July 24, To Dr. Silverman, White Mts.: 3 Union Hymn., 90c.; p. 25c. July 2, Freight on Year Bks. from Baltimore.. July 2, Postage and expr. on 100 "Bible in Public School". $ 5.37 1.43 1.00 1.30 9.60 5.00 .45 .45 July 18, To Heb. Un. Col. Libry.: 1 Relig. Freedom, 90c.; 1 Roger July 18, To Dr. Wm. S. Friedman: 1 Relig. Freedom, 90c.; 1 Aug. 20, To Rev. H. Veld: 50 Week Day Serv., $8.75; expr. 25e.. Aug. 31, To various individuals, per Dr. Morgenstern: 21 Sermons, Aug. 31, To Dr. I. S. Moses: 1 Sermons, cloth.. Aug. 31, Postage on 40 "Bible in Public Schools" to various individuals Aug. 31, To Dr. Enelow: 1 Songs, Prayers and Psalms... Aug. 31, To Rev. Ettelson and student, J. T. Sem.: 2 Sermons.. 1.15 5.66 8.12 9.00 18.20 7.35 .85 .80 .90 .50 1.75 42.80 1.95 Sept. 10, To Jew. Hospital, Brooklyn: 10 U. P. Bks., $7.00; 1 U. P. Bk., $1.05; 5 U. P. Bks., $7.00; 2 U. P. Bks., $3.50; 18.95 Oct. 11, To Ward's Isl. Insane Asylum: 24 Sab. Serv.. 4.20 17.50 35.60 170.50 1908. Feb. 15, To Miss Schottenfels: 3 Yr. Bks., $1.40; expr. 15c.... 1.55 1.01 Feb. 19, To G. E. Kurtz, Boston: 11 Yr. Bks.. Feb. 28, Expr. on 150 "Bible in P. S." to Rabbi Blatt. $4.20 .70 1.25 4.55 4.55 4.55 Feb. 8, To 1. Brill, N. Y.: 11 Yr. Bks. 4.55 Mar. 21, Rebate on 25 U. P. Bks. I, to Guskey Orphanage. 2.590 Apr. 10, Case and expr. on Haggadahs from Dr. Berkowitz. 1.20 1 Sermon, 25c.; 1 Synod, 35c.; 1 Aspects, 35c. 2.70 Apr. 11, Expr. on Haggadahs from Parker, Phila. 1.49 5.15 Apr. 11, To G. E. Stechert, N. Y.: 1 Year Book... .70 4.75 Apr. 20, Charges on defective U. P. Bk. to Livingston, Bloomington, ill. Apr. 23, To Dr. Blum: 3 Even. and Morn. Service.. .35 .53 Apr. 25, To Mrs. J. Weisenfeld, Baltimore: 50 U. P. Bks. I. May 12, To Lipman Levy: 12 Week Day Serv., $2.10; 12 Sab. 4.20 May 23, To J. P. Solomon, Heb. Standard: 12 Yr. Bks. (1 cloth), 5.50 27.32 May 25, Expr. on Yr. Bks., etc., from Rubovits, Chicago. 5.25 Total. $577.28 EXHIBIT G. NEW CONGREGATIONS. The Union Prayer Book has been introduced in the following congrega. tions since June 1, 1907: Cleveland, O. (Ansche Chesed Congregation). Chicago, Ill. (Congregation Emanu-El). York, Pa. (Hebrew Reform Congregation). New York (Free Synagogue). Clinton, Mo. Cumberland, Md. (Bair Chayim Congregation). Yonkers, N. Y. (Staff of Aaron Congregation). The Sabbath Evening and Morning Service was introduced by the Ladies' Auxiliary Society, Baltimore. UNION HYMNALS. Cleveland Jewish Orphan Asylum. Temple Israel of Harlem, New York City. Rabbi K. Kohler moved that a committee be appointed to select for the purpose of reprinting important papers read before previous conventions of the Conference. Seconded. Moved by Rabbi Joseph Stolz and seconded that the matter be referred to the Executive Committee. For the statement of and action upon resolutions presented at this and later sessions and referred to the Committee on Resolutions, see the report of that committee. A resolution was presented by Rabbis Foster and M. A. Meyer that the Conference give expression to its sentiments of appreciation of the services of ex-President Grover Cleveland, whose death had recently occurred. The motion was seconded and carried that a committee be appointed to draft resolutions and report during the convention. The Chair appointed the following committee: S. Foster, M. A. Meyer, J. Krauskopf, J. B. Wise and W. Fineshreiber. The Chair-Brethren, although our Conference is known to the world as a gathering of Reform Rabbis, yet our interests include all Israel, and I feel that there have been few more gratifying things that have occurred in the history of the Conference than the fact that we are catholic enough to have papers on all men who have contributed towards the sum of