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Southeastern Conference of the National Council
of Je wish lCmen
Headquarters — Greystone Hotel
Montgomery, Ala. April 12, 13, 14,
1931.
The following officers are in charge:
Mrs. Harry M. Gershon, President,
1590 Harvard Road, Atlanta, Ga.
Mrs. Julius Goldman, First Vice-
idi-nt. 1525 Joseph Street, New Orleans,
Louisiana.
Mrs. David Rosenfeld, Vice-Presi-
ili nt-Secretary, 32nd Avenue Apart
ment. Nashville, Tenn.
Mrs. Sanford Marcus, Recording
Secretary-Treasurer, 19 Mildred
Street. Montgomery, Ala.
Mrs. Alfred M. Ferst, Corresponding
Secretary, 1363 Springdale Road, At
lanta, Ga.
Mrs. Leo Maas, Auditor, 417 Lapsiey
Street, Selma, Ala.
Mrs. Leo Schwartz, Honorary Pres
ident. 3 F Gainsboro Apartments, Nash
ville. Tenn.
Directors—Mrs. J. S. Waterman, 3309
lean Avenue, Tampa, Fla.; Mrs. Jesse
I L iman. 109 Ridgeway, Little Rock,
\rk.; Mrs. Morris Friedman, Lookout
Mountain, Tenn.; Mrs. Aaron S.
Kohler, 102 Fast 44th Street, Savan
nah, Ga.; Mrs. Frank Harp, 908 Vine-
\ die Avenue, Macon, Ga.
MONTGOMERY CONFERENCE
COMMITTEES
Section President — Mrs. Sanford
M arcus.
General Chairman—Mrs. Louis Kauf
man.
Decorations—Mrs. Gaston Grid, Mrs.
I.ucien Loeb.
Entertainment
Banquet—Mrs. Alphonse Levy, Mrs.
Mose Sahel.
Buffet Supper—Mrs. Arthur Ber-
inger.
Garden Party—Mrs. Julius Rice.
Luncheons—Mrs. Julius Hesslein,
Mrs. Simon Roswald.
Receptions and Lecture—Mrs. A.
Monsky, Mrs. Ernest Mayer.
Hospitality—Mrs. Rose Scheuer.
Information and Registration—Mrs.
hred Kern, Mrs. Sylvain Loeb.
Music—Mrs. Edwin Gossenheimer,
■Miss Dora Sternfield.
1’aBges—Mrs. Victor Loeb.
Printing—Mrs. Charles Borg, Mrs.
Milton Winter.
Publicity—Mrs. Walter Lobman.
I ransportation—Mrs. David Cohen,
Mrs. Kal Schwarts.
Sunday, April 12th
3 .00-5:00 p.m.—Tour of city to places
d interest.
.00 p.m. — Tea — Garden Party —
Hume of Mrs. Julius Rice.
x 'KJ p.m.—Opening of Conference,
vmple Beth-Or.
Invocation—Rabbi B. B. Goldstein.
Greetings and Welcome—Mrs. San-
" r . Marcus, President, Montgomery
Section, J. C. W. C.
Response—Mrs. Harry M. Gershon,
\tlanta, Ga., President, S. I. C.
Address—Mrs. Joseph E. Friend,
',V W Orleans, La., President, N. C. J.
nediction—Rabbi Liebovitz.
usieal Program—Organ and Solo-
^'eption in Cestry of Temple—
‘•''ah, Hostess.
^y* April 13th—Temple Vestry
-9:30 a.m.—Registration of Dele-
Meeting of S. I. C. Board of
nager*.
"-12:30—Ninth Meeting of S. I. C.
Harry M. Gershon, Presiding,
cation—Mrs. B. H. Dryfus, Sa-
.orial Tribute.
Resume of minutes of Chattanooga
and of Los Angeles Conference meet
ings—Mrs. S. Marcus, Secretary.
Appointment Convenor of Nominat
ing Committee.
MRS. HARRY M. GERSHON
President of the Southern Interstate
Conference of the National Council of
Jewish Women
about only through the efforts and re
sponsibilities of men themselves. There
fore, our first duty is to learn—To edu
cate we must first know; to teach ser
vice and universal brotherhood, we
must first master the thought ourselves.
If we do not study and learn, work
and teach that human beings have a
spiritual worth and that a spiritual out
look must prevail in business, politics,
and society, we have truly forsaken our
heritage.
Right here, when I am speaking as
best I can about the ideals of Judaism,
I would like to tell you a little of the
inspiring talk of Mr. Richard Gottstadt,
under the auspices of the B.Nai B’Rith.
His subject was “Problems of American
Jewish Life,” and he said that the main
problem and the one to which all oth
ers were related was finding the Amer
ican Jewish soul. The soul of a people
is learned through its culture, litera
ture and its history. What a marvelous
history we Jews did have—and what
a beautiful soul we had in adversity.
Prosperity is our greatest foe.
He went on to say that Jews are
too individualistic. We can entertain
but one thought at a time. That is why
the schisms among us are too violent.
