Reform Rabbis Ratify All Resolutions of American Jewish Conference

All the resolutions of the American Jewish Conference were ratified today by the executive committee of the Central Conference of American Rabbis at a meeting in Cincinnati which adopted the following resolution:

“Raving received the report of its delegates who attended the recent sessions of the American Jewish. Conference, the Executive Board of the central Conference of American Rabbis expresses its satisfaction with the outcome of this historic conference and with the contribution which our representatives made toward its deliberations. It ratifies the action of its delegates in supporting all the resolutions which were adopted at the conference. It expresses the hope that this great and democratically representative body of American Jewry will continue to function and to serve the cause of our people in these critical times.”

The Mizrachi Organization of America, the Zionist Laborite Party and other Zionist groups today issued statements criticizing the American Jewish Committee for withdrawing from the American Jewish Conference. A meeting of the executive of the American Zionist Emergency Council will be held tomorrow to decide on action to be taken by Zionist groups in the United States with regard to the situation which has developed as a result of the withdrawal of the American Jewish Committee from the Conference.

HADASSAH RESIGNS FROM THE AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE

Hadassah’s twenty-ninth annual convention, which opened last night at the Henry Hudson Hotel, adopted a resolution to withdraw from membership in the American Jewish Committee. Pointing out that the delegates of Hadassah “have learned with deep regret of the action of the American Jewish Committee, which has withdrawn from the American Jewish Conference, thus isolating itself from the united Jewish representation in that Conference and breaking the unity of American Jewry,” the resolution says:

“We are concerned, too, that this decision was made by the executive committee of the American Jewish Committee despite the earnest plea of some of its members that the matter be referred to the large annual meeting of the American Jewish Committee, where a wider base for discussion would have been possible.

“When the American Jewish Committee entered the American Jewish Conference to reserved for itself the right to dissent from any decisions of the majority and in so dissenting to take separate action thereon. Their three representatives on the conference expressed their dissent from the Palestine resolution as presented. This was reported in the press, so that the committee’s position was made abundantly clear. However, there were large areas in which there was complete accord on the part of the American Jewish Committee with the conference decisions, and we note that the committee continued in its full support of full immigration into Palestine and in its opposition to the White Paper. We believe that these days of dark tragedy for our people demand the utmost effort on the part of American Jews to work together, and that unity of action can be achieved despite differences.

“Hadassah has been a constituent member of the American Jewish Committee for many years despite certain ideological divergencies, because it was deeply conscious of this need for cooperative effort in Jewish affairs. We believe that the action of the American Jewish Committee in withdrawing from the Conference has put a breach into that cooperative effort, rendering impossible Hadassah’s continued membership as a constituent body of the American Jewish Committee.”