A world convention of Jewish Sabbath observers, Shomre Shabbos, will take place here on August 24, 25 and 26. Delegations from the United States, Union of South Africa, England, Ireland, France, Belgium, Holland, Italy, Switzerland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, Roumania, Hungary. Czechoslovakia and Palestine, and numerous German delegates will attend. A large number of business men and members of economic and industrial circles, as well as rabbis and great scholars, will be among those who will attend the congress.
The Gerrer Rabbe, one of the most famous and best known leaders of the present-day Chassidic movement, in an interview which he granted recently while passing through Berlin, when informed of the aims and actions of the Shomre Shabbos World League expressed his heartiest sympathy with the purpose of the Shomre Sabbos movement. He proposed to found local groups in all the larger and smaller cities of Poland which should cooperate with the World Sabbath Observance League.
Thanks to the initiative of Rabbi A. S. Katz, a branch group of the World Sabbath Observance League has recently been founded in Raseinia, Lithuania, under the name of “Mashire Shabbos.” This branch, which has a large membership, will fight legal restrictions in Lithuania which seek to prevent Jews from observing Saturday as their day of rest.
Friends of the Shomre Shabbos movement have also been active in preparing the foundation of a group in Leipzig.
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