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Top Leadership of American Jewish Community to Meet on Peace in the Mideast

January 23, 1970
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The top leadership of the American Jewish community will gather in Washington on January 25 for a two-day National Emergency Conference on Peace in the Middle East. More than 500 delegates representing 24 constituents of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, as well as leaders of Jewish communities throughout the country, will meet to express their “deep concern and apprehension” over recent U.S. policy statements on the Middle East. During the two-day parley they will be joined by legislators, clergymen and others concerned with what has been described by Jewish spokesmen as a “serious erosion” in State Department policy on Israel. Rabbi Herschel Schacter of New York, retiring chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, will chair the two-day meeting.

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