Representatives of leading Jewish organizations participated in a national conference on American foreign policy arranged by the Department of State for representatives of 200 groups. One of the sessions was addressed by Edwin M. Wright, acting intelligence advisor of the Near Eastern Division of the State Department, who said that American prestige among the Arabs has declined because “we identified ourselves with groups which have exorted pressures.”
Robert S. Nyburg. representative of the American Council for Judaism, complained against the aid given by the United States to Israel. Among the groups which participated in the conference, and the representatives of the groups, were: Dr. Simon Segal, American Jewish Committee; Harry A. Steinberg, American Zionist Council; A.B. Kapplin and Stanley Halperin, B’nai B’rith; Mrs. Laurence Koenigsberger, B’nai B’rith Women’s Supreme Council, Bernard Weitzer, Jewish War Veterans.
Also Mrs. I.L. Levy, National Council of Jewish Women; Mrs. Sarah Farber, National Federation of Temple Sisterhoods; Philip Schiff, National Jewish Welfare Board; Rabbi Samuel Rosenblatt, Rabbinical Assembly; Rabbi David Panitz, United Synagogue of America; and Rabbi Israel Tabak, Synagogue Council of America.
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