The American Jewish Congress will hold its national convention next month in two hotels–the Roosevelt in New York City and the King David in Jerusalem. From Feb. 16-18, some 500 convention delegates from throughout the U.S. will gather in New York for the AJ Congress biennial policy-setting meeting and election of officers. More than 100 delegates will then board an El Al jet for an eight-day convention mission to Israel, which will include meetings with Israeli government figures, religious and military leaders, social scientists, academicians and others.
It will be the first convention of the Congress in Israel, although its Executive Committee held meetings there in 1971 and 1973 and the Congress has sponsored an American-Israel Dialogue in Israel each summer for the past 11 years. In announcing the meetings in New York and Jerusalem, Rabbi Leon Kronish of Miami Beach, convention chairman, said the Congress had originally planned to convene in Miami Beach in May. The date and place were changed in order to make possible a convention mission to Israel, aimed at demonstrating “our complete solidarity with the people of Israel at this critical moment in their–and our–history.”
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