The proposed alien registration law is un-American, inhuman and contrary to the spirit of the Constitution, declared Chief Rabbi B. G. Mendelson of Newark, Monday, in introducing a resolution of protest to Congress at the opening session of the fifteenth annual convention of the Assembly of Hebrew Orthodox Rabbis in Brooklyn. The assembly is composed of rabbis with a fellowing of nearly 300,000 orthodox Jews in the United States and Canada and the opening session was attended by more than 100 rabbis.
The question of this organization merging with three other rabbinical groups in this country was also discussed at the opening session. The other orthodox rabbinical groups besides the Assembly are the Union of Orthodox Rabbis, the Federation of Orthodox Rabbis and the Vaad Harabbonim. The convention was continued Tuesday and yesterday.
A calendar which he had compiled which shows the exact time of the beginning and end of the Sabbath was described to the convention by Rabbi Erno Friedman, who said that similar calendars are widely used by orthodox Jews in Europe. Plans for strengthening Judaism and for fighting what were termed “the devitalizing fads of rabid religionists” were discussed by several speakers.
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