The Religious Zionists of America concluded their five-day national convention here last night with the adoption of a resolution calling on Jewish federations and welfare funds in the United States to extend maximum financial support to Hebrew day schools. The delegates also urged more unified action on the part of all Orthodox bodies in this country to strengthen traditional Jewish institutions.
In other resolutions, the convention called on the Soviet Union to grant full guarantees of freedom to that country’s 3,000,000 Jewish citizens; urged the United States “and other freedom-loving countries to use their good offices to compel Egypt to open the Suez Canal to all countries trading with Israel” and to “discourage and stifle the Arab boycott of Jewish merchants and businessmen who deal with Israel.” The delegates also voiced disapproval of the shipment by American firms of military equipment to Saudi Arabia and urged support for the adoption and approval of the United Nations Convention on Genocide.
Elected to head the organization during the coming year was a presidium of three members including Dr. Maurice Sage and Rabbi Herschel Schacter, both of New York; and Gabriel Feigenbaum, of Cleveland.
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