The Agudath Israel, World Orthodox Union, has not yet appointed representatives to negotiate with the Jewish Agency’s representatives regarding affiliation with the Agency, the Agudath’s executive informed the Jewish Telegraphic Agency today in denying the reports that have appeared in the “Jewish Tageblatt” of Warsaw regarding difficulties in the negotiations.
The political executive of the Agudath some time ago informed Felix M. Warburg, chairman of the administrative committee of the Jewish Agency, of the resolution adopted at the Agudath’s World Congress in Vienna last September in which the Agudath associated itself with the decision of the Rabbinical Council of the Agudath in agreeing to participate in the Agency only if the latter excludes from its program the financing of cultural institutions, which in view of difference of religious convictions cannot be undertaken jointly.
Last month the Agudath Israel was informed that Mr. Warburg had appointed a committee consisting of Dr. Leo Baeck, Lazarus Barth, H. Farbstein and Leo Motzkin, to prepare jointly with the Agudath members a plan of cooperation. The Agudath executive will appoint a committee of five but the names of the committee members have not yet been decided upon.
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