The bliennial convention of the Women’s League of the United Synagogue of America opened here today with more than 800 delegates representing nearly 500 Conservative sisterhoods throughout the United States in attendance. The League, organized 33 years ago, has a membership of 100,000. The convention will continue through Thursday.
Mrs. Barnett E. Kopelman, president of the League, announced that the convention will undertake a program to introduce “Judaism into the home.” The program will seek to create in America “20th-century homes based on 30 centuries of Jewish thought, tradition and culture.”
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