A committee to develop policy and action recommendations for the Jewish Community Council’s response to situations affecting overseas Jewish communities, with special focus on the Middle East and Soviet Jewry, has been established by the Council as a standing committee. Judge Lawrence Gubow, Council president, said that Morris Lieberman had been named chairman of the new Committee on International Concerns.
Although the Council has maintained for many years an active interest and programs in those two areas, Judge Gubow said, the Council’s executive committee came to the conclusion that “growing challenges” required a more systematic involvement of a broadly-based group to develop program activities.
Mr. Lieberman said that the Council had received “excellent response” from its constituent agencies following its appeal to write to various airline pilots associations in connection with the lengthy detention of the recently-released two Israeli passengers on a TWA airliner hijacked to Damascus.
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