A resolution calling for “a total liberalization of American immigration statutes so that our country may again become a haven of refuge for the victims of all varieties of totalitarianism, ” was adopted here this weekend at the closing session of the 27th annual convention of the Rabbinical Council of America, orthodox rabbinical group.
The delegates also called upon the Department of State to “make every effort to protect American firms and businesses from the fury of the Arab boycott and to withhold aid to the Arab states as long as the boycott is in vogue. “
The rabbis also urged the U. S. Postmaster General to ban the mailing of all hate literature “so as to constrain the influence of the enemies of freedom” and advocated the enactment by Congress of the President’s Civil Rights Bill “to safeguard the basic right of our citizens in all spheres of social living.”
In other resolutions, the delegates called upon the Soviet Government “to grant opportunities for free and unqualified religious freedom to its 3,000,000 Jewish inhabitants” and appealed to the German Government to adopt severe measures to stamp out all vestiges of Nazism. The rabbis also called upon all local federations to “stop immediately the opening of YMHA’s and YWHA’s on the Sabbath so as to avoid the violation of a sacred tenet of Judaism. “
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