The major Jewish rabbinic agencies have called on their respective constituencies throughout the country to observe Thursday, June 8, as a national day of prayer for the peace and safety of Israel. In messages to their constituencies, the heads of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, the Rabbinical Assembly and the Rabbinical Council of America, urged Jews throughout the country to attend special synagogue services on Thursday and to observe the day as “a day of prayer for Divine help for the safety of Israel and the preservation of peace in the world,”
Rabbi Seymour J. Cohen of Chicago, president of the Synagogue Council of America, welcomed statements of leading Christian clergymen who have publicly urged, as an act of conscience, that the United States support the integrity and freedom of Israel and the freedom of passage through the Strait of Tiran.
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