Representatives of Brooklyn’s eight reform congregations will meet in the community house of Temple Beth Elohim, Brooklyn, today to draw up plans for a combined membership drive to cover all of Brooklyn and to reach every Jew in the borough not affiliated with a religious congregation. Among the speakers will be Rabbi William F. Rosenblum, of Temple Israel, New York, and Rabbi Jacob D. Pollak, of the Progressive Synagogue, Brooklyn, who is secretary of the North East Religious Union. The meeting was called by Arnold M. Schmidt, chairman of the Brooklyn committee of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations.
Although the membership drive as planned is entirely a reform movement, hope was expressed by its sponsors that orthodox and conservative congregations in Brooklyn will also benefit by the increased interest in the synagogue aroused by the campaign.
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