The top leadership of the American Jewish community will gather in Washington on January 25 for a two-day National Emergency Conference on Peace in the Middle East. More than 500 delegates representing 24 constituents of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, as well as leaders of Jewish communities throughout the country, will meet to express their “deep concern and apprehension” over recent U.S. policy statements on the Middle East. During the two-day parley they will be joined by legislators, clergymen and others concerned with what has been described by Jewish spokesmen as a “serious erosion” in State Department policy on Israel. Rabbi Herschel Schacter of New York, retiring chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, will chair the two-day meeting.
JTA has documented Jewish history in real-time for over a century. Keep our journalism strong by joining us in supporting independent, award-winning reporting.
The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.