Jewish endeavor. And certainly one of the greatest leaders that Judaism has had in the nineteenth century was the man who was known to be the head and front of the so-called neo-orthodoxy, Samson Raphael Hirsch. It gives me great pleasure to introduce as the reader of the paper in honor of the centenary of Samson Raphael Hirsch our Vice-President, Maximilian Heller, who will now proceed with the paper of the morning. Rabbi Heller then read his paper on Samson Raphael Hirsch in honor of the centenary of his birth. (v. Appendix C.) In addition to Rabbis Kohler and Meyer the discussion of the paper was participated in by Rabbis Enelow, Foster and Berkowitz, and was concluded by Rabbi Heller. The following committees were then announced: On Resolutions, Krass, Chairman, Newfield, Zepin, Anspacher, Stern, Greenburg, Kornfeld, S. Hirshberg, Kaplan, H. Weiss, Bernstein; on Thanks, Marx, Chairman, Bottigheimer, Ellinger, Jasin, A. J. Messing, Neumark, Silber and I. Klein; on Auditing Report of Treas urer, Marcuson, Chairman, Frisch, Rauch and J. H. Stolz; on Auditing the Report of the Publication Committee, C. S. Levi, Chairman, Solomon, Mielziner, Kahn and L. Rothstein; on Nominations, Gries, Chairman, Goldenson, Currick, Freund, Witt, Ettelson and Alexander; on Press, Leipziger, E. Mannheimer and Rhine. Adjourned. THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 2, 1908. The round table on "The Rabbi's Problems in Smaller Communities" was led by Rabbi William Fineshreiber, and discussed by Rabbis Klein, Anspacher, Foster, J. H. Stolz, Morgenstern, Jasin, Levi, J. Stolz, Kohler, Kaplan, Bernstein and Newfield. The round table on "The Rabbi and Fraternal Organizations" was led by Rabbi M. Newfield, and discussed by Rabbis Jasin, Foster, Solomon, Meyer, Greenburg, Krass, Marx, J. H. Stolz, Klein, Rhine, Zepin and Rauch. FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 3, 1908. The convention opened with prayer by Rabbi Joseph Rauch, of Sioux City, Ia. The minutes of the preceding day's meeting were read and approved. The report of the Committee on Card Index, Prof. G. Deutsch, Chairman, was presented. REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON CARD INDEX. CINCINNATI, O., May 7, 1908. Rev. Dr. Julian Morgenstern, Corresponding Secretary Central Conference of American Rabbis: DEAR COLLEAGUE: In reply to your request for a report of the Committee on Card Index, I beg to say that experience has taught me that this committee should be discontinued. Of the members only three, Frey, Freund and Frisch, did actual work, and even their work, although very valuable, required a great deal of labor in revision so as to be unified in captions and system. I thus found that I was not adequate to do the work of supervising unless had a trained staff of clerical help, which is obviously out of the question. Thus I continued to work as before, and at this writing my index comprises over 10,600 cards, not counting those written in German, which I am slowly revising and replacing by English cards, in so far as they have not become superfluous by the Jewish Encyclopedia. The only thing which I can suggest at the present moment is an appropriation for the copying of my cards and the placing of the duplicates in another building in order to protect the labor of years against loss by fire and other accidents. My cards are always at the disposal of everybody interested in such material, and I am glad to say that Dr. Maurice Fishberg, of New York, made use of my notes on intermarriage and found them very valuable. He had learned of their existence through our last Year Book. Fraternally yours, G. DEUTSCH. Rabbi Wise-I move that the report be referred to the Executive Committee. |