American Jews are still being robbed of “full first class citizenship because of discrimination in employment housing, and on social levels, Benjamin Epstein, national director of the B’nai B’rith Anti-Defamation League, said here today. He was addressing the joint session of the 36th annual convention of Aleph Zadek Aleph and the 15th annual B’nai B’rith Girls Convention.
“Even though certain outward manifestations of anti-Semitism have lessened and organized groups attacking Jews have diminished, the battle is far from over or won,” he said. He had warm praise for today’s younger generation which, he said, is breaking new paths in the field of better understanding by working together on inter-racial and interreligious problems.
“I have seen young people accept their contemporaries of other racial and religious groups in a manner of which the parents never conceived,” he stated.
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