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lation to the Republic," Rev. Dr. S. H Sonne- 

 scheiri ; " Confirmation in the Synagogue," Rev. 

 Dr. D. Philipson ; ' The Rabbi and the Congre- 

 gation," Rev. Dr. A. Hahn. 



In the domain of education and charity is to 

 be chronicled the gift of Hon. Jacob H. Schiff of 

 $10,000 for a Semitic museum at Harvard, and 

 one of $27.000 by some Chicago Israelites for the 

 new Baptist University of that city. A Hebrew 

 Manual Training School in Chicago was opened 

 with nearly 1,000 pupils. New Jewish hospitals 

 were organized in Chicago and New York. Dr. 

 Cyrus Adler was sent to Europe and the East as 

 agent for the World's Fair Oriental Exhibit. 

 New synagogues were erected in Providence, R. 

 I., Brunswick, Ga., Newburg, N. Y., Buffalo, N. 

 Y., New York City, Helena, Montana, Omaha, 

 Neb., and Montreal, Canada. An attempt to 

 unite the various Young Mens' Hebrew Associa- 

 tions was made with fair prospect of success. 

 The objects proposed are to encourage the for- 

 mation of new societies, to urge Jewish youth 

 to enter trades to assist in maintaining manual 

 schools, to organize an employment bureau, and 

 form a lecture bureau. The large extent of ter- 

 ritory and the comparatively few associations 

 make a union for the present somewhat chimeri- 

 cal. The spread of sisterhoods attached to a 

 number of New York synagogues for charitable 

 and educational purposes and the organization 

 of an order, " Daughters in Israel," in Baltimore, 

 on the plan of the " King's Daughters," indicate 

 much activity among Jewesses. The United 

 Hebrew Charities of New York received $104,- 

 523.82 and expended $105,090.77. 



The Grand Jury of New York, at the sugges- 

 tion of the Jewish Ministers' Association, pro- 

 nounced the granting of divorces illegal unless 

 the State courts are first consulted. This meas- 

 ure is to check the practice, not unusual among 

 newly arrived immigrants from Russia and Ga- 

 licia, of securing divorces for trivial causes from 

 unauthorized persons who claim to be rabbis. 



A noteworthy conference was held at Chicago, 

 on Nov. 24 and 25, by Jews and Christians. 

 These addresses were delivered : Rev E. P. Good- 

 win, D. D., on " The Attitude of Nations and 

 Christian People toward the Jews " ; Rev. Dr. 

 B. Felsenthal, " Why Israelites do not accept 

 Jesus as Messiah " ; Rev. Dr. E. G. Hirsch. " The 

 Religious Condition of the Jews To-day and their 

 Attitude toward Christianity"; Rev. J. H. Bar- 

 rows. " Israel as an Evidence of the Truth of 

 the Christian Religion " ; Rev. Joseph Stolz, 

 "Post-Biblical History of Israel"; Rev. J. M. 

 Caldwell, D. D., " Palestine To-day and the Res- 

 toration of Israel " ; Prof. David C. Marquis, D. 

 D., "Israel's Messiah"; Mr. Zulotkoff, "Anti- 

 Semitism " ; Prof. H. M. Scott, D. D., " Mutual 

 Relation and Welfare of Jews and Christians." At 

 its close the following resolutions were adopted : 



Whereas, In the blind bitrotry and degradation of the 

 dark ages, when Jews were looked upon as the special 

 foes of Christianity no one seemed to remember that 

 its founders were Israelites, that its divine author in 

 his human capacity was a Jew, a descendant of David 

 and of the tribe of Judah. 



Whereas, In these days of enlightenment and in 

 this great country of America, which promises equal 

 rights to all men, we believe that a more Christ-like 

 spirit should prevail, a spirit of brotherly love and 

 good will to all mankind ; and 



Whereas, We believe that the exclusion of Jewish 

 families from hotels and social privileges, the exclu- 

 sion of Jewish children from schools and educational 

 advantages, for no other reason than mere prejudice, 

 is altogether un-Christian and un-American. 



