The annual four-day convention of Brith Abraham opened here today with 500 delegates attending, representing 175 lodges of the national fraternal order.
At the opening session, Irving L. Hodes, Brith Abraham Grand Master, strongly criticized the Soviet Union for anti-Jewish discrimination. He called upon the delegates to “write to our President, Governors, Senators, and Congressman–and trust that they will make known our protests.”
Referring to the Ecumenical Council, Mr. Hodes expressed the hope that its next session will “condemn and deplore all forms of anti-Semitism, past, present and future.” He also expressed the hope that Israel would find a peaceable solution of its problem with the Arabs, and appealed for support for Brith Abraham’s project of planting 10,000 trees in the John F. Kennedy Memorial Forest.
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