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HISTORY The roots of the organization go back to 1923 when it was founded as the Rabbinical Council of the Union Of Orthodox Jewish Congregations Of America . Its purpose was to perpetuate and promote Orthodox Judaism in the United States of America. Its members attempted on a number of occasions to merge with other Jewish groups, for the purpose of developing a unified traditional rabbinate for the American Jewish community. A number of attempts were made to join with groups such as Agudat Israel , but all such attempts were rebuffed. A merger took place in 1935 between the Rabbinical Council of the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations and another Orthodox rabbinical group, the Rabbinical Association of the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary , a part of Yeshiva University . With this merger the combined group took the name Rabbinical Council of America, known in the Jewish community as the '''RCA'''. In later years the RCA attempted to merge with another Orthodox rabbinical group, the Rabbinical Alliance of America, but this attempt failed. Most of its members are actively working as pulpit rabbis; a significant minority are working in Jewish education. It publishes an English quarterly journal, ''Tradition: A Journal of Orthodox Jewish Thought'', which began in 1958 , and a Hebrew journal, ''Hadorom'', which began in 1957 . The RCA is also affiliated with two Yeshiva s in Israel – Yeshivat HaDarom and the Gan Yavneh Youth Village. LIST OF OFFICERS
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