Five Jewish leaders, four of them rabbis, representing the Religious Welfare Committee of the Canadian Jewish Congress, called today on Canada’s Minister for External Affairs, Howard C. Green, and presented him with an Israeli-made Bible bearing an illuminated inscription “in token appreciation of his role in the pursuance of international righteousness, justice and peace.”
The presentation, given “in the spirit of the Passover season, which is symbolic of the triumph of freedom over slavery,” was made by the chairman of the committee, Rabbi S. M. Zambrowsky. Other members of the committee, who participated after the brief ceremony in an hour’s conference with Mr. Green, were Rabbi W. Gunther Plaut, of Toronto; Rabbi Simon Eckstein, of Ottawa; Rabbis Mendel Lewittes, of Montreal; and Hy Bessin, of Ottawa.
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