Sixty prominent American Jews, including many rabbis from all parts of the country and leading figures in B’nai B’rith, American Jewish Congress and other Jewish organizations, today issued here a joint appeal to the Jews of the United States calling for a policy of all-out effort to defeat Hitlerism in 1942 by opening a Western front, supporting the appeal of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee in Russia for tanks and planes for the Russian Army, and “pledging to fight to the last drop of blood for the preservation of American independence.”
Those who signed the appeal include Rabbi Saul Silver, president of the Hebrew Theological Seminary; Rabbi Herbert S. Goldstein, New York; Rabbi Rudolf I. Coffee, San Francisco; Rabbi Felix S. Mendelsohn, Chicago; S.B. Komaiko; Ira Eisenstein; Dr. Simon Federbush, president of Hapoel Hamizrachi of America; Lena L. Orlow, vice-president of the Women’s Supreme Council of B’nai B’rith; Rabbi Bernard Drachman, president of Jewish Sabbath Alliance of America; Benjemin Samuels, ex-president of the B’nai B’rith District #6, Chicago. Directors of the B’nai B’rith Hillel Foundation at a number of universities throughout the country also joined in the appeal.
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