Harold B. Hoskins, director of the State Department’s Foreign Service Institute, promised today an investigation of charges that Edwin Wright, assistant dean of the institute, had made biased statements about the Jews in lectures to students at the institute. Dean Wright has also been charged with attacking Orthodox Judaism.
Mr. Hoskins’ decision followed a meeting with Rabbi David A. Panitz of Washington’s Adas Israel Congregation and an authority in his own right on Jewish history. Rabbi Panitz, on the basis of exhaustive notes by a student in a class to which Dean Wright lectured, charged that the dean had espoused “false, biased and bigoted” ideas on Jewish history and Israel’s role in the Middle East. Last month Michael Tress, of the Agudath Israel of America, accused Dean Wright of attacking Orthodox Jewry in an address at the National Presbyterian Church of Washington, of which President Eisenhower is a member.
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