Stressing the “Jewish belief in the equality of all races, the Commission on Justice and Peace of the Central Conference of American Rabbis today issued a statement here asking equality for Negroes who “are victims of harsh discrimination and flagrant injustices which cry aloud to God and man for remedy and redress.”
Released in connection with “Race Relations Week,” which begins February 8, the statement points out that “we Jews who ourselves have been victims of injustice should be especially sensitive to this. If our prayers and repentance, joined with that of Americans of other faiths, truly touch us…we shall proceed in cooperation with men of good will to remove barriers and to eliminate injustices which undermine democracy and weaken faith, to the end that the pleas of millions of useful, decent Americans for justice will be answered.”
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