Hadassah today acclaimed President Lyndon B. Johnson’s persistent efforts in his quest for a peaceful solution of the war in Viet Nam. In a resolution approved unanimously at its annual mid-winter conference, Hadassah expressed the hope that the course being pursued by the United States and the United Nations Security Council to achieve peace in Viet Nam will be successful.
Other resolutions supported the position of the U.S. delegation to the United Nations to include in the now-pending convention on religious intolerance, specific mention of anti-Semitism; endorsed the view that the work of the International Cooperation Year be extended to an International Cooperation Decade; and supported President Johnson’s position that the war on poverty be made international in scope and urged the continuation and expansion of the U.S. foreign aid program as “a potent instrument in our quest for peace.”
In an address to the Hadassah conference, a noted American sociologist asserted that a new type of Jew is developing in the United States–one who feels equally comfortable in being both a Jew and an American. Professor Sidney Goldstein, chairman of the department of sociology and anthropology at Brown University, Providence, R.I., asserted that “there is little danger of the American Jew vanishing through assimilation. Rather, there is a changing American Jew, who, in leaving his European origins behind, needs time to adjust to his new freedom and to his new obligations.”
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