Resolved, Therefore, that this conference does here- 

 by express its disapprobation of all discrimination 

 against the Jews as such. And further, we extend 

 our sincere sympathy and commiseration to the op- 

 pressed Jews ot'Kussia and the Balkans, the victims 

 of injustice and outrage. And, as we believe, voicing 

 the sentiment of this great country, 



Resolved, That we plead with the rulers and emi- 

 nent statesmen of the vast Russian Empire, we plead 

 with all its fair-minded and noble citizens, in the 

 name of God and in the name of the common brother- 

 hood of men, to stay the hand of cruelty from this 

 time-honored people, which have given them as well as 

 us our Bible, our religion, and our knowledge of God. 



Resolved, That we call upon the rulers and states- 

 men of our own country to use their influence and 

 good offices with the authorities of all lands to accom- 

 plish this humane and righteous end. 



The conference was warmly commented on by 

 the general religious press and produced a pleas- 

 ant impression. 



A similar interchange of sentiment took place 

 in New York on Dec. 6. when, at the invitation of 

 Dr. Felix Adler, of the Society of Ethical Culture, 

 President Andrews, of Brown University, Prof. 

 Brinton, of the University of Pennsylvania, the 

 Rev. Dr. Lyman Abbott, the Rev. Dr. Heber New- 

 ton, arid Dr. A. S. Isaacs, of the " Jewish Messen- 

 ger " addressed a public meeting on the need of 

 improvements in theological training, with a view 

 to the establishment of a summer school of ethics, 

 in which all should participate without distinc- 

 tion of creed. 



The new dispensary building of the Mount 

 Sinai Hospital was opened in July. A conference 

 of Christian ministers was held in Baltimore in 

 December to protest against Russian persecutions, 

 Cardinal Gibbons being chairman of the commit- 

 tee. The American Jewish Publication Society 

 issued " Think and Thank." 



The necrology of the year embraces abroad 

 Chief-Rabbi Adler, of England ; Prof. Dr. Schil- 

 ler-Szinessy, of Cambridge ; Rabbi Dr. Ludwig 

 Philippson, of Bonn ; Rabbi Dr. M. Lehmann, of 

 Mayence ; Meyer Marcus Roest, scholar and jour- 

 nalist, of Amsterdam ; Jacob Werber, journalist, 

 of Brody : Grand-Rabbi Trenel, head of the Paris 

 Jewish Seminary ; Cantor Sulzer, of Vienna ; the 

 philanthropist Count Abraham Camondo, of 

 Constantinople ; Rabbi Dr. Landsberger.of Hesse- 

 Darmstadt ; Court-Councilor Jonas Guirland, 

 Chief Rabbi of Odessa; Rabbi Dr. M. Joel, of 

 Breslau, a scholar of much breadth and ability, 

 and a writer on the mediaeval philosophy of the 

 Jews ; Prof. Dr. Franz Delitzseh, who, though not 

 a Jew, was ever so earnest in his championship; 

 Sir Benj. S. Phillips, Rev. D. Piza, Drs. Jos. Kisch 

 and David Asher and Mr. Philip Abraham, of 

 London : the Countess Rosebery, who as Hannah 

 de Rothschild was given in marriage by the Earl 

 of Beaconsfield to Lord Rosebery, while it was Mr. 

 Gladstone who threw earth on her coffin at her 

 burial ; Baroness J. L. Menasce, of Paris ; Rabbi 

 Mercado, of Cairo ; Rabbi Dr. Moses Duschak, of 

 Cracow ; Emile Levy, painter, of Paris ; Max 

 Briill Ritter von Dornony, of Pesth ; Dr. II. 

 Loeb, of Belgium ; Seligman Heller, of Vienna; 

 S. J. Finn, of Wilna ; Dr. Heinrich Jacobson, of 



