A request for a six weeks’ delay before concluding negotiations regarding the reorganization of the Palestine rabbinate has been forwarded to General Sir Arthur Wauchope, High Commissioner for Palestine, by the Executive Council of the Agudath Israel, world Orthodox Jewish organization.
The cabled appeal to Gen. Wauchope states that the delay requested would give the Rabbinical Council of the Agudath Israel time to decide questions reaching outside of Palestine.
The Palestine government has proposed that the constitution of the Kenesseth Israel (Jewish Community), which provides for both lay and religious authorities, remain unchanged, but that three representatives of the Agudath be added to the Rabbinical Council, established under that constitution, and that an Agudist rabbi be added to the Chief Rabbinate.
At present there are in the Rabbinical Council six members, three of them representing the Sephardic element in the religious Jewish community of Palestine and three the Ashkenazic. In the Chief Rabbinate, which now consists of two religious leaders, one similarly represents the Sephardim and the other the Ashkenazim.
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