A gift of $75,000 was presented to Dr. Stephen S Wise for the work of the Jewish Institute of Religion, of which he is the president and founder, on the occasion of a dinner, last Sunday evening, at the Institute, in connection with the celebration of his fifty-sixth birthday.
After a series of addresses by Judge Julian W. Mack, chairman of the board of trustees of the Institute; Rabbi Louis I. Newman, of Temple Emanuel, San Francisco, and Rabbi-elect of Rodeph Sholom; Joseph H. Hagedorn, president of Congregation Keneseth Israel, Philadelphia; the representatives of the congregations, including Aaron Wittstein of the Congregation B’nai Israel, Bridgeport, Conn., who presided over the exercises, Nathan Goldenthal of the Astoria Center of Israel, and Henry Alperin, Congregation Ansha Amonim, Pittsfield, Mass., presented a gift of $35,000 as a joint annual congregational contribution for the support of the Institute. Through its president, Rabbi Maurice J. Bloom of Newburgh, N. Y., the Alumni Association added $30,000 to this gift in the form of endowment insurance, and the senior class, soon to be graduated, added a contribution of $10,000.
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