Torah Umesorah Urges All Schools to Sponsor Prayer Convocations for Soviet Jews

In an emergency call issued to the more than 400 Hebrew Day Schools in North America, Rabbi Jacob Ruderman, Chairman, Rabbinical Administrative Board of Torah Umesorah, the National Society for Hebrew Day Schools, urged all Schools to take the initiative in sponsoring special prayer convocations on behalf of Russian Jewry for Sunday, Jan. 13 at 1:30 p.m. In its call to the Hebrew Day Schools in nearly 140 communities the Torah Umesorah Rabbinical Administrative Board emphasized the importance of calling the special prayer convocations at a time which would involve the participation of parents as well as the entire community. According at the plan of Torah Umesorah, all convocations throughout North America will be held at the same time on Jan. 13. In the suggested plan for the nationwide prayer convocations, Torah Umesorah emphasized that prayers and recitations from the Book of Psalms should be the major keynote and that all speeches be eliminated except for a short discourse on the sense of Jewish responsibility. Petitions will be sent to Soviet authorities.