Chicago Rabbis Advocate “jewish Book Week”

(Jewish Daily Bulletin)

The Chicago Rabbinical Association at its last regular meeting expressed itself in favor of the idea of a “Jewish Book Week”, as advocated by Rabbi S. Felix Mendelsohn of Temple Beth Israel, in a letter published in the “Jewish Daily Bulletin”, April 14, 1927.

The association urged all rabbis in Chicago to arrange a “Book Sabbath” on Saturday following Lag B’Omer.

“I feel that the ‘Jewish Daily Bulletin’ is the ideal medium for spreading this idea among the rabbis of the United States,” said Rabbi Mendelsohn in an interview with the Chicago correspondent. “Although it is too early to hear from rabbis outside of Chicago, I expect a big response to my letter. My local friends among the congregation leaders are hearty in their support of the idea and assure me wholehearted support by the rabbis of my own city. I shall be glad indeed to hear from rabbis in other cities, either in direct correspondence or through the ‘Jewish Daily Bulletin’.”

Y.M.C.A. TO COOPERATE WITH Y.M.H.A. IN DRIVE

Cooperation between the Young Men’s Hebrew Association and the Young Men’s Christian Association in their respective campaigns which are to take place in May for building funds is forecast in a letter from Cleveland H. Dodge, President of the Young Men’s Christian Association to Judge Joseph M. Proskauer, President of the Young Men’s Hebrew Association, made public yesterday.

“You can rest assured,” Mr. Dodge wrote in answer to a letter from Justice Proskauer, “that we are all boosting in the community for your work as well as our own, and that we will be willing to cooperate in any way that may seem practical.”

The campaign of the Y.M.H.A. which is scheduled to begin on May first is for a fund of $1,500,000 for the erection of an eleven-story fire-proof building, adjacent to its present building at 92 Street and Lexington Avenue.

Among the recipients of the sixty-nine awards of fellowships and scholarships announced by Columbia University are Melville Jacobs, New York City in Anthropology; Anita E. Klein of Alden, Iowa, who received the Drisler Fellowship in the Classies; Albert Abrahamson of Portland, Me., the Garth Fellowship in Economics.

The Schiff Fellowship went to J. Emilie Young, in History, with Abram L. Harris, New York City, alternate in Economics. The Stroock Scholarships went to Abraham S. Halkin, New York City, in Semitic Languages Meyer Schapiro of Brooklyn, N. Y., was named alternate for a Carnegie Scholarship in Fine Arts.

Dr. Albert Einstein joined with Henri Barbusse and Romaine Rolland in sending a cablegram to President Coolidge asking clemency for Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. The cablegram was forwarded to Governor Fuller of Massachusetts by Secretary Kellogg.