We must develop “diamond minded
ness,” i. e., our minds must have many
faucets to receive the different impres
sions of Jewish life. Mr. Gottstadt said
that we could find our soul (1) through
service to humanity; (2) through com
ing together for the common purpose
of solving the problem of European
Jewry, whose condition is unspeakably
Introduction of Mrs. Ren Lowen-
stein, Cincinnati.
Club Institute—Conducted by Mrs.
I .owcnstcin.
12:30—Adjournment.
MRS. ALFRED L. MYERS
President of the Atlanta Section, Council
of Jewish Women, who will attend the
Southern Interstate Conference.
wretched. They arc the butt of Hit
lerism in Germany; caught as the mid
dleman against whom the wrath of the
Soviet is concentrated; hounded and
persecuted in Roumania and Poland;
with the doors of the United States,
Mexico, Canada, and Australia closed
to them; Palestine unable to absorb
them. They are in as frightful a con
dition as they have ever been through
out their long and tragic history. Last
ly, we can find our soul by realizing
and glorying in our heritage, and with
this is bound up the grave problem of
.'American Jewish youth. They are not
proud of their heritage and they are
fast forsaking it. Study the grave im
plications of the fact that two years
ago out of 550 Jewish students at the
University of California, only 02 signed
Jewish as their religious affiliation.
Pride in our heritage comes through
knowledge and our youth can not ob
tain it from Sabbath school alone. Time
does not permit. It must be secured
through the Sabbath school, the home
and through affiliation with some Jew
ish organization of ideal perspective.
An organization of this kind, with its
purpose ever kept in mind, manned by
true leaders, plays a very significant
part in giving us an opportunity for
real service and for keeping alive true
Judaism. Such an organization is the
National Council of Jewish Women, or
ganized in 1893 by a small group of
women, inspired by Hannah G. Solo-
man, of Chicago. She had the wisdom
to realize the opportunity of uniting
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12:30?2:00 p.m.—Luncheon, Jefferson
Davis Hotel.
2:00-4:00 p.m.—Club Institute (con
tinued).
4:00-5 .*00 p.m.—Round Table on Ex
tension.
6:30 p.m.—Buffet Supper, A1 Fresco
Party, Home of Mrs. Arthur Beringcr.
8:15 p.m.—Lecture, “The Future of
Religion and Religious Institutions”—
Dr. J. Eustace Hayden, University of
Chicago—at Montgomery Junior High.
Reception.
Thursday, April 14th—Grey atone Hotel
9:30-12:30 a.m.—Conference Session,
Mrs. Harry M. Gershon, Presiding.
Timekeeper—Mrs. Alfred Licpold, Sel
ma, Ala.
Invocation—Mrs. Sophie Selig, At
lanta, Ga.
Minutes of previous day’s scsion and
of meeting of Board of Managers.
Reports
Committee on Rules—Miss Bertha
Hcyman, West Point, Ga., Chairman.
Committee on Credentials—Mrs. Fred
Kern, Mrs. Sylvain Loem, Montgomery,
Chairmen.
Correspondence — Mrs. Alvin M.
Ferst, Atlanta, Ga., Corresponding Sec
retary.
Reports of Officers
President.
Corresponding Secretary.
Recording Secretary-Treasurer.
Auditor.
Standing Committees
Education—Mrs. Marcus Schwartz,
Chattanooga, Tenn.
Extension—Mrs. Frank Happ, Ma
con, Ga.
Legislation—Mrs. Alvin Rosenbaum,
Mobile, Ala.
Peace—Miss Bernice Meyer, Bir
mingham, Ala.
Publicity—Mrs. Louis Kaufman, Mrs.
Henry Weil, Montgomery, Ala.
Religion-—Mrs. A. S. Kohler, Savan
nah, Ga.
Scholarship “Seeing Eye” — Mrs.
David Rosenfeld, Nashville, Tenn.
Special Committees
By-laws (preliminary reading)—Mrs.
Harry Wise, Jr., Chattanooga, Tenn.
Budget — Mrs. Sanford Marcus,
Montgomery, Ala.
Clearance — Mrs. Alvin Kornman,
Nashville, Tenn.
12:30—Adjournment.
12:30-2:00 p.m.—Luncheon, Whitley
Hotel.
2:00 p.m.—Conference Session, (con
tinued).
Timekeeper—Mrs. Mendel Goldstein,
Mobile.
By-laws—Mrs. Harry Wise, Jr., Chat
tanooga, Tenn.
Report of Nominating Committee.
Resolutions
Mrs. Leo Oberdorfer, Birmingham,
Chairman; Mrs. Henry Hirschman,
Charleston; Mrs. Alfred Myers.
Unfinished Business.
Election and Installation of Officers.
New Business.
Benediction—Mrs. Maxwell Lyons,
Little Rock, Ark.
4 :00 pjn.—Adjournment.
4:00-5:00 p.m.—Round Table on the
Deaf (featuring Audiometer Demon
stration.)
Meeting of S. I. C. Board of Man
agers.
7:00 p.m.—Banquet, Standard Coun
try Club.
Presentation—“The Unknown Soldier
Wednesday, April 15th
9:00 a.m.—Trip to Tuskegee Institute
and Luncheon there.
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A Modern Interpretation of Judaism
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