The United Synagogue of America, representing lay leaders of Conservative Jewry, closed its biennial convention tonight at the Willard Hotel, re-electing Louis J. Moss, of Brooklyn, president.
Previously, the Women’s League had heard Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt declare that progress cannot be achieved “without strengthening the spiritual and moral values first.”
Introduced by Mrs. Samuel Spiegel, who was re-elected president of the league, Mrs. Roosevelt stated that “such organizations as the Women’s League of the United Synagogue of America are very important today, for they have those qualities that we so much need under present conditions.”
She added that in all our relations “we must recognize that the spiritual life must be strengthened. Concepts are changing. New objectives are before us. There would be fewer problems today if all people approached them with a desire to do the right for others as well as themselves.”
Mrs. Nathan A. Schatz, of Hartford, addressing a symposium meeting, urged women to support organizations furthering international ideas. “We must strive to establish a better understanding between Jew and non-Jew so that our children may have some security and peace in this land of ours,” she said. “We cannot confine ourselves to the home as our mothers did before us.”
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