The Soviet Union was urged here last night, at the biennial convention of the Union of Orthdox Jewish Congregations of America, to allow Russian Jewish representation at a conference of Orthodox synagogue groups in Rome next May. A “fervent plea” for such permission was made by Rabbi Joseph Karasik, who was elected president of the UOJCA, in an address to the convention banquet session.
The 2,000 delegates disposed, at another session, of a long-standing issue in Orthodox Jewish internal relations by voting down overwhelmingly a resolution calling for withdrawal of the organization from the Synagogue Council of America. The resolution would have required that the UOJCA withdraw from the SCA on grounds that continued membership “implied” to the public “acceptance by Orthodoxy” of “non-Orthdox religious philosophies as legitimate expressions of Judaism.” The effect of the resolution would have been a call on the Orthodox Union to withdraw from any cooperation with Conservative and Reform rabbinic and congregational organizations.
In another action, the convention formally accepted an invitation from Rabbi Moses Rosen, Chief Rabbi of Rumania, to the UOJCA to attend a world Orthodox religious conference next February in Bucharest.
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