While rejecting participation in the national board of elections for an enlarged American Jewish Congress, B’nai B’rith has accepted the invitation of the American Jewish Congress to join a conference between the representatives of the two organizations “for the purpose of a riving at an understanding on problems of ### Jewish interest.”
This was revealed Friday by the American Jewish Congress, in extending an invitation to B’nai B’rith to name #ts representatives and to se##a date and a place for the meeting.
In accepting the invitation to the conference, Alfred M. Cohen, president of B’nai B’rith, made it clear, however, that his organization reserves to itself the right not only to express its views within the conference upon such subjects as may be brought before it, but to decide whether it will accept or reject the decisions made by the conference if not sanctioned by the B’nai B’rith representatives.
President Bernard S. Deutsch of the American Jewish Congress expressed regret that the B’nai B’rith saw fit to reject the Congress invitation to send a representative to the board of elections, which will supervise balloting for delegates to the American Jewish Congress in 1935. B’nai B’rith declined on the ground that it was purely a matter for the Congress.
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