Four of the largest rabbinical associations in the United States–Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh–with a total membership of over 500 rabbis have joined the American Zionist Federation as organizational members as a part of the campaign to enroll a million Zionists in the United States and Canada before the next World Zionist Congress in December 1971, it was announced by Rabbi Israel Miller, president of the American Zionist Federation which will celebrate its first anniversary this May. In making the announcement, which he said was only a beginning of the affiliations of the rabbinical groups, Rabbi Miller said: “The corporate affiliation with the American Zionist Federation of the local rabbinical associations of four of the largest and most influential American Jewish communities, is an affirmative expression of the solidarity of the American Jewish community in the cause of Israel and the acceptance of the Jerusalem Program.”
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