The annual national conference of the Rabbinical Council of America–an Orthodox group–opened here last night with an appeal by Rabbi Abraham N. AvRulick, president of the organization, that the United Nations enforce the provisions of the Israel-Jordan armistice agreement assuring to Jews access to the Wailing Wall and to all sacred Jewish shrines in territory occupied by Jordan.
In his presidential address, Rabbi AvRetick noted that on sacred Christian Holy Dave, Israel gladly permits Israel’s Christian citizens to visit Holy Places in Jordan. “But since the establishment of the State of Israel,” he declared, “no Jew has been permitted to visit and pray at the Wailing Wall in Old Jerusalem, the last remnant of our sacred Temple and as such, the site most sacred to Jewish tradition.”
He said it was “to obligation of the United Nations whose policy it is to enhance the freedom of the individual and the community, to enforce this basic and elementary right which is now being denied to the members of the Jewish community throughout the world.”
Rabbi Israel Miller, chairman of the commission on Jewish chaplaincy of the National Jewish Welfare Board, said that the clergyman in military uniform is doing a much better job than his civilian counterpart. He praised the military chaplains for the excellent morale of the American troops overseas and for the religious revival military installations are experiencing.
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