Francis Cardinal Spellman, Roman Catholic Archbishop of New York, expressed “satisfaction” here last night with Ecumenical Council’s preliminary adoption of a Church declaration absolving the Jewish people of the ancient charge of deicide and condemning anti-Semitism.
Cardinal Spellman made that statement while accepting an award at a dinner given in his honor by the Reform Jewish Appeal, a campaign for the support of American Reform Judaism’s two principal organizations–the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion and the Union of American Hebrew Congregations.
At the dinner, attended by 600, Rabbi Maurice N. Eisendrath, president of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, hailed the Ecumenical Council’s action in regard to Christian-Jewish relations as representing “the most powerful blow ever struck by Christianity against the mortal sin of anti-Semitism.”
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