without demanding that Federation members belong to the synagogue.
Professor Cohon expressed his gratification that Rabbi Mordecai M. Kaplan of New York, head of the Society for the Advancement of Judaism, had been introduced as a faculty member of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, a conservative body. This, he said, is an indication that reform and conservative groups have a community of interest and spirit. He recommended the Chicago plan of co-operation of synagogues within a city to wipe out un-Godly competition between groups.”
Rabbi Fox objected to the Stern plan, holding that it offered no plan for re-Judaizing the people even after they became interested in social work; Rabbi Felix Levy forecast that the State would soon take over social work. Rabbi Jacobson said that he had suggested a plan similar to the Stern plan thirty-one years ago in an article published in a paper of which he was then the editor.
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