Intercommunal friction and divisiveness that have hung over the Jewish community in Great Britain are coming to an end, Maurice Edelman, president of Britain’s Anglo-Jewish Association, told a group of leaders of its “sister” organization, the American Jewish Committee, at a reception in his honor here.
“There is now a more enlightened trend and a general recognition that particular organizations and groupings, while maintaining their distinctiveness, can contribute to the common good by employing their particular services to the best advantage,” Mr. Edelman stated.
He went on to say that he expected the trial merger of the Anglo-Jewish Association and the Union of Jewish Women to be both “lasting and advantageous,” not only to the Association but to British Jewry. The merger, he added, is “symptomatic of a new and happier trend discernible in British Jewry.” The American Jewish Committee leaders discussed with Mr. Edelman proposed anti-discrimination legislation in British places of public accommodation, and also the formulation of group libel laws.
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