The American Council of Judaism today expressed its “strong objection” to the proclamation issued yesterday by Mayor Vincent Impellitteri of New York designating the month March 22-April 21 as Zionist Organization of America Month.
In a letter to the Mayor, Mrs. Miriam Witkin, chairman of the New York chapter of the American Council of Judaism, said that the Mayor’s high office “should not be exploited to influence the members of any religious creed to join an organization whose program is essentially political and highly controvertial.” The letter emphasized that “many citizens of Jewish faith are completely out of sympathy with the aims and tactics of the Zionist Organization.”
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