Sacramental wine was held unnecessary for the observance of Jewish holy days, and the support of Reform Judaism in the enforcement of the Volstead Act was pledged before the convention of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations when Ludwig Vogelstein of New York, chairman of the Executive Board of the Union, declared :
“Our highest aim has been to do all in our power to aid in the upholding of the Constitution of the United States and we therefore want to go on record as unalterably opposed to any practice which tends to undermine it. Sacramental wine is not essential to the practice of Judaism.”
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