Liberalization of the current divorce laws was urged today by the New York Board of Rabbis in a resolution adopted at its 77th annual meeting here. The resolution deplored the New York State law which grants divorce only on grounds of adultery. “Its effect has not been the discouragement of divorce, but the encouragement of ‘framed’ cases, perjury, and divorces in out of state ‘divorce mills,” the resolution said. The meeting also expressed opposition to religious instruction in the public schools.
In another resolution, the rabbis urged the United States to “make it clear that Israel’s existence will be defended and her borders remain inviolate.” The resolution warned “against an isolation of Israel from the political, military and economic planning for the Middle East by the Western world” and stressed that such isolation “can only sharpen the conflict and delay any solution” of the Middle East problem.
The resolution drew the attention of the American authorities to the fact that Arab foreign students who entered the United States on visas for study purposes are engaged in disseminating propaganda “hostile to American policy and interests and favorable to the Soviet Union.” It pointed out that the Organization of Arab Students now has branches on 30 college or university campuses.
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