A leader of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People stated that Black African nations must learn that they can derive greater benefits from the democratic principles of Israel than by merely identifying with the Arab states because of a color affinity.
Clarence Mitchell, director of the NAACP’s Washington bureau, told members of the board of trustees of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations that “the emerging nations of the world must understand that no future exists in trying to base relationships with people purely on race or color. After all, that’s what got us all in a whole lot of trouble with Hitler.” Mitchell indicated that “we must make clear to the Black African nations that there is no solace in identifying with the Araba purely because of race. There are many Black racists in America whose interests do not coincide with Blacks here.”
Earlier, the UAHC reported that the decline and stagnation of synagogue membership of the past ten years has ceased and the 715 Reform temples in the United States and Canada show a one-to-two percent increase in new members for the past two years.
Rabbi Alexander M. Schindler, UAHC president, stated that Watergate, the economic crisis and the American failure in Vietnam have produced a “disillusionment–people are searching for newer and more meaningful values. There has emerged a spirit of the age which is infinitely more congenial to those ideas and ideals which the synagogue enshrines.”
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