Jewish boys were provided with kosher meals at the Boy Scout Camp conducted by the Rochester Scout Council, a report of the season’s activities made public by Arthur W. McKinney, Scout Executive, shows. The initiative for providing Jewish boy scouts with kosher meals was taken by the Scout Council itself. In its annual check-up on all its troops, the Council found that the reason Jewish boys did not appear at camp in the proportion they do in all other activities, was that parents were adverse to sending them to camp because of the non-kosher meals.
After a conference with Jewish leaders, arrangements were made for Jewish boys to go to camp on one of the four fortnight periods, when kosher food was provided.
This summer, with the removal of the camp to Seneca Lake, provision was made for a complete separate kitchen and a Jewish cook engaged. Both the Jewish community and the Council co-operated in the enterprise and the Kosher Camp is now an established institution. More than 100 boys availed themselves of the opportunity, the report shows.
Only one Jew was elected to office from this city last week. He was Haskell Marks, president of the Jewish Young Men’s Association and for many years prior to the inauguration of the City Manager plan this year, an alderman of the city. He was this year elected to the State Assembly, representing one of the most populous Jewish districts of the city.
The speaker for the celebration of the Eightieth Anniversary of Temple Berith Kodesk in December will be Rabbi William H. Fineshriber of Philadelphia.
Among the officers and speakers of the New York State Conference on Social Work, that is meeting in Rochester this week, are Miss Cecil B. Weiner of Buffalo, Vice-President; Armand Wyle of Rochester and Dr. Leon W. Goldrich, members of the Executive Committee; Nathan Bijur, Dr. Lee K. Frankel and Solomon Lowenstein of New York and Judge Samuel J. Harris of Buffalo, members of the Advisory Council. Among the speakers will be Dr. David M. Levy, chief of the Institute for Child Guidance, of New York; and Miss Mary E. Boretz, of the Home Bureau of the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society of New York.
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