Noting the observance of the Christian holy season, Dr. Robert Gordis, president of the Synagogue Council of America — which represents Orthodox, Reform and Conservative Jewish congregations in the U.S. — today sent a message of greetings to leaders of the Protestant and Catholic churches in this country.
“At this sacred season, marked both in Christianity and in Judaism by deeply-loved festivals, the Synagogue Council of America, representing the religious household of American Judaism, wishes to convey to you and to all our brethren of the Christian community, our cordial greetings and reaffirm the sense of solidarity and brotherhood binding all God’s children together,” the message said. “These ideals, resting securely upon our common faith in the unity of God and the brotherhood of man, present a challenge to Christianity and to Judaism to translate these aspirations into reality and create one world before there is danger that none will survive.”
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