A proposal for the reestablishment of the Sanhedrin, advanced by Israel’s Minister for Religion, Rabbi Judah L. Maimon, failed to receive sufficient support today at a stormy meeting of the Organizational Committee of the nationwide rabbinical conference which is taking place here. The committee decided that the conference should not enter into any debates on Rabbi Mainmon’s proposal but should merely take note of it.
The conference, which is being held under the chairmanship of Sepherdic Chief Rabbi Ben Zion Uziel, adopted a resolution calling upon the Israel Government to improve religious activities, especially in the immigrant camps. The resolution demanded that religious education be given to all those who desire it. Addressing today’s session, Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Isaas Herzog appealed to the labor movement in Israel to “repair the harm done” by the religious education situation which has developed in the immigrant camps. He also appealed to the press not to consider the demand for religious education in the camps a political matter but as a “purely religious matter concerning the entire nation.”
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