Representatives of 637 “Reform congregations throughout the United States, Canada, Panama and the West Indies joined United Nations experts and Christian delegates here today, at a “Freedom from Hunger” conference convened by the Reform groups at the House of Living Judaism.
The conference was sponsored by the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, the World Union for Progressive Judaism, the National Federation of Temple Sisterhoods, and Reform Judaism’s Commission on Social Action.
The conference, according to the sponsors, demonstrated the Passover theme embraced in the invitation extended to the hungry during the Seder, urging “all who are hungry” to partake of the Passover food. The “Freedom from Hunger” campaign is currently one of the main undertakings of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, which is trying to wipe out hunger throughout the world in the current decade.
Judge Emil N. Baar, board chairman of the UAHC, told the conference that the gathering was “another program by Reform congregations in translating the ethical and moral principles, of our Jewish faith into study and action on the imperative social action problems of the world.”
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