A resolution of protest against the incidents at the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem was adopted by the Synagogue Council of America, at a meeting in New York City this week. The Synagogue Council of America is composed of organizations, representative of Reform, Conservative and Orthodox Judaism, and incudes the Central Conference of American Rabbis, the Rabbinical Assembly of the United Synagogue, the Rabbinical Council of the Union of Orthodox Jewish congregations of America the Union of American He brew Congregations, the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America and the United Synagogue of America. The resolution read:
“The Synagogue Council of America an organization in which are represented officially all religious elements in Jewry, voicing the religious conseience of the millions of Jews of the United States of America, profoundly deplores the interfercnce with Jewish worship which took place at the Kothel Maaravi (the Western Wall) popularly known as the Wailing Wall, in Jerusalem, on the Day of Aloncment.
” Relying on the spirit of brotherhood and reverence for sacred things, common to all religions, the Synagoguc Council herwith expresses its firm hope that Jewish worship at the Wall, a tradition of centuries, be respected in the future, and that there shall never be a recurrence of such a painful offense to the religious feelings of the Jews in Palestine and of the whole world.”
Albert W. Rayner, brother of the late United States Sena or Isidor Rayner, died Friday at the Union Memorial Hospital, Baltimore, Md. Mr. Rayner was 64 years old. He was president of the South Baltimore Harbor and Improvement Company
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