Congregations were asked to use only Jewish music and Jewish singers for Sabbath services and such rites as Kiddush in a resolution adopted today at the 35th council of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations.
Other resolutions were adopted petitioning the Hebrew Union College to re-establish its chair of Jewish music and recommending that the Union make educational moving pictures.
A resolution was sent to President Roosevelt felicitating him on the occasion of his second inauguration.
Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver, presiding last night at a discussion of “The Synagogue and the Non-Jewish World,” declared that the major concern of the synagogue was not anti-Semitism but reconstruction of society.
Rev. Andrew Gottschall, Baltimore, said that the 1928 Presidential campaign brought to life the opposition against religious prejudice and social discrimination on the basis of religious difference.
Samuel B. Finkol, New York, said that the synagogue could do little about anti-Semitism,adding that it should not try to do even that since anti-Semitism was irrational, incurable and inescapable.
Robert P. Goldman, Cincinnati, was elected president of the Union at today’s session.
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