Calendar Reform Would Make Sabbath “farce,” Group Here Holds

An organization calling itself Kehilla Kedosha (the Jewish Community of New York) has launched a campaign against calendar reform, charging it would make a farce of the Sabbath and make the holy days a fiction.

The organization announced its campaign to organize “united opposition” against changing the calendar and ultimately to go before a League of Nations committee at a rally recently in Brooklyn. The speakers included Benjamin E. Greenspan, Assemblyman Bernard Austin, Dr. Jonas Simon, chairman of the “Kehilla,” and several rabbis.

Any of the proposed calendar reforms would “tear out of the Bible its first chapters and break down for the first time in world history the continuous and uninterrupted sequence of the days of each week,” the organization says, “thereby depriving us of one of the fundamental sources of our civilization, which in these times is anyhow shaken to the core, depriving us of the mainspring from which social behavior and the legislation of social welfare was derived and the right of relaxation for the toiling masses was born.”