(Jewish Daily Bulletin)
The “Committee of One Hundred,” the Orthodox group which brought suit against Rabbi Solomon Goldman of the Jewish Center, issued a statement here in reply to the resolution adopted by the Executive Committee of the Rabbinical Assembly in which the “Committee of One Hundred” was criticized for bringing the question to a civil court. The statement read:
“The Cleveland Committee in meeting assembled voices its protest against the resolutions adopted by the Rabbinical Assembly and the United Synagogue before having obtained information from our committee and before informing itself of the many attempts made by us in cause of justice and of the many appeals in the cause of righteousness without avail previous to our coming into court.
“The Rabbinical Assembly and the United Synagogue before passing the resolutions should have been informed by Rabbi Solomon Goldman that in March 1925, our committee brought our grievance to the attention of Dr.Cyrus Adler, president of the Jewish Theological Seminary, who acted nobly in our cause and appealed to Rabbi Goldman not to make any changes at least before a conference could be held. Rabbi Goldman ignored Dr. Adler’s appeal and his advice, as he ignored the Agudath Harabonim and as he ignored us all. A letter from our committee to Rabbi Elias Solomon, then president of the United Synagogue. was entirely mored with not even the courtesy of reply. A crime against Orthodox Jewry. as has never before been perpetrated in the history of Judaism, should have drawn the attention of the Rabbinical Assembly and United Synagogue long before the case came into the courts. They are three years late with their resolutions.
“Let the Rabbinical Assembly and the United Synagogue be informed that is not a group of men fighting a congregation, it is rather an entire congregation fighting a small group of men selected and led by Rabbi Goldman to commit unjust acts against an entire congregation, acts which are not only foreign to the spirit of Judaism but also foreign to the spirit of American laws and ideals,” the statement declares.
The statement was signed by A. A. Katz in behalf of the committee.
The campaign for $42,000 for the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of Harrisbarg, Pa., was successfully completed. it was announced by Paul Goldblatt executive secretary of the organization.
Forty-four organizations will share in the funds of the federation. A considerable portion of the funds will go toward the U. J. C. and U. P. A.
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