Participants in a conference here on the “Church and the Jewish People in America,” sponsored by the American Committee on the Christian Approach to the Jews, last night heard speakers call for an educational program among Christian parishes in this country to eradicate anti-Semitism. Prof. Walter M. Morton, of Oberlin Theological Seminary, asked so small in the minds of churchgoers.”
A paper by the Rev. Harry Ellison, of London, contended that opposition to the Jewish religion by the Christian churches helped to create and foster anti-Semitism. The report attributed the complacency of churches to the Nazi terror to anti-Judaism. Rev. Ellison urged Sunday school teachers to remind their students that “almost all the heroes of the New Testament were Jews.”
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