The Philadelphia Board of Rabbis has declared its support of the nationwide anti-Vietnam war fast and work strike scheduled for Wednesday. The executive committee’s statement, sent to board members and to the Moratorium Committee, was signed by Rabbi Ellas Charry, board president, and Rabbi Harold B. Waintrup, chairman of the Religious and Social Action Committee. They expressed their "horror at the loss of lives, both military and civilian, still going on in Vietnam and threatening to spread to other countries in Southeast Asia." The war they said, "has made it impossible for our country to cope with (its) many unmet domestic needs." They endorsed the City Council resolution calling on President Nixon and the Congress to "act immediately to end the tragic waste of American lives and resources in Vietnam." The statement said the rabbis supported the fast "as a means of bringing to the attention of the administration our dissatisfaction" with its "slow pace" of Vietnam withdrawal and its appropriation for warfare of "so many billions of dollars" that could otherwise be used for social needs.
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