The Conference of Anglo-Jewish Ministers and Preachers, putting aside its normal attention to theological issues, put on record today a vigorous denunciation of the apartheid policy of the Union of South Africa.
Dr. Israel Brodie, Chief Rabbi of the British Commonwealth, expressed in his opening address the solidarity of Britain’s Jewish rabbinical leaders with their colleagues in South Africa "who have voiced their protests against the instances of the callous application of a doomed and disastrous policy."
He expressed the hope that the South African Government would "modify and humanise" its apartheid policy. The conference, attended by 60 rabbis, approved a resolution stressing that South Africa’s racial policies were "abhorrent" to Jewish teachings and expressing the hope that Premier Venwoerd would try to find a Just solution to the problem.
(A resolution protesting against "racial persecutions practiced by the Government of the Union of South Africa" was adopted today at a meeting of the Jewish Community in Bologna, Italy, Roundly denouncing the South African Government, the resolution called upon all governments and private associations throughout the world "to support the fight of the South African Negroes for equality")
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