The Chief Rabbinate Council decided here today to establish a calendar committee to work in cooperation with other organizations in Israel and abroad in opposition to the adoption of a proposal for calendar reform.
The proposal is to be considered at the forthcoming Ecumenical Council in Rome. It provides for one blank or dateless day each year. The effect of the calendar change would be that the Jewish Sabbath would fall on a different day of the week every year.
Describing the proposed calendar change as “unfair discrimination against the Jewish faith,” the Chief Rabbinate Council solemnly affirmed that the fixity of the Sabbath as the seventh day of the week was fundamental to Biblical precepts and the Jewish faith. Any change, the Council declared, would inflict unnecessary hardships on its adherents.
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