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UNION OF ORTHODOX RABBIS
TO PUSH WORK OF PARO-
CHIAL SCHOOLS.
DR. RUDOLPH I. COFFEE RE
CEIVES CALL TO BOSTON
TEMPLE.
Convention of "Agudath Harabbonim"
Was Held in New York Last Week
to Campaign for $200,000 Rab-
binical College.
National Director of Social Service
Department of B'nai B'rith Was
Prominent Rabbi in
Pittsburgh.
The convention of the Union of
Orthodox Rabbis of the United States
and Canada (Agudath Harabbonim),
held in New York last week and
which \vas attended by about one
hundred aild fifty rabbis from all
parts of the country and Canada,
took energetic action in support of
the Rabbinical College of America
(Yeshiva Rabbi Isaac Elchanan.)
The raNs devoted a separate ses-
sion to the Rabbinical College and
idopted the following resolutions:
1. That all members of the Agu-
dath Harabbonim devote at least two
Sabbaths during the next year to
travel in the country to make propa-
ganda for the two hundred thousand
dollar endowment fund which the
Agudath Harabbonim is raising for
the Rabbinical College.
2. That Yeshibahs, Talmud Torahs
and Parochial Schools throughout the
advanced
Talmud
cotta try with
courses urge fitting graduates to go
into the Rabbinical College.
Dr. Revel presented to the conven-
tion a report on Jewish education and
the following resolutions were
adopted:
1 That the committee examine all
the text-books now in use in all
Yeshibahs, Talmud, Torahs and Pa-
rochial Schools, as to their fitness;
reject those found unsuitable and pre-
pare whatever new text-books it will
find necessary.
2. That the committee on educa-
tion of the A glidas H arabbonim of
which Dr. B. Revel, president of the
faculty of the college, is chairman,
prepare a statement of the purpose
and practicability of Jewish Parochial
Schools.
3. That steps be taken to support
and strengthen the parochial schools.
To Honor Famous Rabbi.
The college is making preparations
to celebrate the hundredth anniver-
sary of the birth of Rabbi Yitzchak
Elchanan Spoktor, the famous rabbi
of Kovno, after which the college is
named. in honor of the event the
faculty and students will issue a
volume of Torah. Several professors
and instructors of the college have
received their Smichah (Rabbinical
degrees), from Rabbi Yitzchak El-
chanan.
Mr. David Tanenbaum, a student
Rabbi Rudolph I. Coffee of Chicago,
national director of the social service
department of the Independent Order
B'nai B'rith, has been elected Rabbi of
the Temple Ohabei Shalom, Union Park
St., to succeed the Rev. Dr. M. M.
Eichler who retired after ten years as
Rabbi of the congregation to practise
law.
Whether Dr. Coffee will accept the
call is unknown. Dr. Coffee was a
well-known Rabbi in Pittsburg up to
a year ago when he resigned from the
ministry to accept his present position
with the largest Jewish international
order in the world.
About a month ago Dr. Coffee visit-
ed Boston in the interest of the B'nai
Irrith and the call resulted.
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MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR RAB-
BI J. LEONARD LEVY AT
TEMPLE EMANU-EL.
NEW YORK, N. Y.—Leaders in re-
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and
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