Thousands of synagogues, churches and other religious and secular organizations will take part in a variety of activities planned during annual Brotherhood Week which opens Sunday.
The program is under the sponsorship of the National Conference of Christians and Jews, which has selected President Kennedy as recipient of its Brotherhood Award for 1962. Dr. Lewis Webster Jones, president, and a group of other officials will present the award at a White House ceremony Monday to the President who is honorary national chairman of Brotherhood Week.
The concept of a special week in recognition of the kinship of man was endorsed today in statements by Vice-President Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Cardinal Cushing, Archbishop of Boston, Rabbi Julius Mark, president of the Synagogue Council of America, and Bishop John Wesley Lord, Bishop of the Methodist Church of the Washington area, and first vice-president of the National Council of Churches.
Mayor Robert Wagner of New York today designated the week of February 19 as Brotherhood Week in New York City and presented the proclamation to Col. Emanual Targum, general chairman of the Brotherhood Conference.
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