Organization of the South Carolina Association of Synagogues and Schools Extension was affected here as a result of the recent state-wide conference held under auspices of the Southeastern Conference Union of American Hebrew Congregations. The newly-established association elected Wendell M. Levi, of Sumter, chairman; Isador Blank, Charleston, vice-chairman; Mrs. Julian Hennig, Columbia, corresponding secretary, and Mrs. Sol Kohn, Columbia, recording secretary.
State conferences are to be held every two years and a program of bringing Jewish religious instruction to families in rural and unorganized communities and to Jewish college students is to be sponsored in accordance with the Union of American Hebrew Congregations.
More than 300 Jewish citizens of South Carolina, representing reform congregations, sisterhoods and brotherhoods, affiliated organizations of the Union, assembled for the conference at Columbia. It was the first of a series to be held in North and South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi, Alabama and Tennessee.
Rabbi Gustav F. Falk, of Cincinnati field director for the Union, presented a statistical survey of South Carolina showing there are four congregations in the state belonging to the Union with two reformed rabbis; eleven organized sisterhoods and two brotherhoods; sixty communities with one to five Jewish families; eight with five to ten families; twelve with ten to twenty families; three with twenty to thirty families and one with thirty to forty families. There are 108 Jewis’ students in the colleges throughout the state.
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