The World Council of Churches and world Jewish leadership which have differed in the past, mainly over the Middle East, agreed here to hold regular consultations as “a way to share our concerns in an organized manner instead of haphazardly, as in the past.” That resolve emerged from a three day joint meeting of the World Council of Churches, representing 242 Protestant, Anglican and Orthodox Catholic denominations and a 14-man Jewish delegation. The latter included representatives of the World Jewish Congress, the Synagogue Council of America, the American Jewish Committee and the B’nai B’rith Anti-Defamation League.
(The meeting and its outcome were described as highly significant by Rabbi Marc H. Tanenbaum, national interreligious affairs director of the American Jewish Committee. Speaking at an interfaith meeting in Schenactady, N.Y., yesterday, he said “The fact that this consultation was held for the first time in the headquarters of the World Council of Churches and at the formal invitation of its general secretary, the Rev. Dr. Eugene Carson Blake…signified that the World Council and world Jewish relationships moved from previously casual, Intermittent conversations held in international hotel rooms onto a new plateau of official, systematic and regular exchange of views.”)
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