THE JEWISH CRITERION

How Jewish Life in Russia is Changing

Tree of Life CongregationThe regular Sabbath services are held

on Friday evening at 8 o'clock and Sat urday morning at 9 :30.

The summer sessions of the Hebrew school were well attended. Classes con vened, with Mr. M. Rosenthal, in charge, every morning from 9 to 11 o'clock, and proved successful. Sessions have ad journed now until fall, with September 6th set as the date of registration.

Congregation B'nai Israel, East End

Daily services at 7 A. M. and 8 :30 P. M.; Friday evening at 8:30; Sabbath day at S :30 A. M. and 8 :30 P. M. This Sabbath morning Norman Epstein, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Epstein, of Sher- brook Street, will be Bar Mitzvah. Rabbi Morton Goldberg, of Fall River, Mass- will address the Bar Mitzvah boy. Rabbi Golduerg delivered a very instructive and inspiring sermon before the B'nai Israel Congregation last Sabbath morning.

Congregation Beth ShalomMaster Henry Sperling, son of Mr. and

Mrs. Jacob Sperling, of 5652 Melviu Street, will be Bar Mitzvah on Saturday morning, July 30th, at the Beth Shalom Synagogue.

With the closing of the Hebrew school on Thursday, July 2Sth, the activities of the congregation will cease until Sep tember.

. Future sessions of the Seat Allotment Committee will be announced at a later date.

B'nai Emunoh CongregationThe organization meeting was held at

the hall of Mr. Louis Hinkes, 4323 Mur ray Avenue. The question of organizing the community into a congregation was discussed and a resolution to this effect was unanimously adopted. The urgent need for a congregation prompted this step. The result of the election follows: Chairman, Mrs. B. Shapiro; vice-chair man, Dr. S. H. Marcus; treasurer, Mr. S.

Tanner ; secretary, Mr. S. Rosencrans. It was unanimously decided that Rev. Adolph Levin take charge of the organi zation procedure and to make arrange ments relevant to the services on the high holidays.

The name of this congregation will be B'nai Emunoh (Children of Faith). Rabbi Morris A. Levin spoke very in- spiringly on the advantages of an organi- z.'ition in a Jewish community. The fol lowing attended the meeting: Mr. L-. Hinkes, Mr. S. Tanner, Mr. S. Rosen, Mr. S. Hosenfeld, Dr. S. H. Marcus, Mr. B. Shapiro, Mr. S. Rosecrans, Mr. S. Seven, Rabbi M. A. Levin and Rev. Adolpli Levin. —•••—

Unveiling of TombstonesThe unveiling of a tombstone in mem

ory of Mr. and Mrs. A. Singer will take place on Sunday, July 31st, at 10:30 A. M., at the Lubawitch Cemetery. Rela tives and friends of the family areinvited. * * *

The family of the late Fannie Weiner will unveil a monument in her memory on Sunday afternoon, July 31st, at 2:30 o'clock, at the B'nai Israel Cemetery, Frankstown Road. Relatives and friends arc invited to attend.

Cards of ThanksThe family of the late Isaac Pearlman

take this means of expressing their ap preciation to their relatives and friends for the kindness and sympathy extended them in their recent bereavement.* * *

The family of the late Mrs. Benjamin Marcus take this means of thanking their relatives and friends for the kind sym pathy extended them in their bereave ment. * * *

The family of the late Isaac Pearlman take this means of thanking their rela tives and friends for the kindness and sympathy extended them in their recent bereavement.

The following "JAHRZEITS" will be observed by the old folks of the JEWISH HOME FOR THE AGED in the Chapel of the "Home" during the week beginning Sunday, July 31st, 1927:

SUNDAY, JULY 31st Harry Wintner

MONDAY, AUGUST 1st Emil Freiberger Meyer Nusbaum

TUESDAY. AUGUST 2nd Jacob Berman Samuel Fargotstein

THURSDAY, AUGUST 4th Henry I. Wasserstrom Rashel Levy

SATURDAY, AUGUST 6th Oscar Match

Services in the Chapel of the "Home" start at 8:30 P. M., 7:30 A. M. and 6:00 P. M. Saturdays and Holy Days, services start at 8:30 P. M., 9:00 A. M. and 5:30 P. M.

Relatives of the above departed are invited' to attend these services in the Chapel of the "Home".

Information regarding the above arrangements for

A SUMMARY AND A PROPOSAL

By Dr. A. Singalovsky(Dr. Singalovsky, a member of the Pre

sidium of the Central Administrative Board of the World Federation Ort, which is promoting agriculture and handi craft among the Jews of Eastern Europe, has just returned to Berlin, where the Ort headquarters are situated, after a stay of several months in Soviet Russia. An authority on Jewish reconstruction problems, he visited during his stay the big Jewish centers in the Soviet Union, the small Jewish towns and the old and new Jewish agricultural colonies, and studied at first hand the conditions under which the Jewish population is living.

In this article, Dr. Singalovsky pic tures in a graphic and impressive man ner what is going on today in Jewish life in Russia. He deals with the posi tion of the Jewish trading class and the declassed elements who are faced with complete ruin and annihilation. He speaks of the more hopeful outlook for the Jewish artisans and of the growing number of Jews who are being absorbed into big industry, although he finds that for lack of technical training, the majori ty of these are working as unskilled la borers. He sees the greatest hope, how

ever, in the Jewish agricultural coloniza tion movement, whose achievements have impressed him as bordering on the mar- velous. In the district of Cherson he has found the biggest Jewish agricultural center in the world, and he has felt a growing spirit of new and distinctive Jewish life coming into existence there. Many of the Jewish colonies in the dis tricts of Odessa, Cherson and Krivoyrog, he describes as having attained a high standard of prosperity and as having proved conclusively the capacity of the Jew as a tiller of the fields.

Dr. Singalovsky suggests in his article the convoking of a Jewish World Cong ress organized on general lines to deal with the whole question of the non- partisan Jewish reconstruction work in Eastern Europe and especially the pro motion of the Jewish agricultural activi ty in Russia, so that the Jewries of other countries should take their place also in this work, the burden of which, he complains, has been allowed so far to fall almost solely upon American Jewry. —Editor.)

When I was in the United States some

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MEMORIALS OP EVERY TYPE

are supplied by us. Your pref erence may be an elaborate mon ument, or a simple marker or urn. Be it what it may, our facilities are at your disposal. We shall be glad to show you available des'gns and attend to every detail in connection with the erection in the family plot of the design you select.

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