Mrs. Arthur G. Rosenbluth, of Hewlett, L. I., was today elected for a three-year term as new president of the B’nai B’rith Women, as the organization’s national convention closed here. Resolutions adopted by the convention included calls upon congress for ratification of the U. N. Genocide Convention, denouncing Soviet anti-Semitism, a request for U. S. immigration reform, and action opposing the Arab boycott.
Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, New York Democrat, told the delegates that B’nai B’rith deserved commendation for its role in the advancement of human rights. National chairman Dore Schary of the Anti-Defamation League, said in an address that leaders and peoples of nations must fight together for “a way to preserve freedom by negotiation, by education, by the persuasive use of the mind.”
Among a number of noted Jewish educators who addressed the convention, was Dr. Harold Weisberg, dean of the graduate faculty at Brandeis University. He warned that “we’re becoming a bunch of white Protestant American Jews. We are in danger of losing our cultural vitality because we lack an authentic culture in the United States.”
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