Immediate implementation of the recommendation that 100,000 Jews be admitted to Palestine was urged upon the British Government today in a resolution adopted by the 400 Reform rabbis attending the 57th annual convention of the Central Conference of American Rabbis.
Other resolutions praised President Truman for “re-implementing” the immigration laws so as to facilitate the immigration of refugees and appealed to the Soviet Union to give Jews and other religious groups “larger opportunity to secure religious instruction and to develop religious institutions.”
Calling attention to the fact that “Nazi and fascist persecution has wiped out huge numbers of Jews, and great institutions of Jewish learning have been destroyed,” the resolution expresses the hope that “our relations with Russian Jewry, the only large Jewish group left in Europe, will become closer with the passing of time.” The Russian Government, through its ambassador in Washington is asked to “revoke all laws prohibiting religious instruction to people under eighteen years of age, and to permit the opening of religious seminaries for the training of rabbis and religious teachers.”
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