Meeting Minutes, 2 January 1910
Meeting Minutes, 2 January 1910
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Meeting Minute


Meeting Minutes, 2 January 1910
January 2 1910
Transcription
Special Meeting of the HH Congregation held at the Synagogue Chambers, Argyle St on Sunday, January 2,1910.

Present: S Benjamin, President in chair, M Epstein, I Benjamin, Reuben Benjamin, Benson Morris, J Glasser, J Levi and H Ansell, Hon Secretary.

Minutes of last meeting were read and confirmed.

The President spoke at length upon the object of this special meeting which is to discuss and decide upon the advisability of securing a Minister for the Congregation. After referring to all the disabilities the Congregation labored under owing to their having no ordained Minister to act as Reader, Shochet, Mohel and Teacher, he moved that the Chief Rabbi in London be written to on the matter asking his assistance and recommendations of a properly trained gentlemen. £75. per year was to be paid to his salary from the funds of the Congregation. and he the President undertook to subscribe £25 per year towards his salary and that each resident member be asked to subscribe to €6 a year to the same object. The Chief Rabbi would not be written to until a sufficient number of Congregants had given a written guarantee that they would continue to subscribe that sum (each) yearly for at least three years. All present except H Ansell, who is not a resident member of the Synagogue agreed to do so. Mssrs M Epstein and Mr J Glasser, also Mr J Levi spoke in support of the motion which was unanimously carried. It was finally agreed that a trained Minister (if possible a young unmarried man) be engaged on the recommendation of the Chief Rabbi in London , that the salary offered should not exceed £156 per annum and that the Congregation should pay the appointees passage from London or other English port: that the gentleman appointment if practicable be a student (Trained to the Ministry.) of some English Jewish College , that he should have the qualifications of a Reader, “Bal Kora”Shochet ( and Mohel if possible) and be willing to teach Hebrew to the children. The salary of £156 per year to cover all emoluments and that he was to enter an engagement of three years. The above subscription to be collected monthly at the rate of 10/ per month.

The Hon Sec. undertook to draft a letter which the President was to sign to the Rev D Adler setting out the forgoing resolution and its conditions. Mr Isaac Benjamin, after expressing his pleasure and approval of the result of the meeting, moved a note of thanks to the Chair which was seconded and carried. This concluded the meeting.