Golub Defends Jewish Institutions

A vigorous defense of Jewish health institutions for Jews was uttered here today by Dr. Jacob J. Golub, director of the Hospital for Joint Diseases, New York, speak-in gat a general session of the National Conference of Jewish Social Service. The session was part of the joint four-day convention at the Hotel St. Charles of that group, the National Association of Jewish Center Executives and the National Council for Jewish Education.

“It is traditional with the Jew to have his own institutions, wherever he dwells,” Dr. Golub declared. “It is one of the many ways in which he gives self-expression to his cultural and philanthropic stirrings.”

SEGREGATED BY OTHERS

Outlining the various arguments put up against such special institutions for Jews, Dr. Golub declared:

“Whether Jews will or will not segregate themselves, others have segregated them and there is evidence that they will continue to do so in the future. Now, more than ever, efforts to assimilate the Jews have become hopeless.”

Jewish institutions are an expression of Jewish life, Dr. Golub said.

Abraham Epstein of the American Association for Social Security pleaded for the inauguration of a system of compulsory contributory insurance for workers “similar to those now in operation in most countries abroad.”

Mr. Epstein spoke during the afternoon in a discussion on “A Community Program for Care of Jewish Aged,” under the chairmanship of I. M. Rubinow, executive secretary of the B’nai B’rith. Other speakers during the day included:

Charles F. Wilinsky, Beth Israel Hospital, Boston; Michael M. Davis, Julius Rosenwald Fund, Chicago; Blanche Renard, Jewish Federation, St. Louis; Mrs. Alice M. Brennan, Brooklyn; Francis Bardwell, Massachusetts Bureau of Old Age Assistance; Mrs. William G. Lewi, Home for Aged and Infirm Hebrews, New York; Dr. Ernest P. Boas, New York; Maurice Bernstein, Hebrew Orphan Asylum, New York.

Elias N. Trotzkey, Marks Nathan Jewish Orphan Home, Chicago; Aaron D. Faber, Pauline Sterne Wolff Memorial Home, Houston; Leela L. Gainsburg, Hebrew Orphan Asylum, Brooklyn; Maurice Stollerman, Jewish Orphanage of Providence, R. I.; Rose Chenitz, Jewish Home for the Friendless, Scranton; Lionel J. Simonds, Hebrew Orphan Asylum, New York; Arthur A. Fleisher, Home for Aged and Infirm Israelites, Philadelphia.

Dr. Frederick Zeman, Home for Aged and Infirm Hebrews, New York; Ludwig B. Bernstein, Federation of Jewish Philanthropies, Pittsburgh; Charles Rosenbloom, Federation of Jewish Philanthropies, Pittsburgh; Harry L. Glucksman, Jewish Welfare Board, New York; Aaron Robinson, Y.M.H.A., Newark; Rabbi William H. Fineshriber, Philadelphia; Emanuel Gamoran, Commission on Jewish Education, Cincinnati.

Samson G. Benderly, Bureau of Jewish Education, New York; George W. Rabinoff, National Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds; Joseph A. Schlossberg, Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union, New York, and Ben M. Selekman, Associated Jewish Philanthropies, Boston.

PARLEY ENDS TODAY

A business session of the National Association of Jewish Center Executives was held during the morning, and the National Council for Jewish Education met in business session in the afternoon.

The convention will close tomorrow with a business session of the National Conference of Jewish Social Service and of the Jewish teachers’ section of the National Council for Jewish Education. Speakers tomorrow will include Maurice Taylor, Ben M. Selekman, Solomon Lowenstein, Ben Edidin, Israel Unterberg, Elias Picheng and Joseph Elkin.