A resolution calling on American Jewry to engage in an intensive campaign of religious education was adopted Wednesday, at the closing session of the fifteenth annual convention of the Assembly of Hebrew Orthodox Rabbis of United States and Canada, held at the Chevrah Torah Ansher Chesed, Brooklyn. The convention also urged stricter observance of the Sabbath and the need of imbuing Jewish youth with a religious spirit.
Education in the tenets and traditions of Judaism was urged by Rabbi Joseph Glushack as a means of insuring observance of the Sabbath. Supervision of religious teachers as a means of assuring the desired religious training was demanded by Rabbi Aaron Kronenberg.
Rabbi G. Wolf Margolis was elected president of the assembly for his sixteenth term. Rabbi B. G. Mendelsohn of Newark, and Rabbi J. J. Margolin of Brooklyn were elected vice-presidents. Rabbi Menashe Margolis was elected treasurer and Rabbis I. T. Levy and Bernard Birstein were elected secretaries.
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