The 550 congregations that constitute the Reform movement in American Judaism inaugurated today an observance of March as “American Judaism Month” to commemorate the life and achievements of the late Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise, founder of the movement in the Western Hemisphere and its principal leader for more than a quarter of a century.
A. B. Polinsky of Duluth, Minn. , general chairman of the Combined Campaign for American Reform Judaism, which is sponsoring the observance, greeted today’s opening of the month-long fete with a special message to the Reform movement’s more than 1,100 rabbis and congregational presidents. He urged them to focus the attention of the Reform movement’s congregants “especially on the needs of the Combined Campaign, “which has a goal of $2,619,433 representing the 1957-58 financial requirements of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations and the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion.
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