Yale’s two-day Conference of Jews and Christians came to an end here yesterday with speeches by three undergraduates giving their impressions of the meeting. Richard A. Moore of Brooklyn spoke on behalf of the Catholic religion. Agreeing with a suggestion offered at one of the sessions, Moore explained that if he were to look at the Conference as a Yale undergraduate, the thing to do would be to put aside the treatment of the problem as a purely philosophical one. “For there is much practical value for the Yale man in what has been said during this symposium,” Moore said. “For instance. Professor Urban’s challenge to us in particular as the generation which ultimately will have to solve the problem of intolerance in the world.”
Moore also cited Professor Alan Valentine’s suggestion that intolerance often might be bred in our educational institutions. “The Yale man can answer this through the medium of the college Plan,” Moore said. The undergraduate could well take to heart, he went on, the suggestion by Rabbi Lazaron, that one of the best paths to the mutual understanding of the two great religious groups, was for the individual Jewish or Christian student to establish an intimate friendship with a fellow student of the opposite group.
A. Abbott Rosen of New York City, spoke for the Jewish religion. He viewed the problem of Christian-Jewish relations as one which could not be solved by mere weekend conferences. He regarded the causes of friction as fundamentally economic. However, he did not minimize the importance of education in shedding light “upon prejudices which have become traditional, but are by no means ineradicable.”
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