Friday, July 9, 1943 THE JEWISH NEWS 56 Per Cent of Chaplains Come from Reform Ranks Central Conference of American Rabbis Hears Report on Outstanding Record Established by the Liberal Jewish Group Page Thirteen. Congregational Activities Rabbi H. Z. Margolis Heads HUC Alumni Rabbis Friedland of Pontiac Brickner, Mann Appointed to UAHC Board Rabbi Frain, to Talk On 'Zionism and Reform Judaism' Fifty-six per cent of the Jewish Chaplains in the United and Fram of Detroit Serve States Armed Forces come from the Liberal Jewish ranks. on Board of Trustees Ettelson Named Chairman of Six weeks after Pearl Harbor, the Central Conference Commission to Deal Rabbi Harry Z. Margolis of of . American Rabbis Committee on Chaplains began function- With Judaism St. Paul, Minn., was elected mg. president of the Alumni Associa- On that date, Jan. 21, 1942, the tion of Hebrew Union College, quota of Jewish Chaplains was Or t h o do x and Conservative at the 54th annual convention of groups. 60. the Central Conference of Am- Tribute was paid in the report erican Rabbis, held in New York In the near future, the quota to the Union of American He- last week. will be 260. brew Congregations for its ac- Rabbi Eric Friedland of Pont- These, and : other facts were tive participation in addressing all disclosed by Rabbi Louis I. Egel- its • member Congregations asking iac was elected a member of the son, administrative secretary of them to grant their Rabbis a association's board of trustees. the Union of American Hebrew leave of absence for the duration, Rabbi Leon Fram of Detroit also Congregations and Secretary of plus six months, and for securing serves on the board of trustees. More than 200 alumni of He- the CCAR Committee on Chap- the cooperation of all its congre- brew Union College attended the lains, in a report to the CCAR at gations. convention. its convention in New York on Members of the conference June 25. voted thanks to the committee This Committee on Chaplains for its work. representing the Liberal wing of Judaism, is composed of repre- sentatives of the Central Confer- ence of American Rabbis, the Union of American Hebrew Con- gregations, the Hebrew Union National Association Votes College, and the Jewish Institute To Obtain Services of an of Religion. Executive Director Members of the committee are Rabbi Barnett R. Brickner, Chaplain Who Stayed On Cleveland; Solomon B. Freehof, NEW YORK, (JTA) — The Sinking Ship Cited for newly-elected president of the board of governors of the Amer- ican Association for Jewish Edu- CCAR, Pittsburgh; Abraham M. Saving Crew Member Granison, New York; Emil W. cation, meting here this week, in Leipziger, New Orleans; Joshua NEW YORK (JPS)—Alexan- lieu of its scheduled annual L. Liebman, Boston; Edgar F. der Goode, Jewish chaplain who meeting which was postponed at Magnin, Los Angeles; Julian Mor- last February gave his life pre- the request of the Office of De- genstern, Cincinnati; William F. server to a member of the crew fense Transportation, voted to Rosenblum, New York; Elkan C. and remained aboard a sinking employ an executive director and Voorsanger, Milwaukee, and Ste- ship somewhere in the North At- to expand the field staff of the phen S. Wise, New York. They lantic, has been awarded the organization. represent the CCAR on the Purple Heart in absentia, it is Leaders of Jewish education in Committee on Army and Navy reported by the Jewish Welfare 25 cities throughout the country Religious Activities, called CAN- Board's Bureau of War Records. reported on the developments in RA, of the Jewish Welfare Board. The 31-year-old Brooklyn rabbi their communities. The Associa- The task of the CCAR Com- is the first casualty among Jewish tion, formed four years ago to act as a laiason agency between mittee on Chaplains is to prepare chaplains. the lay leaders of Jewish educa- lists of prospective chaplains; to tional activities, is devoting its provide replacements for Congre- 3 American Jews efforts to assisting various com- gations whose Rabbis have en- Casualties In RCAF munities in maintaining their tered the Services; to recommend MONTREAL (JPS) — Three deferments; and to handle all American Jews serving with the educational facilities in the war matters between prospective Royal Canadian Air Force have period and in planning for after chaplains and their Congrega- been listed by the War Efforts the war. Mark Eisener of New York tions. Committee of the Canadian Jew- City is president of the Associa- "At no time," reported Rabbi ish Congress as casualties over- Egelson, "was any coercion used seas. They are: Sgt. Edward Hen- tion. in securing chaplains. Our CCAR. ry Bakeman, of Hollywood, Calif., Committee maintained the high- missing in action; Sgt. Simon Ro- Jews In Switzerland. est standards for the qualifica- senstein, of Newark, N. J., killed Pray For Nazi Victims GENEVA (JTA) — Prayers tions of the men that it would in active service, and Sgt. Samuel recommend for the chaplaincy. Hanan, of Los Angeles, Calif., were offered in all synagogues throughout Switzerland this past We felt that the work of the missing in action. Sunday. Swiss Jews fasted and Jewish Chaplain was in part that A Palestinian Jew serving over- prayed for their co-religionists of a public relations officer rep- seas with the R. C. A. F., J. Sa- who have been starved and mas- resenting the Jewish group." phir, of Tel Aviv, was reported sacred in Nazi-held Europe. The Of the members of the CCAR, wounded. call for the fasting and prayers Rabbi Brickner was named ad- was issued by the Union of Swiss ministrative chairman of the TOMBSTONE UNVEILING Jewish Communities. CANRA; Rabbi Philip S. Bern- A tombstone will be unveiled stein of Rochester was chosen its ROSENSON'S full-time executive director, and over the grave of Hyman I. Ash, Elkan C. Voorsanger was named at Machpelah Cemetery, at 11 a. chairman of its visiting commit- rn. on Sunday, July 11. Relatives tee. Rabbi James G. Heller, whose term of office as President of the and friends are invited to attend RESORT CCAR expired last week, is also the service. active in the work of the com- The Perfect Vacation Spot for mittee. Restful Leisure or Activities Rabbi Solomon B. Freehof, of American - Jewish Cooking Pittsburgh, the new CCAR pres- MRS. 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