Leaders of the major faiths in the United States should “declare a moratorium on their differences and dissensions” and form “a united powerful moral force to meet today’s challenges,” Rabbi Israel Mowshowitz, president of the New York Board of Rabbis, declared tonight at the 80th anniversary dinner of the board.
Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver told the 1, 000 dinner guests that “nationalism alone will provide inadequately for Israel as it has for all other peoples. ‘ He stressed that as the pride of pioneering life and the “exaltation of an independent state give way to the prosaic experience and the petty rounds of everyday life, along with their inevitable frustrations and disillusionments,” the generations of tomorrow “will need a sustaining faith which only our spiritual heritage can give them. “Other speakers were Senator Jacob K. Javits, New York Republican; Rabbi Irving Millei; and Rabbi Harold H. Gordon, executive vice-president of the board.
Eight Jewish communal leaders were honored for outstanding service to the American Jewish community and presented with silver covered Israeli-printed Bibles in Hebrew and in English. Those honored were Jacob Blaustein, Ambassador Philip M, Klutznick, Joseph M. Mazer, Admiral Lewis L. Strauss, Samuel H. Daroff, Senator Herbert H, Lehman, Max Stern and Lawrence A. Wien.
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