The United Synagogue of America, representative body of 825 conservative congregations in the United States and Canada, opened its biennial convention here today with a record attendance of 3,000 delegates who heard expressions of “deep concern” over the chances of a just peace settlement in the Middle East.
Monty Daniels, of White Plains, N.Y., convention chairman, warned that Jews and others around the world were worried about a possible “sell out” in peace negotiations either at the United Nations or in private agreements between governments to a settlement that would ignore Israel’s demands for recognition by the Arab states and for direct negotiations with them. Such agreements, he said, would only pave the way “for greater and graver military action in the future.”
The five-day convention is scheduled to hear addresses by Foreign Minister Abba Eban of Israel and Jerusalem’s Mayor Teddy Kollek. Israel’s Defense Minister, Moshe Dayan, whose appearance was scheduled, was forced to cancel owing to increased military tension in the Middle East. The convention has on its agenda such items as the Vietnam war, Negro-Jewish relations, the growing apathy of Jewish college youths, and the problems of intermarriage.
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