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Judaism does not usually support Conversion to Judaism but does, on the other hand, believe that Jewish people have some duty to help establish the Noahide Laws. Some Jewish groups have been particularly active in promoting the Seven Laws, such as the Chabad Lubavitch movement.

Rabbi Eliyahu Benamozegh

Rabbi Eliyahu Benamozegh. His book "Israel and Humanity" appeared originally in Italian at the end of the nineteenth century. Rabbi Benamozegh was the spiritual leader of the Jewish community of Livorno, Italy, and a well-known kabbalist and religious leader of great influence in European Jewry who is credited with the revival of the Noachide movement in the last century.

United States Congress' declaration

On March 20th, 1991, the 102nd Congress of the United States passed Public Law 102-14 to designate March 26, 1991, as "Education Day, U.S.A."; in the bill Congress recognized

the ... principles ... upon which our great Nation was founded ... known as the Seven Noahide Laws ... without these ... civilization stands in serious peril of ... chaos ... Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, leader of the Lubavitch movement, is universally respected and revered and his eighty-ninth birthday falls on March 26, 1991 ... in tribute to this great spiritual leader ... his ninetieth year will ... turn to education and charity to return the world to the moral and ethical values contained in the Seven Noahide Laws

Since the late 1980s and early 1990s, many Orthodox Jews and Noahides have been trying to take the Seven Laws into the general public and turn them into a broad-based international ideological movement to introduce values of Jewish origin.

In more general Jewish thinking, David Novak, among others, has proposed that Noahide Law could serve as the basis for a more universal Jewish ethics and for cross-cultural moral reasoning (at least with Christians and Muslims).

High Council of Bnei Noah

The Noahide movement has grown even more with the formation of the High Council of B'nei Noah in 2005. The [High Council of B'nei Noah] was formed at the request of members of the nascent Sanhedrin by Noahide leaders and scholars who came to Israel and were formally recognized by twenty-seven Rabbis from the nascent Sanhedrin.

The United Noachide Council, Inc.

United Noachide Council, Inc. was founded in 2006 by Billy Jack Dial originating founder and original member of the High Council for Bnai Noach to serve the needs of Noachides worldwide. Billy Jack Dial resigned from the High Council for Bnai Noach due to the lack of interest from the other council, and Sanhedrin members, and felt the Jewish and Bnai Noach communities would be better served with a different High Council, i.e. a Supreme High Council which focused on a wider community participation involved in its conception and development.

One of the primary organization’s goals and future purpose is to support a democratically run General Noachide Council that represents the interests and needs of "All" Noachide Communities throughout the world, and ultimatly to support a Supreme High Council for Bnai Noach composed of only qualified Noachide judges which will have graduated from a yeshiva for B'nei Noach in Israel.

Branch UNC, Inc.. organizations are in process of formation at various locations throughout the world. The goal of the UNC, Inc. organization is to have branches in every country.