Periodical Report of the executive committee, presented at the ... annual convention. (1916)
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Image 1 of (1916) 128 9 J5 J57 310 e leport the Executive Committee Presented at the First Annual Convention of The Jewish Community (Kehillah) New York, February 26 and 27, 1910 Published by The Jewish...- Contributor: Jewish Community of New York City
- Date: 1910
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Image 2 of (1916) Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2010 with funding from The Library of Congress http://www.archive.org/details/reportofexecutiv01jewi- Contributor: Jewish Community of New York City
- Date: 1910
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Image 3 of (1916) Report the Executive Committee Presented at the First Annual Convention of The Jewish Community (Kehillah) New York, February 26 and 2 7, 1910 I. Report of Chairman Dr. J. L. Magnes II....- Contributor: Jewish Community of New York City
- Date: 1910
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Image 5 of (1916) REPORT OF CHAIRMAN Dr. J. L. Magnes Delegates to the Kehillah: In the name of your Executive Committee, I have the honor of welcoming you to this, our first convention, since our...- Contributor: Jewish Community of New York City
- Date: 1910
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Image 6 of (1916) Executive Committee. Mr. Abraham Abraham and Mr. Isiclor Straus also withdrew from the Committee. Before presenting the reports of the Executive Com- mittee, it will be of interest to observe that the...- Contributor: Jewish Community of New York City
- Date: 1910
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Image 7 of (1916) having a Kehillah fund out of which to create and main- tain such synagogues, schools, charitable societies and other institutions as may be necessary in Jewish life, it is left to the...- Contributor: Jewish Community of New York City
- Date: 1910
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Image 8 of (1916) quarters except by initiating a Kehillah, as we have tried to do, upon the basis of that considerable body of Jewish public opinion already in existence. We have tried to establish an...- Contributor: Jewish Community of New York City
- Date: 1910
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Image 9 of (1916) (1). RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATION. The Chairman of this Committee will present a detailed report of this work later in the evening. The most im- portant work of this Committee was the formation of...- Contributor: Jewish Community of New York City
- Date: 1910
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Image 10 of (1916) our earliest duties to secure adequate sums for the Vaad Horabbonim. The Committee has also given its attention to ques- tions of the Jewishness of Jewish institutions and of Christian missionary activity...- Contributor: Jewish Community of New York City
- Date: 1910
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Image 11 of (1916) all the Jewish children of school age, without any Jewish education at all, and of the remaining one-third all too many have only a superficial smattering of a Jewish training or are...- Contributor: Jewish Community of New York City
- Date: 1910
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Image 12 of (1916) Through the initiative of one of our Executive Com- mittee, Mr. Joseph Barondess, examinations in the- Hebrew language are now being given by the State Board of Regents, and the examinations themselves...- Contributor: Jewish Community of New York City
- Date: 1910
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Image 13 of (1916) the situation. Present at the conference were representa- tives of the Kehillah, of the American Jewish Committee, of a Conference of Grandmasters of Jewish Fraternal Orders, of the Independent Order Bnai Brith...- Contributor: Jewish Community of New York City
- Date: 1910
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Image 14 of (1916) of the Kehillah, notifying them of the conditions under which the City of New York pays for the support of orphans in homes, and asking them for the names and addresses of...- Contributor: Jewish Community of New York City
- Date: 1910
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Image 15 of (1916) importers of girls. The article in the Evening Post, of October 23d, substantiates this insofar that few, if any, Jewish names appear among those convicted of this crime. Assuming that this investi-...- Contributor: Jewish Community of New York City
- Date: 1910
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Image 16 of (1916) of the loose talk about so-called White Slavery, we are hearing so much of at present. (4). AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE. At this convention, the American Jewish Committee, of which our Kehillah is...- Contributor: Jewish Community of New York City
- Date: 1910
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Image 17 of (1916) (6). PROPAGANDA AND ORGANIZATION. This committee has carried on correspondence with the officers of various Jewish organizations and grand- masters of Jewish orders, seeking the further affiliation of Jewish bodies with the...- Contributor: Jewish Community of New York City
- Date: 1910
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Image 18 of (1916) life, the Kehillah has kept gradually evolving into a strong and comprehensive body. The various sugges- tions sent to us and the demands made upon us by affiliated societies and others served...- Contributor: Jewish Community of New York City
- Date: 1910
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Image 19 of (1916) in the parade. Two strikes also were called to our attention, the Jewish Bakers strike and the Jewish Retail Clerks strike. In the first instance we were able to do but very...- Contributor: Jewish Community of New York City
- Date: 1910
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Image 20 of (1916) have been generously provided us by friends whom we take this occasion to thank for their kindness. Delegates to the convention, I have endeavored to- show you what our Executive Committee has...- Contributor: Jewish Community of New York City
- Date: 1910
