A resolution appealing to State legislatures to enact “without further delay” measures that would lift Sunday closing restrictions from businesses that observe their Sabbath on Saturday was adopted here at the closing session of the annual Southeast Region convention of the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America. The resolution said the Sunday closing laws “penalize religious observance by imposing economic sanctions upon Jewish-owned business firms.”
The extensive use of specially developed teaching machines “to acquaint both young and old alike with the basic tenets of traditional Judaism” was advocated in an address to the convention by Joseph Kaminetsky, director of Torah Umesorah, the national society for Hebrew day schools.
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