First Meeting of Advisory Board of “jewish Current Events” Next Sunday

The first meeting of the Advisory Board of “Jewish Current Events,” Jewish youth publication, the first issue of which, published by the Jewish Daily Bulletin, will appear on October 28th, will take place on October 30th at three o’clock at the Central Jewish Institute.

A number of leading educators and representatives of central Jewish organizations, who constitute the Advisory Board, are expected to attend.

The publication of “Jewish Current Events” by the Jewish Daily Bulletin continues to elicit widespread commendation.

Judge Horace Stern of Philadelphia, communal leader and chairman of the Executive Committee of the American Jewish Committee, declared:

“I think it extremely important that students in the religious schools should be properly informed of what is going on in the world and that their interest in the history, ideals and aspirations of the Jewish people will be stimulated and enhanced if they are kept aware of current problems and are thus made to realize the continuity of Jewish history and Jewish life.”

Rabbi Morris Newfield, of Birmingham, Alabama, president of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, stated:

“The magazine, thus far, has had, as I understand it, but a limited circulation. I believe that the change of auspices will make it a weekly paper to be used throughout the Jewish Religious Schools of America. Under the new direction, our young people will be furnished all news of genuine interest concerning Jewish people in every part of the world. Doubtless the educational value of this paper should be increased tremendously.”

Professor Albert Einstein’s message which is to appear in the paper’s first issue, calling for the Jews to help cultivate an international mind through the education of their youth, has been made the subject of comment in sermons preached over the week-end.

Rabbi Jacob Katz of Montefiore Congregation said:

“The first we have heard from Professor Albert Einstein since he accepted a life professorship in the new Institute for Advanced Study was that the Jewish youth be educated in problems of Jewish life with the purpose in view that the international spirit be cultivated which is everywhere menaced by narrow nationalism.

“As a man he understands that the world is suffering because of injustice and nationalism. As a Jew his presence and speech in this country will be helpful in the realization of his message for which Israel will immortalize his name.”

Dr. Ernst R. Trattner of Mount Neboh Temple stated:

“The greatest Jew in the world today is Albert Einstein and his recent pronouncement on the cultivation of the international mind again places him in the forefront of spiritual leadership. Has Christianity any one today comparable to Gandhi or Einstein, any one who by sheer strength of moral power could challenge men to seek a clearer and more intensified realization of our human inter-relatedness?”