Protestant and Catholic clergymen. Negro leaders and social scientists participated with leaders and officials of Jewish community relations organizations in a three-day conference here on the extent of anti-Semitism in this country and ways to combat it. The conference which ended today, was held behind closed doors and its conclusions will be made public later in a statement signed by the participants. The parley – the ninth “reassessment conference” scheduled by the National Community Relations Advisory Council – studied racial disturbances to ascertain their possible anti-Semitic content or implications and the conflicts over school and neighborhood integration to establish to what degree anti-Semitism was involved. The conference also examined the degree to which anti-Semitism was reflected in movements such as black separatism and political movements of the extreme right and the New Left and in student and other protest movements.
The conference heard reports on the effect of Christian religious doctrines and teachings on the attitude of Christians towards Jews and the impact of the Vatican declaration on the Jews and subsequent ecumenical developments as well as the response of the Christian clergy and churchmen to the 1967 Israel crisis and the subsequent developments. Jordan C. Band, chairman of NCRAC, said the conference conclusions did not necessarily represent the views of NCRAC or its constituent organizations but would be issued “in the names of those who subscribe to them for the information and guidance of all to whom they may be of concern.”
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