An expression of appreciation to the National Association of Evangelicals for its support for Jewish protests against the denial of religious rights to Jews in the Soviet Union was presented by Rabbi Marc H. Tanenbaum, director of the Inter-Religious Affairs Department of the American Jewish Committee.
The Evangelical group backed a recent protest by the American Jewish Committee to the Soviet Union. Rabbi Tanenbaum, the first Jew ever to appear at a meeting of the Christian sect, urged greater communication between Jews and Evangelicals to end the widespread belief among sect members that Jews are “disinherited by God” and live “barren unredeemed existences.”
Such communication, he said, would show the sect that Jews were an increasingly highly literate community “with growing concern for social justice as much as for individual salvation,” that Judaism was “an increasingly vital force in the lives of millions of Jews and that Jews continue to have precious spiritual riches to contribute to mankind.”
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