Not all hospitals in New York City admit authorized Mohelim to perform the religious rite of circumcision, according to the findings of a survey conducted by the Rabbinical Council of the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations.
Dr. Leo Jung, president of the Council, announced the results of the survey. The French, the Lenox Hill, the Lying In, the Presbyterian and Sloane Hospitals do not grant facilities to an authorized Mohel to enter the hospital, thus making it practically impossible to fulfill the religious rite of circumcision in these institutions, Dr. Jung declared.
An authorized Mohel is granted facilities to carry out the religious rite in the following hospitals: Bellevue & Allied Hospitals, City Hospital (Welfare Island). Community Hospital, Fifth Avenue Hospital, Flower Hospital, Fordham Hospital, Gouverneur Hospital, Harlem Hospital, Knickerbocker Hospital, Lincoln Hospital, Lutheran Hospital, Manhattan Maternity, Misericordia Hospital, N. Y. Infirmary for Women & Children, N. Y. Nursery & Child’s Hospital, Polyclinic Hospital, and Women’s Hospital.
In all the Jewish hospitals, it need hardly be added, facilities are given for carrying out the religious rite, the Council president declared.
On Sunday evening the Jewish War Veterans of the United States will be the hosts to several hundred disabled veterans from Hospital No. S1. Kingsbridge Road, Bronx, and Brooklyn Naval Hospital, at a concert in Carnegie Hall. Assemblyman Julius S. Berg is Commander-in-Chief of the Jewish War Veterans:
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