An appeal to American rabbis, scholars and graduate rabbinical students to join in a “Torah Corps” for service in isolated communities in the United States and South America was made today by Rabbi Charles Weinberg, president of the Rabbinical Council of America.
Rabbi Weinberg made the proposal in his acceptance speech on his re-election at the annual convention of the association of Orthodox rabbis. He said members of such a Torah Corps would provide “these outlying Jewish communities with rabbinic and lay leadership in all fields of Jewish life.”
Rabbi Weinberg appealed to the United Nations “to adopt sterner resolutions to combat the virus of anti-Semitism and to make it an international crime. A ringing declaration from the General Assembly would make a deep impact on those countries which foster the outbreak and spread of anti-Semitism and religious discrimination in a variety of ways and schemes. anti-Semitism sets in motion those evil forces which are bent on subjugating the free world and setting up tyrannical forms of government in every vanquished state,” the Orthodox leader said.
Rabbi Weinberg also appealed to “the Soviet Government to stamp out all vestiges of anti-Semitism and religious persecution, and to restore to its Jewish residents those political, spiritual and cultural guarantees which are the cornerstone of the United Nations. Since Russia is making such stupendous progress on the scientific front, there is no reason why she can’t make her social and judicial system conform to the principles of scientific liberalism, freedom of movement, and recognition of the basic rights of man.”
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