Fourteen representatives of the Synagogue Council of America will participate in a consultation with Protestant, Anglican and Orthodox Christian leaders at an Ecumenical Institute to be held in Switzerland under the sponsorship of the World Council of Churches, it was announced here today. The institute will be convened for a week of deliberations, opening on August 16, at Chateau de Bossey, Switzerland.
Announcement of the plans for the institute, which will mark the first time that a broadly representative group of Jewish leaders will meet with the Christians comprising the World Council, was made here today by Rabbi Seymour J. Cohen, of Chicago, president of the Synagogue Council, and Dr. Eugene L. Smith, executive secretary of the Council of Churches in the United Sates.
The Synagogue Council, which will coordinate the Jewish representation at the Institute from this country, Europe and Israel, is the national coordinating agency for the rabbinical and congregational associations of Orthodox, Conservative and Reform Jewry in this country.
At the Institute, the situation of man in the world of today will be examined from the vantage points of Christian and Jewish observers. Papers will be presented on man’s appropriate response to his situation in the light of the religious and moral heritage of Judaism and Christianity.
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