The 32d Council of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, which will meet in this city on January 18 to 22, 1931, will consider “The Challenge of Modern Thought and Life to the Synagogue” in the symposium which forms an important part of its program. There are to be three sessions, the first of which is to be devoted to “Youth and Religion”; and the third to “Judaism as Expressed in Life.”
In view of the approaching convention, the two local Reform congregations, Keneseth Israel and Rodeph Shalom, are preparing to act as hosts to some 1,500 delegates whom they expect from all parts of the country. Philadelphia has twice before served as host to the Union’s biennial conference, once in 1877 and again in 1909. The local committee is under the leadership of Nathan Baum, chairman; Miss Jeanette Miriam Goldberg and Mrs. Moses Lieberman, vice-chairmen.
There are today 283 congregations affiliated with the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, comprising a membership of 61,545. The Union was founded in 1873 by Dr. Isaac Mayer Wise of Cincinnati for the purpose of strengthening reform Judaism in America. The Hebrew Union College, established in 1875 by Dr. Wise, was its first creation.
Other activities of the Union are carried on through the Department of Synagogue and School Extension, the National Federation of Temple Sisterhoods and the National Federation of Temple Brotherhoods.
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