Efforts to organize Orthodox Jewish women in Poland to strengthen the Agudath Israel have been started here by the establishment of an organization to be known as B’noth Agudah.
This constitutes a new departure in the policy of the Orthodox world organization, as until recently, only men were admitted to membership and women guests were not permitted to attend the organization’s conferences.
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