Rabbi Samuel M. Cohen, executive director of the United Synagogue of America, will meet local rabbis tomorrow at a luncheon, and he will confer Thursday night with members of the boards of affiliated congregations and representatives of men’s clubs, sisterhoods and young people’s organizations.
Rabbi Cohen will arrive in Pittsburgh tomorrow morning after conducting Day of Atonement services for Jewish students at Penn State College on Wednesday. From Pittsburgh he will proceed to Detroit.
His conferences with local religious leaders are directed toward making preliminary arrangements for the organization of a midwestern Pennsylvania branch of the United Synagogue which will include all congregations affiliated with the national organization, as well as auxiliary men’s clubs, sisterhoods and young people’s leagues.
This move is aimed at strengthening Conservative Judaism through the section and at creating an organization through which established congregations can help smaller communities which have no organized religious life. Reports on the present status of such communities are expected to be given to Rabbi Cohen Thursday.
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