A three-day post-war Jewish military chaplains training conference opened here last night to discuss practical problems of the chaplaincy.
Addressing the opening session, Rabbi Max D. Davidson, chairman of the Division of Religious Activities of the National Jewish Welfare Board, reported that the Reform. Conservative and Orthodox Rabbinical bodies have undertaken to provide the U.S. military establishment this year with 147 full-time Jewish chaplains, nearly twice the number on duty now.
Rabbi Davidson emphasized that the three major branches of the American rabbinate have adopted a voluntary selective service program through which the Jewish chaplaincy needs of the military will be met. He said that there are now 78 Jewish chaplains on active service in all branches of the armed forces at home and abroad, thanks to the procurement efforts of the Central Conference of American Rabbis (Reform). Rabbinical Assembly of America (Conservative) and the Rabbinical Council of America (Orthodox).
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