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Reform Rabbis Say Clearing Jews of Decide Charge is Church Problem

June 22, 1964
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Most of the Reform rabbis attending the annual convention of the Central Conference of American Rabbis here believe that Jews need not and should not pressure the Vatican for a statement by the Ecumenical Council exonerating the Jewish people from the charge of having crucified Jewsus. This was indicated in interviews of the delegates here this weekend.

Opposing this kind of pressure by Jewish organizations, the rabbis asserted that the problem belongs to the Catholic Church and not to the Jewish people. “Such an act of atonement on the part of the Church is long overdue and should need no special pleading on our part,” Rabbi Leon I. Feuer, president of the CCAR, stated.

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