The Synagogue Council of America, comprising Orthodox, Conservative and Reform rabbinical and congregational organizations, today made public a declarative of its views on the war, calling for a “now federated commonwealth of the world,” asking for post-war economic justice and for the removal of “class struggle and inequities of exploitation.” The declaration also advocates “such progressive and integral disarmament of all nations as shall make war impossible for our children and children’s children.”
“Judaism profoundly believes that these, its immemorial teachings, can be translated into the shattering of tyranny and restoring the right of self-determination to all peoples and nations,” the declaration says. “But to achieve this priceless freedom of men everywhere, all peoples and nations needs must accept such limitations of absolute sovereignty as shall make possible a federated society of nations of the world for the good of all in its constituent states.”
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