Philadelphia Federation Raises $1,643,597 in a Ten-day Intensive Drive

(Jewish Daily Bulletin)

The campaign of the Federation of Jewish Charities of this city was brought to a close Thursday night when the sum of $1,643,597 was reported as having been raised. This amount. raised within ten days, represents a sum of $43,000 in excess of the quota of $1,600,000 sought.

The drive for $1,600,000 represented the largest amount ever sought by the Federation for the maintenance of its fifty-three institutions. The total number of subscribers enrolled in the past ten days is 22,674.

The women’s division, under the leadership of Mrs. Isidore Kohn, enrolled 16,328 subscribers representing donations of $359,000.

The two thousand workers in the camjaign attended the closing banquet at the Hotel Benjamin Franklin. Albert H. Lieberman. the chairman of the drive, presided. Judge Horace Stern. Jacob D. Lit, Albert M. Greenfield. Ellis A. Gimbel, Dr. Cyrus Adler, Jacob Billikopf. Mr. Justin P. Allman and Mrs. Isidore Kohn spoke.

A contribution of $5,000 from Rodman Wanamaker in behalf of the John Wanamaker Company was announced.

NEW YIDDISH THEATRE OPENS IN NEW YORK

The new Schulman-Goldbeng Public Theatre, on Second Avenue and Fourth Street. New York, was opened Thursday night, with a Yiddish version of Emmerich Kaiman’s operetta, “Parisian Love” The theatre seats 1,743.

H. Craig Severance and Major David M. Oltarsh designed the house.

The Jewish Home for the Aged of Rochester. N. Y. will henoeforth be known as the Jewish Home for the Agad and the Infirm, according to a docision made at the annual meeting. The home decided to alter its policy so as to ## aged persons who are totally or jurtly disabled to be admitted.

Lester Nusbaum was reelected president for the sixth year.

PRESIDENT OF CENTRAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN RABBIS TAKES ISSUE WITH DR. FOSTER

{NOTE}(Communication to the Editor){/NOTE}Sir:

I have read with interest the communication of Rabbi Solomon Foster in your issue of Jan. 26 with reference to the platform of Social Justice presented last week to the Council of the Union of American Hebrew Congregaeions. I do not care to argue with Rabbi Poster his opposition to the Committee’s program of Social Justice, save that no friend of the report is indebted to Rabbi Foster for his support of the Program of Social Justice.

What I do care to demur to in his letter, is his rather careless handling of facts. He states that Rabbi Silver of Cleveland spoke in opposition to the resolutions. Rabbi Silver can himself say whether this is true or not, but I do not recall that Rabbi Silver arose at any phase of the discussion save to suggest some other phrasing of one of the principles, and I followed the discussion with great care.

Rabbi Foster claims that I “admitted that the report of the Social Justice Commission has been largely influenced by” his own study of the “Workingman and the Synagogue.” He misunderstood my statement. Perhaps it needed a sense of humor to comprehend my quip, for I may not have expressed myself clearly.

Rabbi Foster opposed with vigor the Committee’s principle of “The duty of the synagogue and its pulpit to speak courageously on the rights of labor and for the victims of social and economic injustice as part of its prophetic function to speak the truth”, and to offset his resistance to this principle, I stated that this principle was inspired by his study of “The Workingman and the Synagogue.” The statements of his paper which I had in mind were sentences such as: “It is no doubt true that some of the working people are not drawn to the Synagogue because it is almost wholly under the control of the wealthy classes” and “The method of the Synagogue support is also a bar to the participation of the poor in public worship…. It is an expense hard to meet by our working people to associate themselves with many of our Synagogues”. to which Rabbi Foster replied that he was not sure what part of his study I had in mind, but that it was possble he had himself changed his mind since he wrote that paper in 1910. I very much fear that this is so when one compares his sentences of 1910 with his opposition in 1927. I wish it were possible for the Committee on Social Justice to acknowledge indebtedness to Rabbi Foster for its Report. Most of our gratitude must be given him for his denaturing of principle 7. and his declaration in favor of an axiom. He reports 15 as having voted against his denatured clause. I am surprised that there were any.

It is absolutely untrue that Dr. Lee K Frankel withdrew his signature from the report. Dr. Frankel arose to state that he objected to a paragraph in the original draft of the report, and when the chairman explained to Dr. Frankel that this particular paragraph had been eliminated before presentation to the Council, he was satisfied.

Rabbi Foster misstates principle 6. The final wording is as follows: “The duty of the synagogue and its pulpit to speak courageously on the rights of labor equally with other economic groups.”

LOUIS WOLSEY.Philadelphia, Jan. 27. 1927.

HABIMA TO PRESENT “GOLEM”; MOVES TO NEW THEATRE

“The Golem” will be presented by the Habima players at the Irving Place Theatre on Wednesday, February 2. An agreement between S. Hurok, manager of the Habima, and Max Wilner, owner of the rights to Leivick’s play, has made possible the production.

Mr. Hurok will be associated with Mr. Wilner and Edwin Relkin in this production.

The new Synagogue House of the Central Synagogue, New York, which is to house the social organization of the synagogue, the religious school. the offices of the Synagogue and the Rabbi’s library, will be dedicated this afternoon at 3 P. M. It occupies a five-story building at 35 East Sixty-Second Street.