The Hebrew Union College School for Teachers in New York City will open for its seventh year of work in its new quarters in the Community Center of Congregation Emanu-El, New York City, on September 23.
Registration of students, beginning on September 23, will continue until October 10. Entrance examinations will be given on October 7 and 8, and sessions of all classes will begin on Tuesday night, October 15.
Abraham N. Franzblau, principal of the Hebrew Union College School for Teachers, announced that the faculty of the School will be augmented by the addition of two new instructors, Abraham S. Halkin, instructor in the department of Semitics at Columbia University, who will teach Hebrew, and Dr. Simon Cohen, member of the Editorial Board of the new Jewish Encyclopedia, who will teach Bible.
Rabbi B. Leon Hurwitz of the Bay Ridge Jewish Center has accepted a call to Temple B’nai Sholom, Brooklyn, N. Y., to succeed Rabbi Marcus Friedlander. Rabbi Hurwitz will be installed this evening.
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