The four-day annual national meeting of the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith closed here today with the adoption of a $5,257,000 budget for this year. Dore J. Schary was reelected national chairman of the organization. Ambassador Arthur Goldberg was named honorary vice-chairman.
The gathering called upon community groups “to refrain from patronizing or holding meetings” at social clubs that discriminate on religious grounds. Mr. Schary was authorized to ask 3,000 national professional and trade associations not to use such clubs for their meetings and conventions.
Burnett Roth, co-chairman of the ADL discrimination committee, said many “so-called social clubs” which practice religious discrimination are “really quasi-public institutions.” To be barred from them, he declared, “can affect the individual’s standing in the community, his business relationships, and in some cases, housing and employment.”
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