More than 50,000 Sabbath observers have been given employment opportunities through Young Israel’s employment guidance service, Rabbi Ephraim H. Sturm, director of the Orthodox organization, reported last night to the closing session of the movement’s 46th annual convention. Rabbi Sturm reported further that a dozen new Young Israel synagogues had been established in suburban areas throughout the country and over 400 youth clubs were opened by the movement in New York in the past several years.
The 700 delegates called on United States Attorney General William P. Rogers to open an immediate investigation into the synagogue and school bombings in the South. The convention urged Moscow to grant complete freedom of religion to the Soviet Union’s 3,000,000 Jews and “to permit unfettered emigration to the State of Israel.” Additional resolutions asked the states to adopt anti-discrimination legislation in the field of housing and called on both the states and the Federal Government to prevent encroachments on the American tradition of separation of church and state.
Elijah J. Stein, newly elected president of the organization, assailed the Arab boycott of American firms with which Jews are associated or which have business relations with the State of Israel. Mr. Stein criticized the U.S. Government for “permitting unfair and arbitrary treatment of American citizens who are entitled to full governmental protection in the sphere of international trade and worldwide commercial dealings.”
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