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Agudas Israel Willing to Join an Enlarged Jewish Agency; Outlines Its Conditions

May 10, 1950
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The Agudas Israel organization will enter the enlarged executive of the Jewish Agency on certain conditions, H.A. Goodman, chairman of the European executive of the Agudah, told a meeting of the Orthodox group here last night.

The Agudah will affiliate with the Agency on condition that the latter “is converted into a representative non-political movement not concerned with cultural and religious aspects, and in which Zionists, non-Zionists and Agudists would work together for the welfare of Israel.”

The Agudah conference also heard a report on the “tragic position of thousands of Jewish women now living in Sweden, who are former inmates of the Nazi Ravensbruck concentration camp.” The European executive decided to set up a European rabbinical council and inaugurate a “fund for independent Orthodox Jews in Jerusalem.”

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