Twenty-seven members of Congregation Ansche Liebowitz, Newark, N. J., voted on the question of a location for a proposed new house of worship. Fourteen upheld the action of a committee in undertaking to acquire a site at Avon Avenue and Thirteenth Street, and thirteen opposed it.
Chancery has been asked by Louis Kasen of the minority whether fourteen members of a congregation of seventy can bind it in the face of an alleged provision in its constitution requiring a two-thirds vote.
Vice Chancellor Backes ordered the officers of the congregation to show cause January 12 why they should not be restrained from buying the site.
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