The convention of the Pioneer Women, American Women’s Labor Zionist Organization, today resolved to raise $2,220,000 during the next two years for the social service program of Moetzet Hapoalot, its sister organization in Israel. It elected Mrs. Rose Kaufman of New York and Cleveland as national president succeeding Mrs. Blanche Fine who served for two years.
The delegates adopted a resolution calling upon the Soviet Government to restore full cultural, national and religious rights to its Jewish citizens. The resolution urged the Soviet Government to: 1, Permit the free functioning of synagogues and private prayer meetings; 2. Allow the Jewish community to publish religious texts in necessary quantities; 3. Permit Jews to make religious pilgrimages to Israel; 4. Provide schools and other facilities for the study of Yiddish and Hebrew and of Jewish culture; and 5. Permit Jewish intellectuals to create institutions for the encouragement of Jewish cultural life.
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