Rabbi David J. Seligson has been re-elected president of the New York Board of Rabbis at the Board’s 73rd annual meeting here.
The group adopted a number of resolutions expressing opposition to the Bricker Amendment, commending individuals and groups which have fought the “tide of pressures by extremists threatening to curtail civil liberties and academic freedom, urging the United States to use its good offices to promote peace in the Near East and recommending that New York State appoint a commission to study the problem of divorce procedures and laws in the state.
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