British Ambassador Lord Halifax today held separate conferences with leaders of the three faiths, including a half-hour interview with three rabbis. The rabbis are David de Sola Pool, president of the Synagogue Council of America; Louis Finkelstein, president of the Jewish Theological Seminary, and Israel Goldstein. The Ambassador had expressed the desire to meet religious leaders during his visit to New York.
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