Foreign Minister Abba Eban of Israel will head the speakers’ list at a two-day national leadership conference on peace in the Middle East here next Sunday and Monday, organized by the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations. About 400 Jewish leaders from all over the country will attend. Other speakers include Ambassador Yosef Tekoah, Israel’s chief representative to the United Nations, Sen. Stuart Symington, Missouri Democrat, and Sen. Jacob K. Javits, New York Republican and Dr. A. Roy Eckart, chairman of the Lehigh University department of religion and a prominent Protestant layman.
Rabbi Herschel Schachter, conference chairman, told a press conference today that the parley was ‘not called out of any fear or concern that the Mideast is about to explode, nor as a protest against government policy. It is not an emergency assembly, gut it is a vitally important one because of the need to exchange ideas within the Jewish community on peace in the Mideast, to arrive at a statement of position representing the Jewish community, and to communicate that position to the Nixon Administration at a time when the President and his advisers are formulating Mideast policy.”
Mr. Eban will receive an honorary degree of Doctor of Hebrew letters from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America on Sunday. It will be conferred by Dr. Louis Finkelstein. Chancellor, at a special academic convocation at which Mr. Eban will be cited for his contributions to Israel, Judaism and world peace.
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