(By our Baltimore Correspondent)
Pledging aid to the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America in establishing a house for Jewish students in Baltimore, and another, perhaps at College Park, Md., resolutions were adopted Sunday, March 18, by the Woman’s Branch and the Council of Orthodox Jewish congregations of Baltimore. The Unversity of Maryland is located at College Park.
A letter from Dr. Frank J. Goodnow, president of the Johns Hopkins University, expressing sympathy with the movement was read.
“I am greatly in sympathy with the movement,” Dr. Goodnow said, in part, “and believe that if it were generally adopted it would solve some of the perplexing questions which arise with regard to religious teachings in institutions which are strictly nondenominational in character.”
Conferences will be held with the authorities of the Johns Hopkins University and the University of Maryland as to the best location for the houses, which will be planned as centers for social and religious activities of Jewish students, including religious study groups and services.
Establishment of a five-day week throughout the United States also was advocated in a resolution by the Baltimore council. Edward F. McGrady, legislative representative in Washington of the American Federation of Labor, in an address advocated a fiveday work week as a help toward relieving unemployment in the country.
Opposition to organizations designed for the express purpose of evangelizing Jews was expressed Sunday, March 18, by Dr. John W. Herring, chairman of the National Conference of Jews and Christians, in an address at the HarSinai Temple.
Dr. Herring said he was not opposed to persons endeavoring to bring others to “see the light as they saw it,” but that he was opposed to the singling out of any group for evangelization, or the “looking down” upon any group, which, he added, “was an insult to the Divine Father.”
He further maintained that evangelization should not be hidden under the guise of social work, in which efforts would be made through “icecream parties” to evangelize. He called such methods “profoundly unfair.”
Leon S. Elsberg has been awarded a gold medal for being the outstanding literary student at Baltimore, Md. City College. He is president of the Carrollton-Wight Literary Society at the high school. Third prize was given to Macey Kronsberg.
New regulations for the distribution of sacramental wine by rabbis have been put into effect, according to an announcement by John F. J. Herbert, Federal Prohibition Administrator for Maryland and the District of Columbia.
In the matter of permits to withdraw wine from Government-controlled storage warehouses, Mr. Herbert said, the regulations have been liberalized. but in the distribution the regulations tend to place responsibility for “leaks” upon the permittee.
This latter phase, Mr. Herbert explained, makes it incumbent upon the rabbi, to whom it is permitted to sell and distribute sacramental wines, to store the wines in the synagogue or his own home. No one except the rabbi in person, or some individual of the congregation delegated officially by him, is allowed to dispense wines, he added.
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