Vigorous opposition on the part of Hartford Jewry to the proposed calendar reform movement which would create a 13-month year of 28 days each was revealed with the introduction of a resolution in the United States Senate by Senator Frederick C. Walcott as a climax of a campaign that has engaged the attention of many prominent Hartford Jews.
The petition was presented jointly by the local council and board of trustees of the Temple Beth Israel of Stamford, Conn., and opposes “any modification of the existing calendar that would include a blank day or otherwise disturb the continuity of the Sabbath.”
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