The 41st annual convention of the Rabbinical Assembly of America closed this afternoon at Mikveh Israel Synagogue with adoption of resolutions and election of officers. (The results were not available at time of publication of this bulletin.)
Resolutions calling upon Britain to make use of the Jewish “homeland” army in Palestine to defend democracy and urging Jews to contribute generously to British war relief were submitted to the convention. Dr. Israel Goldstein, president of the Jewish National Fund, requested that two days be set aside for prayer for a democratic victory.
Action was delayed on a report of the assembly’s Social Justice Commission, submitted by Rabbi Eugene Kohn of New York, which would commit the 500 Conservative rabbis to seek elimination of “corruption and abuse by private economic interests.” The report reiterated that Judaism was “historically against war,” but asserted that “to fail to resist military aggression serves only to encourage irresponsible recourse to war and to perpetuate the sins of mankind.”
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