Rabbi Herbert S. Goldstein, president of the Union of Orthodox Congregations of America, and a member of the Executive Committee of the Mizrachi, tendered his resignation to the Mizrachi.
Following his resignation from the Mizrachi, Rabbi Goldstein joined the American Branch of the Agudath Israel, the Orthodox Jewish world organization.
“Now that the Agudath Israel is industriously engaged in the upbuilding of Palestine, there is no need of two Orthodox parties,” Dr. Goldstein declared in his letter to the Mizrachi.
A statement issued by the headquarters of the American Branch of the Agudath declared that the organization “does not make any issue of the Wise case.”
“We do not depend on incidents like the Wise sermon. The tremendous power of our ideal, the eternal value of the Biblical laws will pave the way for us, not petty political moves. Dr. Wise is only the symptom of conditions in Zionism, which years ago, compelled the leaders of the Agudath Israel to go their own way. The bulk of strictly orthodox Jews all over the world already belong to the Agudath Israel,” the statement declared.
An appeal for enlistment in the American branch of the Agudath Israel was issued by a group of Chassidic rabbis at a meeting held recently in New York. Rabbi Motel Chodorow from Wishnitz-Tolna, Rabbi Isaac Perlow of Novominsk, Rabbi I. Langer of Straten, Rabbi M. Gottesmann of Bucharest, Rabbi I. Eichenstein of Czidover, Rabbi Rubin of Jaslo, Rabbi Benjamin Auerbach of Jerusalem and Rabbi M. Langer of Tninitzer participated in the meeting.
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