The New York Board of Rabbis, at its 69th annual meeting here last night, adopted a resolution declaring that "the United Jewish Appeal should have priority among the philanthropic campaigns of American Jewry." The board is comprised of 425 Orthodox, Conservative and Reform rabbis from New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Pennsylvania.
The Board also adopted resolutions commending efforts for the maintenance of separation between church and state, and urged that constant vigilance be exercised against the rise of Nazism in postwar Germany. The meeting also endorsed President Truman’s civil rights program and lauded the aims of the F.E.P.C.
The present large-scale immigration of Jews to Israel, the Board stated in another resolution, "places an inescapable responsibility upon every American Jew to give generous financial assistance towards providing for housing, care, education and employment."
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