Resolutions protesting against the proposed calendar reform on the ground that it would militate against the Jewish Sabbath were adopted at a meeting of over 100 rabbis from New York and the surrounding cities at the Broadway Central Hotel in New York Monday night.
The resolutions asked the President and Congress not to favor any legislation that called for an American delegation to an international calendar simplification congress unless the bill provided that the American delegates be instructed to fight any plan that includes the blank day which would destroy the fixity of the Sabbath.
The meeting held under the auspices of the League for Safeguarding the Fixity of the Sabbath was addressed by Dr. Moses Hyamson of the Jewish Theological Seminary, president of the League, Rabbi Max J. Weis of the Association of Reform Rabbis, Dr. Elias L. Solomon of the Board of Jewish Ministers and Rabbi B. M. Kelin of the Greater New York Association of Orthodox Rabbis.
The proposed calendar reform was termed “not calendar reform but a deformation thereof in the interests of industry” by Dr. Stephen S. Wise in a letter read at the meeting.
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