More than twenty organizations in Brooklyn have banded together and formed a Brooklyn Branch of the United Synagogue of America, with the object of providing joint action on Brooklyn’s Jewish religious life.
This action was taken at a Conference of Jewish Leaders held at the Brooklyn Jewish Centre under the auspices of the United Synagogue of America and was attended by more than fifty Rabbis and representatives of congregations.
The Conference voted to establish a Committee on Education, whose object will be to bring about cooperation between the religious schools in Brooklyn affiliated with United Synagogue congregations. It was also decided to appoint a committee on extension work which will endeavor to lend assistance to the smaller and less organized congregations and communities in the district.
The chairman of the Conference was Louis J. Moss, national president of the United Synagogue of America, who acted in the absence, because of illness, of Rabbi Israel L. Levinthal.
The following officers were elected for the Brooklyn Branch: President: Martin Wechsler of the Flatbush Jewish Centre; Vice-presidents: Henry Seinfel, secretary of the Brooklyn Jewish Centre; Professor A. Broderick Cohen of Hunter College; Corresponding Secretary: Philip L. Lifshutz, Cong. Mt. Sinai; Recording Secretary: Louis Linden, Cong. Shaareh Torah; Treasurer: Samuel Rothstein, Midwood Jewish Centre.
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