Congress was urged today to undertake an immediate investigation of the Birch Society, in an address delivered here by Rabbi Emanuel Rackman, honorary president of the Rabbinical Council of America. Rabbi Rackman, addressing the 25th annual convention of the RCA, alluded to the “serious dangers which face the United States from the narrow, fascist-like and bigoted Birch Society.” The society, Rabbi Rackman stressed, “is introducing into our communities grave forces of dissension, division and defamation, which can ultimately eventuate in a breakdown of democracy and fair play in all our national dealings.”
Rabbi Theodore L. Adams, a past president of the RCA, called for the building of stronger cultural and religious ties between the Orthodox communities of the United States and Israel. “The interaction and interchange between the rabbinical bodies of Israel and the United States will prove to be beneficial and fruitful in major areas of mutual concern,” Rabbi Adams declared.
Gustave Stern, noted philanthropist and Jewish communal leader, was honored at a banquet session of the convention for his “25 years of dedicated services in helping to further Jewish religious institutions and studies in the United States and Israel.” Mr. Stern, who is chairman of the board of directors of the RCA Beth Din corporation and of the executive committee of the World Academy in Jerusalem, was the recipient of a bronze plaque in recognition of “his foresight and vision which made possible the establishment of the Beth Din (Rabbinical court).”
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