Declaring that Jewish leadership today needs praise instead of criticism, Rabbi Louis I. Newman of Congregation Rodeph Sholom demanded the formation of a federation of Jewish groups in a speech at the Free Synagogue last night.
Other speakers at the symposium on “What Can the American Jewish Congress do to Curb Nazism in Germany and other lands” were Professor Horace M. Klein and Rabbi Stephen S. Wise.
Rabbi Newman asserted that, even though Hitlerism may collapse suddenly, this collapse “cannot come overnight, however unified and influential American Jewish Leadership may be. What we need is not one single large group to represent Jewry, except it be the World Jewish Congress, but a federation of Jewish groups which have found a common denominator for collective action.”
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