The presidium of the Society for Christian Jewish Cooperation decided today to celebrate Brotherhood Week, amid mounting conflict that stemmed from a recent statement of Josef Cardinal Frings, Archbishop of Cologne given to an American rabbi.
One of the society’s chairmen said the organization would ask the prelate to address a brotherhood meeting, a decision that may lead to resignation of some of the organization’s officers.
The society’s three chairmen will meet with the Cardinal on Friday. It is understood that if he fails to make a clear apology for his remarks to Rabbi Max Nussbaum, chairman of the American section of the World Jewish Congress, they would resign.
Rabbi Nussbaum, during a visit to Germany two weeks ago, quoted the archbishop as citing alleged Jewish predominance in various aspects of German life as one of the explanations for Hitlerism. The cardinal said the statement had been taken out of context and distorted.
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