Philip Klutznick, president of the World Jewish Congress, visited Rumania last week and met President Nicolae Ceausescu. He also conferred with Chief Rabbi Moses Rosen and other Jewish leaders on Jewish life and the relationship between world Jewry and Israel and the Rumanian Jewish community. More than 1000 Jews attended a reception for Klutznick Friday evening at the Choral Synagogue. Rosen emphasized that this was Klutznick’s first visit in his capacity as WJC president to a Jewish community outside the U.S.
Klutznick expressed his admiration and respect for Rumania and Ceausescu who had played an important role in the current peace process in the Middle East. The Federation of Jewish communities gave a reception attended by the ambassadors of the U.S. and Israel, the representative of Rumania’s Department of Religious Affairs and religious leaders headed by Patriarch Justin of the Rumanian Orthodox Church, bishops of the Roman Catholic Church and the Evangelic Church.
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