An appeal that German and Jewish Americans unite in the battle against race bigotry and persecution of minorities throughout the world was made by Rabbi B. Leon Hurwitz of the Ninth Street Temple, Brooklyn, at the Golden Jubilee banquet of the German Lutheran Emanuel Church of Park Slope at the Pouch Mansion, Brooklyn.
Reminding his audience that the original purpose of the Jubilee Year was to mitigate the evils of poverty and slavery by restoring the soil to the original owners and by the emancipation of all slaves, Rabbi Hurwitz, who spoke as the President of the Inter – Faith Clergy Association and as the chairman of the Brooklyn committee of the World Fellowship of Faiths, pleaded that “enlightened mankind emancipate itself from the poverty of mutual trust, good feeling and racial and national understanding and from the slavery of mutual suspicion, race hatred and ill-will which now plagues contemporary life.”
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