Differences of opinion within the leadership of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations on the question of moving the organization’s administrative headquarters from this city to New York were reported here over the week-end.
Two factions in the Union have been formed–one supporting and one opposing the resolution adopted by the group’s executive board last April in which it was decided to move the executive headquarters of the Union to New York, “retaining in Cincinnati, either permanently or at least for the immediate future, such departments as may tare efficiently and economically be operated there.”
A national committee of lay Union leaders will soon petition the 365 congregations comprising the U.A.H.C. to persuade delegates to the organization’s convention in Boston in November to defeat the executive board’s resolution, it was announced here today. Those favoring retention of this city as the group’s national headquarters point to the fact that operating from Cincinnati, the U.A.H.C. has grown from a today of 34 to 365 congregations and that geographically the Cincinnati location is ideal.”
She group which supports the resolution claims that New York is potentially an untapped source of new members, that more than 40 percent of the nation’s Reform Temples are situated on the eastern seaboard and that more than 50 percent of America Jews live within the confines of metropolitan New York.
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