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Image 21 of (1916) REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATION Dr. H. Pereira Mendes, Chairman. The Committee on Religious Organization has given much thought to the many problems affecting the relig- ious interests of the Jews...- Contributor: Jewish Community of New York City
- Date: 1910
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Image 22 of (1916) better. We feel that Jewish public opinion must be edu- cated towards these ends. Therefore time and much time is required. 4th. Your Committee wishes to emphasize the necessity of strengthening the...- Contributor: Jewish Community of New York City
- Date: 1910
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Image 23 of (1916) themselves with the Vaad Horabonim, and especially with the sub-committee. (b) An associate sub-committee of laymen, as above alluded to, for finance, legal procedures, co-ordination, etc. (c) A sub-committee for the regulation,...- Contributor: Jewish Community of New York City
- Date: 1910
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Image 24 of (1916) (g) A sub-committee of Rabbis and associate laymen for the supervision of those stores or factories that provide Passover requirements. (h) A sub-committee of associate laymen to publish the lists of accredited...- Contributor: Jewish Community of New York City
- Date: 1910
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Image 25 of (1916) ters, and the Union of Orthodox Jewish congrega- tions, have taken action. The co-operation of the Kehilla is strongly recommended by the Religious Committee. The subject of Jewish education naturally concerns the...- Contributor: Jewish Community of New York City
- Date: 1910
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- Date: 1910
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Image 27 of (1916) REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON JEWISH EDUCATION. Dr. Mordecai M. Kaplan, Chairman. When the committee first set out to do its work it found that it would be futile to attempt anything before...- Contributor: Jewish Community of New York City
- Date: 1910
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Image 28 of (1916) propose to give in each case is not a description of any one particular school, but of the type as a whole. Each school has, no doubt, individual features which differenti- ate...- Contributor: Jewish Community of New York City
- Date: 1910
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Image 29 of (1916) a fair amount of English, though not enough to enable them to use it flexibly and to adapt it to the needs of the children; or young men preparing for some profession,...- Contributor: Jewish Community of New York City
- Date: 1910
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Image 30 of (1916) tunately, little has thus far been done to take advantage of all this to bring about model teaching, that would imbue the inma tes with enthusiasm for the Jewish life. Of late...- Contributor: Jewish Community of New York City
- Date: 1910
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Image 31 of (1916) fee, they form a very small per cent, of the school, because their parents prefer to give them private teachers in their own homes. The school is maintained from the fees collected...- Contributor: Jewish Community of New York City
- Date: 1910
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Image 32 of (1916) school which meets only once a week, on Sunday morn- ings. This school is attended for the most part by children of the parents who belong to the congregation. A small per...- Contributor: Jewish Community of New York City
- Date: 1910
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Image 33 of (1916) named, constitute the teachers net earnings. The Cheder is attended mainly by boys and in few cases also by girls. The instruction, which seldom goes beyond the reading of the prayer book,...- Contributor: Jewish Community of New York City
- Date: 1910
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Image 34 of (1916) however, to regard them as an important factor in the Jewish education of this city. (f) The sixth agency, namely, the private tutors, is not amenable to the process of investigation, and...- Contributor: Jewish Community of New York City
- Date: 1910
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Image 35 of (1916) Greater New York. Talmud Torahs 24 9,362 1,348 163 Institutional 17 2,302 4,650 151 Congregational 42 2,940 1,191 130 Sunday schools 29 2,437 3,222 217 Chedorim 468 13,532 420 653 Total 580...- Contributor: Jewish Community of New York City
- Date: 1910
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Image 36 of (1916) 2. The case, however, is different with the lack of means and equipment. This constitutes the financial phase of the problem. No substantial improvement can be made in the work of Jewish...- Contributor: Jewish Community of New York City
- Date: 1910
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Image 37 of (1916) the 170,000 Jewish children of school age, would involve an annual expense of at least $1,500,000, to say nothing of the increase in the child population each year. To meet such an...- Contributor: Jewish Community of New York City
- Date: 1910
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Image 38 of (1916) to encourage, by means of prizes and scholarships, those students in the colleges and training schools as are pre- paring to teach in the city schools, to prepare themselves- also as Jewish...- Contributor: Jewish Community of New York City
- Date: 1910
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Image 39 of (1916) REPORT ON AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE Mr. Louis Marshall Mr. Chairman, an4 Gentlemen of the Convention: Considering the lateness of the evening, my report must necessarily be brief. I am, however, convinced that,...- Contributor: Jewish Community of New York City
- Date: 1910
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Image 40 of (1916) activities to matters of national and international scope only. In dealing with problems which are thus brought within its jurisdiction, it has found it necessary to take up, as one of the...- Contributor: Jewish Community of New York City
- Date: 1910