Rabbinical Assembly Scores Cleveland Committee for Bringing Case to Court

Jewish Religious Controversy Should be Kept Out of Secular Court, Resolution States

A resolution protesting against bringing a Jewish religious controversy into a secular court and offering their good offices for readjustment in the case of the Cleveland Jewish Center was made public yesterday by the Executive Committee of the Rabbinical Assembly of the Jewish Theological Seminary and the United Synagogue of America.

The resolution was adopted by the Executive Council of the Assembly which met yesterday afternoon at the Jewish Theological Seminary and also by the Executive Council of the United Synagogue of America which met last night at the Hotel McAlpin.

The resolution, signed by Rabbi Max Drob, president of the Rabbinical Assembly, and S. Herbert Goldstein, president of the United Synagogue of America, read:

“The Rabbinical Assembly and the United Synagogue of America have learned with keen regret that in the controversy now existing in the Cleveland Jewish Center a group of men who claim to be exponents of traditional Judaism have committed an act so foreign to the spirit of Judaism as to drag a religious matter before a secular tribunal.

“The Rabbinical Assembly and the United Synagogue of America further call attention to the fact that as the congregation is affiliated with the United Synagogue and that as its rabbi is a member of the Rabbinical Assembly and that as both these bodies are organized to foster traditional Judaism, the group of men in controversy with the rabbi and congregation should have brought this matter to the Rabbinical Assembly and the United Synagogue, who have always been ready to adjudicate matters of this nature.”