Teach-ins designed to inform Jews, Christians and civic leaders about Zionism, Judaism, the Palestinians and related questions, will be conducted by the Union of American Hebrew Congregations in 12 cities beginning Sunday, Jan. 25.
The information program, according to Rabbi Alexander M. Schindler, president of the 715-member synagogue body in the U.S. and Canada has been introduced to meet the growing concern after the UN’s anti-Zionist resolution and the future prospects for peace in the Middle East.
Rabbi Schindler said, “Every conscious Jew and indeed every fair-minded person regardless of background was shocked by the UN resolution equating Zionism and racism. But how many people, including Jews have the facts to explain what Zionism and Judaism are all about? The resolution presents us with an educational challenge and we have to bring facts and information not just protests, to the American public.”
Reform Judaism, which claims 1.25 million members world-wide, last week became a member of the World Zionist Organization in Jerusalem with the admission as a member of the World Union for Progressive Judaism, the international body of the religious movement.
The all-day UAHC “teach-ins” will be held in New York City, Rofstra University in Long Island, San Francisco, Chicago, Boston, Dallas, Washington (at the UAHC’s Religious Action Center), Cleveland, St. Louis, Miami. Short Hills. N.J., and Philadelphia. Local scholars and authorities will be utilized as speakers.
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