A city-wide appeal in all the synagogues, Jewish Centers, and Jewish institutions will be made on the first day of Passover, Sunday, April 13, and on the last day of Passover, Sunday, April 20, to ameliorate the conditions of unemployment existing among the young men and women of Jewish faith, who do not work on the Jewish Sabbath.
The Union of Orthodox Rabbis of America (the Agudath Harabonim) and the Council of Orthodox Rabbis of New York (the Vaad Harabonim) have issued a proclamation to all the rabbis affiliated with their groups, requesting that they devote an entire sermon to an appeal for the aid and cooperation of the Jewish business men in New York, to help place those who will not work on the Jewish Sabbath in positions which will enable them to keep the traditions of their faith.
This appeal has been sponsored through the urgent request of Young Israel Employment Bureau for Sabbath Observers, which now has an enrollment of over 10,000 Jewish young men and women Sabbath observers out of employment. This employment bureau is sponsored by the National Council of Young Israel, the governing body of the various Young Israel groups in New York City and throughout the country. Although only four years old, this employment bureau is now the largest of its kind in America.
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