The Synagogue Council of America, representing the orthodox, conservative and reform rabbis and congregations of the United States, of which Rabbi Herbert S. Goldstein is president, to day issued a call to the rabbis and religious leaders of the country asking them “to gather their people in their Synagogues and Temples for a service of Thanksgiving at 8,00 p.m. on the day on which cessation of hostilities in Europe is officially announced.”
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