Signatures to a petition which will be presented to the Governor, the Senate and the Assembly of New York, for relief from existing Sunday laws, are being obtained by the Jewish Sabbath Alliance of America, Dr. Bernard Drachman, President of the Alliance, announced.
There are 8 states in the United States which have no Sunday laws and there are 14 states which grant complete exemption to seventh day observers from the Sunday laws. These 14 states permit these observers to work and do business on Sunday while in New York Sabbath observers suffer hardships under the Sunday laws. Dr. Drachman said.
A bequest of $10,000 was left by the late Isaac Liberman. member of the Board of Directors of the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary and Yeshiva College to the Yeshiva Endowment Foundation, it is announced by Dr. B. Revel, President of the Faculty of the Yeshiva.
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