A four-point expansion program for American Orthodox Jews designed to strengthen and coordinate the activities of this section of the American Jewish population, was announced today by William B. Herlands, president of the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America. Mr. Herlands declared that the Union will concentrate its initial efforts in the fields of community service, kashruth, public education, and synagogue activity.
“Immediate steps will be taken to affiliate with the Union the large number of Jewish congregations professing Orthodox principles,” he said. “Regional offices with field directors will be set up to carry out the Union’s program. Orthodox Jews have a great responsibility to demonstrate to the world that a way of life rooted in spiritual and ethical concepts can flourish in an atomic era and a hydrogen bombconscious civilization. The Union feels that it can give leadership not only to Judaism but also make the community-at-large understand and appreciate the values of religious principles,” Mr. Herlands stated.
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