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THE JEWISH CHRONICLE

DEBATE WILL BE FEATURE RABBI MAX J. MERRITT IS
OFFERED PULPIT AT
OF B'NAI B'RITH OPEN
GRAND RAPIDS
MEETING

"Shall Secrecy Be Abolished Leader of Evansville, Ind., Con-
Within the Order?" Is Topic.
gregation Receives Call From

Forensic eloquence will reign su-
preme on Monday evening, f lay
29th, when four members of the
legal profession, who are also mem-
bers of Pisgah Lodge, will meet in
debate upon the question of abolish-
ing secrecy within the order.
Messrs. Max Finkelston and Samuel
J. Rhodes will speak affirmatively,
while Messrs. Nathaniel H. Gold-
stick and Louis Cohn will uphold
the negative.
All of the participants in the de-
bate are well known local public
speakers. Mr. Nathaniel H. Gold-
stick ranks among the foremost ora-
tors graduated from the University
of Michigan in recent years, while
Messrs. Louis Cohn and Max Fin-
kelston are both recognized as
powerful speakers. Besides tilt de-
bate, which is scheduled as the main
feature of the evening, there will be
an elaborate musical program. The
public is cordially invited.

REFORM RABBIS OF AMER-
ICA WILL MEET IN AN-
NUAL CONFERENCE.

Twenty-Seventh Conference of the
Central Conference of Ameri-
can Rabbis to Take Place
at Wildwood, New
Jersey.

Congregation Emanuel of
Grand Rapids, Mich.

Rabbi Max J. Merritt, who since
his ordination at the Hebrew Union
College. in 1903, has been officiating
in Congregation Bette Israel of
Evansville, Ind., has received a very
flattering call from Congregation
Emanuel of Grand Rapids, Mich.
Speaking of the possible removal of
Rabbi Merritt, the Evansville Cour-
ier says : "Rabbi Max Merritt, for
twelve years head of the Washing-
ton Avenue Temple Congregation,
is now considering an offer from
another field. Of course, the rabbi-
nates of the section into which
Rabbi Merritt is contemplating
moving are richer. in all that goes
to make ecclesiastic work worth
while, but Evansville, not alone the
Jewry, but the entire civic body will
feel the loss deeply. Dr. Merritt in
the time that he has been identified
with the local congregation has as-
sociated himself whole-lwartedly in
all movements that look to civic bet-
terment in all branches. To mention
a few of his more successful en-
deavors : the anti-tuberculosis so-
ciety, the associated charities, the
Boy Scouts, the board of charities
and corrections and the chamber of
commerce. In all these he has been
not alone a willing, efficient and en-
ergetic worker, but has been an
active leader in all things. As to
his scholarly ability, there is little
doubt but that Rabbi Merritt is as
eminently qualified as any minister,
Jew or non-Jew, that Evansville has
ever had. Temperamentally he is
peculiarly fitted for the responsi-
bilities that attach to the rabbinate.
When Rabbi Merritt declared that
he had not closed with the offer
that has come to hint, it is almost
certain that the wider fields and
greater opportunities offered will
challenge his ambition, and that
Evansville will lose one of the finest
examples of citizenship it has been
her good fortune to acquire. The
Courier, congratulating Rabbi Mer-
ritt on the deserved advance that
he is to make, feels that not only
will his congregation find his place
hard to fill but that Evansville her-
self, will feel his absence deeply."

Reform Rabbis from the entire
land will gather at Wildwood, New
Jersey, on June 30th, for the open-
ing session of the Twenty-seventh
Conference of the Central Confer-
ence of American Rabbis.
The conference will stay in ses-
sion a week, and during that time
many important problems will re,
ceive' its consideratidn. The pro-
gram includes a symposium on the
theme, "Mow Can the Personal Side
of Religion be Cultivated in the
Jewish Child ?" in which over a
dozen prominent rabbis will take
part, and papers to be read•by.Rab-
bis Levinger and Currick on "Berg-
son's Philosophy and Judaism" and
"The Relationship of the Synagogue
and the Philanthropies," respective-
ly. Rabbi Leo M. Franklin of this
city has been asked to present a sur- •
Once—But Enough.
vey of religious work in American
A sweet young thing who had not
universities, in which field of en- traveled much, was riding on a
deavor he has met with signal suc- railroad which was rather noted for
cess.
accidents.
Rabbi William Rosenau is presi-
"How deliciously dangerous !"
dent of the Conference, and the she thought.
Executive Committee consists of
When the conductor came
Rabbis Gotthard Deutsch, Leo M. around she said to him : "How
Franklin, Moses J. Gries, Max Hel- often do you kill a person on this
ler, Joseph S. Kornfeld, Maurice road ?"
The conductor smiled, and as he
Lefkovitz, J. Leonard Levy, David
Schulman,
Joseph
clipped
her ticket, replied: "Just
Philipsin, Samuel
once, miss."
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