The Zionist Actions Committee of the Rabbinical Assembly of America has been authorized to formulate a definition of Zionism from the point of view of Conservative Judaism and to devise ways and means of implementing its position within the Zionist movement. This action was authorized in a resolution adopted yesterday at the closing session of the Assembly’s 46th annual convention at the Jewish Theological Seminary.
Another resolution adopted by the Assembly condemned the delay in implementing the Anglo-American inquiry committee’s recommendation for the admission of 100,000 displaced Jews to Palestine. The convention also protested the “brutal violation of promises repeatedly and publicly made to the Jewish people, particularly by the political party now in power in England,” and objected to application of the concept of “illegal” as applied to homeless Jews seeking a new life in Palestine.
Although repudiating acts of irresponsible violence in Palestine, the convention expressed confidence in the leadership of the Jewish community there, “whose self-defense organization, the Haganah, has shown exemplary self-discipline and self-sacrifice in the face of extraordinary provocation.”
Other resolutions called for the expansion of adult Jewish education, creation of children’s all-day schools, and the establishment of youth camps and personnel counselling services.
Rabbi Israel M. Goldman of Providence, R.I., was elected president of the Assembly to succeed Dr. Robert Gordis, who is leaving Tuesday on a tour of Pacific and Far Eastern bases of the Army and Navy to survey the religious conditions and needs of Jewish servicemen.
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