“Personal Religion” will be the first topic upon which the Honorable Lily H. Montague, J. P., will speak in the United States. Her contributions to liberal and progressive Judaism are known the world over, and her American followers have been anxious to hear from her at first hand.
Miss Montague, who arrived this week from London on the Olympic, is the guest of Mrs. Henry Moskowitz. She will remain in New York until January 1st, and then will visit other American cities to fill speaking engagements. He first talk is tonight at the West End Synagogue, where she will discuss “Personal Religion.”
On Saturday morning, Miss Montague will speak at the Central Synagogue. Her subject then will be, “Know Before Whom Thou Standeth.” And on Sunday morning, she will be heard at the Temple Emanuel on “Why Pray?”
The distinguished woman speaker, writer, and religious and social worker’s chief purpose in coming to the United States is to attend the biennial council of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, which is to meet in Philadelphia January 18th to 22th, 1931. Miss Montague is honorary secretary of the World Union for Progressive Judaism.
The Hon. Lily Montague was the first woman to receive the honorary degree of Doctor of Hebrew Law from the Hebrew Union College. The degree was conferred upon her in absentia at the 45th graduation exercises of the institution. She is also the first woman Justice of the Peace in England.
As part of her social work, Miss Montague was the organizer of a Jewish Girls Club in London, which has some 900 members. “Many of them have come to America and settled, and married,” she said on her arrival here. “And I shall be very happy to meet them while I am here. Oh, yes, I have been corresponding with them.”
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