Rabbi Judah Nadich, president of the Rabbinical Assembly of America, proposed today that Jewish welfare funds contribute to the support of synagogue-sponsored schools through a voucher system. Rabbi Nadich, who is the spiritual leader of the Park Avenue Synagogue in Manhattan, N.Y., addressed 500 delegates attending the Rabbinical Assembly’s convention which opened here last night.
He said that members of congregations were being taxed doubly when they contributed to welfare funds and at the same time have to pay for the programs of their congregations. He recommended a system whereby a child or adult would receive a voucher from the local community fund to pay for tuition, in an educational program of his choice.
Rabbi Nadich also referred in his speech to Israel’s 25th anniversary. He praised Israel’s achievements and the American Jewish community’s support of Israel through its local federations and welfare funds. “Israel and the American Jewish community both are integral part of the Jewish people, perhaps the strongest part,” he said.
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Jewish sources in the Soviet Union reported today that Jewish activists lit 30 candles in the Moscow synagogue to mark the 30th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
Jewish Defense League head Rabbi Meir Kahane said in Jerusalem today that he would continue sending letters to local Arabs urging them to leave the country, regardless of the legal steps the State is taking against him. Kahane’s trial for incitement, arising out of these letters, is due to begin tomorrow, but his lawyer has asked for a postponement., Kahane said the JDL had sent out some 5000 letters to date and had received around 300 positive responses from Arab families, most of them within the Green Line.
The Mexico City Jewish community observed the 30th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and the murder of six million Jews during the Nazi holocaust at a mass meeting at Kehilla Nidche Israel and Sports Center here this week. Several commemorations were also organized by Jewish school organizations and the Bund, with ex-partisans and Nazi victims participating. The Central Jewish Committee published a statement in the Mexican press underlining the significance of the uprising and the Holocaust.
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