(Jewish Daily Bulletin)
The first official conference ever held between Church and Synagogue in America on the subject of international relations, opens today. Lay and clerical delegates representing the Central Conference of American Rabbis, the Fellowship for a Christian Social Order, the Midwest Council, and the Committee on Goodwill between Jews and Christians, are gathering here to discuss and attempt to arrive at a unified viewpoint for action on the subject of Racial and Religious Minorities, Latin-American problems and the question of the church and synagogue in relation to the promotion of justice and peace.
The leaders of the conference include Bruce Bliven. Rabbi Ephraim Frisch of San Antonio, Texas, Samuel G. Inman, Rabbi Gerson Levi of Chicago, Reinhold Niebuhr, Rabbi Abraham Cronbach of Cincinnati. Dr. John W. Herring, secretary of the Committee on Goodwill of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, initiated the conference.
The conference will last for an entire week. Among those scheduled to lead in discussions are Rabbi Louis I. Mishkind of Wilmington, Del. who will speak on racial and religious minorities, and Professor Abraham Cronbach of Hebrew Union College, who will lead the discussion on what church and synagogue can do to promote justice.
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