AWARDED SOCIAL SCIENCE MEDAL

Adolph S. Ochs, publisher of the New York “Times”, was awarded the gold medal of the National Institute of Social Sciences for outstanding public service in the field of American journalism.

Frank B. Noyes, President of the Associated Press, presented the medal to Mr. Ochs at the annual dinner of the Institute in the Waldorf-Astoria Wednesday night. In making the presentation, Mr. Noyes said that Mr. Ochs typifies “the best in American journalism.”

Mr. Ochs is sailing on the Olympic on Friday for Europe.

NEW YORK U. P. A. TO CLOSE AT DINNER MAY 10

The Greater New York United Palestine Appeal will close at a dinner on May 10, at Hotel Astor. The principal speakers will be Judge Otto A. Rosalsky, Greater New York Chairman, and Supreme Court Justice Mitchell May, Brooklyn Chairman. Judge William M. Lewis, national chairman, will be toastmaster. Morris A. Zeldin, campaign director, will render his report on the Appeal.