Jewish Groups Hit Exemption from New York Anti-bias Measure

Officials of five major Jewish organizations urged members of the New York City Council this weekend to indicate their opposition to a proposed amendment that would exempt cooperative apartments from the Fair Housing Bill now before the Council. A statement signed by the officials pointed out that the amendment would “exclude the very form of housing in which discrimination against Jews is most widely practiced in this city.”

The signatories of the statement were; J. Clarence Davies Jr., chairman of the housing committee of the American Jewish Committee, New York Chapter; Shad Polier, chairman of the commission on law and social action of the American Jewish Congress; Sydney A. Hellenbrand, chairman of the New York Advisory Board of the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith; Jacob Sheinman, chairman of the New York City Affairs Panel of the Jewish Labor Committee, and Hyman Braven, state commander of the Jewish War Veterans, Department of New York.