The Jewish Actions Committee which has been formed to practically control the activities of the Prague Jewish Community and of the council of Jewish Communities in Bohemia-Moravia, today ordered the Orthodox High synagogue here to restrict its religious services to one-hour periods in the morning evening, respectively. The synagogue is to remain closed for the remainder of day, the order stated.
Meanwhile, dissatisfaction with the composition of the Actions Committee was pressed here at a meeting of the executive board of the Council of Jewish Communities. Charging that neither Zionists nor provincial Jewish communities can be satis## with the present make-up of the Actions Committee, Judge S. Lansky, Hashomer hair leader, pointed out that the only Zionist member on the Committee did not have right to vote.
The discussion was precipitated following an announcement by Mrs. Laura Simko? chairman of the Jewish Actions Committee, of the ouster of Dr. Hanus Rezek, secretary-general of the Prague Jewish Community and assistant chief rabbi of Prague, who ##ved as a chaplain with the Czechoslovak Army in Palestine, from his posts on the girds of both the Council of Jewish Communities and the Prague Jewish Community.
Dr. Alexander Knapp, secretary-general of the Actions Committee, told the meeting that the discussion of the Committee’s opposition was not the business of the hard, since the Actions Committee was a “revolutionary body elected in a revolutionary manner.”
Knapp said that the Zionists were not omitted intentionally from membership on the Committee. After several board members urged the Committee to reconsider its decision on Rabbi Rezek, they were informed that the decision could not be changed. The Committee assured the meeting, however, that the rights of religious Jews would be ?ly respected and that there would be no interference in religious affairs.
A black flag has been raised over the Jewish “Town Hall” here in memory of the ## Masaryk, long considered a friend of the Jewish people and of Palestine. At a meeting of the Council of Jewish Communities, vice-chairman Frantisek Fuchs paid tribute to the memory of the late Foreign Minister. Many Jews attended the burial service, while an official delegation of 20 participated in the official ceremonies.
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