Rabbinical Council of America
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organization of Orthodox rabbis, almost all of whom have received their rabbinical training in the United States. The council's chief aims have been to promote the study and practice of Orthodox Judaism, to defend the basic rights of Jews in all parts of the world, and to support the State of Israel. It is the rabbinical arm of the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America (
Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America, Union of), with which it supervises the manufacture of
kosher foods.
Originally organized in 1923 as the Rabbinical Council of the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations, the council adopted its present name in the 1930s after merging (1936) with the Rabbinical Association of the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (now Yeshiva University), in
New York City. The Alumni Association of Hebrew Theological College of Chicago (now in Skokie,
Ill.) joined the council in 1943.
The council publishes two journals, the semiannual Hebrew-language
Hadorom and the quarterly English-language
Tradition. In 1960 it sponsored the publication of
The Traditional Prayer Book for Sabbath and Festivals.* * *
Universalium.
2010.
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