Religion: Rabbis

Jewish congregations rarely make drives for membership. Nor do they compete. They are as individualistic as the individual Jew among his coreligionists. So the separate resolutions of Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the U. S. and Canada (meeting at Lakewood, N. J.) and the United Synagogue of America (conservative Rabbis meeting in Manhattan) last week marked a new initiative in Jewry. The conservative Rabbis will organize new congregations in the South, where Jews are scattered. The orthodox Rabbis will send a field secretary throughout the country to induce the instalment of permanent Rabbis...

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