An Israeli, Mrs. Soshana Hareli, has been elected president of the International Council of Jewish Women for the first time in its history. Delegates to the group’s convention also voted to move its headquarters from the United States to Israel. A resolution called on Israel’s two chief Rabbis to express openly their concern about hardships suffered by Jewish women in matters of divorce, desertion and halitza, the ceremony which releases a widow from marriage with her dead husband’s brother.
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