Religious Leaders Consulted on Moral Training for Soldiers

(Jewish Daily Bulletin)

Leading religious leaders of the nation were invited by the War Department to attend a conference here, May 4-6, to survey the religious necessities of the army and to recommend changes which may intensify the general program of moral training for soldiers. In the group asked to participate are more than twenty-five clergymen and laymen of New York, including Cardinal Hayes, Bishops Herbert Shipman, Charles H. Brent and Luther B. Wilson, Evangeline Booth, Dr. Cyrus Adler, the Rev. S. Parkes Cadman and John R. Mott.

The meeting was described by Secretary of War Davis as a “pan-sectarian conference.” A similar meeting, Mr. Davis stated, was held in June, 1923, when recommendations for the advancement of the moral and religious life of soldiers were made and are now in effect.

REFORM RABBI PREDICTS RELIGIOUS INTEREST WILL BE REVIVED IN AMERICA

A revival of Jewish religious interest in America was predicted by Dr. Julian Morgenstern, president of the Hebrew Union College of Cincinnati, and Rabbi Michael Aaronsohn, blind war hero, and field secretary for the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, at a meeting of the Association of Reform Rabbis, at the Cafe Boulevard, New York, yesterday. The speakers declared that the Jewish layman’s interest in his faith was steadily increasing. Dr. Rudolph Grossman, of Temple Rodolph Sholom, presided.

Dr. Morgenstern described the recent library and museum acquisitions of the Hebrew Union College, and declared that they would lend impetus to scholarship and research in America. Scholars from all parts of the world, he said, will come to this country to avail themselves of the collection in the Hebrew Union College library.

Rabbi Aaronsohn’s address occasioned considerable interest. He has just returned from a tour of the South and Southwest where he spoke before more than one hundred groups, religious bodies and war veterans organizations. He is about to start on a lecture tour of the New England states on behalf of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations.