A message of good will to the Jewish religious communities of Hungary, Poland, Rumania and East Germany was sent today by the European executive of the Agudas Israel World Organization at the conclusion of a meeting here yesterday.
At the session H.A. Goodman, chairman of the European executive, told the body that it was “imperative” that some form of co-existence should be found between the Jewish religious and communal bodies of Western and Eastern Europe, adding that he was aware “from personal knowledge” that such a development would be welcomed by the large Jewish communities of Eastern Europe. “It would be incredible,” he asserted, “that the heads of governments should meet in Geneva for the purpose of discovering a peaceful solution of their differences, while the Jews of the West still remain separated from their brethren in the East.”
Mr. Goodman warned against introducing secular and political problems into such discussions. “We are bound together with the Jews of the East by our common faith, our common history and our common hope in the Jewish future, irrespective of different political ideologies.”
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