American Jewish Congress and American Jewish Committee in Agreement for Joint Action

An agreement for setting up a modus operandi for the discussion of and cooperation with respect to questions of common concern to the American Jewish Committee and the American Jewish Congress, which was reached at a conference held January 11, was ratified at the recent meeting of the Administrative Committee of the American Jewish Congress, according to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. It had been previously ratified by the Executive Committee of the American Jewish Committee.

The agreement grows out of a resolution adopted at the convention of the American Jewish Congress at Atlantic City in May, 1929, when the appointment of a joint committee was recommended to “arrange for an early conference of representatives of the American Jewish Congress and American Jewish Committee to the end that sorely needed unity of action with respect to Jewish problems may be effected and present and potential causes of discord in Jewish life be thus averted.”

The agreement now set up is to the effect that the president of the Committee and the president of the Congress, at such times as they feel cooperation may be desirable, shall call upon the other and discuss with him the appointment, by both, of committees to decide upon a joint policy and to make such arrangements as they can agree upon for joint action, except at such time when the presidents of the two bodies may find it possible to agree upon a joint policy and action without resorting to the appointment of committees.

The conference was participated in by Bernard S. Deutsch, Dr. Stephen S. Wise, Nathan D. Perlman, Baruch Zuckerman and Bernard G. Richards, on behalf of the Congress, and Dr. Cyrus Adler, Judge Irving Lehman, Judge Horace Stern, David M. Bressler and Morris D. Waldman on behalf of the Committee.