For the first time in Canadian history, the Jewish faith, as represented by the rabbinic chairman of the national religious affairs committee of the Canadian Jewish Congress, has been recognized officially as “the spokesman of the Jewish community in the ecclesiastical sense, ” it was announced here today by Canadian Secretary of State Judy LaMarsh.
In informing the CJC of this policy, Miss LaMarsh noted that the precedent for such recognition was set some time ago by the late Governor-General Georges P. Vanier. Mr. Vanier had invited Rabbi S.M. Zambrowsky, chairman of the CJC religious affairs committee, to represent the Jewish faith in “Category 12” of the Government’s “Table of Precedence. ” Now, Miss LaMarsh told the CJC “steps will be taken to list Rabbi S.M. Zambrowsky in the Guide to Relative Precedence.”
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