Hebrew Union College Endowment Fund Passes Million Dollar Mark

(Jewish Daily Bulletin)

One-fourth of the $5,000,000 Endowment Fund for the Hebrew Union College has already been obtained. This information was contained in a letter from Adolph S. Ochs, Chairman of the Campaign, presented to the Executive Board of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, by Ludwig Vogelstein, Chairman of the Board.

The plan for the campaign was proposed in January, 1925, to the twentyninth biennial convention of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations and later approved by the Executive Board. Without public appeal or canvass the endowment fund has already passed the million dollar mark.

Mr. Ochs heads the list of contributors by a subscription for himself and Mrs. Ochs of $200,000. He is followed by Ludwig Vogelstein, $50,000; Felix M. Warburg, $50,000; Henry Morgenthau, $50,000; Murray Guggenheim, $50,000; Mortimer L. Schiff, $50,000; Samuel Untermyer, $50,000; William Fox, $50,000. Other subscriptions include $25,000 from Mr. and Mrs. Philip J. Goodhart of New York; $10,000 given in memory of Dr. Abraham Jacobi; $3,000 from S. G. Rosenbaum of New York, and $500 from Isaac Kuhn of Champaign, III.

In a statement issued, Mr. Ochs declared:

“It is through the Hebrew Union College as an outstanding theological institute that the Jewish religion (stamped with American conception and interpretation) can be taught so our young people may appreciate the greatness of their spiritual inheritance and take pride in their ancestry–making them better citizens and enrolling them in the forward movement of enlightened sects and creeds toward recognition of the universal, rational, progressive thought of the Fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood of Man–the keynote of American Judaism.”

The members of the Endowment Fund Committee are: Louis Bamberger, Newark; Emanuel V. Benjamin, New Orleans; Oscar Berman, Cincinnati; George Brandeis, Omaha; David A. Brown, Detroit; Mortimer Fleischhaker, San Francisco; Nathan Frank, St. Louis; Maurice J. Freidberg, Cincinnati; Philip J. Goodhart, New York; Daniel Guggenheim, New York; Murray Guggenheim, New York; Marco H. Helman, Los Angeles; J. K. Hexter, Dallas; Herold Hirsch, Atlanta; Herbert H. Lehman, New York; Louis Marshall, New York; Henry Morgenthau, New York; Emil Pollak, Cincinnati; Julius Rosenwald, Chicago; S. G. Rosenhaum, New York; A. L. Saltzstein, Milwaukee; Mortimer L. Schiff, New York; Ben Selling, Portland; Meier Steinbrink, Brooklyn; Horace Stern, Philadelphia; Nat Stone, Milwaukee; Samuel Untermyer, New York; Ludwig Vogelstein, New York; Felix M. Warburg, New York; A. Leo Weil, Pittsburgh and A. C. Wurmser, Kansas City.

A World Conference on Faith and Order will be held in Lausanne in August, 1927.