Evening Star · 16 November 1942

CP-1942-003

Rabbis Rebuke Jewish Opponents of Zionism

By the Associated Press, New York

Transcribed from the clipping

“NEW YORK, Nov. 16.—Declaring that ‘the defeat of Hitler will not of itself normalize Jewish life in Europe,’ 733 rabbis issued a pronouncement yesterday rebuking Jewish opponents of Zionism as dealing a ‘cruel blow’ to the Jewish people. The action, said to be without precedent in the history of American Jewry, is a rejoinder to a statement made recently by a group of reform rabbis regarded as unfriendly to the Zionist cause. Denying the charge that Zionism is a secularist movement, the statement asserts that ‘it has its origins and roots in the authoritative religious texts of Judaism’ and scores anti-Zionism as ‘a departure from the Jewish religion.’”

Context added by this archive

Seven hundred and thirty-three rabbis, in November 1942, answering the reform rabbis who had come out against Zionism. The archive holds the argument from both directions and this is the count on one side of it, in an American daily, while the war was still on.

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"Rabbis Rebuke Jewish Opponents of Zionism," Evening Star, 16 November 1942. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1942-003. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1942-003

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