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Renewal of the fight on the part of the Jewish constituency of the State of New York has begun a new Tuesday afternoon, March 9, when the Assem bly Codes Committee, held a public hearing on the Sabbath Bill No. 310, introduced by Assemblyman Samuel Dickstein at the instance of the Jew ish Sabbath Alliance of America (Agudas Am Israel and Tomchai Shabos) with national offices at 110 Fifth Avenue, New York City. Rev. Dr. Bernard Drachman, Presi dent of the Jewish Sabbath Alliance of America, explained to the Commit tee that Jewish citizens who are ful filling all the duties as such should at least be given the same recognition by the State lawmakers as is accorded the Christian citizens of the state. That the State should not force these Sabbath Observers to abandon their Day of Rest and take up another which is altogether strange to them. He also mentioned that the Sabbath Alliance received a number of peti tions endorsing the Sabbath Bill from the Christian Clergymen who thought that this would in no way interfere with Sunday, the Christian Day of Rest, and that this bill is meant only for the conscientious Seventh Day Sabbath observers. The delegation headed by Dr. Drachman, consisted of representa tives of a number of Jewish and non- Jewish organizations, some of them were: William Rosenberg, Secretary of the Jewish Sabbath Alliance; J. H. Luria, Morris Asofsky, Isser Reznik, Raphael Savitsky, and Counsellor Shonseit of the Eldridge Street Mer-
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The Jewish Monitor
Fort Worth, Texas, US
Fri, Apr 16, 1920
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