The 1700 delegates attending the biennial convention of the National Women’s League of the United Synagogue of America voted to change the name of the group to the Women’s League for Conservative Judaism. The four-day convention which ended yesterday also re-elected Mrs. Henry N. Rapaport of Scarsdale, N.Y., to her second two-year term as League president.
The convention voted to explain “to non-Jews the concept of Jewish people hood and how it affects American Jewish feelings toward Israel, especially the unique meaning of Jerusalem in Jewish religion, history and tradition.” Resolutions also called for active participation in campaigning for the release of Soviet Jewry and material assistance to aid them in their relocation in Israel, and also called on League members to “spotlight in the public media the Syrian persecution of Jews.”
The delegates also called for “the immediate withdrawal of U.S. armed forces from Southeast Asia in a manner commensurate with their safety and that of our prisoners of war”; and opposed any government aid to parochial schools except for programs related to health and asked for increased aid to the Jewish poor.
At an earlier session, Zvi Brosh, Israel’s Information Minister in the United States, said “The protests of Americans are of great significance, since Russia does not wish to incur the wrath of the free world.” He added, “We must also be mindful that thousands of Jews still remain in Arab countries and these, too, must be rescued, for they represent the great challenge to Jews in our times.”
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