Dr. Louis Finkelstein, provost of the Jewish Theological Seminary, warns against holding the Catholic and Protestant churches responsible for anti-Semitic groups, in an editorial published in the Rabbinical Assembly Bulletin.
Jews have suffered so much from the tendency to hold a community responsible for the derelictions of a few individuals that they are hardly likely to fall into the same error themselves, Dr. Finkelstein states. “Undoubtedly the leaders of the Catholic Church, as well as the various Protestant denominations, are deeply distressed by these recent developments (of anti-Semitism). Under the circumstances it is manifestly unfair to make this an occasion for an attack on these great religious organizations.”
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