Committee to Further Boy Scout Movement Among Jewish Youth is Organized

With Dr. Cyrus Adler, President of Dropsied College of Philadelphia and Acting President of the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City, as Chairman, a National Jewish Boy Scout Committee has been organized, according to an announcement from the National Offices of the Boy Scouts of America. The aim of the Jewish Committee on Scouting will be to promote the formation and administration of Scout Troops in Synagogues, Jewish Centers and other Jewish institutions, and to stimulate community interest in Scouting among Jewish boys.

The Jewish Committee on Scouting was initiated by Mortimer L. Schiff, who is also the International Scout Commissioner and Vice President of the Boy Scouts of America. The officers of the Jewish Committee on Scouting, as chosen by the Committee, are: Chairman Dr. Cyrus Adler; Treasurer, Judge Edgar A. Lauer, of New York City; Secretary, Mr. Harry L. Glucksman, of the Jewish Welfare Board; and Vice-Chairman, Rabbi Israel Goldstein, of the Young People’s League of the United Synagogue of America; Dr. deSola Pool, of the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations and Dr. Alexander Lyons of the Central Conference of American Rabbis.

A pamphlet, “Scouting for the Jewish Boy” has been prepared for the use of Jewish Scouts, and to interest people of the Jewish faith in Scouting. It will be the purpose of the Jewish Committee on Scouting to keep in touch with all Scouting work among Jewish boys throughout the United States.

DID NOT ENDORSE ENGLISH TALMUD TRANSLATION

Communication to the Editor:

Sir:

In response to inquiries from many eities may I state through your columns that I know nothing of Rabbi Jerome Widlsky’s proposed translation of the Talmud? I am asked to say the same for Mr. Louis Hurwich, Superintendent of the Boston Bureau of Jewish Education. According to some of them inquiries we are represented as members of a committee to raise funds for this purpose. The representation. if made, is false.

Rabbi Widlsky once left some proof sheets of an entirely different work with me for comment and advice. I wrote him a letter encouraging him to go ahead, at the same time pointing out the difficulties involved in the task. I am now informed that this letter has been reproduced without my consent in his printed book in such a way as to indicate to the causal reader that it is intended as a critical approval of the finished work. An order for the book from Mr. Hurwich is similarly misused. I have written to the Rabbi forbidding the further use of my letter, but failing to hear from him and continuing to receive new inquires and complaints. I am forced to make this public statement.

Yours respectfully.

NATHAN ISAACS. Professor of Business Law.

Harvard University.

Boston. April 8, 1926