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Agudas Israel Opposes Calling of World Rabbinical Conference

December 5, 1957
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The ultra-Orthodox Agudas Israel Organization opposes proposals for a world rabbinical conference in Jerusalem next year because such a conference might advance the idea of a new Sanhedrin, delegates to the actions committee of the world organization were told here today.

Rabbi A. Surotzkin said such a conference, scheduled as part of Israel’s tenth anniversary celebration, might become a forum for reestablishment of such a supreme Jewish religious legal court. Sessions of the actions committee are closed.

Dr. Yitzhak Levin, American Agudas leader, described the fight of the American branch against anti-Schechitah legislation and against proposals for calendar reform Harry Goodman of London reported on Jewish developments in Poland and Czechoslovakia which he visited recently.

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