The United Synagogue of America, representing more than 400 Conservative Jewish congregations, will send several “circuit-riding rabbis” throughout the country to serve small Jewish communities which are not large enough to support a rabbi and religious schools, it was decided at a meeting of the organization last night.
In a report which led to the resolution to establish the circuit-riding corps, Rabbi Albert I. Gordon, who was yesterday installed as executive director of the group, declared that the United Synagogue was faced with the task of developing a “greater sense of unity and discipline” in various Conservative congregations. Under the plan for a travelling rabbinate, several members of next June’s graduating class at the Jewish Theological Seminary will be assigned to hold services and train laymen to conduct them in small communities which request assistance.
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