Press notices in Yiddish and Hebrew announced a few months ago that Chicago will open a Jewish educational institution. Everyone interested in the education of Jewish children was highly pleased with this announcement. The Jewish Socialist Sunday School on Ashland Blvd. is a great success. Many Jewish Socialist wanted their children to learn to read and write Yiddish, and had there not been a scarcity of Jewish teachers, more schools would certainly be opened in other localities of the city.

However, it materialized into an absurdity. The chief figures of the "educational institution" are planning a rabbinical seminary, and we soon read a report that the Chicago Hebrew Theological Colleges, where Talmud is being taught, engaged a certain butcher as its president, and that is the beginning of the realization of a rabbinical seminary.

Nevertheless, Chicago is blessed with two competitive synagogues, the Anshe Sholom Congregation and the Russian Congregation. The planned rabbinical seminary, with the participation of a butcher as a president, is connected 2with the rabbi of the Anshe Sholom. It is understood that, in such a case, the Russian Congregation must also have a rabbinical seminary.