The American Jewish Reform movement’s Joint Commission on Social Action is going to intensify its efforts to keep alive throughout the country a “dialogue for peace” in Southeast Asia, it was announced here today by the heads of the Reform group’s lay and rabbinic organizations — the Central Conference of American Rabbis and the Union of American Hebrew Congregations.
The announcement was made by Rabbi Jacob J. Weinstein, president of the CCAR and Rabbi Maurice Elsendrath, president of the UAHC, at a news conference in which they reported the results of a two-hour meeting held yesterday by 30 Reform rabbis who discussed the Viet Nam situation with Ambassador Arthur J. Goldberg, chairman of the United States delegation to the United Nations and one of President Johnson’s principle peace envoys.
Rabbi Weinstein and Rabbi Eisendrath, with Rabbi Albert M. Lewis, who participated in today’s news conference, were among the 30 Reform spiritual leaders who met with Mr. Goldberg yesterday. They said that far from discouraging public discussion of the Viet Nam situation. Ambassador Goldberg had made it clear that the U. S. Government is anxious to keep the dialogue alive. They said that Ambassador Goldberg is “unequivocably in favor of keeping the discussion open.”
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