Rabbinic and lay synagogues throughout the country are scheduled to attend here an “Assembly on Jerusalem” on Sept. 23, it was announced today by Rabbi Irving Lehrman, president of the Synagogue Council of America. The Assembly, convened by the Council, will serve as a “reaffirmation of historic Jewish faithfulness to the Holy City.” Rabbi Lehrman said. Philip M. Klutznick, a former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, and Elie Weisel, noted author, will be among the major speakers at the Assembly. Rabbi Lehrman stated that the Assembly was being convened at this time “because of the development of an increasingly hostile atmosphere, both in certain church circles and in the forthcoming session of the UN General Assembly. We are deeply concerned with the disturbing religious undertones of that assault.” Workshop sessions will be led by Prof. Shemaryahu Talmon, chairman of Bible Studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem; Prof, Ben Halpern of Brandeis U; and Rabbi Henry Siegman, executive nice-president of the Synagogues Council.
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