The American Jewish Congress will appeal a decision by New York State Supreme Court Justice Benvenga, dismissing a motion for a temperary injunction preventing the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company from practicing racial discrimination in its Stuyvesant Town housing development, Rabbi Irving Miller, chairman of the Congress executive committee, announced today.
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