The Synagogue Council of America, representing every Jewish denomination, was on record today with an appeal to “the moral forces of the world and especially to the great religious organizations” to “meet the threat to western culture and civilization” that arose from Nazi persecution of minorities.
The appeal, signed by Rabbis Samuel Schulman, chairman; Elias Margolis and David de Sola Pool, vice chairman, says in part:
“The Synagogue Council…feels that we must appeal to the moral forces of the world and especially to the great religious organizations which exert influence on the culture of the western world, which they have helped create.
“Many voices have been raised in protest against the outrage committed against German Jewry. Men and women of good-will, of all creeds and races, have spontaneously voiced their indignation against the persecution not only of the Jews, but of all those who suffer in the name of the rights of conscience.
“But we deplore that there has not been a sufficiently impressive cry of horror at what has taken place in Germany, where a minority has been ruthlessly driven out of the national life, and has been declared to be alien, with all that such a declaration implies. This minority has for 1,000 years in historic continuity lived on the soil, and has given evidence of its contribution to German culture and of its readiness again and again to lay down its life for the country it loves.”
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