The Agudas Israel World Council seting here today heard extremism in Palestine strongly condemned by several speak##. More than 100 delegates from 28 countries are attending the sessions.
Rabbi I.M. Levin, of Jerusalem, Agudah leader, pointed out that the organization lost 1,000,000 members in the Nazi massacres since its last world conforence in his city in 1938. H.A. Goodman, political secretary of the Agudah, stressed that although the Agudah is ready to cooperate with other Jewish organizations, it strongly objected to groups which claimed to speak in behalf of the entire Jewish people.
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