New Britain herald., 1923-10-11
WORLD congress
FOR ORTHODOX jew
400 Delegates Outline Policies at
Convention In Vienna

Vienna. Oct, 1.-THE World Con
Ersss OF Orthodox Jews. convened II
this city 10 deal with everyday jew,
ish problems In their purely religious
aspect. adopted six resolutions al Ia
closing session which. taken together
set forth the immediate tasks OF the
organization. These are;
To regain. through organized effort
spiritual contact with dispersed and
estranged Jewry, In particular the
jews OF the west and the casts
The promotion on an extensive
scale OF the study OF the Thora and
Jewish education. especially in the
countries where opportunities along
these lines are most lacking:
The ameiioration OF the economic
situation OF the Jewish masses In Inn
poverished countries, and Palestine;
The organization and promotion Of
the means OF prompt succor In cases
of emergency:
The promotion OF the Jewish spirit
In the daily press and in literature;
To obtain the recognition, ms au-
thoritative spokesman for the entire
body. OF Jews who consciously seek
inspiration from the Thora and who
live according to its precepts.
The congress. described also as the
''Kenessio Gedauloh OF the Agudas
Jisroei," was attended by $50 dele
gates from 90 states. Most OF them
came from central and eastern Eu-
rope. They sat through three sessions
a day for eight days, and listened with
religious fervor to the orations and
cxhortations of men highly esteemed
as leaders and students.
The Agudas Jisroel was founded II
years ago. 1t was a practical express
sion of the conviction that the me-
chanical achievements of this gen.
Grafton, such as fast travel, the
opportunities for the rapid accumula-
ton OF wealth in distant lands, and
host of other social and economic fac
tors, were isolating Jews into small
groups in manner to make 1t more
difficult for their spiritual leaders to
keep before them the religious ira
ditions and past ideals of the race.
1t was to avert these dangers threat
ening Jewry that the Agudad Jisroel |
was organized.
The congress did not concern itself |
with political matters. Even in the |
question of the creation of a national
home for the Jews in Pa'eG,l!Ie, the |
organization was less concerned with
the number of those taking UP their
abode there each year, than with the
motive actuating the immigrant and
his spiritual attitude toward the land
of his destiny. The Chassidim- Rabbi
of Sokolow said much irreligion was
observable among the Jews in the
Holy Land, and Rabbi katzenellen-
bogen (Jerusalem) described the
many difficulties against which the
Jews of the independent orthodox
group were compelled to Eighth.
AS proof of the sympathetic interest
felt by the organization for the Pal
estine movement may be cited the
dispatch to Sir Herbert Samuels of
cablegram expressing warm senti- I
ments Of gratitude on behalf of the (;
Agudas Jisroel for his efforts IN the +,
interest of Zionism.
But it is the strengthening Of the
faith of those who have hitherto
taken their religious duties lightly, Il
md the moral regeneration of the
Jews far removed from the staunch s
rhora adherents of the East, to which a
he chief efforts of the organization
ire to be directed. These Jews are
n he taught that every observance
aid down in The Law is an essential
n the life of the believing Jew.